The Chisinau Prosecutor’s Office asked that the Mayor General of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca provide explanations about the visit that he paid to the United States a week ago. Chirtoaca said on Monday that he received a letter, asking him what the purpose and result of the visit was and from what money it was made, Info-Prim Neo reports. “This attitude shows how human rights are observed in Moldova,” the mayor said. He explained that the visit to the U.S. was paid in the context of the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe of Harvard University, which promotes freedom and democracy worldwide, and was organized by two Moldovan citizens, Lidia Spataru and Vlad Spanu, who are graduates of Harvard. They found sponsors, with the assistance of the National Endowment for Democracy. “I informed the U.S. organizations about the horrors witnessed by Moldova after the elections. I showed them photo and video proofs and statements and letters by those that were maltreated in order to tell those that contribute rather large amounts of money to the Moldovan economy that we do not have that new type of democracy described by the central authorities, but dictatorship and totalitarianism with insignificant elements of democracy. This is related to Russia’s intention to restore the bridge between the former Soviet republics as transit zone between the East and the West,” Dorin Chirtoaca said at the meeting of the City Hall on Monday. He also said that he asked the U.S. organizations to try to allocate funds not only through the Government of Moldova, but also at the local and regional levels in order to ensure equal access to the money. “There are tens of projects that have not been implemented yet.” The mayor also said that the Embassy of Moldova in Washington sent a letter to the U.S. authorities, expressing their regret that the most radical representative of the Opposition was invited to the discussions to present his own viewpoint. “It is like in the Soviet times,” the mayor said. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, the acting prosecutor of the municipality of Chisinau Vitalie Apostu confirmed the existence of such a letter. He said that the questions contained in the letter ‘are in accordance with the law’, but refused to say why the letter was necessary. .