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individuals was listed arbitrarily by census-takers who did not even ask those individuals what their ethnicity was. According to Kateryna Sheshtakova, a professor at the Pomeranian University of Slutsk in Poland who did field research among the 15 self-identified Romanians and self-identified Moldovans in the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine, 'Some Moldovans use both names of the mother tongue (Moldovan or Romanian) and accordingly declare two ethnic affiliations.' She recorded one statement that "I am Moldovan, but to be more precise, we should say I am Romanian". She also recorded an exchange that indicated that a respondent indicated that the language had been transformed from Moldovan to Romanian. "That language, is it Romanian or Moldovan? R: Now, it's Romanian. There is no Moldovan now. Then, it used to be Moldovan, but written with Russian letters. And now everything is in Latin (Mk38). Shestakova suggests that those self-identified Moldovans who see differences between Moldovan and Romanian tend to be from "the older generation". Opinion polling from the Chernivtsi oblast, as well as the discussions of the delegates of the Meeting of the Leaders of the Romanophone Organizations from Ukraine of December 6, 1996, indicated that many of the self-identified Moldovans believed that the Moldovan and Romanian languages were identical. By comparison, in the Republic of Moldova, “more than half of the self-proclaimed Moldovans (53.5%) said that they saw no difference” between the Romanian and Moldovan languages according to a survey conducted by Pal Kolsto and Hans Olav Melberg in 1998 which also included the Transnistrian separatist region. According to Alla Skvortsova, an ethnic Russian researcher from the Republic of Moldova, "Our survey found that while 94.4 percent of the Romanians living in Moldova consider Moldovan and Romanian to be the same language, only half of the Moldovans (53.2 percent) share this view".

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Romanian-speakers, and 1.15% Russian-speakers. In 1989, in the last Soviet census of 1989, out of 68,009 inhabitants, 27,407 declared themselves Ukrainians (40.3%), 29,042 Romanians (42.7%), 9,644 Moldovans (14.18%), and 1,363 Russians (2%). The decline in the number (from 9,644 to 4,425) and proportion of self-identified Moldovans (from 14.18% to 6.09%) was explained by a switch from a census Moldovan to a census Romanian ethnic identity, and has continued after the 2001 census. By contrast, the number of self-identified ethnic Romanians has increased (from 29,042 to 32,923), and so has their proportion of the population of the former raion (from 42.7% to 45.3%), and the process has continued after the 2001 census. On the basis of the 1989 and 2001 census data, included those listed above, some authors have stated and argued that most of the inhabitants of historical northern Bukovina and of the Hertsa area who had been counted as Moldovan and Moldovan-speakers during the Soviet period indicated a Romanian ethnic and linguistic identity in 2001. Among the several localities in which a majority of the Romanian plus Moldovan population changed its ethnic and linguistic identity from Moldovan to Romanian between the two censuses were

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Romanian in the same oblast. In 2001, in the Chernivtsi oblast of independent Ukraine, there were 105,296 self-identified ethnic Romanians who declared their native language to be Romanian, and 467 who declared it to be Moldovan. There were also 61,598 Moldovans who declared their language as Moldovan, and 2,657 who declared it as Romanian in the same oblast. Therefore, the number of self-identified ethnic Romanians who declared their language to be Romanian increased by 97.88% between 1989 and 2001. By contrast, the number of ethnic Moldovans who declared their language to be Moldovan decreased by 23.31%. Among those who declared their ethnicity as Romanian or Moldovan, there was an increase in the number of people calling their language as Romanian from 53,212 to 107,953, an increase of 102.87%. By contrast, there was decrease in the number of such people who declared their language as Moldovan from 113,049 to 62,065, a decrease of 45.1%. The eighteen villages in the

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the term "Romanian language" instead of the term "Moldovan language" in Ukraine. Currently, work is underway to bring the current legislation of Ukraine in line with this decision, which includes many internal regulatory legal acts. Separately, we note that all further acts of the government will be adopted considering the agreements. And all civil servants who allow violations of the government's decision will be subject to disciplinary action. The facts reported in the media regarding the printed textbooks refer to the copies approved for printing in May this year. The main edition of these textbooks was printed in the summer before the decision was made not to use the term "Moldovan language". Today, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has stopped any additional printing of these textbooks. And also develops a mechanism for replacing previously printed copies with textbooks in the Romanian language.' On 13 January 2024, the Ukrainian newspaper

