Real and Imagined Borders in the Multiethnic States – The Republic of Moldova Case
Real and Imagined Borders in the Multiethnic States – The Republic of Moldova Case

Summary/Abstract: Eastern Europe, and in particular Moldova, have been abundant in different kind of borders and divisions, most of them having an ethnic issue. Some of them remained immaterial: psychological, socio-cultural, linguistically - others took geographic shapes; in all cases, the mental reality of these borders has influenced the region on virtually all areas of social life in the past 25 years. This paper firstly will focus on the overview of ethnic landscape in Moldova, by underlining the main cleavages generate on the level of national minorities and analysing the state efforts to diminish the any kind of borders appeared in the Moldovan society groups. Obviously, the regulation of interethnic relations, harmonisation and their reclamation can be successful only if the state is really a main instrument of unity within the ethnic variety, constituting the fundamental premise of effectively solving all other problems of coexistence for the ethnic groups in a multiethnic society. Perception of the state as promoter of the interests of all ethnic groups inhabiting is the primordial ethnic cohesion and free affirmation of each human individual. When it is anchored within a single ethnic community aspiration, above the whole society, sustainable development perspective can be questioned or even in danger.

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