Law In Moldova

On the 5th of April 2009, there took place the Parliamentary Elections. Everyone was waiting for this and hoping that it will bring a change, that it will be the last day of Communist Party in Republic of Moldova. Everyone knows the unlawful things they do and that they just don't care about the country and the people.But still there is a big percent of badly informed people that as a result voted for communists. And what we have know is that the Communist Party has obtained 49,95% of the votes.There are other 3 Liberal Parties that also will be the part of the parliament.Partidul Liberal - 12.79%Partidul Liberal Democrat- 12.26%Alianta Moldova Noastra - 9.81%So a big part of the population, especially the civil society from Chisinau is very disappointed. This is definitely something unexpected and they want to do something. It is hard to say now what exactly, but it can be the non- recognition of the Elections for example. It's a pity that the international arena said the elections in Moldova were very fair and legal, so there is no reason for raising any problems for them.This was a protest organized by young people from Moldova. The information was spread on Curaj.net, Unimedia.md, Facebook and other websites. There were also members of the opposition who participated in this protest, such like Vlad Filat, Dorin Chirtoaca, Leonid Bujor, Stefan Uritu. These are those that I saw personally, there were also a lot of other members of the different parties and its great that they came out in the streets with us.Communists didn't say a word about this)) They didn't even show it in the news)

This channel - Moldova1 is totally under the authority of the Communist Party. They have been always providing news only about the president Voronin, about the prime-minister, about how things are going well. But they never mention the real facts that Moldova is in such a crap. That about 1/3 of the population left the country. That the prices are getting higher. That there are some serious abuses of human rights every day and nothing changes. People can't start their own business. The taxes are very high and don't stimulate the economical development. blablablaMore than that, when you watch some news on ProTv for example, and than you check the same news on Moldova1 or NIT, and in the first case on ProTV they show the real bad thing about Moldova, and in the other two cases they say that everything is fine, under control, and developing :)) that makes me laugh histerycally!!!

Have you ever heard of downwinders? These are the people that had to suffer the negative effects of radiation from some nuclear testings. This cases are always very difficult and so serious, because it is being violated the right to health of people. They suffer from the illegal nuclear testings which take place near the place they live.People start to have serious health problems which appear in couple of years. Most often its cancer which is lethal on a certain stage if not treated. That is why there is a huge need of attorneys which can correctly protect the rights a legal interests of these downwinders. One of such attorneys that is specified in this problem is Laura Taylor, she is a downwinder attorney. She is protecting the downwinders in the realization of their legal right, of obtaining compensations. According to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Program people that had suffered from radiation, deserve this compensation. So Laura Taylor helps her clients to perform the RECA radiation exposure compensation act and get what they deserve. It is important to have a serious, good informed attorney in such a difficult question which needs knowledge and good reaction of your attorney, because other wise you may not win if your attorney is not smart enough. Laura Taylor had already won a lot of cases for examples. She is presenting the interests of downwinders all around the country.

This will be a new compartment in my blog. I am going to write about the reforms that I would do if I was a legislator or something...)There are so many thing that need to be changed in this society, but nobody actually does anything. So my first reform is about waste processing. Last year there appeared special grids for plastic bottles. I thought that was very smart to do. People through their bottles there. Besides that I think there should be created for special cans for glass. When you want to throw something from glass why not in a special can? It can be easily recycled. We also don't have any factories for recycling tyres, old equipment, used machine oil. There are no things like that and people just throw them away. It would be great to spend couple of millions of lei and built one, two factories for recycling.Because remember that thing "the government always has the money, it just doesn't want to spend it on you"

