Talk:Transnistria
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Q1: Why is this article titled "Transnistria" and not "Pridnestrovie"?
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Flag Ratio is wrong
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Change "Persons without citizenship: around 20,000–30,000 people[citation needed]" to blank. Since flagging citation needed in October 2021 no citation has been provided. ~2025-43423-41 (talk) 11:23, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
Done Alaexis¿question? 12:38, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
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In the Toponymy section of this article, Mikhail Gorbachev is mistakenly and incorrectly referred to as "she." Example of this is here; "The term Transnistria was used in relation to eastern Moldova for the first time in the year 1989,[33][34][35] in the election slogan of Leonida Lari, the deputy and member of the Popular Front of Moldova formed during the reforms of the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, when she stated" ~2025-39290-25 (talk) 15:22, 11 February 2026 (UTC)
- I think "she" is referring to Leonida Lari in that sentence. (ESkog)(Talk) 15:24, 11 February 2026 (UTC)
Not done: per the above response. Day Creature (talk) 16:02, 11 February 2026 (UTC)
No Russian tricolour is the "flag of Transnistria"
The flag of Russia shares the same legal status and prominence as the state flag of Transnistria, but the flag of Russia is not a state flag of Transnistria, nor is the fictional 1:2 ratio flag that's been floating around since 2017.
The source cited when the fictional 1:2 flag was added states that the Russian flag has equal status to the state flag of Transnistria, but it makes no mention of an alternative 1:2 state flag equivalent to the Russian tricolour. This was likely conjecture made by an editor who observed varying width-to-length ratios in photographs and mistranslated or misunderstood the original source. The long-standing claim on the English Wikipedia that there is a 1:2 Russian tricolour that is legally the state flag of Transnistria as well is false, and it remains untrue despite the fact that it has spread to and is still present on other projects. Yue🌙 (talk) 20:12, 18 February 2026 (UTC)