Instability has escalated in Moldova’s Russian-backed breakaway region of Transnistria following the murder last week of the region’s most prominent opposition politician, Oleg Khorzhan.
Khorzhan, the leader of the local Communist Party, was found murdered at his home on the outskirts of the Transnistrian capital, Tiraspol. He had been out of prison for less than a year.
The death of a man once called a “traitor” by the Transnistrian authorities has caused upset in the unrecognised territory on the eastern bank of the Dniester river, with Transnistrian and Moldovan authorities presenting different possible scenarios for his death.
