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Ala Mîrza-Turbal, teacher of Romanian language and literature at the only Romanian-language high school in Râbnița: “When we will have dignity, an attitude full of respect for all that we have beautiful and holy, others will respect us too”
Every year, on 31 August, the Day of the Romanian Language is celebrated in Moldova and Romania. The celebration has its roots in 27 August 1989, when the first Great National Assembly, attended by some 750 000…
31 August 2023
How Andronachi’s “rescuers” (don’t) explain their decision to become guarantors. Abbot of the Căpriana monastery: “What’s your problem? Why are you making a big deal out of it?”
Vladimir Andronachi, who is the subject of three criminal cases, has been released from house arrest after a decision by Judge Gheorghe Balan of the Chisinau Buiucani Court rejected the request to extend the pr…
22 August 2023
“A machine with intercepting antennae”. What versions prosecutors are examining in the leaked data from dignitaries’ Telegram accounts and why the investigation is dragging on
Nine months after several conversations attributed to high-ranking Moldovan officials were published in the public domain, no one is accused or suspected of hacking into their accounts. In November 2022, a crim…
16 August 2023
“People of integrity in the system need to step up and fight. Fight openly, even if it means fighting against their own colleagues.” President Maia Sandu on justice reform
Justice reform will move forward, and prosecutors and judges who cannot demonstrate their integrity will continue to be removed from the system, says President Maia Sandu in an interview with ZdG. People of int…
11 August 2023
“We don’t hold them with a heavy hand”. Maia Sandu responds to criticism of pre-vetting by several prosecutors, including Veronica Dragalin, head of the PA
The fact that more prosecutors will leave the system if they are forced to go through the Pre-Vetting Commission evaluation “should not scare us.” The statements were made by Maia Sandu in an interv…
11 August 2023
ZdG Exclusive: Interview with President Maia Sandu about the decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice on candidates for the Supreme Council of Magistracy and the Supreme Council of Prosecutors
“We see yet another attempt by the system to put a spanner in the works of justice reform and efforts to remove corrupt people from the system. These decisions confirm once again that the system does not…
11 August 2023
19 years of ZdG. How much does it cost and who pays?
On July 29th we celebrated 19 years of ZdG and during this time we have had all kinds of excesses: too many threats, too many lawsuits in court, too many corruption cases to investigate, too many requests from…
29 July 2023
Courage, in the eyes of ZdG readers: “Through what you do, you give us a lesson in courage and resistance”
On July 29, 2023, Ziarul de Gardă turned 19. It took a lot of courage to face all the hardships during this period. ZdG wanted to know through its readers the stories of people who showed courage. We present so…
29 July 2023
“They beat them very often, they were tied to radiators or kept a whole day and night in WC, left without food. I decided not to leave it like that, because there are children abandoned by their parents”
About the courage of integrity whistleblowers and how the state (doesn’t) protect them They disclosed illegal practices they observed in the institutions where they are employed or whose beneficiaries the…
29 July 2023
At 19, life is an act of courage
There are 122 of them. All were born on the same day as Ziarul de Gardă, on July 29, 2004. In that year, at the end of July, in our country or in the world, several events took place: it marked a decade since t…
29 July 2023
