They were also meant to informational counterbalance the Russian action which, in order to celebrate the respective centennial, presented in a propagandistic way the „well-doing” for that province – actually activities by which Russia was trying to away the Romanian identity. The author points out a series of events which mark one hundred years that passed since the forceful annexation of Bessarabia by Russia. These events were meant as a kind of a painful „Memento”, a firm protest against the territorial rape of 1812, an opportunity or the Romanians in the country to make common cause with their brethren under the Russian.