Profiled experts and political scientists believe that the Ukrainian scenario of the development of events cannot repeat in Moldova before and after the June 27 signature of the republic’s Association Agreement with the European Union. This opinion was shared by most of the specialists, who took part in the roundtable conference, “The Association Agreement with the European Union: Advantages for Moldova and the Price to be Paid for Them”, which was organized by the American Institute in Ukraine (AIU) in the news agency Infotag on Thursday.

Renato Usatii, the leader of the Partidul Nostru [Our Party], maintains that the actions by Minister of Justice Oleg Efrim, “who has personally ordered to deny registration to the new party”, are but an outrageous violation of the Moldovan legislation – “an overt lawlessness, which will trigger an analogous lawlessness” from behalf of the emerging new organization.

On Tuesday, small business representatives resume protests in front of the parliament, requiring legislators work permit on patents.

The just resigned member of the Moldovan Parliament, Mark Tkachuk, a member of the Political Bureau of the MCP Central Committee reputed as the party’s chief ideologist, stated at a news conference at Infotag today that he can indeed be expelled from the Communist Party, but nobody can stop him being a communist.

The Institute for Women’s Rights presented on Tuesday the project “We Will Stop Child Abuse Together!”, financed by the Ukrainian Women’s Fund. The project is designed for six months and will include all the Moldovan localities.

Vitalii Shishkin, an activist of the Party “The Right are for European Development” of Russia, has characterized the current situation in Russia in the sphere of citizens’ right to expression as “the Putin regime’s war against the mass media”.

Federalization is the only means for Moldova to avoid a breakup and disappearance as an independent state. Such opinion was expressed at a news conference at Infotag today by many participants in the international conference “A Federative State: International Experience and Moldova’s Perspectives” that has just ended in Chisinau.

Moldovan farmers’ associations urge farmers to participate in the protest action in the Chisinau Central Square, on Monday at 11:00, to express dissatisfaction with the Government agricultural policy.

The Transparent Moldova Association accuses Valeriu Lazar, Deputy Premier and Minister of Economy of Moldova, of incompetence and corruption, demanding his resignation.

Mikhail Formuzal, the Bashkan of the southern Moldovan autonomous region of Gagauzia, is not at all going to resign as a politician upon the soon-to-be expiry of his second term of office.

“It was really me who punctured the tires of Bashkan Mikhail Formuzal’s office car. The thing is, shortly before that, we made a bet, and he promised he would go on foot from the Etulia village if fewer than 500 residents come for a meeting with him”, Sergey Cernev, the former Chairman of Gagauzia’s Vulcanesti raion [district], who is the chairman of the territorial organization of the Democratic Party and currently director of the railroad department at the Giurgiulesti Port [on the Danube River], told a news conference at Infotag.

The Republic of Moldova should not hurry to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union, “which event, according to European emissaries, is going to take place next month”, Bashkan of Gagauzia Mikhail Formuzal stated at a news conference at Infotag today.

In 1Q2014, Moldova achieved certain progress in realization of the EU-RM Action Plan, say experts from the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT) and the independent Expert-Grup analytical center, who presented their new quarterly Euromonitor issue at a news conference at Infotag.

On May 28, Moldovan farm producers will hold in the center of Chisinau a massive action of protest against the authorities’ avoiding meeting with them to discuss the sector’s vital problems.

The Association of Meat Importers of Moldova is outraged by the 20% tax, applied to them at meat import, although the law provides that this year it should be of 8%, stated the Association Leader Anatolii Tretiac at the Tuesday press-conference in the Infotag Agency.