Organization / PublicationMagnum Photos for Geo / Vanity Fair
CategoryDaily Life stories
Prize2nd prize
Date00-01-2004
Country
PlaceTrans-Dniester
CaptionIn the unrecognized country of Trans-Dniester, which broke away from Moldova in the early 1990s, Lenin and his compatriots are still in high regard. The fall of the Soviet Union officially gave rise to 15 new countries, but political and ethnic disparities as well as arbitrary border delineation have lead to a group of unrecognized states. Some of these ghost republics have physical borders, others are the products of separatist dreams - but they remain cut off from the rest of the world, deprived of the certainties of the old Soviet order.
