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HAPPENING THIS WEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greetings from Chi\u015fin\u0103u! Here\u2019s what\u2019s happening this week: in top news, our editors discuss the possibility of snap elections this autumn, just as more information about Moldova\u2019s billion dollar bank fraud comes to light as a result of the Kroll leaks and President Igor Dodon visits Moscow. Our feature story takes you on a trip across the Nistru River on the ferryboat that connects the village of Molovata on the right bank to the isolated village of Molovata Noua in the Transnistrian region on the left bank. To mark the one month anniversary of the Plahotniuc Government\u2019s exit, ZdG\u2019s Executive Director discusses how a government shouldn\u2019t be. On the subject of impunity and selective justice, we ask the experts how businessman and politician Ilan Shor managed to leave the country despite facing charges in the case of Moldova\u2019s stolen billion. Our investigations this week examine a case of impunity and illegal business that left two women deeply in debt after falling victim to a businessman\u2019s real estate scam, as well as the rapid deterioration of a recently refurbished pedestrian street in Chi\u015fin\u0103u \u2013 an example of the inefficient use of public funds. And finally, our roundup of news and analysis about Moldova from around the world. All of that and more in this week\u2019s newsletter. Happy reading!\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

THIS WEEK\u2019S FEATURE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BRIDGING TWO MOLDOVAS<\/strong>: The conflict between Moldova and the Transnistrian region has been frozen since 1992, leaving towns and villages on the left bank of the Nistru River under the legal jurisdiction of Chi\u015fin\u0103u, but beyond the government’s control in practice. Crossing the Nistru means having to pass through checkpoints controlled by Transnistrian military forces \u2013 unless you take the Molovata ferry. This boat acts as a floating bridge, offering free passage that connects the village of Molovata on the right bank of the Nistru to the village of Molovata Noua on the left bank. While the people from Molovata have access to free media, the residents of Molovata Noua remain isolated and are forced to rely on foreign or politically controlled TV programs, which broadcast content that has little to do with the reality of what is going on in the Republic of Moldova. ZdG\u00a0rides the Molovata ferry<\/a>\u00a0and visits two villages that are not so far apart, yet exist in two different worlds.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FROM THE EDITORS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SNAP ELECTIONS?<\/strong>: Last month Moldova\u2019s pro-Russian and pro-E.U. political parties formed an unprecedented coalition to end oligarchic control over the country. The resulting alliance between the Socialist Party and the ACUM Bloc was always seen as an unlikely (and temporary) marriage. But according to ZdG\u2019s Politics Editor, Petru Grozavu, the\u00a0coalition could be headed for divorce<\/a>sooner than we thought. ZdG\u2019s Editor-in-Chief, Aneta Grosu, also thinks\u00a0elections are in the air<\/a>. And she has a few questions for President Dodon \u2013 who is also approaching the end of his term in office in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

KROLL-2 LEAKS<\/strong>: Another 60 pages have been leaked from the Kroll\u20132 report, offering new details and disaggregated data from the audit. Although the authenticity of these pages has yet to be confirmed, the information they provide links bank transfers of funds stolen during Moldova\u2019s multi-billion dollar bank fraud to people and companies at home and abroad. ZdG writer Daniela Bechet\u00a0breaks down what the latest Kroll leaks reveal<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SETTING A BAD EXAMPLE<\/strong>: It\u2019s been one month since Vlad Plahotniuc\u2019s government left power. To mark the occasion, ZdG\u2019s Executive Director, Alina Radu, examines the actions of Moldova\u2019s outgoing politicians as examples of\u00a0how a government shouldn\u2019t be<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE FOREIGN BRIEF<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DODON IN MOSCOW<\/strong>: Moldova\u2019s\u00a0President, Igor Dodon, flew to Moscow<\/a>\u00a0for an official visit on July 17, with the intention of discussing the development of trade and economic cooperation, social and humanitarian issues, and migration issues. But what did he really ask for? And why was he thanking the Kremlin? As it turns out, President Dodon\u2019s main focus was convincing Russia to cut gas tariffs, and expressing a desire to overcome \u201cstagnation in bilateral relations.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

OH BROTHER<\/strong>: In related news,\u00a0Balkan Insight reported<\/a>\u00a0that Dodon\u2019s younger brother, Alexandru, has purchased a 15 percent stake in a Russian real estate company that\u2019s closely tied to the Kremlin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BACK TO BRUSSELS<\/strong>: Prime Minister Maia Sandu has already scheduled her\u00a0next trip to Brussels<\/a>\u00a0and will be returning there on July 24. During this visit she plans to meet with members of the European Parliament\u2019s Committee on Foreign Affairs.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOW SHOR GOT AWAY:<\/strong>\u00a0A criminal investigation has been launched into the escape of Moldovan businessman and politician Ilan Shor, who is now being charged with illegally crossing the state border. The Prosecutor General\u2019s Office believes Shor left the country between 14 and 17 June, managing to avoid border controls and leave Moldova through Chi\u015fin\u0103u International Airport. Shor was forbidden from leaving the country after being implicated in the case of Moldova\u2019s stolen billion \u2013 so\u00a0we asked the experts<\/a>, who helped him get away? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZDG INVESTIGATES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REAL ESTATE SCAM<\/strong>: Two women have found themselves in significant debt after falling prey to a\u00a0real estate scam<\/a>. Now, they are accusing businessman Vladislav Mustea\u0163\u0103 of buying and selling apartments in their names, pocketing the profits, and leaving them with criminal charges for tax evasion. Mustea\u0163\u0103 is the former owner of Pro Imobil, a company that faced a criminal charge for tax evasion, which drove him out of the country. Both women insist Mustea\u0163\u0103 should take responsibility for the money owed, while he continues to blame the Plahotniuc government for the criminal charges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

