For weeks, the police in the Moldova Republic is posting dangerous notices on its telegram messaging channel.
Officials have repeatedly warned of “fake news” on social media sites, called citizens not to take “electoral bribes” and released the report on the arrest of the paid protesters. Recently, Moldova’s police posted a video to the voters how Russia is currently buying a mass of votes through an app called “Tatto”.
Moldovan President Mia Sandu sandwiched between South -Western Ukraine and Northeast Romania, last week, after attending a Supreme Security Council meeting last week, to reheat Russia’s efforts in the upcoming election of the country last week to re -control it.
But why? The results of the vote will determine whether the small republic remains a democratic nation for European integration or whether a coalition of Russian-supporting parties occupies a government and to bring it back to Moscow orbit. And despite the campaign not starting, events in the country are moving fast.
Large -scale Russian sabotage attempts
Russia is clearly considering Moldova as a proven ground for various pre -election hybrid attacks. It aims to continuously use the acts of sabotage to sow doubts in the country’s democratic system to create uncertainty and political chaos.
Russia’s equipment? Pay public opposition, buying large-scale votes in Moldova and between Moldovans abroad, floods social media with fake news, rapid, misleading AI-generated material-and on IT system on hackers. Beyond the thesis, Russia has increased the number of missiles and drones so much that it fly through the airspace of Moldova, which is to attack Ukraine in an attempt to create a greater fear of war between moldovans. Joint efforts jointly convert Moldova’s national parliamentary election in relation to the entire Europe.
Recently, the arrest of former Moldovan Oligarch Vladimir Plahotanyuk at Greece’s Athens Airport on 27 July made a lot of headlines. Moldovan officials have arrested other people Saf Plahotanyuk on various allegations, who fled the country in 2019 in 2019, for his suspicious role in Moldova’s so -called “Billion Dollar Successor” between 2012 and 2014.
Last month, independent investigative news magazine at Latvia Penetration A report was published that claimed that Plahotanyuk had traveled to Russia and Belarus several times in recent months, a long -time associate Vladimir Putin and currently meeting with Putin’s President’s President’s Vice President Dimitri Kozak.
When the name Kozak is spoken, the alarm bell in Moldova stops. Kozak was the author of a 2003 plan, which would have seen Moldova dividing the loose federation of small states. At the last minute, the then President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin refused to signed a slap “Kozak Memorandum” on the face for Kremlin, which has neither forgotten Putin nor Kozak. Plahotanieuk’s meeting with Kozak focuses on how Oligarch controlled the network that he had controlled before fleeing Moldova to return the country in Russia’s Guna, Russia.
Decades of Russian political aggression
Although small agriculture is economically meaningless for Moldova and its about 3.5 million citizens Russia, it has again re-resurrected the Russian neo-print target for three decades. It was in Moldova in the 1992 spring, that Russia launched its first post-Soviyat war against an independent country-as an excuse that it would repeatedly use, to protect a russian-dandy sitizing from an alleged fascist national government.
The Kremlin supports a separatist rule of Russian secret agents such as mafia in the Transnistria region of Moldova and remains in violation of international law by deploying a large -scale arms arms and a large -scale weapons. Moscow has used Moldova’s banks as a “Russian laundromat” system to distribute billions of dollars worldwide and threaten the country by constantly shutting off gas delivery.
In mid -2019, Moldova took a major step towards the change of real democratic rule, until then, a rocky journey, which was a rocky journey despite not falling into the trap of pro -Russian residues. Voters of Moldova chose Mia Sandu, a popular anti -corruption activist for the head of his government, which was making his President. Sandu’s action and solidarity party (PAS) won an absolute majority with Moldova’s promise to implement the legal and economic reforms of Embiti in the 2021 parliamentary election, which has succeeded.
Runs a shady network from Moscow
There is a host of reasons for keeping sandu and PAS with suctriding. The top of corruption between them, which has vacated national coffers, a collective migration that has looted its bright testing brain government, the fact that the crisis continues in Transnisturian, helps the European Union achieve Moldova’s energy freedom from Russia, and finally, in the decades of Non-Stop Rasian Propaganda. One of the most important narratives in the latter is that the European Union and NATO are real to pull Moldova in the war in Ukraine – which Russia started by Russia.
The effectiveness of support and Russian intervention under Sandu and PAS Prime Minister Dorin Ricen was displayed during the last year’s presidential election, which is associated with the European Union’s referendum. Sandu eventually assured the second round of voting, but the referendum on the integration of the European Union was barely passed. Shortly before the vote, officials in Moldova announced that they had highlighted a network of operations that successfully bought more than 300,000 votes in Tally.
The network behind the vote-baking campaign was run by a Moldovan-Israeli businessman. The noise is so rumored that the so -called trillion dollars have been orchestrated, before he joined Vladimir Plahotanieuk and fled to Israel and then Russia in the country. Although many political parties established by the shower have been banned in Moldova, it continues the impact from inside Russia. In the preparation for Moldova’s September election, Shore dubbed the “Vijay” party alliance in Moscow. Moldova’s Central Election Commission (CEC) stopped the alliance by vote in July.
Patriot block, Putin’s ‘Second Front’
In September, observers hope that Putin’s “Second Front,” would stand for the election, “supporter-Russian four-party” patriotic blocks “which included former President Igor Dodon. Thought Dodon is a socialist in the name, his party, in fact, stands for the right-wing populist and the Kremlin-handed positions such as the other three parties in the block. Fixing, leaders of all four parties visited Moscow for consultation before registering for the September parliamentary ballot. At the top of their election forum is “restoration of relations with Russia”.
The Kremlin claims that it has nothing to do with any of it. When Sandu accused Russia of being attached to a large -scale election intervention, Kremlin’s spokesman Dimitri Peskov shut down it, saying that Russia does not include itself with internal affairs of other countries.
This article was the original published in German and was translated into English by John Shelton
