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 ...

the nations of the former Yugoslavia (except Serbia), and even former Soviet republics such as the Baltic States formally —and, informally, Ukraine, Moldova and others. The second sphere has ...

In a world where national borders define sovereignty, there exists a place that functions like a country in every sense—but officially, it doesn’t exist. We are here to talk about Transnistria ...

And just an hour’s drive from Odesa is the self-proclaimed republic of Transnistria, a Russian-backed breakaway part of Moldova ... who ended up escaping the Soviet Union and living in Paris ...

In "Kapusta," a cookbook dedicated to vegetables in Eastern European cuisines, Alissa Timoshkina ventures beyond cabbage.

and Moldova were in the Soviet Union. Slovakia, meanwhile, was a communist country in the Warsaw Pact and its people are ethnically Slavic like Russians. Russia has long seen itself as the ...

on a map of Europe. And you’re also not likely to see it on any list of the great city breaks of the world anytime soon either. This tiny breakaway region of Moldova has been de-facto ...

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The maps date back to when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, which dissolved in 1991 ... by leaders of countries like Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania. But while the hospitality has ...