Chisinau. “In Moldova, only members of the ruling Communist Party and, perhaps, saints have no criminal litigations started against them. Practically all other politicians here were or are being tried”, Gagauzia Bashkan [Governor] Mikhail Formuzal stated at a news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. The Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) is standing for Parliament with a thick package of proposals in hands on how Moldova can and should overcome global financial crisis consequences.

Chisinau. The Centrist Union is capable of and ready for governing the Republic of Moldova, Vasile Tarlev stated at the news conference.

Chisinau. The Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) stands for liquidating the Termocom heating/hot-water distribution company and for creating, on its basis, of a new, up-to-date, unified energy-heating enterprise “ChisinauEnergo”.

Chisinau. The Civil Society Congress says the Republic of Moldova’s main political parties and movements are broadly divisible into three main groups.

Chisinau. The Voievod international federation, which promotes this original of Moldovan single combat, will open its branch office in Moscow in 2009.

Chisinau. Sergiu Mocanu, the leader of the Popular Action Movement and former Adviser-at-Large to President Vladimir Voronin, maintains he has exhausted all legal ways to resolving the case of his sons, Adrian and Roman.

Chisinau. The Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) demand from the Moldovan Government to take urgent measures for improving the situation in the agrarian sector.

Chisinau. Independent Candidate Sergiu Banari at the upcoming parliamentary elections has called upon the opposition Parties to set up a joint front against Communists.

Chisinau. The date of introducing a visa-free regime for Moldova citizens heading to Israel will depend, inter alia, on the analysis of the analogous practice of relations with Russia, the Israeli Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Moldova Abraham Sheron stated at a news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. At the April 5 parliamentary elections, the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement will back the Centrist Union of Moldova (CUM) headed by ex-Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev.

Chisinau. The Tiras-Tighina [Tiraspol-Bendery] Association, the Movement of Forcible Refugees from Transnistria, the Justeţe League of Power Officers, the Association of the Repressed and Deported, the Ungheni-Prut Association of Transnistria War Veterans have accused the Deputy Chairman of the Moldovan Parliament, Christian Democratic Popular Party leader Iurie Rosca “of having betrayed the Moldova national liberation movement”.

Chisinau. The Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections, “Coalition 2009”, has strongly recommended Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin, Parliament Chairman Marian Lupu and Prime Minister Zinaida Grechanaya to repay to the State Budget the money used for electioneering, and the means must be refinanced necessarily from the ruling Communist Party’s electoral fund.

Chisinau. Moldovan women coming across legal problems will receive free assistance thank to the project “Women Lawyers for Women NGOs”, financed by the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA/ROLI) through the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Chisinau. The Moldovan Government will have to return the Dacia hotel in Chisinau to the Belgian investor, who privatized the hotel earlier, and to pay extra 374.2 thousand euros or to pay 7.2 million euros. The European Court of Human Rights (ЕСHR) took such decision on Tuesday.