Names, abbreviations, spellings

With three official languages in our country and different names in each language, it is no wonder that English translators often get confused when they talk about Pridnestrovie. Sometimes the meaning even gets lost because the same thing is called different names by different people. To avoid that from happening, here's a quick guide to what is called what and how we spell things around here.

COUNTRY-NAME, SHORT FORM: Pridnestrovie Incorrect usage: Pridnestrovye, Transnistria, Transdnistria, Transdniestr, Trans-Dniestria, Transdniester, Transniestria, Transdnestr, etc. [ more ]
COUNTRY-NAME, LONG FORM: Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica Incorrect usage: Pridnestrovie Moldovan Republic, Pridnestrovian Moldavan Republic, Dniestr Moldovan Republic, Transnistria Moldovan Republic, etc. [ more ]
ABBREVIATION: PMR Incorrect usage: DMR, TMR, PMH, NMP, etc. [ more ]		ADJECTIVE / INHABITANTS: Pridnestrovian Pridnestrovians
MAJOR TOWNS, CITIES: Tiraspol (capital) Bender Dubossary Grigoriopol Rybnitsa Kamenka Slobozya		MAIN GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURE: Dniester River Other valid forms: Dnestr (Russian), Dnister (Ukrainian), Nistru (Romanian / Moldavian) The name Dniester derives from Scythian / Sarmatian Dānu nazdya; "the river to the front."
NAMES OF PUBLIC FIGURES: Igor Smirnov, President Aleksander Korolev, Vice President Valeri Litskai, Minister of Foreign Affairs Helen Chernenko, Minister of Economy Ivan Tkachenko, Minister of Health Anatoliy Guretskiy, Minister of Justice Yevgeny Shevchuk, Chairman of Parliament / Opposition Grigori Marakutsa, Former chairman of Parliament Alexander Radchenko, former Pres. candidate / Opposition Tom Zenovich, former Pres. candidate / Opposition Nikolai Buchatskii, opposition leader Yuri Suhov, Leader of the Respublica political party Mikhail Burla, Leader (with Yevgeny Shevchuk) of the Renewal political party Viktor Kostyrko, Mayor of Tiraspol Valerianus Tulgar, President, Union of Moldavians in Pridnestrovie Alena Arshinova, Leader of the Breakthrough political party Roman Khudyakov, Leader of the political party LDPR of Pridnestrovie Andrey Safonov, Presidential candidate / Opposition Nadezhda Bondarenko, Presidential candidate / Opposition Peter Tomaily, Presidential candidate / Opposition Oleg Gudymo, Leader of the political party People's Will		POLITICAL PARTIES, ORGANIZATIONS: Renewal (in Russian, Obnovlenye) Republic (Respublica), but normally not translated. Usually used in the original form, Respublica Breakthrough (Proriv) LDPR of Pridnestrovie Patriotic Party of Pridnestrovie People's Will, Pridnestrovie (Narodnaya Volya) Social Democratic Party of Pridnestrovie Pridnestrovie Communist Party (PKP) Communist Party of Pridnestrovie (KPP-CPSU) Unity (Yedinstvo) Return (Povernennia) Power to the People (Vlast Narodu) For Accord and Stability Union of Patriotic Forces Position Movement for the Development of Pridnestrovie