Chisinau. The Russian Youth League of Moldova, whose representatives worked as observers at the May 31 parliamentary elections in South Ossetia, is now calling on the Moldovan authorities to recognize the elections officially.

Chisinau. Victor and Maria Boboc are saying they have very serious reasons to believe that their son Valeriu was beaten to death during the April 7 actions of protest in Chisinau, so they are demanding exhumation of his body and subjecting it to a detailed and impartial examination.

Chisinau. The Civil Society Congress, an association of a number of non-governmental organizations that was founded in early 2009, is calling upon the ruling Communist Party to give the presidential post to the opposition.

Chisinau. The Pro Europa Association of Transnistria has offered the three parliamentary oppositional parties to abstain from electing President on June 3 and to make everything in their powers to conduct a new parliamentary election “under a full-scale control by the European Union and the Council of Europe”.

Chisinau. The Stepuleacs maintain they have become an object of blackening by some Moldovan mass media.

Chisinau. Vlad Gribincea, the lawyer of businessman Gabriel Stati, maintains the authorities keep on putting moral and administrative pressure on his client.

Chisinau. The Voievod Youth Movement and the International Youth Union share the opinion that it would be very undesirable and untimely for Moldova to hold a new, early parliamentary election at the present time.

Chisinau. A group of Social Democrats have acceded to the Moldovan Communist Party (MCP), the former Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party, Eduard Musuc, stated during a news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. Mrs. Nadezhda Mocanu, the wife of Sergiu Mocanu, the leader of the Popular Action Movement and former Adviser-at-Large to President Vladimir Voronin, believes her husband may be released from custody “only by wonder”. He was arrested in Chisinau last April 8, i.e. on the following day after the memorable riots and pogroms in Chisinau.

Chisinau. Chairman of the Lawyers for Human Rights Association of Moldova, parliamentarian Vitalie Nagacevschi presumes the prolonged detention of businessman Gabriel Stati in custody has a relation to the presidential election to take place in the Moldovan Parliament on May 20.

Chisinau. The Moldovan Union of Volunteers [of the 1992 armed conflict in Transnistria and later events in Gagauzia] has demanded to “free political prisoners Gabriel Stati and Anatol Matasaru now!”

Chisinau. The Rumeon company has received the Status of VOLKSWAGEN and AUDI exclusive distributor in Moldova.

Chisinau. The “Moldova Unită” Party of Spiritual Development claims it was subjected to an overt, severe discrimination by other parties, first and foremost the ruling Communist Party, in the run-up to the 2009 parliamentary elections, its leader Anna Tcaci stated at a news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. The Parlamentul-90 Association, formed by the deputies of the independent Republic of Moldova’s first parliament [1990-1994], has demanded an unconditional release of prominent Moldovan businessman Gabriel Stati.

Chisinau. The National League of Primars and the Association of Raion Chairmen is extremely concerned with the recommendation by the Ministry of Finance to cut expenditures of local budgets by 20%.