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In an interview for DW Akademie, Christian Mihr, Director of Reporters Without Borders Germany, considered that Moldova has to fight propaganda related to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. At that time, Moldova has problems with non-transparent ownership in the media. According to the Reporters Without Borders, Moldova ranked 76th in the rating for 2016, which is four positions worse than in 2015. The Report states actually that Moldova’s media are diversified but extremely polarized, like the country itself, which is characterized by chronic instability and the excessive influence of its oligarchs.
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The Parliament’s Permanent Committees approved on Wednesday, April 13, modifications and supplements to some of its decisions regarding access, order, and security in the Parliament and accreditation of media representatives, thus responding to long demands of the civil society and accredited journalists to have free access to the Parliament’s meeting room. It took two years of protests by the civil society and journalists for MPs to allow mass media access to Parliament’s plenary meetings. Here is the chronology of the main actions taken in this period by media organizations and media representatives, as well as of the main pretexts and “counter-arguments” invoked by MPs.
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On April 5, Moldovan company TDB-service, which provides services of satellite transmission of TV signals, ceased performing its contractual obligations to TV7, without motivating this action. As a result, viewers in the majority of localities in the country had no access to TV7 programs. Several media NGOs - Independent Journalism Center, Association of Independent Press, Association of Electronic Press, Press Freedom Committee, “Acces-Info” Center, Association of Independent TV Journalists, Young Journalist Center of Moldova – condemned these actions and qualified them as limitation of rights of access to information and freedom of expression.
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On Tuesday, April 19, took place a public debate organized by the Independent Journalism Center under the headline “Reduction of concentration in mass media. Recommendations by the EU and civil society.” Representatives of the Presidential Administration, the Parliament and the Government, members of the Parliamentary Commission for media, the Broadcasting Coordinating Council (BCC), and the Competition Council, media experts, publishers, journalists of local and national outlets discussed possible solutions to reduce concentration in media.
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The Supervisory Board (SB) approved on Monday, April 11, the activity report of the public broadcasting company Teleradio-Moldova for 2015, having examined earlier, on March 25, the public activity report of the company’s President Olga Bordeianu for the period of July 2015 – February 2016. The problems of the public company, which were noted at the two meetings of the SB, include lack of funds; exaggerated budget expenses; outdated equipment, which has not been renewed since 1989; increasing incidence of disease among employees because of high level of radioactivity etc.
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The IPN news agency and Radio Moldova organized on Monday, April 4, public debates on the topic of “Real and imagined dangers for fundamental human rights generated by the Government’s intentions to change regulations on information technologies.” The topic was discussed in the context of the Government’s approval of the draft law that the online community had been calling “the Big Brother law.” According to several journalists, media experts, and Internet providers, if this law is adopted by the Parliament, it will allow “reading emails and other text message services”. Several organizations – the Circulations and Internet Audit Office, StarNet, Interact Media (Agora, EA.md), Miraza (UNIMEDIA), youth news site #diez, Privesc.EU, Ziarul Național newspaper, Center of Journalistic Investigations and Anticoruptie.md, the Independent Journalism Center – demanded exclusion from the draft law these articles.
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28 Civil Society Organizations, including the Independent Journalism Center, signed, on April 8, a Public Appeal on the Draft Law proposed by the Ministry Internal Affairs and adopted by the Government, which extends and intensifies the Law Enforcement Bodies’ Control over the Digital Space. The Public Appeal was addressed to The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova,The President of the Parliament, Mr. Andrian Candu, The Permanent Parliamentary Committees. The signatories organizations requested the Parliament to send the draft law for expertise to the Venice Commission in order to verify its compliance with the European standards; consult the draft law with the civil society, exclude from the draft law the criminal offenses for which application of special investigative measures that can seriously affect private life or freedom of expression is not justified.
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On Wednesday, April 6, authorities from the left bank of the river Nistru prohibited to cameramen and photographers access to the meeting room of the region’s supreme council. Transnistrian MPs made this decision after examining and analyzing materials about the activities of the supreme council that appeared in the media beginning in January. Journalists believe that MPs disliked those materials because they expressed different opinions. Another reason invoked by authorities was lack of space in the meeting room. “It seems that Transnistrian MPs adopt the bad practices of the Parliament in Chisinau, invoking the same unjustified reason of lack of space” commented Nadine Gogu, director of the Independent Journalism Center, the decision of Transnistrian authorities.
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