Mihai Ghimpu
Moldovan journalists awarded highest state distinctions
December 31, 2009Moldovan acting President and Parliament Speaker Mihai Ghimpu today handed state distinctions to 15 journalists and managers of media outlets. The awards were conferred on them as a sign of high appreciation of their special merits in the protection...
Moldova marked Romania's unification day
December 04, 2009A unification hora (traditional dance that gathers everyone into a big closed circle), a march and a concert, this is how Romania's National Day was marked in Chisinau. About 150 young people from the right bank of the Prut River (Romania) joined events...
Moldova's acting president advocates official status for Romanian
December 04, 2009The constitutional commission will discuss the Romanian language issue in order to put an end to this delicate problem, which has been created artificially in Moldova, the acting president and parliament speaker, Mihai Ghimpu, told a news conference on...
OSCE urges Moldova to continue media reforms, foster pluralism
November 27, 2009The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said today following meetings in Chisinau that he hoped the new Moldovan government coalition would seek consensus on the further reforms needed to foster pluralism in the media, and that...
Moldovan parliament sets up commission to probe postelection riot
October 21, 2009The Moldovan parliament has set up a special commission in charge of investigating the causes and consequences of the 7 April mass riots in Chisinau. The commission has nine members representing all five parliamentary factions. Under the decision passed...
Moldovan officials provide details about explosion in Chisinau
October 19, 2009Senior officials from Moldova's power structures and the Ministry of Health were summoned to parliament on Thursday evening to present information about the explosion that took place in the Chisinau central square the night before during the Chisinau...
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...
US provides $1.4M to Moldova to combat corruption, crime
September 23, 2009Moldova has received a new installment of financial assistance worth 1.4 million dollars from the United States to combat corruption, human trafficking and organised crime. U.S. Ambassador to Moldova Asif J. Chaudhry and Parliament Speaker and acting...