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Moldovan and 32.60% self-identified Romanian) as their native language, with Ukrainian (5.96%) and Russian (1.45%) speakers in the minority. In the formerly Bukovinian villages in the Boiany rural hromada and the Mahala rural hromada, where the inhabitants overwhelmingly declared their ethnic identity as Moldovan in 1989, there were 18,331 inhabitants in 2001, including 7,589 (41.4%) who declared their native language as Moldovan, 5,690 (31.04%) who declared it to be Romanian, 4,815 (26.27%) who declared it Ukrainian, and 198 (1.08%) who declared it be Russian. The self-declared Romanian speakers were thus 42.85% of the Romanian-speaking population of this Bukovinian area, while 57.15% called their language Moldovan.

1246:). In the last Soviet census of 1989, out of 29,611 inhabitants of the same raion, 1,569 declared themselves Ukrainians (5.30%), 23,539 Romanians (79.49%), 3,978 Moldovans (13.43%), and 431 Russians (1.46%). The decline in the number (from 3,978 to 756) and proportion of Moldovans (from 13.43% to 2.34%) was explained by a switch from a census Moldovan to a census Romanian ethnic identity, and has continued after the 2001 census. By contrast, the number of self-identified ethnic Romanians has increased (from 23,539 to 29,554), and so has their proportion of the population of the former raion (from 79.49% to 91.45%), and the process has continued after the 2001 census. For example, in the village of 2363:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 230-231, 237-238 and passim. Popescu and Ungureanu noted that, while the leader of the Moldovans from the Odesa Oblast, Anatol Fetescu, the leader of the "Luceafarul" Society of Moldovans from Odesa, disagreed with the line that the Moldovan language should be called Romanian, the leaders of the Moldovan organizations from the Chernivtsi Oblast and five other specific oblasts agreed that the Moldovan language is, and should be called, Romanian. Previous similar congresses of the Romanian-speakers from 1992, both for the entire oblast, and by raion, from the region had unanimously supported the same position, including the president of the raion administration of the 1182:(approximately one fifth of the region's population). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2015, there were 1,438 ethnic Romanians born in Ukraine living in the United States of America. By comparison, there were also 237,809 ethnic Ukrainians born in Ukraine living in the U.S. in that year. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, 92.1% of those who stated that they were Romanians declared Romanian as their mother tongue, 6.2% Ukrainian, and 1.5% Russian. Among census Moldovans, 71.1% listed Moldovan or Romanian as their mother tongue, 17.6% listed Russian and 10.7% listed Ukrainian. 1017: 1087: 214: 1358:

inhabitants overall in 2001. In the overwhelmingly Bessarabian Novoselytsia Raion as a whole, the number of individuals who declared that their ethnicity was Romanian increased from 585 individuals (0.67%) in 1989 to 5,904 (6.75%) individuals in 2001. Additional demographic information on the population with a Moldovan ethnic identity in Ukraine that is regarded as ethnically Romanian by the self-identified ethnic Romanians in Ukraine and elsewhere may be found in the article

1345:, which formed a large majority of the population of the raion, there was an increase from less than 1% self-identified ethnic Romanians, and an even lower percentage who stated that their language was Romanian (see the data for the entire raion below) in 1989 to 26-29% self-identified Romanian-speakers (as distinct from self-identified Moldovan-speakers) in 2001, and a smaller increase in the proportion of self-identified Romanians. These include, for example, 4173: 1957: 1943: 891: 25: 4268: 1194:

self-identified Moldovans (from 8.98% to 7.31%) was explained by a switch from a census Moldovan to a census Romanian ethnic identity, and has continued after the 2001 census. By contrast, the number of self-identified ethnic Romanians has increased (from 100,317 to 114,555),and so has their proportion of the population of the oblast (from 10.66% to 12.46%), and the process has continued after the 2001 census.

