{"id":442359,"date":"2016-08-01T13:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=442359"},"modified":"2016-08-03T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T07:43:28","slug":"empty-poor-comrat-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/empty-poor-comrat-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The empty, poor Comrat \/REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 9<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

How is the life in Comrat? With this question in mind we went to the capital of the Gagauzia autonomy. Conscious of the rupture between the Gagauz Autonome Territorial Unit and the rest of the republic, we spent a day on the streets of the city, trying to compensate the lack of information.
\nWe arrived in Comrat on a hot Monday, the only day of the week when the local market is closed. The bus left us at the bus station that is located at the beginning of one of the main streets- Pobeda street (Victory street in Russian). Despite the name, the atmosphere was far from being victorious. The bus station is more a bus stop, with no trace of any platform or limits. Two shops are being built in its proximity, the street is full of dust and noise.
\n
\n
\nNo market day, no life.<\/strong>
\nWe ask for directions for the city center. “On Pobeda, straight forward”, the passersby tell us. We follow their advice, but, as we advance, we cannot believe. With the exception of some 100 meters of paved sidewalk, a church and a park in the neighborhood, the street looks like a wider village street. Both the road and the sidewalk are in a terrible state. A slightly big part of the buildings look like haunted rural houses. Nevertheless, the locals confirm that this is the center of Comrat. A man, whom we ask as tourists, tells us that Pobeda street is called this way because “in the times of the Soviet Union, the fascists marched on this road and the Red Army defeated them”. “That’s why it looks like this”, we tell him. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Not only the look of the Pobeda street produces mixed feelings. The almost empty streets create the impression of an emergency situation, when the people are hidden in their houses. Here, there, there are some two people, who missed the emergency message to stay in safety at home. “Today is not market day”, we learn from a seller of Kvas (soft drink from wheat). This explains the emptiness of the streets. In other days, the Pobeda street is full of sellers, products and buyers from the entire region. While Comrat has a population of 23 thousand people…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

We meet Igor, a car mechanic. “Now people work on fields, do cleaning, they don’t have time to rest. Earlier, Comrat was a Soviet city, it used to look like Tiraspol. Now it’s better, there are different buildings being built, we have all kinds of shops”, he tells us. <\/p>\n

-What do the people do in their spare time?
\n-What do you mean by what? We have three swimming pools, we have discos, parks with summer bars. We have plenty of activities!
\n-But you can’t just stay under the sun or in the bars. Do you have, say, cinemas?
\n-We don’t have any cinema.
\n-But what do young people do?
\n-The young ones work. Why do you think there is no one on the street? Everyone is on the fields, they work!
\n-Are there any other jobs, that do not require physical activity, for young people?
\n-You know, we are in a region, where, if you don’t work the field, you don’t have anything to eat. Surely, there is the services domain- shops, sales, brick producing, says Igor.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The 60 years old pensioner, Veronica, says that she needs to sells tomatoes and peppers at the market, as her 1000 lei pension doesn’t cover anything but the utility costs. “I buy the vegetables from big sellers. The city is good, only the pension is small. We are a separate republic from Moldova. What will happen next, I don’t know. Our capital looks more like a village, no big talk. Nothing is constructed, the roads are not repaired, there is need of lots of money”, complains Veronica. According to her, the pension is not enough for the pensioners, while the young people don’t have anything to do and go abroad, “where the work is paid better than in Gagauzia”.
\n“Here you cannot afford buying a house, where can families live, how can they feed the kids? My daughter studies to become an engineer-constructor, not an easy job. I worked my entire life in colhoz and factories and I regret I didn’t study. If I had a profession, I would have a pension like other people. If I could turn the time back, I would learn accounting. When I was young, I wouldn’t want to study because I didn’t need it. Then I regretted it”, says the woman. She is a widow, while her daughter went to study in Chi\u0219in\u0103u and plans to work in France. According to Veronica, Gagauz people usually go to Czechia, Germany, USA, Canada, Russia. Italy and Spain are not popular among them. <\/p>\n

