Chisinau. The Transnistrian War veterans and refugees threaten to stage large-scale protest actions, if the Pro TV-Chişinău channel is deprived of its license.

Chisinau. The Centrist Union of Moldova has expressed pity that political parties are remaining indifferent to its invitation to hold a charitable indoor soccer tournament.

Chisinau. The governing Moldovan Communist Party is still enjoying the Moldovan populace’s highest trust – 34%. Following next in a trust rating are the Moldova Noastra Alliance (24%), the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (22%), the Liberal Party (LP, with 15%), the Democratic Party (DP, 14%), the Christian Democratic Popular Party (CDPP, 11%), the Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM, 10%), the Acţiunea Europeană [European Action] socio-political movement (10%), the National Liberal Party (NLP, 8%), the Centrist Union of Moldova (CUM, 8%), the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement (5%), and the People’s Republican Party (PRP, 5%).

Chisinau. “A group of comrades” will undertake “a palace revolution attempt” at the 5th extraordinary congress of the Centrist Union of Moldova (CUM) to be held in Chisinau on Saturday, presumes the Union’s Chairman, ex-Prime Minister of Moldova Vasile Tarlev.

Chisinau. An all-republican council of veterans and pensioners has been established under the Moldova Unita Party’s aegis.

Chisinau. The Adjuta-Civis Association for human right protection is demanding to punish local judges who conducted cases that were subsequently lost by Moldova in the European Court of Human Rights.

Chisinau. The Patria-Moldova international organization led by Andrei Tarna has decided that at the forthcoming 2009 parliamentary elections in Moldova it will support the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement headed by Valery Klimenko.

Chisinau. Moldova has lost a suit in the European Court of Human Rights (ЕСHR) and will have to pay a record-breaking sum of 6.7 million euros. Until the present the highest sum, which Moldova paid on suits, lost in the ECHR was the case of the Oferta Plus SRL against the Moldovan Government - 2.5 million euros.

Chisinau. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Mission to Moldova, together with the Ministry of Economy and Trade of Moldova have announced the launching of a comprehensive mass media campaign in Moldova and in the main destination countries addressed to Moldovan migrants, their families and other remittance recipients.

Chisinau. The American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA/ROLI) to Moldova will continue rendering juridical assistance to family violence victims in 2009 by means of the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID), ABA/ROLI Director for Moldova Stephen Larraby said at a news conference in Infotag on Monday.

Chisinau. The Chisinau Municipal Council Chairman, Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) Eduard Musuc is maintaining that an opposition party is working hard to blacken his family.

Chisinau. On Sunday the Union of Evangelic Churches of Christian Baptists will erect an improvised Weeping Wall, as in Jerusalem, on the central square of the capital city.

Chisinau. The Social Democratic Party of Moldova is confidently claiming it will necessarily win seats in the next Moldovan Parliament, for it will poll some 15% ballots at the 2009 parliamentary elections.

Chisinau. Making Russian a second official language in Moldova should help avoid discrimination of non-title ethnic groups in the republic, presumes Chairman of the Russian Youth League in Moldova Igor Tulyantsev.

Chisinau. The National Union of Young Bessarabians (NUYB) has strongly criticized Eugene Tomac, the Romanian Liberal Democratic Party’s candidate for the Romanian Parliament.