NGO director says monitoring public spending brought on legal troubles for him Mihai Gandrabura, a high school teacher running a local NGO called “Civis”, says he has wound up with a conviction after his monitoring of the Orhei District Hospital and other establishments revealed abuse in public spending and procurement. Mihai Gandrabura told a press conference that after his revelations “irritated many”, the authorities turned the tables on him and

MPs who paid visit to Penitentiary No. 13: Conditions are extremely difficult, inhuman The Republic of Moldova didn’t invest in the improvement of the goods qualities of the persons in detention who later return to society. Investments were made rather in the destruction of the human being and human dignity, chairman of the Parliament’s commission on national security, defense and public order Kiril Moțpan stated after a group of MPs

Over 80 NGOs call for the Constitutional Court judges to resign   Over 80 nongovernmental organizations that form the National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum urge the Constitutional Court to urgently reverse its decisions adopted during June 7-9 and “reinstate legality”. In a public statement issued today, the NGOs call for all constitutional judges to resign, so as “to restore confidence in the Constitutional Court and to

Moldova obliged by ECHR to pay damages to Turkish teachers of “Orizont” lyceum The European Court of Human Rights held that the Republic of Moldova violated the rights of the Turkish citizens who were expelled in September 2018. By its decision, the ECHR ordered that Moldova should pay by €25,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage to each of the plaintiffs,  quoting a press release of the public associating “Jurists for

Justice system is so vitiated that it should be changed fundamentally The justice system in the Republic of Moldova is so vitiated that it should be changed fundamentally. The prosecution service should be disbanded and a new institution should be created. In the current situation, the keeping of the current prosecution service and of the people of the current system is absolutely counterproductive as these will block the loud cases

March through Chisinau in support of traditional family Priests and parishioners of the Orthodox Church on May 18 took part in a march in support of the traditional family. The event organized by the Moldovan Metropolitan Church involved President Igor Dodon and his family, IPN reports. Before the march, a liturgy was held at the Great Saint Martyr Teodor Tiron Monastery (Ciuflea). This was attended by His Holiness Vladimir, Metropolitan

OVER TWO-THIRDS OF MOLDOVANS BELIEVE THE COUNTRY MOVES IN WRONG DIRECTION – OPINION POLL An impressive majority of Moldova citizens, namely 69.1% of them, believe that the country is marching in a wrong direction, and only 22.4% presume differently, as per the findings of the opinion poll presented by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers on Monday. According to the pollsters, an analogous opinion was expressed also by interviewed Moldovan

Freedom of the media witnesses continuous deterioration The freedom of the media continues to worsen to alarming proportions and the problems identified during the past year have intensified. The journalistic guild became more divided. The de facto media concentration is more visible, as is the political control over some of the media outlets. Consequently, the pluralism of opinion declines, says a Memo on the freedom of the media in the