Everyone knows - Moldova is in a very difficult, I may say critical situation at the moment. Both biggest rivers of Moldova, from both sides, Nistru and Prut are are overflown by water. This situation was created due to Carpatian rains. Ukraine and Romania are also affected by it.Hundreds of people were evacuated, and a lot of houses were destroyed.On national television they keep saying "everything is under control". That is just funny. How can it be under control if they cannot stop the water??? One or two dams were broken through. How can it be under control? Thousands of people don't have a place were to sleep. Everything they gathered for their entire life was destroyed. And I am not really sure that they are going to receive serious compensations.The Government said they are going to receive new apartments depending on how many members of the family they have. Are you kidding me? You don't have enough brain to build a normal dam and protect your own citizens, and now all you can do is offer them a two room apartment???Zinaida Grecanii - the prime minister - went out couple of times to see the people herself. She was looking really funny, near those poor destroyed people.By the way the President didn't even do that. Now he went on a vacation in Croatia. To visit his friend the President of Croatia. They are going to spend a week on a luxiurious yacht.What can I say ... Bravo!!

I was reading about the criminal punishment in common law, and found a nice classification which would probably serve as a good example for legislation of Moldova too. One type of punishment is the compensation which is divided into three types: Fine – which exists also in Moldova, this is when you have to pay a tax for what you did.Community service – also in Moldova, 50 conventional units for 1 month imprisonment.Compensation of damages to the victim – this is not settled in the legislation, in the Criminal Code of Moldova. And is remaining at the desire of the judge to settle a compensation of damages. Usually this compensation is too small, because Moldova is not used to compensations yet. People when go to court they don’t usually aspire to a compensation, they whish to get some right, something which was violated, and they don’t dream for any compensation of 1 million dollars like in United States of America.At the same time lawyers from America do their best to obtain this compensation; either it is a car accident injury, or personal injury claim. I know a case when a young man in Moldova was beaten by 5 people, and he stayed in the hospital for a month and obtained a compensation of 300$. What kind of lawyers did he have? A personal injury lawyer should be a professional. He should not let such situations happen. So the difference between compensation punishment in Moldova and USA is a huge one. Here if a person gets injured he is not sure he will get any moral or physical damage compensation.

Mortgage would be a credit guaranteed by some immovable property, but which stays in the possession of the debtor. The mortgage credit can be offered by banks, financial institutions and other creditors.Due to the development of the market economy in the Republic of Moldova, the system if mortgage credits appeared and started its development. The creditors, governmental functionaries, building companies and banks are very optimistic about the future of mortgages in Moldova. At the end of the year 2006, 13% of the total credits offered were for mortgage, but in 2005 it was only 3-4%, which shows a great development. A lot of companies had made some researches and came to the conclusion that 60% of potential buyers of property need a mortgage. In the Republic of Moldova the mortgage is usually taken for 10 years, sometimes 15, the interest rate is between 12-16 %. Which comparing to the market in United States of America, were the interest rate is from 4-7%, I may say that Moldova has to work a lot to allow such low rates. That is why there is a small number of people which can allow themselves to take a mortgage in Moldova. Nowadays the people are not well informed about their rights and obligations regarding their property, and especially about the mortgage possibility and its risks. It is considered that the development of the mortgage system was possible due to the lack of concrete normative acts which could regulate it not only in general but also individual situations. But the Government had made some efforts and adopted some norms which could help this situation, such as: the registration of immovable goods, the execution of mortgage rights mortgaging of immovable property basing on accordance of some guarantees. (there are also some other legal acts such as Legea cu privire la gaj, Legea cadastrului bunurilor imobile, Codul civil, Codul de procedură civilă, Codul de executare)When a person wants to buy an apartment in a building which is not ready yet, in order to pay less, he has to pay a certain sum of money or even the entire sum. Not many people can afford that, so they prefer to take a mortgage. But mortgage is being offered only for an apartment registered in the cadastral register, which is not possible for an unfinished apartment. The builder is at the same time asking for a “acceptance to invest” from the customer and he invests the money in the future apartment. Because of poor legislation, not long ago the initial investors, building companies, had the possibility to sell the apartments to several people, through this “acceptance to invest”, because it is not registered yet in state cadastral register.The mortgage in Moldova, represents a problem at the moment, because it is not well regulated by the legislation. And there should be adopted more laws which could help this situation. The government should have the possibility to keep under control or at least be informed about the real situation on the market, about the companies and banks the offer mortgage programs, and exempt the costumers from potential frauds. Nowadays a small percent of people know about mortgage possibility, and it is not very popular among people, because it is something new for Moldova and also because of high interest rates.But the main problem is that the salaries in Moldova are really small, and officially less than couple percent of total population can afford mortgage. But in USA almost every working person can afford taking a mortgage. So in Moldova it is almost impossible to pay a mortgage for common people.

