An international conference of the World Congress of Families (WCF) was held on Tuesday in Balti, Moldova’s second-largest city, organized essentially by WCF Spokesman Don Feder (USA), Member of the European Parliament from the National Front of France Aymeric Chauprade, and Chairman of the International Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, former Moldovan Prime Minister [2001-2008] Vasile Tarlev.

Moldova’s previous Prime Minister Iurie Leanca has left the Liberal Democratic Party and its parliamentary faction, though not the legislative forum.

Agriculture producers’ associations hope that the new Government, headed by Chiril Gaburici will take into account their opinion and will help in solving problems of the sector.

Human right activist Igor Caldare drew attention of heads of the Sectorul Buiucani court of Chisinau and the Chisinau Appeals Chamber to the judges’ indecent behavior, whom he compared to ‘a scabby sheep, that will mar a whole flock’.

A member of the previous Moldovan Parliament, Grigore Petrenco [an ex-Deputy Chairperson of the Unified European Left group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe], is convinced that Moldovan oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc will sooner or later repeat the unenviable fate of the previous President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovitch.

The method of distributing subsidies in agriculture is discriminatory, because it favors large farms, concluded experts of the Expert-Grup center after monitoring the execution of the Accounts Chamber recommendations after the 2013 audit of the Agricultural Subsidy Fund.

Nearly 70% Moldova citizens think that their country is moving in a wrong direction, and only 17% – that things in the republic are developing all right, as per the results of the Omnibus opinion research done by the CBS-AXA Center for Sociological Researches and Marketing and presented at a news conference at Infotag on Tuesday.

The Association of Canned Food Producers Speranta-Con, which includes 9 food processing enterprises, asks the government for urgent help.

Osama Hmiames, a refugee from Syria, complains about obstacles put by Moldovan authorities, who refuse to provide him Moldovan citizenship already during 12 years. He said during Friday’s news conference at Infotag that he came in Moldova in 2002 and in 2003 received the status of refugee.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recommended the Moldovan Government to eliminate violations of the law, committed against Andrei Bastovoi and his son Valentin, announced lawyer Roman Zadoinov during Tuesday’s news conference at Infotag.

Members of the parliamentary ad hoc commission for Padurea Domneasca tragedy investigation, former Communist parliamentarians Alexander Petkov and Grigore Petrenco, are demanding that competent international structures be mobilized to investigation of the tragedy that happened in the Padurea Domneasca national park over 2 years ago.

Twenty deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe are demanding an immediate release from custody of the activists of the Antifa [anti-fascist] organization and Patria Party, ex-Communist MP Grigore Petrenco, who is an incumbent Deputy Chairperson of the Unified European Left group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, announced at a news conference at Infotag today, and showed a copy of the European parliamentarians’ statement.

If local elections were held in Moldova, one of four Moldovan citizens would not know for which party to give his vote, shows the opinion poll “Vox Populi: 2014 in perception of Moldovan citizens”, conducted by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers on January 8-20 among 1171 respondents from 79 localities. The level of error is of ±3%.

Several criminal groups are operating in Moldova, which falsify litigations and, by using corrupt judges, take successful businesses away from citizens, said expert Igor Caldare and lawyer Denis Ureche at their Tuesday’s news conference at Infotag.

Expert Igor Caldare and businessman Denis Ureche are complaining about the Prosecutor general’s Office, which, in their point of view, does not investigate cases, linked to money withdrawal from the Banca de Economii (BEM, Moldova’s savings bank).