MoldovaThe Media
The main daily newspaper in the republic, Moldova
Suverana, is published by the government. Sfatul
Tarii
is published by Parliament, which also publishes the daily
Nezavisimaya Moldova in Russian. Other principal
newspapers include Rabochiy Tiraspol' (in Russian,
the
main newspaper of the Slavs in Transnistria), Tara,
Tineretul Moldovei/Molodëzh Moldovy (in
Romanian
and Russian), and Viata satului (published by the
government). The main cultural publication in Moldova is
the
weekly journal Literatura si arts, published by the
Union
of Writers of Moldova. Other principal periodicals include
Basarabia (also published by the writers' union),
Chiparus, Alunelul, Femeie Moldovei,
Lanterna Magica, Moldova, Noi, and
SudEst . Kishinëvskiye novosti, Kodry, and
Russkoye slovo are Russian-language periodicals.
Other
minority-language periodicals include Prosvita and
Homin in Ukrainian, Ana sözu and
Cîrlangaci
in Gagauz, Rodno slovo in Bulgarian, and Undzer
col/Nash golos in Yiddish and Russian. In all, 240
newspapers
(ninety-seven in Romanian) and sixty-eight magazines
(thirty-five
in Romanian) were being published in the republic in 1990.
Basa
Press, an independent news service, was established in
November
1992.
Data as of June 1995
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