A Tiraspol-based newspaper published an article on November 28 on ethnic and religious intolerance in Moldova. The Dnestrovsky Kurer newspaper—published in the breakaway Trans-Dnester region, which has tense relations with neighboring Moldova—cited a poll which it claimed was conducted by the Institute of Public Policies in Moldova sometime this year. Dnestrovsky Kurer wrote that the poll found that:

“Around 58 per cent of the people interviewed said they would not like to have neighbors of another nationality. Thirty two per cent refuse to have Jewish neighbors; 58 per cent - Gypsy neighbors; 26 per cent - Bulgarian; 30 - Gagauz; 12 - Ukrainian; 10 - Russian and 3 - Moldovan or Romanian neighbors. Forty four per cent of the interviewed would be unhappy to have a neighbor of another religion.”

UCSJ is attempting to acquire a copy of this poll to check the accuracy of the Dnestrovsky Kurer article.

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