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Moldovan immigration ring leader sentenced in Portugal
December 31, 2009The head of an illegal immigration group, a 40-year-old Moldovan living in Lagos [Algarve] has been sentenced to eight years in prison. The group falsified documents, bribed public officials and had links to the Employment and Professional Training Institute...
Moldovan Government rejects NIT TV outlet’s accusations
December 28, 2009The Government of Moldova expressed surprise over the NIT television channel’s reaction to the decision taken last week by the Department for Governmental Buildings Administering to not extend for year 2010 the contract on renting the 5-storey building...
Moldovan Parliament approves 6 new members of TRM supervisory board
December 28, 2009The Parliament of Moldova voted for appointing 6 new members for the Supervisory Board of the Teleradio-Moldova public company. The candidates were selected through a contest organized and held by the Audiovisual Coordinating Council (ACC), an official...
Moldova in top of rejected asylum applications in Ireland
December 28, 2009The Independent recently posted a news story about the state of asylum applications in Ireland, whose level has fallen to its lowest levels in the last decade. The article also mentions that Moldova is in the top of countries that were sources of failed...
Christmas dispute underscores Orthodox Church's mounting clout
December 24, 2009By Claire Bigg When, exactly, is Christmas Day? The answer may seem evident to many, but in Moldova this question has been spoiling the seasonal cheer for almost two decades. There are three kinds of Christmas revelers in that small nation on...
Moldovan journalist writing about corruption threatened
December 22, 2009Investigative Journalists for Moldovan Newspaper Ziarul de Garda Threatened after Publishing Articles about Corruption at Chisinau Railway Station Starting at the end of November, Moldovan newspaper Ziarul de Garda (ZdG) published four articles about...
Large volumes of snowfall cause one death, dozens of accidents
December 18, 2009In the last day or so, Moldova has experienced large volumes of snowfall that have led to numerous accidents and one death. Tens of villages in the country have been cut off from electricity. Meteorologists say that snow will continue falling...
Moldova to remove barbed wire along its border with Romania
December 17, 2009Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has ordered the removal of barbed wire along the border with Romania. He was speaking at a cabinet meeting on 16 December while appointing Gen Alexei Roibu as head of the Moldovan Border Guard Service. Roibu,...
3 arrested in Ukraine for offering to sell radioactive material
December 17, 2009Police in Ukraine's western province of Lviv arrested three people this week for attempting to sell radioactive material, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) spokeswoman Marina Ostapenko told RFE/RL that the suspects...
Moldovan journalists say intimidated over investigative reports
December 16, 2009Journalists of the [grant-funded and investigative] newspaper Ziarul de Garda and their families have been intimidated with threats following of the publication of investigative reports regarding acts of corruption at the Chisinau-based railway terminal...