Andrei Tranga, the owner of the Andy's Pizza and La Plăcinte restaurant chains, remains in remand detention. His lawyer Ion Dron said the idea that Andrei Tranga has ties with the “thief in law” Grigore Caramalac, alias “Bulgaru”, is intentionally disseminated in the public sphere.
The access road to Miclești village and the Peresecina-Hârtopul Mare-Ohrincea road will be repaired. This starts at the intersection with the M2 Chisinau-Orhei-Soroca national road and ends at the interaction with the R23 Criuleni-Brăneşti-Ivancea-M2 national road. This connects a number of localities, crossing the villages Peresecina, Miclești, Ișnovăț and Hârtopul Mare. The road section that will be rehabilitated is 18.5 km long.
As an important partner on the market of the European Union, Poland has a continuously rising potential for Moldovan exports. Moldova’s bilateral trade with Poland in 2018 exceeded 300 million euros, a 12% rise on the previous year. This information was presented at the second session of the Export Morning Program, organized by the Moldovan Investment Agency.
Political pundit Anatol Țăranu said the Bessarabians’ vote saved the People’s Movement Party of Traian Băsescu. If these over 10,000 votes from the Moldovans with Romanian nationality hadn’t existed, Băsescu wouldn’t have become a MEP, he was quoted by IPN as saying in the talk show “Moldova live” on the public TV channel Moldova 1. As regards the “Pro Romania” Party, Anatol Țăranu said the first politicians on the party’s list could refuse to sit in the European Parliament as they would remain in the country to prepare for the future parliamentary elections. This way, Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Leancă, who is under No. 4 on the list of the “Pro Romania” Party, could serve as a MEP.
The EU’s change of view concerning the reorientation of financial support from the central public authorities to civil society will enable the people to feel the EU’s support. The project “Development of local civil society in the Republic of Moldova” was launched this April. It is financed by the EU and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) and will provide grants totaling about €3 million to Moldovan NGOs and financial and technical support to civil society organizations that work outside Chisinau and engage citizens in solving community problems. Special attention will be devoted to projects whose goal is to monitor the process of implementing the Moldova –EU Association Agreement.
In an interview for RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service, Vitalie Nagachevski, the lawyer for the seven deported Turkish citizens, who taught at “Orizont” Lyceums in Moldova, at the European Court of Human Rights, said a disguised extradition took place and the teachers weren’t ensured the rights they enjoyed based on the national legislation and international treaties to which Moldova is a party. Under the national legal provisions combined with international ones, the Moldovan authorities should have issued the Turkish citizens with extradition decisions and should have given them time for appeal. Also, the foreign citizens shouldn’t have been handed over to the Turkish authorities, but should have been accompanied up to Moldova’s border so that they could choose the country where to go themselves.
Photographs chronicling the events that led to the fall of Communism in Poland 30 years ago have been displayed at an exhibition launched today at the National Library in Chisinau. Poland’s Ambassador to Moldova Bartlomiej Zdaniuk gave a brief account of the 1989 events: the first partially free elections brought about the first mainly non-communist government in the entire Eastern Bloc; also that year the Berlin Wall came down, and the Romanian revolution started. “It was a very eventful year. It marked a path that was later followed by other nations”, stated Bartlomiej Zdaniuk.|
The trophy of the 15th International Documentary Film Festival Cronograf was won by a 2018 Iranian film titled “Women with gunpowder earrings”, by Reza Farahmand. The documentary was shown at the festival’s Closing Gala in the evening of May 28. The top prize of €2,500 was provided by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The film also won the Public Sympathy Prize.
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