Dokument #1357628
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
There are approximately 135,000 Romanians
in Ukraine, and 325,000 Moldovans (East European Reporter
July-August 1992, 21) who are essentially Romanian (RFE/RL 1 May
1992, 39). According to Viktor Kozlov, about 143,000 Moldovans live
in the Odessa region in southern Ukraine (1988, 88). The
Encyclopaedia Britannica indicates that the regions of
Bukovina and Bessarabia, portions of which now belong to Ukraine
and Moldova, once belonged to Romania and were populated by
Romanians and Ukrainians (1989, 166, 615). Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty indicates that these regions have been a matter of
historical dispute between Ukraine, Romania and Moldova, and are
still a controversial subject between these states (1 May 1992,
39-45).
Information specific to the problems
experienced by Romanians in Ukraine is not currently available.
However, please find attached articles from Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty on relations between Ukraine, Romania and Moldova which may
be of interest to you.
East European Reporter.
July-August 1992. Mykola Ryabchuk. "Two Ukraines?"
Kozlov, Viktor. 1988. The Peoples of
the Soviet Union. Translated by Pauline M. Tiffen. London:
Hutchinson Education.
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica.
1989. Micropaedia. 15th ed. Vol. 3. Chicago: Encyclopaedia
Britannica Inc.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(RFE/RL). 1 May 1992. RFE/RL Research Report [Munich]. Vol.
1, No. 18. Bohdan Nahaylo. "Ukraine and Moldova: The View from
Kiev."
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). 15 May 1992. RFE/RL Research Report [Munich]. Vol. 1, No. 20. Bohdan Nahaylo. "Moldovan Conflict Creates new Dilemmas for Ukraine,"
p. 1-8.
_____. 1 May 1992. RFE/RL Research
Report [Munich]. Vol. 1, No. 18. Bohdan Nahaylo. "Ukraine and
Moldova: The View from Kiev."
_____. 1 May 1992. RFE/RL Research
Report [Munich]. Vol. 1, No. 18. Dan Ionescu. "Romanian Concern
over the Conflict in Moldova."