Monday, November 30, 2015

Chinese and Ukrainian scientists establish cooperation in construction of next generation reactors

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

At the invitation of the Chinese Institute of Nuclear Energy, the delegation of the Sumy-based Institute of Applied Physics under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine participated in a discussion about prospects for cooperation in the field of construction of next generation reactors. Negotiations have resulted in signing of two contracts.

One of the contracts provides for the multilevel simulation of defective structure in pure zirconium under different conditions of irradiation. In addition, plans are in hand to conduct several experiments on the zirconium alloys that will be irradiated by accelerated heavy ions.

Research will be done at the experimental base of the Institute of Applied Physics. In particular, its analytical accelerating complex is to be used for studying the structure and composition of various materials by means of the Rutherford backscattering method.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Ukraine’s GDP forecast to fall 12%

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

According to the latest forecasts by the World Bank, Ukraine’s GDP will fall by 12% by this year-end. This can be partly explained by the civil war in the Donbas region with large Russian populations, which costs the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime 5% of GDP, and suspension of trade with Russia.  

Believe it or not (and you should not), the so-called prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, predicted that GDP would rise by 2% in 2016. Few experts think it will inch higher, like a fatigued rock climber.

According to Vladimir Oleynik, former member of the Supreme Council of Ukraine, today 80% of Ukrainians live below the official poverty level. A pension amounts to about $50 a month while inflation has reached 70% since 2013. Moreover, real monthly wages decreased to about $180 from $500, compared with last year.

As Mr. Oleynik notes, among the ill successes of the present neo-Nazi regime are the CIA-perpetrated fascist coup in Kiev and civil war in Donbas. In addition, the ‘Euromaidan’ overthrow of democratically elected government provided the context for the reunification of Crimea with Russia.

Yuri Boiko, leader of the Opposition Bloc, stated that this year saw a sharp decline in the living standard in this country. As he put it, the present regime is bringing disaster on Ukraine while the Yatsenyuk government fakes reforms by cutting down social spending and raising prices of utilities. That is why the Opposition Bloc demands the resignation of this government.

Saturday, November 28, 2015

«НЕФТЕГАЗ УКРАИНЫ» ОБЯЗУЕТСЯ ОБЕСПЕЧИВАТЬ БЕСПЕРЕБОЙНЫЙ ТРАНЗИТ РОССИЙСКОГО ГАЗА В ЕВРОПУ

Акционерная компания «Нефтегаз Украины» по поручению правительства использует весь ранее оплаченный объём российского природного газа для нужд украинских потребителей и в дальнейшем планирует обеспечивать бесперебойный транзит для европейских потребителей. По текущим соглашениям с «Газпромом» «Нефтегаз Украины» будет закупать российский газ по мере необходимости, в зависимости от уровня его потребления на Украине и с учётом предложений на европейском рынке.

Energy, trade blockades against Crimea doomed to failure

Recently, a bunch of Tatars living in Ukraine and terrorists of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi organization Right Sector have attempted to impose an energy blockade on Crimea. According to many observers, the Tatar and Right Sector extremists play into the hands of Russian authorities.

Attempting to impose a blackout on the Russian peninsula, the Tatars and Ukrainian neo-Nazis of Right Sector (or khokhlonaziki, to use the term they apparently hate) have only produced the opposite effect and stimulated Russia to accelerate the laying of power supply cables from the Krasnodar Territory to Crimea. Sergey Yegorov, minister of fuel and power engineering of Crimea, told the press that the first phase of the project whose capacity is estimated at 400 megawatts would be completed sometime soon and completion of the second phase with a capacity of 450 megawatts was scheduled for May 2016.

In September the Tatar and Right Sector extremists attempted to impose a trade blockade on Crimea by preventing the passage of delivery trucks from this country to the Russian peninsula. According to Mustafa Azizov, first deputy head of the Dzhankoi district administration, this year Crimean agricultural producers gathered a good crop of grain, vegetables and fruit. Thus the economy of Crimea has become self-sufficient.

