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Press Review. Friday, 16 February 2024

Press Review. Friday, 16 February 2024

* "Moldavskiye Vedomosti"
- Pensioners have been cheated and robbed again
From April 1, pensions will be indexed by 4.2 percent, although in December officials said that in 2024 the indexation rate will be 6 percent, and this figure has already been included by the parliament in the social insurance budget. Meanwhile, official inflation is 4.75 percent.
- So who voted for the airport concession after all?
Former Prime Minister Iurie Leanca's lawyer in the concession case demanded that President Maia Sandu and Prime Minister Dorin Recean, former members of Leanca's Cabinet, be summoned as witnesses to testify.

* "Saptamana"
- Let others read us
The Government approved this week the Regulation on the mechanism of financing from the state budget the translation and publishing of national books abroad.
- The country of the only train that hasn't burnt down yet
Only one of the five trains modernized in 2013 at the Grampet plant in Pașcani, controlled by Romanian millionaire Gruia Stoica, is operational. The statement was made by the former director of the Railways of Moldova (CFM) state enterprise, Oleg Tofilat.

* "Moldova Suverană"
- Russia and Shor, whatever, but Israel?
Israeli citizenship - protection for those who commit crimes in other states

* "Ekonomicheskoye Obozreniye"
- Impact of corruption on economic growth
The International Monetary Fund has published a follow-up survey on the situation of corruption in Moldova in the context of its impact on economic growth in the country.
- Living on borrowed money keeps the economy from growing
The economy will be able to get a positive fiscal impulse only in Q2 2025. Only then, for some time, the country will feel the support of aggregate demand from the state. And still it will remain low in the medium-term planning horizon. Head of the NBM Anca Dragu voiced this week such a disappointing scenario while presenting the first inflation forecast this year.

* Media
- NM Espresso: how Moldova bought gas, what the Prosecutor's Office called a fake, and how Russia refused to extradite Shor – NewsMaker
- What were the main sources of revenue accumulated by the State Tax Service - MoldStreet
- Two overseas officials received by Recean in the government. Discussions also focused on security - Realitatea