When: May 08 - 2021 | 11 AM CET

Where: Tiraspol | Transnistria

What: Tiraspol, capital of a country that doesn’t exist. At least officially. Transnistria is a huge question mark on the map of southeastern Europe, an unrecognised but de facto independent nation with its own flag, army, money, government and laws. Tiraspol looks like a pocket-sized model of the bygone USSR: wide and clean parade avenues, grey apartment blocks, melancholic atmospheres, imposing memorials, babushka-filled bazaars and Lenin statues everywhere. And yet, even in Transnistria, things are changing faster than you think. Discover Tiraspol with us and see Soviet Transnistria before it will fade away.

Who: Andrey, Transnistrian-native, journalist, radio-host, polyglot and local celebrity. He started doing tours to Transnistria almost 20 years ago, when nobody, literally nobody, was even remotely aware of the very existence of his homeland.