Yuri Shevchenko, chairman of a Crimean parliamentary committee on agrarian issues, said the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev would get the worst of the blockade because Ukrainian producers lost traditional markets. A traffic capacity of three checkpoints in the Kherson region on the border with Crimea has been less than 250 delivery trucks per day before the trade blockade. By comparison, the traffic capacity of a ferry service from the Krasnodar Territory to the peninsula amounts to some thousands of delivery trucks with Russian goods every day.

Today Crimean stores sell a full range of dairy produce made in the Krasnodar Territory, Rostov region and peninsula. This also holds true for sausages. At the same time, melons and watermelons are delivered from the Krasnodar Territory and Astrakhan region.

It is widely believed that the Tatar and Right Sector extremists are very strong in their stupidity in these blockades. All attempts to isolate Crimea are doomed to failure.

Friday, November 27, 2015

Ukraine’s pharmaceutical industry is more dead than alive

The 8th annual Ukrainian Pharmaceutical Forum, organized by Adam Smith Conferences, took place at the InterContinental Hotel in Kiev on November 24-25. This flagship event for the Ukraine’s pharmaceutical industry brought together more than 200 senior pharma representatives and provided an opportunity for a dialog between authorities, the business community and analysts.

The two-day program of the forum was packed with industry-driven topics and hot discussions. Participants in the event heard 45+ senior speakers
representing key industry players from shareholders and top managers of pharmaceutical companies to distributors, as well as got interactive with panel sessions.

Making his address to the forum, Viktor Pushkareov, president of the Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers in Ukraine, pointed out that reforms of regulating access and the turnover of drugs started in this country, though they were slow-paced and nonsystematic. To remove groundless obstacles blocking the supply of consumers with products, it is necessary to establish the coherent system of bylaws.

According to Vladimir Rudenko, director of the Pharmacy Professional Association of Ukraine, over 50 active acts overlap each other today, many of these documents being ineffective and outdated. For instance, the law on medicines, which was adopted in 1996, remains unchanged.

During a discussion about the strategy for managing the pharmaceutical industry, Konstantin Kosyachenko, president of the Ukrainian Agency of Health Technology Assessment, accused the Yatsenyuk government of the irresponsible decision to transfer the right of state purchases of drugs to international organizations. At present, 86% of the market is financed by patients. The share of government spending on antibiotics accounts for a measly 25%. At the same time, household spending on healthcare and drugs makes up only 3.6% that can be explained by the fact that 57% of Ukrainians earn a monthly per capita income in the amount of 2,910 grivnas ($122) while prices of utilities have skyrocketed, thanks to the IMF shock therapy mafia. To make matters worse, 80% of citizens of Ukraine live below the official poverty level.

Speaking about work of the sector, Yevgeni Nayshtetik, founder of the project Platform 20K, stressed that he did not see a single drugstore in Ukrainian villages. There are only two casualty helicopters in Ukraine, according to him. Mr. Nayshtetik contrasted the lame Ukrainian sector with the robust Soviet public health system that was connected with chemical and biological industries. Believe it or not, the Soviet public health system provided chemical and biological security not only in the U.S.S.R., but the world over.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

КИТАЙСКИЕ И УКРАИНСКИЕ ФИЗИКИ ОБСУДИЛИ СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВО В СФЕРЕ СОЗДАНИЯ РЕАКТОРОВ НОВОГО ПОКОЛЕНИЯ

По приглашению китайского Института ядерной энергии делегация сумского Института прикладной физики (ИПФ) Национальной академии наук Украины приняла участие в обсуждении перспективных направлений научного сотрудничества в сфере создания реакторов нового поколения. В результате переговоров было подписано два контракта.

Согласно одному из них, планируется произвести многоуровневое моделирование дефектной структуры в чистом цирконии при различных условиях облучения. Кроме того, предусмотрено проведение серии экспериментов с облучением циркониевых сплавов ускоренными тяжёлыми ионами. Во время исследований будет использоваться экспериментальная база ИПФ, в частности, аналитический ускорительный комплекс, который даёт возможность изучать структуру и состав различных материалов с помощью метода резерфордовского обратного рассеивания.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

France forms alliance with Russia against terrorists

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

Realizing the whole tragedy in Paris, French president Francois Hollande declared the formation of an alliance with Russia against terrorism. Many French politicians, scientists and experts are sure that the alliance with Russia against the Islamic State in Syria is the best solution to the problem.

