In the 1980s , amid political conditions created by the glasnost and perestroika , a Democratic Movement of Moldova was formed , which in 1989 became known as the nationalist Popular Front of Moldova ( FPM ) . Along with several other Soviet republics , from 1988 onwards , Moldova started to move towards independence . On 27 August 1989 , the FPM organized a mass demonstration in Chișinău that became known as the Grand National Assembly . The assembly pressured the authorities of the Moldavian SSR to adopt a language law on 31 August 1989 that proclaimed the Moldovan language written in the Latin script to be the state language of the MSSR . Its identity with the Romanian language was also established . In 1989 , as opposition to the Communist Party grew , there were major riots in November
major riots in November
1989 Moldova civil unrest
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