Although the disintegration of the Soviet Union was relatively peaceful, unlike, for example, another
socialist state with confederal structure – Yugoslavia, the independence aspirations of individual regions were often accompanied by armed struggle, which later transformed into "frozen conflicts" and
turned into ‘’mines’’ placed under the statehood of a number of post-Soviet countries, thus preventing
and hindering their development and threatening the regional stability and peace. The Transnistrian
conflict is one of the unresolved conflicts in the post-Soviet territory, the basis of which is the struggle
of the minority for the recognition and realization of its right to self-determination. Within the framework of this paper, the origins and essence of the Transnistrian conflict will be presented. Moreover,
the gist of all important international agreements related to the conflict are illustrated one by one.
Afterwards, parallels are drawn between Transnistria and Gagauzian autonomy: two conflicts that arose
due to similar reasons and in the same country, which eventually had different outcomes. At the end of
the research, two most likely scenarios are discussed for the further development of the Transnistrian
conflict.