Word: moldavian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...riots were, in part, the result of the inflammatory articles written by Pavolachi Krushevan, the Moldavian editor of the city's only daily, Bessarabetz. Krushevan leveled now-familiar accusations, unfairly implicating the Jews in the murder of two Christian children, and calling upon non-Jews for vengeance. Such a scenario--as heinous as it may be--is familiar to the European landscape. Only in the United States does our unfamiliarity with such anti-Semitic assaults on Jews also assault our moral consciences...
Both tendencies, toward anarchy and a crackdown, gathered speed as the People's Deputies met. Five republics in effect declined to participate: Lithuania and Armenia would not send official delegations; Latvians and Estonians attended only as observers; most of the delegates from Moldova (as the Moldavian republic now calls itself) walked out in a complicated dispute over the creation of independent ethnic states within that small republic...
...demands of both subgroups were rejected by the Moldavian parliament, itself locked in a separatist struggle with the central Soviet government. The republic of 4.3 million, 65% of whom are native Moldavians, was historically a province of Romania but was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Last June Moldavia declared its sovereignty; two months later the popularly elected parliament renamed the republic Moldova, adopted a flag similar to Romania's and declared Moldavian the official language...
However much Moldavians want autonomy from Moscow, they are not about to tolerate fractures in their own republic. When the Gagauz went ahead with elections for a separate parliament, the Moldavian government declared a state of emergency, cut telephone lines and set up blockades to seal off the minority region. After Moldavian and Gagauz leaders began negotiations to avert violence last week, reports that the Dniester republic planned to move up their own parliamentary elections incited the bloodshed outside Dubossary...
Many Russians living in the republic believe the Moldavian government wants to reunify with Romania. Most Moldavian leaders emphatically deny this, and few observers believe the Kremlin would tolerate it. But Alexandru Moshanu, chairman of the Moldavian parliament, said last week that the future of the Soviet Union may hold only a choice between "chaos and a new dictatorship." If so, Moldavians may yet decide that they have no alternative but to try to erase the border with Romania...