Since its formation in June, Moldova’s coalition Government has represented an unlikely union between pro-E.U. and pro-Russian parties. But with an anti-oligarch stance holding the alliance together, the Govern…
A Chișinău Court has acquitted a prosecutor who stood trial in August 2017 for knowingly condemning an innocent person. A policeman previously convicted for the falsification of procedural documents in the same…
Moldova’s Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Plahotniuc’s, the country’s biggest oligarch and the former leader of the Democratic Party. He is accused of large-scale mo…
After Andrei Năstase, leader of the Dignity and Truth Platform Party, filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights regarding the invalidation of his victory in Chișinău’s May-June 2018 local election…
The commitments of former governments failed to add credibility to the justice system. At the same time, judges newly appointed to the Constitutional Court and the changes to the Law of the Prosecutor’s O…
Thirteen years ago, on October 7, 2006, journalist Anna Politkovskaya was returning home after a day – and a life – spent fighting corruption. She was 48 years old and had two children. She had won fights and h…
Alleged drug trafficker Oleg Pruteanu, alias Oleg Borman, was released from detention after almost two years’ imprisonment on September 20, 2019. But he was immediately detained again in another criminal case f…
When Pavel Filip became Prime Minister of Moldova in 2016, the number of projects financed from the state budget and implemented in his hometown began to increase. But in the race to implement multiple projects…
After Moldova’s oligarchic regime was ousted in June, the new coalition government placed high on their reform agenda the law and order institutions, including the Prosecutor’s Office and the courts. At the end…
Moldovan Prime Minister Maia Sandu met with the E.U. High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, on September 30, 2019 – ahead of the meeting of the Fifth Association Counci…