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Moldavskie Vedomosti

newspaper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ6895757 ↗
Source-derived summary

Moldavskie Vedomosti (English: Moldovan News) is a newspaper from Chișinău, the Republic of Moldova, founded by Dumitru Ciubașenco in 1995. During the presidency of Vladimir Voronin, it was considered the main opposition newspaper of the country.

Editorial summary

“Moldavskie Vedomosti” enters the record as newspaper. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Moldavskie, Vedomosti and newspaper can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Moldavskie, Vedomosti and newspaper.
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Why this record matters

“Moldavskie Vedomosti” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Moldavskie, Vedomosti and newspaper provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6895757. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Moldavskie Vedomosti” 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.