Gagauz legends<\/strong>
\nWe go to the park with the hope that we might have missed the beauty of the center. Someone suggests we should visit the art gallery within the Tourism and Culture Department of Gagauzia. It is working for 16 years, now it hosts an exhibition from Chi\u0219in\u0103u, brought by the International Spiritual University Brahma Kumaris. An employee meets us, takes us in a little excursion and tells us more about the city. “The church is from 1840, but the architect is unknown, because the documents burned in the sixties. One of the legends says that the project was implemented in Comrat because the architect was served with Gagauz meals and wines. Dizzy from the goods he ate and drank, he wouldn’t observe that his project was changed with another one”, she tells. Moreover, we learn that the Glory Alley shows the sculptures of the people who contributed to creating the Gagauz history. “There is Marunevich who helped to gain the autonomy without any bloodshed. Although there is nothing written about this, she was taking care of documents, travelling to countries where she would tell about Gagauz people and the necessity of the autonomy. We are a minority here, but we are still people, not Moldovans, not Bulgarians”, she explains. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Seems like a big part of the Gagauz history is fed by legends. We learn from our guide that another legends for tourists says that Gagauz people had their state in Bulgaria, close to Turkey. “The Turks left us in peace, because we spoke their language, Bulgarians did the same as we were Christians too. But suddenly, when attacks against Gagauz started, General Inzov learned about them and insisted that Catherine II of Russia would move Gagauz people in actual territories. This is a story for tourists. How was it, nobody knows. In those times, nobody knew about Gagauz people, only about Bulgarians”, the guide tells. <\/p>\n

Russian- “international language” in Gagauzia<\/strong>
\nIn one of the shopping centers, on the last floor, there is a center for studies of Gagauz culture and language, where everyone can learn anything about this ethnicity, from grammar to customs. “I am Gagauz, but I don’t know much about our people. I know the language, but my mother is Moldovan, my father is Gagauz. The mother spoke Moldovan, father- Gagauz. Until the fifth grade, I used to go to Moldovan school, when it was opened. Then, in 1995, there were big problems, we didn’t have books for studying. We didn’t have enough teachers. That’s why we went back to the Gagauz schools, where we study in Russian, which is our international language”, remembers the guide from museum, whose name we couldn’t find. <\/p>\n

The problem of education in Romanian was somehow solved. Although there is only one high school that offers this kind of studies, it became popular in the last years and now the director is searching for new places for new students. “We tried to go to the Moldovan primary school, but it was hard and we renounced. Some went there, because of the prolonged schedule, where students have additional time to do their homework. Even the director of the school told that he was searching for places so that all the students get in. It is comfortable for parents, the children learn the Moldovan language and come with their homework done. If the students plan to study in Chi\u0219in\u0103u, there is no meaning to go to the Russian school. We wanted that our (kids) to leave from here”, says Ala, mother of two pupils and a kindergarten kid. <\/p>\n


\n<\/p>\n

“Some say we must speak Romanian”<\/strong>
\nWalking on Comrat’s streets, we meet Alexandru, a 22 years old young man, sitting comfortably on a car seat next to house wall. In front of him, we find a box of peaches and a piramide of watermelons. A night before he came back from Moscow, where he has a small business. “Yesterday I returned from Russia and started working immediately. I have a small business there, I sell watermelons and vegetables. Everything can be found there, but of course, everything is imported. My mother works at the market for 22 years. My father has a business of watermelons and I help him. We have greenhouses at home where we grow tomatoes”, tells Alexandru. <\/p>\n

According to him, the people of Comrat are good, kind, helpful and very hardworking. “Problems are many, the first is related to the bad roads, probably because of the government. I very much hope that the leadership changes and the things get back to their places. I like our Moldova, our country and I don’t want to go anywhere, I want to stay at home. I want that Moldova stays as it is, nor in the European Union, nor in the Customs Union. We can be friends with everyone, but I cannot give up on my country. Moldova is a small, fertile country, we have lands that can be cultivated. If everyone worked without schemes like our government, we would have roads like in Germany”, says the young man.
\n<\/p>\n