570:, and the areas further to the east, do. There was a significant decrease in the number of individuals who identified themselves as ethnic Moldovans in the 1989 Soviet census, and a significant increase in the number of self-identified ethnic Romanians, especially, but not exclusively, in northern Bukovina and the Hertsa area according to the 2001 Ukrainian census (see the data later in the article). 3295:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 242, 266, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. Among the Moldovans, 61,598 declared their native language as Moldovan, and 2,657 declared it to be Romanian. Among the Moldovans whose native language was not Moldovan, 1,672 declared that they knew Romanian, and 1,391 that they knew Moldovan according to Popescu and Ungureanu, p. 266. 1319:

spoke Romanian as their native language, 4,078 people (including 2,810 who declared it as Romanian or 63.50%, and 1,268 as Moldovan, or 28.66%), with a minority of Ukrainian speakers (6.33%). According to the 1989 Soviet census, the number of inhabitants who declared themselves Romanian plus Moldovan

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In June 1997 Romania and Ukraine signed a bilateral treaty which included addressing territorial and minority issues. By the terms of the agreement, Ukraine guaranteed the rights of Romanians in Ukraine and Romania guaranteed the rights of Ukrainians in Romania. There are schools teaching Romanian as

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There were 114,555 Romanians (12.5%) in 2001; the rest of the inhabitants were Moldovans (7.31% or 67,225), Ukrainians (74.98% or 689,056), and Russians (4.12% or 37,881). According to the 2001 census, the majority of the population of the Chernivtsi region (919,028) was Ukrainian-speaking (75.57%),

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of the Chernivtsi region of independent Ukraine. According to the 1989 census, the number of inhabitants of Mahala who declared themselves Romanians plus Moldovans was 2,231 (16 + 2,215), representing 90.40% of the population. In 2001, 92.52% of the inhabitants spoke Romanian (59.91% self-identified

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of historical Bukovina and the Hertsa area in 1989 with a significant Romanian-speaking populations, most of which declared a Moldovan ethnic identity in 1989, had 15,412 individuals who overwhelmingly declared their language to be Romanian in 2001 (55.91% of the local Romanian-speakers), and 12,156

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There were 87,461 inhabitants, of which 5,904 were Romanians (6.75%) in 2001. The other inhabitants included 50,329 Moldovans (57.54%), 29,703 Ukrainians (35.05%), 1,235 Russians (1.42%), and 290 others (0.29%). Novoselytsia raion, within its boundaries at that time, had 87,241 inhabitants in 2001,

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in the Hertsa Raion, in 2001, 93.73% of the inhabitants spoke Romanian as their native language (93.22% self-declared Romanian and 0.52% self-declared Moldovan), while 4.96% spoke Ukrainian. In the Soviet census of 1989, the number of inhabitants who declared themselves Romanians plus Moldovans was

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In 2015, several news websites published a report claiming that the Romanians of Northern Bukovina had formed a "Assembly of the Romanians of Bukovina" and demanded the territorial autonomy of the region from Ukraine. However, they were claimed to be fake and a product of pro-Russian anti-Ukrainian

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On 16 November, the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ukrainian government stated that it has initiated steps to replace the term "Moldovan language" with "Romanian language". The Ukrainian Ministry of Education stated that ‘The Government of Ukraine adopted a decision regarding the use of

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There are allegations that in the 2001 Ukrainian census, individuals, especially, but not exclusively, in the Odesa region were threatened with dismissal from their jobs if they declared that they were Romanians rather than Moldovans by ethnicity, and it has been claimed that the ethnicity of some

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There were 724 self-identified ethnic Romanians (0.03%); there were also 123,751 self-identified ethnic Moldovans (5.04%) in 2001, 1,542,341 self-identified ethnic Ukrainians (62.81%), 508,537 self-identified ethnic Russians (20.71%) and 150,683 Bulgarians (6.14%). According to the 2001 Ukrainian

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The city has a population of 8,166 people, mainly Ukrainians, with a Romanian community. The distribution of the population by native language in 2001 was Ukrainian 54.9%, Romanian 34.5%, and Russian 10.1 %. Moreover, in 2001, 1.63% of the inhabitants declared that they were Romanian, while

