National Center against Violence will be commissioned in the Ciuciuleni village (Hincesti raion) in 2011. Presently, the object is being built with the financial assistance provided by the Department for Integration in Europe of Trentino-Alito-Adige province of Italy.

The former Prime Minister of Moldova [in 2001-2008] Vasile Tarlev has become president of the National Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Moldova (NCIE).

Moldovan organizations for human rights protection, including Amnesty International Moldova, Promo-LEX Association, the Institute for Human Rights (IDOM), and the Center of Torture Victims Memoria, called the Moldovan authorities to complete the international commitments to combat the torture and police impunity.

The Social Democratic Party of Moldova presented the party’s national projects on creating new jobs.

The government of Russia will provide 5 thousand tons of diesel fuel to Gagauzia as a donation.

The extra-parliamentary Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) has demanded from Acting President Mihai Ghimpu to dissolve the inefficient Parliament, announce the date of an early parliamentary election, and proceed with tackling existing problems in a new legally elected parliament.

Several ethno cultural organizations of Moldova support the proposal of the Social Political Movement “Ravnopravie” to put the issue of assigning the Russian language the status of state language on the referendum. A corresponding petition to Acting President Mihai Ghimpu is signed by chairpersons of 20 social associations of ethnic minorities of Moldova. The collection of signatures is continuing.

The first party of the Roma people, the Social Political Movement of the Roma, was created in Moldova.

The leader of Moldovan community in the Italian region Regio Emilia, Nina Gorincioi-Cadoppi, has requested the government of Moldova to open more polling stations abroad for the forthcoming November early parliamentary elections.

The former partners of Ukrainian company Energoalians, Moldtranselectro and RED-Nord, are trying to takeover the company in order to evade debt payments of more than US$ 20 million for the energy supplied in 1999-2000, declared Energoalians’ lawyer Veaceslav Lych at the press conference on Wednesday.

The Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) is proposing to set up a trade union that has never existed here – a union of the unemployed to defend the rights of this category of citizens.

The Government must offer more autonomy to educational institutions, as well as decentralize the educational system, thinks the Project Manger of Institute for Public Policies and ex-Minister of Education Anatol Gremalschi.

The current political situation in Moldova is leading to a growing popular discontent, which may develop into a popular uprising in subsequent months, presumes Anatol Plugaru, Moldova’s Minister of State Security in 1991-1992.

The former director of RED-Nord state enterprise, Gheorghe Pelin does not recognize the US$ 1.59 million debt to the Ukrainian company Energoalians for electricity, which was the foundation for the decision taken on Thursday by the Chisinau Court of Appeal that declared the state enterprise insolvent.

Moldconstruct Market company, where, according to some mass media and the city government, allegedly, works as an economist the son of the ex-president Oleg Voronin, expressed its indignation regarding to the authorities’ pressure and the company’s defamation by the Moldovan press.