Romanian-language schools in Transnistria

A 2001 article by Tatiana Corai states, "According to a survey conducted within the Civil Society Program, about 60 per cent of Moldovan children are forced, for different reasons, to attend Russian schools.

In 1996, the director of the only Romanian-language school in Slobozia, who supported the wish of the parents to conduct education in Latin alphabet, was fired and forced to leave the region.

In 1999, a lecturer of the Romanian language of the Bender Pedagogical College was dismissed for promoting the Latin script in the institution.

[2] In September 1996, the administration of Grigoriopol used Cossacks and police members to stop the activity of a Romanian-language school.

Children and teachers were forced to write explanations as to why did they use the Latin script and local officials routinely visited classes to check whether tuition was being "properly" conducted.

In the summer of 2004, the Transnistrian authorities closed four of the six schools in the region that taught Romanian using the Latin script.

Some of the 3,400 enrolled children were affected by this measure and the teachers and parents who opposed the closures were temporarily arrested for up to six hours.

During the crisis, the Moldovan government decided to create a blockade that would isolate the disputed region from the rest of the world.

[9] The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities has condemned the actions of Transnistrian authorities as a "linguistic cleansing".

[14] This would suggest that about 15% of the population of Transnistria was studying in the Romanian language in the Cyrillic or Latin alphabets, including those in the bilingual schools.

The building was built by the Government of Moldova and was almost finished in 2004, when Transnistrian police took it by force, during the school crisis.