A step forward and three steps backward in Bassarabian market economy
Bassarabia – a historical Romanian province, situated between two rivers, Prut and Dnister, during two hundred years was not developing according to a free and developed market economy. Although, geographically situated in the Center of Europe, as a constituent part of the European civilization

Interethnic relations in Moldova: the impact of the European integration
As an orphan of the cold-war, impoverished, left in a security vacuum and transformed into an ideological battlefield, Moldova is the first country in Europe after 1989 to elect to power an old-fashioned Communist party, that promises nothing else but restoring the Russian suzerainty in the area.

The Social Role of Art and Artists in Post-Soviet Moldova: Cultural Policy, Institutional Reform, and Europeanization
This paper examines change and continuity in the social role of art and artists in the former Soviet Republic of Moldova. I argue that visible changes in the art and culture of post-socialist societies are not merely the inevitable effects of capitalism, consumer culture, and globalization.

Whose House is Moldova?
For more than a decade, the Republic of Moldova has struggled with the challenges of state building. In addition to the formidable tasks of creating democratic institutions and building a market economy, Moldova is faced with the need to define its national identity.