{"id":631,"date":"2018-08-23T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geostrategy.club\/2018\/08\/23\/the-moldavian-catastrophe-is-there-a-way-out\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:05:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T08:05:58","slug":"the-moldavian-catastrophe-is-there-a-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geostrategy.club\/fr\/the-moldavian-catastrophe-is-there-a-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moldavian catastrophe. Is there a way out?"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Roman Novozeev<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Moldova, this is part of Christian Europe. Its multinational people carefully preserve traditional values. We sincerely believe that these values \u200b\u200bfrom Lisbon to Vladivostok will form the basis for our and your revival<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In November, parliamentary elections will be held in Moldova. They will be held for the first time in a mixed system (the US Ambassador in Moldova, D. Pettit, already expressed his dissatisfaction with this). For the parliamentary republic, which is Moldova, these elections are the most important political event that determines the future of the country for the next years. At stake is not only the layout of political forces in the country, but also the further vector of development, changes in the form of government, relations with neighbors. Right now, all those problems with which modern Moldova has been living have become acute and reached their climax. For some political forces, 2018 is the year of the 100th anniversary of the so-called \u201eunirea\u201c, supposedly voluntary union of Romania and Bessarabia. In fact, this is the century of the Romanian aggression that occupied the Moldovan Democratic Republic and the temporary liquidation of the Moldovan statehood that had lead its history since the XIV century, when there was no Romania at all.<\/span><\/p>\n What awaits one of the poorest countries in Europe and the post-Soviet space?<\/span><\/p>\n At the moment, we see a shaky political dual power in Moldova after the election of President I. Dodon, oriented toward constructive interaction with Russia in the presence of a openly pro-Western, puppet government and the so-called pro-European parliamentary majority, against the background of the criminal oligarchy represented by V. Plahotniuc. It was this man, the shadow owner of the country, as a true puppeteer, who stood behind the kaleidoscopic change of prime ministers and their cabinets in the last 2-3 years. The offices of Filat, Lyanke, Gaburich, Strelets \u2013 all of them fell due to the deepest corruption and political crisis inspired by one man. Plahotnyuk, in fact, finances and controls a number of factions of parliamentary parties, which gives him the opportunity to directly influence both questions of voting on the issues of trust or distrust to the government, and to have a significant impact on the work of the national law enforcement and judicial systems of Moldova.<\/span><\/p>\n Fever of Moldova in recent years began just after the schemes of large-scale corruption in financial and banking spheres were revealed, when it became clear that high-ranking officials of the government of the country were involved in the theft of one billion euros from the Banca de Economii. Plahotniuc directly contributed to this and a number of other cases, as the local media reported at the time. In fact, there is a kind of \u201eMoldovan laundry\u201c in the country: Moldovan banks have become something like a transshipment offshore point for criminal money from all over the post-Soviet and not only space.<\/span><\/p>\n And against this background, after large-scale public unrest, wins the candidate from the socialist party, I. Dodon, who not only begins to build bridges with Moscow and the Transnistrian Moldavan Republic, but also threatens to dismantle the criminal financial Augean stables. And, actually, as it happened more than once, the interests of local corrupt oligarchs and the so-called pro-European top-shot politicians begin to coincide and closely intertwine with the Western and, in the first place, American interest. Moldavia \u2013 to put it mildly, is a poor country. There is nothing there that could be of economic interest to the transnational corporations and Western countries. However, there is a rather sensitive geopolitical situation and the problem of Transnistria, hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens and Russian military contingent there. The EU does not need Moldova at all, confirmation of this was voiced by Johannes Khan on February 6 this year \u2013 EU does not plan to expand over Moldova. But it was right on this that the entire propaganda of the puppet pro-European parties of Moldova had been based on.<\/span><\/p>\n In the situation with I. Dodon V. Plahotniuc found a way out \u2013 to block his initiatives with the help of a pocket Constitutional Court, whose judges, by the way, also have Romanian citizenship.<\/span><\/p>\n In such a dramatic situation, the puppet government and the parliamentary majority begin to beat the pain points of their potential opponents, and, more simply, the interests of their own people.<\/span><\/p>\n In the most difficult situation emerged the Russian-speaking minority, which is seen as a potential vehicle for Russian interests in Moldova. According to the polls, 68% of Moldovan population fluently speak, read and write in Russian, including representatives of the titular nation. The law on the functioning of languages \u200b\u200bwas adopted in 1989. Russian language is designated in it as the language of interethnic communication.<\/span><\/p>\n All the years of the recent history of Moldova there has been a process of infringing the Russian language, but now it has become more acute than ever. All areas where the Russian language is used have been exposed to open pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n The decree on the adoption of the Law on Amendments and Additions to the Code of Television and Radio was signed in early 2018 by Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu. The Code included new provisions, \u201eto protect individuals, society and the state against possible attempts to misinform or manipulate by information from abroad, as well as to prevent provocations of a mediatory nature directed against the Republic of Moldova.\u201c As a result, the retransmission of Russian programs of an informative nature was officially banned. In addition, instead of transmissions from Russia, analytical, military and political TV and radio programs produced in the member states of the European Union, the USA and Canada are broadcast. The ban only touched on the Russian-language channels that broadcast news and analytical programs and did not affect the programs of the unionist nature, directly calling for the liquidation of Moldovan statehood. The adopted law represents an act of gross violation of the fundamental international principle of freedom of expression and freedom of the media, aimed at legalizing censorship and cleansing the information space from points of view that are inconvenient to official Chisinau, which is unacceptable in the conditions of a modern democratic society.<\/span><\/p>\n The Gagauz cable operators did not comply with the adopted law on combating propaganda, because they work under a license issued in Comrat, and not in Chisinau. Chisinau demands in court to annul licenses issued by the Gagauzia Executive Committee and to force Gagauz operators to receive authorization documents exclusively from the central authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n On February 13, Chisinau went on an open confrontation with the Gagauz autonomy, directly violating the Code of Gagauzia and its own laws \u2013 in particular, the Law on the Special Status of GagauzYeri. The Moldovan government through the court deprived the deputies of the People\u2019s Assembly of Gagauzia (NSG) of immunity and diplomatic passports, canceling article \u2116 49 of the Code (the Constitution of Gagauzia). The canceled article provided that a deputy of the National Assembly of the Gagauzia \u201ecan not be detained, arrested, searched, except cases of detention at the crime scene, or brought to trial without the consent of the People\u2019s Assembly given after hearing the deputy.\u201c Also, an article was annulled that provided for the issuance of a diplomatic passport to the Gagauzian deputies. The deputy-socialist of the Moldovan parliament, Fyodor Gagauz, stated that \u201ethis is mockery of the status of autonomy\u201c. The Bashkan Irina Vlachstated that \u201ein Gagauz society there is growing tension.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/figure>\n