‘Our’ and ‘Foreign’ in Bessarabia: Communicational Environment and Commemorative Practices
‘Our’ and ‘Foreign’ in Bessarabia: Communicational Environment and Commemorative Practices

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the paper is communication environment of one of culturally diverse region – Bessarabia. Historic and political processes have predetermined the borderland status of this region. Local and national cultures within this historic- ethnographic space have been never closely contacted with each other. Each of ethno-cultural group, living here, has its specific topos, within which the senses of historic events, ritual practices, social tasks are functioning and being interpreted. Communicational socio-cultural systems in the region are formed on the basis of ethnic and linguistic space, confessional affiliation, economic specialization, geopolitical orientation. Herewith, none of the existing ethnic groups do not have sustainable status of the ‘indigenous’, but each group preserves the arguments about historic rights on this territory in its memorial practice. The status of titular culture in the region belonged to Roman, Turk and Slavic nations in different times. Such changes of the cultural centers have determined the significant transformations in the system of social lifts in relation to the ethnic and confessional affiliation. Ethnocultural and linguistic spaces have closely intertwined with social and national spaces. Multi-vector nature of geopolitical processes in Bessarabia provided conditions for regional groups (ethnic, social) and national centers (Turkey, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria) for using the communication systems orientated to different vectors of integrational processes. Each communicational space presumes the presence of its own ‘center’ and ‘periphery’, gives rise to network structures (from community to transnational systems) that are based on the specific channels of information and special semiotic systems.

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