A thematic exhibition of books authored by former and current MPs has been opened at Parliament in the context of the National Reading Day. The exhibition includes about 80 volumes selected from Parliament’s Library and Museum, as well as from the personal collections of the legislators. The exhibition will run until the end of February.

The exhibits include prose and poetry by the former legislators Vladimir Beșleăgă, Ion Hadârcă, Nicolae Dabija, Lidia Istrati and Andrei Strâmbeanu. Among the exhibited copies are the memoirs of the former speakers Dumitru Moțpan and Eugenia Ostapciuc, as well as of the first president of Moldova Mircea Snegur. The exhibition also includes a series of monographs penned by the former lawmakers Ion Țurcanu, Anatol Țăranu, Vasile Nedelciuc, Fiodor Angheli and Tudor Țopa.

The exhibition also contains specialist literature, works written by the former deputy speakers Nicolae Andronic, Iurie Roșca and Vadim Mișin, and the former legislators Alexandru Arseni, Victor Popa, Victor Pușcaș, Oleg Serebrian, Igor Munteanu, Veaceslav Untilă and Vladimir Hotineanu.

The exhibited collection was also supplemented with volumes penned by current MPs, including Vasile Șoimaru and Mihail Popșoi.

For the first time in Moldova, the National Reading Day will be officially marked on February 14, the birthday of the great poet Grigore Vieru.