Chisinau. The Patria-Moldova international organization led by Andrei Tarna has decided that at the forthcoming 2009 parliamentary elections in Moldova it will support the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement headed by Valery Klimenko.

Chisinau. Moldova has lost a suit in the European Court of Human Rights (ЕСHR) and will have to pay a record-breaking sum of 6.7 million euros. Until the present the highest sum, which Moldova paid on suits, lost in the ECHR was the case of the Oferta Plus SRL against the Moldovan Government - 2.5 million euros.

Chisinau. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Mission to Moldova, together with the Ministry of Economy and Trade of Moldova have announced the launching of a comprehensive mass media campaign in Moldova and in the main destination countries addressed to Moldovan migrants, their families and other remittance recipients.

Chisinau. The American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA/ROLI) to Moldova will continue rendering juridical assistance to family violence victims in 2009 by means of the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID), ABA/ROLI Director for Moldova Stephen Larraby said at a news conference in Infotag on Monday.

Chisinau. The Chisinau Municipal Council Chairman, Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) Eduard Musuc is maintaining that an opposition party is working hard to blacken his family.

Chisinau. On Sunday the Union of Evangelic Churches of Christian Baptists will erect an improvised Weeping Wall, as in Jerusalem, on the central square of the capital city.

Chisinau. The Social Democratic Party of Moldova is confidently claiming it will necessarily win seats in the next Moldovan Parliament, for it will poll some 15% ballots at the 2009 parliamentary elections.

Chisinau. Making Russian a second official language in Moldova should help avoid discrimination of non-title ethnic groups in the republic, presumes Chairman of the Russian Youth League in Moldova Igor Tulyantsev.

Chisinau. The National Union of Young Bessarabians (NUYB) has strongly criticized Eugene Tomac, the Romanian Liberal Democratic Party’s candidate for the Romanian Parliament.

Chisinau. A National Border Park may be created in the Prut River basin. It is envisaged by the Strategy for the Iaşi-Moldova Border Tourism Development, which was worked out in the frame of the Beautiful Moldova Project.

Chisinau. Anatol Munteanu, a candidate for the Romanian Parliament at the November 30 elections, announced at a news conference in Infotag today he was withdrawing his candidacy in favor of Nicolae Dabija.

Chisinau. Moldova’s 2009 State Budget actually consists of two separate budgets – one for Communist mayors, Government, Parliament and presidential administration, and the other one – for all the rest citizens of Moldova, maintains Liberal Party Chairman Mihai Ghimpu.

Chisinau. In order to provide the high-quality and advanced education system the teachers’ minimal salary should be brought to 1.5 thousand lei and their average salary to the level of the average wage in the national economy. The Social Democratic Party has put forward such proposal in order to improve the situation in the educational sphere.

Chisinau. The National Council of the Socialist Party (SP) is proposing that at the forthcoming 2009 parliamentary elections, the Socialists should render support to the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement headed by Valery Klimenko.

Chisinau. At the 2009 parliamentary elections, the oppositional Moldova Noastra Alliance (MNA) will receive approximately as much as in 2005 – some 34-35% ballots, which will enable it to have 52 mandates in the 101-member Moldovan legislative forum, MNA leader Serafim Urechean stated at the news conference in Infotag today.