Chisinau. The incumbent authorities must take the burden of repaying the grown utility rates, and must first and foremost offer a helping hand to invalids, war veterans, pensioners, and large families, presumes the Chairman of the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement, Valery Klimenko, a Chisinau Municipal Council member.

Chisinau. The Movement of Transnistrian Refugees (MTR) intends to picket the Parliament, the Government and the City Hall on the day of Romanian President’s arrival to Chisinau on January 27 for his official visit.

Chisinau. Professor Ion Mereuta, Chairman of the Party of the Humanists, organized a news conference in Infotag today to present a copy of File #11756b R-2948 – Declaration of the Independence of the Republic of Moldova. The original of the priceless document vanished from the Parliament last April 7, when the building was subjected to a pogrom, fire and plundering in the course of the memorable post-electoral protesting riot.

Chisinau. The Movement of Transnistrian Refugees (MTR) is indignant at the Chisinau municipality for the reason that it did not give apartments, which it had promised to give, to Transnistria refugees, who are in need of improving their living conditions, in a block of apartments in the Milescu-Spataru Street 21/5.

Chisinau. The Viitorul Trade Union of Education Employees has accused the Government of haveing deveived teachers by means of having changed the Law on Labor Remuneration.

Chisinau. Democratic Party Chairman Marian Lupu enjoys the highest trust of the Moldovan population, according to the opinion poll organized recently by the Moldovan Association of Sociologists and Demographers.

Chisinau. The Institute for Human Rights in Moldova (IDOM) presumes the Supreme Magistracy Chamber uses double standards at assessing the judges’ correctness at treating the cases of post-election protesters of April 2009.

Chisinau. The staff of Moldatsa, a state-run enterprise for air traffic servicing and air space using, have expressed indignation about the judgment made by the Supreme Court of Justice last September 1, by which enterprise director Valerian Vartic was sentenced to 5 years on probation and, essentially, was prohibited to hold managerial positions.

Chisinau. The four former members of the parliamentary Communist faction – MPs Vladimir Turcan, Victor Stepaniuc, Valentin Guznac and Ludmila Belchenkova – have announced they are forming a new Left political party as an alternative to the Moldovan Communist Party (MCP).

Chisinau. The Bill on the Chief Commission on Ethics, its structure and working methods, worked out by the Ministry of Justice is in need of reworking, experts of the Center for Analyzing and Combating Corruption (CACC), who made an expertise, consider.

Chisinau. A big group of Moldova Noastra Alliance members, led by Chairman of the parliamentary MNA faction, Veaceslav Untila, have requested the Ministry of Justice to permit the holding of an extraordinary, repeat MNA congress.

Chisinau. The Business Development Center, which has been recently opened in Chisinau, proposes ideas for the development of individual enterprises even under the conditions of the economic crisis.

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.