Timpul de dimineațăTimpul de dimineață (Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

 for "The Morning Times") or, in short, Timpul ("The Time"), is a Moldova

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

n newspaper founded in 2001 by Constantin Tănase

Constantin Tănase (journalist)

Constantin Tănase is a Moldovan journalist and former politician.- Biography :Tănase is director of the Timpul de dimineaţă. Timpul de dimineata disfavored, directly or indirectly, the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and the Christian-Democratic People's Party .He is a leader of the...

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Overview

The director of Timpul de Dimineaţă is Constantin Tănase

Constantin Tănase (journalist)

Constantin Tănase is a Moldovan journalist and former politician.- Biography :Tănase is director of the Timpul de dimineaţă. Timpul de dimineata disfavored, directly or indirectly, the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and the Christian-Democratic People's Party .He is a leader of the...

. Launched as a weekly on September 21, 2001, Timpul became a daily in October 2005 (the only daily romanian newspaper). As of march 2009, Timpulchanged their logo and their website. It targets a Romanian speaking readership in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 and the Republic of Moldova, as well as the expatriates of the Moldovan diaspora

Moldovan diaspora

Moldovan diaspora is a diaspora of Moldovans of Romanian descent, i.e., citizens of the Republic of Moldova of Romanian ethnic origin living abroad. Very few of them have settled in other parts of the world, but there is a significant number of them in some countries, mostly in the former Soviet...

. Timpul is a noted proponent of liberal

Liberalism

Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...

, anticommunist and independent political views.

During the 2007 local election

Moldovan local election, 2007

Local elections were held in Moldova on June 3, 2007, with a runoff for mayors on June 17, 2007.Voter turnout reached 52.34% nationwide and 37.17% in Chişinău municipality. Following the elections, district, municipal, town and village councils were elected, as well as 420 mayors.Dorin Chirtoacă...

, Timpul de Dimineaţă disfavored, directly or indirectly, the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and the Christian Democratic People's Party

Christian-Democratic People's Party (Moldova)

The Christian Democratic People's Party is a Christian democratic political party in Moldova. In the last legislative elections on March 6, 2005, the party won 9.1% of the popular vote and 11 out of 101 seats. Led by Iurie Roşca, the CDPP and the liberal PNL are the only major political parties in...

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Notable people

• Constantin Tănase
  Constantin Tănase (journalist)
  Constantin Tănase is a Moldovan journalist and former politician.- Biography :Tănase is director of the Timpul de dimineaţă. Timpul de dimineata disfavored, directly or indirectly, the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and the Christian-Democratic People's Party .He is a leader of the...
  
  
• Sorina Ştefârţă
  Sorina Ştefârţă
  Sorina Ștefârță is a journalist from the Republic of Moldova. She is the editor-in-chief of Timpul de dimineaţă, a major Moldavian newspaper.- External links :*...
  
  
• Alexandru Vakulovski
• Pavel Păduraru (novelist)
• Vasile Ernu (novelist)
• Constantin Cheianu (novelist)
• George Damian