"OLVIA-PRESS"

SOMETHING ABOUT PIECES OF ADVICE, REPORTERS, AND THE BESSARABIAN METROPOLITAN SEE.

Inability of the Moldavian authorities to resolve internal political and social problems led to the fact that representatives of the European community joined establishment of order in the Republic of Moldova. Either recipes of the PACE are not fulfilled completely or problems in Moldova are too numerous, but the situation with Moldavian authorities – after reports in the PACE on situation in the RM – quite resembles the picture “A bad mark again!” of the painter Repin.

The press agency “Olvia-press”, linking the press agency “Infotag”, informs that during the plenary sitting of the Council of Europe reporter for Moldova Lauri Vahtre drew particular attention at the system of local government, which in her opinion contradicts to European norms, and the judicial power has insufficient authority. Vahtre also emphasized, “Despite the adopted law on public television, fear dominates in the Moldavian television”.

Another CE reporter for Moldova Josette Durieu reflected situation with the RM mass media also. In her opinion, the main problem consists in depending status of mass media. “It is necessary to guarantee their freedom, because only mass media may provide control over the power in Moldova”, Josette Durieu thinks.

But instead of developing democratic institutes in the country, the President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin used to take ill-considered decisions, which seriously destabilize the situation in society. Registration of the Bessarabian Metropolitan See may serve a typical example.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe supported the requirement about legalization of that religious organization, put forward by representatives of the Christian-Democrat People’s Party during disturbances in Kishinev in spring 2002. The Bessarabian Metropolitan See was registered in the RM, in spite of enough strong resistance of the Russian Orthodox Church, ambiguous moods of the Moldavian public regarding that matter, and unfavorable forecasts, because activity of this religious organization in Moldova is closely connected with politics.

This event served a pretext for the new scandalous situation, which is now actively discussed in the Moldavian press. The newspaper “Kishiniovskie Novosti” (The Kishinev Newspaper) informs, “representatives of the Bessarabian Metropolitan See have recently handed a list of pretensions (to the CE reporters for Moldova Josette Durieu and Lauri Vahtre), where they accuse Moldova for violating rights of the See’s parish”. The issue of property is the key one in these pretensions. The words ‘Bessarabian Metropolitan See’ seem to become soon the synonym of scandals and quarreling on religious grounds.

I.Letiaga.