31 October 2020 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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Bender or Tighina (
Romanian) is a city within the internationally recognized borders of
Moldova under control of the unrecognized
Transnistria since 1992. It is located on the western bank of the river
Dniester in the
Romanian historical region of
Bessarabia. Together with its suburb
Proteagailovca, the city forms a municipality, which is separate from
Transnistria (as an administrative unit of Moldova) according to Moldovan law. Bender is located in the
buffer zone established at the end of the 1992
War of Transnistria. While the
Joint Control Commission has overriding powers in the city, Transnistria has administrative control. The fortress of Tighina was one of the important historic fortresses of the
Principality of Moldova.
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29 October 2020 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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Dubăsari is a city in
Transnistria region of the
Republic of Moldova, with a population of 23,650 and functions as the seat of the
Dubăsari (Dubossary) District. The origin of the town name is the plural form of the
Romanian archaic word
dubăsar (“boatman”), a derivative of
dubă (“a small wooden
boat“), so “Dubăsari” means “boatmen”.
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26 October 2020 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks, UNESCO World Heritage
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Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a
landlocked country in
Eastern Europe. It is bordered by
Romania to the west and
Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The capital city is
Chișinău (
List of cities and towns in Moldova). Due to a decrease in industrial and agricultural output following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the
service sector has grown to dominate
Moldova’s economy and is over 60% of the nation’s
GDP. It is the poorest country in Europe by GDP per capita, and it has the lowest
Human Development Index in the continent.
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