I’ve been on holiday to a country that doesn’t officially exist. It has its own border, passport, flag, currency and army but ...

A Dutch photographer looks past the stereotypes to portray life in Transnistria as hard – but also full of human warmth. In 2018, Paul Van der Stap started to visit Transnistria, a narrow strip of ...

Transnistria broke away from the Republic of Moldova in 1992, aided by Russian intervention. Although declaring itself a "state," it is not recognized by any other country. Insider traveled there to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONDON — Moldova’s Deputy Prime Minister Nicu Popescu said in a Thursday briefing with journalists that the country is facing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vadim Krasnoselsky, the head of the Russia-led breakaway Transnistria region in Moldova, urged residents on Jan. 3 to heat their ...

The first week of 2025 has been cold in Moldova, with nighttime temperatures dropping to around freezing. During the day, it hasn't been much warmer. On January 7, pensioner Gheorghe Colun and his ...

NOVOKATOVSK, Transnistria — In this tiny, hardscrabble village that could easily be mistaken for the fictional Anatevka in “Fiddler on the Roof,” farmer Or Cohen, 35, lives with his wife, Anya, and ...

TIRASPOL, Transnistria — The hammer-and-sickle still flutters proudly over the park-lined thoroughfares in this capital of a country that doesn’t exist. The top of City Hall bears the Soviet star. And ...

A billboard depicting the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Tiraspol, the main city in the breakaway region of Transnistria, a disputed territory in Moldova, in November.Dmitri Lovetsky/Associated Press ...

A series of unexplained explosions have occurred in parts of Transnistria, a breakaway territory within Moldova that has housed Russian troops for decades, sparking fears that Moscow’s war could soon ...