Moldova recalled its ambassador to Russia for consultations in response to harassment and intimidation of Moldovan politicians
The talks will examine the ways to overcome the situation, avoiding actions that could undermine the Moldovan-Russian relations, moreover, the Moldovan authorities want to keep friendly, trustworthy and mutual respect.
Moldova and Russia have been embroiled in a series of rows this year, including tit-for-tat expulsions of each other’s diplomats in May and Moldova declaring the Russian deputy prime minister persona non grata in August.
The Chisinau government says its officials are being mistreated partly to derail a Moldovan investigation into an alleged Russian-led money laundering operation. Russia has accused Moldova of “some openly anti-Russian actions".
This issue seemed to have caught the interest of multiple international mass media, who wrote about it on their official web pages.
The article has initially appeared on reuters.com, but soon started appearing on international media web sites, such as: nytimes.com, uk.businessinsider.com, yahoo.com, kyivpost.com, news.am, newsagencyltd.com, dailymagazine.news, todayonline.com, scmp.com, tass.com, reddit.com, worldnews.easybranches.com, longroom.com, 112.international, cetusnews.com, rferl.org, vectornews.eu, rutwi.info, today.news.itthon.ma, news2night.com, qwiket.com, singapore.shafaqna.com.
Publika.md reminds that in December the head of Moldova’s ruling party, Vlad Plahotniuc, accused Russian authorities of harassing him and other officials with dozens of bogus legal cases intended to put him on international law enforcement watch lists.