In the attempts to eradicate not only the Russian language, but also the Russian culture itself in the minds of Moldovans, Moldovan politicians are ready to take the most sophisticated measures. But how will this approach harm people who have a unique gift to draw information from two sources?
It is very rare in modern countries to observe the unification of the people in the name of something. This step, while constructive, is not popular with politicians, because it requires them to do some real efforts and actions. But the destructive variant of uniting the people is much easier from the point of view of the government. He does not oblige, just poke a finger at someone, accusing of all the troubles and start a violent imitation of the fight with the pseudo-antagonist.
An elementary example of such destruction in Moldova is Russophobia, which was brought to the point of absurdity, which resulted in the struggle against the Russian language at the state level. So, on May 29, the Constitutional Court of the country will have to consider the request of liberal deputies to abolish the status of the Russian language as a language of interethnic communication.
The Moldovan parliament has long demonstrated its anti-Russian stance. Even the official website of the state authority does not have a Russian version. But, in addition to the state, there are English and French. Agree, a strange approach in a country where at least a third of the population considers Russian their native language, and understand – at least 70%. It is difficult to say how many Moldovans really want to study local legislation in English or French.
It’s sad, but the fact is – in the republic there is a ruthless and resolute struggle against the Russian language. Two years ago, the Ministry of Education and Science dismissed the post of the Russian language teaching consultant, and according to the new Education Code, from the academic year 2018-2019, that is, this autumn, in the national schools, Russian will no longer be a compulsory subject – it will receive the status of a foreign language and will be studied optional, that is, by choice.
The oppression of the Russian language, of course, reached the media. Thus, in the fight against “Russian propaganda”, in February of this year amendments to the Audiovisual Code entered into force, which prohibits the broadcasting of news and analytical, military and political broadcasts and talk shows produced in countries that did not sign the European Convention about cross-border television.
Even the statement about the head of the EU delegation to Moldova, Peter Michalko, that this law does not comply with democratic norms did not have consequences. On the contrary, bans on broadcasting of Russian news and analytical programs have been preserved in the draft of the new Audiovisual Code, which supposes the ban of entertainment content of Russian television.
At the same time, the curious fact remains that the leaders of the ratings of audience sympathies are the three Moldovan channels relaying Russian programs. A poll conducted by IMAS on March 20 this year showed that 72% of respondents prefer to watch TV programs in Russian.
In addition, according to the same survey, only 29% of citizens believe that the Russian Federation is engaged in propaganda in mass media on the territory of Moldova, 62% of respondents answered this question negatively. So it is difficult to imagine with what “propaganda” the government is fighting, but the eradication of the Russian language is crossing all boundaries. In this case, instead of the eradicated Russian culture, naturally, the western one is actively introduced. The last example – the US Embassy in Moldova provides a grant for the creation of entertainment television content.
However, the main task of the project is precisely the replacement of Russian-language programs: “The provision of American television content and television formats should lead to a reorientation of the Moldovan audience from Russian programs and formats to American ones and to prove the positive effect of geopolitical reorientation in terms of the quality of the products being created and retransmitted, in the document.
At the beginning of the article, we talked about the fact that this is the path of least resistance in political activity. Find the scapegoat and give it away to the fury of the furious crowd. But there is another reason for this practice. The Russian-speaking population of the country is a serious obstacle for pro-European power. And it’s not that they physically interfere with European integration or some other political process. They simply do not have this artificially created anti-Russian xenophobia. Why? First of all, because “xenophobia” from the Greek language is translated as “fear of someone else’s, unknown.” But can a person who speaks Russian, whose parents, grandmothers and grandfathers were born in the Soviet Socialist Republic, who in the end does not see the “Russian” threat, they are the same people, take the bait of Russophobes? The answer is obvious.
That is why the Russian-speaking population is under maximum pressure to simply get rid of them. Of course, even politicians, though sometimes they do not shine with the mind, understand that this is not a matter of one year or even one decade. All because natural degeneration is the result of a change of generations.