In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

Where is the gas crisis most acute? For now, the crisis is focused in a region called Transnistria, located on the eastern edge of the former Soviet republic of Moldova. It's a sliver of territory ...

The head of Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria has urged residents to burn firewood for heating and warned that blackouts cannot be avoided, after Moscow stopped supplying gas via Ukraine.

A renegade part of Moldova once boasted it would become a Russian-speaking Switzerland. Now without gas, its leader assured residents, “We will not allow a societal collapse.” A renegade part ...

The first formal parade was held in 1907, Muneeb Gambeno, director of the Kaapse Klopse Karnival Association that organises the event, told broadcaster SABC, with slavery abolished in Cape Town in ...

But not in Moldova. Russia is seeking to use the cutoff, analysts and officials say, as a part of a concerted effort to weaken the pro-Western government in the small nation, which is sandwiched ...

End of Ukraine gas transit deal plunges Moldova region into crisis Local officials announce longer rolling blackouts Industry closed down, residents without heating, hot water KYIV, Jan 4 (Reuters ...

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This week's cut-off of Russian gas supplies could create a humanitarian crisis in the breakaway Transnistria region, sparking public discontent and that might threaten Moldova's path towards the ...

Moldova’s pro-Moscow breakaway region of Transnistria halted almost all industrial activity except for food production, following the end of Russian gas flows through Ukraine, Interfax reported ...

The cut-off of Russian gas supplies to Moldova's breakaway Transnistria region has forced the closure of all industrial companies except food producers, an official said on Thursday (2 January).