Steel producer MMZ (shown) is the largest company in Pridnestrovie. It accounts for half of the country’s budget income

Steel producer MMZ (shown) is the largest company in Pridnestrovie. It accounts for half of the country’s budget income

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Victim of blockade, PMR's largest company forced to cut output almost 40%One of Europe's leading steel exporters, Pridnestrovie's MMZ, announced a 35.6% year-on-year decrease in output. In 2006, it suffered a "triple whammy" caused by new Ukraine/Moldova customs restrictions, a Ukrainian tax on raw materials, and Moldova's stop of train traffic. Pridnestrovie describes this as economic warfare. [more]

<h1>Steel producer MMZ (shown) is the largest company in Pridnestrovie. It accounts for half of the country’s budget income</h1> Pridnestrovie or Transnistria is the name for the left bank of the Moldavian Dniester River / Dniestr River, or Dnestr (Nistru). <a href="http://www.visitpmr.com/">Steel producer MMZ (shown) is the largest company in Pridnestrovie. It accounts for half of the country’s budget income</a> which is independent although Moldavia considers it part of Moldova and a Moldovan breakaway region or separatist republic of Moldova. <p> <h2>Tiraspol Times Transnistria news and Transdniester newspaper from PMR Pridnestrovie and Moldova:</h2> It is called Transdniester, Transdniestr or Trans-Dniestria and its breakaway regime in separatist Transnistria became independent from Moldova in 1990 and is today separate de facto state. Large cities and towns include Tiraspol Dubossary Rybnitsa Bender or Bendery with Tighina as well as Grigoriopol, Kamenka / Camenca and Slobozya. The main political leaders are Yevgeny Shevchuk and president Igor Smirnov. <p> <a href=" http://pridnestrovie.net/">Pridnestrovie Transnistria</a> <a href="http://www.pridnestrovie.net/index.html">Transdnistria between Moldova (Moldova Republic or Moldovan republic) and Ukraine</a> <a href="http://www.tiraspoltimes.com/index.php">Tiraspol Transdniestr (or Trans-Dnistria)</a> <a href="http://www.pridnestrovie.net/aboutus.html">About Pridnestrovie breakaway republic</a> <a href="links.html">Links to Transnistria's government</a> <a href="http://www.pridnestrovie.net/image">Photos and images from Transdniestria</a>