The non-Romanian ethnics who live there, especially in the capital city, don???t speak Moldovan/Romanian; they speak Russian. (And the older Jewish ones speak Yiddish.) They are Russian, Ukrainan, Jewish and any other of the many ???nationalities??? of the former USSR. I spent two weeks in Kishinev (I know they call it something else now but I can???t spell it or pronounce it) around five years ag