Moldova - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova (Moldovan/Romanian: Republica Moldova) is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991 as part of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. On 29 July 1994, the new constitution of Moldova was adopted and the state of the Moldovan SSR ceased to exist. A strip of Moldova's internationally recognized territory on the east bank of the river Dniester has been under the de facto control of the breakaway government of Transnistria since 1990. ..."
Measures of Freedom
Level of Economic Freedom, Economic Freedom of the World
2009: 6.29 (out of 10)
2009: 6.29 (out of 10)
Moldova | Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2012
2012: Status: Partly Free, Political Rights: 3, Civil Liberties: 3
2012: Status: Partly Free, Political Rights: 3, Civil Liberties: 3