Outline of Transnistria

Moldova and Romania will form a joint military battalion for emergency situations - a move likely to anger Russia, which has troops stationed in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria.

Russia has decided to open 24 polling stations in Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria for the Russian presidential elections on March 18 that President Vladimir Putin is sure to win.

Authorities in Moldova's breakaway Transnistria region continue to force youngsters to enlist in its growing military force, where some of them suffer human rights violations or even get killed, a report released by a human rights organization based in Moldova says.