Demir Dragnev (born 27 July 1936) is a historian from the Republic of Moldova.

Demir Dragnev was born on 27 July 1936 in Cureşniţa. He is a member of the Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova.^[1]

• Premiul de Stat,
• Ordinul „Gloria Muncii”,
• Medal Academy of Sciences of Moldova „D. Cantemir”.
• Honorary citizenship of the Moldovan town of Soroca^[2]

• Lista membrilor Academiei de Ştiinţe a Moldovei
• (in Romanian) Preşedintele interimar al Republicii Moldova Mihai Ghimpu a emis un decret prezidenţial privind constituirea Comisiei pentru studierea şi aprecierea regimului comunist totalitar din Republica Moldova.
• Moldovan authorities going to condemn communist regime…
• Hundreds of thousands of cases to be examined by commission for combating Communism Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
• http://www.privesc.eu/?p=1884 - The first press conference of the Commission, Moldpress, 18 January 2010. Video.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100309165120/http://www.timpul.md/article/2010/01/18/5881 - interview with Gheorghe Cojocaru, president of the Commission.
• (in Romanian) Vladimir Tismăneanu, Un moment istoric: Comisia de studiere a comunismului
• Site-ul Parlamentului Republicii Moldova