Mihai Taşcă is a historian and jurist from the
Republic of Moldova
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Biography
Mihai Taşcă is a doctor of law, senior researcher, Institute of History, State and Law of the
Academy of Sciences of Moldova
The Academy of Sciences of Moldova (), established in 1961, is the main scientific organization of Moldova and coordinates research in all areas of science and technology. Ion Tighineanu has been the head of the Academy of Sciences since April 9 ...
. Mihai Taşcă is the secretary of the
.
[165/14.01.2010 Decret privind constituirea Comisiei pentru studierea si aprecierea regimului comunist totalitar din Republica Moldova, Monitorul Oficial 5-7/3, 19.01.2010]
In 2006–2008, Taşcă won two cases concerning the denial of access to information opened against the
Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova
The Security and Intelligence Service () is a Moldovan state body specialized in ensuring national security by exercising all appropriate intelligence and counter-intelligence measures, such as: collecting, processing, checking and capitalizing t ...
, which denied access to its archive.
On March 18, 2008, Mihai Taşcă submitted an application to the Ministry of Justice, seeking access to the files of the political parties; he intended to carry out a study about the election campaigns. On April 15, the Ministry rejected the application. After the second refusal, the researcher sued the Ministry to the
Court of Appeal
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on June 17. On September 30, 2008, the court ordered that the Ministry of Justice offers Taşcă the files he asked for.
In 2001, he founded ''Revista de drept privat''; now he is the
editor in chief
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held account ...
of this scientific magazine. He is also writing for daily Adevarul-Moldova, in a rubric called The Archives of Communism (once in two weeks, the other two materials per month being authored by historian Igor Caşu).
Works
* Mihail Taşcă, Sfatul Țării şi actualele autorităţi locale, "Timpul de dimineaţă", no. 114 (849), June 27, 2008 (page 16)
References
External links
Ministry of Justice loses case on denial of access to informationMihai Taşcă câştigă pentru a doua oară un proces împotriva SISCurtea Supremă de Justuţie: Accesul la dosarele Securităţii nu poate fi îngrăditMihai Taşcă, doctor în drept, cercetător ştiinţific superior, Institutul de Istorie, Stat şi Drept al AŞM
Preşedintele interimar al Republicii Moldova Mihai Ghimpu a emis un decret prezidenţial privind constituirea Comisiei pentru studierea şi aprecierea regimului comunist totalitar din Republica Moldova.Hundreds of thousands of cases to be examined by commission for combating Communism
* http://www.privesc.eu/?p=1884 - The first press conference of the commission, Moldpress, January 18, 2010. Video.
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100309165120/http://www.timpul.md/article/2010/01/18/5881 - interview with Gheorghe Cojocaru, president of the commission.
Vladimir Tismăneanu, Un moment istoric: Comisia de studiere a comunismului
Site-ul Parlamentului Republicii Moldova
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Living people
Moldova State University alumni
Moldovan jurists
Members of the Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova
Year of birth missing (living people)