The Christian Democratic Party of Moldova is Moldova’s most rabidly radical anti-Transdniestria party, but pay attention to this party because it has a good shot at becoming the government after 2009.
The party, in a roundabout way, is a key part of the reason why Transdniestria is today (de facto) independent. The background to this is […]
Most of what passes for analysis of Transdniestria in English is heavily biased. The anti-PMR slant is pushed by hardliners eager for war and schooled in the style of neocon Vladimir Socor, the son of a Communist propaganda boss. English language info on Transdniestria tends to borrow a heavy influence from Romanians who’ve themselves […]
Transdniestria recognizes Moldova and its right to exist. Transdniestria has no claim on Moldova. This is different from the situation with Palestine and Israel, for instance, or with China and Taiwan.
It is also significant that Transdniestria has 3 large ethnic groups and they all get along fine. Moldovans, Ukrainians and Russians live side by side […]
Yesterday, foreign policy analyst Mike Averko in New York was a panelist on a BBC program dealing with Russia and the post-Soviet space. In his follow-up, he commented on the schools which teach in Moldovan and are located in Transdniestria:
A few years back, some western organizations gave the disputed Pridnestrovie (Trans-Dniester) region of the former […]
My friend N.G., a Moldovan who was born and raised in Transdniestria, feels the same way I do: Agreeing that one of the most interesting things about Transdniestria is the fact that the Moldovan minority who lives there does not want to unite with Moldova.
The Moldovan minority represents a little less than a third of […]
The “illegal state” of Transdniestria appears to be doing a better job of nation building than “legal” Moldova. That is according to a group of visitors from Romania who arrived with lots of preconceptions and left very surprised.
Their false premises are evident from their travel report, published in blogformat here, but so are their surprises […]