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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Moldovan language
Moldovan (also Moldavian) is the official name for the Romanian language in the Republic of Moldova and in its breakaway territory of Transnistria.
The history of the Moldovan (Romanian) language in Moldova is closely tied to the region's political status, with long periods of occupation by Russia and the Soviet Union influencing the language's name and (when Cyrillic script was in use) orthography.
In the breakaway region of Transnistria, it is co-official with Ukrainian and Russian.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Moldovan_language   (1137 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Moldovan language
Moldovan is the official name for the Romanian language in the Republic of Moldova and in the territory of Transnistria.
Moldovan may be written in either the Latin alphabet (currently official in the Republic of Moldova) or in the Cyrillic alphabet (official in the unrecognized state of Transnistria and formerly in the Moldavian SSR until 1989).
The history of the Moldovan (Romanian) language in Moldova is closely tied to the region's political status, with long periods of occupation by Russia and the Soviet Union influencing the language's name and orthography.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Moldovan-language   (2262 words)

  
 Moldovan War - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
The Moldovan War occurred early in the presidency of Emmanuel Lewis.
Moldovan health care technology at the time was roughly on par with health care in 10th Century France; health care in the entire Eastern European theater had actually retrogressed.
Initial reports by Moldovan doctors had the young czar's chances of survival fairly slim and suggested treatments submerging him in maple syrup for 12 consecutive days, a lethal NERF barrage indended to "beat" the injury out, and handing the unfortunate monarch over to the already anxious bordering countries.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Moldovan_War   (1969 words)

  
 OSCE Mission to Moldova - Moldovan Mission seeks solution to Dorotcaia's bitter harvest
Angry farmers and Moldovan police arrived on the scene to halt the expansion.
Tension rises as the Moldovan head of the district administration, Grigore Policinschi (centre), forces open a barrier at a Transdniestrian checkpoint blocking Moldovan farmers from reaching their lands, 6 April 2005.
Moldovan farmer prevented from harvesting his crops by the dispute.
www.osce.org /moldova/item_2_15957.html   (1038 words)

  
 Moldovan Wines Suppliers of Fine Moldovan Wine to the UK Chardonnay Cabernet Sauvignon
Welcome to our world of wonderful Moldovan wines, we specialise in importing only the best wines (frequently international medal winning wines) from a country that now is seen as a major supplier of top quality fine wines.
Moldovan wines have been setting a new standards as their wines benifit from a wonderful climate for vines and from the mainly organic methods of production that give their wines, natural, rich and complex flavours.
Moldovan wines have set new standards in the wine world and are now found in top American and Japanese restaurants where quality counts.
www.moldovanwines.co.uk   (350 words)

  
 Moldovan Translation Services - Translators English/Moldavian
Moldovan is widely considered to be little more than the Romanian language renamed for political purposes.
Moldovan is spoken by about 3.5 million in Moldova and is estimated to the maternal language of about 3 million of these speakers.
Later, it was renamed Moldovan in an effort to sever all ties with Romania after the Soviet Union took control and used the language issue to justify the occupation on nationalistic grounds.
www.greentranslations.com /moldovan-translation.html   (238 words)

  
 Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - TERRITORIAL DIMENSIONS OF ETHNIC CONFLICT: THE MOLDOVAN CASE
Smirnov justified the action on the grounds that the Moldovan government was "actively preparing for combat operations" and cited as evidence Moldovan seizure of armaments and materiel from CIS military units stationed in Moldova, mobilization of men liable to call-up, and terrorist acts.
Moldovan President Mircea Snegur told a press conference in Chisinau on 7 April that statements by Rutskoy while visiting the breakaway "Dniester Republic" were "irresponsible." He added that he hoped the majority of Russian deputies did not share the position of Rutskoy and Yeltsin adviser, Sergei Stankevich.
Moldovan President Snegur immediately rejected the proposal, stating that "it lacks any ethnic, historic, or legal basis and would be unacceptable." He reiterated that Chisinau (Kishinev) had offered to negotiate some form of territorial autonomy, but something short of federalization.
fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /documents/moldovan/moldovan.htm   (12415 words)

  
 Featured Artist: Rediscovering Moldovan
Moldovan was known for holding on to his best works, as if they were his children, refusing to part with them.
Moldovan believed the primary function of painting was to create works of art that would give pleasure and be enjoyed by those with visual literacy.
Sacha Moldovan was born Aloysha Schneider on Nov. 4, 1901, in Kishinev, Russia, near the Black Sea.
www.go-star.com /framer/moldovan.htm   (935 words)

