Editorial
Will We Elect Ilan Shor Again? The Chronicle of a Captured Court
The Moldovan Parliament is no longer functional. It cannot do anything, cannot meet in constructive meetings to decide and vote laws for its citizens. One of the deputies does not come to the meetings at all, b…
02 February 2021
Isn’t Fighting in the Streets Democratic?
The presidential elections remained behind and the inaugural event’s emotions were consumed. The Socialist Party and their leader Dodon no longer control the presidency. So what’s next? After the first st…
22 January 2021
A Lesson from Russia for Moldova
On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, Russian opponent Alexei Navalny and his colleagues surprised Vladimir Putin, entire Russia, and the whole world: they showed the wealth and boundless greed of this Soviet-born lead…
22 January 2021
A Strong Relationship: 29 Years and Counting…
Steven Mark Fisher, British Ambassador to Moldova On 31 December, 1991, the United Kingdom recognised the independence of the Republic of Moldova. On 17 January 1992, the two countries established diplomatic re…
19 January 2021
It’s Too Early To Applaud
The year 2020 is gone and the winter holidays are over as well. Groups of carolers, despite unnaturally warm winter weather, followed the tradition and did their duty: they went from door to door caroling and w…
16 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
The Early Parliamentary Elections are Coming
At the turn of a new year, we are, politically, at a new crossroads, now that Maia Sandu, the sixth President of Moldova, was inaugurated. The year 2020 is leaving. What was it like? Was it good or bad for Mold…
31 December 2020
The Last Days of Igor Dodon’s Presidency
President Dodon will leave in a week, no matter how much the deputy Shor will help him maintain control over the Government and the new parliamentary majority. Will Dodon retire to the household he built since…
19 December 2020
The Zero Sector in the Parliament of Moldova
Last week, Brussels adopted a new Transparency Register. In contrast, the parliamentary majority in Chișinău dismantled the few transparent laws that were left in this compromised legislature, discarding laws t…
18 December 2020
UNDP Reports on Human Development, Moldova Registering a Higher Score Compared to Last Year
Moldova is among three countries in the world demonstrating that lighter pressure on the planet is possible, according to UNDP’s Human Development Report Chisinau, 15 December 2020 – Republic of Moldova ranks 9…
15 December 2020
