What's Going On in MOLDOVA | Is it Safe? Is it Cheap? 

I m from Brazil and I went to Chisinau a couple of times. It's a beautiful city with nice people. I intend to go back again soon. Stefan Cel Mare street is very busy and noisy with so many ambulances with siren out loud passing by. I will take my ear plug next time.

CHISINAU .. its pronounced KISHINAW

As a perpetual student of history, I thoroughly enjoy your details

There u were wrong,i’m Romanian and in 1918 we had the union with transilvania and Moldova which we call “marea unire” and this union stayed until WW2 when the King Carol the second gave Moldova to Soviet Union and south Dobruja to Bulgaria

LOL. The woman selling the placinta said that it had liver in it (pechen).

Wow! it was great place to see. very good job.

Just subscribed; impressed by your knowledge & description; Thank You!

Nice video. Thank you!

one of the most fair description about history/society

Its cheap for countryies that have high money 1 dolalr is 20 lei now lei is the moldovian bill and its very cheap for americans and wnglish ppl We have very high gas prices rn its not rlly good

Thank U.for the nice description.

Lack of consistent food supply was also a problem in most of the former soviet states!

A small historical correction there: Moldova didn’t become part of the Soviet Union until 1944. In the interwar period it was an integral part of Romania, albeit without Transnistria. Bonus: Odessa is not in Bessarabia, it‘s just very close to it. Nice video, though. Keep it up!

shit, 11,000 tourists a year? That's definitely my kind of spot.

Just come back from Moldova in April 2024 ,and yes, in the rural areas,English is still rare, but in urban areas and the young, quite common . You should have visited the self -governing Region Gagauzia,where their language is Turkic and Russian spoken widely( and friendly after drinking local wine)watching further your take on the place, you are very much spot-on about the realities of the place and what happens when a society/empire/nation/USSR collapses ..your comments are spot on about Poland,though they had a massive head start as an independent state and even established stockmarket in the `80s,also homogeneous population. (remember the times well).The only thing i will disagree with you on,Soviet-style architecture, love it! ( but that`s personal taste)

Thank you for getting it right.

15:25 btw Unic is the Soviet building, means large store with various goods

You gave away a hidden secret some of us have known for years

Chisinau is very underrated.Stqtitistics say it is poor but as lifestyle,it is better than many European cities for sure..Europe is rich because people work like slaves,but life is more about lifestyle than just producing money.

Interesting. Seems like nice enough of a place.

don't use spasiba, is actually "Multumesc!". Rep.Moldova is itself a region with unify and been part of Romania, they weren't ever occupy by romanians ( U.R.S.S took it after ww2, when they push romania to be on the loss side despite different things happen - Romania didn't deserve to loss Bessarabia). I could share some light if you want over it, the history of today and access to informations could really proof that Romania didn't join with pleasure axis forces, or gave 3 regions of it's country towards Hungary-U.R.S.S-Bulgaria. Otoman empire been defeated in the end, they didn't leave a good impression towards countries which they occupy. Romania were independent after ww2, they hardly recover after ww2 destructions, fees they had to pay towards U.R.S.S , we also payed in 12 years like 23 billion $ between 1978-1989( time in which $ increase in power and sink Romanian debt- but we manage to pay it as Ceausescu force people to buy food on rations(not even in ww1-ww2 that wouldn't happen), there were consumtion of electricity limits, etc... ). Romania keep build itself alone while taking money and paying everything they had as external debt. Bessarabia was up to get back to Romania after 1990, but the man behind Ceausescu which took the democracy and become president were blocking this(probably connections with soviets). Bessarabia were part of Romania and keeps to be, no mather what others would push to say to block this. Search Romania prior ww2 and you will understand, Romania was some country which push peace and disband army divisions after ww1 to assure them intentions of peace.

good video informative

I'm going to be flying in to Albania soon and plan on visiting the area. Hope to meet up with you someday.

Yeah, I'd love to be the trendy jetsetter who makes the least famous parts of the world popular. WHo doesn't? Looks pretty busy out there. Stay safe!

Hah, it`s funny to look the reaction of touriss on common for you things. I hope despite the shortcomings you liked Chisinau. Now it is being actively repaired, but there is still a lot of work to be done. Помимо всего, ты довольно хорошо говоришь по-русски. PS 7:02 You shouldn't have included those footage XD.

Armenia (not Moldova) was the smallest USSR Republic. And Moldova only joined the USSR in 1940, not in the 1920’s.

I am a frequent traveler. British citizen. Travelled to 36 countries, Moldova was number 37. I flew here on 21/9/2023, it's a Visa free country for British citizens, but I was DENIED ENTRY and held in detention because I am Muslim. The British embassy was able to send me back home. I was really looking forward to exploring this country, REALLY LOOKING FORWARD!!! The flight was very expensive because all budget airlines has stopped flying there but I was still determined to go! The border police discriminated against me and denied me this opportunity! Just because of my religion!!! There is no justice!

Transnistria is not recognised by the UN as a country.

Im moldavo

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With a surname that sounds muslim but in fact i am a hindu with a british passport will i have any problem to visit ?

Transnistria is not a real country and our capital city is Chișinău, not Kishinov. if you are gonna make a video talking about our country, do at least some basic research.

What the hell is he glancing at at the start?!

How long did it take for you to learn Russian?

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Keesheenau not chishinyov

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Our official language according to google qhich doesnt know very much is romanian but according to moldova our official language is moldovan and its NOT similar to romanian the words are different the people are different we use russian in our language romania does NOT use russian we are very different we are NOT considered romanians if you respect moldovans you would say we are NOT like romanians THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

Chișinău not chisinev,

At 6:50 those gals were lookin' pretty good from behind 🙂

Some facts are not true...

hope one day no one will speak russian in Moldova.

You pronounce the city like only a pro-Soviet would. Why do you do this? It's offensive.

Go home. American boy...

2:48 thats no tomato , here we call it adjâcă and its a spicy sauce of peppers

What is the best way to find good apt in center for one month or more in Moldova thanks