Vasile Stati

Stati is one of the most fervent supporters of Moldovanism , a movement of Stalinist origins, currently promoted by the Moldovan authorities. He wrote the monographies ''Moldovenii de la est de Nistru'' ("The Moldavians to the east of the Dniester ") and ''Istoria Moldovei'' ("History of Moldavia"). He has written about the development of the vernacular Moldavian language and the Slav ic influences over the Moldavian culture. In the 1980s , he worked at the Institute of Linguistics and Literature of the Academy Of Sciences Of Moldova , and from 1994 to 2000 he was a member of the Moldovan Parliament . Until 2005 he was the secretary of the informational-analytic centre of the Moldovan Parliament.

In distinct from Romanian . The linguists of the Romanian Academy declared that Stati's "Moldovan" words are also Romanian words, while Ion Bărbuţă , the head of the Institute of Linguistics of the Republic of Moldova, described the dictionary as being an "absurdity, serving political goals".

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" Eforturi de îmbunătăţire a relaţiilor româno-moldoveneşti " ("Efforts to improve Romanian-Moldovan relations"), BBC Romanian, 27 May 2004

" Un monument al minciunii şi al urii - 'Dicţionarul moldovenesc-românesc' al lui Vasile Stati ("A monument to lies and hatred - Vasile Stati's 'Moldovan-Romanian Dictionary'", ''Contrafort'', July 2003

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