Activists of the NGO “Women and Future” demand the reinstatement of the 69-year-old pediatric surgeon-urologist, Chisinau Valentin Ignatenco Children Hospital director, Nicolae Starciuc.

On July 11-13, 2013, the Federation of Basarabian Associations from Romania is organizing the 4th Fair of Romanian Universities.

Three Communists from the so-called ‘Tkachuk group’ [ex-MP Mark Tkachuk, MP Grigore Petrenco and MP Iurie Muntean] have demanded convocation of an extraordinary congress of the Moldovan Communist Party (MCP) and election of a new party leadership, Grigore Petrenco announced at a press briefing in Infotag on Wednesday.

Roman Malinovsky, Director of the Accent-TV channel, regards as “absolutely unlawful and made to order” the decision by Judge Galina Moscalciuc of the Sectorul Buiucani Court of Chisinau to fine the company 130,000 lei in favor of Ruslan Popa, Chairman of the just registered Communist Reformist Party (PCR).

Marchel, the Bishop of Balti and Falesti, has resolutely dispelled accusations being put forward against him by prosecutors that he had allegedly exceeded his duties and instigated citizens to hatred and ethnic, racial and religious strife.

On Friday, the German Charity Association Pro-Humanitate warned that if somebody interferes in their activities, the association will suspend the implementation of its human projects in Moldova.

The traditional Orthodox values of the Moldovan people and the Church are being replaced in the country with the dictatorship of homosexuality with the connivance of the incumbent pro-Europe authorities, maintains Marchel, the Bishop of Balti and Falesti.

Profiled experts and political scientists believe that the Ukrainian scenario of the development of events cannot repeat in Moldova before and after the June 27 signature of the republic’s Association Agreement with the European Union. This opinion was shared by most of the specialists, who took part in the roundtable conference, “The Association Agreement with the European Union: Advantages for Moldova and the Price to be Paid for Them”, which was organized by the American Institute in Ukraine (AIU) in the news agency Infotag on Thursday.

Renato Usatii, the leader of the Partidul Nostru [Our Party], maintains that the actions by Minister of Justice Oleg Efrim, “who has personally ordered to deny registration to the new party”, are but an outrageous violation of the Moldovan legislation – “an overt lawlessness, which will trigger an analogous lawlessness” from behalf of the emerging new organization.

On Tuesday, small business representatives resume protests in front of the parliament, requiring legislators work permit on patents.

The just resigned member of the Moldovan Parliament, Mark Tkachuk, a member of the Political Bureau of the MCP Central Committee reputed as the party’s chief ideologist, stated at a news conference at Infotag today that he can indeed be expelled from the Communist Party, but nobody can stop him being a communist.

The Institute for Women’s Rights presented on Tuesday the project “We Will Stop Child Abuse Together!”, financed by the Ukrainian Women’s Fund. The project is designed for six months and will include all the Moldovan localities.

Vitalii Shishkin, an activist of the Party “The Right are for European Development” of Russia, has characterized the current situation in Russia in the sphere of citizens’ right to expression as “the Putin regime’s war against the mass media”.

Federalization is the only means for Moldova to avoid a breakup and disappearance as an independent state. Such opinion was expressed at a news conference at Infotag today by many participants in the international conference “A Federative State: International Experience and Moldova’s Perspectives” that has just ended in Chisinau.

Moldovan farmers’ associations urge farmers to participate in the protest action in the Chisinau Central Square, on Monday at 11:00, to express dissatisfaction with the Government agricultural policy.