The Foreign Ministry called the expulsion of the head of Sputnik Moldova part of an anti-Russian campaign
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Russia expressed a strong protest to Moldova’s charge d’affaires in Moscow, Sergiu Goncherenco, over the provocative expulsion of the head of Sputnik Moldova, Vitaly Denisov, from Chisinau. About it it says in the Telegram channel of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
“It was stated that the Russian side regards this step as part of the anti-Russian campaign launched by official Chisinau,” the statement said.
Moscow demanded that Moldova stop the “politically motivated persecution” of Russian media, the Foreign Ministry noted. They promised that Chisinau’s “next unfriendly step” will not go unanswered.
Head of Sputnik Moldova Vitaly Denisov was expelled from Moldova on September 13. He was presented with a deportation order on the first flight and given a 10-year ban on entering the country. The reason given by the Moldovan authorities was the alleged “intention to carry out activities that threaten the national security of Moldova.”
After this, the Charge d’Affaires of Moldova in Moscow was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. “This is not an isolated action. This is the next link in the chain of inadequate attitude of the current Moldovan authorities to the concept of democracy. <...> They don’t understand what freedom of speech is, what the rights and freedom of journalists are,” said official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
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