{"id":443432,"date":"2017-02-12T23:28:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=443432"},"modified":"2017-02-12T23:28:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:28:24","slug":"moldova-weekly-news-digest-12-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/moldova-weekly-news-digest-12-february-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova Weekly News Digest, 12 February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 6<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

-On February 7th, the President of Moldova, Igor Dodon, made a visit<\/a> to the European Union institutions and had several meeting with EU officials.<\/p>\n

When meeting the EU Council President Donald Tusk, Dodon reportedly told that the Association Agreement between Moldova and the Union, together with the implemented DCFTA would not prove its necessity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI reiterated the fact that if, after the results of ordinary or preliminary Parliamentary elections or a referendum, it would be decided to cancel the Association Agreement with the European Union, I as a President would support this initiative\u201d,\u00a0<\/em>says Dodon in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n

The Moldovan President thinks that the decrease of trust in the European institutions between 2009 and 2016 was caused \u201cby the bad governance, but also the double standards with geopolitical context that the European officials applied to everything happened during these years at Chi\u0219in\u0103u\u201d<\/em>. He\u00a0also proposed to Tusk to reflect on a\u00a0trilateral format of negotiations on trade between the EU, Moldova and Russia.<\/p>\n

Dodon asked the European institutions to offer assistance in the investigation of the banking frauds, because they happened after the signing of the Association Agreement. He suggested that the reforms are largely faked at Chi\u0219in\u0103u, especially when it comes to the reformation of the justice and prosecutions systems.<\/p>\n

-In an open-ed for IPN<\/a>, Dionis Cenu\u0219a writes that the European has to both criticize the government of Moldova and to fight the anti-European propaganda of the Pro-Russian President Igor Dodon. Moreover, the EU would have to push the truth forward, in order to win Moldova:<\/p>\n

The truth and real figures are as unpleasant and painful for those who disseminate untruths (President Dodon, Party of Socialists and others) and for those who report half-truths or are accused of pretending to do reforms (ruling parties led by the Democratic Party of Moldova, the mass media controlled by the government, etc.).<\/em><\/p>\n

-On February 12th, the Moldovan President Igor Dodon had a meeting <\/a>with the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, in Tehran.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

According to the press-release of the Presidency, Dodon and Rouhani shared their opinions on the bilateral relations in sectors like agriculture and energy. The parties reportedly talked about the possibility to open Embassies in both countries.<\/p>\n

Dodon later met the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss cooperation in the energy industry, transportation, banking, agriculture, but also about easing visa restrictions.<\/p>\n

-Igor Dodon still insists on not opening a NATO liaison office in Moldova after meeting the Deputy Secretary General.\u00a0On February 7th, the Moldovan President, Igor Dodon, had a meeting<\/a> with the Deputy Secretary General of the NATO, Rose Gottemoeller, to discuss the opening of the NATO liaison office in Chi\u0219in\u0103u.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Secretary Gottemoeller tried to convince that NATO respects the sovereignty of all nations,\u00a0the right of every nation to set<\/em>\u00a0its own\u00a0course, to choose its own alliances or to choose not to align\u00a0with anyone,\u00a0<\/em>and emphasized that the Alliance fully respects Moldova\u2019s constitutional neutrality.\u00a0At the same time, the NATO official took the time to describe all the benefits and opportunities the Moldovan state gets from its Partnership.<\/p>\n

President Dodon did not seem to agree on opening the NATO office in Moldova, saying that it would create difficulties in the negotiations on Transnistrian conflict settlement. What he appreciated was NATO\u2019s support in, quote,\u00a0\u201cclearing the pesticides stock, and others\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Claiming that the journalists are so-called impartial<\/em>, Dodon avoided a question on Moldova\u2019s questionable neutrality status with Russian troops illegally stationed on its territory (Transnistria).<\/p>\n

–A recent Gallup Poll shows<\/a> that 27% of Moldovans see NATO as a threat, 16% as a protection and 38% as neither of them.<\/p>\n

-Moldova will continually make efforts towards the unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops and munitions from its territory in the Transnistrian region, said Prime-Minister Pavel Filip in an interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will push our efforts further in the direction of the unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops and munitions from the territory of Moldova and the transformation of the current peace-keeping mission on Nistru river in a civil mission with an international mandate\u201d<\/em>, declared Filip.<\/p>\n

The Moldovan premier stressed that the main argument against the presence of foreign troops is the contradiction of Constitution, but also the agreement on the withdrawal of Russian troops signed at the OSCE Summit in Istanbul in 1999. Filip thinks that the current peace-keeping forces\u00a0fulfilled their task some time ago and should thus be replaced with a civil international force.<\/p>\n

