U.S., EU Intervene in Language Dispute
The United States said it and the European Union were trying to help solve a bitter linguistic dispute between former Soviet republic Moldova and its separatist southeastern Dnestr region.
Romanian-speaking Moldova, considered the poorest country in Europe, is wedged between Ukraine and European Union candidate Romania at the edge of NATO’s expanding frontier.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has accused Russian-speaking Dnestr of breaching human rights by closing schools that teach Romanian in the Latin alphabet rather than the Cyrillic script used in the Soviet era.
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