Background
Valeriu (Vladimir) Saharneanu was born on August 3, 1952, in Cuizăuca, Rezina District, where he completed his elementary studies (1959–1969).
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Valeriu Saharneanu
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He attended the Moldova State University (1970–1975) and the Faculty of Journalism of the Saint St. Petersburg State University (1987–1989). He attended also courses in Romania (1993), Berlin (1995), Bruxelles (1996), Paris (1998), Thessaloniki (1999), Strassbourg (2002), Cairo (2004), Norway (2005), the United States (2006).
Career
He has been the head of the Union of Journalists of Moldova since 1994. He has a degree in philology from the Journalism Department at Moldova"s State University, and from the Journalism Department at the Superior School of Political Science in Sankt-St. Petersburg. He worked as editor (1975–1987), deputy editor in chief (1989–1991), editor in chief (1991–1994) at TeleRadio-Moldova.
During the 1994 parliamentary election, Saharneanu was attacked at the entrance of the building where he lived and was sick for three months.
In 2001, Saharneanu founded Gazeta Românească, a weekly magazine sold in Moldova that compiled articles from major Romanian media outlets. The project failed primarily because of financial reasons.
He has been the head of the Union of Journalists of Moldova (Romanian: Uniunea Jurnaliştilor din Moldova) since 1994. On 25 January 2004, at a meeting of an opposition party in Chişinău, officials restricted journalistic activities.
He was summoned by the police and charged with disturbing the public order.
A date for his trial was immediately established. In January 2010, as many as 14 people put forward their candidacies for the post of chairman of TeleRadio-Moldova, of whom Constantin Marin got five votes, journalist Valentina Ursu three and Saharneanu, one vote.
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Views
As president of the Moldovan Journalists Union, Saharneanu gave a speech at the meeting on the necessity to defend media independence and freedoms.
Membership
In 2005, Saharneanu was a founding member of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova (Romanian: Forumul Democrat al Românilor din Republica Moldova).
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