Vasile Soare | |
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| Romanian Ambassador to Azerbaijan | |
| Assumed office 2021 | |
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| Born | October 5, 1957 Buciumeni, Romania |
| Alma mater | Diplomatic Institute of Romania |
| Profession | Diplomat |
Vasile Soare is a Romanian diplomat. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to Azerbaijan since October 28, 2021.
On 7 February 2002, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ambassador of Romania to Kazakhstan Vasile Soare presented credentials to President Nursultan Nazarbayev. [1] Vasile Soare has studied about the Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. [2]
Also, on 9 September 2003, a memorial monument was unveiled in the Spassk village in the memory of the Romanian World War II prisoners who had been buried in the Karlag memorial cemetery. With the help of the local authorities Vasile Soare discovered that 6,740 Romanian captives were kept in the Karaganda region prisons between 1941 and 1946. 827 of them were buried in the Spassk cemetery. [3] [4]
The unification of Moldova and Romania is a popular concept in the two countries that began in the late 1980s, during the collapse of communism. The Romanian Revolution in 1989 and the independence of Moldova in 1991 further contributed to the development of a movement for the unification of the two Romanian-speaking countries. The question of reunification is recurrent in the public sphere of the two countries, often as a speculation, both as a goal and a danger. Most of Romania supports unification, but a majority in Moldova continues to oppose it. However, support in Moldova for reunification has increased significantly, with polls asking "if a referendum took place next Sunday regarding the unification of the Republic of Moldova and Romania, would you vote for or against the unification?" rising from approximately 20% to over 40% support from 2015 to 2021. Support for unification with Romania is much lower in Transnistria and Gagauzia than in the rest of Moldova.
The Fântâna Albă massacre took place on April 1, 1941, in Northern Bukovina when between 44 and 3,000 civilians were killed when their attempt to forcefully cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania, near the village of Fântâna Albă, now in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, was met with open fire by the Soviet Border Troops. Although according to Soviet official reports no more than 44 civilians were killed, local witnesses assert a much higher toll, claiming that survivors were tortured, killed, or buried in mass graves. Other survivors were allegedly taken away to be tortured and killed at the hands of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. Some sources refer to this massacre as "The Romanian Katyn."
Ioan Lupaș was a Romanian historian, academic, politician, Orthodox theologian and priest. He was a member of the Romanian Academy.
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The Romanians in Kazakhstan are an ethnic Romanian minority in Kazakhstan. In the 1999 Kazakh census, 594 Romanians and 19,460 Moldovans, which Romanian media has claimed as also being part of the Romanian minority of the country, were registered in Kazakhstan. However, they are estimated to be around 40,000 people. Most of the Romanians in Kazakhstan come from the regions of Bessarabia, the Hertsa region and Northern Bukovina, all of which used to be part of Romania. They live scattered mostly in the north of the country, although some Romanians also live in the south, including in the former Kazakh capital of Almaty and its surroundings. The Romanians of Kazakhstan have received sporadic visits from the Romanian ambassador to Kazakhstan.
"Drum bun" is a Romanian march composed by Ștefan Nosievici in 1856. It was one of the two male choirs he composed, the other being "Tătarul". The Society for Romanian Culture and Literature in Bukovina posthumously published the song in 1869 after Nosievici's death on 12 November of the same year. Although Nosievici composed the march, the lyrics were written by Vasile Alecsandri. Alexandru Flechtenmacher has also been attributed as the author of the song. It used to be very popular, especially among primary schools.
The Alliance for the Union of Romanians is a right-wing populist and nationalist political party currently active in Romania and Moldova. It was founded on 19 September 2019. This was done with the intention of participating in the 2020 Romanian local and legislative elections. Currently the party has two co-presidents, George Simion and Claudiu Târziu.
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Greater Moldova or Greater Moldavia is an irredentist concept today used for the credence that the Republic of Moldova should be expanded with lands that used to belong to the Principality of Moldavia or were once inside its political orbit. Historically, it also meant the unification of the lands of the former principality under either Romania or the Soviet Union. Territories cited in such proposals always include Western Moldavia and the whole of Bessarabia, as well as Bukovina and the Hertsa region; some versions also feature parts of Transylvania, while still others include areas of Podolia, or Pokuttia in its entirety. In its most post-Soviet iterations, "Greater Moldova" is associated with a belief that Moldovans are a distinct people from Romanians, and that they inhabit parts of Romania and Ukraine. It is a marginal position within the Moldovan identity disputes, corresponding to radical forms of an ideology polemically known as "Moldovenism".
Presidential elections are going to be held in Romania in either mid- or late November 2024, with an eventual second round to be held in late November or early December 2024 as well. As the Romanian Constitution allows a maximum of two non-consecutive presidential terms, incumbent President of Romania Klaus Iohannis, first elected in 2014 and then re-elected in 2019, is not eligible for re-election anymore.
The Aromanians in Romania are a non-recognized ethnic minority in Romania that numbered around 26,500 people in 2006. Legally, Romania regards the Aromanians and other groups such as the Megleno-Romanians and the Istro-Romanians as part of the Romanian nation. This is according to a promulgated legislation according to which Romania supports the rights of all those who "assume a Romanian cultural identity, people of Romanian origin and persons that belong to the Romanian linguistic and cultural vein, Romanians who live outside Romania, regardless how they are called". Such is also the stance of the Romanian Academy.
"Bessarabia, Romanian land", "Bessarabia is Romanian land" or "Bessarabia is Romania" is a popular and commonly used Romanian nationalist and irredentist slogan posing claims over the geographical region of Bessarabia, today divided between the Republic of Moldova and parts of Ukraine. According to the Romanian newspaper Adevărul, the use of this slogan as a patriotic catchphrase started in 2006 from a group of anonymous young Romanians from Bucharest.
The Lunca massacre took place on February 7, 1941, in Northern Bukovina when hundreds of civilians were killed when their attempt to forcefully cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania, near the village of Lunca, now in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, was met with open fire by the Soviet Border Troops. Although there are no official statistics, it is estimated that about 600 people were killed as a result of the massacre.
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