EXCERPTS ON THE HISTORYOF THE MOLDOVAN DIASPORA IN THE EASTERN REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE - USSR - CIS (late 19th - early 21st cc.)
The article deals with such aspects as participation of Moldovans in the voluntary "Stolypian" agrarian resettlement to the East of Russia, tragedy of "Stalin deportations", labor migration of the late Soviet and postSoviet periods, relations with historical motherland. The author pays attention to ethnical, social and cultural processes in Moldovan diaspora in the East of Russia at different stages of its existence.