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Ion Varta

Moldovan politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ6063380
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Ion Varta (born 12 December 1958) is an academic and politician from the Republic of Moldova.

Biography

After graduating in 1982 from Moldova State University with a degree in history, he joined the faculty at Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University.

From 2005 to 2009, Varta served as member of the Parliament of Moldova. He was a member of the Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova.

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Biografie

(in Romanian) Preşedintele interimar al Republicii Moldova Mihai Ghimpu a emis un decret prezidenţial privind constituirea Comisiei pentru studierea şi aprecierea regimului comunist totalitar din Republica Moldova.

Moldovan authorities going to condemn communist regime…

Hundreds of thousands of cases to be examined by commission for combating Communism Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine

http://www.privesc.eu/?p=1884 - The first press conference of the commission, Moldpress, January 18, 2010. Video.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100309165120/http://www.timpul.md/article/2010/01/18/5881 - interview with Gheorghe Cojocaru, president of the commission.

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The public source identifies “Ion Varta” as moldovan politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Varta, Moldovan and politician.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1982, 2005, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-12-08. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Varta, Moldovan and politician providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6063380. VIAF identifies the subject as 49155631. The Library of Congress control number is nr2001023175. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958, 1982, 2005 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Ion Varta” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.