Chisinau personalities awarded for keeping the Romanian spirit alive in Bessarabia

Performances of music and poetry that eulogize the motherland, the immortality and the renaissance of the national consciousness were given as part of a concert organized by the European Action Movement (MAE) in the evening of March 26 to mark 90 years of Bessarabia’s Union with Romania, Info-Prim Neo reports. The MAE leaders said they are convinced that the problem of Romanian people’s reintegration remains up-to-date. They pledged to find new reintegration possibilities based on the current events and on the fact that Moldova is recognized as a state. According to the MAE president Anatol Petrencu, the Romanian people could unite only if the society demands that Moldova become part of the EU. “Even Basescu (Romania’s President Traian Basescu – e.n.) agreed that we are a people living in two states and will become one in a United Europe,” Anatol Petrencu said. The participants in the event demanded that the right to form part of the European family be recognized, chanting ‘We are Romanians and Punctum’. The Bessarabian personalities and institutions that have kept for many years the Romanian spirit alive in the old Romanian province were nominated during the event. Diplomas of merits were awarded for devotion to the national values and contribution to maintaining the Romanian spirituality in Bessarabia. Among the nominated personalities are: Metropolitan Bishop, His Holiness Petru, folk music singer Maria Sarabas, folk music singer Vasile Iovu, writer and publicist Dumitru Matcovski, poet Vasile Romanciuc, writer Nicolae Rusu, jurist and historian Mihai Tasca, academician Vasile Marina, the conductor of “Lautarii” orchestra Nicolae Botgros, historian and editor-in-chief of “Cugetul” journal Ion Negrei, poet and editor-in-chief of the weekly “Literatura si Arta” Nicolae Dabija. The radio station Vocea Basarabiei was also nominated.