november 5 1992 ; 23 years ago 1992 11 05 founder vasile botnaru defunct 31 december 2009 headquarters chi in u moldova key people vasile botnaru services news media number of employees 20 website basa.md basa press was a newsagency from the republic of moldova . founded in november 1992 moldova s oldest independent newsagency ceased its activity in december 2009 . history edit basa press was founded by a group of five journalists including vasile botnaru in chi in u on 5 november 1992 . the newsagency was the first independent news agency in the republic of moldova . 1 infotag was the second one operating officially since 1 december 1993 . basa press covered the entire range of political social economic business and other events . 2 on 31 december 2009 basa press moldova s oldest independent news agency closed down . 3 agency s ex director sergiu ipati told the agency had been closed down because of the ongoing crisis . in 2009 the moldovan information market lost another news agency flux which was controlled by the christian democratic people s party moldova . 4 references edit basa press about basa press news agency basa press inchisa din cauza crizei moldova s oldest independent news agency closed down external links edit moldova s oldest independent news agency closed down basa press agen ia basa press nchis din cauza crizei financiare basa press nchis din cauza crizei this article related to the republic of moldova is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title basa press & oldid 647149950 categories publishing companies established in 19922009 disestablishmentshistory of moldovanews agencies based in moldovamoldova stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages rom n edit links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 20 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view