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In 1989, in the Chernivtsi oblast of Soviet Ukraine, there were 53,211 self-identified ethnic Romanians who declared their native language to be Romanian, and 32,412 who declared it to be Moldovan. There were also 80,637 Moldovans who declared their language as Moldovan, and 1 who declared it as

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as a whole, the number of individuals who declared that their native language was Romanian increased from 315 (out of 585 individuals who declared a Romanian ethnicity and only 0.36% of the raion's population) in 1989 to 8,076 (9.23%) self-declared Romanians plus Moldovans and 8,131 (9.3%) such

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Romanian speakers are not, as of 28 September 2017, allowed to learn exclusively in the Romanian language in the Ukrainian state education system after four years of education, with Romanian language instruction being restricted to separate Romanian language and literature classes. Whereas, the

3563:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 259, 260, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. Among the 50,329 Moldovans, 47,585 identified their language as Moldovan, or 54.45% of the raion's population, and 2,264 as Romanian or 2.6% of the raion's population according to Popescu and Ungureanu, p. 266. 1294:

reported themselves as following: Ukrainians: 34,025 (46.82%), Romanians: 32,923 (45.3%), Moldovans: 4,425 (6.09%), Russians: 877 (1.21%), and other: 426 (0.59%). Hlyboka raion, within its boundaries at that time, had 72,676 inhabitants in 2001, including 52.56% Ukrainian-speakers, 45.97%

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The very term "Ukrainians" was prohibited from the official usage and some populations of disputable Ukrainian ethnicity were rather called the "citizens of Romania who forgot their native language" and were forced to change their last names to Romanian-sounding ones. Among those who were

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The town has a large Romanian majority; 71.18% identified themselves as Romanians, 17.88% as Ukrainians, 6.35% as Russians and 3.4% as Moldovans. The majority of the population of Herța was Romanian-speaking (70.79%), with Ukrainian (17.98%) and Russian (10.89%) speakers in the minority.

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Most of the Bessarabian part of the former raion is made up of the Novoselytsia urban hromada and the Vanchykivtsi rural hromada, which had 48,642 inhabitants in 2001; out of these, 29,875 (61.42%) declared themselves as Moldovan-speakers, 15,431 as Ukrainian-speakers (31.72%), 2,114 as

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In the last Soviet census of 1989, out of 940,801 inhabitants of the Chernivtsi oblast, 666,095 declared themselves Ukrainians (70.8%), 100,317 Romanians (10.66%), 84,519 Moldovans (8.98%), and 63,066 Russians (6.7%). The decline in the number (from 84,519 to 67,225) and proportion of

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In 2001, population was 236,691, of which 10,553 (4.5%) were Romanians. The city of Chernivtsi had 236,691 inhabitants in 2001, of which 187,465 spoke Ukrainian (79.20%), 10,263 Romanian (4.34%), 284 Polish (0.11%), and 36,150 Russian (15.27%). According to a survey conducted by the

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The city has a population of 14,693 people in 2001, and 81% of the inhabitants spoke Ukrainian as their native language, while 11.45% spoke Romanian, and 6.56% spoke Russian. In 2001, the population was 74.31% ethnically Ukrainian, 17.23% Romanian, 4.91% Russian and 2.2% Polish.

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was 3,764 (40 Romanians, or 0.94% plus 3,724 Moldovans, or 87.64%), representing 88.59% of the population of 4,249 inhabitants. A similar pattern could be found, for example, in the village of Ostrytsia of the Mahala urban hromada; see the article on the village of

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There were 72,676 inhabitants, of which 32,923 were Romanians (45.30%) in 2001. Hlyboka raion, within its boundaries at that time, had 72,676 inhabitants in 2001, including 52.56% Ukrainian-speakers, 45.97% Romanian-speakers, and 1.15% Russian-speakers.

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policies were implemented that all public use of Romanian was phased out, and substituted with Russian. Romanian continued to be used as the colloquial language of home and family, mostly spoken by Romanians, either first or second language.

