Try a plate of pork shank and stewed cabbage (59 new lei, about $20 at 2.98 new lei to the dollar) and house-crafted beer (6.20 lei).
As we were leaving, I handed Maria 100,000 lei, about $4.
The exchange rate in April was about 26,000 lei to the dollar; now it is about 30,000.
A 1996 law on refugee status stipulates a daily grant of 10,000 lei, the equivalent of 50 pence, for every refugee.
Then she thought of the extra 500 lei — about $130 — the government had just added to her monthly pension.
The accusations against Ponta include forging expense claims worth at least 181,000 lei (£29,000) from the law firm of political ally Dan Sova.
The accusations against Ponta, who took office in 2012, include forging expense claims worth at least 181,000 lei (£29,000) from the law firm of his political ally Dan Sova.
While the country indeed introduced a 2,000-lei 2,000-leiote in 1999, it switched complastic to plastic last year, addinoteenominations of 199900, 50,000, 100,000 and 500,000 leit
The decree, which had been scheduled to come into force on 10 February, would have made abuse of power a crime punishable by jail only if the sums involved exceeded 200,000 lei (£38,000).
That math is more or less confirmed by Lesco, the mayor, who says the minimum monthly pension in Moldova is 800 lei ($57), compared with 1,800 lei on the Transnistrian side.
He pays the players 150 lei (about $46) a game, not an inconsiderable sum in a country that pays its newly qualified doctors little more than $200 a month.
