Chisinau. Centralized heating in the Moldovan capital city can be reduced by 40-60% from the current breathtaking figure of some 650 million lei paid every winter season, experts from the Moldovan Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Resources (CEERR) said.

Chisinau. Dr. Ion Arteni, the winner of the last year’s official contest for the right to head the Chisinau Municipal Health Department, is preparing to lodge with the European Court of Human Rights a complaint against Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca.

Chisinau. The amendments, made by the Ministry of Justice to the Law on Advocacy do not contain any corruption elements and facilitate the reform and consolidation of the advocacy system in Moldova, experts of the Center for the Corruption Analysis and Prevention consider.

Chisinau. The Demnitate trade union of the police, the military, firefighters, officers of the State Guard Service, of the Center for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption and other law enforcement structures has been restored in Moldova. The union used to exist in the 1990s, but 10 years ago it was dissolved.

Chisinau. The sexual exploitation remained in 2009 the main form of the exploitation of the women, who were taken abroad. Such is the main conclusion of the campaign on attracting the public attention to their situation “The susceptibility of migrants to exploitation and traffic, which was carried out at the La Strada International Center from June to December 2009.

Chisinau. Nicolae Ciornii, Vice-President of LUKoil, one of the mightiest Russian oil empires, has announced he is leaving the company for the sake of becoming an active politician in Moldova.

Chisinau. Protoiereus Anatol Cibric, whom the Chisinau Jewish Community accused of organizing the anti-Semitic act of vandalism, maintains it is the Chisinau Primaria [city government] that is responsible for the scandal.

Chisinau. The Chisinau Jewish Community and the Jewish Congress of Moldova are waiting for official reaction of the Metropolitan See of Moldova to the act of vandalism that took place in the heart of Chisinau last Sunday.

Chisinau. The general situation in Moldovan correctional institutions – in what regards tortures, food, treatment of inmates – has improved last 6 months or so, believes Tudor Ciorap, a Transnistrian armed conflict veteran, who was released from jail recently.

Chisinau. Shareholders Vila Veche (31 August Street 1989) deny Pro Europa Director Boris Asarov’s allegations that the owner of the complex is Vice-Director of the Information and Security Service Mihai Bodean.

Chisinau. One of Moldova’s prominent-most journalists and publishers, Dmitry Chubashenko, is preparing to launch what he believes will be “the best Russian-language newspaper in the Republic of Moldova”.

Chisinau. The Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party of Moldova have concluded an agreement on unification. The document was signed on Friday by DP Chairman Marian Lupu and Chairman of the SDPM National Council Iurie Bolboceanu.

Chisinau. The Acord trio intends to struggle for the right to present Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, Representative of this group Igor Sirbu said at a news conference in Infotag on Friday.

Chisinau. At least during seven years a number of swindling schemes, which inflict damage not only on citizens, but also on the state budget were practiced in the institute, Director of the National Institute for Metrology and Standardization Igor Caldare said.

Chisinau. The April 7 provocative attacks and pogroms in the main state institution buildings – Parliament and presidential office – were organized by Information and Security Service (ISS) officers and were carried out under their control and concrete guidance. The officers thus fulfilled what they had been ordered to by the country’s former Communist leadership, presumes Pro Europa Association Chairman Boris Asarov.