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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.

MoE TO WORK OUT PROGRAM FOR REORGANIZATION OF ENERGY SECTOR

03.02.2010

Chisinau. The Ministry of Economy will work out a program for the reorganization of the energy sector, in order to raise its efficiency and to improve its competitiveness and to solve the problem of arrears, Vice-Premier, Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar said at a sitting of the governmental commission on the improvement of the situation in the energy sector.

He remarked that the problems of the energy sector must be solved within 4-5 months, though the arrears of energy enterprise to Moldovagaz reach 2.3 billion lei.

Prime Minister Vlad Filat demanded from National Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE) to conduct the audit of the energy enterprises, to clear up the real situation and to determine measures for the withdrawal out of the crisis.

“The complete analysis of the energy sector must be carried out not only in respect of the tariffs, but also of functional problems”, he underlined.

Union Fenosa Director for Moldova Silvia Radu informed that the contract with the Energocom company, which provides the purchase of energy from the Moldovan Regional Power Station, expires in March and in accordance with the Law on the Market Liberalization UF intends to select the most profitable supplier and to conclude a contract with this company.

As Infotag has already reported, Moldova produces one third of the consumed energy. Until the present Energocom has the monopoly right for the imports and exports of electric power. Before 2009 it acquired the remaining volume of energy from Ukraine and from 2009 – from the Moldovan Regional Power Station, which belongs to the Inter RAO EES Russian company. The contract with this company expires at the end of March. After this large energy consumers have the right to select energy suppliers themselves.