From comments made by bestselling author and NPR correspondent Eric Weiner, in Newsweek:
“While I did meet some people I liked, Moldova is the least happy country on the planet,” Weiner says. “People go to great lengths to see their neighbors fail.”
Yes, neighbors such as … Transdniestria.
“Completely seriously, it is a very morose place. I’ve never […]
The sovereignty and territorial integrity of Moldova can only refer to territory which is actually under Moldova’s control. That is what sovereignty means. Your sovereignty only extends as far as your “monopoly on violence” does.
Moldova, of course, has never had any control over Transdniestria ever since Moldova became a country in August 1991. (The Transdniestrians […]
The military collaboration of Moldova and the United States is closer than that between Transdniestria and Russia.
Moldova’s own state-run mouthpiece, Moldpres, quotes an official representative of the Moldovan military on increased collaboration between the U.S. military and Moldova, including a new project that …
fits into a bilateral programme on military collaboration between Moldova and the […]
The son of the head of Romania’s Communist-era state run propaganda bureau, rabid cold warrior Vladimir Socor, is today employed as a propagandist for a Dick Cheney related neocon outfit. He is often quoted as an analyst and commentator and has been known to plant false flag stories which (with a little help from his […]
A Moldovan newspaper article, which PMR news agency Olvia Press of course quickly reprinted, says that there is more political plurality in Transdniestria than in Moldova:
Today’s Chisinau must envy Tiraspol, where it was proved that it is possible to hold professional discussions that are not tainted with the interests and ideology of just one single […]
According to the World Database of Happiness (WDH), Moldova is the least happy country in the world. The Dutch institute that scientifically researches perceptions of happiness in various societies around the world and ranks countries in order of contentment. Their stats show Moldovans to be the world’s unhappiest people.
Eric Weiner, in his latest book, writes […]
After touring the whole world, what was the worst place that Eric Weiner found? In his own words:
Moldova was miserable. It’s ranked the least happy country in the world and for good reason. I was riding in the crowded public taxis, which are these packed minivans, and they kept closing the windows. There was no […]
Moldova can not be trusted, says Eric Weiner:
Adding that trust is important in defining one’s happiness, the author said he found Moldova to be “devoid of trust”
Transdniestria is clearly better off on its own, not as part of the country that is “devoid of trust.” Here’s the source.
Transdniestria has said loud and clear that it doesn’t want to be part of Moldova. In fact, by declaring independence in 1990 , Transdniestria left Moldova a whole year before Moldova even existed as a sovereign country (the Republic of Moldova only declared its independence in 1991. Before that, it was part of another country; […]
Why are Moldova’s policies designed to make life as hard and miserable for its neighbors, to the point of almost guaranteeing that Transdniestria will fail almost no matter what it does..?
Turns out that they enjoy it. American researcher Eric Weiner has visited Moldova and discovered a nasty little secret to the Moldovan national character:
Moldova, a […]
For close to 18 years, Moldova has not been able to enforce any effective sovereignty whatsoever over Transdniestria, and the territory has ruled its own affairs alone in a state of de-facto independence.
Despite the regularly recurring Moldovan proclamations that “Transnistria is part of Moldova,” official statistics tell another story: Because when it comes to numbers, […]
… and Transdniestria just wants to be left alone and decide for itself.
The larger neighbor wants to absorb the smaller one: Romania wants Moldova, and Moldova - for its part - wants Transdniestria. The only one who doesn’t want to force another country to become part of itself is Transdniestria: It has no territorial […]
On a per-capita basis, Moldova holds the record in terms of human rights cases which have been brought against the government. No other state in Europe has been sued as much as Moldova has in the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights).
So far, the country of less than 4 million people has lost over 100 […]
When a country (say, Moldova) is recognized diplomatically by another country, and the two establish bilateral diplomatic and political relations, this does not automatically mean that the other country recognizes and/or endorses Moldova’s version of its borders. Countries which have territorial disputes can and often do have diplomatic relations. A territorial dispute does not […]
According to two new American ratings, Moldova is becoming less free.
The first, from CIA-connected Freedom House, says that there was less personal freedom in Moldova in 2007 than a year before.
The second, from US research institute Heritage Foundation, deals with economic freedom … and Moldova is getting worse in that area, too.
In the Freedom House […]
Honestly, who in their right mind would want to join the most unhappy country in the world?
In a book review, The Economist refers to Moldova as a place
where new political freedoms are undercut by general mistrust, nepotism, corruption and envy.
(no other ex-Soviet republics are mentioned in the original book, although the reviewer from The Economist […]
Philadelphia Weekly says Moldova is “the saddest place on earth.” This is according to a new book whose author traveled around the globe in search of happiness.
Here is what he has to say about the place that Transdniestria (with apparently good reason) doesn’t want to be part of:
Moldovans are truly miserable. It’s a relatively poor […]
Ethnic minorities are mistreated in Moldova, where they collectively make up one-fifth of the population but hold less than 2% of all government jobs. The largest minorities consist of ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking Ukrainians, so Moldovan authorities have taken steps to ban the Russian language in public. Russian is considered dirty, and relegated […]
When the government of Moldova closed down the “Kommersant Moldovy” newspaper in 2001, the journalists tool the case to the European Court of Human Rights . . . and won. See http://www.nr2.ru/pmr/98844.html
The Court held unanimously that there had been a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on […]
Hardly anyone in the PMR wants to join Moldova. Perhaps one of the reasons is that Moldova is a mess. On a worldwide scale, one of the worst anywhere.
Here’s what The Economist says:
Loser: Abandoned by the West, and with a defeatist political elite unable to look beyond Russia, Moldova is sinking. If any post-communist country […]