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Представители Либеральной партии пикетировали резиденцию президента Молдовы, требуя отставки министра внутренних дел

08.10.2008Chisinau. Moldovan lawyers are maintaining that the ruling Communist Party, by using the General Prosecutor's Office and power structures, would not stop its attempts to paralyze the legitimate and correct execution of lawyers’ professional duties.

LIBERALS CLAIM THEY WERE PROVOKED INTO ETHNIC STRIFE

07.10.2008Chisinau. The Liberal Party has claimed it had come across provocations aimed at pushing the Liberals into an ethnic unrest during the car caravan they had organized last Sunday in support of Russian troop withdrawal from Transnistria.

VADUL-LUI-WOODSTOCK-2008 MUSICAL FESTIVAL TO ATTRACT RECORD-BREAKING NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS

07.10.2008Chisinau. The third music festival for peace under the title of Vadul-lui-Woodstock-2008, which will take place on October 10-11, is expected to attract a record-breaking number of participants.

ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT PRESS LAUNCHES PROJECT ON MONITORING OF PUBLIC FUNDS SPENDING

07.10.2008Chisinau. The administrations of the Soroca, the Cimislia, the Rezina and the Ungheni raions will be subject to the one-year monitoring of the public funds using. It is envisaged by the “Demand the Report on Public Funds Spending” project, launched by the Association of the Independent Press (AIP) with financial support on the part of the Soros-Moldova Foundation.

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PRIZE FOR MUNICIPALITIES

26.09.2008The competition for the Dosta!-Congress Prize for Municipalities is now open. This second edition follows last year’s successful launch of the prize by the Dosta! campaign and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities as part of their ongoing work to strengthen the role of local authorities in the field of Roma and minority rights’ protection.

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IS BREAKTHROUGH LIKELY IN TRANSNISTRIAN CONFLICT SETTLEMENT?

23.09.2008Commentary by Anatol Golea, Infotag political observer. Part 2 of 2.

IS BREAKTHROUGH LIKELY IN TRANSNISTRIAN CONFLICT SETTLEMENT?

22.09.2008Commentary by Anatol Golea, Infotag political observer. Part 1 of 2

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MOLDOVA INCREASES WINE EXPORTS TO RUSSIA

07.10.2008Chisinau. Moldovan wineries increase their wine exports to Russia after receiving beforehand permissions from the RosPoterebNadzor.

SOCIETY TO CONTROL LIVING CONDITIONS IN PENITENTIARY INSTITUTIONS

03.07.2008

Chisinau. On Wednesday the Government approved a legislative initiative, envisaging that the public will control the observance of human rights in penitentiary institutions.

Ministry of Justice Vitalie Pirlog remarked that this is Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin’s initiative and it is in line with his discussions on this topic with European experts and local specialists.

Besides, recommendations by the Council of Europe Cabinet of Ministers concerning the monitoring of penitentiary institutions’ activities on the part of the state and the civil society contain a requirement to provide prisoners’ physical and psychological immunity.

Pirlog said that the civil control must be conducted by monitoring commissions, which will become permanent institutions without the juridical person status. The method for setting up these Commissions must be fixed by other amendments, to be made immediately after the approval of this Law in other normative acts, relating to human rights, in particular, prisoners’ rights.

The Commissions, composed from civil society representatives, must have a free access to penitentiary institutions of the Ministry of Justice and have the right to visit them, as well as other similar institutions, subordinated to the Ministry of Interior.