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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. Unrecognised state in Eastern Europe This article is about the unrecognized state. For the administrative unit of Moldova, see Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester. For other uses, see Transnistria (disambiguation). Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Official ...
Russian-backed separatists split from Moldova as the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, winning de facto independence for the region of some 450,000 people known as Transdniestria.
According to Moldovan sources, the political climate in Transnistria does not allow the free expression of the will of the people of the region and supporters of reintegration of Transnistria in Moldova are subjected to harassment, arbitrary arrests and other types of intimidation from separatist authorities. [citation needed]
Moldova's pro-European central government renewed its criticism of Russia, saying it caused the energy crisis and now wants to portray itself as the power that was coming to the separatist region ...
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 pro-Western government.
On 22 June 2018, Moldova submitted a UN resolution calling for the "complete and unconditional withdrawal of foreign military forces from the territory of the Republic of Moldova, including Transnistria". [15] Sixty-four member states voted in favour of the resolution, 83 abstained, and 15 voted against it. [16]
The official Telegram news channel of the region's separatist authorities announced the official closure on Saturday of a steel mill and bakery in the town of Rybnitsa.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Transnistria War of 1992 sparked between Moldova and the separatists in Transnistria. The latter won with the help of the Russian army present in the region , which is today organized into the Operational Group of Russian Forces , [ 1 ] comprising about 1,500 troops, [ 2 ] mostly local ...