In the capital of Transnistria, a self-declared microstate sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine, the festive New Year’s lights have gone dark ahead of schedule. This separatist sliver of ...

The Moldovan regulator appointed the state-owned company Energocom as a gas supplier to end users. Previously, Moldovagaz was ...

On May 9, 35 thousand people took part in the march of the "Immortal Regiment" in Tiraspol, and more than 85 thousand ...

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 ...

The Transnistria region, a pro-Russian enclave in Moldova, has been thrown into a deep energy crisis. The cutoff of Russian gas supplies to the territory has forced almost all industries to halt ...

Daily electrical outages were imposed after hundreds of thousands of people in Moldova’s separatist pro-Russian Transnistria region were left without heating and hot water last month over an ...

Free-of-charge Russian gas had been the backbone of Transnistria's economy and ensured the preservation of the breakaway region and its de facto independence from Moldova. Some argue that the gas ...

A woman walking on the train lines on Friday in Bender, Transnistria.Credit...Andreea Campeanu for The New York Times Supported by By Andrew Higgins Reporting from Varnita and Chisinau ...

Russia halted gas deliveries to the pro-Russian separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova on January 1. People living there are now really feeling the cold. The first week of 2025 has been cold ...

Moldova received all its gas from Russia and the vast majority of its electricity from a power plant in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region, which is still entirely supplied by Russian gas. This ...

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 ...

This page is no longer being updated.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 ...