4 October 1996 THE IDEA OF A DISTINCT Moldovan ethnicity is not new. It first surfaced in the 19th century, when the eastern part of the principality of Moldavia - also known as Bessarabia - was incorporated into the Russian empire (as a result of Russia's 1812 peace treaty with the Ottomans). Until the 1917 […]

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