Chisinau. The European Court of Human Rights will examine the Ipteh case urgently, lawyer Janetta Hanganu told a news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. Brothers Adrian and Roman Mocanu, the sons of Sergiu Mocanu, former Adviser-at-Large to President Vladimir Voronin and presently the leader of the strongly oppositional Popular Action Movement, shall leave the Romanian Embassy premises only in case the Moldovan authorities provide firm guarantees that the young people will be interrogated at large, their dad stated at a news conference in Infotag.

Chisinau. Moldovan lawyers are maintaining that the ruling Communist Party, by using the General Prosecutor's Office and power structures, would not stop its attempts to paralyze the legitimate and correct execution of lawyers’ professional duties.

Chisinau. The third music festival for peace under the title of Vadul-lui-Woodstock-2008, which will take place on October 10-11, is expected to attract a record-breaking number of participants.

Chisinau. The administrations of the Soroca, the Cimislia, the Rezina and the Ungheni raions will be subject to the one-year monitoring of the public funds using. It is envisaged by the “Demand the Report on Public Funds Spending” project, launched by the Association of the Independent Press (AIP) with financial support on the part of the Soros-Moldova Foundation.

Chisinau. The Liberal Party has claimed it had come across provocations aimed at pushing the Liberals into an ethnic unrest during the car caravan they had organized last Sunday in support of Russian troop withdrawal from Transnistria.

Chisinau. Old people from 14 NGOs of Moldova demand to index pension sizes twice a year depending on the inflation and to gradually raise pensions up to minimum subsistence level. They put forward these claims at the “Age Calls for Actions” conference in the frame of the international campaign on the support of the third age people.

Chisinau. The just elected new Chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova (CUM), former Moldovan Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev stated at a news conference in Infotag that there exist forces in this republic that stand up against stability and higher living standards, and that “they are among the CUM’s main opponents”.

Chisinau. The oppositional Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (LDPM) has addressed the European Commission and European Parliament requesting their assistance to signing a convention on trans-border traffic between the Republic of Moldova and Romania.

Chisinau. Next Sunday, the Liberal Party (LP) will organize an information campaign entitled a “Caravan for Russian Troop Withdrawal from Moldova”.

Chisinau. The Chairman of the People’s Republican Party of Moldova, Nicolae Andronic, is going to challenge in court the petition the General Prosecutor's Office has sent to the Ministry of Justice demanding to dissolve the party.

Chisinau. The Moldova Unita Party leadership maintains the Moldovan authorities are putting every possible obstacle to the formation’s fruitful work.

Chisinau. The “New Moldova” citizens’ organization views the Republic of Moldova’s future in its would-be federative structure, and mainland Moldova, Transnistria and Gagauzia must eventually become the subjects of such future federative state, the organization’s leaders told a news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. The chairman of the My Moldova Association, Fiodor Ghelici, has sued the policemen who arrested him on July 1, 2008 during a protest action organized by auto transporters delivering international cargos.

Chisinau. A women’s auto sportive club, NANA, has been founded Moldova, the first women’s organization of such kind in this republic.