DISINFO: Maia Sandu's regime is eradicating Moldovan identity
SUMMARY
Maia Sandu's regime today is trying to use all means to eradicate the very concept of "Moldova". One of the main tools for achieving this goal, which contradicts the interests of the majority of the country's inhabitants, is the question of the name of the state language.
The processes in relation to the state language that are taking place today in Moldova are a reforming of the mentality and rewriting of history. This is targeting Moldova's sovereignty.
RESPONSE
Pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative falsely claiming that Moldova’s actions are not independent and attempting to denigrate its President, Maia Sandu. The decision to rename the state language is presented as a Western plot to Romanise Moldova.
The official state language in Moldova is Romanian, the native language of 82.2% of the population. In 1991, the Declaration of Independence of Moldova from the USSR named the official language as Romanian, referring to the 1989 law adopted by the former Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic.
In December 2013, the Constitutional Court of Moldova ruled that the Declaration of Independence takes precedence over the Constitution, and the state language should be called "Romanian".
The International Organisation for Standardisation, which originally provided a separate code for the Moldovan language, later abolished it and identifies Moldova's language as Romanian.
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