Soltan, Angela

The Francophonie in the Republic of Moldova - 2004.


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Before 1812, the current Republic of Moldova, a territory of the Rumanian region called Moldova adopted France as a cultural commencement and model.After this date, having the name Basarabia and joining the Russian Empire, it had to enter in a completely other cultural space at the border of the civilizations.Nowadays, is the discourse related to the culture and identity doubled or divided? On a canvas with multicultural strokes, a certain amount of Moldavians opt to have a Rumanian identity and others opt for a Moldovan one.Because a Rumanian representative objected the existence of Moldovan nationality, a headquarter program officer of one international organization asked the Moldovan representative about how precisely to stipulate the nationality of Moldavians in the list of employees. Which will be your answer to this question in case you are the Moldovan representative?