The second edition of the book “Romanians, Bessarabia and Transnistria” was launched in Chisinau. The book is written by sociologist and journalist Ioan Popa and his daughter Luiza Popa, publicist and PR counselor. The second edition comes to amend the first, which was launched in December 2009, adding events and happenings that have occurred since. Ioan Popa told Info-Prim Neo that the second edition is 160 pages bigger. Despite the apparent “frozenness”, there has been a series of new developments in Transnistria. Besides the declassification of former soviet archives in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova sheds a new light and complements the documentation about those times, people and events, and this new information must be included in the book. “Firstly, it’s about developments from the age of the Great Terror and the background of political-ideological disputes between the USSR and Romania in the 1970s-1990s and the so-called Bessarabian issue. Moreover, the continuation of our own research made it necessary to bring changes to almost each of the book’s chapters. Nonetheless, the initial vision on the events discussed in the book remains the same”, said the author. Head of the Historians’ Association of Moldova, Ion Negrei, said that the book is at the intersection of history, politics and sociology. The edition will remain open to new changes depending on the events that will follow. Ion Negrei added that this book will shed more light on the Bessarabian and Transnistrian issues. The event was organized by the Historians’ Association of Moldova. The second edition of “Romanians, Bessarabia and Transnistria” was printed in 1000 copies.