“Our Home is Moldova” (OHM) party leader Grigore Petrenco, sentenced to a 4.5-year term on probation earlier this week “for the organization of mass disturbances in Chisinau”, regards the entire trial of the ‘Petrenco group’ as “an obvious political order given to the Court by oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, the coordinator of the ruling coalition in Moldova and of everything in this country”.

The Lex Scripta Institute of Lawmaking demands to consider an alternative draft law on changing the election system, proposed in early May. An open letter to the authorities with demands and arguments was presented by Institute Chairman Mihai Corj at the Thursday’s news conference at Infotag.

The Speranta-Con Association of canned food producers and a number of other Moldovan producers - JLC, Gelibert and Aquatrade stand against the lowering of the ecologic fee by 50% starting from January 1.

A delegation of Members of the European Parliament will come to Moldova presumably in July to hold a personal meeting with prominent Moldovan man of business and the Mayor of Orhei town Ilan Shor and to discuss the human-right situation in the country, Marina Tauber, Deputy Chairperson of the Shor Party, said at a news conference at Infotag on Friday.

If a parliamentary election were held in Moldova next Sunday, only two organizations would win seats in the new legislative forum for sure - the Party of Socialists (PSRM) and the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), as per the findings of the opinion poll carried out recently by the Public Opinion Foundation on the request of the Poliexpert consulting agency.

Had a parliamentary election in Moldova been held next Sunday, the new legislative forum would come to consist of the representatives of only three political organizations – the Party of Socialists (PSRM), the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) and the Democratic Party (DP), as per the findings of the opinion poll presented in news agency Infotag on Wednesday by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers of Moldova.

The New Music Days will be held in Chisinau for the 26th time on June 6 through 17. The festival was organized by the Union of Composers and Musicians of Moldova. Modern compositions of Moldovan, Romanian, Spanish, Belarusian and Russian composers will be performed at the event.

Starting from the new academic year (September 1), six Moldovan universities will launch experimental curriculums on the basis of problem resolution: the raising of students’ competitiveness and their employment.

"Participation in resolving problems of autism patients" is the name of the project, implemented by the FEDRA public association with the support of USAID by means of the FHI 360 program "Partnership for Sustainable Civil Society in Moldova".

“Our Home is Moldova” (OHM) party leader Grigore Petrenco is starting legal proceedings against Parliament Chairman Andrian Candu, D., and 15 media outlets, controlled by the ruling Democratic Party, “for libel and discrediting my name”.

Trials in Moldova often have a political coloring, maintain experts from the Freedom Moldova human rights foundation.

The Lawmaking Institute Lex Scripta proposed a new draft law on changing election system. Its Director Mihai Corj presented the document at the Thursday’s news conference at Infotag.

The European Union supported the project, initiated by three public organizations from Moldova, Gagauzia and unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan republic (PMR), directed to raising confidence among teachers from the two sides of the Dniester River, announced heads of these organizations at the Wednesday’s news conference at Infotag.

At the beginning of May, Chisinau will host the 7th International Festival of Theater and Film Schools Classfest.

The Finnish singer Marko Vuoriheimo, better known under the pseudonym Signmark, will give two concerts in Chisinau and will discuss with Moldovan authorities the problems of people with disabilities.