People
American Contributions And Faulty Irrigations
From 2013 to 2015, ten centralized irrigation systems located on the banks of the Nistru and Prut rivers were renewed with money donated by the U.S. Government. The villages of Coșnița and Pârâta benefited from…
15 September 2019
Transnistrian Delegation Rejects Compromise Proposal For Security Zone Border Posts
The Russian Federation delegation to the Joint Control Commission reiterated its compromise proposal to examine the situation created by installing border posts in the Transnistrian Security Zone. The Transnist…
15 September 2019
Music Connecting Tour on the Ferry from Molovata on the Nistru River
The Music Connecting People project started on September 13, with an open-air concert at the Casa Karaman guesthouse in Ternovka village, close to Tiraspol on the left bank of the Nistru river. The European Uni…
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
Will Moldova and Switzerland Cooperate to Investigate Plahotniuc?
Moldova has sent a request to the Swiss authorities for mutual legal assistance in connection with an investigation against the country’s richest oligarch, Vlad Plahotniuc. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Justi…
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
Moldova, Explained by ZdG. September 9, 2019.
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chişinău! Here’s what’s happening this week: Our feature story brings forward Moldova’s attempts to punish the injustice toward the seven Turkish high school workers who were…
09 September 2019
Der Spiegel Interviews President Igor Dodon /Transcript
On September 1, the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel published an interview with Moldova’s President Igor Dodon. The magazine called Moldova’s President Igor Dodon a “man of contradictions”: an admirer o…
09 September 2019
Moldova’s Extradition of Turkish Citizens: One Year Later
Almost one year has passed since seven Turkish citizens working at a high school were extradited from the Republic of Moldova. Since then, their case was brought before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR…
09 September 2019
Op-Ed: How to Fight Plutocracy
Even in developing democracies, political institutions remain vulnerable to capture by the super-rich. Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine have many things in common. Their political systems are much more open than th…
09 September 2019
REPORTAGE
