(otherwise known as Transnistria, Trans-Dniester,
Transdniestria, and Pridnestrovie)
A lot of names for somewhere that does not officially exist
it was a bit cold for the beach
If you visit - visit with a guide - there are places where
you can take photos and places where you can't and if you
do and they spot you on CCTV you end up in a police station
in a cage* being interrogated by police who don't work for any
official government at all... the FCO say:
"It is very important to avoid getting into difficulty with the Transnistrian authorities"
*Yes really this did happen to an American who decided not to follow my guide's advice
There is not a lot to see and things can get a little spooky at the border and close to the
Russian 'peacekeeping' posts and I certainly don't recommend staying overnight.
Moldova play their international football matches in Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistira.
There is a brand spanking new 11,000 seater stadium and sports complex and
Audi dealership. All constructed by one of the 'big' men of the PMR - and certainly no photos allowed (nice little police car sitting by the roadside as we drove past)
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Its a very poor country but there are lots of banks, some expensive "full service"
hotels and even a new branch of "Andy's Pizza" - a sign of friendship between
the Moldovan and PMR presidents' sons - Andy being the offspring of
Daddy Moldova I believe
I am not quite sure what they are trying to say here,
Putin, Mehdvedev and... Che?
Commemorating the meeting of the leaders of three pseudo states...
PMR, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Each officially recognised only by "the other two, Russia and Nicaragua" -
except for PMR - where even Russia treads carefully. Nicaragua as well.
The three are members of the "Commonwealth of Unrecognized States" along
with Nagorno-Karabakh.
on the way back to Moldova...
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