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Aliona Onofrei, a senior consultant at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research in ���ş����ă��, acknowledges these issues, and says that there are already a number of projects aiming to address brain drain.

Among the academics running for parliament are Serghei Cataranciuc, who leads the mathematics department at Moldova State University in ���ş����ă��, an economics professor and five political scientists and historians.

“Cataranciuc is one of the best mathematicians in Moldova. It’s great that he’s running for a seat in the parliament,” says Mitrofan Cioban, president of the Mathematical Society of the Republic of Moldova in ���ş����ă��.

Vadim Turcan, an assistant professor of civil engineering at the Technical University of Moldova in ���ş����ă��, applauds the academics who have decided to run for office.

The 21 people on board included two Moldovan pilots and a Moldovan engineer, the country’s acting prime minister, Gheorghe Brega, told reporters in ���ş����ă��.