Since 2011, Romania has observed the European Union-wide Day for Commemoration of the Victims of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes, commemorating the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact on this day in 1939 (which posteriorly resulted in Romania losing Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, regions now part of Moldova and Ukraine and which had Romanian-majority communities). Liberation Day is still commemorated in its original form among the civilian population, and even in neighboring Moldova, where it is referred to as the Day of the Liberation of Moldova from Fascist Occupation.