Andrei Nastase, Chairman of the political party called Platform "Demnitate si Adevar" [DA, "Dignity and Justice"], has been sentenced by the Moldovan authorities to isolation from the forthcoming parliamentary election and may be even to non-participation in the next summer's Chisinau mayoral election, presumes Renato Usatii, leader of the strongly opposition Partidul Nostru [Our Party, OP] and the Mayor of Balti until February 2018, who has been hiding in Moscow since August 2016 from what he calls "the Plahotniuc justice in Moldova".

"Commitments to Moldova" is the name of the document adopted last Sunday at the massive manifestation organized by the ruling Democratic Party in the country's central Great National Assembly Square. The organizers called their undertaking a "National Assembly of the Democratic Party" and announced afterwards that it had been attended by 100 thousand people.

The ruling Democratic Party of Moldova is intending to convert its concept "Pro-Moldova" into a state doctrine of country development, the DP leader and 'executive coordinator' of the ruling coalition in Moldova, Vlad Plahotniuc, stated from the tribune of the "National Assembly of the Democratic Party" held in the Great National Assembly Square in Chisinau last Sunday.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has shortened the program of his visit to Moldova, planned for next week, to two days.

Several thousands of people from different Gagauzia localities gathered in the main square of Comrat to welcome President of Turkey Recep Erdogan on Thursday. The rally was organized by the region's authorities.

The draft constitutional amendment on including Euro-integration into the Main Law as the nation’s main development vector has failed to receive enough votes in the Moldovan Parliament on Thursday. The amendment received only 54 ballots in the 101-member forum, whereas constitutional amendments require minimum two-thirds of MPs i.e. 67-of-101.

President Igor Dodon commented on the initiative of Speaker of the Parliament Andrian Candu to organize a referendum on Moldova’s European integration. He wrote on his Facebook page that in case of conducting such a plebiscite, the answer will be negative.

Russia is not going to render whatever backing to any runner at the forthcoming parliamentary election in Moldova, Maria Zaharova, Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated at her online news conference on Tuesday.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has proposed to hold an all-Orthodox assembly in Chisinau to discuss the new situation in the Orthodox Church. He wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday that the conflict that broke out between the Constantinople Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church "is perhaps one of the acutest questions in the entire history of Orthodoxy".

The opposition parliamentary Party of Socialists has decided to hold a large-scale action of protest in Chisinau on November 18.

The introduction into the Moldovan Constitution of the amendment on the country's course for European integration will make this course irreversible, believes Moldovan Parliament Chairman Andrian Candu.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon is attending the 17th Summit of the International Francophonie Organization [OIF, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie] in Yerevan (Armenia).

The Party of Action and Solidarity will address to the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure with the demand to present detailed information about the privatization of the state airlines Air Moldova.

Liberal MP Lilian Carp has demanded from the Prosecutor General's Office to carry out an investigation to establish if Moldova's Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Affairs Iurie Leanca is paying for the higher education of his son in Great Britain in accordance with the law. The parliamentarian's inquiry letter, sent to the Prosecutor General, was published in the social networks on Wednesday.

The European Parliament Standing Committee for Foreign Policy is seriously concerned about the situation developing in Moldova.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon will not support the ruling Democratic Party's initiative on fixing the Euro-integration initiative in the Constitution as the nation's strategic development objective.

In the course of his forthcoming official visit to the Republic of Moldova scheduled for October 17-18, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan will inter alia make a voyage to the southern Moldovan autonomous region of Gagauzia.

A Moldovan parliamentary delegation led by Marian Lupu of the ruling Democratic Party are taking part in the Autumn Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that has opened in Strasbourg on Monday.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has called on his supporters to get mobilized and be ready for mass-scale actions of protest.

Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova will be promoting in the United Nations their draft Resolution on the settlement of protracted conflicts, the 4 Prime Ministers have decided at the Conference of the Heads of Government of the countries forming the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development GUAM that was held in Chisinau on Friday.