Zelenskyy said last year he had no intention of renewing the gas transit deal, stressing the importance for Europe of moving ...

Moscow’s gas cutoff fuels Moldova’s shift toward the EU, as the country seeks energy security and support. Meanwhile, ...

Russia has long used its plentiful energy resources as a tool to exert control over the region, where independence from ...

Transnistria exists in a Soviet time warp bubble – it’s filled ... told him that as long as you have a source of income from outside the country, you can live “very well indeed.” ...

Transnistria is a pro-Russian entity that split from the rest of Moldova after the Soviet Union collapsed ... a transit deal between the two warring countries. A statement on the energy company ...

The resulting surge in electricity demand has heaped pressure onto the Soviet-era energy ... for the breakaway republic of Transnistria or the rest of the country. Internationally recognized ...

Alongside Slovakia and Austria, Moldova was thought to be one of the ... supplies. Transnistria, a separatist pro-Russian enclave in Moldova, broke away in the early 1990s after the Soviet Union ...

Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria has ... a runoff vote in the country's presidential election. The ballot was seen as a further step on the former Soviet republic's road to integration ...

When Transnistria, the most prosperous part of Moldova when both were part of the Soviet Union ... In all three countries, local militants backed by Russian muscle declared their own microstates.

The Soviet-era pipeline enters Ukraine ... of "blackmail" possibly aimed at destabilising her country before a general ...