House of Nationalities - Chisinau

Current day use: there are a number of ethnocultural organizations that are concerned not only with protecting the cultural heritage of minority groups, but also with ensuring civil, economic, religious rights, etc. In order to more effectively collaborate with ethnocultural organizations, on June 1, 1996, the House of Nationalities was officially opened, a cultural center for coordinating ethnocultural organizations in the republic, the first in the former Soviet space, which began its activity by bringing together 21 ethnocultural organizations. The Bureau of Interethnic Relations is a structure of the executive power that represents and defends the interests of cohabiting ethnic groups. Interethnic relations in the Republic of Moldova are centered in the area of politics, a dimension artificially created on the substratum of the collapse of the Soviet system. Through the "Concept of National Policy of the Republic of Moldova" (2003), the political factor tended to monopolize the "identity discourse" as a "guarantor" of "peace" and "interethnic consensus".