To the northeast of Moldova lies a thin sliver of land knows as Transnistria, or Pridnestrovie if you prefer Russian. Its a unique place, claiming independence while Moldova still believes it to be part of itself. No other country has recognized this land as a sovereign nation, but that hasn't stopped it from printing its own currency or essentially acting as such.
While putzing around the PC office and surfing the net, another PCV and I came across several interesting sites, which I've linked to below. I'll let you decide for yourself about this matter. Be sure to at least check out ALL the links. They certainly paint an interesting picture...
Here's a link to Pridnestrovie.net, a sort of positive PR job for this semi-nation.
Now here is the organization, The International Council for Democratic Institutions and State Sovereignty (ICDISS), listed as a partial supporter of Pridnestrovie.net at the bottom of the webpage.
And now here are two articles (1 and 2) from the August 3, 2006 Economist about ICDISS.
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'No evidence of smuggling; allegations "wildly exaggerated"'
Transnistria is one of the world's leaders in sex trafficking. That's some insane PR/lying. Perhaps when they talk about smuggling, they're only talking about legal items. In that case, Transnistria does very little "legitimate" smuggling; just the black-market arms, drugs and human trades
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