Moldova News

“You are not forgotten. You are not alone”

PM Sergey Stanishev assured the Bulgarian community in Moldova they are not forgotten and the government would support them. via Sofia News Agency

Bulgaria will support Moldova for the country's integration with the European union, Bulgarian prime minister Sergei Stanishev said Thursday. via BNN - Bulgaria News Network

“According to preliminary information, the explosion was caused by a gas cylinder that was used for cooking the meals”

An explosion that ripped through a cafeteria in the Jumbo supermarket in Moldova's capital Chisinau Thursday night left thirteen people wounded, officials at the Interior Ministry's press service told ... via ITAR-TASS

Macedonia's largest ethnic-Albanian party, the Democratic Union for Integration , has called for Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska to resign over alleged police brutality, local media reported on February ... via Radio Free Europe

“More than 100 ministers from across the globe are scheduled to attend the Global Ministerial Environment Forum - the world's forum for environment ministers”

A Sudanese employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross has been killed in the troubled province of Darfur, the organization announced yesterday. via Turkish Daily News

“It's true we have been asked sometimes if some signals sent from Chisinau were real or not and more often than not they were exaggerated, but I do not want to comment on this anymore.”

Seeking to counter accusations that its policies are aimed at undermining Moldovan statehood, Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu says Bucharest is fostering ties between its poorer neighbor and Brussels and has ... via Weekday Magazine - Azerbaijan

“Nothing they said is true. (My) words were taken out of context and misinterpreted.”

CHISINAU, Moldova : Prosecutors are investigating one of Moldova's leading journalists, whom they suspect of making xenophobic statements about ethnic Russian citizens during a public forum earlier this month. via International Herald Tribune

Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer on Friday announced it has signed a firm order with Air Moldova for one Embraer 190 jet , to be delivered in March 2010. via Wilson's Almanac

“We are optimistic that the upcoming NATO summit will extend an invitation to the three candidates from the Adriatic group to become members of the organization”

Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski on Saturday said he expected his country to be invited to join NATO at the alliance's April summit in Bucharest, along with Albania and Croatia. via Earth Times

The conference will be attended by Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvii, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin, NATO Sec. via PanArmenian Network

“We must take action now when the epidemic can still be contained”

The United Nations Children's Fund and the World Health Organization have launched an appeal for $1.9 million to buy mumps vaccines for hundreds of thousands of Moldovans as an epidemic of the viral disease ... via United Nations

Moldova has introduced new passports with electronic chips. The new passports have been introduced at the recommendation of the International Civil Aviation Organisation . via Tass

Experts from Great Britain, Belgium, and Germany on Monday started inspecting military facilities in Moldova in accordance with the Vienna document of 1999 on military confidence-building measures, the press ... via ITAR-TASS

“They collect more and more money for repairs, but nothing is done”

Moldova's schools struggle against graft, but low pay for teachers makes it hard to resist the extra cash. via Transitions Online

The University of Dayton has nailed down its speakers list for its eighth-annual RISE Global Student Investment Forum. via Dayton Business Journal

“In fact, that document did not say whether it should be a federation, a confederation or a union. Hence, Transdniestria has not rejected that agreement and has never said it is invalid”

The potential recognition of independent Kosovo will imply the possibility of self-determination for Transdniestria, speaker of the unrecognized republic's parliament Yevgeny Shevchuk said in an interview ... via Interfax

The Israel Land Development Co., controlled by Ofer Nimrodi, has received final approval from the Urban Planning Office for a combined residential, office and commercial project in Kishinev, the Moldovan ... via Haaretz Daily News