OLD TOWN ROAD<\/strong>: Local authorities in Chi\u015fin\u0103u spent two years developing a 300 meter-long pedestrian walkway on Eugen Doga street. When it was finally unveiled, Chi\u015fin\u0103u\u2019s mayor claimed that the road was made to \u201clast tens and hundreds of years.\u201d\u00a0 But now, less than five years after its grand opening, sections of the pedestrian street have become unusable due to missing cobblestones, deteriorating pavement, and drivers using the area as a parking lot. City Hall\u2019s spokesperson is blaming heavy rains and ongoing construction. Here\u2019s what ZdG found while walking\u00a0Chi\u015fin\u0103u\u2019s pedestrian street<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MOLDOVA IN WORLD NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

E.U. FUNDING AND SUPPORT<\/strong>: The European Commission\u00a0announced its plans to unblock financial aid<\/a>\u00a0to Moldova due to recent progress on reforms. On July 15, E.U. Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said that \u201cin the next couple days\u201d \u20ac14.5 million will be transferred to Moldova. \u201cWe also are looking [at] how we can enable the disbursement of macro-financial assistance,\u201d Hahn said. \u201cThe European Commission has made it clear that it would help Moldova on this path, and Germany will do the same thing wholeheartedly,\u201d\u00a0said German Chancellor Angela Merkel<\/a>\u00a0during a press conference in Berlin on July 16. Offering Chi\u015fin\u0103u Germany\u2019s support, Merkel urged Moldova\u2019s new government to step up the pace of reforms.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

QUIET REVOLUTION<\/strong>: Moldova\u2019s Finance Minister Natalia Gavrilita discusses her first month in office in an\u00a0interview with Bloomberg<\/a>. Gavrilita is part of the Prime Minister\u2019s cabinet, in which women hold six of the 11 portfolios. And she has major plans, including cracking down on endemic graft, ridding the country of inefficient state companies and jailing corrupt oligarchs, all while steering Moldova toward international markets and reducing the country\u2019s dependence on the International Monetary Fund. Gavrilita\u2019s statements echo what\u00a0Prime Minister Sandu told Reuters<\/a>\u00a0during an interview in Berlin on 18 July: \u201cThe first issue on the agenda is the \u2018de-oligarchization\u2019 of the state.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOREIGN POLICY<\/strong>: \u201cMoldova would love to join the European Union. There is a high consensus behind that,\u201d Moldova\u2019s Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu told EURACTIV.com in an exclusive interview. \u201cWe want good relations with everyone. We\u2019re a small state, so most voters, even if they prefer Europe, they don\u2019t want bad relations with Russia and are not anti-Russian. Vice versa, most of the pro-European voters and most of the voters who would want closer relations with Russia are not anti-European. In this sense, it gives us a platform on which to build a functioning grand coalition.\u201d Read the\u00a0full interview here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CRIME:<\/strong>\u00a0The Moldovan village of Dobrusa was home to 200 people just thirty years ago. But nowThe New York Times reports<\/a>\u00a0that a single resident remains after his only two neighbors became the victims of a grisly murder.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day before Ukraine\u2019s July 21 parliamentary elections,\u00a0Kyiv Post reported<\/a>\u00a0that the Central Election Commission disqualified a candidate they identified as a wanted Moldovan criminal in possession of nine Ukrainian passports issued under different names.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND PUNISHMENT<\/strong>: In Turkey, a court sentenced one of seven Turkish professors deported from Moldova to seven-and-a-half years of jail time on terrorism-related charges. The professor and his colleagues had applied for asylum in Moldova but were controversially extradited after being kidnapped during a joint operation by Moldovan and Turkish security services in 2018,\u00a0Balkan Insight explains<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\u00a0video report from RFE\/RL<\/a>\u00a0remembers the life of Moldovan writer Aleksei Marinat, whose son is preserving the journals that led to his father serving eight years in a Soviet gulag in the 1940s and 1950s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT<\/strong>: Last week\u2019s feature about ZdG\u2019s visit to the hometown of oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc is now available on\u00a0Hromadske International<\/a>\u00a0as well! Courtesy of the Russian Language News Exchange.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPOTTED THIS WEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Anniversary ZDG!: On July 19, ZdG hosted an event to celebrate the newspaper\u2019s 15-year anniversary and discuss freedom of the press in Eastern Partnership countries. In addition to journalists from other regional publications, the E.U. ambassador to Moldova Peter Michalko, the U.K. ambassador Lucy Joyce and the charges d\u2019affaires of the Netherlands embassy, Roy Hans, attended the event. Roy Hans mentioned this was one of his last public events before leaving Moldova for a new role. ZdG also celebrated the night before by\u00a0screening a compilation of their best reports<\/a>\u00a0outside of the government\u2019s headquarters in Chi\u015fin\u0103u.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for your continued interest! To keep up with our Moldova coverage throughout the week, you can follow us on\u00a0Twitter @ZiarulDe<\/a>\u00a0or at\u00a0zdg.md\/eng<\/a>\u00a0for our latest stories in English. More subscription options coming soon. Until next week! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\u2013 Daniela Bechet,  Cristina Carmanu, Maksym Eristavi, Eilish Hart and others from the ZdG Newsroom. Created with support from the Russian Language News Exchange. \n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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