It is important to note that Transnistria used to receive gas from Russia to operate, among other things, the Moldavian state district power plant, which provided the entire republic with electricity ...

The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria extended its economic state of emergency for a second time on Wednesday, despite gas supplies reaching the separatist republic following monthlong ...

Transnistria (Pridniestrovian Moldovan Republic), which is wedged between Ukraine and Moldova (its mother country), declared its independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union ...

President-elect of the self-proclaimed republic of Transnistria ... said he is ready to resume negotiations on the Transnistria settlement with Moldovan leaders. "We are ready for talks.

Transnistria, officially called the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), declared independence from Moldova in 1990 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The move was driven by fears ...

Thousands of residents of Transnistria took to ... demanding that the Moldovan government allow Russian gas into the unrecognized republic, hit by a devastating energy crisis.

It became a republic in late 1991 ... The worst of the violence happened in 1992, with Moldovan troops fighting the pro-Transnistria forces, heavily backed by Russia. This was no small conflict ...