After we tried to explain the bad situation from Russia, it didn’t take a long time for the young man to ask us which part of the baricade we are, being firmly convinced we are from an European country. We tell him that we came to write about Comrat because at Chi\u0219in\u0103u, the reality from Gagauzia is unknown. “Of course nobody knows nothing. I am personally very friendly with Moldovans, I have friends from B\u0103l\u021bi, Chi\u0219in\u0103u and some villages. I know that Gagauz people are not liked at Chi\u0219in\u0103u. Or, if we come to you, some say we must speak Romanian, but we, the people from the south, don’t know this language. What bothers me the most is that you call it this way. Moldova was formed way before Romania. It is a matter of history, you are intelligent people… But let’s go back to what I said. For example, when I go to a hospital in Chi\u0219in\u0103u and I don’t know Moldovan, I am being objected and some don’t want to talk to me. I would like to be treated normally”, complains Alexandru. <\/p>\n

“We live with Russian movies and shows”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not long before our visit to Comrat, the leader of the region, Irina Vlah, issued a press-release in which she announced that Gagauzia wouldn’t obey to the new rules of the Audiovisual Code of Moldova, that stipulated the exclusion of Russian TV channels. Vlah thinks that it would “be equal with the exclusion of the Russian language from the social sphere of Moldova” and that the modifications are in contradiction with the interests and needs of people of Gagauzia. <\/p>\n

“The referendum showed what position Gagauz people have. We don’t want them to take the Russian TV out, otherwise we will live in a reservation. Is French or English closer than Russian? We live with the Russian movies and shows, why would I watch the German ones? I don’t understand anything. On Moldovan TV channels, they only play and sing, no good films are shown. There is no meaning in banning the Russian TV. If I want to learn the news from Russia, I will find them on the internet. Now, even the elder ones have access to the internet, especially those ones with children who work abroad”, tries to convince us the car mechanic Igor. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

“Now nobody knows how true is the information told on TV. Everyone is making advertisement for themselves. The truth is that I don’t watch the news on TV, I have an app on the phone that combines international sources of news. If I want to read about Moldova, I read gagauz.info, a local source”, declares Alisa, a 35 years old woman.
\nAt the postal office, we learn that the most newspapers among Gagauz people are the Russian ones. There are only two Romanian newspapers and even those have few subscribers.<\/p>\n

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How is the life in Comrat? With this question in mind we went to the capital of the Gagauzia autonomy. Conscious of the rupture between the Gagauz Autonome Territorial Unit and the rest of the republic, we spent a day on the streets of the city, trying to compensate the lack of information.
\nWe arrived in Comrat on a hot Monday, the only day of the week when the local market is closed. The bus left us at the bus station that is located at the beginning of one of the main streets- Pobeda street (Victory street in Russian). Despite the name, the atmosphere was far from being victorious. The bus station is more a bus stop, with no trace of any platform or limits. Two shops are being built in its proximity, the street is full of dust and noise.
\n
\n
\nNo market day, no life.<\/strong>
\nWe ask for directions for the city center. “On Pobeda, straight forward”, the passersby tell us. We follow their advice, but, as we advance, we cannot believe. With the exception of some 100 meters of paved sidewalk, a church and a park in the neighborhood, the street looks like a wider village street. Both the road and the sidewalk are in a terrible state. A slightly big part of the buildings look like haunted rural houses. Nevertheless, the locals confirm that this is the center of Comrat. A man, whom we ask as tourists, tells us that Pobeda street is called this way because “in the times of the Soviet Union, the fascists marched on this road and the Red Army defeated them”. “That’s why it looks like this”, we tell him. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Not only the look of the Pobeda street produces mixed feelings. The almost empty streets create the impression of an emergency situation, when the people are hidden in their houses. Here, there, there are some two people, who missed the emergency message to stay in safety at home. “Today is not market day”, we learn from a seller of Kvas (soft drink from wheat). This explains the emptiness of the streets. In other days, the Pobeda street is full of sellers, products and buyers from the entire region. While Comrat has a population of 23 thousand people…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

We meet Igor, a car mechanic. “Now people work on fields, do cleaning, they don’t have time to rest. Earlier, Comrat was a Soviet city, it used to look like Tiraspol. Now it’s better, there are different buildings being built, we have all kinds of shops”, he tells us. <\/p>\n