-Transnistria asks Russia to finance an audit of government expenditures.<\/p>\n

The so-called president of the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (PMR), Vadim Krasnoselsky, asked in a letter<\/a> the Russian Deputy Prime-Minister, Dmitry Rogozin, to cooperate in offering financial sources for an audit of governmental\u00a0expenditures of the unrecognized entity.<\/p>\n

-Former IT Minister Vasile Botnari is the new head of Moldovagaz.\u00a0On February 9th, the Observers\u2019 Council of Moldovagaz approved<\/a> the new members of the Administration Council of\u00a0Moldova\u2019s gas distributor.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n

The current Minister of Informational Technologies and Communications, Vasile Botnari, was appointed President of the Administration Council of Moldovagaz. 41 years old Botnari is known for advancing from the position of director of NobilAir, Vlad Plahotniuc\u2019s personal airlines, to the position of Ministry of Transportation and then, IT Minister of Moldova. He is also one of the biggest donors to the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Nicolai Vasiliev, Liudmila Korobanova and Iacov Cazacu were appointed Vice-Presidents of Moldovagaz.\u00a0Denis Emelianov, Lidia Zam\u0219a, Elena Tcaciuc, Vitalii \u0218eptefra\u021bi and\u00a0Mihail Yuriev were given the position of members of the Administration Council.<\/p>\n

-On February 10th, the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual of Moldova decided to punish<\/a> two TV channels, NTV Moldova and Accent TV.<\/p>\n

The two TV channels were found guilty of disinformation, presenting opinions as facts and presenting only one point of view in a controversial subject, disseminating distorted information and false facts meant to cause fear, intolerance and hate on the basis of ethnicity and religion.<\/p>\n

-Poll IDIS “Viitorul”: President Igor Dodon- 44% approval, Parliament- 66% disapproval.<\/p>\n

According to the poll, the\u00a0Corruption, the (Low) Level of the Salaries and Pensions and the Lack of Jobs are the problems that concern Moldovans the most- approximately 53%.<\/p>\n

61,6% of the people believe things in Moldova are going in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n

Asked about governance, 82,7% of the respondents answered that Moldova is not governed by the will of the people. 48,5% told that the recent Presidential elections were not free and correct, while 39,2% were satisfied, to the opposite.<\/p>\n

In the same poll, 66,1% of people disapproved the activity of the Moldovan Parliament and 60,7% disapproved the current Government. 44,3% approved the activity of the President of Moldova (Igor Dodon), 32% disapproved and 23,7% were not sure about their evaluation.<\/p>\n

More results of the poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

-Mihai Pop\u0219oi writes at Jamestown Foundation<\/a> that Moldova’s chances to have a successful protest movement to change the government and the governance like in Romania are low, because the Moldovan mass-media, an important factor in the civil society, are either owned, controlled or opressed by the ruling oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc.<\/p>\n

-Romania will transfer the second part of the \u20ac150 million loan to Moldova one month ahead, the Romanian Finance Ministry decided this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thus, the 50 million euros meant be sent on 31 March 2017 will be sent on 27 February 2017, after the Moldovan Ministry of Finance asked in a letter an earlier transfer.<\/p>\n

-Moldova National Bank applied sanctions on former administrators of Banca de Economii and Unibank.\u00a0On February 2nd and 3rd, the Executive Committee of Moldova\u2019s National Bank decided to apply<\/a> a maximal sanction fee of 100 252 lei upon the former members of the administration councils of the defrauded Banca de Economii and Unibank.<\/p>\n

The sanctioning was imposed for the violation of norms regarding financial institutions, especially when engaging the bank in excessively risky operations, disregarding the limits and requirements of exposing the assets of the bank, manipulating the accounting data and misreporting in the official reports.<\/p>\n

The fines applied by the National Bank now do not exclude any further penal prosecution of\u00a0these persons.<\/p>\n

–Transparency International and its national chapter in Moldova are calling on lawmakers to withdraw legislation currently before the Moldovan parliament that would grant impunity to corrupt officials, businesses and civil servants for declaring assets, even if the assets were acquired from illicit wealth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Transparency International Secretariat writes<\/a> that the “capital liberalization” law would encourage corruption and money laundering in Moldova.<\/p>\n

-On February 6th, the bashkan of the Gagauzia autonomy, Irina Vlah, issued a statement<\/a>\u00a0complaining that the Government of Moldova refused to include the autonomy representatives in the delegation to the Council of Europe\u2019s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.\u00a0Now, Vlah calls on the Parliament of Moldova to approve the respective law and thus, make a real step\u00a0on the path of harmonization of relations between the central and regional authority.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 6<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>-On February 7th, the President of Moldova, Igor Dodon, made a visit to the European Union institutions and had several meeting with EU officials. When meeting the EU Council President Donald Tusk, Dodon reportedly told that the Association Agreement between Moldova and the Union, together with the implemented DCFTA would not prove its necessity. \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":443403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-en"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 6<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

