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The Economist
The Economist
13 Jun 2024


NextImg:The tiny statelet of Transnistria is squeezed on all sides
Europe | Too thin to survive?

The tiny statelet of Transnistria is squeezed on all sides

But so far Russia has been unable to gobble it up

|Tiraspol

“Everyone is welcome, except journalists,” announces the guide as her group have their passports checked on entering Transnistria, a diminutive pro-Russian breakaway enclave that belongs in international law to Moldova. Russian soldiers stand on one side of the road, Moldovans on the other. It is peaceful enough. But ever since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Transnistrians’ fears that their statelet might become a new front in that war have been very real.

In the centre of Tiraspol, the region’s capital, the flags of two breakaway chunks of Georgia, the only statelets to recognise Transnistria’s independence, fly alongside its own one. Russia, whose flag flutters widely elsewhere, helped prise Transnistria from Moldova in the early 1990s. Everyone assumes that its fate depends on whether Ukraine stands or falls.

This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Too thin to survive?”

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Outside France and Germany, the centre has largely held

A peace conference over Ukraine is unlikely to silence the guns

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