Transnistria is a narrow strip of land almost 200 kilometers (124 miles) long and 30 kilometers wide between the Dniester river and Moldova’s eastern border with Ukraine. It split from Moldova in 1992 but is not recognized as a sovereign state by the international community or, indeed, even by Russia. In 1991/92, Russia showed the world for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union that it was capable of destabilizing and dividing a former Soviet republic (Moldova), arming pro-Russian separatists there, unleashing a war, creating a pseudo state (Transnistria) and then freezing the conflict for an extended period of time.Do you think that Transnistria is part of Russia ?