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2,965 (324, or 10.05% Romanians plus 2,641 or 81.92% Moldovans) out of 3,224, representing 91.97% of the locality's population, and there were 205 ethnic Ukrainians (6.36%). Similar patterns could be observed in other villages, such as

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Romanian-speakers (4.35%) and 1,148 (2.36%) as Russian-speakers. The self-declared Romanian speakers were thus 6.61% of the Romanian-speaking population of the area. In a minority of the localities in the Bessarabian part of the

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adopted and amended laws that enshrined the rights of "national minorities" and allowed "holding public and cultural events and publishing advertisements fully in the language of national minorities within the given community."

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census, Ukrainian was the mother tongue of 46.3% of the population (2,368,107 in 2001), for 42.0% it was Russian, for 4.9% Bulgarian, and for 3.8% Romanian. There were 700 self-identified ethnic Romanians in the oblast in 1989.

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with, 21,420 (12.46% of the rayon population) and Rachiv with 10,573 (11.63% of the rayon population). Some 10,000–15,000 also live in the northern part of the oblast, far from other Romanian communities, and are referred to as

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The intention of Soviet policy was to promote Communism in recently lost Bessarabia and surroundings, and eventually to regain the former province from Romania. (Soviet authorities declared the "temporarily occupied city of

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to the USSR. As many as 90,000 died as the Red Army entered and occupied the territory on June 28. The official Soviet press declared that the "peaceful policy of the USSR" had "liquidated the Soviet-Romanian conflict".

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to ensure its control by a stable Soviet republic. The Romanian population of Ukraine was persecuted by Soviet authorities on ethnic grounds, especially in the years following the annexation until 1956; because of this,

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are mentioned in the area in the 12th and 13th century. As characterised by contemporary sources, the area between the Southern Bug and Dniester had never been populated by a single ethnicity, or totally controlled by

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There were 95,295 inhabitants in 2001, of which 35,095 were Romanians (36.83%). In 2001, the inhabitants of the Storozhynets raion were 61.42% Ukrainian-speakers, 35.64% Romanian-speakers, and 1.81% Russian-speakers.

3481:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 260-261, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. Among the 756 Moldovans, 511 self-identified their language as Moldovan and 237 as Romanian according to Popescu and Ungureanu, p. 266. 1353:. This parallels similar developments in the Republic of Moldova, where the number of self-identified ethnic Romanians as measured by the censuses increased from 2.477 (0.1%) in 1989 to 192,800 in 2014 (7%). In the 1310:

in the smaller, former Bukovinian area of the raion, who had self-identified themselves as Moldovans in 1989 self-identified themselves as Romanians in 2001. This was the case in a number of localities such as

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laws were imposed again on Romanian population. In neighboring Bessarabia the same persecution did not have a predominantly ethnic orientation, being based mostly on social, educational, and political grounds.

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The end of the 18th century marked Imperial Russia's colonization of the region, as a result of which large migrations into the region were encouraged, including people of Ukrainian, Russian, and

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Dominique Arel, "Interpreting 'Nationality' and 'Language' in the 2001 Ukrainian Census," Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 18 No. 3, July–September 2002, pp. 213–249, available online in JRL #6535 at

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According to the Soviet 1989 census, Romanian speakers accounted for just under one percent of Ukraine's total population: 134,825 Romanians, and 324,525 Moldovans with the largest minority in

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While outdated, and allowing individuals to declare their membership in only one ethnic group, the results of the 2001 Ukrainian census partly document this. See, for example, the data at

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Oleksandr Derhachov (editor), "Ukrainian Statehood in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Political Analysis", Chapter: "Ukraine in Romanian concepts of the foreign policy", 1996, Kiev

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was created from Bessarabia and the western part of the Moldavian ASSR. Bessarabian territory along the Black Sea and Danube, where Romanians were in the minority, was merged into the

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from the Ottoman Empire. Romanians under Russian rule enjoyed privileges well, the language of Moldavians was established as an official language in the governmental institutions of

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The town has a population of 8,956 inhabitants in 2001, 56.97% of whom spoke Romanian as their native language, while 14.54% spoke Ukrainian, 24.3% Hungarian, and 3.18% Russian.

