Moldovan intellectuals unhappy with new Minister of Culture

The Writers' Union, Composers' Union, Fine Arts Union, and Journalists' Union released a statement today asking the ruling Alliance for European Integration to reconsider the appointment of Boris Focsa as Minister of Culture.

Some Moldovan editorialists like Constantin Cheianu have written that Mr. Focsa did a poor job managing the well-known Luceafarul theater company in Chisinau and that he cooperated with the Communists between 2001 and 2009.

This is one of the first rifts between Moldovan intellectuals and the ruling Alliance, which is a bad sign considering the fact that most of them were openly supportive of the anti-Communist parties on both April 5 and July 29.

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