Russia and Moldova: Between the Legacy of the Past and the Horizons of the Future (Essays on the Post-Soviet Time 1991–2020)
The monograph is devoted to the study of the Russian cultural factor in the life of the Moldovan community during the years of independence. Many of the processes discussed in this book have their origins in the past. Therefore, the work presents sufficiently detailed excursions into history in order to better understand the present day. In the study, the authors divide the studied time into a number of conditional periods that have developed on the right and left banks of the Republic of Moldova. The assessment of socio-political processes in modern Moldova is presented. Attention is drawn to the role of Russia in supporting the Russian-cultural population, normalizing the confrontation between Chisinau and Tiraspol. The political and cultural frontier of the Prut-Dniester interfluve and the left-bank Dniester region is emphasized, for which the phenomenon of regional identity and provincialism is specially considered. The dynamics of the Russian ethnocultural movement in the region is considered, attention is drawn to the situation with the Russian word on the two banks of the Dniester. The monograph is intended for the attention of politicians, journalists, social scientists, graduate students and students, everyone who is interested in contemporary Russian-Moldovan relations, the situation of the population in the Republic of Moldova.