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Moldova, Explained by ZdG. September 23, 2019.
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.
23 September 2019
No Sentence for the Judges in the Laundromat Case Three Years Later
Three years have passed since the detainment of the 16 judges accused of willful issuance of judgments contrary to the law in the infamous Laundromat Case – which saw $20 billion laundered through Moldova’s cou…
22 September 2019
Moldova, Explained by ZdG. September 16, 2019.
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chişinău! Here’s what’s happening this week: Our feature brings you the highlights of a new international report on the state of anti money laundering efforts in Moldova. This…
16 September 2019
Music Connecting Tour on the Ferry from Molovata on the Nistru River
The Music Connecting People project started on September 13, with an open-air concert at the Casa Karaman guesthouse in Ternovka village, close to Tiraspol on the left bank of the Nistru river. The European Uni…
15 September 2019
Chișinău Is Not Moscow
I do not know who calculated the strengths and weaknesses of the Socialist Party-ACUM Bloc governing coalition and who had the final word in taking this decision. Was this a pragmatic calculation? Was it mere m…
14 September 2019
Will Moldova and Switzerland Cooperate to Investigate Plahotniuc?
Moldova has sent a request to the Swiss authorities for mutual legal assistance in connection with an investigation against the country’s richest oligarch, Vlad Plahotniuc. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Justi…
14 September 2019
The Contest of Compromised Prosecutors
The list of the seven candidates’ names for the position of Prosecutor General of the Republic of Moldova leaves many question marks regarding the future of the Prosecutor General’s Office, as well as of the ju…
14 September 2019
European Commission’s Director-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations to Visit Chișinău
The European Commission’s Director-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, Christian Danielsson will visit Chișinău to reinforce E.U. support for Moldova. He will meet with the Prime Minister, t…
14 September 2019
Moldova, Explained by ZdG. September 9, 2019.
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chişinău! Here’s what’s happening this week: Our feature story brings forward Moldova’s attempts to punish the injustice toward the seven Turkish high school workers who were…
09 September 2019
Der Spiegel Interviews President Igor Dodon /Transcript
On September 1, the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel published an interview with Moldova’s President Igor Dodon. The magazine called Moldova’s President Igor Dodon a “man of contradictions”: an admirer o…
09 September 2019
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