In 1713, the city was the site of a battle (kalabalik) between Charles XII of Sweden, who had taken refuge there with Cossack leader Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa after their failed attack on Russia, and Turks who wished to take him hostage and exploit the political difficulties of central Europe.
Tighina fell to the Russians during the Russo_Turkish War, 1806_1812 and remained in Russian hands until the Collapse of the Soviet Union. During the Transdniestrian Civil War most of the fighting was concentrated in the city.
Bendery is the city on the right bank of the Dniester river with the population of 146,000.
The village of Varnitsa, populated predominantly by Moldovans, is in the outskirts of Bendery.
According to military commandant of Bendery, colonel Bergman, who seems to be the only official trying to put the crime situation under control and, specifically, to disarm the formations that had become unmanageable, he had to release a group of men, arrested in connection with the Kostenko case, on the demand of the TDMR Prosecutor.
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