In 1996, the Moldovan parliament, citing fears of "Romanian expansionism", rejected a proposal from President Mircea Snegur to change the name of the language to Romanian, and in 2003 a Moldovan–Romanian dictionary was published, purporting to show that the two countries speak different languages.
Fear of what caused the Moldovan parliament to reject changing the name of the country's language to Romanian in 1996?
Romanian expansionism