Chisinau. Independent experts in Moldova are highlighting the continuing aggravation of the political situation in Transnistria caused by an accelerating struggle for power.

Chisinau. Director of the National Institute for Standardization and Metrology (NISM) Igor Caldare considers as ungrounded a decision by Center for Combating Economic Crime and Corruption to institute a criminal suit against him.

Chisinau. The Law on Political Parties was amended in the interests of primarily the Moldova Unită party, maintains independent lawyer Mihai Corj.

Chisinau. The Moldovan Parliament ought to be dissolved, and an early parliamentary election ought to be announced, otherwise prerequisites for state power usurping may appear in Moldova, believes Ion Mereuta, Chairman of the Party of the Humanists of Moldova.

Chisinau. Italian investor Carlo Pennese, who came to Moldova a year ago, has not been able to open his business in Moldova because of bureaucracy and corrupted officials.

Chisinau. A group of Orthodox Christians of Moldova has accused the Moldovan authorities of pursuing the anti-Christian policy.

Chisinau. Mr. Ruslan Popa, leader of the initiative group creating a new party to be called “Congress of the Peoples of Moldova”, presumes that the incumbent liberal-democratic authorities are actually doing everything the Communist Party needs to come back into power.

Chisinau. The Audiovisual Coordinating Council (ACC) has stood up with accusations against Moldovan judiciary institutions, “who interfere into our activities”.

Chisinau. The Alga Association for stray animals protection has resolutely condemned the Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca’s decision to embark on annihilating stray dogs in the capital city. Alga is proposing another way out of the really serious dog problem – to create asylums for such animals.

Chisinau. The four parliamentarians that quitted the Communist faction recently – Vladimir Turcan, Victor Stepaniuc, Ludmila Belchenkova and Valentin Guznac – have lodged with the Parliament’s Permanent Bureau their own legislative initiative on amending the existing president election procedure.

Chisinau. Independent political scientist Eduard Volkov presumes that what Moldova has been suffering last several months is not a constitutional crisis, but a deep political crisis. To overcome it, he has worked out an algorithm.

Chisinau. Chairman of “My Moldova” citizens’ association Fedor Ghelici is urging the Parliament to legitimize radical measures to combat corruption – through toughening certain provisions in the Criminal Code.

Chisinau. The My Moldova public organization has proposed to set up a Public Congress on the interaction between citizens, state institutions and local authorities.

Chisinau. The Movement of Transnistrian Refugees expresses gratitude to the Chisinau authorities for granting 17 apartments to the invalids of the Transnistrian conflict and to policemen of the Fulger special police squad.

Chisinau. The Priznanie (Recognition) Russian fund, which declared itself in Moldova in autumn 2009, is ready to render financial support to humanitarian projects in Moldova.