Doctor of Law Mihai Tasca has wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Vlad Filat to complain of “an increasingly accentuated obstruction of the right to information by the Moldovan State Archive Service”, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the researcher, things went on a downward slope after the appointment of a new director of the Service. Mihai Tasca says that in June 2012 he petitioned State Archive Service director Ion Varta requesting him to comply with a 2007 Supreme Court decision that ordered the Information and Intelligence Service to disclose to Tasca the files of victims of political repressions. Part of these files were transferred to the National Archive and Mihai Tasca has been denied access to them. Another case of obstruction of access to information, according to Mihai Tasca, happened on 11 October 2012, when another petition for access to information addressed to Ion Varta remained unanswered despite the expiry of the the one-month legal deadline. “I would've, perhaps, abstained from writing to you, if it were one single case. Regrettably, it is a trend, and I'm not referring to my case only”, says Mihai Tasca, noting that he does not have the permission of other colleagues to tell about Ion Varta's misconduct towards other researchers. Mihai Tasca adds that he is far from believing that nepotism is tolerated by the Prime Minister and suggests that it would be a sound idea to consult the community of historians when appointing the director of the State Archive in the future.