Investigations
A Lesson From Igor Dodon: Frauding Elections And Losing the Presidential Race
Several voters from the breakaway Transnistria region admit that they received 200 Transnistrian rubles, the equivalent of about eight euros, to vote for Igor Dodon as president. “We were the first at the po…
20 November 2020
Minors Involved in the Presidential Election Campaign: What Does The Law Say?
ZdG holds evidence of minors involved in political advertising for the presidential candidate Igor Dodon. Every day, they distribute newspapers on the streets of Chișinău and campaign for the Socialist candidat…
13 November 2020
PAYING FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE WITH MONEY FROM THE UNEMPLOYED AND RETIREES
In the first round of the election campaign, the presidential candidates spent huge amounts of money donated by their supporters to promote themselves. While some candidates received funding mainly from party m…
06 November 2020
RACING TO PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY IN UNDECLARED CARS
Igor Dodon, the incumbent president and the Socialist Party’s favorable candidate for head of state, used a new Skoda Superb car in the first three weeks of the election campaign. The vehicle worth more t…
02 November 2020
EXPECTATION VERSUS REALITY: PRESIDENT DODON’S PROMISES
In the 2016 presidential election campaign, Igor Dodon, the Socialist Party candidate, made dozens of promises. And he evinced “firm conviction” that he would make them when he became president. Dodon published…
23 October 2020
The Moldovan Church VS COVID-19
While doctors and authorities urged citizens to adhere to protective measures during the COVID-19 epidemic strictly, some church representatives came up with public messages promoting various conspiracy theorie…
03 October 2020
MOLDOVAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Financial Disclosures of the Registered Candidates
The presidential election will take place on November 1. ZdG follows the presidential candidates’ activities, money, and electoral campaigns. Last week three more presidential candidates have submitted their fi…
02 October 2020
Oligarch Plahotniuc On Moldova’s Authorities’ Radar: Where is the Former Democrats Party’s Leader Now?
The media wrote earlier this week that the former president of the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM), Vlad Plahotniuc, for whom the national courts issued an arrest warrant, left the U.S. territory and would be…
02 October 2020
MILAN CRIME AND MOLDOVAN INJUSTICE
Moldovan justice released the perpetrator of “Milan crime” nine years ahead from his 20-year detention. In November 2007, in Milan, Italy, Moldovan Vasile Coceban, together with his fiancée and five…
25 September 2020
POLITICAL (IN)JUSTICE: How did the 38 So-called Political Cases Examined By the Prosecutor’s Office End?
Imagine a country led by an oligarch, where the judicial system punishes people because the head of the system does not like them. For the last few years, the prosecutors or judicial offices initiated dozens of…
25 September 2020
REPORTAGE
