Vaan Martirossyan, a free-lance journalist and human-right activist from Armenia, maintains that he was unrightfully expelled from the Donetsk Oblast [a rebel region in eastern Ukraine] “through the fault of the unlawful actions taken against me by the Security Service of Ukraine [SBU]”.

If elections of Gagauzia head took place next Sunday, the incumbent Bashkan Irina Vlah would get the victory from the very first round of voting, say the results of an opinion poll presented by the Association of Moldovan Sociologists and Demographers at the Thursday’s news conference at Infotag.

Ukrainian civil society activist Nikolai Cozhushko believes that the Constitutions of both Ukraine and Moldova need to be supplemented with a provision on criminal responsibility for unfulfilled election pledges.

The Moldovan Association of Energy Consumers (ACEM) published a Manual for Electricity Consumer which contains relevant information about the national legislation in the field of energy and real cases of suppliers' abuses, which lead to growth of clients' expenditures without growth of consumption.

The social project Merisor is ready to cover all regions in Moldova with a chain of its stores, Tatiana Sirbu, Director of Social Stores Department, reported at a briefing.

At the parliamentary election to be held in Moldova on February 24, chances to get to the next Parliament on party tickets (from a nation-wide electoral constituency) are sufficiently high with the Party of Socialists (PSRM), the Democratic Party (DP) and the opposition voting bloc ACUM.

If a referendum on reducing the Moldovan Parliament's strength to 61 MPs from the current 101 were held next Sunday, then 67.2% voters would support this idea [which is the 1st question of the February 24 referendum], 23.5% would not, and 9.3% were uncertain, as per the findings of the opinion poll, carried out recently by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers of Moldova. The findings were presented in Infotag on Tuesday.

Life and health of former Customs Police officer Gheorghe Petica, accused of rape, is under threat due to physical pressure he is facing in the penitentiary institution, said lawyers Angela Istrati and Andrian Cojocaru at the Wednesday's news conference at Infotag.

"Protection and Prosperity" is the new social program, launched in Chisinau on Friday under the slogan "Let us make officials work!".

Had a parliamentary election in Moldova been held next Sunday on the basis of the proportional representation system, seats in the new legislative forum would be won by the Party of Socialists (PSRM), the Democratic Party (DP), the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), and the political party called Platform “Demnitate si Adevar” [DA, “Dignity and Justice”], as per the findings of the opinion poll carried out recently by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers of Moldova and presented at Infotag on Monday.

Democratic Party MP Corneliu Dudnic addressed to the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) and the NACC with the demand to investigate the cases of inefficient spending of the budget funds in 2017 by the Gagauzia Executive Committee.

Specialists of the Expert-Grup independent analytical center presented a research "Economic Reality" at the Thursday's news conference at Infotag. The document includes the analysis of results in the Moldovan economy in the second quarter of 2018.

The State Agency on Intellectual Property (AGEPI) has launched a campaign on informing people about the threats and risks of the internet piracy within the EU project “Support to Implementation and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Moldova”.

Thirty non-governmental organizations in Moldova will receive gratuitous financial support in the form of grants for realization of their social projects in this republic. The means will be provided by Soros-Moldova, Keystone and the European Union.