Three leaders of the Christian Democratic Popular Party (PPCD) risk administrative fines if the Prosecutor-General's Office gives green light to the reports filed on Monday by the Chisinau police department against organisers of the picket at the headquarters of the Russian Embassy to Moldova.

The spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Eugen Vitu, stated to BASA that the reports filed against PPCD lawmakers Iurie Rosca, Vlad Cubreacov and Stefan Secareanu have been delivered for examination to the Prosecutor-General's Office, to Maria Postoico, chairwoman of the parliamentary commission for rules and immunity, and to Justice Minister Vasile Dolghieru.

The police asked the prosecutors to decide whether filing lawsuit against the opposition leaders is grounded.

Earlier, Justice Minister Vasile Dolghieru had demanded the PPCD to terminate the picket at the Russian Embassy in Chisinau "immediately". In the context, the minister noted that both the pickets, and the protest marches in the past two months in Chisinau are organised "under slogans that harm the honour and dignity of Russian people, and the honour and dignity of the governing party in Moldova."

Last week, the Russian Foreign Ministry asked the Moldovan authorities to take measures that will terminate what it described an "anti-Russian hysteria" near the Russian Embassy in Chisinau. The ministry expressed optimism that the Moldovan authorities "are capable of ending the anti-Russian hysteria in Moldova and banning illegal actions of aggressive radical nationalist politicians from now on."

PPCD members and supporters, with a group of journalists from several papers in Chisinau on their side, have picketed the Russian Embassy to Moldova for at least one month, demanding the unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops and arsenal from Transnistria by the end of this year, in line with commitments assumed by Moscow at the OSCE summit in Istanbul and interministerial meeting in Porto.