Evoluţia relaţiilor minorităţilor etnice din Moldova cu „statele-patron”: (cazul găgăuzilor)

Abstract

The existence of minorities΄ Patron states in addition of geopolitical background digrease some impacts in the teritorial structure and etnic politics of Moldavian state. This paper will begin with the outlining of some general and historical aspects of geopolitical bakground of this region. Also, it analyzes the fundamentation of Moldova΄s Gagauzian Autonomy in context of geopolitical strategies of Patron-states or of the interested states to make an influence in Republic of Moldova. Understanding the specifity of the etno-political context of the institutionalization of Gagauzian territorial autonomy is essential in order to identify the principal extern vectors of influence: Comrat-Tiraspol-Moskow and Comrat-Ankara, and the relationschips caracter between them.