Vladimir Solonari (born 20 October 1959, in Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, USSR) is a Moldovan-American historian, university professor, and former politician.
[4] He graduated from the Faculty of History at the State University of Chișinău in 1981 and, with the support of Alexandru Moșanu, he pursued doctoral studies at Moscow State University, obtaining the title of Candidate of Historical Sciences in 1986 with a thesis on the British Labour Party's programmatic issues in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In 1990, Solonari was a founding leader of the pro-Soviet Unity Movement for Equality in Rights and he was elected as a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR.
His book A Satellite Empire: Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941–1944 received honorable mention from the American Association of Ukrainian Studies in 2021.
[8][9] Journalist Constantin Tănase wrote in his newspaper, Timpul de dimineață, in 2000, a critical article against Solonari.
[10]In a March 2022 interview in Deutsche Welle, Solonari said about his political past: Before I was against the unification of Moldova and Romania, for several reasons, but at this point, I would like it very much, as a form of safety.