Sheriff, a company which controls almost all profitable business in Transnistria, was founded by 2 former KGB officers.

The Kamenka sanitorium is renowned for its special grape juice and wine cure, as well as its spa water.

The entrance to the Dnestrovsky collective farm.

Ten days after Orthodox Christmas, thousands of Transnistrians, aged from 6 to 60, plunge into the Nistru river at Tiraspol.

A ballroom dancer chats with friends before going on stage at Tashlyk's Soviet-era Palace of Culture.

This pensioners sells onions and eggs from a pram near the Vienna Cafe in central Tiraspol.