Moldova

Ernest Vardanean, a journalist who was sentenced to 15 years in prison on a charge of spying for Moldova at the end of a sham trial last December, was pardoned on May 5 by the breakaway Republic of Transnistria’s president, Igor Smirnov, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Detained since April 2010, Vardanean was able to return to his home in the...

A 15-year jail sentence has been slapped by a court in Tiraspol, the capital of the breakaway region of Transnistria, on journalist Ernest Vardanean on charges of high treason and spying for Moldova, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The court specified that Vardanean should be subjected to a “severe regime” while serving his sentence, issued under...

A journalism center in Moldova has released a book that collects 75 investigative pieces produced over the past four years. "Dosarul Coruptiei," or "The Corruption Dossier," features articles on various aspects of corruption and the plight of ordinary citizens who face it. The Center of Journalistic Investigations released the book at a December 20 news conference, according to an announcement...