  
 Romania: Alleged police ill treatment of youths in Sighisoara - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Moldovan, Sorin Moraru and Cosmin Rotariu were again reportedly punched and kicked by police officers.
Moldovan were later charged with assaulting a public official (defined by the Romanian Penal Code as ''outrage'') under Article 239 of the Penal Code.
Moldovan had kicked another gendarme...the brothers addressed insults, obscene and threatening words at the police officers and gendarmes.'' This press release was broadcast in a local radio program on the same day as the police inspectorate officials began an enquiry into the incident.
web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGEUR390112001?open&of=ENG-ROM   (2121 words)

  
 Moldovan History
Moldovan territory west of the Prut River was united with Wallachia in 1861.
In contrast to Transnistria, the conflict with Gagauz was resolved peacefully.
In addition to abolishing the 1989 language law, a particularly important issue for the Gagauzi, the majority of whom are not fluent in Romanian, the Moldovan parliament that year ratified the region’s “special status”.
www.geocities.com /ethnomuseum/history.html   (2453 words)

  
 demography.matters.blog: The Moldovan exodus
Moldovan independence, coinciding as it did with the collapse of the Soviet economy and the civil war withy the Russophone region of Transnistria, changed this situation entirely.
If Moldovans identified themselves as Romanians, Moldova could have escaped from its current situation by unifying with Romania, but the fact that three times as many people claimed to speak "Moldovan" as their first language rather than "Romanian" speaks to the strength of Moldovan national identity.
Moldovan emigration is important on its own terms, not only for the effects of this massive emigration on Moldova but for the effect that it has on receiving countries.
demographymatters.blogspot.com /2006/04/moldovan-exodus.html   (621 words)

  
 Moldovan language, alphabet and pronunciation
There is much debate about whether Moldovan is a dialect of Romanian, or a separate language.
As far as linguists are concerned, Moldovan and Romanian are the same, or are closely-related, mutually intelligible dialects of the same language.
Until 1989 Moldovan was written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
www.omniglot.com /writing/moldovan.htm   (241 words)

  
 Expat Moldovans support Moldovan PMR MPs call for independence | Tiraspol Times & Weekly Review
The political situation in Moldova, the resolution of the Moldovan-Pridnestrovian conflict, as well as employment rules for foreign citizens were high on the agenda for the congress.
In their presentations to the congress, ethnically Moldovan delegates from Ukraine, Gagauzia and Moldova proper spoke about negative after-effects of the policy pursued by the Government of the Republic of Moldova by its lack to take the self-determination wish of Pridnestrovie into account.
Moldovans make up a minority of 31.9% in Pridnestrovie, which declared independence in 1990 during the break-up of the Soviet Union.
www.tiraspoltimes.com /news/expat_moldovans_support_pmr_mps_call_for_independence.html   (948 words)

  
 Simply Haiku: An E-Journal
Vasile Moldovan enchants us not only by his originality of expression, but also by the purity of lyrical experiences, now, in a time that is avoiding those bitter conditions."
Vasile Moldovan was born on June 20, 1949, in the village of Shopteriu in Romania.
Moldovan has served as the group's chairperson from 2001 to the present.
www.poetrylives.com /SimplyHaiku/SHv2n3/features/Vasile_Moldovan.html   (313 words)

  
 Moldovan Brides - Welcome Moldova Magazine
Evolutionary psychology predicts that the material poverty of the women should be irrelevant to wealthy foreign men attracted by their beauty, and also that some Moldovan girls might be willing to overlook those foreign men being old and ugly if they’re wealthy enough.
I don’t know this for certain, but I suspect that many of the foreign men and Moldovan women who meet their partners through online marriage agencies are able to convince themselves that their love is genuine and it was fate that brought them together.
What we need is for Moldova to become as wealthy as the EU average, and for holders of Moldovan passports to have as much chance to travel and earn money as holders of American and European ones.
www.welcome-moldova.com /articles/moldovan-brides.shtml   (2268 words)

  
 Sasha Moldovan, "The Woods"
Sasha Moldovan was born into a Jewish family in a small village of Kishinev in Southern Russia.
Confronted with the rising storm of the Russian Revolution, WW1 and the untenable position of Jews under the Czarist Pogroms the family emigrated to America in 1914.
This painting was sold to the present owner by the Michael Judge Gallery in Durham, N.C. during the 1980's.
higginsmaxwell.com /moldovan.htm   (260 words)

  
 GlobaLex - Performing Legal Research: the Moldovan Experience Guide
However, during Soviet times the Moldovan legal system was adjusted to the Soviet Union’s legal norms, representing an overlap of the Soviet and Continental legal systems.
Moldovan Parliament is a unicameral assembly, considered the supreme representative authority of the people and the sole legislative body of the state.
The library’s informational and documentary policies are based on the principle of the public library: legal information for everyone and an academic library accessible for the legal community, and its target audiences could be implied from its name – public and legal community.
www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/Moldova.htm   (3570 words)

