Pro-Russian rebels in a separatist sliver of Moldova have asked President Vladimir Putin to protect their region from what they claim are threats from Moldova’s government. Transnistria, which ...

A series of unexplained explosions have occurred in parts of Transnistria, a breakaway territory within Moldova that has housed Russian troops for decades, sparking fears that Moscow’s war could ...

Transnistria broke away from Moldova during the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and the region is home to people who are linked almost equally to Russia, Romania and Moldova.

Since then, Transnistria has played host to thousands of Russian troops – currently estimated at 1,500 – and developed a reputation as a land lost to time, a Soviet wormhole within a young ...

Transnistria has managed to avoid embroiling itself in the Ukraine war, despite the billions of dollars in subsidies it receives from Moscow, the 1,500 Russian peacekeeping troops on its soil and ...

Russia’s annexation of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula, in 2014, as well as Russia’s 2014 war with Ukraine over the Donbas region, transformed Transnistria’s economic orientation from Russia ...

By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest Authorities in the breakaway region of Transnistria, in eastern Moldova, are seeking a loan of over €122mn to cover a deepening budget deficit after Russia halted its long ...

Transnistria, a pro-Russian breakaway region in Moldova, made an appeal to Moscow for protection on Wednesday amid worsening tensions with the pro-Western government in Chișinău.

Transnistria, historically under the sovereignty of the Russian Empire, which had just joined Bessarabia (Moldova) in 1940, “did not agree with this decision”, Dirun added.

"All these years, Russia has been using the residents of Transnistria and can provoke an even greater crisis at any moment if it suits its plans in Moldova," Sandu said. "We can expect this crisis ...

Insider traveled to the breakaway "republic" of Transnistria on the border of Ukraine. The territory is occupied by Russian troops and controlled by pro-Russia separatists. A local woman told ...