450 thousand pages of historical newspapers are available in digital format from Tuesday, July 21. According to the National Archives Agency, the collection includes publications issued between the years 1874 and 2010, from the Tsarist, interwar, Soviet and post-Soviet periods. This can be consulted for free on the computers in the study room of the institution, reports IPN.

Among the publications included are the complete collection of the newspaper Official Monitor of the Bessarabia Governorate, published between the years 1874 and 1917. Also available is the full collection of Cuvantul Moldovenesc, one of the most important newspapers of the national movement during the Tsarist Empire and the interwar years, as well as the collection Literature and Art, which includes editions starting from the year 1977.

The collection also includes all editions of the newspapers Moldova Suverana, for the period 1990-2010, and Независимая Молдова, published between the years 1994 and 2010. According to ANA, the entire ARCANUM database contains approximately 25 million pages of publications in Romanian, out of the over 100 million pages of newspapers from Eastern European countries.

The new materials added to the ARCANUM database come from the collections held by the National Archives Agency. These include publications in Romanian and Russian. The materials can be consulted for free from the ANA study room, located in the headquarters of the institution, on Gheorghe Asachi Street 67B in Chisinau. Those who wish to study the publications from home must create an account directly on the ARCANUM platform and can opt for one of the available subscriptions. The platform offers both free access, with limited features, and paid subscriptions, which allow the consultation and download of digitized collections.