Yes, on Transnistria, I was there one and a half years ago. It's of course a nasty dictatorship. Russia had a referendum there in 2006 for annexation to Russia with 96% majority. It doesn't mean anything. It's a pure dictatorship. President Putin has all the legal pre-conditions and he can decide tomorrow that he wants to annex Transnistria, and that would of course greatly complicate the situation. It's true that there's little popular support in southern Ukraine for Russian action, but there is no military capability to stand up against Russia. Concretely this means you can't really rely on putting an LNG terminal in Mykolaiv or Odessa in this situation.
On May 1st, 2014. See this statement in context.