The Balti city organization of the Moldova Noastra Alliance has announced its decision to accede to the Democratic Party.

The Pacifism without Borders international association of Moldova stands resolutely against the Minister of Defense Vitalie Marinuta’s idea to send the Moldovan military to Afghanistan and Libya.

The Eco-Tiras International Environmental Association of Dniester River Keepers has said that it stands against the Novo-Dniestrovsky hydropower plant (HPP) expansion, and demanded Moldovan authorities to re-consider the draft memorandum of its operations with Ukraine.

The Roma people residing permanently in Moldova are its citizens having same rights and duties as the rest population, and they want to make their weighty contribution to country development, Robert Cerari, Chairman of the Voice of the Roma Coalition, stated at a news conference in Infotag on Tuesday.

The Stefan Voda raion organization of the Moldova Noastra Alliance has joined the Democratic Party, organization’s chairman Anatol Zavalisca announced at a news conference in Infotag today.

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial discrimination (CERD) is recommending the Moldovan authorities to ensure a proportional representation of national minorities in the system of state executive and judiciary powers, Valery Klimenko, Chairman of the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement, stated at a news conference in Infotag today.

On April 4-8, the ClassFest international festival of drama schools will be held in Chisinau for the first time. The festival was organized by the Academy of Music, Theater and Visual Arts under the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Youth and Sports, as well as the Mihai Eminescu Romanian culture institute in Chisinau.

The League of Reformer Economists of Moldova (LRE) has proposed to create a pricing department, which will go in for the foodstuff quality examination and price reasonableness.

Gagauzian Bashkan [governor] Mikhail Formuzal has said that he will not allow corruption in the autonomy’s licensing sector.

Leader of the Liberal faction in the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) Corneliu Pintea has said that he expects public apologies and a compensation for moral damages from independent counselor Oleg Cernei.

Sergiu Nirca, Mayor of the Cocieri Village [one of the 7 populated areas situated on the eastern, Transnistrian bank of the Dniester River, but remaining under Moldova’s control and jurisdiction], demands from the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate into the attempt to poison him with lead vapors.

Veronica Ciobanu, the mother of the 15-year-old boy, who disappeared last summer while in the Sulina recreation camp (judet Tulcin, Romania), has stood up with strong human-trafficking accusations against the Government of Moldova, first and foremost its Ministry of Youth and Sports.

The Congress of Russian Communities in Moldova has said that it is a big mistake and inadmissible to exclude the Chekhov State Russian Drama Theater [Chisinau] from the official list of state-run property not subject to privatization.

The Our Home is Moldova party together with the civil society will reconstruct a monument to the fallen of the World War II, which is placed in the village of Scoreni, Straseni raion [Moldovan region].

A group of the leaders of territorial subdivisions of the Moldova Unita – Edinaya Moldova Party have accused MU Chairman Vladimir Turcan of forging the MU National Council documents.