Marcin KosienkowskiMarcin Kosienkowski, PhD, is assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. His research focuses on the post-Soviet area. He has published extensively on Moldova and its breakaway egion of Transnistria. Among other works, he is author of The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.Survival Determinants [Polish] (2010). Read More Read Less