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How Corruption in Moldovan Football Is (Not) Punished
Several corruption scandals have shaken Moldovan football in the last decade. However, the punishments were purely symbolic and did not target any of the notorious people. In early December 2020, law enforcemen…
16 January 2021
Concrete Instead of Trees in a Chișinău Forest
Durlești Forest, located in the suburbs of Chisinau, is destroyed under the eyes of the authorities. Instead of trees growing, we see reinforced concrete constructions all over the place, despite the fact that…
15 January 2021
30 Years of Convulsions. It’s Resuscitation Time
This week we watched a symptomatically sad meeting between three former Soviet countries’ presidents: Vladimir Putin invited Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to a m…
15 January 2021
President Sandu Withdrew a Member from the Commission that will Appoint a Judge to the ECHR from Moldova
Last week President of Moldova, Maia Sandu withdrew Pavel Abraham from the Commission for the selection of candidates for the position of judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). As a follow-up, the…
15 January 2021
Letters From Our Readers
Dumitru Cernea is 86 years old. He dedicated 57 years of his life to the work of an engineer. He is now retired and currently lives in Chișinău. He is one of the 10,000 subscribers of Ziarul de Gardă. One day,…
15 January 2021
OP-ED: Are Russian Troops on the Nistru River a Problem for Moldova?
Moscow cannot forgive President Maia Sandu’s statement on the need to withdraw Russian troops from the breakaway Transnistria region, made right after her election win. The subject is periodically resumed…
14 January 2021
Moldova’s President Meets the President of the Ukrainian Parliament and the Ukrainian Prime Minister
After the meeting with the president, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, Maia Sandu, also had a meeting with the president of the Ukrainian parliament, Dmytro Razumkov, and a separate meeting with the Ukrainian prime-ministe…
13 January 2021
President Maia Sandu had a Conversation with NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg
President Maia Sandu had a telephone conversation with Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary-General. They discussed the NATO-Moldova partnership, the fight against corruption, and common projects that will strength…
06 January 2021
President Maia Sandu Visits Ukraine
The President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, will pay an official visit to Ukraine on January 12. She will meet with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister, Denis Shmygal, and the president of th…
05 January 2021
Political Cases Without Culprits?
Last year, the General Prosecutor’s Office decided on 19 criminal cases, declaring that their investigation had been politically influenced during the oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc’s governance. Prosecutor…
05 January 2021
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