Andrei Brezianu
The sword of history and the power of truth: The case of Moldova’s and Russia’s V-day
April 27, 2010By Andrei Brezianu Analogies are a notorious trap. Forgive me for trying this one. Soon after the fall of Baghdad, in a U.S. plane carrying a team of experts trained for post-victory action in Iraq, most of them were thumbing through books dealing...
Moldova Celebrates 18th Anniversary of Independence
August 27, 2009On 27 august, the Republic of Moldova celebrates the 18th anniversary of its independence today. Moldova's Declaration of Independence was proclaimed in Chişinău on 27 August 1991 (see DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE). It reaffirmed the right of the people...
Transnistria or Moldavian Transnistrian Republic: Just facts
July 05, 2007Facts about Transnistria* Internationally unrecognized entity proclaimed in Tiraspol on 2 September 1990, initially styled the Moldavian Transnistrian Soviet Socialist Republic. Currently known as the Moldavian Transnistrian Republic, or MTR, (Russian...
Democracy promotion will be the cornerstone of thawing the Transnistrian conflict
May 03, 2007Andrei Brezianu, author of the Historical Dictionary of Moldova, spoke at the conference on the Transnistrian conflict in Washington about the role of democratization and democracy promotion in resolving this conflict. The event "Frozen Conflicts...
Soviet Ghost Lives on in Moldova
April 23, 2007By Andrei Brezianu and Vlad Spânu* Moldova is a landlocked stretch of land of the former Soviet empire, still ruled by Vladimir Voronin, a Communist ex-apparatchik, who is prone to remarks. One which made the headlines was an off-the-cuff...
Officials and experts discuss Moldova’s Transnistrian conflict in Washington, DC
April 18, 2007On April 26, the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies of Georgetown University and the Moldova Foundation organize a conference to discuss the Transnistrian/ trans-Nistrian conflict in Moldova...