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By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans
Transnistria, or the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) as it is officially called,
is a breakaway state situated between Moldova and Ukraine that has largely escaped the world's attention
ever since its self-proclaimed independence as a Soviet republic in
1990 and subsequent violent secession from Moldova in 1992. Despite
having ended armed conflict in 1992, the situation in Transnistria
remains just as complicated as it was in the 1990s, with the ephemeral nation wishing to
join the Russian Federation while continuing to remain heavily reliant
on Moldova for
exporting the limited produce its economy outputs.
