Moldovan Central Election Commission Chairperson Alina Rusu has called the Moldovan diaspora in foreign countries to use the mechanism of voter registration in advance before the parliamentary elections scheduled for February 24, 2019.

The pro-European Government of Moldova is again intending to sharpen relations with Russia by preparing to divorce the Electrical Energy Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States, President Igor Dodon stated in an interview with the “Politics Today” publication of Moscow.

The package of draft laws related to the legal status of the Gagauzia autonomy will not be considered by the incumbent outgoing Parliament of Moldova, deputies from the majority coalition told an Infotag correspondent.

Alexandru Slusari, Deputy Chairman of the political party called Platform “Demnitate si Adevar” [DA, “Dignity and Justice”], has strongly criticized the Government’s unexpected intention to announce 9 calendar days at the end of August as a no-work period. Though, he wrote in the Facebook, over the 27 years of Moldova’s independence, a specific practice has formed here of announcing days-off in the period of August 27-31.

The much-advertized package of laws on the so-called capital amnesty, approved by the Moldovan Parliament on the last days of its Spring-Summer Session in late July, is not a reform – it is obvious money laundering, believes Alexei Tulbure, Moldova’s former Permanent Representative at the Council of Europe and the United Nations, incumbent Director of the Institute of Oral History of Moldova.

The Republic of Moldova will open its Embassy in India in 2019, announced Moldova’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Tudor Ulianovschi who is paying his first working visit to that country.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has climbed up to the summit of the Holy Mount Athos (Greece) and presented an icon to the local skete – an isolated hermit community situated there – from behalf of Moldovan Orthodox Christians, the head of state and other delegation members wrote in the social networks.

Andrei Nastase, Chairman of the political party called Platform “Demnitate si Adevar” [DA, “Dignity and Justice”], has addressed to the Prosecutor General's Office with a demand to initiate proceedings against President Igor Dodon on the basis of Article 330/2 of the Criminal Code “Illicit Enrichment”.

The West as a whole has supported until now and will be further supporting the incumbent authorities in Moldova, “and the European Union and the United States are simply playing the roles of a bad and a good cop”, believes economist Vladimir Golovatiuc, Soc., a Member of the parliamentary Standing Committee for Economy, Budget and Finance.

Several hundred pensioners gathered on Monday before the Orhei Primaria [city government] “to defend it from the supporters of Maya Sandu [Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) leader] and Andrei Nastase [DA Platform leader]”. The elderly were met before the City Hall by the head of the Orhei administration Regina Apostolova and Deputy Chairperson of the Ilan Shor Party Marina Tauber.

Several dozen persons in Moldova gathered for an action of solidarity with protesters in Romania.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has accused the incumbent pro-European authorities of Moldova of bringing the country to the brink of extreme poverty over the 9 years of their governance.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has promulgated the package of Laws on budget/fiscal policy and on capital amnesty that are being strongly criticized by the opposition, the civil society and Moldova’s development partners. He has presented a detailed argumentation of that step.

Liberal Party Chairman MP Mihai Ghimpu has today congratulated his beloved nephew and LP First Deputy Chairperson, ex-Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca on the occasion of his 40th birthday anniversary.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has refused to promulgate the Parliament-approved Law on giving the former National Stadium’s land plot for the construction of a new American Embassy complex.

Andrei Nastase, Chairman of the political party called Platform “Demnitate si Adevar” [DA, “Dignity and Justice”], has sent an open letter to the mayors of all Moldovan populated areas with an appeal to “join the pro-European opposition for saving Moldova”.

The Russian Federation’s new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Moldova, Oleg Vasnetsov, presented his credentials to Moldovan President Igor Dodon on Wednesday.

Moldovan Parliament Chairman Andrian Candu has voiced hope for a soon-to-be introduction of an essential amendment to the Constitution to stipulate that European integration is the strategic course of the Republic of Moldova’s development.

The United States Embassy in Chisinau did not confirm President Igor Dodon’s coverage of the meeting he held with the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Moldova, James D. Pettit, on Tuesday. The information on the meeting appeared on Tuesday evening on the Embassy’s page in the social networks.

The incumbent Moldovan authorities, controlled by Vlad Plahotniuc [chairman of the ruling Democratic Party], are converting Moldova into kind of an offshore zone and a laundry for money having very dubious origins, believes Alexandru Slusari, Deputy Chairman of the political party called Platform “Demnitate si Adevar” [DA, “Dignity and Justice”].