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| REACTIONS TO EVENTS IN KISHINEV 08/04/2009 |
| (2009-04-08) |
| Last updated: 2009-04-09 15:48 EET |
The Republic of Moldova, a country at the edges of Europe and NATO, seems like a state that is socially fractured. On the one hand there is the older age population, mostly rural. On the other there is the young, urban generation, in touch with European reality. Being the prisoner of the past, of poverty and helplessness, the former consolidates with its vote the communist monopoly on power, which the latter is desperately trying to break. The outbreak of violence in Kishinev is only a symptom of the serious disease afflicting the Moldovan state, the last communist shelter in Europe. The communists, however, are seeing events in their own way.
With a definite victory in the elections on Sunday, encouraged by the positive evaluation of the elections by international organizations, president Vladimir Voronin is accusing the anemic pro-European opposition of attempting a coup. In Voronin’s view, students were pushed into attempting this coup by Romania, according to the official view from Kishinev and Moscow. Romanian civil society expressed its solidarity with the youth in Kishinev, and the press said that the Moldovans finally got some revolutionary spirit. The daily Gandul said that ‘The revolution took 20 years to get from Bucharest to Kishinev’, while Cotidianul writes: ‘After 20 years, the second Romanian revolution takes place in Kishinev.
The same publication writes: ‘In December 1989, the Romanian revolution was the first revolution televised live. In April 2009, the Kishinev revolution is the first revolution in live multimedia’. ‘Moldova - the Twitter generation revolts’, writes Romania Libera, and comments that the social network of that name propagated the social movement. Young Moldovans, in spite of the media blackout, in this way managed to shake communism up, according to Evenimentul Zilei. The daily Adevarul writes that young people from Moldova went out in the street to get their freedom, having had enough of living in isolation. The daily also asks the question: ‘Will Bessarabia rid itself of the last communists in Europe?’.
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