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Trans-Dniester is not recognized diplomatically, and the maps we carried didn't even acknowledge its existence.
WSJ: An Accidental Trip to Trans-Dniester | Traveler's Tale
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If you have never have heard of Pridnestrovskaia (in English, Trans-Dniester or Transnistria), don't worry.
WSJ: An Accidental Trip to Trans-Dniester | Traveler's Tale
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But when a border guard is pressing a pistol into your waist, well, Trans-Dniester seems very real.
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The first sign that something was afoot came when we reached a bridge over the Dniester River.
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When Trans-Dniester voted that it would rather become part of a revived U.S.S.R. than a newly independent Moldova, months of fighting erupted.
WSJ: An Accidental Trip to Trans-Dniester | Traveler's Tale
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So when it came time to drive back through Romania, we took a detour of some 500 miles all the way around Moldova and Trans-Dniester.
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Russia has threatened trade sanctions and a visa regime for Moldovans in a row over Trans-Dniester, a region populated mainly by Russians and Ukrainians which broke away from Moldova in 1992.
BBC: Soldiers queue to cast their vote in Chisinau, Moldova
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Trans-Dniester is a tiny strip of land that was once part of Moldova, which has spent most of its recent existence bobbling back and forth between the Soviet Union and Romania.
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Suddenly, the residents on the east side of the Dniester River, who felt closer to the former Soviet bloc, and the government on the west side, more allied with Romania, found themselves in conflict.
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