Chisinau. Sergiu Mocanu, the leader of the so-far unregistered Popular Action Movement and former Adviser-at-Large to President Vladimir Voronin, presumes his ex-boss should be brought to stand court.

Chisinau. Practically each third adult citizen of Moldova believes ballot-papers should contain one more column – “Against all”. However, almost 40% presume that should not, and over 27% are just hesitant. Such are findings of an opinion poll entitled “Social Factors of Electoral Activity”, presented in Infotag today by the Moldovan Association of Sociologists and Demographers.

Chisinau. Members of the Hope and Health Association, which was set up in 200, request the law and order authorities to investigate actions by Director of the Rehabilitation Center for Invalid Children Ludmila Andreiciuc.

Chisinau. The Coalition “Civil Control – 2009 Elections”, formed earlier this year by 15 non-governmental organizations, is saying it expected from the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections, “Coalition 2009”, a more intensive activity at monitoring the April 5 parliamentary campaign.

Chisinau. The Christian Democratic mayors of various-level localities of Moldova presume that the successes in the towns and villages they head have been achieved lately thank to an efficient cooperation between the [extreme-Right, pro-Romania] Christian Democratic Popular Party and the [extreme-Left and largely pro-Russia] ruling Communist Party.

Chisinau. Journalists from the Jurnal de Chişinău and Timpul [Time] newspapers of Chisinau and from the Vocea Basarabiei radio station are jointly calling on the Liberal Democratic Party, the Liberal Party and the Moldova Noastra Alliance to promise their electorates that after April 5 they will form a democratic coalition.

Chisinau. The oppositional Social Democratic Party of Moldova believes parties criticizing the SDPM initiative concerning Transnistrian conflict settlement are playing into the hands of the ruling Communist Party.

Chisinau. The Central Election Commission should demand from some television channels, including TV7 and EuTV, to change their current methodology of holding pre-election live TV debates, maintains independent candidate Stefan Uritu.

Chisinau. Situation in the Transnistrian conflict settlement field has only worsened after the March 18 Moscow meeting of Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov, held in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, presumes the Pro Europa Association of Transnistria.

Chisinau. The Tărnă-Rom Union asks the Government and the Ministry of Education and Youth to participate more actively in solving the education problem of the Gypsy children.

Chisinau. Writer Oleg Panfil became the winner of the first independent literature premium for his short story “Morphia and Morphine”. On Tuesday a silver horseshoe and a money premium was handed to him in the conference hall of the Infotag news agency.

Chisinau. “The Chisinau municipality drag deliberately the construction of a block of apartments in the Nicolae Milescu-Spataru Street, which block is designed for Transnistrian refugees by non allocating financial resources for this purpose, Chairman of the Movement of Transnistrian Refugees (MTR) Anatolie Bizgu said.

Chisinau. The Centrist Union of Moldova convened a news conference in Infotag to present a program of reforms aimed at improving citizens’ social life.

Chisinau. The ongoing parliamentary election campaign has been based on blackmailing, terror and corruption of a majority of the political parties involved in the race, Anna Tcaci, Chairwoman of the “Moldova Unită” Party of Spiritual Development, stated at a news conference in Infotag.

Chişinău. A panic at the Moldovan currency market, when citizens exchange foreign currency in mass quantities is a direct consequence of no concrete action plan for combating the world financial crisis on the part of the state”, members of the Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) assert.