A new political project, the Moldovan Popular Congress Party, was launched in Chisinau on February 4, Info-Prim Neo reports. The initiator of the project, Ruslan Popa, who introduced himself to the reporters as vice president of a Romanian company and graduate of the University of London, said that a new party was needed to represent the interests of all the Moldovan people, regardless of their nationality, religion and social status. Ruslan Popa criticized the present administrator for increasing the prices and charges, devaluing the leu, closing Russian mass media institutions and for the steps aimed at uniting Moldova and Romania. He stressed that under such conditions, the Communists could again come to power. Speaking about Moldova's foreign relations, Popa said that the recent warming in the relations with the United States should be repeated in the relations with Russia. As to the relations with Romania, he said they should be good neighborhood relations, but Romania must sign the Border Treaty and give up its plans to unite with Moldova for good.