Palace of the Republic, Chișinău

The palace in 1984.

It was initially in established in 1984 as the Friendship Hall and was renamed in 1988 to the Republican Center for Culture and Art. Its creation was timed to the golden jubilee of the establishment of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic. It was considered one of the more major works of Bessebarian architect Ivan Zagoryetskiy (Иван Андреевич Загорецкий).[3] On 29 June 1994, the center was converted into the Palace of State Officials with the aim of providing services to the foreign ministry and government. Today, conferences, meetings, workshops are held at the Palace of the Republic. The national government actively rents out the halls in the palace, with the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova meeting here from 2009 to 2014 while the official government building was being repaired.[4] It was later renamed the following year to its current name.

Igor Dodon's swearing in

• On 23 December 2016, President-elect Igor Dodon was sworn in as President of Moldova inside the Palace of the Republic, the first time it was used for such an occasion.[5] Four years later, Maia Sandu was inaugurated at the same venue.[6]
• The Russian-Moldovan Expo in 2017 took place in the palace.[7]
• In 2018, the 12th annual World Congress of Families took place inside the palace.[8]

• Parliament of the Republic of Moldova
• Government House, Chisinau
• Presidential Palace, Chișinău

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