- No matter who wins mayoralty, City Hall’s work will be hindered by battles between parties, Antoniţa Fonari pentru Info-Prim Neo, 17 June 2011, 11:42
- Protection of Personal Data within the Dialogue on Visa Liberalization and the Negotiation of the Association Agreement between the R. of Moldova and the EU, Bogdan Manolea, Centrul Român de Politici Europene/Fundaţia Soros-Moldova, 10 June 2011, 16:01
- EU-Moldova Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area: a springboard to modernization or a road to ruin?, Alex OPRUNENCO, Centrul Analitic Independent "EXPERT-GRUP", 10 May 2011, 12:30
- The Council of Europe, the Communists and a New Referendum, Denis CENUSA, 4 March 2011, 11:06
- Coalition 2010, Irina Severin, 26 January 2011, 9:42
- The "shy" regret of Chisinau concerning the events in Belarus, Denis CENUSA, 26 January 2011, 9:41
Parties-Phantoms, Parties - State Institutions, Parties - State Enterprises
20 parties have registered in the current election campaign. Many people say it is a too big number for such a small country as Moldova. At the same time, much more parties could take part in the election campaign.
Activists launch Moldova’s first ‘Space Camp’ © Susan Coughtrie
Regress in media coverage of race
- "Moldova Azi" information portal is changing its format and editorial content, Centrul pentru Jurnalism Independent, 8 August 2011, 15:19
- Moldovan students queue up to apply for scholarships in Romania, Info-Prim Neo, 4 August 2011, 13:44
- Ukrainian scholarships not very popular in Moldova, Info-Prim Neo, 2 August 2011, 14:58
- Kent Larson: USAID will always support process of Moldova democratization, INFOTAG, 1 August 2011, 13:42
- Parliament sets up new commission - for checking civil servants' property and incomes, INFOTAG, 29 July 2011, 9:00
- Scandal in Moldovan parliament over deputies' relatives, INFOTAG, 29 July 2011, 9:00
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2009-07-27/15:02/ Chisinau (IPN) The report deals with the period July 15-21, 2009.
“At the same time, opposition representatives were treated on those televisions in a negative and disfavoring context,” is another conclusion the media observes made public in a news conference at Info-Prim Neo, on July 27.
“Compared to the previous weeks, regress has been noticed especially on NIT and Moldova, regress that may reduce the political pluralism in newscasts,” said university professor Constantin Marin, an expert with the project.
The monitors also notice a selective trend on behalf of N4, NIT, Moldova 1 in using multiple sources in confli ct-related news. Thus, the reports covering the PCRM members, as a rule, lacked the opinions of the opposition representatives criticized by the PCRM, while the reports from the opposition's events did contain the opinions of the criticized representatives of the PCRM and of the government.
In the programs of N4, NIT and EuTV, president Vladimir Voronin and his party enjoy positive coverage in general, in sheer disproportion to the other electoral participants, the observers find. N4 airs hidden electoral advertising, displaying a slogan of the PCRM on the table where newspapers for the Press Review lie.
The project in which APEL monitors the main Chisinau televisions since January 1, 2009, is financed by the Delegation of the European Commission to Moldova and other international donors, and is part to the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections – Coalition 2009.
