Prime Minister of Moldova was asked about the Petrenko case in PACE: Do you want to be the prime minister in a country where there are political prisoners? Премьера Павла Филипа спросили в понедельник, 26 июня, в ходе заседания Парламентской ассамблеи Совета Европы о деле бывшего депутата, почетного члена ПАСЕ Григория Петренко, которому грозит тюремное заключение за участие в мирном протесте против правящего олигархического режима. Представитель Объединенных европейских левых, депутат

БЫВШИЙ ЗАМЕСТИТЕЛЬ МИНИСТРА ВНУТРЕННИХ ДЕЛ ЗАДЕРЖАН ПО ОБВИНЕНИЮ В КОРРУПЦИИ Экс-директор Департамента пенитенциарных учреждений и бывший замминистра внутренних дел Молдовы Вячеслав Чебан, задержанный НАЦ, будет судим за вымогательство крупной взятки. Согласно предварительным данным расследования, бывший чиновник при посредничестве своего фина, сотрудника Таможенной службы Станислава Карамана, должен был получить взятку в 60 тысяч евро за закрытие уголовного дела в отношении человека, подозреваемого в производстве и введении в использование банковских карт.

LESS THAN 2/3 OF MOLDOVANS KNOW THAT THEIR RIGHTS AND DUTIES ARE WRITTEN IN CONSTITUTION – OPINION POLL Only 65% of Moldovan citizens know that their rights and duties are provided in the Constitution and that it is the country’s Main Law. This is one of conclusions, made by experts of the CBS-AXA Institute, who presented the results of opinion poll “Civil Literacy in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus” on

Human Rights in Moldova: The Turbulent Dniester “At a press conference during a visit by the delegation of the Moldovan Shor Party, the members of the European Parliament were given a candid picture of the deplorable state of democracy and civil rights in this former Soviet republic. Discussions focused on Mr Ilan Shor, the Mayor of Orhei in Moldova, who gained recognition as entrepreneur and philanthropist, and on the

Moldova is seriously affected by ‘state capture’ Over the last decade, Moldova has gone through several stages of corruption - from endemic corruption, to the “politicization” of the fight against corruption by eliminating political rivals and business competitors and ultimately to state capture by a narrow group with obscure interests, says the study “State Capture: the Case of the Republic of Moldova” that was launched by Transparency International – Moldova,

Damaged democracy in #Moldova Delegates from Moldova’s newset political party have been visiting the European Parliament in Strasbourg to appeal to MEPs for assitance in getting the head of their party, Ilan Shor, released from almost one year’s house arrest. In 2013, after many signals about the catastrophic situation in a large Moldovan public bank “Banca de Economii” (BEM), it was allowed to put it in the hands of

STATEMENT AGAINST THE CHANGE OF THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA Chișinău, June 11 2017 STATEMENT AGAINST THE CHANGE OF THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA We, the participants in the Protest of 11 June 2017, COMMITED to the development of the Republic of Moldova as a democratic, prosperous state based on the rule of law and European values, CONCERNED about the limitation of

Заключенный: „В Пенитенциаре 13 произошло массовое избиение” Заключенный Пенитенциара N 13 Симион Жереги, который был доставлен в Кишиневскую апелляционную палату на судебное заседание, впервые предоставил прессе детали избиения заключенных 3 июня. «В Пенитенциаре 13 было массовое избиение. Это случилось утром рано третьего июня. Спецназовцы «Пантеры» ворвались в пенитенциар и избили заключенных в присутствии начальника тюрьмы и заместителя главы Департамента пенитенциарных учреждений (ДПУ). Я видел, как заключенных безжалостно били по

European agenda, civil society and confrontation with government The implementation of reforms turns into a difficult mission for the authorities because the commitments to the EU become more concrete, while the representatives of civil society more active, incisive and, respectively, dangerous for politicians and defective policies. Even if the promises to Brussels are clearer, the government of Moldova anyway manages to juggle with these by overlapping, delaying or hurrying them,

Protest against change in electoral system in front of Parliament Building Mobilized by civil society, several thousand people came together in front of the Parliament Building in Chisinau on June 11 to protest against the change in the electoral system and to seek the withdrawal of the bill on the switchover to the mixed-member electoral system from the Parliament’s agenda. Representatives of the opposition – Party “Platform Dignity and Truth”,