The 5th International Colloquium of Francopoliphonia is taking place at the Free University of Moldova (ULIM) in the frame of the International Days of Francophonia. The colloquium was organized by the Institute of Philological and Inter-cultural Studies of the ULIM.

The initiative group of teachers and priests has worked out the Bill on the compulsory teaching of the subject “The Fundamentals of the Orthodoxy in the Pre-University Education System of the Republic of Moldova. It is planned to introduce this subject after the conduct of a republican legislative referendum to be initiated by Moldovan citizens.

The Civil Group for Protection of Chisinau’s Heritage calls for terminating the destruction of historical and architectural monuments in the center of the capital city.

If the current Parliament agrees to amend Article 78 in the Constitution [election of president in parliament] and to hold an early parliamentary election, this will open a door for the Communists’ coming back into power. Moreover, in such case the Communists may well be able to grasp all the three chief state posts in the republic, believe free-lance lawyers Anatol Plugaru [Moldova’s Minister of State Security in 1991-1992] and Mihai Petrache [ex-Chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova].

Ex-Minister of Defense, Director the Social Assistance Center of the Metropolitan See of Moldova Valeriu Plesca demands from the National Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE) to cancel its decision on the increase in the tariffs on gas, electric power heating and gas from January 19.

The Congress of the Peoples of Moldova (CPM) regards it is unacceptable to introduce whatever amendments into the current 1994 Constitution.

Currently free-lance lawyers Mihai Petrache [ex-Chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova] and Anatol Plugaru [Moldova’s Minister of State Security in 1991-1992] have recommended to Prime Minister Vlad Filat to initiate legal proceedings against Communist Party leader Vladimir Voronin for his public libelous speculations about Filat’s involvement into major cigarette smuggling.

Chairman of “My Moldova” citizens’ association Fedor Ghelici has officially invited ex-President of Moldova, leader of the Moldovan Communist Party MP Vladimir Voronin to take part in a live television debate “to discuss the outcome of the Communists’ 8-year-long rule and the reasons of the current crisis in Moldova”.

The ‘Alga’ Association for the Protection of Stray Animals will appeal to the court against the Chisinau municipality, if it does not urgently solve the problem of placing stray dogs.

MP Vladimir Turcan, Chairman of the “Moldova Unită – Edinaia Moldova” (MUEM) party and former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia, believes that both huge undertakings being conceived by the two hostile political forces in the republic – a referendum on amending the Constitution being initiated by the governing Alliance for European Integration and the Communist Party’s referendum on impeachment of the AEI – will bring nothing constructive to the republic but a split of the society.

Lawyers Anatol Plugaru [Moldova’s Minister of State Security in 1991-1992] and Mihai Petrache [ex-Chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova] presume that after the downfall of the Communist dictatorship in July 2009, Moldova seems to be entering a new trend – consolidation of the dictatorship of a minority. That’s how the two free-lance lawyers perceive the yesterday’s decision of the governing Alliance for European Integration leaders to organize a national referendum on adopting a new Constitution.

The Roma of Moldova claim that their rights are restricted, that they are subjected to discrimination, and that the program for the support of gypsies, adopted by the previous Communist leadership, does not work.

A group of participants in the 1992 Transnistrian armed conflict have called upon the veterans of all wars living in Moldova to get united into one strong organization.

The Forum of Women’s Organizations, the 50/50 Political Women’s Club, and the Gender Centru organization have stood up with an appeal to the Moldovan authorities and civil society to treat women with a greater attention and care.

The Moldovan Humanist Party (MHP) stands for broadening women’s rights in the society and for promoting more women to high state posts.