-On February 7th, the President of Moldova, Igor Dodon, made a visit<\/a> to the European Union institutions and had several meeting with EU officials.<\/p>\n

When meeting the EU Council President Donald Tusk, Dodon reportedly told that the Association Agreement between Moldova and the Union, together with the implemented DCFTA would not prove its necessity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI reiterated the fact that if, after the results of ordinary or preliminary Parliamentary elections or a referendum, it would be decided to cancel the Association Agreement with the European Union, I as a President would support this initiative\u201d,\u00a0<\/em>says Dodon in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n

The Moldovan President thinks that the decrease of trust in the European institutions between 2009 and 2016 was caused \u201cby the bad governance, but also the double standards with geopolitical context that the European officials applied to everything happened during these years at Chi\u0219in\u0103u\u201d<\/em>. He\u00a0also proposed to Tusk to reflect on a\u00a0trilateral format of negotiations on trade between the EU, Moldova and Russia.<\/p>\n

Dodon asked the European institutions to offer assistance in the investigation of the banking frauds, because they happened after the signing of the Association Agreement. He suggested that the reforms are largely faked at Chi\u0219in\u0103u, especially when it comes to the reformation of the justice and prosecutions systems.<\/p>\n

-In an open-ed for IPN<\/a>, Dionis Cenu\u0219a writes that the European has to both criticize the government of Moldova and to fight the anti-European propaganda of the Pro-Russian President Igor Dodon. Moreover, the EU would have to push the truth forward, in order to win Moldova:<\/p>\n

The truth and real figures are as unpleasant and painful for those who disseminate untruths (President Dodon, Party of Socialists and others) and for those who report half-truths or are accused of pretending to do reforms (ruling parties led by the Democratic Party of Moldova, the mass media controlled by the government, etc.).<\/em><\/p>\n

-On February 12th, the Moldovan President Igor Dodon had a meeting <\/a>with the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, in Tehran.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

According to the press-release of the Presidency, Dodon and Rouhani shared their opinions on the bilateral relations in sectors like agriculture and energy. The parties reportedly talked about the possibility to open Embassies in both countries.<\/p>\n

Dodon later met the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss cooperation in the energy industry, transportation, banking, agriculture, but also about easing visa restrictions.<\/p>\n

-Igor Dodon still insists on not opening a NATO liaison office in Moldova after meeting the Deputy Secretary General.\u00a0On February 7th, the Moldovan President, Igor Dodon, had a meeting<\/a> with the Deputy Secretary General of the NATO, Rose Gottemoeller, to discuss the opening of the NATO liaison office in Chi\u0219in\u0103u.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Secretary Gottemoeller tried to convince that NATO respects the sovereignty of all nations,\u00a0the right of every nation to set<\/em>\u00a0its own\u00a0course, to choose its own alliances or to choose not to align\u00a0with anyone,\u00a0<\/em>and emphasized that the Alliance fully respects Moldova\u2019s constitutional neutrality.\u00a0At the same time, the NATO official took the time to describe all the benefits and opportunities the Moldovan state gets from its Partnership.<\/p>\n

President Dodon did not seem to agree on opening the NATO office in Moldova, saying that it would create difficulties in the negotiations on Transnistrian conflict settlement. What he appreciated was NATO\u2019s support in, quote,\u00a0\u201cclearing the pesticides stock, and others\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Claiming that the journalists are so-called impartial<\/em>, Dodon avoided a question on Moldova\u2019s questionable neutrality status with Russian troops illegally stationed on its territory (Transnistria).<\/p>\n

–A recent Gallup Poll shows<\/a> that 27% of Moldovans see NATO as a threat, 16% as a protection and 38% as neither of them.<\/p>\n

-Moldova will continually make efforts towards the unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops and munitions from its territory in the Transnistrian region, said Prime-Minister Pavel Filip in an interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will push our efforts further in the direction of the unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops and munitions from the territory of Moldova and the transformation of the current peace-keeping mission on Nistru river in a civil mission with an international mandate\u201d<\/em>, declared Filip.<\/p>\n

The Moldovan premier stressed that the main argument against the presence of foreign troops is the contradiction of Constitution, but also the agreement on the withdrawal of Russian troops signed at the OSCE Summit in Istanbul in 1999. Filip thinks that the current peace-keeping forces\u00a0fulfilled their task some time ago and should thus be replaced with a civil international force.<\/p>\n

