Chisinau. Thursday evening the Second International Tournament of Oriental Mix-Fights started in Moldova.

Chisinau. On Tuesday, the United Nations Committee on Human Rights will hear in Geneva a report presented by the Government of Moldova on the human right observance in the republic in 2003 through 2009. The hearings will be cast on www.publicTV.md.

Chisinau. Sergiu Banari and Sergiu Iordan, members of the Balti Municipal Council, have accused the Communist Party faction in the city legislature of railroading, on October 8, an unlawful decision in order to thus get money for the would-be early parliamentary election.

Chisinau. The Week of Psychic Health, organized by the Somato Association from Balti is taking place in Moldova from October 5 to 10.

Chisinau. The German Embassy to Moldova organizes a rock concert dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall fall on October 5.

Chisinau. Romania will be a reliable partner to Moldova to help the republic in its efforts to accede to the European Union, Titus Corlateanu, Chairman of the Romanian Senate Commission for External Relations, stated at a news conference in Infotag. The senator came to Chisinau on the invitation of his Moldovan colleague Igor Corman.

Chisinau. Moldovan ecologists demand from the capital city municipality to introduce a tax on automobiles, which are randomly parked in the city; on persons, who are guilty of traffic jams; on organizations and enterprises, who have motor vehicles.

Chisinau. The Tarna Rom Union of Young Gypsies has called upon the Moldovan local authorities to introduce the position of a school mediator, who must facilitate relations between Gypsy families and schools.

Chisinau. Users of the SunVoice stationary telephone service can call on a stationary phone to Paris cheaper than to analogous telephone, say, in Ialoveni [a town some 10 kilometers off Chisinau], and calls on mobile phones to Russia are cheaper than to any locality in Moldova, SunCommunications company Director General John Maxemchuk stated at a news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. In the month following the July 29 parliamentary elections, the Communist Party was mentioned by the mass media in a positive light 3.4 times more often than the rest 4 parliamentary parties. Namely, there were 527 positive mentions of the Communists, whereas the Liberal Party, the Democratic Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Moldova Noastra Alliance had only 152 positive mentions all together.

Chisinau. Moldova's unification with Romania would be possible only as a result of a civil war and only if such war is won by supporters of unification, the leader of the pro-Russia Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement, Valeriu Climenco, has told a news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. The “Moldova and Russia” Association for Friendship and Cooperation has sent an address to the deputies of the new Parliament of Moldova.

Chisinau. Citizens of Moldova are excellent candidates for immigration to Canada, says Jean-Pascal Vachon, Consultant to the Quebec Immigration Bureau in Vienna.

Chisinau. The change of political power in Chisinau should promote the improvement of economic, political and strategic relations between the Republic of Moldova and Romania, senator Viorel Badea stated during a news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. Moldova’s Orthodox organizations, such as Pro Ortodoxia, ICHTHYS-Moldova, ASCOR and some other, are demanding from the Ministry of Education and Youth Affairs to attach more attention to Orthodox enlightenment of the youth.