HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chișinău on its “birthday”! Here’s what’s happening this week: our feature breaks down the many moving pieces in the “theft of the century” investigation and explains why the…
Since its formation in June, Moldova’s coalition Government has represented an unlikely union between pro-E.U. and pro-Russian parties. But with an anti-oligarch stance holding the alliance together, the Govern…
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chişinău! Here’s what’s happening this week: our feature story breaks down the investigation on a loan made to a company affiliated with the family of the President of Moldova…
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chişinău! Here’s what’s happening this week: our feature story breaks down six high profile criminal cases initiated during the first 100 day of the new coalition government.
We felt neither joy nor reassurance when we learned about the two or three arrests in the case of the stolen billion in the middle of this week. Firstly, because none of that billion has been recovered yet and…
The report received by the Commission and made public today, July 4, does not contain the list of persons involved in the bank fraud, but it contains details about the disappearance from the Moldovan banking sy…
– How expected or unexpected was June 14? What did you understand then ? – We had some hopes that something might happen in the last few days. We thought that in the last few days some MPs might bec…
To: Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations Attn: Ms. Navanethem Pillay, High Commissioner for Human Rights Letter of Concern on Recent Human Rights Violations in the Republic of Moldova Your E…
Last week the British Deputy Head of Mission, HMA John Mitchell, took time out of his busy schedule to visit the offices of Ziarul de Gardă. Arriving from the British Embassy in Chişinău, Mr Mitchell me…
At least 100 lei is the unofficial tax paid for the technical testing of a car. In order to have all the papers for one more year, the driver is forced to pull out of his pocket different amounts of money, even…