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Gagauzia, or Gagauz-Yeri, is a region in the south of Moldova consisting primarily of 150,000 Gagauz, a Turkic ethnic group but traditionally Orthodox Christian by religion. The region gained autonomous status through Moldovan legislation promulgated in 1995, which includes the right to independently determine issues relating to its political, economic, and cultural development. Comrat is the regional capital.
Transnistria (aka Transdniestria, Transdnestr, Pridnestrove) is the long and narrow strip of Moldova bounded on the west by the Dnestr River and on the east by Ukraine. The predominantly Russian and Ukrainian population of Transnistria attempted in 1990 to secede from Moldova and has maintained a separate but unrecognized government since then, known as the Dnestr Moldovan Republic (and other variations), or in Russian as Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika, using the city of Tiraspol as its capital. The breakaway region has looked to Russia for unofficial support.
Bendery (http://www.bendery.md)
Information on the Transnistrian city called Bendery in Russian and Tighina in Romanian. In Russian.
Dynamics
of the Moldova Trans Dniestr Ethnic Conflict (late 1980s to early 1990s) (http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu12ee/uu12ee00.htm#Contents)
Provides an extensive essay in English written by Airat R. Aklaev, a scholar from Russia, published as chapter 5 in Ethnicity and Power in the Contemporary World, Kumar Rupesinghe and Valery A. Tishkov, editors, (New York: United Nations University Press, 1996).
Gagauziya (http://besorabia.narod.ru)
Based in Russia, site provides information on the Gagauz and their history, language, culture, banks, business, taxes, administration, diaspora, and television. In Russian.
Olvia Press (http://www.olvia.idknet.com)
A news agency in Tiraspol. Information on the region and several of its cities. Provides the text of the constitution (unrecognized by the international community) passed by the local government. In Russian.
Pridnestrove Online. Pridnestrovskii Informatsionnyi
Portal (http://www.tiraspol.net)
Based in Tiraspol. Transnistria Online--Transnistrian Information Portal provides annotated links to many sites in that region. In Russian.
Unrepresented Nations and
Peoples Organisation (UNPO) (http://www.unpo.org/search.php?words=gagauz)
UNPO is an international forum for occupied nations, indigenous peoples, minorities, and independent states or territories that struggle to regain or preserve their rights and cultural identities. Provides an overview of each people or minority, as well as reports, flags, links. In English.
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