Reports
11.03.2010PLUGARU, PETRACHE WARNING AGAINST DICTATORSHIP OF MINORITY
Lawyers 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.
10.03.2010ROMA PEOPLE COMPLAINING OF DISCRIMINATION
The 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.
10.03.2010TRANSNISTRIA VETERANS CALLING TO MERGER
A 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.
09.03.2010WOMEN DEMANDING MORE ATTENTION
The 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.
04.03.2010HUMANISTS STAND FOR BROADER WOMEN’S RIGHTS
The Moldovan Humanist Party (MHP) stands for broadening women’s rights in the society and for promoting more women to high state posts.
04.03.2010KLIMENKO SUGGESTS SETTING UP ALTERNATIVE COMMISSION
Chisinau Municipal Council member and Chairman of the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement Valery Klimenko has stood up with an idea to create an “International Scientific Commission for Studying the Consequences of the Totalitarian, Dictatorial and Anti-Democratic Regimes in the Republic of Moldova Territory in the 20th Century”. He is convinced that such an international team, unlike the already working Commission for Assessment and Condemnation of the Totalitarian Communist Regime in Moldova, will necessarily produce objective results.
04.03.2010STAVILA REVEALS MUCH MORE VICTIMS OF SOVIET OCCUPATION OF MOLDOVA
Veaceslav Stavila, a member of the Commission for Assessment and Condemnation of the Totalitarian Communist Regime in Moldova, maintains the number of victims of the “Soviet occupation of Moldova” is substantially greater than what used to be announced and believed before.
03.03.2010PLUGARU, PETRACHE WARNING AGAINST USURPING OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER
The idea to start electing president in Moldova by 50% + 1 votes of parliamentarians [i.e. by 52-of-101 deputies in parliament] can easily lead to usurping the presidential power and to illegitimacy of the head of state, presume free-lance lawyers Anatol Plugaru [ex-minister of state security in 1991-1992] and Mihai Petrache [former chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova].
03.03.2010IDOM DEMANDS PUNISHMENT FOR JUDGE POPOVICI
The Institute for Human Rights in Moldova (IDOM) is demanding that the Supreme Magistracy Chamber’s Disciplinary College must objectively consider the so-called ‘case of judge Dorin Popovici’ of the Sectorul Buiucani Court of Chisinau.
02.03.2010CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS ARE RESOLUTELY PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE ELECTIONS
Should an early parliamentary election be held in Moldova before the end of 2010, the Christian Democratic Popular Party shall take part in it with a serious electoral program in hands, Genadie Vaculovschi of the CDPP leadership stated at a news conference in Infotag today.
01.03.2010DEMNITATE TRADE UNION PROPOSES TO SUSPEND ALL CRIMINAL SUITS CONNECTED WITH APRIL DISTURBANCES
Chairman of the Demnitate trade union Mihai Lascu proposes to suspend all the criminal suits, which are connected with the April 2009 disturbances, against policemen and other participants.
26.02.2010THREE MOLDOVANS MORE TO PRACTICE IN BUNDESTAG
Beginning from March 1, 2010, three Moldovan citizens more will pass training in German Bundestag in the frame of the International Parliamentary Scholarship program (IPS), which three representatives of Moldova pass yearly since 2008.
25.02.2010LAWYERS PLUGARU AND PETRACHE SUGGESTING FILAT TO PERFORM PRESIDENTIAL DUTIES
Anatol Plugaru [Moldova’s Minister of State Security in 1991-1992] and Mihai Petrache [ex-Chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova] have stood up with an idea that presidential functions should be entrusted to incumbent Prime Minister Vlad Filat.
24.02.2010SERGIU MOCANU SAYS HE IS STILL SUSPECTED OF ATTEMPTING A COUP AND HIS CASE IS STILL TREATED BY SAME PROSECUTOR
Sergiu Mocanu, the leader of the Popular Action Movement and former Adviser-at-Large to President Vladimir Voronin, has expressed indignation that the Prosecutor General's Office has not yet closed down the case against him, though yet in November 2009 the Ministry of Justice officially stated to international organizations that Mocanu’s arrest had been illegitimate.
