The international Austrian company Vienna Insurance Group (VIG), which in early 2014 has purchased 94% of shares in the Donaris Group insurance company, intends to bring to Moldova the European standards in the sphere of insurance.

Lawyers Anatol Stepuleac and Iulian Rusanovschi said at the Wednesday’s press conference at Infotag that the “judicial system reform is skidding while the Prosecution remains under the control of certain political parties”.

The Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement is running for parliament under the slogan “For Moldova within Russia”, Movement leader Valery Klimenko stated at a news conference at Infotag on Wednesday.

Representatives of the Association Against Corruption stated that the drug business in Moldova is protected by the law enforcement. They cited the case of a man, who was declared wanted after he participated in a scheme of growing drug plants under the MoI officers cover.

The Party of Regions Chairman, Bashkan [Governor] of Gagauzia Mihail Formuzal has suspended his participation in the parliamentary campaign only for a short time so as to return to his duties of the head of the southern Moldovan autonomous region of Gagauzia and of a member of the Moldovan Government, Oleg Topolnitchi, Head of the Balti city subdivision of the Social Democratic Party and Co-Chairman of the voting bloc “Moldova’s Choice for the Customs Union” stated at a news conference at Infotag today.

Former Prime Minister of Moldova Vasile Tarlev has been elected Chairman of the Administrative Board of the International Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ICIE).

More than 20 members of the parliamentary Liberal Reformist Party from the Chisinau city bureau of the LRP have announced their accession to the Democratic Party.

Associations of agricultural producers demand the Government to declare force majeure situation in horticulture and take urgent measures to save the branch.

The next Parliament of Moldova may come to have the representatives of 6 political parties, as per the opinion poll “Vox Populi – October 2014”, carried out by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers on October 11-20 among 1,063 respondents residing in 71 various-type populated areas of Moldova. The pollsters are saying that error should not exceed ±3%.

Each 10th parliamentary candidate taking part in the current election campaign is a person having a criminal record, political scientist Dr. Nicolae Tveatcov of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences, who is a representative of the Coalition “Civil Control – Elections 2014”, stated at a news conference at Infotag on Wednesday.

Andrei Donica, Chairman of the Association for Struggle against Economic Crimes and Corruption, has accused the incumbent Moldovan leadership of genocide of the Moldovan people. He has already addressed to Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin with a corresponding inquiry on the issue.

Nord-Fruct Association members, cultivating commercial apple orchards in northern Moldova, are demanding from Iurie Leanca Government compensations for the lost Russian market.

MP Grigore Petrenco, a Communist until very recently, is beginning a legal action against the National Integrity Commission, which he says has refused to meet his demand to investigate into the fact that oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc owns undeclared property abroad.

The 12th edition of the International Festival “Doua Inimi Gemene” in memoriam of Doina and Ion Aldea-Teodorovici will be held in Chisinau on November 13-15.

Beautiful words about reform in the Moldovan judicial system have nothing in common with the reality, said lawyer Ilie Rotaru.