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The State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting was an institution from the Soviet era, established in 1946 under the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR).

Vlad Țurcanu is a journalist by profession who has also been involved in public service and political activities. In December 2021, he was elected as the general director of the Public Institution "Teleradio-Moldova" (TRM) Company. For a single seven-year term, he was nominated by TRM's Supervisory and Development Council and approved by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova.

He began his journalistic career at Radio Moldova in 1992, which was then a state radio station and is now a public broadcaster.  During his time there he worked as a reporter, editor and editor-in-chief of Youth Reaction. Since 1994, he has been a presenter and producer of entertainment programmes on Moldova 1. From 2000 to 2004, he worked as a reporter for Radio Europa Liberă. From 2006 to 2008, he was a member of the Audiovisual Coordination Council. From 2010 to 2011, he was deputy director of MIR TV, an international television network created in 1992 by the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

From 2011 to 2012, he was editor-in-chief of Radio Chisinau, а media outlet of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Society. Vlad Țurcanu was Nicolae Timofti's adviser and spokesman from 2012 to 2016. He resigned in January 2016 following the swearing in of a new government led by Pavel Filip, which took place without prior announcement. Țurcanu later stated that he had misinformed the media, not being aware of the facts.

After resignation, he returned to journalism at Radio Chisinau from 2016 to 2019 as a political commentator. During this time, he also served as a project coordinator and media content evaluator at the Soros Moldova Foundation.

In 2019, Țurcanu became the leader of the Liberal Reform Party, which was later renamed the Romanian People's Party, advocating for the union of the Republic of Moldova with Romania. He ran for mayor of Chisinau in 2019 but garnered only 0.81% of the vote. He resigned as party leader at the end of the year.

He then joined the National Unity Party (PUN) as a member and first vice-president, but he left the party and withdrew from politics in November 2020. Since then, he has made several public and media appearances as a political commentator.

He holds a degree in Journalism and Communication Sciences from the State University of Moldova.

Corneliu Durnescu is a journalist and TV producer. He was appointed director of Moldova 1 public television and deputy director of Teleradio-Moldova in December 2021.

Durnescu previously worked at Radio Moldova and held several positions at television stations, including news director at Jurnal TV and Pro TV Chisinau. He also produced television projects such as Prime's Factory of Stars. In recent years, he served as a producer at Radio Free Europe.

In January 2024, the Academy of Sciences of Moldova awarded Corneliu Durnescu the "Nicolae Milescu Spătarul" Medal for his successful managerial activity and valuable contributions to the promotion of science and culture at both national and international levels.

He graduated from the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts in Chisinau.

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Arcadie Gherasim, the president of CSD, is a journalist by profession. He began his career in 1979 as a correspondent for the then state-owned "Teleradio-Moldova". Over the years, he has served as section head, deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of the news department at Radio Moldova. From 1999 to 2000, he was Director General of TV Moldova.

From 2001 to 2006, he was the general producer of Euro TV Chisinau, a public channel owned by the municipality of Chisinau and later privatised. From 2008 to 2011, he was deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Timpul", and from 2015 to 2016, he was programme director at the television station "Vocea Basarabiei". He is also a lecturer at the Department of Journalism and Communication at the State University of Moldova.

Sergiu Stanciu, the CSD secretary, has held several management positions in public and media institutions. He was the general director of Radio Chisinau from 2011 to 2013 and served as deputy minister in the Ministry of Youth and Sports from 2013 to 2015. Later, he became the director of the Labor Institute, an educational center of the National Confederation of Trade Unions of Moldova. Since 2019, he has been the general director of the General Directorate for the Administration of Government Buildings of the Republic of Moldova and, since 2021, the deputy director of the National Museum of Literature "Mihail Kogălniceanu."

Additionally, since 2019, he has served as an interim administrator at Arena Chisinau, and in September 2024, he was elected as the director with a full mandate following a competition held by the Public Property Agency. In the local elections of 2023, he ran for mayor of the Municipality of Orhei on behalf of the ruling Action and Solidarity Party. He holds a bachelor's degree in graphic design from the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca in Romania.

Corneliu Popovici served as the Minister of Education, Culture, and Research in the government led by Ion Chicu from 2019 to 2020. During his tenure, he became the subject of jokes after slurring his speech at a meeting with students and addressing judges, prosecutors, and lawyers. Additionally, when employees from several theaters complained about not receiving their salaries, Popovici remarked, "The artist must be hungry."

Before and after his ministerial role, Popovici worked as an advisor on education, culture, and research for former President Igor Dodon. He was also a member of the Supreme Security Council and the president of the National Heraldic Commission during Dodon's administration. Currently, he serves as the vice-rector at the "IMI-NOVA" International Management Institute and as a commentator with anti-European messages for the websites noi.md and moldovenii.md, owned by Vasili Chirtoca.

Aurelian Dănilă is a former diplomat of the Republic of Moldova and the former USSR, a habilitated doctor in the study of arts, a university professor and musician. He is currently a researcher at the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Between 1988-1992 he was a cultural attaché at the Soviet Embassy in Bucharest and Consul General of the USSR in Iași.

 He served as ambassador of the Republic of Moldova in Bucharest from 1992 to 1994, in Austria from 1994 to 1995, and in Germany from 1997 to 2001, while also covering Sweden and Denmark. Between 2015 and 2016, he was the First Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Kyiv. He was president of the Union of Musicians from Moldova from 2012 to 2017 and taught at the Academy of Music, Theater, and Fine Arts.

Loretta Handrabura was Deputy Minister of Education from 2009 to 2015 and Minister of Youth and Sports from 2015 to 2016. She was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party while in power and previously belonged to the Social Democratic Party, on whose lists she was elected as a municipal councilor in the Chisinau Municipal Council in 2007.

She is a university teacher and curriculum designer, co-author of laws and reform strategies for the education sector, and has developed textbooks and didactic materials for general, vocational-technical, and higher education. Handrabura participated in negotiating the RM-EU Association Agreement as the coordinator of various working groups on education, science, audiovisual media, and sports in the Moldovan government (2010-2016).

Irina Mațenko is a journalist and deputy editor-in-chief at the economic magazine "Logos Press," where she has worked since 1998. She has also been teaching at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences at the State University of Moldova since 2003.

Maria Şleahtiţchi is the Director General of the National Museum of Romanian Literature, subordinate to the Ministry of Culture. She is a writer and a scientific researcher in the field of philology, holding doctoral and post-doctoral studies. She is a member of the Writers' Union of the Republic of Moldova and the Writers' Union of Romania.