Moldova Suverană () is a

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official newspaper of the

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n government which is published daily in

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. It had a circulation of 100,000 copies per day in 1994. It was founded in the

Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, shortened to Moldavian ASSR, was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, autonomous republic of the Ukrainian SSR between 12 October 1924 and 2 August 1940, encompassing the modern territory ...

capital of Balta in 1924, under the name ''Plugarul Roșu'' («Плугарул рош», lit. ''Red Ploughman''). In 1930, it moved to

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, and was renamed to the name it would have during the remainder of the Soviet period, ''Moldova Socialistă'' («Молдова сочиалистэ»). It was printed in Chișinău, in the

Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic or Moldavian SSR (, mo-Cyrl, Република Советикэ Сочиалистэ Молдовеняскэ), also known as the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldovan SSR, Soviet Moldavia, Sovie ...

, from 1940, with the exception of 1941 to 1944, when it was printed in Moscow. It was renamed ''Moldova Suverenă'' upon the country's independence. It was awarded the

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