The amount collected for rebuilding the monastic compound Curchi, during the campaign under the supervision of the chairman of the parliament of Moldova, Marian Lupu, got over on Monday, 20 February, 2.577 million lei, according to parliament’s report. According to it, businessmen transferred 1.125 million lei of this amount on special bank accounts, over 94,000 lei was collected within the monastery Curchi, and ordinary people at the collecting points within the Comapy «Teleradio-Moldova» collected about 864,000 lei. According to speaker Marian Lupu, this figure shows that the collecting action to restore the monastery Curchi is a successful one. „But not this figure is very important, by people’s impetus, showing that we are a united nation, knowing our spiritual and cultural values and try to keep them,” Marian Lupu noted. Parliament’s chairman underlined that selecting the construction company would take place very transparently, and the restoring works are foreseen to start in April 2006. He emphasised as well that resources of the state budget would be allotted for monastery’s reconstruction.