The Republic of Kazakhstan has opened an honorary consulate in Balti. As the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Republic of Moldova informed the agency “INFOTAG”, the main priorities of work of the honorary consulate will be the support of the citizens of Kazakhstan, as well as the strengthening of trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian ties between the two countries.

Following priests from various dioceses, and Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and All Moldova made a pilgrimage to Russia. This was reported by the website of the Moscow Patriarchate patriarhia.ru. The website of the Metropolis of Moldova does not report anything about the trip, which took place last weekend. Other members of the Synod of the Orthodox Church of Moldova, part of the Moscow Patriarchate, also participated.

A group of 11 Moldovan citizens, mostly minors, has been successfully evacuated from Lebanon. The Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said the evacuation was organized with the support of Ukraine and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), INFOTAG reports.

“The government will pay compensations to the population during the cold season, but the order of payment has not been determined yet,” announced Minister of Labor and Social Protection Alexei Buzu.

Modern equipment worth 285 thousand euros has been purchased for the Institute of Mother and Child in Chisinau on the funds of the Government of Japan and with the support of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Independent presidential candidate Andrei Nastase on Tuesday held a flash mob outside the Prosecutor General's Office under the slogan “Where are the billions?”. As INFOTAG reports, the flash mob gathered about ten supporters of Năstase under the slogans “PAS = bankruptcy”, “Pocket Prosecutor's Office” and so on.

The leader of the Party of Socialists (PSRM), former President of the Republic of Moldova, Igor Dodon, congratulated the leadership and people of China on the 75th anniversary of the proclamation of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

A team of young people from Moldova won two gold medals at the international robotics competition The 2024 FIRST Global Challenge held in Athens, Greece. As a result, the Moldovan team became the world champion in robotics along with teams from China, Madagascar and Cook Islands.

Employees of the State Labor Inspectorate (SLI) have been provided with 30 body cameras. They were purchased through the mediation of the International Labor Organization with funds from the European Union

The Czech government has provided Moldovan rescuers with special means for work on water for the sum of 280 thousand euros. The ceremony of equipment transfer took place at the General Inspectorate of Border Police. It was attended by Interior Minister Adrian Efros, the leadership of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (GES), Czech Ambassador to Moldova Jaromir Plisek.

Four localities from Nisporeni district will receive grants to improve waste management services. The grants totaling approximately 750,000 dollars will be provided by the U.S. government through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) My Community program implemented by IREX.

The Information and Security Service (SIS) has demanded to block several more Russian websites. According to INFOTAG, the SIS said it had ordered the blocking of “six Russian news portals and one anti-European propaganda portal in Moldova.”

Driver's licenses issued after 2020 will be mutually recognized in Moldova and France. The government on Wednesday approved an agreement on mutual recognition of driving licenses, signed in Paris on July 12, 2024.

The police are running a campaign to make electric scooters safer.

Moldovan Foreign Minister Mihai Popşoi said that Moldova will open an honorary consulate in Egypt. According to INFOTAG, he said he had agreed on this with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatti, with whom he met on the margins of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.

The number of optimists regarding the state of affairs in Moldova for the first time slightly exceeded the number of pessimists, according to the data of a sociological survey conducted and presented on Monday by iData company.

Protesting farmers who on Thursday held protests in front of the Parliament and the Presidential Administration refused President Maia Sandu's invitation to hold a meeting on September 25. According to the INFOTAG news agency, several dozen protesters said they had no time to wait and demanded an immediate meeting with the head of state.
During the protest, they were approached by the head of the president's cabinet, Adrian Balutel, who invited the farmers to a meeting with Maia Sandu on Wednesday, September 25, at 9:00.

The government on Wednesday approved draft amendments to the Contravention Code designed to “ensure the safety of road traffic and increase the responsibility of drivers.”

Prime Minister Dorin Recean has instructed the Environment Ministry, together with the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, to check the condition of the republic's reservoirs and dams against the background of the past heavy rains that led to floods. Recean said this at the beginning of a government meeting on Wednesday, INFOTAG reports.

Members of the initiative “Citizens for Europe” have debunked the myth that Moldova's integration into the European Union means abandoning Christianity. This was the subject of a press conference held by members of the citizens' initiative on Tuesday.