Mihail Savenco (; ) was a

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n politician of Ukrainian descent. He was a high-ranking official of the

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Biography

He served as Director General for Justice in

Pantelimon Erhan Cabinet Pantelimon Erhan Cabinet was the Cabinet of Moldova (7 / 20 December 1917 - 13 / 26 January 1918). It was the first Cabinet of Moldova, cabinet of the Moldavian Democratic Republic. The government fell after the occupation of the Republic by the ...

and

Daniel Ciugureanu Daniel Ciugureanu (; 9 December 1885 – 19 May 1950) was a Romanian politician from Bessarabia, deputy in Sfatul Țării from Chișinău, Prime Minister of the Moldavian Democratic Republic from –, Minister for Bessarabia in four Romanian Go ...

cabinet.

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, 26 martie 2008 - Sfatul Țării și Unirea Also he served as member of the

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(1917-1918). He opposed the

union of Bessarabia with Romania The union of Bessarabia with Romania was proclaimed on by Sfatul Țării, the legislative body of the Moldavian Democratic Republic. This state had the same borders of the region of Bessarabia, which was annexed by the Russian Empire following t ...

. Savenco joined a self-appointed team of politicians and landowners who claimed to speak for Bessarabia, and attended the Paris Peace Conference to lobby for the Russian cause. Among the other members of this body were Alexander N. Krupensky, Alexandr K. Schmidt, Vladimir Tsyganko, and

Mark Slonim Mark Lvovich Slonim (, also known as Marc Slonim and Marco Slonim; March 23, 1894 Giuseppina Giuliano"Mark L'vovič Slonim"''Russ ...

. They circulated rumors of "unheard-of atrocities" committed by the

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, such as the massacre of 53 people in one village of after the

Khotyn Uprising The Khotyn Uprising ( or ; ) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian-led insurrection in the far-northern tip of Bessarabia region, nestled between Bukovina and Podolia. It occurred on January 7–February 1, 1919, less than a year after Union of Bessarabia w ...

, and the torturing of many others. These statements were rejected outright by the Bessarabian unionists, such as

Ion Inculeț Ion Inculeț (; 5 April 1884 – 18 November 1940) was a Bessarabian and Romanian politician, the President of the Country Council of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, Minister of the Interior of Romania, full member (since 1918) of the Romania ...

or Ion Pelivan.

Bibliography

* ''Enciclopedia Chişinău''. – Ch., 1997. – 156 p. * *** - ''Enciclopedia sovietică moldovenească'' (Chișinău, 1970–1977)

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