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The Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova is a communist party in Moldova led by Vladimir Voronin. It is the only communist party to have held a majority government in the post-Soviet states. It has been variously described as communist,Moldovenist,populist,and Russophile.
Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov is a Russian-born Transnistrian politician who served as the first president (1991–2011) of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic.
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Mircea Snegur is a Moldovan politician who served as the first president of Moldova from 1990 to 1997. Before that,he served as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990 and chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 27 April to 3 September 1990.
The Communist Party of Moldavia was the ruling and the sole legal political party in the Moldavian SSR,and one of the fifteen republic-level parties that formed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. During World War II,it was the driving force of the Moldovan resistance against Axis occupation.
Moldovans,sometimes referred to as Moldavians,are a Romanian-speaking ethnic group and the largest ethnic group of the Republic of Moldova and a significant minority in Ukraine and Russia. There is an ongoing controversy,in part involving the linguisitic definition of ethnicity,over whether Moldovans' self-identification constitutes an ethnic group distinct and apart from Romanians,or a subset. Self-identified Romanians in the Republic of Moldova vary.
Hîncești is a city and municipality in Moldova.
The Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is the parliament of Transnistria. The unicameral legislature consists of 33 seats,all of which are determined by single mandate constituencies. It is headed by a chairman.
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Grigore Vieru was a Moldavian poet,writer and unionist advocate. Known for his poems and books for children. His poetry is characterized by vivid natural scenery,patriotism,as well as a venerated image of the sacred mother. Vieru wrote in the Romanian language. In 1993 he was elected a correspondent member of the Romanian Academy.
Grigory Stepanovich Marakutsa is a Transnistrian politician and member of Pridnestrovian Supreme Soviet.
The Popular Front of Moldova was a political movement in the Moldavian SSR,one of the 15 union republics of the former Soviet Union,and in the newly independent Republic of Moldova. Formally,the Front existed from 1989 to 1992. It was the successor to the Democratic Movement of Moldova,and was succeeded by the Christian Democratic Popular Front and ultimately by the Christian-Democratic People's Party.
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Semion Grossu is a Moldovan politician and businessman.
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Gheorghe Duca is a Moldovan academic and politician who is the current president of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova,an honorary member of the Romanian Academy,and former Moldovan Minister of Environment,Public Works and Regional Development.
Andrei Eșanu is a historian,writer and researcher from the Republic of Moldova. He is a member of the Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova. He is part of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova,and was elected an honorary member of the Romanian Academy in 2011.
Vasile Bahnaru is a philologist from the Republic of Moldova.
Literature of Moldova comprises the literature of the principality of Moldavia,the later trans-Prut Moldavia,Bessarabia,the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic,the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic,and the modern Republic of Moldova,irrespective of the language. Although there has been considerable controversy over linguistic identity in Moldova,the Moldovan and Romanian languages are virtually identical and share a common literary history. Moldovan literature,therefore,has considerable overlap with Romanian literature.
