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PLUGARU, PETRACHE WARNING AGAINST DICTATORSHIP OF MINORITY

11.03.2010Lawyers Anatol Plugaru [Moldova’s Minister of State Security in 1991-1992] and Mihai Petrache [ex-Chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova] presume that after the downfall of the Communist dictatorship in July 2009, Moldova seems to be entering a new trend – consolidation of the dictatorship of a minority. That’s how the two free-lance lawyers perceive the yesterday’s decision of the governing Alliance for European Integration leaders to organize a national referendum on adopting a new Constitution.

ROMA PEOPLE COMPLAINING OF DISCRIMINATION

10.03.2010The Roma of Moldova claim that their rights are restricted, that they are subjected to discrimination, and that the program for the support of gypsies, adopted by the previous Communist leadership, does not work.

TRANSNISTRIA VETERANS CALLING TO MERGER

10.03.2010A group of participants in the 1992 Transnistrian armed conflict have called upon the veterans of all wars living in Moldova to get united into one strong organization.

WOMEN DEMANDING MORE ATTENTION

09.03.2010The Forum of Women’s Organizations, the 50/50 Political Women’s Club, and the Gender Centru organization have stood up with an appeal to the Moldovan authorities and civil society to treat women with a greater attention and care.

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USAID Helps to Bridge the IT Networking Skills Gap in Moldova

12.02.2010The accomplishments of the Cisco Networking Academy Program in Moldova were celebrated at a national conference, “Cisco Networking Academy Program – a Successful Model for Educating ICT Skills,” held on February 11 at 15:00 p.m. in the Raut Room of the Leogrand Convention Center in Chisinau.

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DIRK SCHUEBEL: OUR TASK IS TO BRING MOLDOVA TO THE DOORSTEP OF THE EU

09.03.2010Exclusive interview given to the Infotag news agency by the head of the EU delegation to Moldova, Dirk Schuebel.

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COMPROMISE WITH SMIRNOV IS IMPOSSIBLE – POPOV

11.03.2010Any compromise with Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov is impossible, Moldovan Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Andrei Popov presumes.

MoET HAS RECEIVED NO LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL FROM PATENT HOLDERS

30.06.2009

Chisinau. Business people, who act on the patent basis in the small business sphere, have not made any proposal on amending the legislation in this field, the last press release of the ministry says.

The ministry underscores the fact that a number of organizations under the disguise of defending the interests of patent holders and small businesses have put forward deliberately or not demands on amending the legislation only now during the period of the election campaign, when the legislative organ does not function.

The ministry would like to recall that in the first-half of 2008 together with patent holders from all the raions it worked out amendments to the Law on Business Patent of 1998, which envisaged the termination of all patent-based activities. As a result, on the basis of the patent holders’ proposals the Law, regulating patent-based business activities and the decision on the prolongation of the patent-based trade until 2017 were approved.

According to the data by the National Tax Inspectorate, as of June 1, 2008, 18.5 thousand people acted in Moldova on the business patent basis; as of June 1, their number constituted – 17.5 thousand. For five months of 2009 they transferred 11.4 million and 14.7 respectively to the state budget that accounted for 0.39% and 0.57% of the budget revenues.

As Infotag has already reported, the Association of Small Business of Moldova (ASBM) said on the eve that it will stage protest actions, if the Government does not support the small business by reducing considerably the taxes and dues on the patent-based activities. It remarked that the crisis exerts a destructive influence upon patent holders. Instead of encouraging small business enterprises the Government carries on mass inspections and raids, which usually result in extremely high penalties and the confiscation of goods in companies, at markets and routes. It aggravates the situation in the small business sphere. The association recommended the Government to expand the range of patent-based activities, to reduce dues and taxes, including the VAT.