These days our shame was made on public - Moldova is no more at the 2nd place at ECHR (after Russian Federation). Now she is nr 1. Congratulations!!! I guess Mr President for sure thinks they are not right and don't judge us obviously, but who cares...The latest case won is Balan vs Moldova. This man won 5 000 euros for moral and material damages and 2 000 more for expenses. The case was about his photo of the Soroca castle. The moldavian authorities used this picture on the local id cards (buletin). And when he asked a recompense for that or at least concluding a contract with him, they refused, considering that they are entitled to use anything they want. This guy went to the court of human rights and he won.This is not just and abuse from the public authorities, this is a national shame, they were using his picture on thousands of id cards, and didn't even ask him. And it is strange that no other court in Moldova recognized his rights.

As history was my favorite class at high school, it became very useful for me nowadays. Knowing history offers a person huge chances of understanding many things in his daily life, not only things about himself, but understanding processes that happen all around the world. Many events that happen today, that we see on television, are something very familiar. For example some political reforms, or changes in some government, this is what was happening for a long time. HISTORY IN THE NEWS is everywhere. Just try to pay attention and see how a company is developing for example, being a small one from the beginning it starts to use some principles and methods which other companies used in past. This is how history helps a small company to develop. Or when you are watching “the primaries” in the news, you see how democrats fight the republicans. And you understand that this is a historical battle which lasts for a long period of time. This is HISTORY IN THE NEWS. As more you find out about such stuff, as the more intelligent you become. Knowing history is really helpful. All the political and economical processes are basing on some theoretical data which you can learn only from history.

The minister of economy, Igor Dodon, made today a declaration about some huge, i would say enormous changes in the economy of Republic of Moldova. Starting from the 16th of November, on the local exchange sales are going to be sold the stocks of 83 state enterprises. Starting from 0,01% of stocks and till 100% of stocks. The ministry of economy is planning to sell the stocks in a week. This was probably the weirdest part of the news.Anyway this decision was taking due to the influence of external experts and analytics, most of European Community. Because the situation with monopolization is really acute in Moldova, they were obliged to make such a reform. There is introduced a new law, which gave the possibility to the Government to sell some enterprises. There is also another law on the state enterprises which cannot be sold, there is a list of 300 enterprises, such as Termocom.The problem is that why do they have to sell the stocks of all the state enterprises in such a short time? And why did they announce it only some days before the sales? It is not enough time for other investors, especially abroad, to analyze, to get to know the Moldovan market and enterprise itself. Some analytics consider that this was made intentionally in order to allow the local and previously informed investors to buy the enterprises, and create in such a way an unfair competition.In general this is a healthy decision. Which was suggested by a lot of international bodies. In fact, as usual the procedure, the moldovan way of concluding affairs and organizing things in business and government is a typical one, and characteristic for this region. But I hope it will not ruin this wise initiative this time, but I'm not sure about it.

