Grigore Petrenco, a member of the previous Parliament and a noticeable Communist Party personality until last year, has become chairman of a political party called “Our Home is Moldova” (OHM).

Consumer Protection Association is against raising gas and electricity tariffs and intends to sue the service providers, protecting citizens’ rights.

Moldovan citizens mostly trust former premier Iurie Leanca (23%) and Moldovan Socialists Party (PSRM) Leader Igor Dodon (15%) show the results of an opinion poll, conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOP) at the demand of the Timpul [time] newspaper.

Moldovan farmers will block traffic on national highways as a protest against the Government inactivity, said former Agriculture Minister Valeriu Cosarciuc, Chairman of the National Farmers Federation, during Wednesday’s news conference at Infotag.

The Civil Platform “Truth and Justice” has presented its own bill on amending the Code of Television and Radio Broadcasting. Platform leaders said at a news conference in Infotag on Wednesday that their creation is aimed at “a real bettering of things in this sector, and not at defending the interests of the oligarchs”.

Transnistrian refugees, who were provided with social housing in Chisinau, identified 17 million lei divergence between the documentary and the real cost of the apartment house, built for them.

Chisinau Deputy Prosecutor Andrei Pantea should be dismissed from function for his obvious connections with the criminal world, stated lawyer Anna Ursachi at Wednesday’s news conference at Infotag.

The Junior Chamber International (JCI Chisinau) presents the project for personal development Bettery, which is aimed at supporting healthy initiatives at Moldovan youth. It is designed for 40 young people aged up to 30, who want to achieve positive changes in their lives and in the society in general.

The Civil Platform “For Dignity and Truth” [“Demnitate si Adevar”, DA] has called upon Moldova citizens to come and take part in a Silence March in Chisinau center on the Palm Sunday of April 5.

On March 27, Moldovan agricultural producers will organize a massive action of protest against the government’s policy. They are going to bring thousands of tractors and other field machines to the sides of national highways across the republic.

The number of citizens discontented with their living standards and the country’s development direction is growing in Moldova, as per the Omnibus opinion poll, carried out on February 22 through March 4 by the CBS-AXA Center for Sociological Researches and Marketing and presented at Infotag on Monday.

The Liberal Party’s new initiative to outlaw the St. George Ribbon in Moldova is but a premeditated provocation destabilizing inter-ethnic accord in the multinational civil society of Moldova, maintains Igor Tulyantsev, leader of the organization “Our Motherland is the Eurasian Union” and chairman of the Council “For the Motherland!”.

The independent candidate for the post of Gagauzia Bashkan [governor] Serghei Cernev accused his competitor in elections Irina Vlah and the outgoing Head of the autonomy Mikhail Formuzal of destabilizing situation in the south of the Republic of Moldova.

A Catalog of companies with German, Austrian, Swiss and Liechtenstein capital in RM was for the first time published in Moldova, being developed by the public association of Moldovan-German Economic Cooperation with the assistance of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).

Irina Vlah, an independent candidate for Bashkan [Governor] of Gagauzia, may win a victory already in the first round of the forthcoming gubernatorial elections due on March 22, as per the opinion poll carried out by the Intellect Group by order of the Panorama Russian-language weekly newspaper of Chisinau.