Bessarabia
Baltics Fight Back, Romanians Keep Silence
December 08, 2011By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- On November 17, 2011, Russia made a statement, according to which, the Baltic countries would be voluntarily joined to Soviet Union and the military actions it initiated would be defensive, not of employment...
Russia defends Soviet annexation of Baltic States and Moldova
December 06, 2011By Vladimir Socor/ Jamestown Foundation/ Washington, DC -- On December 1 and 2, respectively, Lithuania’s and Estonia’s ministries of foreign affairs (MFAs) refuted the Russian MFA’s latest claims that the three Baltic States (Estonia...
Moldova after 20 years: A mixture of lost opportunities, successes and challenges
September 07, 2011Remarks by Vlad Spânu, President of the Moldova Foundation, at the Panel Discussion: "Moldova’s Democratic Transition: 20 Years of Challenges and Successes" held on August 31, 2011 at NED in Washington, DC For me, like for many...
70 years ago today: 13-14 June 1941, 300,000 were deported from Bessarabia
June 15, 2011Deportations of people from historic Moldova were first put in practice under czarist rule. Under Soviet rule, several waves of deportations of Moldova's native population were carried out: the first one just months before the outbreak of World War II...
May 16, 1812: Annexation of Bessarabia
May 30, 2011Due to historical vicissitudes, the romanian people couldn't live in a state that would include its whole teritory of being, as most diverse peoples invaded. But not only its teritorial integrity had to suffer, as the historical entity of romanians was...
A journey from the evil empire to the land of the free
March 21, 2011Text of the speech made by Vlad Spânu, President of the Moldova Foundation, at the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society (University of Virginia in Charlottesville), as it was delivered on March 18, 2011 (for Romanian translation, click here...
Ilie Ilascu: Vladimir Putin ordered and Igor Smirnov executed
February 01, 2011Moldovan media on the Transnistrian conflict ten years ago.... "It is true that Russia put pressure on Transnistria to liberate me ... But if Romania would not have dealt with this issue after I became citizen of Romania, Russia would not have...
Commemorative stone of monument to victims of Soviet occupation unveiled in Chisinau
June 28, 2010The commemorative stone of a monument to the victims of the Soviet occupation and of the totalitarian communist regime was unveiled and blessed in the Chisinau-based National Assembly Square today. Attending the ceremony were representatives of the Bessarabian...
70 years ago today: Romania's Bessarabia was annexed by USSR on 28 June 1940
June 28, 2010On June 28, 1940, the annexation of Bessarabia was carried out by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) under the provisions of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and was eventually consented to by the predecessor state, Romania (while under Soviet...
Further amputation of Bessarabia by Russia and Ukraine in the making?
May 25, 2010By Paul Goble Do Medvedev and Yanukovich plan to sign a ‘secret protocol’ on Transdniestria? Although aides to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich are denying it, many commentators and politicians in Ukraine, Moldova and Romania are...