New York Post: 500K people live in a country that doesn’t exist
Transnistria is the size of Dallas, Texas. Nestled between Moldova and Ukraine, it has a population of just under 500,000 residents who mostly speak Russian.
And in the eyes of the world, it doesn’t officially exist.
Once, Transnistria was part of Moldova, but in 1990 it declared independence after the fall of the Soviet Union and Moldova’s alliance with Romania. There was a brief war, with some 1,500 casualties, which ended in something of an impasse.
Transnistria remained independent from Moldova, but is not officially recognized as its own nation. It’s not a part of any other country, and yet it’s not a country in its own right. Its money is completely useless outside of its borders, its passports unusable.
Would you go there?
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WNU Editor: I passed through this "country" a few years ago .... and it is a surreal experience. And my comment on this region two years back still holds ....
.... Moldova is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe .... one of the many reasons on why the people who live in Transnistria love their independence and have no interest in joining with Moldova. And as much as Moldova, Ukraine, and much of Europe want this little Republic to go away, the people who live there have no interest to accommodate them. My prediction .... nothing is going to change in 2017 (and I can now say 2018).
