Abstract Religious aspects of the problem of unrecognised states are important. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are located between the jurisdictions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Georgia, while the competition between the Russian and Romanian Orthodox Churches over Moldova inevitably affects Transnistria. This paper tries to elucidate the features of politics on the Black Sea rim in general, and in the unrecognised states in particular, by focusing on two kinds of transborder ...
Tópico(s): European Politics and Security
2009 - Taylor & Francis | Religion State & Society
Abstract How have the Transnistrian authorities sought to consolidate de facto statehood in the absence of international recognition? Starting from the idea that the time factor will eventually transform secessionists into state-builders, this article traces how the processes of state- and nation-building promoted by the Transnistrian de facto authorities have evolved since the early 1990s. Drawing on official sources, interviews, journalism, and the political science literature, the domestic dimensions ...
Tópico(s): Cyprus History, Politics, Society
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Post-Soviet Affairs
This chapter demonstrates how differently the demands of Transnistria and Gagauzia have been managed by the Moldovan centre. The Moldovan government has successfully resolved its other major regional conflict with Gagauzia, Transnistria has been an intractable problem. Some Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) mission heads have been considered too supportive of either Moldova or Transnistria and not viewed as impartial. While Moldova and Transnistria both owe debts to Gazprom, ...
Tópico(s): Global Peace and Security Dynamics
2001 - Taylor & Francis | Regional & Federal Studies
Both the EU and NATO have greatly expanded efforts to address the frozen conflict in Transnistria since 2003. These efforts by and large fall neatly into the category of 'soft balancing' actions against Russian influence in the conflict and in Moldova more generally. Given that soft balancing is normally seen as a strategy undertaken by relatively weak actors vis-à-vis a global or regional hegemon, this behavior is puzzling. The actions of these institutions demonstrate that soft balancing is a logical ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2016 - Routledge | Small Wars and Insurgencies
John Ο’Loughlin, Vladimir Kolossov, Gerard Toal,
In the wake of the Ukrainian crisis in 2013–2014, renewed attention has been given to the earlier so-called “frozen conflicts” of the successor states of the Soviet Union. In Georgia, Moldova, and Azerbaijan, national conflicts of the early 1990s resulted in establishment of four breakaway regions, the de facto states of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, and Nagorny Karabakh. While the first three are supported by Russia, the latter is supported by Armenia. Such support as well as growing internal ...
Tópico(s): Cyprus History, Politics, Society
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Eurasian Geography and Economics
Since 1992, there has been an ongoing debate regarding the situation in Transnistria, the breakaway republic on the border between Moldova and Ukraine.After the conclusion of the agreement that ended the armed conflict, the Moldovan government in Chişinău and the Transnistrian authorities in Tiraspol made efforts to find a political solution, under the supervision of a negotiation mechanism that included, until the end of 2005, Russia, Ukraine, and the OSCE.Russia's 2003 plan to that end was rejected ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2008 - Procon Ltd. | Connections The Quarterly Journal
What factors determine the timing of elite defection in conditions of post-Soviet personalistic presidentialism? How do relations with a powerful patron state affect this process? This article analyzes these questions on the basis of a case study of Transnistria, a de facto state with strong links to Russia. It argues that privatization processes involving actors from the patron state provide a unique opening for elite defection by heightening tensions between the rent-seeking interests of the personalistic ...
Tópico(s): European Politics and Security
2013 - Elsevier BV | Communist and Post-Communist Studies
The Republic of Transnistria is a separatist region of the Southeastern European state of Moldova. While not much has changed in this "frozen conflict" since a 1992 short-lived war, the eastwards expansion of the European Union and NATO are slowly bringing Moldova to the attention of Western policymakers. The cornerstone of the separatist cause is the Russian Federation, which serves as Transnistrias protector. Given the 2008 summer in war in Georgia, another so-called "frozen conflict," it is necessary ...
Tópico(s): European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
2009 - Routledge | The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
Ion Marandici, Alexandru Leşanu,
What explains the economic endurance of the post-Soviet unrecognized states? Drawing insights from the scholarship on economic institutions, rentier states, and patron–client relations, this article explores the resource-extraction strategies of the post-Soviet de facto states via a paired comparison of Transnistria (PMR) and the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). The authors conceptualize the post-Soviet de facto states as rentier clients and discuss the defining characteristics of PMR's oligarchic ...
Tópico(s): European and International Law Studies
2020 - Taylor & Francis | Problems of Post-Communism
John Ο’Loughlin, Gerard Toal, Rebecca Chamberlain-Creangă,
Has 20 years of separation between the Republics of Moldova and Pridnestrovie (Transnistria, PMR) generated a division in attitudes and beliefs in the two populations? Using near-simultaneous social scientific surveys from the summer of 2010 in the two republics, we measured four localized geopolitical divides: the local economies, historical memories, political legitimacies, and geopolitical orientations. Our findings challenge the notion that Moldova's territorial disunion has produced separate ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Eurasian Geography and Economics
What strategies do de facto states employ in conducting their diplomacy? This article examines Transnistria's Order of Friendship, a state award that primarily targets foreigners, by analysing the profiles of all known award recipients. The Order is found to be a political tool to enhance Transnistria's domestic and external legitimacy in the absence of recognised sovereignty. The findings confirm the literature on Transnistria's 'bandwagoning' with Russia, indicate that a patron's support must be ...