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did not heed the counsel of his advisers and continued to wage war on the Soviets beyond Romania's pre-war boundaries, invading parts of Ukraine and occupying

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While the Ruthenian ethnic element is fundamental for Cossacks, some have claimed a considerable number of Romanians among the hetmans of the Cossacks (i.e.

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INCONSISTENT LANGUAGE POLICY CREATES PROBLEMS IN UKRAINE, Oleg Varfolomeyev, EURASIA DAILY MONITOR, Volume 3, Issue 101 (May 24, 2006), available online at

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referred to as "Romanians who forgot their native language". Among Russians who were Romanianized in Bessarabia were descendants of Romanians who underwent

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According to the 1989 census, the number of Romanians/Moldovans was 20.11%; 12.15% spoke Romanian as their native language according to the 2001 census.

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among the Romanian-speakers of Ukraine over whether self-identified Moldovans are a part of the larger Romanian ethnic group or a separate ethnic group.

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by the Ukrainian authorities, despite constant objection of the Romanian authorities, with some Romanian organizations in Ukraine even calling it a

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Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii din Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 257.

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In 1940, under duress from a Soviet ultimatum issued to the Romanian ambassador in Moscow and under pressure from Italy and Germany, Romania ceded

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Kateryna Sheshtakova, "Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Practices of Romanians and Moldovans (On the Example of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine), in

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Kateryna Sheshtakova, "Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Practices of Romanians and Moldovans (On the Example of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine), in

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Kateryna Sheshtakova, "Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Practices of Romanians and Moldovans (On the Example of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine), in

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Kateryna Sheshtakova, "Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Practices of Romanians and Moldovans (On the Example of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine), in

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According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the town had 9,142 people, out of which almost all are Romanians, and 92.64% were Romanian-speaking.

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https://mon.gov.ua/en/news/declaratie-oficiala-privind-utilizarea-in-ucraina-termenului-limba-romana-in-locul-termenului-limba-moldoveneasca

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https://mon.gov.ua/en/news/declaratie-oficiala-privind-utilizarea-in-ucraina-termenului-limba-romana-in-locul-termenului-limba-moldoveneasca

3872: 2247: 2176:("The Romanian language in Bessarabia. A sociolinguistic study based on archival materials (1812–1918)"). Chișinău: Editorial Museum, 2003. 2061:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 24, with the figure from the 2001 Ukrainian census. An additional 258,619 people identified themselves as Moldovans. 4161: 1296: 1272: 4139: 1222:

who had self-identified themselves as Moldovans in 1989 self-identified themselves as Romanians in 2001. In 2001, the population of the

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It had 4,425 inhabitants, including 2,810 Romanians (63.50%), and 92.16% of the inhabitants spoke Romanian as their native language.

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See ‘Official statement regarding the use in Ukraine of the term "Romanian language" instead of the term "Moldovan language"’, at

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See ‘Official statement regarding the use in Ukraine of the term "Romanian language" instead of the term "Moldovan language"’, at

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were able to produce books and liturgical works in Moldovan between 1815 and 1820, until the period from 1871 to 1905, when

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George Coman, “SOS romanii din Ucraina!” (“SOS the Romanians of Ukraine”), in Ziua, March 4, 2003, originally accessed at

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who had self-identified themselves as Moldovans in 1989 self-identified themselves as Romanians in 2001. According to the

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Having allied with Nazi Germany, and having recaptured the territories occupied by the Soviets in 1940, Romanian dictator

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The geopolitical concept of an autonomous Transnistrian region was born in 1924, when Bessarabian-Russian military leader

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Pal Kolsto with Hans Olav Melberg, “Integration, Alienation, and Conflict in Estonia and Moldova,” in Pal Kolsto (ed.),

542:), but have been an integral part of the history of modern Ukraine, and are considered natives to the area. There is an 3854:, Ionas Aurelian Rus, Center for Prevention of Conflicts and Early Warning, Policy Paper Nr. 704R, Bucharest, June 2004 1645: 2515: 75: 4388: 3818: 2229: 2190: 2160: 653: 108: 2389:

Alla Skvortsova, "The Cultural and Social Makeup of Moldova: A Bipolar or Dispersed Society?", in Pal Kolsto (ed.),

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ethnic group or a separate ethnicity. A large majority of the Romanian-speakers living in the former territories of

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in April–May 2023, 82% of the city's population spoke Ukrainian at home, 15% spoke Russian, and 2% spoke Romanian.

