Press Review. Friday, 12 August 2022
InfoMarket Agency presents:
* "Saptamana"
- For on this Earth, all kinds of prices are
Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu says a lower price for natural gas cannot be obtained from Gazprom, because "cheap gas simply does not exist".
- Nicu Popescu: "Foreign partners' money goes on everything we see in the country"
Neutrality does not mean demilitarisation and isolation from the external world, says Deputy Prime Minister Nicu Popescu, who says Moldova's neutrality status, as laid down in the constitution, and it does not exclude investment in the national army and in strengthening defence capabilities.
*"Ekonomicheskoye Obozreniye"
- Audit is overgrowing with scandals
Moldova has finally decided on international companies which will audit the historical debt of Moldovagaz to Russian Gazprom and Factoring-Finance.
- "An optimistic tragedy" according to NBM forecasts
The National Bank of Moldova raised its average annual inflation forecast from 27.3% to 29.5%, expecting it to fall no sooner than November.
* Media
- NM Espresso: On the "Transnistrian trump card" on the gas issue, the search for solutions to the Russian embargo and a new type of fraud (newsmaker.md)
- 90% of apple exports go to Russia. Effects of the new embargo (mold-street.com)
- One of the seven people who left Moldova to evade prosecution in the case of illegal financing of the "SOR" party has been detained (agora.md)







