UN UNDER-SECRETARY GENERAL TO VISIT MOLDOVA FOR THE FIRST TIME Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary General, Executive Director of the UN Women Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, will come to Moldova for the first time on June 11-12 within the framework of a trip in East European and Central Asia countries. Organization representative in Chisinau Marina Vatav said that Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka will meet with

"We do not want to be complicit in corruption." Interview with the member of the European Parliament Rebecca Harms Депутат Европарламента Ребекка Хармс в составе европейской делегации участвовала в парламентском заседании комитета по Ассоциации РМ-ЕС, которое прошло в Кишиневе на прошлой неделе. В интервью корреспонденту NM Александре БАТАНОВОЙ она объяснила, почему намерения и действия лидера Демпартии Владимира Плахотнюка должны стать прозрачными, из-за чего ЕС отложила финансирование Молдовы и какое к этому имеет отношение президент Игорь Додон, а также прокомментировала ситуацию

Moldova plan to change vote rules 'inappropriate': rights body experts A plan by Moldova to change the way it conducts elections is "inappropriate", European rights experts commissioned to study the proposal have concluded, dealing a blow to the ex-Soviet state's pro-European ruling coalition. The speaker of the Moldovan parliament, an ally of Prime Minister Pavel Filip, said the ruling coalition would take on board some of the technical findings,

Several detainees from Penitentiary Nr. 13 were beaten "for prophylaxis" Several detainees from Penitentiary Nr. 13 would have been beaten by masked officers after 8 detainees had tried to escape on Friday to Saturday night, June 3rd. Sources inside the penitentiary have reported that some minors are among the victims, and lawlessness would have been recorded by camcorders. The Penitentiary administration denies the accusations. The "Pantera" masked officers

VICTIMS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN MOLDOVA - YOUTH, OLDERS AND ROMES The Eastern Europe Foundation (EEF) with the Center for Partnership for Development implemented a project in Moldova to ensure the equal opportunities that was implemented from December 2015 to May 2017. At the National Conference on its implementation results, the organizers set before the state the problem of social inequality of youth, the elderly and Roma. The areas

How did Moldova become a ”captured state”? Any mechanism proposed for dismantling the state capture should guarantee the demolition of the created system and should also hinder any other oligarchs or groups of interests from exploiting the defects of Moldovan democracy ...   Closer to the end of 2014, the expression “state capture” became a kind of country brand for Moldova. The extra-parliamentary opposition regularly used this phrase to describe

The freedom of the media, fight against corruption and change in the electoral system The freedom of the media, fight against corruption and change in the electoral system were among the subjects discussed by students of the State University of Moldova and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland in a public lecture given on May 30. The official referred to the challenges to democratic security and the

European values versus traditional values and geopolitical subtext in Moldova   The perpetuated disappointment in the pro-European political parties (2009-2017) and the high poverty level at which many Moldovans live make the European integration and, respectively, the European values, to be associated with something elitist or imaginary, for now inaccessible ...   The foundations of the European Union and, respectively, the European integration processes derive from a set of European values,

Как полиция запрещает журналистам фотографировать в общественном месте Полицейские запретили репортеру "ZdG" Марии Швец фотографировать в публичном пространстве на столичном бульваре Кантемира, где находятся и офисы олигарха из ДПМ Владимира Плахотнюка. В заявлении для прессы "ZdG" утверждает, что "репортеру ZdG полицейские запретили производить съемки зданий в публичном пространстве". Как указывает "ZdG", "полицейские не предъявили свои удостоверения и не объяснили причину требования, а также законное положение, запрещающее любому гражданину фотографировать на