Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova ( ) was a document adopted on 27 August 1991 by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova following the failure of the August coup attempt . The document claims " millennial history " and " uninterrupted statehood " within historic and ethnic borders and refers to the official language as " Romanian . " This founding act of the Republic of Moldova is celebrated as the National Day or Independence Day . The original document that was approved and signed by 278 parliamentary deputies in 1991 was burned during the April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests , but an identical document was restored in 2010
April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests
April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests
Moldovan Declaration of Independence