Tópico(s): European and International Law Studies
2020 - Routledge | Europe Asia Studies
On 17 September 2006, the leadership of Transnistria unilaterally held a sovereignty referendum, despite knowing it would not be implemented. It means it was driven by other motives than the reallocation of sovereignty. Drawing on a new suite of sources, including interviews with Transnistrian elites and Russian journalism, this paper argues that the primary motivation behind the poll was the desire of Transnistria's President Igor Smirnov to domestically empower himself to gain the electoral advantage ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Ethnopolitics
This paper explores the geopolitical role that a de facto state may play while operating in the context of patron-client relations and engagement without recognition framework. This is especially pronounced in Transnistria, which due to economic incentives offered by the EU through the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) may not fit well into the overall military-political or socio-cultural expectations of Transnistrians deemed to be part of the Russian dominion. The puzzle this paper ...
Tópico(s): European and International Law Studies
2020 - Taylor & Francis | Geopolitics
Produção Nacional
Este trabalho visa identificar o porquê de haver distinções no tratamento da Rússia aos casos da Crimeia e da Transnístria. O objetivo central é verificar se as circunstâncias são similares e se Vladimir Putin, após a anexação da Crimeia, faria o mesmo com a Transnístria.
Tópico(s): Russia and Soviet political economy
2016 - PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE MINAS GERAIS | Conjuntura Internacional
Since the last month of 2016, after the assumption of the self-proclaimed presidency of Vadim Krasnoselsky, Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika (PMR, Transnistria) has implemented full-fledged “State Program of Patriotic Education in PMR” and its legal-administrative decisions concerned, in addition to pro-Kremlin patriotic policy. It is worthy to note that the political outcomes were abided on the 5-year State Program of Patriotic Education of Citizens of Russian Federation and have obvious similarities ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2021 - | Russian and East European Studies
Headline MOLDOVA: Transnistria will not draw closer
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2016 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Emerald expert briefings
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Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
1998 - Cambridge University Press | Nationalities Papers
Subject Transnistria's economy. Significance Moldova's breakaway region survives largely on support from Russia, which needs Transnistria as a geopolitical foothold in the region. Transnistria has been more industrialised than the rest of Moldova; its economic structure is highly unbalanced, centred around several enterprises whose output is almost exclusively export-oriented. A steel mill, a textile factory and large food-processing enterprises were all inherited from the Soviet era and now form ...
Tópico(s): European and International Law Studies
2015 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Emerald expert briefings
Subject Transnistrian politics. Significance On November 29, Transnistria, Moldova's breakaway region, held a parliamentary election that resulted in an increased majority for the Renewal (Obnovleniye) Party, creating further problems for President Yevgeny Shevchuk. Transnistria is suffering from Russia's economic slowdown and the government's popularity has dropped following cuts of 30% to pensions and state salaries. Impacts Political instability in Moldova stemming from the banking crisis could ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2016 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Emerald expert briefings
The Romanian regime of wartime leader Ion Antonescu concentrated the Jews of Bessarabia and Bukovyna in transit camps and ghettos, and then deported them to the Romanian-administered territory between the Dnister and Buh rivers, in southwestern Ukraine. Of approximately 160,000 Romanian Jews deported to “Transnistria,” only 50,000 survived the ordeal. The Romanians, with local Volksdeutsch and Ukrainian collaborators, also massacred and were otherwise responsible for the death of approximately 150, ...
Tópico(s): Health and Conflict Studies
2021 - University of Alberta, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies | East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies
Abstract The paper presents a comprehensive overview of the public health system in the separatist Trasnistrian region of Moldova, an analytically unorthodox undertaking, as this entails looking at the health system of a fragile breakaway state-like entity, a set of circumstances that — rather inevitably, it seems — may define certain basic features of the health system at hand. Attention will be dedicated to outlining the main challenges the region's public health system faces, for instance, concerning ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2021 - Akadémiai Kiadó | Society and Economy
El presente artículo analiza un modelo de conflicto en el antiguo espacio soviético cuyo origen se sitúa en el periodo final de la Unión Soviética. La prolongación durante el proceso de construcción estatal de la República independiente de Moldavia — con un conflicto bélico durante el año 1992 —, así como la ausencia de una solución definitiva desde el punto de vista político-diplomático y el múltiple apoyo otorgado por Rusia al enclave secesionista, acabó con su conversión en un Estado de facto. No ...
Tópico(s): European Politics and Security
2023 - Complutense University of Madrid | Política y Sociedad
... debido a la persistencia de un conflicto congelado (Transnistria), una región autónoma (Gagauzia) y una polarización política entre el proeuropeísmo y la alianza con Rusia. ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2021 - Asociación Española de Geografía | Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles
... fears that the pro-Russian separatist republic of Transnistria in Moldova might be the next object of ... influence over the whole of Moldova rather than Transnistria per se; that Russian policy has been primarily ...
Tópico(s): European Politics and Security
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Problems of Post-Communism
... territorial integrity. Drawing on four case studies—Abkhazia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Northern Cyprus—this article examines ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Ethnopolitics
... with Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Northern Cyprus, Somaliland, and Transnistria and explore when, why, and how interactions between ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2016 - Oxford University Press | Foreign Policy Analysis
... the Transnistrian imagined community. While some scholars describe Transnistria’s nation-building strategy as a civic, multicultural ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
2020 - Cambridge University Press | Nationalities Papers
Vera Axyonova, Andrea Gawrich,
... seek secession from these 'parent states': South Ossetia, Transnistria and the Donbas region. Drawing on the organizations' ...
Tópico(s): Russia and Soviet political economy
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Ethnopolitics
... discussion, those in Nagorny Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria and the alleged People’s Republics in south- ...
Tópico(s): European Politics and Security
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Caucasus Survey
А. А. Токарев, Адлан Маргоев, Alexey Prikhodchenko,
... The Peoples’ Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk and Transnistria score the lowest. The study reveals, the degree ...
Tópico(s): Cyprus History, Politics, Society
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Caucasus Survey