The President of Moldova continues his trips through the Russian Federation. This time, Igor Dodon traveled to the Altai Mountains, where he spent the weekend.

He posted some photos on the social media. Some of them were taken from inside the helicopter and have the caption:

“Very nice. Russia is not just Moscow. Have a nice weekend”.

Finance Minister Octavian Armaşu is the first member of the Government to complete and publish the declaration of wealth and personal interests for 2017. The previous year was a good one for the Armaşu family, which had revenues of 1 155 718 lei, 84 736 euros and $327, writes Ziarul de Gardă.

At the same time, on the bank accounts, at the time of filing the declaration, the family had 766 292 lei, 109 470 euros and 33 446 dollars. Octavian Armasu also declares a legacy of 38,000 euros from Pavel Armasu, who is most likely his father.

In 2017, the minister bought a new Volvo XC60 with 44,727 euros, manufactured in the same year.

According to the cited source, Octavian Armaşu was paid to the minister with 158 734 lei, ie about 13 200 lei. His wife, Elena Armaşu, who is a Moldovan representative of pharmaceutical company “Bayer” SRL, declares a salary that is four times higher, 785,459 lei.

Armaşu family indicates in the act of wealth two apartments, two villas and two garages, properties that he declared the previous year.

The Minister holds shares in Franzeluta SA, BC Victoriabank SA, Banca de Economii SA and Agro-SZM SRL.

The leader of the self-proclaimed Transnistria, Vadim Krasnoselski, signed an order establishing simplified control procedures at the entrance to the region. The decision comes in the context of winter holidays. The simplified procedures will be valid for the period December 30 – January 15, IPN reports on the regional press.

Krasnoselski also wanted to temporarily open additional ways of crossing the means of transport with passengers through the following points: Valea Adâncă-Zagnitkov, Ploti-Krutîe, Vinogradnoe-Novîi Butorî, Gruşca-Nemirovka, Krasnî Oktiabri-Vetrujeni, Raşcov-Vadul -Rascov, Ţîbulevka-Ţehanovka, Teia-Calfa.

Passengers, citizens of Ukraine and of the Republic of Moldova, will present the identity document or the document confirming the residence visa in one of the neighboring localities. Also, at all checkpoints, a simplified regime of goods verification will be applied during this period, except for those that are forbidden in the Transnistrian region.

Source: IPN