Who in the heck has ever heard of Transnistria? And, it officially does not exist. It broke off from Moldova, has a population of half a million who mostly speak Russian. The people there don't care what the outside world thinks of them and aren't about to give up their independence. Moldova is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, one of the reasons why the people who live in Transnistria love their independence and have no interest in joining with Moldova. https://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2018/02/half-million-people-live-in-country.html
its a great place for Mafia, drug running, money laundering, ....so I think it was created for that reason. The Russian "peacekeepers" in Moldova use this as a transit for their "krokodil" that they use to get high, other than that its a piece of sh** creation by the russkis, no one recognizes, or will.