From Ethnopolitical Conflict to Inter-Ethnic Accord in Moldova
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 48 pages, pdf Description: Moldova is the Romance-language term for what, in Soviet times, was called Moldavia and what, historically, is Central Bessarabia—a territory between the rivers Prut in the West and Dniester in the East (cf. map). Like today’s Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova), its predecessor, the Moldavian Socialist Soviet Republic (Moldavskaia Sotsialisticheskaia Sovetskaia Respublika – MSSR), also included the Western edge Transdniestria—the region between the rivers Dniester in the West and Bug in the East. So, the present-day political unit of Transdniestria, i.e., the break-away Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic (Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika – PMR) with Tiraspol as its centre, forms only a thin slice of what geographically is Transdniestria and what today is predominantly part of the Ukraine.