Chisinau. World-level violinist Patritia Kopachinskaya is launching the campaign “Music for Children”. The objective of this campaign is to support the protection of children.

Chisinau. The Electoral Code discriminates independent candidates, believes one of them – Alexander Lomakin, who ran for parliament last April 5, polling only 0.17%.

Chisinau. The three parliamentary opposition formations – the Liberal Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Moldova Noastra Alliance – have decided to fight for seats in new Parliament of Moldova separately. They announced this at a news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. The “Moldova Unită” Party of Spiritual Development has expressed wish that ex-Chairman of the previous Parliament Marian Lupu, who quitted the ruling Communist Party this week, should unite social democratic forces in this republic.

Chisinau. Eight Moldovan public organizations have appealed to Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin, who is also Parliament Speaker and ruling Moldovan Communist Party Chairman, to tender resignation from all state posts he is holding. The 8 organizations formulated their call and demands to the head of state in their joint appeal, which they presented at a news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. About 1260 varieties and hybrids of agricultural crops have been registered in Moldova, Chairman of the State Commission on Testing Crop Varieties Mihail Machidon communicated.

Chisinau. The Council of Europe may delegate a stronger team of international observers for the early parliamentary elections in Moldova, PACE Rapporteurs on Moldova Josette Durrieu and Egidijus Vareikis said at the news conference in Infotag today.

Chisinau. The Continent company, which is the authorized Toyota dealer in Moldova and the official importer of Lexus cars in Moldova, presented a new generation of the Lexus RX 350 cars.

Chisinau. Moldovan businessman Gabriel Stati who has been kept in custody since 8 April 2009, is indignant at the contents of the film "Attack on Moldova" aired by the [private] NIT TV channel last week.

Chisinau. Moldovan lawyer Mihai Corj maintains that before its disbandment, the Parliament must hear a report by National Bank of Moldova (NBM) Governor Leonid Talmaci.

Chisinau. The “Moldova Unită” Party of Spiritual Development [0.22% at April 5 parliamentary elections] has decided to stand for parliament on the ticket of the Social Democratic Party headed by Dumitru Braghis.

Chisinau. The Russian Youth League of Moldova, whose representatives worked as observers at the May 31 parliamentary elections in South Ossetia, is now calling on the Moldovan authorities to recognize the elections officially.

Chisinau. Victor and Maria Boboc are saying they have very serious reasons to believe that their son Valeriu was beaten to death during the April 7 actions of protest in Chisinau, so they are demanding exhumation of his body and subjecting it to a detailed and impartial examination.

Chisinau. The Civil Society Congress, an association of a number of non-governmental organizations that was founded in early 2009, is calling upon the ruling Communist Party to give the presidential post to the opposition.

Chisinau. The Pro Europa Association of Transnistria has offered the three parliamentary oppositional parties to abstain from electing President on June 3 and to make everything in their powers to conduct a new parliamentary election “under a full-scale control by the European Union and the Council of Europe”.