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| THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA, A CLOSED STATE 27/03/2009 |
| (2009-03-27) |
| Last updated: 2009-03-28 20:13 EET |
Unable to name any achievement as far as domestic policy is concerned, despite being in power for the last eight years, the current regime has decided to make use of the foreign threat as a way of winning over the voters. First, the Moldovan authorities expelled from Kishinew two election advisers, members of the pro-European opposition, after letting them spend one night in police custody.
To the citizens of the neighbouring Romania, the Republic of Moldova has become off-limits. Last week, Bucharest’s ambassador was called at the Moldovan foreign ministry and told about information according to which groups of Romanian citizens were allegedly planning to travel ‘in large numbers’ to Kishinew on the 27th of March to celebrate the 91st anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania.
The ‘large numbers’ of imagined invaders turned out to be a handful of delegations made up of historians, writers and members of the Romanian local administration near the border with Moldova. However, they were all told by the Moldovan border police to go back. The authoritarian measures ordered by the Moldovan president Vladimir Voronin, a former general in the Soviet police, were applied indiscriminately.
Local officials from the Romanian border counties of Vaslui and Iasi, who had been invited by the Moldovan local authorities themselves to attend a meeting of the Siret-Prut-Nistru Euroregion, were also stopped by the Moldovan police and forced to go back with no explanations whatsoever. As for the group of Romanian writers and historians who were planning to attend the festivities, they were refused entry for very unsubstantial reasons, says Mihai Cimpoi, a member of the Romanian Academy, one of the organisers of the event in Kishinew:
“The authorities said they found magazines whose content was against Moldova’s statehood. These magazines were in fact literary journals with no political connotation. Of course the authorities knew about this, because we found out that large commando groups were sent by president Voronin to the border crossings in Albita, Leuseni and Sculeni Ungheni.”
The Romanian-born American analyst Vladimir Socor was quoted by the Bucharest media as saying that all these measures, equally abusive and absurd, make the authorities in Kishinew ‘lose time and credibility for the sake of transitory electoral interests pleasing their pro-Russian voters.’
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