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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...
Moldova's Leaders Struggle To Find A Common Language
September 02, 2009By Louis O'Neill August 31 was Limba Noastra (Our Language Day) in Moldova, marking 20 years since the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic passed a language law establishing Romanian as the country's official tongue and returning...
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...
Seventy Years After the Hitler-Stalin Pact
August 27, 2009By Austin Bay "Communazi" became magazine shorthand for their collaboration, dark slang connecting the two totalitarian ideologies of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany after they ratified the Hitler-Stalin Pact. That faux-peace agreement...
Molotov-Ribbentrop: Pact's Bitter Legacy Remains In Eastern Europe
August 21, 2009By Brian Whitmore Valentins Trojans remembers the marauding bands of Red Army soldiers going from farmhouse to farmhouse in his rural Latvia, looting watches, shoes, and clothing. Harijs Ruks recalls being interrogated by a sadistic Soviet officer...
Parliament in Moldova's rebel region elects new speaker
July 24, 2009The deputy speaker of parliament in Moldova's breakaway Dniester region (a.k.a. Transnstria), Anatoliy Kaminskiy, has been elected speaker of parliament on July 22. Infotag's special correspondent reported from Tiraspol that Kaminskiy was the only...