AUTHOR: Liviu BRĂTESCU THE ROMANIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS (1878-1888). TENSIONS, CONFLICTS AND RECONCILIATION Danubius, XXX- Supliment, Galati, 2012, pp. 111-130. Abstract This paper aims at analysing the way in which the Romanian political class related, between 1875 and 1878, to what may be called “the issue of South Bessarabia” (Cahul, Ismail and Bolgrad), restored to Moldova through the…