Moldova The second smallest of the former members of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Moldova is a landlocked country measuring 33,843 square kilometers (13,063 square miles). In 2004 the country had an estimated population of almost 4.5...

Republic of MoldovaRepublica Moldoveneasca CAPITAL: Chis¸inau FLAG: Equal vertical bands of blue, yellow, and red; emblem in center of yellow stripe is Roman eagle with shield on its breast. ANTHEM: Limba Noastra (Our Tongue) MONETARY UNIT: The...

Moldova POPULATION 4,434,547 ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN 83.8 percent OTHER CHRISTIAN 4.2 percent JEWISH 0.8 percent OTHER 1.0 percent NONRELIGIOUS 10.2 percent Country Overview Introduction The Republic of Moldova, with an area of only a little over 13,000...

For other uses of "Moldova" and "Moldavia", see Moldova (disambiguation). The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south. The country is...

Capital: Chisinau Head of State: President Vladimir Voronin (since April 2001) Elected by Parliament for a four-year term Head of Government: Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev (since April 2001) Prime minister designated by the president, upon consultation with Parliament. Within 15 days...

ON HIS WAY to this week's NATO summit in Turkey, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld made a scarcely noticed stop in a usually overlooked country: Moldova, a neighbor of Romania and Ukraine, and the poorest nation in Europe. Why bother? Officially the defense secretary...