| | Vasile Nedelciuc - About Moldova (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Mircea Snegur, the first president of the newly independent state, and his supporters in Parliament - mainly managers of collective farms, and communist and soviet leaders from the whole territory of Moldova -- became anxious because of the successive waves of democratic transformations, as well as by the emerging separatist movements. |
 | | So it was that in December 1991, President Snegur found himself signing a declaration in favour of Moldova's adherence to the newly created "Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)", a successor state of sorts to the now decidedly buried Soviet Union. |
 | | Such a measure, taken immediately after the elections (which otherwise reinforced the influence of the old nomenclature when the electorate continued to be in a deep depression provoked by the bloody and lost war in Transnistria, and by the unprecedented post-independence inflation), brought the expected results to the pro-Moscow faction. |
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