Dnestrovskaya Pravda is a Russian-language newspaper from Tiraspol

Tiraspol

Tiraspol is the second largest city in Moldova and is the capital and administrative centre of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic . The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester River...

, the capital of Transnistria

Transnistria

Transnistria is a breakaway territory located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine...

. It was founded by the Tiraspol City Council of popular deputies in 1941. This is the oldest periodical publication

Periodical publication

Periodical literature is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar examples are the newspaper, often published daily, or weekly; or the magazine, typically published weekly, monthly or as a quarterly...

 in the region. Its name means Dniester Truth; taking it title from the Dniester

Dniester

The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe. It runs through Ukraine and Moldova and separates most of Moldova's territory from the breakaway de facto state of Transnistria.-Names:...

 river which flows through the city.

The paper is printed three times a week (Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday) and consists of only four folded A3-sized sheets. It is often cited as an authoritative source for news from Transnistria by foreign news agencies such as Basa

BASA-press

BASA-press was a newsagency from the Republic of Moldova. Founded in November 1992, Moldova's oldest independent newsagency ceased its activity in December 2009.- History:...

, Flux and Interfax.

Its editor is Tatyana Mikhailovna Rudenko (Cyrillic: Татьяна Михайловна Руденко).

External links

• Dnestrovskaya Pravda website - Revised: August 23, 1998