Hi from Tiraspol

This is Jason Cooper, I am a journalist at The Tiraspol Times & Weekly Review in Tiraspol, which is the capital of a new and emerging country (Pridnestrovie or Transnistria, depending of your language) which used to be part of the Soviet Union in the past.

I am one of the two people who are responsible for running the website of the newspaper, www.tiraspoltimes.com, which is updated throughout the day. Runs Drupal 4.7. In addition to the website, we also print a tabloid version of the newspaper (not daily, however) and we have a weekly news magazine called WEEKLY REVIEW.

I guess that I got here as the result of too much booze and some wrong career choices but it is a great experience and sometimes we feel like we are part of history. Since the United Nations was founded, more than one new country has been created on average per year, and joined the U.N., and this place is in line to be one of the next ones in the near future.

One of my colleagues compared my job in Tiraspol with being hired for a job in Rwanda or some such place, but it is really not that bad. I am not the only foreigner here. The city's soccer club even hired four Brazilian contract players recently. We wrote about this in the newspaper, of course.