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Moldova's interior minister assures police shall be respecting HR
October 05, 2009The just appointed Minister of the Interior MG Victor Catan has stated the Moldovan police shall be strictly observing citizens' human rights and freedoms. He was invited to parliament today to report on the current crime situation in the republic. Reviewing...
TV Producer Indicted in Letterman Extortion Plot
October 02, 2009A senior news producer in New York for the CBS television network has been charged in connection with an attempt to extort $2 million from U.S. late-night talk-show host David Letterman. New York City District Attorney Robert Morgenthau told reporters...
Hundreds protest in Chisinau against increased utility tariffs
October 01, 2009Several hundreds of retirees on 30 September protested against the latest increase in tariffs on water supply and public transport fares in Moldova's capital, the Moldovan ProTV Chisinau channel has reported. ProTV noted that the protesters asked for...
Moldova's court system to be modernized to European standards
September 30, 2009The Republic of Moldova's judiciary system will be improved and modernized in conformity with European standards, Minister of Justice, First Deputy Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Alexandru Tanase stated at the presentation of a brochure called...
Cetatenii moldoveni stabiliti in Belgia se vad azi cu Filat
September 29, 2009De Ludmila Zahu-Rizu, CBB Bruxelles La doua luni de la alegerile anticipate din 29 iulie 2009, la Bruxelles toti vor sa-i vada pe noii detinatori ai puterii in Republica Moldova, unii pentru ca isi pun toate sperantele intr-o echipa tanara si competenta...
Russia Owes Its Greatness to the Golden Horde, Gainutdin Says
September 28, 2009By Paul Goble Ravil Gainutdin, the head of the Union of Muftis of Russia (SMR), has touched off a firestorm by his comments about the role of Islam in the past and future of Russia, a reminder if one is needed of how sensitive almost all historical...
Moldovan politician's sons leave Romanian embassy after one year
September 24, 2009Brothers Adrian and Roman Mocanu today left the Romanian embassy in Chisinau, which they illegally entered on 25 September 2008. In a statement for the media, politician Sergiu Mocanu, Adrian and Roman's father, has said that his sons could leave the...
US Charges Terror Suspect with Bomb Plot
September 24, 2009An Afghan-born man detained in the United States as part of a terror investigation has been charged with conspiring to detonate bombs in the U.S. The indictment unveiled Thursday in New York alleges Najibullah Zazi spent more than a year plotting the...
A 19.5-foot giant squid caught in the Gulf of Mexico (photo)
September 23, 2009On July 30, 2009, a 19.5-foot (5.94-metre) giant squid, hauled up in a trawl (seen in the photo), had been pulled 1,500 feet below the surface off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico on the NOAA research vessel Gordon Gunter. Pictures released...
Acting Moldovan president: We will investigate the 7 April riots
September 23, 2009The acting Moldovan president and parliament speaker, Mihai Ghimpu, has said that "the new Moldovan leadership is set to bring the investigation into the reasons for the 7 April riots in Chisinau to an end". He was speaking in the Obiectiv...