Icons from the Metropolitanate of Moldova and WHO
Moldovan press news
- The Metropolitanate of Moldova printed, “in collaboration with the World Health Organization from Moldova”, 100,000 thousand icons with the face of the Holy Great Martyr and Healer, Pantelimon. The Agora portal writes that on the back there is a message from the Holy Scriptures that urges the preservation of health and the importance of doctors. The icons will be distributed by church leaders in medical institutions in Moldova.
- “The Transnistrian gap. The US has closed the international circuit of black money from Transnistria through Russian banks”, is the title of one investigations of journalists from the Anticorruption portal. The investigation shows that, in the midst of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Russian bank Transcapitalbank, which journalists say was the core of avoiding US sanctions, provided assistance with wire transfers in US dollars to all three Transnistrian banks – Agroprombank, Eximbank and Sberbank. The United States Treasury disconnected Transcapitalbank from SWIFT, as well as their extensions in Transnistria, this spring. Russian banks, according to the investigation, helped the separatist region to maintain trade relations with the whole world, bypassing Chisinau’s banking control, the journalists also found.
- Making a plan for building a new prison in Moldova will be one of the priorities of the Minister of Justice, Sergiu Litvinenco, until the beginning of this fall. The NewsMaker portal writes that Litvinenco said this during an exchange of views with Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița, in the context of concerns about the growing number of convictions of the Republic of Moldova at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in cases regarding inhumane detention conditions. NewsMaker recalls that, still 11 years ago, the Government of Chisinau accessed a grant of one million euros from a European bank for the construction of a new prison, which was subsequently put into use last year. In the last 15 years, according to Promo-LEX, the Republic of Moldova has lost over 40 cases at the ECtHR, due to the inhuman conditions of detention in Moldovan prisons.
- The start of the construction works of the 400 kV Vulcanesti-Chisinau overhead power line, which would ensure the electrical interconnection of the Republic of Moldova with Romania, could be given in March of 2023, even though the Chisinau authorities previously stated that the works were to begin this year. Economic portal Mold Street writes that so far only the main design of the intermediate suspension pillar has been completed. The value of the project is 27 million euros and is carried out by the Indian company KEC (KEISI) International. In the next three and a half years, the company undertook to build 158 kilometers of electric line with a single circuit on the Vulcanesti-Chisinau direction.
- Students from the Republic of Moldova they will not learn online in the months of September-October, according to the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for Infrastructure, Andrei Spînu, quoted by the Ziarului de Gardă portal. The Deputy Prime Minister made these clarifications in the context of the measures proposed by the Government regarding the rationalization of electricity and gas consumption in the received period of the year. Spinu said that, if a crisis situation arises in November, the authorities will make “decisions according to the situation created”. The deputy prime minister also said that in Moldova there are “many schools that do not heat with gas and have an alternative”, so they will not switch to distance learning.
The topics discussed on the networks in the last 24 hours
- The news about the fact that the Moldovan Serghei Tarnovschi became world champion in the 5,000-meter distance at the World Canoe Championships in Canada is one of the most viral on Moldovan Facebook, according to the network monitoring application CrowdTangle. (Craud Tangl). Appreciated there is also the news about the congratulations addressed to the athlete by the Moldovan president, Maia Sandu.
- Another very popular topic on Facebook is that of Free Europe about record marriages of Ukrainians in wartime, to be “more determined than ever to celebrate love and life.” Free Europe also publishes a series of photos in which emotional moments are captured.
- On the Moldovan Instagram, the most viral news is about resounding success from Canada by the canoeist Serghei Tarnovschi and about statements to Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spînu that students from the Republic of Moldova will not learn online for at least two months of the new academic year.