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Transnistria: a breakaway republic of a breakaway republic

A review of Transnistria by Rory MacLean provides an insight into a country that is recognised by no other country

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

Back in the USSR: Heroic Adventures in Transnistria Rory MacLean, photographs by Nick Danziger

Unbound, pp.146, £19.99, ISBN: 9781783520626

Transnistria is not an area well-served by travel literature or, really, literature of any kind. The insubstantial-seeming post-Soviet sandwich-filling between Moldova and Ukraine, it doesn’t have a bad reputation. It has no reputation. As Rory MacLean, the author of the ‘across-the-old-Iron-Curtain-in-a-Trabant’ bestseller Stalin’s Nose, explains: ‘Transnistria is a breakaway republic of a ba lot smaller than Devon.

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