Lots of clouds, but some silver linings and even rays of sun are on the horizon as we take stock of developments across the region in our selection of Premium stories this week.

Moldova has set a series of demands of its breakaway Transnistria region – including prisoner releases – if it is to keep the territory supplied with gas following a halt to flows via Ukraine.

The Russian-backed region of Transnistria has returned three million cubic metres of gas to Moldova, which had been borrowed to keep the region's gas system operational. Source: Moldovan news outlet ...

Commenting on last month’s problems with natural gas supplies, Igor Dodon said Moldova had blocked humanitarian gas supplies ...

A pro-Russian separatist region in the heart of Moldavia, Transnistria is cold, very cold. Since January 1, 2025, Russia has ...

As a model, the far right points to the separatist, pro-Russian Transnistria region, which has been receiving free Russian gas for 30 years, while exporting its goods to Moldova and the EU.

After depriving Moldavia of gas, Russia has also placed the pro-Russian pro-independence region of Transnistria in an energy crisis. According to Tiraspol, Moscow will supply this self-proclaimed ...

A Hungarian gas supplier has signed a contract with Transnistria in the hope of preventing a humanitarian ... with the outcome that one of the [Hungarian] companies will deliver natural gas to the ...

a company with Hungarian capital will indeed transport natural gas to the region of Transnistria." Szijjártó didn’t name the company involved.

Transnistria, an unrecognized breakaway region between Moldova and Ukraine, operates autonomously with its own government, currency, and military. Despite its political ambiguity, it maintains its ...

Russian troops are now less than three miles from the region’s border, and they have been pushing forward in recent days. Should the Russian Army cross from the eastern Donetsk region into ...