The PNL said the Republic of Moldova for 27 years has been the victim of kleptocratic governments that alternated in the period in the second Romanian state. This is due to the fact that a lustration law to hamper the coming of ex-agents of the Russian security services to Parliament and the Government, who are now also promoted to power in Moldova by persons from Chisinau who serve the destructive regime of the Kremlin, wasn’t adopted.
According to a press release of the PNL, in the event Anatolie Caraman, chairman of the Tiras-Tighina 1992 War Veterans Association, said it is regrettable that the unionist forces didn’t manage to combine forces and form a united platform for the upcoming elections. The speakers at the meeting underlined the imperative of the union not only as an act of historical justice for the population from the left side of the Prut, which was and is still under Russian occupation owing to the presence of Russian troops on the left side of the Nistru.
Moldova is most vulnerable to the revival of the Russian factor, expert in political sciences Dionis Cenușa says in a feature for IPN Agency. The Party of Socialists already became engaged in regular and profound political discussions with Moscow. The President of Moldova negotiates diverse agreements with the regime of Vladimir Putin as regards migration and bilateral trade. All these arrangements have a temporary character and are synchronized with the parliamentary elections of February 2019.
About 400 old family photos and documents with stories of Jewish families were exhibited at the National Library in Chisinau on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day that is celebrated on January 27. “Irina Shihova, scientific researcher at the Ethnology Center of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, said the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated on January 27, 1945 and this is the date of liberation and salvation of those few who survived. It is the date of remembrance of those who didn’t survive. “It is a universal date that is celebrated in all the Western states. In Moldova it has been marked since 2015. This is a unique national occasion for remembering that we had and have Jews,” noted Irina Shihova.
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According to Valeriu Munteanu, the perpetuation of the government of the leader of the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc and the Party of Socialists whose informal leader is Igor Dodon would mean the end of any European project launched in Moldova and also Moldova’s federalization in the conditions dictated by Russia. “The guiding and saving idea of the unity of the anti-oligarchic, pro-European and pro-Romanian opposition brought me near the bloc ACUM and I’m sure this was a mature political decision with a lot of responsibility towards our citizens,” noted Valeriu Munteanu.
President Dodon said the Republic of Moldova is among the top states that rapidly lose population and remain without people. The fact that the exodus covers mainly young people is alarming. A practically irrecoverable loss of labor force is witnessed. The salvation of the nation should be the mission of any government and the preoccupation of the academic community and civil society. “All the decision makers should realize the risks of such a situation and should more firmly implement efficient social policies so as to increase the resilience of families,” stated Igor Dodon.
In a press statement, Ilan Șor addresses Valeriu Munteanu in an informal way, calling him hypocritical and blaming him for the poverty witnessed in Moldova, which he caused together with his former party that has ruled since 2009. Ilan Shor reacted after the candidate for MP of the electoral bloc ACUM started his election campaign in Orhei. Valeriu Munteanu said he decided to run namely in Orhei because Ilan Shor, who was sentenced to 7 years and a half in jail for robbing the banking sector and who is a “porcelain” protégé of the PDM, also runs there.
Sergiu Mocanu, the leader of the Political Party “Antimafie” People’s Movement, which runs in the parliamentary elections only in the national constituency, said they think Plahotniuc’s clan is not the only one in the Republic of Moldova and a lot of those who are in opposition to this actually aim to defeat this clan so as to replace it in power. “We fight the mafia of all colors,” stated Sergiu Mocanu.
Acting head of the General Social Assistance and Health Division Carolina Olaru said the number of acute upper respiratory tract infections last week was by 52% higher than in the corresponding period last year. Children were involved in most of the about 3,800 cases logged last week. A number of 111 persons were hospitalized in the period. Also, 93 cases of flu were recorded in the municipality of Chisinau last week.
Forecasters said daytime temperatures until February 4 are projected to vary between +5 and +8°C in northern Moldova and between +7 and +10°C in southern Moldova. At night the temperatures will oscillate between –2 and +1°C in the northern districts and between 0 and +3°C in the southern districts.
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