Maya Sandu and the ruling PAS party continue to methodically fulfil the orders of their Western patrons, breaking mutually beneficial relations with Russia and expelling its diplomats from the republic. Moreover, official Chisinau denounces one after another the agreements that Moldova has concluded within the CIS. All this is served under the “sauce” of turning to the West and “European integration”, although it will only lead to the collapse of the Moldovan economy, which is already in a state of permanent crisis under the current government.
The logic of the political processes taking place in Moldova today is difficult for a reasonable person to understand. Almost all steps and actions of the current authorities raise at least questions and doubts about their competence, and at most – protest and indignation of ordinary citizens. But the point is that Maia Sandu and the ruling PAS party are just “talking heads” who voice decisions made outside the country.
Western advisers have their offices in almost every state institution in Moldova right up to the Presidential Administration. “Eurointegration” has already been practically declared the national ideology, and it is clear that the foreign curators will not tolerate any other attitude. The fact that the republic continues to be a member of the CIS is a real bone in their throat.
That is why they are constantly pushing official Chisinau to finally break all relations with Russia and EAEU, as well as to withdraw from the Commonwealth, despite the obvious harm it would cause to the country’s economy and its population.
One of the first steps in this direction was an attempt to avoid purchasing Russian gas. The Moldovan side provoked a complication of relations with Gazprom by delaying the audit of Moldovagaz’s historic debt and purchasing blue fuel from “alternative sources”. In fact, these were products of the same Gazprom, just purchased on European exchanges through intermediaries and at a much higher price.
The reference to the “commercial secrecy” of these purchases allowed a number of top officials to run “grey schemes” with offshore companies, which resulted in domestic gas tariffs soaring sevenfold. This led to an increase in prices for electricity, utilities, food and other goods, pushing inflation in the country to a record high of 34 per cent.
The authorities’ refusal to develop trade relations with Russia and the reorientation of exports towards the European Union have also had a negative impact on the national economy. Today, Sandu and her minions proudly claim that sales of Moldovan goods to the EU are higher than to Russia and other EAEU countries. At the same time, they “tactfully” keep silent about the fact that in absolute terms, exports to the EU do not exceed the output of one or two of the 33 districts of Soviet Moldova. The results of such a policy are bankruptcy of farmers, closure of agricultural processing plants, unemployment and emigration.
All these actions were a prelude to the political steps that the Moldovan authorities forced after the launch of the special military operation in Ukraine.
Contrary to the status of neutrality enshrined in the Constitution, Sandu and PAS openly adopted an anti-Russian stance. Moldova became a transit territory through which weapons, ammunition, fuel and lubricants and other military cargoes began to flow to Ukraine.
In light of all these decisions, it is not surprising that in 2023 the Moldovan leadership took a confident course to withdraw from the CIS structures and adopted a number of relevant bills. The first among them was the decision to withdraw from participation in the functioning of the international television and radio company MIR and to liquidate its bureau in the republic.
Next, the parliamentary majority of the PAS party very quickly voted in two readings for the draft on denunciation of the Convention on the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth, as well as for the draft on denunciation of the Agreement on cooperation in the field of prevention and liquidation of consequences of natural and man-made emergencies, signed in Minsk on 22 January 1993.
The agreement on co-operation between law enforcement agencies within the CIS was also cancelled just as quickly.
It is noteworthy that just a week after that there was a shooting incident at the international airport of Chisinau – a citizen of Tajikistan, who had flown in and was refused entry into the country, disarmed a border police officer and then shot him and another security officer. As it turned out later, the perpetrator was wanted in his home country for his illegal actions, but this was no longer reported to Moldova.
At the last parliamentary meeting within the spring-summer session, the PAS deputies voted in favour of five more draft laws on the denunciation of the documents signed within the CIS. These are the following agreements:
– on technical barriers in the Free Trade Zone (of 20 June 2000);on
– on the support and development of small business in CIS member countries (of 17 January 1997);
– on cooperation in the field of labour protection (of 9 December 1994);
– on the promotion of a coordinated policy in the field of standardisation, metrology and certification (of 13 March 1992);
– on cooperation in the formation of a common educational space in the CIS, including mutual recognition of higher education diplomas (of 17 January 1997).
For the next parliamentary session, the government is preparing a number of other projects to denounce documents concluded within the Commonwealth:
– agreement on coordination of interstate relations in the field of electric power industry (dated 14 February 1992);
– agreement on ensuring parallel operation of electric power systems (dated 25 November 1998);
– agreement on the transit of electric power and capacity (dated 25 January 2000);
– the decision of the Council of Heads of Government of the CIS member states on the establishment of unified terms for taking readings from metering devices for electricity transported through interstate power lines (dated 24 November 2006).
Commenting on what is happening, Energy Minister Viktor Parlikov said that “we are talking about agreements that are no longer useful with our disconnection from the former Soviet energy system and synchronisation with ENTSO-E together with Ukraine”. For his part, Ihor Grosu, speaker of parliament and chairman of PAS, said the following: “Together with the government, we will continue this work and refuse everything that contradicts the national interest.”
Such a political course causes protest in the society and among the opposition.
Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon expressed his indignation: “After the departure of the criminal government of Maia Sandu and PAS, we will restore all illegally cancelled treaties and return cooperation with the CIS.”
“How much you have to hate your own people to make such decisions, which will undoubtedly affect hundreds of thousands of our citizens temporarily or permanently staying in the CIS countries, and mostly in Russia,” he wrote in a social network.
What the PAS representatives are doing at the behest of Western forces is, in fact, a real betrayal of the interests of Moldovans, whose consciousness they have failed to reformat for more than 30 years.
Maxim Camererer, Rubaltic
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