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Transnistria

Illustrative: People walk past a billboard depicting the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Tiraspol, the capital of the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria, in Moldova on November 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
August 30, 2025, 3:11 am
As war rages in neighboring Ukraine, Transnistria’s Jews feel caught in a Soviet time warp
The Russian-aligned breakaway state in Moldova had a Jewish population of 300,000 before the Holocaust. The few remaining today battle heightened poverty amid neighboring conflict
By Larry Luxner
A view of the damaged building of the Ministry of State Security, in Tiraspol, the capital of the breakaway region of Transnistria, a disputed territory unrecognized by the international community, in Moldova, April 25, 2022. (Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria via AP)
December 19, 2022, 11:47 pm
Moldova warns Russia may launch offensive to form corridor to breakaway region
Country’s intelligence chief says Putin could seek ‘land corridor’ through south Ukraine to Moscow-backed Transnistria; his agency clarifies that remarks are only an ‘analysis’
By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH
A Transnistrian serviceman watches cars entering the self-proclaimed "Moldovan Republic of Transnistria" at the Varnita crossing with Moldova on April 28, 2022. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP)
April 29, 2022, 9:58 am
Israel issues travel warning for Russian-backed breakaway region in Moldova
Following several blasts in Transnistria, which borders Ukraine, Foreign Ministry calls on Israelis in separatist area to leave immediately
By ToI Staff and AFP
A truck drives past the Mariupol theater damaged during fighting in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, April 27, 2022. Municipal services began clearing rubble and cleaning the city. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
April 27, 2022, 11:09 pm
UN chief arrives in Kyiv as Ukraine warns of ‘extremely difficult weeks’ ahead
Fresh off meeting with Putin in Moscow, Antonio Guterres says ‘the sooner this war ends, the better — for the sake of Ukraine, Russia and the world’
By AFP
Moldova's President Maia Sandu speaks during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, at the Presidential Palace, in Chisinau, Moldova, on March 6, 2022. (Olivier Douliery/Pool Photo via AP)
April 26, 2022, 7:17 pm
Moldova steps up security after blasts in Russia-backed breakaway region
President Maia Sandu attributes series of explosions to ‘internal differences’ between groups in Transnistria, which she says have an interest in destabilizing situation
By Agencies
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