Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of 33,843 km2 and a population of 2.38 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukra
Dragoș, founder of the Principality of Moldavia, 19th-century depiction
Scenery in Moldova, with Nistru River (Dniester)
Moldovan landscape in the Ungheni District
La Castel landscape reserve near Gordinești, Edineț District
Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a landlocked breakaway state internationally recognised as part of Moldova. Transnistria contro
Moldova
…population of 2.38 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Moldova is a parliamentary democratic republic with its capital in Chișinău…
Igor Smirnov, first president of Transnistria from 1991 to 2011
Igor Smirnov with Vladimir Voronin and Dmitry Medvedev in Barvikha, 18 March 2009
Dniester River in Bender (Tighina)
The supreme council building in Tiraspol, fronted by a statue of Vladimir Lenin