US think tank warns of rising tensions in Moldova’s breakaway region, echoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. The American Institute ...

The American Institute for the Study of War sees the situation in Transnistria, the breakaway region of Moldova, as echoing ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 25 October 2024 The separatist region of Transnistria or Trans-Dniester - a narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the ...

Transnistria, which illegally split from Moldova as the Soviet Union crumbled, has remained firmly within the Kremlin’s orbit while Moldova, which borders Ukraine, is bidding to join the ...

The mention of Moldova in the framework of the Kremlin's new demands for non-expansion of NATO to the east cannot be ...

Officials in Moldova’s Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria appealed to Moscow for protection Wednesday, as tensions escalate with the pro-Western government. Moldova, a candidate to ...

For now, the crisis is focused in a region called Transnistria, located on the eastern edge of the former Soviet republic of Moldova. It's a sliver of territory with a population of some 360,000 ...

[EPA-EFE/DUMITRU DORU] Transnistria, a breakaway Moldovan province loyal to Russia, has been in the headlines this week amid an energy crisis triggered by a recent Ukrainian decision to suspend a ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

TIRASPOL, Transnistria — The hammer-and-sickle still flutters proudly over the park-lined thoroughfares in this capital of a country that doesn’t exist. The top of City Hall bears the Soviet star.

Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria, which has close ties to Moscow and hosts Russian troops, claimed Thursday it has thwarted an assassination attempt on its president allegedly organized ...

The separatist region of Transnistria or Trans-Dniester - a narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Ukrainian border - broke away from Moldova in 1990. The international community ...