In this region, the former KGB agent Viktor Gushan runs a company known as Sheriff, which monopolizes many of this region's local industries and owns the unusually successful and secretive FC Sheriff soccer team.
In this region, the former KGB agent Viktor Gushan runs a company known as Sheriff, which monopolizes many of this region's local industries and owns the unusually successful and secretive FC Sheriff soccer team. This region's population has decreased from 750,000 in the early 1990s to as low as 300,000 today. It declared independence about a year before nearby (*) Gagauzia similarly tried to declare independence. Today, this region uses its own version of the ruble instead of the leu as currency, speaks Russian as an official language, and continues to oppose union with ► Romania. Tiraspol is the capital of, for 10 points, what breakaway state of Moldova on the east bank of the Dniester River?
In this region, the former KGB agent Viktor Gushan runs a company known as Sheriff, which monopolizes many of this region's local industries and owns the unusually successful and secretive FC Sheriff soccer team.
Transnistria