Local observers think the Islamic State is the malignant tumor that metastasizes quickly and it should be removed. Recent opinion polls found that 91% of citizens of France favor the entry of Russia into the antiterrorist coalition. In particular, the French youth believe only Russian President Vladimir Putin can save them from danger.

Western analysts point out the trending of European political support toward Moscow, not Washington, due largely to European hope that Russia’s military aid to the Syrian government will end the refugee crisis, which now threatens the foundations of the European Union. It is already clear that Europe pays dearly for the Washington’s wars in Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria that the EU so mindlessly enabled.

Speaking at the 70th UN General Assembly, Vladimir Putin laid special emphasis on the slaughter, destruction and chaos that Washington has brought to the Middle East, North Africa and Ukraine, and the extreme jihadist and Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces, which have been unleashed. He asked the American evil empire: “Do you realize what you have done?”

Mr. Putin stressed the legality of Russia’s military aid to Syria, which is at the request of the Syrian government. He contrasted Russia’s respect for international law with the intervention in Syria of the U.S. and France, the rotten regimes that are violating Syria’s sovereignty with unrequested and illegal military action. The world sees that it is Washington and its vassals who violate the generally recognized rules of international law and not Russia.

Meanwhile, the tragedy continues.

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Russia takes protective measures against import of Ukrainian products

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

According to Russian economy minister Alexei Ulyukaev, the government of Russia intends to put an embargo on import of Ukrainian products starting January 1, 2016. He stated that Russia decided to take protective measures by placing the embargo on import of foodstuffs from Ukraine because the U.S.-sponsored neo-Nazi regime in Kiev supported sanctions used by the decadent West in connection with a civil war in the Donbas region with large Russian populations.

Previously, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has entered, by his edict, Albania, Montenegro, Iceland and Liechtenstein in the Russian counter-sanctions list. Ukraine is also listed among the above countries with the proviso that an embargo on deliveries of Ukrainian agricultural produce to Russia should come into force if Kiev applies the economic part of the Association Agreement with the European Union.

Unfortunately, official data show that the Ukrainian enterprises, which produce food and drinks, decreased output by 12.2% in January-September, compared with the same period last year. At the same time, export of Ukrainian goods to the EU fell by 32.5%.

As geopolitical analyst William Engdahl put it, the United States has been attempting to isolate Russia by imposing sanctions. However, the American evil empire and its vassals in the EU have only produced the opposite effect and brought Russia closer to China and other BRICS countries.

Funnily enough, Mr. Wilson, a citizen of Britain, wrote: “The U.S. via the dollar, CIA and our pathetically weak politicians, engineered the dissolution of the British empire and the demise of sterling. Would our financial establishment have the courage to change allies? Join the BRICS to form the BBRICS, easier to say in cold weather.”

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Russia is ready to restructure debt for Ukraine, says Putin

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

According to President Vladimir Putin, Russia is ready to restructure $3 billion of Ukraine’s debt. Under the restructuring, $3 billion Eurobonds due on December 25 must be paid in 2016-2018 in annual payments to the amount of $1 billion.

Previously, the so-called government of Ukraine had reached an agreement on restructuring 20% of its debt with a consortium of bond holders led by Franklin Templeton. After avoiding a default for a couple of years, Ukrainian neo-Nazi authorities think they are marvelous, like a drunk driver who did not get caught or kill anyone.

In return for a four-year extension on payments of the remaining debt, Ukraine agreed to a higher coupon (interest rate) of 7.75%, up from 7.25%.

