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Sunday, 16 January 2011 12:49 |
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 According to annual rankings conducted by the Heritage Foundation in conjunction with the Wall Street Journal, in 2011, Moldova ranks 120 of 179 countries in terms of economic freedom. According to the study, Moldova has advanced five places compared with last year's position. Gaining 55.7 points, our country is below the global average of 59.7 points below the regional and 66.8 points. In the region of Moldova was ranked 40 out of 43.
The main areas where increased levels of economic freedom are: trade, taxation, government spending, monetary, investment and freedom to corruption. Areas that have seen a rebound are: labor and entrepreneurial freedom. Those who remained at the same level are: financial freedom and property rights.
Moldova is the best in Chapter taxation (85.6), trade (80.2) and monetary (77.0), and the worst labor (39.0) and free investment (35.0) with all that the latter has increased by 5 points. Republic of Moldova is in Malawi (No. 119) and Senegal (No. 121). Top ranking is occupied by Hong Kong (89.7 points), Singapore (87.2 points) and Australia (82.5 points). Latest jobs back to Cuba, Zimbabwe and North Korea (1 point). Romania was ranked 63, where 143 Russian and 164 Ukrainian place. unimedia.md
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Sunday, 16 January 2011 12:38 |
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 Russia has been condemned by the Court of Arbitration in Stockholm for "illegal expropriation" of the oil giant Yukos cancellation. The latter belonged to Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, considered an enemy of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Russian media reported.
The complaint was filed against the Russian government a minority shareholder in Yukos, the British company RosinvestCO UK Ltd, who was awarded compensation of 14.3 million dollars. Padva Ghenrih Russian lawyer who defended Khodorkovsky's interests in his first trial in 2005, welcomed the ruling "civilized." "We can cite a number of arguments to confirm that what happened (with no Yukos) is illegal. From this point of view, we welcome this decision," said Padva, the radio station Echo of Moscow.
According to Vedomosti, if all former Yukos shareholders would gain similar procedures, Russia might have to pay over ten billion dollars. Stockholm tribunal determined that the Russian state was guilty of multiple crimes in Yukos case, said Vedomosti. Judges show that only the group's Moscow accused Khodorkovsky of tax fraud, while other oil companies, which operated in the same way, were not covered, which shows that it is a "discrimination."
Arrested in 2003, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was convicted of economic crimes to eight years in prison in 2005. In December 2010, he was sentenced to an aggregate sentence of 14 years in prison, will remain in prison until 2017. His legal problems are considered by many analysts and Russian opposition to a political deal, orchestrated by then-President Vladimir Putin, who wanted to take control of major oil assets and to bring him to order an independent businessman too, which Opposition finance. unimedia.md
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Friday, 14 January 2011 10:07 |
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 Etna has been revived to life by an eruption with pyroclastic flows, lava flows and emanations leaking gas and ash. Ash released into the atmosphere has led authorities to close Fontanarossa airport in Catania, which led to the cancellation of racing. The airport was reopened Thursday.
Eruption lasted about two hours on Wednesday night into Thursday, lava flowing on the western slope of the mountain, without casualties recorded, the volcanology institute said in Catania (eastern Sicily).
The eruption of Etna from the vut place in 1992. agenda.ro
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:57 |
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 The Transnistria (officially Pridnestrovie Moldavian Republic of) is not recognized internationally, as officially the Republic of Moldova, actually has all the characteristics of a state: borders, a flag, a currency, a government, a parliament, a president, an army. Sandwiched between Ukraine and Moldova is a long strip of land along the eastern bank of the Dniester river (or Dniester).
It is separated from the Soviet Union in late 1990. A bloody war of secession from Moldova in 1992 led to a current state of peace but not yet fully stabilized.
I arrived in Tiraspol, capital of Transnistria, from Chisinau, using one of many resources (both public and private) that connect the two cities every day, and the distance is only 80 km, the trip takes about an hour and a half.
On this route, the customs are located a few kilometers before the town of Bender (Tighina in Moldovan). I had no complications customs, you can get a permit for entry by filling in a customs form on which must be shown where and by whom it will be hosted. The only language spoken is Russian.
Leaving behind the border to get in quick to Bender, his massive fortress (now closed for restoration) witnessed memorable clashes between Russia and Turkey stands in front of the River. The city is located on the right bank of the river Dniester. During the Civil War was the scene of bloody battles where hundreds of people lost their lives. On many of its buildings are still visible marks of the blows of firearms. Those days are still very much alive in dramatic stories of the people.
Cross the bridge over the Dniester, in about ten minutes to get Tiraspol, whose name, of Greek origin (Tiras is the ancient greek name of the Dniester) is unchanged between Moldovan Russian and Ukrainian. That was the name given in 1792 by its founder, the legendary Russian General Alexander Suvorov (considered one of the greatest military strategists of all time). His equestrian statue is clearly visible at the entrance of the city.
The city has remained the same, unchanged since the Soviet Union, the typical Soviet symbols: red stars and busts of Lenin are still part of the urban landscape. A giant statue of Lenin, the legacy of Soviet times, stands on a column outside the Presidential Palace, as a large bust of Lenin still, this is still before the House of Soviets. The red and green flag of Transnistria was never removed the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union.
Here in the heart of Transnistria is a Russian military base: the 14th Army, the heir of the 14th Army Guard units, the tip of the former Red Army. Now holds huge amounts of war material, to the point of considering the country as one of the largest armories in Europe. In Tiraspol are seen around a few cars, compensation still circulate in the old Soviet-era trolley buses. In the streets there are old ladies up makeshift stalls selling their wares: from their products in the fruits of the earth.
In the city center, clean and orderly, life seems to run a quiet, tree-lined streets, children playing in the gardens, perhaps at the side of yet another monument glorifying communism or the Great Patriotic War. The suburbs, like that of many other cities of the former USSR is characterized by rows of aligned rectangular blocks of Soviet-style.
While waiting for the bus to take me back to Chisinau play an elderly gentleman who plays the accordion famous Soviet patriotic songs. I leave the country to the sound of these nostalgic melancholy note, with so many thoughts, thoughts on what will be his future. ilreporter.com
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We publish the FAQ released by the Interior Ministry decree on the recruitment process that flows 2010/2011, important to emphasize, no information of value to law. 
