Like all rivers,Dnester is also a river that divides.A boundary,not only geographically.
Cultures,languages,traditions,people.In 1992 the river becomes a real line of demarcation.
Following Moldova’s decision to abolish Russian as official language,the Transnistrian region,a Russian majority,decides to declare independence.Along the Dnester is fought for months,the separatists backed by Russia,Moldova with Romania’s support.Thus was born Transnistria or Pridnestrovie, literally “Beyond the Dnester River.”
Today, Transnistria is a “De Facto” nation,unrecognized, like Nagorno Karabakh,South Ossetia and Abkhazia, one of the most closed in the world.Russian,Ukraine and Moldova identity,do not yet seem to be able to blend in a real identity of Transnistria, and and perhaps there is no will of a specific identity for the youth of the country, far from any kind of nationalism.
War in Ukraine has brought back tension, instability and ghosts from the past into all these disputed territories