This was wild, no ordinary association football story: >But Tiraspol does not regard itself as part of Moldova. It is, instead, the self-styled capital of Tran

This was wild, no ordinary association football story: >But Tiraspol does not regard itself as part of Moldova. It is, instead, the self-styled capital of Transnistria — the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, to give its proper name — a breakaway republic on the left bank of the Dniester river, a 25-mile wide sliver of land with its own currency (the Transnistrian ruble), its own flag (red and green, with a hammer and sickle) and its own government (the Supreme Soviet).