Moldovan parliament approves Russian as language of inter-ethnic communication
The bill says that citizens are guaranteed the right to education in both the official and Russian languages, and the authorities are to create conditions for ethnic groups living in the republic to receive education in their mother tongues
CHISINAU, December 16. /TASS/. Moldova’s parliament approved the final reading of a new bill on functioning of languages in the country, granting the status of a language of inter-ethnic communication to Russian, at the Wednesday session broadcast by the parliamentary press service. The decision was passed by 55 votes [out of 101] in the second reading, Speaker Zinaida Greceanii stated.