Moldovan site: Moldova will switch to Romanian and become a federation

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Moldovan media published information on possible total switch of Moldova to the Romanian language, which is tied to the general process of switching to the Latin characters in GUAM countries in the context of their Euro-integration, a REGNUM correspondent informs. Apart from it, media raise the subject of Moldova’s federalization, the issue that was popular not so long ago.

In particular, Moldovatoday.net site, notorious for its jingoistic approach, reports that “information was released in the internet that in Ukraine there is a commission that works on switching the Ukrainian into Latin characters… The project is aimed at speeding up Ukraine’s accession into the EU and NATO… The procedure of switching to Latin characters is scheduled for January 2007,” and “consultations held by GUAM member-countries with each other are a part of a large-scale plan of new reforms in the language sphere that can in the near future prove their effect on citizens on several countries at once. A competent source informed us that in the near future only one official language will be left in Moldova, it is the classic Romanian language. A relevant bill is now been worked out. It is supposed to be introduced in January 2007.”

The same site, commenting on outcomes of elections in Transdnestr and Gagauzia and prospects of Moldova as federation, runs: “We have been clinging to Transdnestr as strongly as we could, and the more we tried not to let it go, the stronger they wanted to leave us. It ended up now that Russian troops can really appear on the other side of Dnestr called by Tiraspol, but this time it will be not a bunch of ‘peacekeepers.’ As hardly as we could we were restricting rights of Gagauz Autonomy accompanied by permanent warnings of Communists and Frontists about the threat of ‘separatism’ and now a baskan (head of regional administration) hostile to the capital rules in Komrat. As hardly as we could we were opposing federalization – and now it is happening as a fact, without any special pressure from outside. In the near future, we can predict intensifying contacts between Komrat and Tiraspol, which can result in further increasing of centrifugal trends.”

As Moldovatoday.net believes, “the federalization process, beginning of which we can see now, is fraught with danger of going out of control of authorities and acquiring a crumbling nature.”