Editorial
Maia Sandu: Speed Up
At the end of last week, President Igor Dodon left for the United States on a seven-day visit, which was also a family trip because he took his wife with him too. Even though this is his first visit across the…
28 September 2019
Russia’s 14th Army at the United Nations
The United Nations headquarters have been discussing some hot issues in recent days. The first and most important is the environmental crisis, lit by the heated speech of Greta Thunberg and her supporters, as w…
28 September 2019
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
One Hundred Days on a Construction Site: How (Not) to De-oligarchize
Chișinău is marking 100 days since Moldova’s leading oligarch, Vlad Plahotniuc, left the country and the government. It is the first time a figure so deeply involved in the political and economic life of the co…
22 September 2019
New Detainments and the Recovery of the Billion
We felt neither joy nor reassurance when we learned about the two or three arrests in the case of the stolen billion in the middle of this week. Firstly, because none of that billion has been recovered yet and…
22 September 2019
Op-Ed: Is There Corruption in Moldova’s Universities?
Underpaid faculty members may have no choice but to seek different sources of supplemental income. As with other segments of the public sector, higher education in Moldova may not be entirely free of corruption…
21 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
The Estimated Cost of Access to Information, in Terms of Time and Money
In the summer of 2019, journalists from Sudan, El Salvador, Cambodia and Moldova engaged in a new fight for access to information. Why are we on the same list? It’s not because these states have an association…
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
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
