Moldovan lawyer Ilie Rotaru has revoked the accusations he had thrown 2 years before against the First Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party and First Deputy Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament Vlad Plahotniuc.

“This year was one of the most difficult for the country’s economic development,” said experts of the Independent Analytical Center Expert-Group.

News agency Infotag today hosted the presentation of Sergey Yevstratiev’s book “The Pathfinder” about Victor Turcan, the Chairman of Victoriabank Board.

The Chinese corporation Shan Lian International Group – the owner of the Megapolis Mall and Everest supermarkets, is going to cease its business activities in Moldova, because of the actions undertaken against it by Moldovan tax authorities.

The lawyers of the Moldovan Parliament’s First Deputy Speaker Vlad Plahotniuc have presented evidence proving that their customer is innocent of all the accusations put forward against him here lately.

The directors of Latin-script Moldova-administered schools in Transnistria have informed European Union officials about the problems they and their schools come across in their work.

Moldovan fighters won 17 awards, including 8 gold medals, at the European K-1 Open Cup held in Latvia, Riga, on December 6 – December 9.

The former vice-chairman of ASCOM insurance company, Andrei Bastovoi and his son Valentin, have sued the Ministry of Justice, over the fact that the Moldovan law enforcement bodies did not permit them to leave the country.

The Hunters and Fishermen Society of Moldova (HFSM) speaks out against a legislative initiative put forth by lawmaker Iurie Apostolachi, which provides for transmitting the administration of the state hunting fund from the Ministry of Environment to the forestry agency Moldsilva.

The Moldovan Institute for Human Rights [MIHR] speaks against the discrimination of people with physical defects and against the infringements on their rights.

The fulfillment of decisions and recommendations of the Moldovan Accounts Chamber by the state institutions is rather an exception than a rule. The statement was made by experts of independent analytical center Expert Group, who presented a report “How public means are lost: an analysis of Accounts Chamber reports for 3Q2012”, at a news conference held on Monday at Infotag.

Moldova needs teachers of foreign languages in pre-school education institutions, said Anatol Mocrac, President of the philanthropic club of business people who support educational programs for youth and children TAIS (Assistance, Support and Investments for the Youth) on Friday at a news conference at Infotag.

ASDAC Association does not have the right to issue licenses and to collect cash awards for the use of copyrights, said Iurie Gheorghita, President of the National Association for Protection of Intellectual Property (ANCPI).

Employees of the state-run forestry enterprise Hincesti Silva have asked the National Anti-Corruption Center [NACC] and the Prosecutor’s General Office [Prokuratura] to institute criminal proceedings against the new director of the company – Ion Haralampov.