Co-Chairpersons of the ACUM election bloc Andrei Nastase and Maia Sandu presented the results of medical tests that confirm the presence of high level of mercury in their blood.

Moldova should not dream about a full membership in the European Union, for sure not even in a long-term perspective, maintains Doctor in Politics, Associate Professor of the State Institute for International Relations of Moldova (IRIM) Sergiu Nazaria.

Harlem Desir, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has expressed regret that the film crews of two central Russian television channels were denied entry to Moldova on February 18 and 19. The journalists had to fly back home on the same day.

Moldova President Igor Dodon has called on his supporters to be ready for massive actions of protest and for resistance to the incumbent authorities.

President Igor Dodon wrote on his Facebook page that he received several icons and five small lambs as gifts on his birthday on February 28.

In the framework of the Romania2019.eu forum, the Moldovan and Romanian customs authorities have signed a partnership agreement on the rehabilitation and modernization of three checkpoints: Sculeni-Sculeni, Leuseni-Albita and Giurgiulesti-Galat.

On his 44th birthday on Monday, Moldova President Igor Dodon flew from Moscow to Chisinau so as "to receive congratulations on Monday afternoon". Dodon made a stop in the Russian capital on his way home from the Munich Security Conference.

The Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration has expressed its deep concern about the conditions of accommodation and medical treatment of Moldovan helicopter pilots Lionel Buruiana and Mihai Crihan who were released from captivity in Afghanistan on February 9.

Co-Chairwoman of the ACUM election bloc Maia Sandu connected the deleting of Facebook pages with the illegal activity of the Democratic Party, demanding that the DP to be excluded from the election race.

Women running for the parliamentary elections on February 24 have less airtime on Moldovan TV channels than their male counterparts, states the report on the monitoring of 10 TV channels during the election campaign, prepared by the Center "Partnership for Development".

The situation around the Moldovan helicopter pilots, liberated from captivity in Afghanistan last Saturday and remaining in Moscow since last Monday, will be discussed at the next week’s meeting of the Supreme Security Council of Moldova, President Igor Dodon stated during his meeting with citizens in the Stefan Voda Raion.

The voting bloc ACUM [uniting two Right-wing opposition organizations – the DA Platform and the Party of Action and Solidarity, PAS] has accused the ruling Democratic Party of waging a large-scale “information warfare”, and is preparing to officially demand de-registration of DP as an election contestant.

In case of winning a victory in the forthcoming parliamentary election, the Party of Socialists (PSRM) "is firmly intending to put an end to the social genocide being perpetrated by the incumbent Democratic authorities of Moldova", PSRM candidate for parliament Vladimir Golovatiuc, D. Econ., stated at a news conference on Thursday.

Moldova’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia, Andrei Neguta, has been recalled to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration for consultations. He arrived to Chisinau from Moscow on Wednesday night, and already on Thursday morning the diplomat was received by President Igor Dodon.

On Thursday, voting bloc ACUM supporters protested before the Central Election Commission building, demanding to permit citizens to vote with expired documents [foreign-travel passports and domestic-use identity cards – Buletin de Identitate].

On Wednesday, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Moldova, Oleg Vasnetsov, was invited to the Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration where a Note of Protest was handed in to him saying that Moldovan diplomats in Moscow would not be permitted to meet with the two Moldovan helicopter pilots released from captivity in Afghanistan yet last Saturday and delivered to Moscow on February 11.

President Igor Dodon wrote on his Facebook page about his meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Peter Szijjarto.

On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Embassy to Moldova has refuted information about an alleged visit of President Petro Poroshenko to Chisinau. The Embassy press service said that such a visit is not being planned.

On Monday, a delegation from the Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, together with medical specialists, urgently flew to Moscow to collect the two Moldovan helicopter pilots released from Taliban captivity in Afghanistan last Saturday, Renato Usatii, leader of the strongly opposition Partidul Nostru [Our Party, OP], announced via the Facebook.

Two Moldovan pilots, who had stayed in captivity in Afghanistan for nearly three and a half years, were happily released last Saturday, Moldova President Igor Dodon announced at a press briefing in Chisinau on Monday.