Anna Zekhova, a former journalist, in 1969 was one of the very first people to write in Gagauz language in a newspaper. She recollects how she became a journalist almost by chance, after returning from a work experience in Siberia in 1965.
A proud Gagauz woman who has spent most of her life in Comrat, the main city of Gagauzia, Anna speaks about how her family of humble origins, composed by poor, illiterate peasants was helped and dignified by the Soviet state.
She is afflicted by the dire current economic situation of Moldova which is causing a haemorrhage of people leaving to find work abroad: ‘Now jobs are the most important things to people. That is not good, that is not right. That is going against human values.’