-Transnistria asks Russia to finance an audit of government expenditures.<\/p>\n

The so-called president of the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (PMR), Vadim Krasnoselsky, asked in a letter<\/a> the Russian Deputy Prime-Minister, Dmitry Rogozin, to cooperate in offering financial sources for an audit of governmental\u00a0expenditures of the unrecognized entity.<\/p>\n

-Former IT Minister Vasile Botnari is the new head of Moldovagaz.\u00a0On February 9th, the Observers\u2019 Council of Moldovagaz approved<\/a> the new members of the Administration Council of\u00a0Moldova\u2019s gas distributor.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n

The current Minister of Informational Technologies and Communications, Vasile Botnari, was appointed President of the Administration Council of Moldovagaz. 41 years old Botnari is known for advancing from the position of director of NobilAir, Vlad Plahotniuc\u2019s personal airlines, to the position of Ministry of Transportation and then, IT Minister of Moldova. He is also one of the biggest donors to the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Nicolai Vasiliev, Liudmila Korobanova and Iacov Cazacu were appointed Vice-Presidents of Moldovagaz.\u00a0Denis Emelianov, Lidia Zam\u0219a, Elena Tcaciuc, Vitalii \u0218eptefra\u021bi and\u00a0Mihail Yuriev were given the position of members of the Administration Council.<\/p>\n

-On February 10th, the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual of Moldova decided to punish<\/a> two TV channels, NTV Moldova and Accent TV.<\/p>\n

The two TV channels were found guilty of disinformation, presenting opinions as facts and presenting only one point of view in a controversial subject, disseminating distorted information and false facts meant to cause fear, intolerance and hate on the basis of ethnicity and religion.<\/p>\n

-Poll IDIS “Viitorul”: President Igor Dodon- 44% approval, Parliament- 66% disapproval.<\/p>\n

According to the poll, the\u00a0Corruption, the (Low) Level of the Salaries and Pensions and the Lack of Jobs are the problems that concern Moldovans the most- approximately 53%.<\/p>\n

61,6% of the people believe things in Moldova are going in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n

Asked about governance, 82,7% of the respondents answered that Moldova is not governed by the will of the people. 48,5% told that the recent Presidential elections were not free and correct, while 39,2% were satisfied, to the opposite.<\/p>\n

In the same poll, 66,1% of people disapproved the activity of the Moldovan Parliament and 60,7% disapproved the current Government. 44,3% approved the activity of the President of Moldova (Igor Dodon), 32% disapproved and 23,7% were not sure about their evaluation.<\/p>\n

More results of the poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

-Mihai Pop\u0219oi writes at Jamestown Foundation<\/a> that Moldova’s chances to have a successful protest movement to change the government and the governance like in Romania are low, because the Moldovan mass-media, an important factor in the civil society, are either owned, controlled or opressed by the ruling oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc.<\/p>\n

-Romania will transfer the second part of the \u20ac150 million loan to Moldova one month ahead, the Romanian Finance Ministry decided this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thus, the 50 million euros meant be sent on 31 March 2017 will be sent on 27 February 2017, after the Moldovan Ministry of Finance asked in a letter an earlier transfer.<\/p>\n

-Moldova National Bank applied sanctions on former administrators of Banca de Economii and Unibank.\u00a0On February 2nd and 3rd, the Executive Committee of Moldova\u2019s National Bank decided to apply<\/a> a maximal sanction fee of 100 252 lei upon the former members of the administration councils of the defrauded Banca de Economii and Unibank.<\/p>\n

The sanctioning was imposed for the violation of norms regarding financial institutions, especially when engaging the bank in excessively risky operations, disregarding the limits and requirements of exposing the assets of the bank, manipulating the accounting data and misreporting in the official reports.<\/p>\n

The fines applied by the National Bank now do not exclude any further penal prosecution of\u00a0these persons.<\/p>\n

–Transparency International and its national chapter in Moldova are calling on lawmakers to withdraw legislation currently before the Moldovan parliament that would grant impunity to corrupt officials, businesses and civil servants for declaring assets, even if the assets were acquired from illicit wealth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Transparency International Secretariat writes<\/a> that the “capital liberalization” law would encourage corruption and money laundering in Moldova.<\/p>\n

-On February 6th, the bashkan of the Gagauzia autonomy, Irina Vlah, issued a statement<\/a>\u00a0complaining that the Government of Moldova refused to include the autonomy representatives in the delegation to the Council of Europe\u2019s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.\u00a0Now, Vlah calls on the Parliament of Moldova to approve the respective law and thus, make a real step\u00a0on the path of harmonization of relations between the central and regional authority.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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