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.

The idea to organize a constitutional referendum in September 2010 is very untimely, and this very decision can be regarded as the Moldovan political class’ impotence to overcome a constitutional crisis. Such is the opinion of free-lance lawyers Anatol Plugaru [Moldova’s Minister of State Security in 1991-1992] and Mihai Petrache [ex-Chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova].

Gold Crown Company accuses Moldindconbank in applying illegal schemes for removing the company’s assets of the sugar plant from Glodeni.

The Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement is proposing to use the expected September referendum to let Moldova citizens speak out their opinion on making Russian a second official language in the Republic of Moldova.

Chisinau Municipal Council member and Chairman of the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement, Valery Klimenko, demands the punishment of those in charge for falsifying the criminal investigation against him and his daughter Tatiana in 2005.

The Russian Youth League of Moldova has expressed a strong discontent that the Information and Security Service (ISS, the successor to the former KGB] systematically tried to press its activists into working as stoolpigeons.

People that invested their money in the construction of a multistory building in one of the Chisinau districts ask the government for help in receiving an official title to the apartments.