Let me tell a horrible story about how Moldavians are treated at the custom of Bulgaria.The problem started once with the joining of European Comunnity of Bulgaria and Romania. Everyone knows how hard it is now to get a visa to both countries. Even though, many citizens of Moldova have strong relations with both of these countries, this fact didn't motivate their Governments to create an easier way to enter their countries.Let me start with Romania. One year ago, they were saying "we are going to join EU, but that doesn't mean that we will forget about the citizens of Moldova, our neighbors. We are planning to create an easier system of visas(comparing to other countries), which will be a free one, and come to Romania whenever he wants." In reality what happens now: people are disabled in getting a visa, because-1. visas are given only to groups of not less than 5 people.2. you have to wait a huge, enormous line until you will get in front of the counsel.3. many people speculate on this thing, and promise to easier this procedure for some remuneration, like at least 50 $.This problem could have a solution, when the two presidents of both countries had a meeting in spring. They were promising to fix the problem, to open another two counsels in other regions of Moldova, in order to easier the procedure of visa getting. Normally this didn't happen, as usual actually. Yesterday took place an interactive, live show, with Ms President Vladimir Voronin. When he was asked about this fact, he said "i didn't promise to anyone, we said we are going to see what it is about this problem, no one promised to solve anything". This is what a president should say? That he can't do anything, and he didn't promise anything?Whatever he says.... poor people, the only thing is the poor people that he is lying to...But let's talk about Bulgaria. Also needs a visa. There are three ways to get to Bulgaria.- through Romania, this procedure needs a visa for Romania too. which is a very hard way, and not everyone wants to follow it.- by plain to Bulgaria from Chisinau.- with a vapor from Odessa, directly to Bulgaria.Don't know about flying to Bulgaria, but I found out some really curious facts about the "sea way" to Bulgaria. Listen up to me. Some of my acquaintance chose to go this way. They didn't want to have problems with the Romanian embassy. When they got to the Bulgarian port, they were very strictly checked by the custom officers. Very strictly means - awful. Each bag, all the clothes checked. The cell phones - checked. If someone had number of his relatives from from Italy, for example, than that meant for the custom officers he could be a "potential illegal migrant" and they were immediately sending him back home. All the people were checked by a doctor in order in order to find "drugs inside them" (sorry don't know how to describe it). It was a obligatory for all!!! And this doctor didn't have the necessary single usage gloves. She was saying "i'm washing my hands after each person and that is enough". And if anyone says something, he is being sent back to Moldova, with not explanation and no money returnee. The Moldavian agencies also don't give money back.Isn't such a strict control violating the human rights? Shouldn't they have special permission for medical control? I'm sure they are violating the law there.There is another aspect. If you have a Romanian visa and go transit through Romania to Bulgaria, than the custom officers don't ask you a thing. Probably this could be motivated by the reason that if the people succeeded i getting both visas, spent more time, more money, than probably this can mean they are better than those that wanted make everything easier. I mixed everything) whatever, I don't know what the motivation is. And their behavior is illegal and stupid. There is something to think about at least for the international organizations, of course if the president doesn't care.

It is actually not a sudden thing that happened now. This situation was formed more years ago, and no one cares. The thing is that the town Soroca, situated at the north-eastern part of Moldova, is dropping out a lot of wastages and sewerage waste. The smell is awful. I stood in Soroca for two days, and had a walk over those dirty places. The thing is that all the citizens from Moldova drink water from Nistru river. But how can people be sure of the water they drink if it so polluted and the public administration doesn't care, because it happens for many years. There is also a factory situated more northerly, in Otaci, which started to top off waste. This provoked a huge growth of algae. I took some pictures of all of those sceneries.PS at the latest elections for local public administration won the national-liberal party. i hope they will do something with that disgusting situation.this is a small river which runs into Nistru, The smell is awful, believe me.





this is the view a little further from the place with stinky river. this is were Nistru is very clean.I was taken the picture on the Moldavain side, but on the other side is Ukraine. The forest that you see is Ukraine.

This is a small beach were people like to stay.

the water is very very clean. the color is amazing. but this is the place were this beauty ends, and the rest of Moldova is using awfully dirty water.

This dirt is near that beauty and no one cares.

this is another stinky river also runs into Nistru

this is how they are repairing the roads





The Huge Algae

the Ukrainians are washing their tractors in Nistru