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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Michael F. Hamm
Michael F. Hamm*
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Centre College, USA
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In June 1990, following the example set by Boris Yeltsin and the Russian Republic, the Supreme Soviet in Chişinău declared Moldova sovereign. Henceforth, Moldovans would recognize only those laws approved by their own parliament and maintain relations with the other republics only within “an association of sovereign states.” Formal independence came a year later, on 27 August 1991, following the failure of the Moscow coup that sought to unseat Mikhail Gorbachev and preserve the Soviet Union. In the heady times that followed, Moldovans debated basic questions of political organization and, inevitably, the difficult issue of Moldova's relationship with neighboring Romania.

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Introduction
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 1998 , pp. 9 - 14
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Copyright © 1998 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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