HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chişinău! Here’s what’s happening this week: we feature the story on the ascension and consolidation of President Igor Dodon’s circle, who amassed businesses and assets worth…
Igor Dodon has been Moldova’s president for three years, while the Socialist Party, which he has led, is one of the biggest parliamentary formations for five years. During this period, neither Igor Dodon nor hi…
The Guernsey-based company NR Investments Ltd gave up on the 95 percent of Avia Invest, the Moldovan company that currently manages the Chișinău International Airport. Avia Invest and NR Investments Ltd ratifie…
The Prosecutor General of Kyiv sent a letter to Moldova’s Prosecutor General, Alexandr Stoianoglo, requesting him to extradite Veaceslav Platon, former deputy in Ukraine. The requests comes after more than thre…
The president of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), Gianni Buquicchio, was on a working visit to Moldova, on December 19-20. In a press conference, Gianni Buquicchio stressed…
After the seventh meeting of the European Union (E.U.)- Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee co-chaired by the Romanian Member of the European Parliament, Siegfried Mureșan, the E.U. issued several recom…
The Center for Independent Journalism awarded the best journalists of the year on December 19. This year, ZdG’s editorial staff won awards in two categories the best report in print media and another award for…
The October 20 local elections came with several surprises. The Democratic Party (PDM), which lost its leader Vlad Plahotniuc this summer, ended up breaking a record. The PDM came out with the largest num…
Law enforcement authorities have placed sequesters on the assets of Finpar Invest, a company controlled by oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc. This took place a year and a half after they got hold of the documents in…
This week marks exactly one month since the Plahotniuc ruled government left. The interviews from prison with Vlad Filat, the interviews with several Democratic Party representatives and an interview from the h…