When Moldova becomes independent in 1991, the east bank of the Dnestr, mainly populated by Russians and Ukrainians, secede in 1991.
The new state is named Moldovan Transnistrian Soviet Socialist Republic, later Transnistrian Moldovan Republic, and is a authoritarian republic.
In 2004 Moldova and Transnistria agree to build a future federal country with two entities under the name Federal State of Moldova and Dniestr.