Moldovan parliament set to condemn Russia's attacks on national information security, abusive interference with politics from Moldova

Chisinau, 24 January /MOLDPRES/ - A group of MPs today registered in Moldova’s parliament a draft declaration, thereby condemning the attacks of Russia against the national information security and the abusive interference with the political activity from Moldova.  

The parliament’s communication and public relations department said that, under the draft, “the disparaging statements against our country and our citizens, the blockages imposed to Moldovan exporters, political harassment of Moldovan officials, including of some representatives of Moldova’s parliament and government, represents a downright involvement of the Moscow political circles and even of Russian institutions in the politics from our country and shows a provocative and unfriendly attitude towards our country.” In the context, the authors of the draft express concern about the involvement of entities from Russia in the political activity from Moldova, by patronizing left-wing parties and undemocratic influencing of the vote the Moldovans are to give.   

The authors stress “the groundlessness of the decision adopted by the State Duma of Russia, through which they want to limit Moldova’s access to programmes of some Russian TV channels, hinting that, in reality, the main goal of the re-broadcasting of these programmes in Moldova was not the providing of qualitative programmes to Moldovans, but the use of this means to denigrate them and denigrate the country. This decision is meant to confirm, once again, with additional official evidence, the validity of the Moldovan parliament’s decision of   undertaking measures to tighten the security of the information space, and, at the same time, it makes more obvious the interference of the Russian political sector in the content of the programmes broadcast by Russia in Moldova.”  

At the same time, the document appeals to the high-ranking decision-makers of Russia to intervene, in order to cease all these abuses and campaigns of denigrating Moldova, stop any form of backing the political parties from Moldova, stressing that their financing from external sources is illegal, just as their support by other ways.

The authors opt, at the same time, for a constructive dialogue due to lead to the removing of blockages emerged and resuming the activities concerning the strengthening and development of the strategic partnership between Moldova and Russia.

The initiative of the declaration’s adoption belongs to a group of MPs from the faction of Moldova’s Democratic Party, parliamentary group of the European People’s Party of Moldova and nonaffiliated lawmakers.  

The document is to be put to vote at one of the first parliament plenary meetings of the spring session.