This is Radio PMR
News from Transnistria
A Propagandabook

with a preface by Vladimir Kaminer
and and epilogue by Stefan Troebst

Verlag für Bildschöne Bücher, Berlin, 2007
ISBN 978-3-939181-07-1
240 pages, 210 x 280mm, Hardcover
more than 150 images
German, English, Russian
€ 35,-- (US$ 49,-)
Available from September 07
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Nearly nobody in the West knows about Transistria (or Pridnestrovie or PMR, as locals say). It is not recognized internationally, has nearly no perceptible voice, the few media coverages display a one-dimensional image. The European Union would like the issue from the table.

The authors Kramar and Marcell Nimfuehr explore the region on the left bank of the Dniestr for more than five years. They have got to known the land and the people, they have done reportages, interviews and made friends. One of those is young college lecturer Andrey Smolensky. Together they explored places that no western journalist has access to. Kramar and Nimfuehr can be taken as THE western experts on the PMR.

Transnistria belongs to the Republik of Moldova (say the Moldovans), Transnistria is independent (say the Transnistrians), Transnistria has no right to exist (says the Western world).

The authors don't defend regimes and no possible criminal deeds of those. There is no single truth and this book doesn't claim one. It rather shows how Pridnestrovians (Transnistrians) see their own country.

It's a pictorial book, a political account, a travel account, a book on propaganda and counter-propaganda. With "This is Radio PMR", the austrian authors created a superb photographical portrait. Many transcribed radio-shows and interviews create asophisticated image of "the little Soviet Union".

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