About 10 percent of the graduating students in the Gagauz Autonomous Region of Moldova failed their final exams in Romanian language and literature this year. The poor showing sent tremors through the ...

Turkey and Russia are competing influences in Moldova’s only autonomous region, where most locals eye Moldova’s courtship of the EU with suspicion. Strollers on the main street in Comrat,Strada Lenin, ...

Language teacher Sorina Stoianova has found herself at the forefront of Moldova’s efforts to counter Russian influence in its rebel Gagauzia region, which borders Ukraine. Already threatened by ...

Gagauz-Yeri Governor Mihail Formuzal (Courtesy Photo) COMRAT, Gagauz-Yeri, Moldova; April 5, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- As policymakers search for lasting solutions to Kosovo and unresolved conflicts in the ...

Thirty-two years after it declared itself a republic, Gagauzia remains just as stuck between ties with Moscow and the Western leanings of Moldova. Over the past three decades, relations between ...

Dienekes points me to a new paper, Searching for the origin of Gagauzes: Inferences from Y-chromosome analysis: The Gagauzes are a small Turkish-speaking ethnic group living mostly in southern Moldova ...