Author: petru.cosoi
Russian FSB secret police and paramilitaries suppress any open dissent in Crimea and actively search for any hidden resistance to the occupation. Beside using the judicial system to enforce the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian peninsula, they employ secret abductions and extrajudicial killings of Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian activists. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Decree No. 201 came into effect on March 20, 2021. The executive edict adds Crimea and Sevastopol to “the list of Russia’s border territories where foreign citizens, stateless persons, and foreign legal entities cannot own land.” As such, non-Russians, including Ukrainian citizens who still reside in occupied Crimea…
The level of public confidence in Russian President Vladimir Putin fell to 29% in late January, early February. This is reported by Levada Center. In August-October 2020, Putin’s confidence level was maintained at 33-34%. At the same time, sociologists note that Putin’s confidence rating has been dropping steadily for more than two years, only sometimes rising by one or two points. In November 2017, Putin’s confidence rate was 59%. Levada also notes that Alexei Navalny’s confidence rating rose to 5% and exceeded for the first time the confidence level of Communist Party leader Gennady Syuganov. At the same time, the…
The pro-Russian political and media of Viktor Medvedchuk are funded by a large extent by an oil drill in Russia owned by his wife and wife of his close business partner Taras Kozak. Editor’s Note: In the first days of February 2021, Ukraine took steps to shut down the main sources of pro-Russian propaganda in the country, which are traced to Putin’s “Number One” man in Ukraine, Viktor Medvedchuk, and his close business associate Taras Kozak. While the reasoning behind the decision was not yet made public, we investigated where the two men get their money. (Spoiler: it’s actually not theirs,…
The coronavirus pandemic has affected all aspects of human activity, including the tendency of the separatist authorities for disinformation. Under the direct influence of the Kremlin authorities, the media and the military, the authorities and the press of the self-proclaimed region adopt and promote key stories about the Second World War and beyond. On 19 June 2020, the Republic of Moldova and the self-proclaimed separatist authorities honored the memory of the victims of the 1992 Beder tragedy. This year marks the 28th anniversary of the outbreak of the military conflict in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova. Instead…
President Igor Dodon left today in the Russian Federation, where he will participate in the parade held on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The two-day visit takes place at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Igor Dodon wrote on Facebook. That’s while several leaders from the former USSR announced that they would not attend the event. The president of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, as well as the prime minister of Armenia, refused to go to Moscow. According to svoboda.ru, the refusal was justified by the danger of the coronavirus pandemic and by…
The Moldovan authorities have been trying for some time to demonstrate a team game. The president’s regime succeeds in mimicing “political stability”, “ensuring loyalty” and “maintaining neutrality” and “Moldovan identity”. The only problem is that stability, loyalty and identity are artificially promoted and kept in the sights by the media affiliated with the socialists and the ardent propagandists of the presidential regime. Moreover, in these and all other aspects of government, the current crisis has revealed an absolute disorganisation with regard to both Dodon and his ruling coalition and the cabinet of technocrats. The pandemic reflected, in fact, the inefficiency…
President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of revising for attempts to “insult” Russia by rewriting the history of World War II, as Moscow prepares for the parade in Red Square, which marks the Soviet victory, an event postponed due to the coronavirus. In an editorial in “The National Interest,” a conservative US publication, Putin warned of “historic revisionism”, saying that minimizing the Soviet Union’s role in World War II helped undermine the current world order, AFP writes. “In some official statements commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, all participants in the anti-Hitler coalition, except…
The “solemn demonstrations” were organized by the Russian Task Force on the occasion of the recruitment of a new group of children from the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova into the ranks of the “Junarmia” Public Movement in Russia. The announcement was made on 2 June in a press release, published on the official page of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. “Junarmia” is a youth organization supported and funded by the Russian Government through the Ministry of Defence. The initiative to create it belongs to Russian Defence Minister Sergei Sşoigu himself. The official objectives of…
Moldovan soldiers flew to Moscow on Sunday, June 14. They will parade in common with soldiers from Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan at the Victory Parade, which will take place in the Russian capital on 24 June. Dmitriy Peskov announced which countries had confirmed their participation. “There is a preliminary list, everything is in the process of working. We have confirmations from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. There is also confirmation of the participation of Serbia, Croatia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia. “I remind you that the focus now is on inviting CIS heads of state”, Peskov…
Representation Sputnik.MD manipulated with public opinion from the first moment after they came to the Republic of Moldova. Selective events, omissions of important topics in the country, but also creating a favorable image for some politicians. And if these comments can be inferred from a monitoring of the institution, this has recently been confirmed by a former employee. Journalist Valeriu Reniță was active on Sputnik radio for about six months, during which time several texts and broadcasts were withdrawn. “At Sputnik, I was moderating the show “Expertise” and writing articles for the site, but I only wrote two-three months, because…