RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service on December 18 launched the 15th edition of the book “Weekly Journal” and the 13th edition of the book “Reality in Detail”. The “Weekly Journal” has over 100 protagonists who described a week of their life in the section looked after by journalist Valentina Ursu during November 2018 – November 2019. The “Reality in Detail” is a collection of morning ‘tablet’ stories signed by writer and journalist Iulian Ciocan, IPN reports.

The coordinator of the first volume said that during 15 years the “Weekly Journal” collected the stories of almost 1,500 authors. At first, it was very hard to identify a person who would accept to write, but now it is much easier to find such persons and there are by two-three people ready to write notes daily during the same week.

Valentina Ursu said that what she sees common in the journals is the fact that there is practically no author who would not speak about the exodus of the population and this means that the people continue to leave the country. Most of the authors write about corruption and such phenomena that bother society should be dealt with by those who govern. “It is important to have the ambassador’s journal, the journal of the unemployed, the prisoner’s journal, the bride’s journal, the journal of the mayor, teacher, doctor, priest and so on so as to cover all the social sections,” stated the coordinator.

Attending the event, Italy’s Ambassador to Moldova Valeria Biagiotti, one of the protagonists, said it was a pleasure for her to write this journal, which was a first experience of the kind. “For a diplomat, it is very interesting as we have many experiences, many countries in which we live and it is important to keep memories of the country in which we lived,” noted the ambassador.

The 13th edition of the book “Reality in Detail at Free Europe” was launched the same evening. “These volumes are all similar somehow as they are about the daily reality, our daily life. Surely they are somehow different as the last centers more on the current developments, on nowadays, as it is about the last year. There are things we actually all know, but my view is slightly different. I like picking grotesque things from the daily reality,” stated the writer.

“I always admire the people who know to do things better than me. I envy them, but I’m also proud as an administrator, as a manager who stays aide. I every time congregate them on this thing that volens nolens become a page in the chronicles of the life of the Republic of Moldova,” said the director of RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service Vasile Botnaru.