New Europe College Regional Program Yearbook 2001-2002

N.E.C. Yearbook 2001-2002
134 The Law of Republic of Moldova regarding the rights of persons belonging
to national minorities and juridical status of their organizations, No. 382-XV
/ 19.07.2001, Article 2.
135 The study The Relationship between Romania and the Republic of Moldova,
22 Plus, January 25, 1995.
136 The first “cliché” deconstructed by authors was the manner in which the
political leaders conceived the current territorial borders as the negative
consequences of the Ribbentropp-Molotov pact. The authors demonstrated
that the current frontiers were not consequences of the pact, but of the
Peace Treaty (Paris, 1927), which established the territorial reality based on
the relation between the conqueror and the defeated. Another cliché rejected
in the study was the expression “mother country”, which in the authors’
opinion no longer expressed the historical necessities. The study criticized
the leaders of Romania who, from the position of Mutterland, protested
against the decision of Parliament in Chiºinãu in April 1994, to adhere to the
Community of Independent States and against the adoption of the
Constitution of the Republic of Moldova (29 th of July 1994), which declared
the Moldovan language the official language of the state. Op. cit.
137 Op. cit.
138 Op. cit.
139 Yael Tamir draws the distinction between choice of identity and assumption
of identity, assumption being more moral than simple choice. Assumption
is also the only possible “choice” of identity. Liberal Nationalism, Princeton
University Press, 1993, p. 50.
140 Op. cit., p. 50.
141 Op. cit., p. 48.
142 This is reminiscent of Pierre Bourdieu’s term ‘habitus’ conceived as “systems
of durable, transposable dispositions, structured structures predisposed to
function as structuring structures, that is, as principles of the generation and
structuring of practices and representations which can be objectively
“regulated” and “regular” without in any way being the products of obedience
to rules “produced by” the structures constitutive of a particular type of
environment (e.g., the material conditions of existence characteristic of a
class condition). Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1977, p. 72.
143 The questions “Who are the Romanians in Moldova?” and “Who are the
Moldovans in Moldova?” are still waiting for an explanation, based on
empirical data, collected by sociological inquires, interviews in focus group
and another empirical studies.
144 Those in Moldova who have the right to vote in elections in Romania,
Russia, and Ukraineand give vote for the most nationalistic parties.
145 Common citizenship provide a political framework for the representatives
of all ethnic groups, however, despite their ethnic origins, members of other
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