Post 42. Transnistria
Pridnestrovie / Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) - a.k.a. Transnistria. Introduction and Background Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a landlocked breakaway state, internationally recognised as part of Moldova. Its capital and largest city is Tiraspol with a population of 120,000. Pridnestrovie / Transnistria is 400km long but only an average of 25km wide. On a map it looks like a smaller version of Chile. It has a population of half a million. It stretches all along the Eastern bank of the Dniester River to the Ukraine border. Transnistria literally means “beyond the Dniester” river. The locals however don’t recognise the name Transnistria and instead call it Pridnestrovie in Russian, meaning near the Dniester river, because the territory includes land on the western side of the river as well. This pro-Russian statelet has been described...
