RECOMMENDATION FOR READING AND MEDITATING in connection with the 16th anniversary of Moldova’s independence – a series of interviews by the Moldovan independent news agency Info-Prim Neo

On August 27, the Republic of Moldova celebrates the 16th anniversary of its independence. On this occasion, the news agency Info-Prim Neo carried out a series of interviews through which it intended to outline the present image of Moldova as perceived by representatives of a number of social categories and groups. We considered that the image that Moldova and its people have aboard is also important. After publishing the interviews one after the other during ten days, we are able to present a generalizing picture, gathering together all the viewpoints we got. The picture we obtained can be considered cognitive or even instructive, even if a number of representatives of certain categories of people did not answer our invitation. Below you can find the relevant viewpoints of people that are truly representative of the historical period through which Moldovan goes: - [Vasile Tarlev,] Prime Minister of Moldova; - [Alexandru Culiuc,] Public Policy doctoral student at the US Harvard University; - [Valeriu Munteanu,] a newly-elected, very young mayor of a village located in the centre of Moldova; - [Writer Andrei Vartic,] one of the supporters of the movement of resistance during the Moscow Putsch of 19 – 21 August 1991. The first president of Moldova [Mircea Snegur,] the last first-secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova [Grigore Eremei,] the last chairman of the State Security Committee of Moldova during the former Soviet Union [Tudor Butnaru,] also expressed their opinions on the topic; - [Valeriu Gorenov,] builder, foreman at the Chisinau Joint Stock Company “Monolit”; - [A female student of the same age as the independent Moldova,] whose name we will not revealed. She represents the country at the present stage and the tens and hundreds of thousands of children that are in the same situation; - [Gheorghe Amihalachioaie,] president of the Bar Association of Moldova; - [Anatol Bâzgu,] chairman of the Movement of Transnistrian Refugees, participant in the armed conflict on the Nistru of 1992; - [Vitalia Pavlicenco,] MP, chairwoman of the National Liberal Party; - [Dumitru Diacov,] leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova; -[Serafim Urecheanu,] leader of the party and of the parliamentary group of Our Moldova Alliance; - [Domenico Simone,] Italian entrepreneur on a visit to Chisinau; - [Serghei Pirojcov,] Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Moldova; - [A voice from the people,] as reaction to the series of Info-Prim Neo interviews. The team of Info-Prim Neo uses this occasion to congratulate you on the Independence Day and Language Day national holidays and recommends that you read the interviews attached in an attempt to understand the people of the past, present and future Moldova.