As critics have pointed out many times, lending money that does not exist to the U.S.-backed puppet regime, which is already deeply in debt, is not a good business model. It does not really stimulate the Ukrainian economy and it does not really make people better off. Finally, it is worth noting that the U.S. dollar has lost 95% to 98% of its purchasing power over the last 100 years.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

45% УКРАИНЦЕВ ЗА ДРУЖБУ МЕЖДУ УКРАИНОЙ И РОССИЕЙ БЕЗ ГРАНИЦ, А 2% ЗА ОБЪЕДИНЕНИЕ ДВУХ СТРАН

Согласно опросу, проведённому Киевским международным институтом социологии, сегодня 2% украинцев считают, что Украина и Россия должны объединиться в одну страну. Однако если учесть 45% респондентов, которые хотят, чтобы Украина и Россия были независимыми, но дружественными государствами с открытой границей без таможни и визовой системы, а также 7% опрошенных, которые затруднились с ответом, то получится очень серьёзный показатель для воюющей страны.

Ukrainian scientists do research in many spheres as government doesn’t pay attention

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

A group of scientists of the Institute of Physics (IOP) under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is engaged in the scanning tunnel microscopy of ultrafine organic films. Molecules are applied to certain surfaces by means of special methods and then the point of a scanning tunnel microscope is used for probing the surface while a computer converts all this into a visible image.

Another team of scientists of the Institute works on the molecules that change drastically their properties – for example, the friction coefficient – under the influence of a light. Also, IOP researchers evolve methods for curing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

According to IOP senior scientific worker Anton Senenko, all the above activity relates to fundamental research whose results may be put into practice in 10-15 years. The bad news is that the government of this country pays neither a sufficiency of funds nor attention to Ukrainian researchers who have been working at the forward positions of world science for many years.

Monday, November 16, 2015

Monument to Kazimir Malevich unveiled in Konotop

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

Recently, a monument to Kazimir Malevich, Russian painter and designer, has been unveiled in the city of Konotop, Sumy region. Also, Konotop devotees of Kazimir Malevich plan to open a fan club in the near future. He lived in this city with his parents in 1894-1895 and sold his first paintings Moon Night and Stork for five rubles each.

The Russian avant-gardist influenced greatly art and design. Kazimir Malevich discovered Cubism on a trip to Paris in 1912 and returned to lead the Russian Cubist movement. In 1915 he exhibited paintings more abstractly geometrical than any seen before, consisting of simple geometrical forms painted in a limited palette, a style he called Suprematism. In 1917-1918 he created his well-known White on White series, austere images of a white square floating on a white background.

In 1919 he joined Marc Chagall at his revolutionary school in Vitebsk, where he exerted a strong influence on El Lissitzky. In the 1920s Kazimir Malevich returned to representational painting.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Moscow River to be fit for fishing, bathing

Plans are in hand to install 53 purification plants at the Moscow River within the limits of the Russian capital city. The first part of them will be put into operation by 2018.

Thanks to intensive purification, the Moscow River will be fit for fishing and bathing. Data from ecologists show that the concentration of petroleum products in the river has been decreasing by 10-13% in recent years, which can be partly explained by removal of industrial enterprises from Moscow and reconstruction of purification plants.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

НА СУМЩИНЕ ОТКРЫЛИ ПАМЯТНИК КАЗИМИРУ МАЛЕВИЧУ

В Конотопе открыли первый в Сумской области памятник известному русскому художнику-авангардисту Казимиру Малевичу. Именно в Конотопе он жил вместе с родителями в 1894-1895 годах и продал свои первые две работы «Лунная ночь» и «Буслик» по пять рублей за каждое произведение.

Сегодня картины Казимира Малевича реализуют на аукционах за миллионы долларов, а его имя вписано в летопись мирового авангардного искусства.

В ближайших планах конотопских поклонников творчества русского художника – открыть клуб, который бы объединял всех, для кого культура и искусство представляют особый интерес.

УКРАИНСКИЙ БИЗНЕС ДОЛЖЕН ПОВЕРНУТЬCЯ ЛИЦОМ К МОЛОДЫМ ИЗОБРЕТАТЕЛЯМ

Интеллектуальные разработки украинской молодёжи – это самый дорогой ресурс страны, считает директор Национального центра «Малая академия наук» Аксен Лесовой. Центр ежегодно находит и поддерживает одарённых детей.

