FC Sheriff Tiraspol (FC Sheriff Tiraspol) made his debut in the UEFA Champions League group stage this year, defeating Real Madrid as an away. Shulev founded the club in 1997, but he has won the top league championship of Moldova 19 times. However, the city of Tiraspol, where Shulev’s main place is located, is not actually governed by the Moldovan government.
Today’s Republic of Moldova emerged from the “Moldova Soviet Socialist Republic”, one of the republics of the former Soviet Union, when the Soviet Union split. In the early 19th century, the Ottoman Empire ceded Bessarabia to Tsarist Russia. Most of Bessarabia is in the territory of Moldova today. By the end of World War I, Bessarabia became part of Romania with the support of Germany. It is worth noting that the language spoken by the main ethnic group of Bessarabia is almost the same as that of Romanian. To this day, whether Moldovan can/should be regarded as Romanian is still a highly politically sensitive issue.
By 1924, the Soviet Union established the “Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova” in Ukraine. One of the goals of the Soviet Union’s move was to win the support of the Moldovans. However, although a large number of Moldovans live in this Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic, they are difficult to be defined as the main ethnic group in the region.
In 1939, the Stalin government and Hitler’s government signed a secret agreement. Nazi Germany recognized Bessarabia as the Soviet sphere of influence. The following year, the Soviet Union asked the Romanian government to abandon Bessarabia. So in August 1940, most of Bessarabia merged with parts of the former Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova into a new republic: the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic.
At the end of the 1980s, when separatism and nationalism in the Soviet Union were on the rise, Moldovan nationalism was not absent. And because there are a large number of non-Moldovans in the western part of Moldova (mainly part of the former Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova) and Ukraine, some people in the western part of the country are also armed to fight against Moldovan nationalism. After a brief military conflict, the independent Republic of Moldoja from the Soviet Union has been unable to control the western part of the country. In this area, the “Republic of Moldavia along the Transnistria” (commonly known as Transnistria in the English-speaking world) was established and the capital of Tirasburg was established. This political entity has its own constitution, currency, and military, but no UN member recognizes its independent status. Transnistria is also regarded as part of Moldova by the international community.
The population of this place is only more than 400,000, of which nearly 30% are Moldovans. The total population of Russians and Ukrainians exceeds half of the total population. Therefore, the languages of the three ethnic groups are all official languages. In the actual control area of Moldova, only Moldoan/Romanian has the official language qualification.
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