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Many Romanians changed their family names to Russian. This was the era of the highest level of assimilation in the

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indicated that the last three schools had just changed the name of the language from "Moldovan" to "Romanian".

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and colonization of this territory started to be carried out by representatives of other ethnic groups of the

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ended, in 1922, the Ukrainian SSR was created. Bukovina and Bessarabia were historically populated by the

790: 4169: 3849: 973: 566:, consider themselves to be ethnic Romanians, but only a minority of those in the historical province of 397: 4383: 4147: 767: 786: 680:

of Ukraine. Other Moldavian princes who held control of the territory in 17th and 18th centuries were

2454: 1850: 1831: 1321: 4071: 4013: 2692: 2423:"Inexistenta "Adunare a românilor din Bucovina" și varianta bucovineană a unui separatism inventat" 1903: 1075: 661: 649: 637: 357: 197: 181: 1855: 82: 4348: 4338: 4333: 4328: 4018: 1970: 1243: 1099: 809: 478: 427: 35: 3950: 1098:

In post-Soviet times, Ukrainian, the language of the historical ethnic/linguistic majority, is

923: 4200: 3960: 3955: 3888: 2007: 1287: 1187: 1122: 665: 377: 3857: 2174:

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1985: 4323: 4307: 4238: 4228: 4205: 4102: 4023: 3987: 3970: 2969: 1975: 1359: 1238:(out of which 511 self-identified their language as Moldovan and 237 as Romanian), 0.9% as 903: 685: 631: 337: 281: 145: 2660: 2629: 8: 4343: 4287: 4282: 4233: 4210: 3923: 1745: 1020:

Romania occupied (August 19, 1941 - January 29, 1944) the "Transnistrian" region between

992:

capital of the ASSR.) The area was 8,100 km (3,100 sq mi) and included 11

849: 728: 689: 362: 325: 286: 248: 3182:

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including 34.08% Ukrainian-speakers, 64% Romanian-speakers, and 1.78% Russian-speakers.

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of the Chernivtsi Oblast was 32,316, of which 29,554 or 91.45% identified themselves as

1016: 957:; the number included the Ukrainians and other possibly related Ukrainian ethnic groups 953:

As such, according to the Romanian census, of the total population of 805,000, 74% were

583:

Beginning with the 10th century, the territory was slowly infiltrated by Slavic tribes (

4302: 4292: 4248: 4243: 4076: 4064: 4041: 3810: 2364: 2291: 2221: 1827: 1823: 1733: 1602: 1591: 1501: 1354: 1338: 1329: 1307: 1268: 1203: 927: 511: 471: 422: 415: 350: 320: 308: 276: 271: 167: 2838:), Cernăuți, 2005, pp. 259–260, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. 1723:

Notable Romanians (or individuals with partial Romanian ancestry) in Ukraine include:

1506:

There were 32,668 Romanians (2.6% of the oblast population in 2001), mainly living in

4359: 4297: 4177: 4051: 4036: 4028: 3997: 3992: 3814: 2225: 2186: 2156: 1918: 1867: 1846: 1769: 1757: 1490: 1342: 1219: 1130: 931: 915: 457: 452: 447: 440: 372: 303: 261: 159: 3774: 3750: 3690: 3650: 3597: 3573: 3532: 3491: 3451: 3393: 3329: 3305: 3262: 3169: 2945: 2268: 2083: 2071: 1999:, a province of the Russian Empire that had a notable minority of Romanian colonists 720: 4117: 4107: 4097: 4081: 3977: 2601: 2106: 1775: 1146: 1110:

a primary language, along with newspapers, TV, and radio broadcasting in Romanian.

969: 775: 387: 382: 367: 163: 716: 2441:"De ce Ucraina promovează "limba moldovenească" braț la braț cu Rusia agresoare?" 1993:, a province in the Russian Empire that had a majority of colonists from Moldavia 1885: 1211:

who called it Moldovan in the same year (44.09% of the local Romanian-speakers).

