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Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Outside the theatre in Tiraspol, where a bride in a long white frilly dress was posing for photographs, a billboard hung bearing the pictures of a trio of large sturdy men: the leaders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Sergei Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity, and Transdniestria's leader, Igor Smirnov. Thomas de Waal is Caucasus editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London. He is co-author...
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
TIRASPOL, November 24 (RIA Novosti) - The United States supports a peaceful settlement of the conflict between Moldova and its breakaway republic of Transdnestr, but demands that Russia withdraw its t...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Source: Reuters By Dmitry Chubashenko TIRASPOL, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Soldiers marched in neat formation while crowds sang boastful Soviet-era songs and waved flags under the steady gaze of a Lenin statue in central ...
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
TIRASPOL, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Moldova's breakaway republic Transdnestr celebrated on Tuesday the 18th anniversary of its declaration of independence. The predominantly Russian-speaking provinc...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Transdniestria, an autonomous enclave that is supported by Russia but is not recognised by the EU, UN or US, is a land apart in every sense, writes in the capital, Tiraspol
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"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Posted by Lyndon Allin to Global Voices Online Movie theater, downtown Tiraspol, originally uploaded by lyndonk2 In recent years, it seems like a solution to Moldova's long-unresolved secessionist conflict is always being forecast but never quite materializes. Meanwhile, the people who live in the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (a.k.a. the PMR, Transnistria, Transdniester, Pridnestrovie,...
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
TIRASPOL, July 10 (RIA Novosti) - A rotation of Russian peacekeepers in the conflict zone of Moldova's breakaway republic of Transdnestr will be conducted between July 17 and 24, the peacekeepers' com...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
Although active proselytizing by Jehovah’s Witnesses is freely taking place all over Transdniestria, official registration of the religion has been hampered by difficulties in some parts of the country, believers say. Two Jehovah’s Witnesses communities - in Tiraspol and Rybnitsa - have already gotten registration, but two others don't. The registration applications for Grigoriopol and Bender, [...]...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
After Baptists in Transdniestria refused to apply for state registration as a religious congregation, the unrecognized country's Presidential administration backed down and is now allowing believers to hold public services anyway. The move came after supporters lodged so many appeals that the presidential office got swamped. Initial pressure started after Council of Churches Baptists made it [...]
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Huge crowds stood in line in Tiraspol for the public opening of the city's new Zoo. The permanent facility is the latest attempt at turning Pridnestrovie’s capital into a tourist attraction. Entrance is currently free for all ages. Did you know hummingbirds can fly backwards? Or that western lowland gorillas live in a family group [...]
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
During an official visit to Tiraspol, the capital of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica (PMR), British Ambassador John Beyer met with opposition party leader and current Parliamentary Speaker Yevgeny Shevchuk to discussed the situation in Pridnestrovie, also known informally as Transdniestria. It was the first visit John Beyer to Transdniestria’s Parliament, the parliamentary press service...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 21/04/2008
Source: Reuters By Ron Popeski TIRASPOL, Moldova, April 21 (Reuters) - When the president of Moldova sat down with the leader of the separatist Transdniestria region, many hoped for a breakthrough in one of the ...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 27/02/2008
A week after Kosovo unilaterally declared independence without the consent of the state it nominally belongs to, Serbia, civil society activists in Pridnestrovie (Transdniestria) are pointing out parallels with their own situation vis-a-vis Moldova. Youth group Breakthrough, based in Tiraspol and with branches throughout the length of the unrecognized country, is saying that the precedent now [...]...
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 16/02/2008
These days, the Central Electoral Committee (CEC) from Tiraspol makes the final lists of the people with the Russian citizenship who will have the right to vote on March 2nd when the presidential elections will be held in Russia, DECA-press Agency communicates. According to the information offered by the authorities from Tiraspol, there are around 110 thousand Russian citizens living in this region....
