Nearly 3 hundred members of the Democratic Party have announced their decision to quit the organization. On their behalf, a group of ex-members organized a news conference in Infotag today to clarify their position.

The Moldavian Airlines company will file a suit against Minister of Transport and Road Infrastructure Anatol Salaru and will demand a €1.5 million damage, if it does not get the right to operate charter flights Chisinau-Antalya within the 2011 summer vacation period.

The St. George Ribbon campaign dedicated to the USSR’s victory in the Great Patriotic War [June 22. 1941-May 9, 1945] was launched near the Triumphal Arch in downtown Chisinau on Monday.

School administrations in Moldova widely use pressure on pupils’ psychics and a whole system of victimization of schoolchildren. Such is the conclusion made by the Amnesty International Moldova and the Hyde Park Association upon the implementation of their Courage School project.

The Forta Noua [New Force] Movement, the Moldova Unita – Edinaya Moldova Party (MUEM) and the People’s Republican Party (PRP) have announced their forming a voting bloc to be entitled “The Third Power” for the approaching June 5 local elections.

A group of notaries, who passed examinations on filling notary vacancies in December 2010, has demanded the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to provide them with respective licenses.

The Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement has nominated its Chairman Valery Klimenko as its candidate for Chisinau Mayor, Igor Tulyantsev, the leader of the Russian Youth League of Moldova, announced at a news conference in Infotag today.

Deputy of the Moldovan Communist Party (MCP) faction, former Deputy Premier and Minister of Economy and Trade Igor Dodon has launched the “I love Moldova” campaign.

The Balti city organization of the Moldova Noastra Alliance has announced its decision to accede to the Democratic Party.

The Pacifism without Borders international association of Moldova stands resolutely against the Minister of Defense Vitalie Marinuta’s idea to send the Moldovan military to Afghanistan and Libya.

The Eco-Tiras International Environmental Association of Dniester River Keepers has said that it stands against the Novo-Dniestrovsky hydropower plant (HPP) expansion, and demanded Moldovan authorities to re-consider the draft memorandum of its operations with Ukraine.

The Roma people residing permanently in Moldova are its citizens having same rights and duties as the rest population, and they want to make their weighty contribution to country development, Robert Cerari, Chairman of the Voice of the Roma Coalition, stated at a news conference in Infotag on Tuesday.

The Stefan Voda raion organization of the Moldova Noastra Alliance has joined the Democratic Party, organization’s chairman Anatol Zavalisca announced at a news conference in Infotag today.

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial discrimination (CERD) is recommending the Moldovan authorities to ensure a proportional representation of national minorities in the system of state executive and judiciary powers, Valery Klimenko, Chairman of the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement, stated at a news conference in Infotag today.

On April 4-8, the ClassFest international festival of drama schools will be held in Chisinau for the first time. The festival was organized by the Academy of Music, Theater and Visual Arts under the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Youth and Sports, as well as the Mihai Eminescu Romanian culture institute in Chisinau.