The Union of Russian Communities in Pridnestrovie is a non-governmental organization based in 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...

 (official shortform name: Pridnestrovie). Its chairman is the archpriest Dionisiy Abramov

Dionisiy Abramov

Dionisiy Abramov is an ethnic Russian priest who is also a civic society leader. He was born in Transnistria and is the chairman of the Union of Russian Communities in Pridnestrovie....

, an ethnic Russian born in Transnistria.http://www.olvia.idknet.com/news-30-09-1.htm

The union is composed of ethnic Russians

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

. It acts as a federation

Federation

A federation , also known as a federal state, is a type of sovereign state characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government...

 of local clubs and civic organizations of ethnic Russians and their community groups throughout Transnistria.

Of the 35 nationalities represented in Transnistria, ethnic Russians make up 30.3 percent

2004 Census in Transnistria

The 2004 Census in Transnistria was organized in Transnistria at roughly the same time that Moldova held its own census, which Transnistria refused to participate in out of principle and deference to its September 2, 1990 Declaration of Independence....

. Along with ethnic Ukrainians

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

 (28.8 percent), Slavs form a majority of the population in Transnistria.http://pridnestrovie.net/facts.html