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Transdniestria has its own currency, the ruble, and its own central bank.

According to a recent report from the International Crisis Group, a Brussels think-tank, Transdniestria has five or six arms factories making small arms, mortars and missile-launchers, for sale to the world's trouble-spots.

FOR two decades, since a short war with Moldova ended in 1992, the self-declared republic of Transdniestria has been an unreconstructed vestige of the Soviet Union, a narrow slash of land stuck in a time warp.

But the fact that Moldova, which gained independence in 1991 after the breakup of the Soviet Union, has no control over about 11percentt of the country, the whole of which is the size of Maryland, disturbs Western officials who fear that splinter, along the Ukraine border called Transdniestria, has become a haven for arms trafficking, drug smuggling and other illegal activity.

The Interfax news agency quoted a spokesman for Russia's Western Military District, Colonel Oleg Kochetkov, as saying that Russian forces stationed in Transdniestria had "conducted an anti-terrorism drill and practiced operations to rebuff an attack on their military base".

Moldova's Independence Day, August 27, commemorates the country's breakaway from the Soviet Union (an event that is not celebrated in Transdniestria, which has retained many Soviet holidays and symbols of Soviet life).

Finally, the economic transition was further impeded by the fact that much of Moldovan industry was located in the separatist region of Transdniestria, which had proclaimed independence from Moldova in 1990, resulting in a brief civil war.

Transdniestria's president, Yevgeny Shevchuk, talks of a "civilised divorce" with Moldova and a "prosperous and independent Transdniestria together with Russia .But Moscow has been keener to use Transdniestria as a tool for achieving other priorities than as its next expansionary prize.

Even unencumbered by Transdniestria, Moldova's economy has been lacklustre.

Ukraine, previously an accomplice in Transdniestria's smuggling business, has launched a peace plan, broadly backed by the European Union.

Transdniestria's rulers have close ties with business-minded counterparts in Ukraine, Russia and even in Moldova proper.