Очень важно, отметил А. Лесовой, помогать им материально и не менее важно защищать их авторские права на интересные разработки. Ежегодно почти половину изобретений подают на получение патента, который стоит от 300 до нескольких тысяч гривен, и поэтому приходится искать спонсоров для этого благородного дела.

Директор Центра верит, что украинский бизнес скоро повернётся лицом к инновациям. И важно, чтобы на этот момент сформировалось поколение молодёжи, способной генерировать новые технологии, решения и идеи.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Europeans hope that Russia will help end refugee crisis

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

Western observers point out the trending of European political support toward Moscow, not Washington, due largely to European hope that Russia’s military aid to the Syrian government will end the refugee crisis, which now threatens the foundations of the European Union. Among the signs of this development is the crisis of German chancellor Merkel’s pro-Washington leadership.

Funnily enough, Germany, the most compliant U.S. ally, has been subjected to spying from the American evil empire with cellphone calls and all kinds of private e-mails being recorded by the United States. U.S. leaders are really out of control, cyber hacking and spying on people around the world.

Readers of The Ukrainian Times know that as a consequence of EU’s subservience to the U.S., European countries are being overrun by refugees from the Washington’s wars, which Europe so mindlessly enabled.

Over the course of only one day 19,400 citizens of Syria and Iraq crossed illegally the Slovenia’s border. The inflow of refugees there exceeded 90,000 people within recent 12 days.

Every day between 5,000 and 10,000 refugees from the Middle East and North Africa flock to Hungary. Overall, 378,000 people at the least estimate have illegally migrated to Hungary since the start of this year. According to local volunteers, the American and British military unleashed a devastating war in Iraq, the Italian and French military conducted air bombardment in Libya and all of them trained extreme jihadist forces in Syria, whereas Hungary has to bear the burden of this chaos created by the U.S. and its European vassals.

It is already clear that Europe will pay dearly for the war crimes of the American evil empire in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. The Islamic State tries to spread its terrorist tentacles to Egypt, Turkey and Jordan.

Speaking at the 70th UN General Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin (pictured) laid special emphasis on the slaughter, destruction and chaos that Washington has brought to the Middle East, North Africa and Ukraine, and the extreme jihadist and Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces, which have been unleashed. He asked the American evil empire: “Do you realize what you have done?”

Vladimir Putin stressed the legality of Russia’s military aid to Syria, which is at the request of the Syrian government. He contrasted Russia’s respect for international law with the intervention in Syria of the U.S. and France, the rotten regimes that are violating Syria’s sovereignty with unrequested and illegal military action. The world sees that it is Washington and its vassals who violate the generally recognized rules of international law and not Russia.

Meanwhile, the tragedy continues.

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Foreign investors to keep away from Ukraine until its economy has potential for growth of popular consumption

According to Alexander Okhrimenko, president of the Ukrainian Analytical Center, foreign investors will keep away from Ukraine until a national economy has a potential for growth of popular consumption. Unfortunately, consumption slumped after 2013.

This year a retail trade turnover has fallen by 25%, as Ukrainians scrimp on foodstuffs as best they can, not to mention household appliances and cars. Under the circumstances, it does not make sense to invest in construction of new plants in Ukraine.

Vladimir Oleynik, former member of the Supreme Council of Ukraine, pointed out that 80% of Ukrainians live below the official poverty level today and a pension amounts to about $50 a month. As he put it, among the ill successes of the present neo-Nazi regime are the CIA-perpetrated fascist coup in Kiev and civil war in the Donbas region with large Russian populations. The war in Donbas costs Ukrainian taxpayers $5 million per day.

Saturday, November 7, 2015

БОЛЬШИНСТВО ГРИБОВ ОБЛАДАЮТ УНИКАЛЬНЫМИ СПОСОБНОСТЯМИ

На Земле существует около 160 тысяч штаммов грибов, большинство из которых обладают впечатляющими способностями. Например, в Чернобыле был обнаружен гриб, питающийся радиоактивными продуктами и очищающий воздух вокруг себя. Этот гриб был расположен на стене разрушенной атомной электростанции, которая в течение многих лет после катастрофы продолжала производить излучение.

