Moldova / Europe & Central Asia

  

Attacks on the Press 2000: Moldova

STATE PRESSURE ON MOLDOVAN MEDIA REFLECTED broader political tensions between the country’s Romanian- and Russian-speaking citizens. This linguistic conflict, and related questions of sovereignty and identity, motivated government attempts to impose far-reaching restrictions on Russian- and Romanian-language media. Also, the state continued to impose large fines in libel cases, and several newspapers and journalists were…

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Independent journalist gets anonymous death threats

New York, July 17, 2000–The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by the death threats made by unknown persons against independent Moldovan journalist, Andrei Turcanu. According to CPJ sources, Turcanu began receiving calls threatening him and his family with “extermination” after he published an article on June 30 reporting on possible corruption in…

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