Third Place
Tomas van Houtryve
Panos Pictures
"MOLDOVA - THE OUTSIDERS"
Two officers wearing the uniform of the Ministry of State Security (the Transnistrian KGB) stand in the middle of a crowd of military officers taking part in a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Tiraspol from Nazi occupation by the Soviet Army in Tiraspol, Moldova on 12 April 2009. The Transnistrian region of Moldova has set a up separatist government and refuses to accept the rule of the central government.
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