В лесах Амазонки двое студентов-биологов из Йельского университета нашли грибок, способный разлагать пластик. А генетикам из Американского Института Биоэнергии удалось добиться того, чтобы штамм грибов быстрее переваривал природный сахар – ксилозу. Потенциальное значение этого открытия заключается в создании нового, дешёвого и быстрого способа производства чистого биологического топлива.

Гриб – это существо, которое дышит кислородом. Оно так необычно с биологической точки зрения, что его относят к собственному царству, отделив и от животных и от растений. По мнению учёных, на сегодняшний день мы не знаем о грибах даже самых основных вещей. Рассматривая участки сети паутинок в грибнице, легко узнать знакомую структуру: графическое изображение Интернета выглядит точно также.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Most schoolchildren speak Russian in Crimea

This year teaching in Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian languages accounts for only 2.76% and 0.5% of the total number of schoolchildren respectively in Crimea. In particular, 5,083 and 949 schoolchildren study subjects in Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian respectively. Only in two schools based in the towns of Alushta and Feodosiya are nine-year curriculums offered in the Ukrainian language.

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Hungary, Slovenia overrun with refugees from Washington’s wars

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

As a consequence of European Union’s subservience to the United States, European countries are being overrun by refugees from Washington’s wars that Europe so mindlessly enabled.

Over the course of only one day 19,400 citizens of Syria and Iraq crossed illegally the Slovenia’s border. The inflow of refugees there exceeded 90,000 people within recent 12 days.

Every day between 5,000 and 10,000 refugees from the Middle East and North Africa flock to Hungary. Overall, 378,000 people at the least estimate have illegally migrated to Hungary since the start of this year. According to local volunteers, the American and British military unleashed a devastating war in Iraq, the Italian and French military conducted air bombardment in Libya and all of them trained extreme jihadist forces in Syria, whereas Hungary has to bear the burden of this chaos created by the United States and its European vassals.

Many observers think Europe will pay dearly for the war crimes of the American evil empire in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. Islamic state may well spread its terrorist tentacles to Egypt, Turkey and Jordan.

Speaking at the 70th UN General Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out the slaughter, destruction and chaos that Washington has brought to the Middle East, North Africa and Ukraine, and the extreme jihadist and Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces that have been unleashed. He asked the American evil empire: “Do you realize what you have done?”

Vladimir Putin stressed the legality of Russia’s military aid to Syria, which is at the request of the Syrian government. He contrasted Russia’s respect for international law with the intervention in Syria of the U.S. and France, the rotten regimes that are violating Syria’s sovereignty with unrequested and illegal military action. The world sees that it is Washington and its vassals who violate the generally recognized rules of international law and not Russia.

Meanwhile, the tragedy continues.

Monday, November 2, 2015

List of enterprises, capable of attracting investments, as advisers may be enlisted to sell them in process of privatization

1. Joint-stock company CenterEnergo (UX: CEEN) is 78.29% owned by the state.

2. Odessa portside chemical plant is 99.567% owned by the state.

3. Joint-stock company KharkovOblEnergo is 65.001% owned by the state.

4. Open joint-stock company ZaporozhyeOblEnergo is 60.248% owned by the state.

5. Joint-stock company NikolaevOblEnergo is 70% owned by the state.

6. Joint-stock company KhmelnitskOblEnergo is 70.009% owned by the state.

7. Open joint-stock company TernopolOblEnergo is 50.999% owned by the state.

8. Dnepropetrovsk research and production complex Elektovozostroenie.

9. Joint-stock company SumyKhimProm is 99.995% owned by the state.

Sunday, November 1, 2015

In Moldavia, protesters demand resignation of central bank governor, PM

The report that last year three Moldavian banks transferred about $1 billion abroad through offshore companies without the knowledge of the central bank has aroused mass protests in the country. Led by Left parties, protesters demand the resignation of the central bank governor and the prime minister, early parliamentary and presidential elections.

Recently, protesters have forced members of Moldavia’s parliament to give sanction to the arrest of the prime suspect, namely MP and former premier Vladimir Filat. Observers think such concessions kindle leftists’ enthusiasm to change a pro-Western political course and improve relations with Russia.