-What do the people do in their spare time?
\n-What do you mean by what? We have three swimming pools, we have discos, parks with summer bars. We have plenty of activities!
\n-But you can’t just stay under the sun or in the bars. Do you have, say, cinemas?
\n-We don’t have any cinema.
\n-But what do young people do?
\n-The young ones work. Why do you think there is no one on the street? Everyone is on the fields, they work!
\n-Are there any other jobs, that do not require physical activity, for young people?
\n-You know, we are in a region, where, if you don’t work the field, you don’t have anything to eat. Surely, there is the services domain- shops, sales, brick producing, says Igor.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The 60 years old pensioner, Veronica, says that she needs to sells tomatoes and peppers at the market, as her 1000 lei pension doesn’t cover anything but the utility costs. “I buy the vegetables from big sellers. The city is good, only the pension is small. We are a separate republic from Moldova. What will happen next, I don’t know. Our capital looks more like a village, no big talk. Nothing is constructed, the roads are not repaired, there is need of lots of money”, complains Veronica. According to her, the pension is not enough for the pensioners, while the young people don’t have anything to do and go abroad, “where the work is paid better than in Gagauzia”.
\n“Here you cannot afford buying a house, where can families live, how can they feed the kids? My daughter studies to become an engineer-constructor, not an easy job. I worked my entire life in colhoz and factories and I regret I didn’t study. If I had a profession, I would have a pension like other people. If I could turn the time back, I would learn accounting. When I was young, I wouldn’t want to study because I didn’t need it. Then I regretted it”, says the woman. She is a widow, while her daughter went to study in Chi\u0219in\u0103u and plans to work in France. According to Veronica, Gagauz people usually go to Czechia, Germany, USA, Canada, Russia. Italy and Spain are not popular among them. <\/p>\n

Gagauz legends<\/strong>
\nWe go to the park with the hope that we might have missed the beauty of the center. Someone suggests we should visit the art gallery within the Tourism and Culture Department of Gagauzia. It is working for 16 years, now it hosts an exhibition from Chi\u0219in\u0103u, brought by the International Spiritual University Brahma Kumaris. An employee meets us, takes us in a little excursion and tells us more about the city. “The church is from 1840, but the architect is unknown, because the documents burned in the sixties. One of the legends says that the project was implemented in Comrat because the architect was served with Gagauz meals and wines. Dizzy from the goods he ate and drank, he wouldn’t observe that his project was changed with another one”, she tells. Moreover, we learn that the Glory Alley shows the sculptures of the people who contributed to creating the Gagauz history. “There is Marunevich who helped to gain the autonomy without any bloodshed. Although there is nothing written about this, she was taking care of documents, travelling to countries where she would tell about Gagauz people and the necessity of the autonomy. We are a minority here, but we are still people, not Moldovans, not Bulgarians”, she explains. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Seems like a big part of the Gagauz history is fed by legends. We learn from our guide that another legends for tourists says that Gagauz people had their state in Bulgaria, close to Turkey. “The Turks left us in peace, because we spoke their language, Bulgarians did the same as we were Christians too. But suddenly, when attacks against Gagauz started, General Inzov learned about them and insisted that Catherine II of Russia would move Gagauz people in actual territories. This is a story for tourists. How was it, nobody knows. In those times, nobody knew about Gagauz people, only about Bulgarians”, the guide tells. <\/p>\n

Russian- “international language” in Gagauzia<\/strong>
\nIn one of the shopping centers, on the last floor, there is a center for studies of Gagauz culture and language, where everyone can learn anything about this ethnicity, from grammar to customs. “I am Gagauz, but I don’t know much about our people. I know the language, but my mother is Moldovan, my father is Gagauz. The mother spoke Moldovan, father- Gagauz. Until the fifth grade, I used to go to Moldovan school, when it was opened. Then, in 1995, there were big problems, we didn’t have books for studying. We didn’t have enough teachers. That’s why we went back to the Gagauz schools, where we study in Russian, which is our international language”, remembers the guide from museum, whose name we couldn’t find. <\/p>\n