919: 657: 636:"Neither the right bank, nor the left bank of the Dniester have ever belonged to 3786: 3762: 3738: 3726: 3714: 3702: 3621: 3609: 3585: 3544: 3503: 3405: 3317: 3274: 3238:

Center for the Prevention of Conflicts and Early Warning, Nr. 704R/June 19, 2004

3157: 3128: 3099: 3087: 3058: 2957: 2899: 2802: 4046: 3918: 3839: 3522:, Cernauti, 2005, p. 257, 258, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. 3441:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 24, 266, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. 2280: 1962: 1948: 1909: 1873: 1836: 1739: 1727: 1264: 1137: 1103: 977: 885: 865: 798: 709: 641: 627: 600: 563: 392: 3836:, Oleg Varfolomeyev, EURASIA DAILY MONITOR, Volume 3, Issue 101 (May 24, 2006) 3383:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 33, 45, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. 2470:"Românii din Ucraina reclamă lipsa de interes a autorităților de la București" 2110: 1811: 1571:

There were 29,554 Romanians (91.5%) in 2001; other inhabitants included 1,616

4372: 1980: 1793: 1751: 1580: 1507: 1300: 1291: 1283: 1276: 1199: 1126: 1086: 1071: 1058: 1053: 1049: 1011: 985: 947: 816:

and Ukraine was subordinated at first to the Mitropolity of Proilava (modern

705: 701: 559: 515: 2488:"Românii din Ucraina denunţă "un genocid cultural-lingvistic" împotriva lor" 3773:

The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at

3749:

The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at

3689:

The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at

3649:

The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at

3640:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 246, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. 3596:

The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at

3572:

The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at

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The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at

2944:

The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at

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The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at

2681:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 266, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. 2650:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 266, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. 2152: 2070:

The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at

1996: 1840: 1817: 1787: 1696: 1684: 1566: 1528: 1256: 1223: 1215: 1207: 1106:, and the state system of higher education has been switched to Ukrainian. 1025: 813: 669: 539: 535: 523: 3424:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 33, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. 3348:), Cernauti, 2005, p. 42, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census. 2126:. Chișinău: Editura Asociației Uniunea Culturală Bisericească. p. 20. 876:, the famine of the 1930s that caused several millions deaths in Ukraine. 213: 1805: 1781: 1346: 911: 899: 527: 3902: 3842:

Interpreting 'Nationality' and 'Language' in the 2001 Ukrainian Census,

2693:"Beyond the scandal: what is Ukraine's new education law really about?" 1879: 1763: 1674: 1638: 1572: 1231: 1179: 1091: 1037: 939: 853: 802: 771: 736: 567: 130: 4058: 2404:"Fals: Românii din Bucovina cer de la Poroșenko autonomie teritorială" 4112: 1927: 1707: 1247: 1235: 1227: 1144:

Modern mass media of the Romanians in Ukraine include the newspapers

1029: 954: 935: 890: 873: 779: 732: 604: 592: 551: 547: 499: 205: 127: 2541: 1496:

and there were also Romanian (18.64%) and Russian (5.27%) speakers.

1306:

Some authors have argued that many of the inhabitants of the former

1282:

Some authors have argued that most of the inhabitants of the former

1214:

Some authors have argued that most of the inhabitants of the former

817: 744: 538:

river, who traditionally have not inhabited any Romanian state (nor

24: 2407: 1350: 1324:. However, in a number of other localities, such as the village of 1239: 1041: 1021: 748: 622: 588: 555: 531: 507: 4267: 2391:

National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies

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National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies

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54.37% ethnically Ukrainian, 35.82% Moldovan, and 6.84% Russian..

879: 4172: 4129: 3938: 3359:"Volohii din Carpații Păduroși (Ucraina) - o ruină de românitate" 1664: 958: 841: 837: 829: 740: 503: 233: 228: 4191: 2380:. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), p. 34-35. 825: 3943: 3933: 3928: 1653: 1628: 1325: 1316: 1312: 1260: 1252: 833: 821: 677: 618: 612: 608: 596: 584: 519: 3785: