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| State emblem of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic | |
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| Armiger | Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic |
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| Crest | Red star |
| Shield | hammer and sickle, Rising sun above the Dniester river |
| Supporters | Wheat, corn, grape and fruit |
| Motto | Russian: Приднестровская Молдавская Республика Romanian: Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ (in Moldovan Cyrillic) Ukrainian: Придністровська Молдавська Республіка |
| Other elements | Red star, rising sun |
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Transnistria, a breakaway state internationally recognised as part of Moldova, has a state emblem, adopted officially on 18 July 2000 alongside the state flag. [1] It constitutes a remodeled version of the former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic's emblem, which was replaced by the internationally recognized Moldovan government after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The only major pictorial change made in the Transnistrian version involves the addition of waves, representing the River Dniester. However, the inscriptions on the banner were changed: unlike the Moldavian SSR emblem, which bore the acronym РССМ (for "Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic") and the USSR state slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" in the "Moldavian" (Romanian in Moldovan Cyrillic) and Russian languages, the Transnistrian emblem bears the name PRIDNESTROVIAN MOLDAVIAN REPUBLIC in the Russian, Romanian and Ukrainian languages.
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- In Russian, it reads "ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКАЯ МОЛДАВСКАЯ РЕСПУБЛИКА" (transliterated as Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika) to the left;
- In Romanian (Moldovan Cyrillic), it reads "РЕПУБЛИКА МОЛДОВЕНЯСКЭ НИСТРЯНЭ" (transliterated as Republica Moldovenească Nistreană) in the middle;
- In Ukrainian, it reads "ПРИДНІСТРОВСЬКА МОЛДАВСЬКА РЕСПУБЛІКА" (transliterated as Prydnistrovs'ka Moldavs'ka Respublika) to the right.
Despite the emblem's depiction of the hammer and sickle, Transnistria is not a socialist state. The current president of Transnistria, Vadim Krasnoselsky, who identifies himself as a monarchist, has stated that he considers the Soviet symbolism in the emblems of his country to be "irrelevant". [2]
Emblem of the Moldavian SSR; the Transnistrian emblem is based on it
A road signboard with civil flag of Transnistria that superimposed with simplified version of the national emblem
