The Transparent Moldova Association accuses Valeriu Lazar, Deputy Premier and Minister of Economy of Moldova, of incompetence and corruption, demanding his resignation.

Mikhail Formuzal, the Bashkan of the southern Moldovan autonomous region of Gagauzia, is not at all going to resign as a politician upon the soon-to-be expiry of his second term of office.

“It was really me who punctured the tires of Bashkan Mikhail Formuzal’s office car. The thing is, shortly before that, we made a bet, and he promised he would go on foot from the Etulia village if fewer than 500 residents come for a meeting with him”, Sergey Cernev, the former Chairman of Gagauzia’s Vulcanesti raion [district], who is the chairman of the territorial organization of the Democratic Party and currently director of the railroad department at the Giurgiulesti Port [on the Danube River], told a news conference at Infotag.

The Republic of Moldova should not hurry to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union, “which event, according to European emissaries, is going to take place next month”, Bashkan of Gagauzia Mikhail Formuzal stated at a news conference at Infotag today.

In 1Q2014, Moldova achieved certain progress in realization of the EU-RM Action Plan, say experts from the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT) and the independent Expert-Grup analytical center, who presented their new quarterly Euromonitor issue at a news conference at Infotag.

On May 28, Moldovan farm producers will hold in the center of Chisinau a massive action of protest against the authorities’ avoiding meeting with them to discuss the sector’s vital problems.

The Association of Meat Importers of Moldova is outraged by the 20% tax, applied to them at meat import, although the law provides that this year it should be of 8%, stated the Association Leader Anatolii Tretiac at the Tuesday press-conference in the Infotag Agency.

On May 10-15, the Embassy of Germany to Moldova will hold a “Moldo-German Week” to show how the Germans of Bessarabia, the present-day mainland Republic of Moldova (without the Transnistrian region), used to live here in 1814-1940.

The opposition Communist Party and its leader, ex-President of Moldova MP Vladimir Voronin appear to be the popular-most players on the Moldovan political arena, as per the research carried out on March 1-30 by the Public Opinion Foundation among 4,555 residents of various-type Moldovan populated areas. The pollsters are saying that error should not exceed ±1.5%.

Moldovan farmers demand the Government to solve the problem of fuels and gas products prices increase, otherwise threatening with protest actions.

The 4th International Festival of Theatre and Film Schools ClassFest, held on April 11-16, will unite 180 participants from 13 countries including Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Slovakia, Germany, Poland, against 130 participants from 8 countries in 2013.

The local patriotic organizations of Femida [Themis] and “We are Moldovans, We Speak Moldovan” are drawing the Moldovan authorities’ attention to the unionists [adherents to the idea of Unirea – Moldova’s unification with Romania] who “overtly violate the laws of the Republic of Moldova”.

The just emerged citizens’ movement “The Young of Moldova” has called upon compatriots to join the organization’s march called “It’s Not Crimea Here” to be organized in Chisinau next Sunday.

About 70 patriotic civil society organizations of Moldova are protesting against the possible demolition of the Liberation Monument, standing in the capital city’s main street before the Moldovan Academy of Sciences for several decades now.

The Moldovan population’s trust in governing parties and the opposition has remained approximately at the level of November 2013, according to the Vox Populi opinion poll findings in March 2014 that was undertaken to clarify the influence of events in Ukraine on the socio-economic situation in Moldova. The findings were presented by Association of Sociologists and Demographers of Moldova in Infotag on Monday.