  
 Moldovan Language
Moldovan Dialects: Ukrainian and Russian are also spoken in Moldova.
Moldovan Language History: Moldova was a part of Romania until 1940.
Moldovan is considered an extension of Romanian language.
www.online-languagetranslators.com /moldovan_language.htm   (117 words)

  
 Russia ending ban on Moldovan products - Boston.com
Russia is lifting its ban on Moldovan wine and meat products, a move that appeared to be aimed at easing Moscow's entry into the World Trade Organization.
A Moldovan official said at the time that the small, poor country would only support Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization if the wine ban was reversed and other imports of agricultural produce allowed.
Although Putin said the ban would be lifted, he stressed that imports would be tightly controlled and subject to quality checks by Moldovan and Russian officials.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/11/28/russia_ends_bans_on_moldovan_wine_meat   (487 words)

  
 Russia prepares to deliver a knockout punch to the Moldovan economy
Without the Russian market, the Moldovan wine industry, which contributes some 25 percent to the country's GDP, could enter a crisis out of which it is likely that it will be very difficult to recover.
Moldovan wines' popularity in Russia is due to the historical trade relations between Bessarabia that was incorporated by the Russian Empire from the Principality of Moldova (1812-1918) and between the former Soviet Moldova and the rest of the Soviet Union (1944-1991).
Moldovan wines are especially popular among low-income consumers, which constitute the majority of the Russian population.
politicom.moldova.org /stiri/eng/11270   (1388 words)

  
 Phears and Moldovan, Attorneys at Law - Home
Phears and Moldovan is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia but serves clients throughout the Indiana, Missouri on the United States, including Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Maryland.
Phears and Moldovan practices in the areas of Complex Litigation
of Phears and Moldovan are experienced litigators who understand the intricacies of multi-party and multi-jurisdictional cases.
www.phearsmoldovan.com   (186 words)

  
 USAID Telling Our Story: Moldova - Moldovan Families Turn Surplus Milk Into Cash
Moldovan village woman doubles her income by marketing collected milk
As is the daily routine of most Moldovan villagers, the first thing Elena Manic does every morning is milk her family cow.
Traditionally, Moldovan villagers used milk only for family consumption, and never had a way of selling what was left over.
www.usaid.gov /stories/moldova/ss_moldova_milk.html   (578 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - World - Russia to resume Moldovan wine, meat imports - president
Russia banned imports of Moldovan wines in March 2006 over concerns that they contained traces of pesticides and heavy metals.
He said both Russian and Moldovan experts will conduct joint inspections at Moldovan production facilities to check quality and prevent supplies of contraband goods.
Putin said he had agreed with his Moldovan counterpart, Vladimir Voronin, to resume consultations on the breakaway republic of Transdnestr.
en.rian.ru /world/20061128/56128517.html   (301 words)

  
 East: EU Operation Begins Monitoring Ukrainian-Moldovan Border - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
In June, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko appealed to the EU to dispatch a monitoring group to their border to help curb the smuggling of goods and other illicit trafficking.
In October, a formal agreement to launch the operation was signed by the two countries and the EU.
Under his plan, the divided country would reintegrate under the Moldovan constitutional system and Transdniester would be granted a "special status." The plan also called for holding democratic elections to the Transdniestrian legislature under international monitoring.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/11/99EEADEA-763E-454E-845F-9E6E20D09C89.html   (633 words)

  
 EBRD channels trade support through local Moldovan banks [EBRD - Press Release]
The EBRD places a high priority on supporting trade in the region, and the Moldovan banks are part of this strategy.
The selection of the participant Moldovan banks was based on strong professional and banking criteria and therefore our participation sends a positive signal to investors."
The EBRD launched its Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) in January 1999 to encourage international and intra-regional trade in central and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
www.ebrd.com /new/pressrel/1999/53oct14.htm   (439 words)

  
 Hand crafted wood furniture by John Moldovan made in Sonoma california Swivels Rockers New Work Stools Tables Other ...
John Moldovan, master chair maker, creates one-of-a-kind wood furniture, tables, rockers, swivel chairs, counter stools, dining chairs and other woodwork items that are contemporary, comfortable, beautiful and of the highest craftsmanship.
While his specialty is sculptural rocking chairs, he also designs and builds a variety of office swivel chairs, counter stools, tables and other furniture as you will see in his portfolio.
No reproduction rights are granted, licensed or sactioned in any form or manner and are hereby exclusively reserved by John Moldovan.
www.jmoldovan.com   (207 words)

  
 Moldova's Best International Gateway
Premier Tarlev: asymmetric trade system is an extraordinary chance for Moldovan economy
A political party asks for an increase of the allocation given at birth
Moldovan police annihilated criminal group run by former SIS employee
www.moldova.org   (708 words)

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