Moldova enters in the period of elections - September-5 referendum, presidential and pre-term parliamentary elections, and also local elections in the spring of 2011. Expert Grup Center analysts said the elections will seriously influence all private and public life areas.

The Falesti raion organization of the Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) has announced it is joining the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (LDPM) headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Filat.

Gagauzia Bashkan [Governor] Mikhail Formuzal welcomes a direct election of president in Moldova.

The social association “Lawyers for Human Rights” considers that Eduard Popa’s threatening of exploding himself in front of the Prosecutor General’s Office – it is an example of desperate reaction to authorities’ dereliction, which in 5 years did nothing to re-establish justice.

If the question of making Russian a second official language in Moldova is added into the referendum ballot-papers, this will ensure a substantial voter turnout on September 5, Chairman of the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement Valery Klimenko stated at a news conference in Infotag today.

The People’s Republican Party will take an active part in the September 5 referendum. In the run-up to the poll, PRP activists will be explaining citizens the need for amending Article 78 in the Constitution. The party stands for a direct all-nation election of the head of state.

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) is ready to provide the Chisinau Primaria [city government] with a project of reconstructing Valea Morilor Park worth 2 million lei for free.

The Moldova Prosecutor General's Office has initiated a criminal lawsuit against ex-president Vladimir Voronin on the demand filed by Ascom Grup president Anatol Stati, who has claimed that Voronin must compensate the damage he had inflicted to him to an amount of US$1.55 billion.

A new company, Romanian Software Distributor came on the market of Moldova. It is part of the Romanian Romsym Data Romanian Software Distributor and intends to create a serious competition to the Moldovan market of IT technologies.

Next Sunday, July 18, the German Embassy to Moldova will arrange its 9th traditional annual open-air concert at the Green Theater in Chisinau.

The Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) has called upon the Moldova citizenry to boycott the September 5 referendum on amending the Constitution’s Article 78 stipulating the procedure of electing the head of state.

Moldova’s Labor Party has stood up in support of the Parliament’s decision to amend Article 78 in the Constitution (election of the head of state) through a nation-wide referendum.

The chief objective of the Ghimpu decree on declaring June 28 [1940] as a Day of Soviet occupation is to prove to the world that the statehood of the Republic of Moldova is illegal, so it needs to be abolished, maintains Dr. Sergiu Nazaria, Chairman of the ProMoldova Association of Historians and Political Scientists.

The Jewish community of Moldova has demanded from the Chisinau municipal authorities to explain in greater detail their decision, distributed in the mass media yesterday, concerning the unfolding of two museums – of the Holocaust and of the Soviet occupation – in one old small building.

The University for European Political and Economic Studies (UEPES) signed a partnership agreement with the European Public Law Organization (EPLO).