I first visited Moldova and Transnistria in January 2006, as part of a wider trip that took me through Ukraine and across the Caspian on a freight ship. My most recent visit was rather different, with a wife and two small children in tow and considerably better weather. Here is what twenty years of change actually looks like on the ground.
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I first visited Moldova and Transnistria in January 2006, as part of a wider trip that took me through Ukraine and across the Caspian on a freight ship. My most recent visit was rather different, with a wife and two small children in tow and considerably better weather. Here is what twenty years of change actually looks like on the ground.
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