The problem of education in Romanian was somehow solved. Although there is only one high school that offers this kind of studies, it became popular in the last years and now the director is searching for new places for new students. “We tried to go to the Moldovan primary school, but it was hard and we renounced. Some went there, because of the prolonged schedule, where students have additional time to do their homework. Even the director of the school told that he was searching for places so that all the students get in. It is comfortable for parents, the children learn the Moldovan language and come with their homework done. If the students plan to study in Chi\u0219in\u0103u, there is no meaning to go to the Russian school. We wanted that our (kids) to leave from here”, says Ala, mother of two pupils and a kindergarten kid. <\/p>\n


\n<\/p>\n

“Some say we must speak Romanian”<\/strong>
\nWalking on Comrat’s streets, we meet Alexandru, a 22 years old young man, sitting comfortably on a car seat next to house wall. In front of him, we find a box of peaches and a piramide of watermelons. A night before he came back from Moscow, where he has a small business. “Yesterday I returned from Russia and started working immediately. I have a small business there, I sell watermelons and vegetables. Everything can be found there, but of course, everything is imported. My mother works at the market for 22 years. My father has a business of watermelons and I help him. We have greenhouses at home where we grow tomatoes”, tells Alexandru. <\/p>\n

According to him, the people of Comrat are good, kind, helpful and very hardworking. “Problems are many, the first is related to the bad roads, probably because of the government. I very much hope that the leadership changes and the things get back to their places. I like our Moldova, our country and I don’t want to go anywhere, I want to stay at home. I want that Moldova stays as it is, nor in the European Union, nor in the Customs Union. We can be friends with everyone, but I cannot give up on my country. Moldova is a small, fertile country, we have lands that can be cultivated. If everyone worked without schemes like our government, we would have roads like in Germany”, says the young man.
\n<\/p>\n

After we tried to explain the bad situation from Russia, it didn’t take a long time for the young man to ask us which part of the baricade we are, being firmly convinced we are from an European country. We tell him that we came to write about Comrat because at Chi\u0219in\u0103u, the reality from Gagauzia is unknown. “Of course nobody knows nothing. I am personally very friendly with Moldovans, I have friends from B\u0103l\u021bi, Chi\u0219in\u0103u and some villages. I know that Gagauz people are not liked at Chi\u0219in\u0103u. Or, if we come to you, some say we must speak Romanian, but we, the people from the south, don’t know this language. What bothers me the most is that you call it this way. Moldova was formed way before Romania. It is a matter of history, you are intelligent people… But let’s go back to what I said. For example, when I go to a hospital in Chi\u0219in\u0103u and I don’t know Moldovan, I am being objected and some don’t want to talk to me. I would like to be treated normally”, complains Alexandru. <\/p>\n

“We live with Russian movies and shows”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not long before our visit to Comrat, the leader of the region, Irina Vlah, issued a press-release in which she announced that Gagauzia wouldn’t obey to the new rules of the Audiovisual Code of Moldova, that stipulated the exclusion of Russian TV channels. Vlah thinks that it would “be equal with the exclusion of the Russian language from the social sphere of Moldova” and that the modifications are in contradiction with the interests and needs of people of Gagauzia. <\/p>\n

“The referendum showed what position Gagauz people have. We don’t want them to take the Russian TV out, otherwise we will live in a reservation. Is French or English closer than Russian? We live with the Russian movies and shows, why would I watch the German ones? I don’t understand anything. On Moldovan TV channels, they only play and sing, no good films are shown. There is no meaning in banning the Russian TV. If I want to learn the news from Russia, I will find them on the internet. Now, even the elder ones have access to the internet, especially those ones with children who work abroad”, tries to convince us the car mechanic Igor. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

“Now nobody knows how true is the information told on TV. Everyone is making advertisement for themselves. The truth is that I don’t watch the news on TV, I have an app on the phone that combines international sources of news. If I want to read about Moldova, I read gagauz.info, a local source”, declares Alisa, a 35 years old woman.
\nAt the postal office, we learn that the most newspapers among Gagauz people are the Russian ones. There are only two Romanian newspapers and even those have few subscribers.<\/p>\n

Author:Ana Gherciu<\/p>\n

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