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Alexander Lebed - Wikipedia : TRAVEL   DIGITAL   FOOD & DRINK   ENVIRONMENT   STYLE & DESIGN   LANGUAGE   LIFESTYLE   PEOPLE   COLUMNS   MULTIMEDIA TRAVEL Transnistria: relic of a bygone era BY  RICHARD HUMPHRIES OCT 8, 2001 ARTICLE HISTORY PRINT SHARE TIRASPOL, Moldova — Think of the end of the Soviet Union as the Big Bang of recent politics. The successor states are the new planets — large or small, and subject to varying amounts of gravitational pull from Russia. And then there are the asteroids, in this case composed of breakaway republics, autonomous regions and disputed territories. Fragmentary relics of a derelict empire, they seem vaguely distant until they threaten to collide with larger bodies. One such asteroid, bordering the Ukraine, calls itself the Pridnestrovian-Moldovan Republic. Elsewhere, this somewhat unwieldy name is shortened and anglicized to Transnistria...

Let us start with Moldavia: http://drolgalazinandrei.wordpress.com/category/dr-olga-m-lazin/ Great job: good analysis on Romanian opinions on the Russian move, the taking of Crimeea and NTO's Role I was born in Romania, so I am interested in strategic politics, and the geopolitics  of Romania & Moldova , Hungary, of which I am also a citizen. How is Romania and Moldova going to protect themselves this time from the Big Bear, Russia. Here is a good and valid analysis: Friedman in Romania and Moldova: Borderlands: Part II: By George Friedman Founder and Chairman A borderland is a region where history is constant: Everything is in constant reframinf of regions, and flux. The countries we are visiting on this trip (Turkey, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and Poland) occupy the borderland between Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. Roman Catholic Hapsburg Austria struggled with the Islamic Ottoman Empire for centuries, with the Ottomans extending northwest until...