Moldova demonstrations - 10.April.2009 (5th day) Sources: Twitter, moldovan and romanian media

3:30 Twitter (#pman hashtag) discussions and Dorin Chirtoaca - the mayor of Chisinau, confirm the 10th of April (Friday) meeting at Teleradio Moldova starting at 10 AM (VIDEO MAYOR PRESS CONFERENCE). People intend to protest holding flowers in hands and turning into "Flowers revolution".
12:00 The public television is protected by people handling Kalashnikov weapons and probably also snipers (according to eye witnesses) Here VIDEO
V. Voronin, the leader of the Party of Communist agreed the demand of re-counting the votes and made an oficial request at Constitutional Court on this purpose. "The recounting of votes, will be an important reason to reinstall political stability, peace and mutual confidence in Moldova", Voronin said. Despite the call of opposition for a higher intensified anticommunist protest on friday, only about eight hundred protesters were marching in the center of Kishinev. The low size and intensity participation seems determined also by the fear state, less and less people risking to be arrested and kidnapped off the Chisinau streets by the police.
16:00 Romania: in a live show on Antena3 TV station, romanian oficials are amazed and make fun of Voronin and communists paranoia. Voronin's "proofs" about Romania involvement are actually the banners written in romanian and the people speaking romanian. NOTE: romanian and moldavian languages are identical. Hereby moldavian authorities said from the beggining of conflict that they have proofs against Romania but they showed none - denoting the communists desperation.
17:00 many romanian journalist were detained, the last one was the Antena3 reporter (a few minutes ago); also a swedish reporter was interogated by moldovan police,,,it is clear that Moldova is dominated by chaos. European Union is still silent.

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Moldova's riot: The 4th day - 09.April.2009 Updates

09.Apr.2009 - 4:00 AM Update 1. After a check on Twittergrid it seems that tomorrow will be again a busy day for Modovan revolutionists. More will be found out in a few hours at early time in the morning. The moldavian youth joined by romanians, can be found talking Here (twittergrid, hashtag #pman).
Update 2. The moldavian uprising seems to fade away in the 4th day, at 10:30 AM there was silent atmosphere at "PMAN", only a few TV camera teams being present in the area; by 12:00 hrs, 200 were protesting in front of Presidency before heading to Chisinau Main Square ("pman"). Meanwhile a group of students were picked up from their classes and taken away, again to an unknown location and from now on there will be repeated typical pattern actions clearly used by communists before 1990's (Security involvement, etc.). Unfortunately tough times will come for Moldavians, but the only positive thing is that the oppression is always the end of communists (they do not know how to deal these situations without arrestments and persecutions).
7:30PM Meeting of solidarity with people from Rep.of Moldavia organized in Iasi-Romania, live webcam images.
- One of the frontpage title of the StireaZilei Journal is called "Terror in Chisinau - Beaten journalists, kidnapped people and missing children" and indeed this is confirmed also by the following images courtesy of Hotnews.md

From Chisinau-street kidnappings 09.04.2009

From Chisinau-street kidnappings 09.04.2009

EU, CNN, BBC, Eurorews reaction??? None!!! If these events happened somewhere else, all the international media would become very noisy. At these moments they broadcast news like ciclism, banking system in England, elections in Algeria and (weird) even about peaceful protests from Georgia but... nothing related to agitated "north corean type events" from Moldova???
Here one of the BBC news: "Tens of thousands of opposition supporters in Georgia have been taking part in protests calling for the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili." - coincidentally pretty similar demands in Georgia but there do not occur violent actions as in Moldova.
- on Twitter spreads the news that tomorrow (10.Apr.2009) there will be organized two legitimate protests in Chisinau, one of them at the public national television but the authorities (also opposition warn population that is a set-up)
- in General meetings might be so dangerous that different newspapers published some important advises for protesters as follows:
1) people should walk in huge packs, not individual, 2) keep contact with someone out of conflict zone, 3) do not talk to unknown persons, 4) avoid head shaved persons especially if speaking russian, 5) use the main boulevards, avoid narrow and dark streets, 6) do not hesitate to shout when in danger,,, the noise helps, 7) take care at night, people are easily kidnapped, 8) do not talk about protests when travelling by public transport, 9) if you are part of a Facebook group, just increase the privacy profile level and eventually remove your pictures.

