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The Moldovan diaspora is the diaspora of Moldova, including Moldovan citizens abroad or people with ancestry from the country, regardless of their ethnic origin. Very few of them have settled in other parts of the world, but there is a significant number of them in some countries, mostly in the former Soviet Union, Italy, Spain, Romania, Portugal, Greece, Canada, and the United States of America.
Moldovans, sometimes referred to as Moldavians (Romanian: moldoveni, Moldovan Cyrillic: молдовень, pronounced [moldoˈvenʲ]), are the ethnic group native to the Moldova, who mostly speak the Romanian language, locally referred also as Moldovan. 77.18% of the Moldovan population declared Moldovan ethnicity in the 2024 Moldovan census, and Moldovans form significant communities in ...
Moldovan Americans are Americans who are from Moldova or are descended from Moldovans. According to the U.S. 2000 census, there were 7,859 Moldovan Americans in the United States . The American Community Survey indicated that the number born in Moldova greatly increased over the years, and in 2014 exceeded 40,000 people in the United States.
The Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova has estimated that over 1,000,000 Moldovan citizens (over 25% of a population of some 3.6 million) are working abroad. Russia (especially the Moscow region), Italy, Ukraine, Romania, France, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, and Israel are the main destinations.
Just more than 11,000 votes out of the nearly 1.5 million cast made the difference in the outcome, with the large Moldovan diaspora proving instrumental in clinching the pro-EU win.
In Romania, the inhabitants from the Republic of Moldova are colloquially called "Bessarabians" (basarabeni, after the Bessarabia region), in order to be distinguished from the inhabitants of the Romanian Moldavia region who also generally refer to themselves (or are referred to by the inhabitants of the other Romanian regions) as "Moldavians" (moldoveni), but declare Romanian ethnicity.
In Russia, he heads the Congress of Moldovan Diasporas (Конгресс Молдавских Диаспор) established in 2009. According to the 2014 estimate of the Russian Federal Migration Service , there were over 550,000 nationals of Moldova in Russia, with estimated 228,000 illegal residents.
CHISINAU (Reuters) -A knife-edge majority of 50.17% voted "yes" in Moldova's pivotal referendum on joining the European Union, nearly final results showed on Monday, after President Maia Sandu ...