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New details about the man who killed two people at Chisinau airport: he was convicted in his country in 2012, but was released from prison early
Rustam Ashurov, a citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan, who fatally shot a border policeman and a security inspector at Chisinau International Airport on Friday 30 June, was sentenced in November 2012 to 13 ye…
02 July 2023
Constitutional Court judges argue their decision declaring the “Shor” Party unconstitutional. Details from the ruling
Representatives of the Constitutional Court (CC) published on Friday, June 30, the full ruling declaring the political party “Shor” unconstitutional. The High Court judges argue that the political p…
01 July 2023
Where the Tajik citizen who committed the double murder at Chisinau airport will be tried and what he risks
Rustam Ashurov Karimovich, the Tajik citizen who shot dead two people at Chisinau International Airport, cannot be extradited from Moldova. Acting Prosecutor General Ion Munteanu said that the foreigner will be…
01 July 2023
Ziarul de Gardă won eight awards in the annual internal competitions of the Independent Press Association
The Independent Press Association (API) on Thursday (29 June) awarded the winners in seven categories of its internal competitions for 2022. The editorial staff of the Ziarul de Gardă won eight awards in the co…
30 June 2023
Pre-Vetting Commission assessment passed by four more candidates for PSC positions
The Pre-Vetting Commission has completed the evaluation of prosecutors Mariana Cherpec, Iuri Lealin, Olesea Vîrlan and Elena Roșior, candidates for membership in the Superior Council of Prosecutors (SCP). Accor…
30 June 2023
The reason why former communist MP Vladimir Vitiuc is not returning to Parliament. The Constitutional Court declared the Central Electoral Commission’s complaint inadmissible
Magistrates of the Constitutional Court (CC) have declared inadmissible the application of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) on the validation of the mandate of deputy in the Moldovan Parliament awarded to…
30 June 2023
Former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Appointed to Chair the Supreme Court of Justice Evaluation Commission
The Supreme Court’s Judicial Integrity and Candidate Integrity Evaluation Commission (SJC Evaluation Commission) met for its first working meeting. At this meeting, Scott Bales, the international member f…
30 June 2023
Shootings at Chisinau International Airport. Live text
UPDATE 18:40 While escorting him to the sterile area to be returned, the foreign national grabbed a border policeman’s gun and fatally wounded two people, government Telegram channel First Source reports.
30 June 2023
Comrat Court of Appeal has ruled in the case of bribery of five judges
The Comrat Court of Appeal has decided to partially overturn the sentence of the Chisinau Buiucani court of 17 March 2021 in the criminal corruption case in which five female magistrates were acquitted. Thus, t…
29 June 2023
Arrested and charged with corruption in 2015, a former district president was acquitted by the Chisinau Court in 2023. Reasons given by the court
Gheorghe Meaun, the former president of the Sângerei district elected on the PLDM lists, who was detained in 2015 by officers of the National Anti-Corruption Centre (CNA) and prosecutors in a case of passive br…
29 June 2023
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