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Moldova's Media Revolution: The third day of demonstrations in Chisinau. Highlights

08.Apr.2009 - UPDATE 1. Chisinau: The day three of protest began around 10 AM but without any sign of violence. The demonstration started with an initial number of 1000 people at 11 AM, peaked at about 5000 protesters at 2 PM and decreased down to 3000 at 4 PM. During the day, a series of new events took place: the romanian ambasador in Republic of Moldova was declared "persona non-grata" and must leave the country in 24 hours, president Voronin announces re-introduction of visas for romanian citizens and in response the romanian authorities declare that they will not proceed the same, a series of arrests were started by the communist (something specific and expected for such regimes) among the "victims" being Sergiu Mocanu (one of the liders of the moldovan opposition and ex-adviser of Vladimir Voronin) and Gheorghe Brega - romanian citizen (president of Hyde Park Association); at the same time an oficial told the demonstrators that 125 students were arrested the previous night (communist fear propaganda) and the protesters threatened back giving ultimatum to president Voronin and asking him to leave the power, release of all 200 people put under arrest up to now and organization of new elections.
It seems that the main fact that bothers Voronin is that the Romanian Flag was installed on the Parliament building on the 7th April protests. It looks like he does not remember that Moldova was part of Romania and furthermore there is no big difference between both countries flags.
UPDATE 2
-2 pro-communist meetings were organized in Soroca (2:30 PM) and Balti (4:00 PM) with paticipation of (mostly russian speaking) people aged 40-50. They condemned the yesterday events.
- train transport towards and from Romania was cancelled on technical reason.
- leaders of the 3 oppozition parties signed an agreement of not recognizing legally the 5th of april elections.
UPDATE 3
5:00PM the protesters threaten with taking over the Television building.
6:00PM Unimedia.md and Hotnews.ro reveal that during the protest of wednesday, behind the Government Buiding (Chisinau) there were parked Secret Service cars registered with Transnistrian and Moldavian plate numbers (SEE VIDEO)
7:00PM "Facebook - social networking media" has been blocked by Moldtelecom - the main Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Moldova. Facebook played an important role in online transmission of the news from Moldova.
9:00PM moldavian media accuse the "Voronin's police" of agression against many journalists. Oleg Brega, a cameraman of Jurnal TV station was brutalized and beaten to blood by the police and subsequently left crawling in the street. 2,5 hours earlier four reporters from "Ziarul de Garda" have been threatened and scared by the same "law people". The foto and video cameras were either confiscated or destroyed (Hotnews.ro , Hotnews.md)
Vladimir Voronin shows up on TV for 15 minutes accusing the EU-member Romania of involvement in the Moldavia conflicts. Romanian oficials deny accusations and consider Voronin's declarations as a classical reaction used by communists when they do not manage to solve their own internal problems.
10:00PM protesters left the "Piata Marii Adunari Nationale" after they agreed to meet again tomorrow (Thursday-9.Apr.2009).
There were published the results of the parliamentary elections from 5th April: Communist Party obtained 49.48% of votes which represents 60 seats in parliament, insufficient to name the new president of Republic of Moldova.

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Violent protests in Chisinau - Rep. of Moldavia. Symptoms of another revolution? 7 Apr 2009

07.April.2009 - the 2nd day of violent events occuring in Chisinau (Republic of Moldavia). After the win of the elections by the communists, violent clashes take place in the moldavian capital with the participation of more than 30000. The people, most of them students broke into the parliament building and also Voronin's presidential office. They accuse the government of frauding the 5th of April poll by multiple vote and request new elections surveyed by international community.
The autorithies cut most of communication with the surrounding regions the only contact being established by internet and radio station "The Voice of Basarabia". As time runs away the situation seems to worsen, most of TV stations are shut down, the mobile phone communication is cut off in the protest zone and the road transport to Chisinau is blocked to avoid the crowd gathering to meeting.
Until 1300 GMT there were reported 30 light wounded among civilians and cops.
Check for more on DETAILED UPDATED INFORMATION (romanian)
Could these events called something like Revolution in Chisinau?
18hrs update: 1. crowd enter Parliament building breaking windows, throwing the furniture and setting fires; the police forces withdrew aside and watch. 2. First discussions regarding re-elections failed; debates were held between opposition (Liberal Party, Democrat-Liberal Party and Our Moldavia Alliance) and government (Communist Party). 3. Moscow oficials suspect occidental secret services and some other forces from Romania for involvement in the violent scandal.
19hrs update: 1. first deadly casualty, a woman died by inhaling carbon dioxide following the fire set at Parliament building - Moldavian television said. 2. Agreement between government and opposition for manual counting of votes.
20hrs updates: 1. at least 200 persons wounded in the incidents - "medical sources". 2. member of opposition declares "there is no agreement yet between political parties". Communists did not respond the requests, - situation still on hold. 3. In the city of Balti, 7 young people were arrested by undercover police after the closing of the anticommunist protest. The people are just grabed off the street and taken to unknown location. Chief of police does not comment. 4. According to Hotnews.md the situation becomes out of control and spreads through the country. In Chisinau there are still 15-20000 people waiting for solutions.
22hrs updates: the Parliament building was set in fire. The crowd plan to gather wednesday in the morning to continue the protest. Most of the moldavian media or internet websites are either blocked or slowed down. The outside world struggles to get information using also the social networkings like Forums, Twitter, Facebook.
VIDEO JurnalTV 22 - debate Vladimir Voronin vs. opposition leaders. Latest news.

Watch below 2 videos of revolution scene situations from Chisinau.

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