Vasile Bahnaru

Vasile Bahnaru (24 October 1949 – 6 August 2024) was a Moldovan philologist.

[1] Vasile Bahnaru was a founder of the Popular Front of Moldova.

He was a member of the Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova,[2] and was later the acting director of the Academy's Philology Institute.

[3] Bahnaru died on 6 August 2024, at the age of 74.

[4] "Grigore Vieru" Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, worth MDL 30,000 (about US$1700).