Moldova
Tuesday 31 January 2023
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“Unlike US, #Russia deploys military forces only upon request from host countries. We fulfil [sic] agreements with them and abide by international law.”
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The quote attributed to Nuland, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, is fake and part of a torrent of domestic propaganda over Ukraine.
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"The positive role of the peacekeeping operation on the Dniester was emphasized … until the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic and the Republic of Moldova finally settle their relations."
A large portion of the Russian troops in Transnistria are not serving as peacekeepers. -
"It’s hard to say what Ms. Sandu meant when she pointed to the need to withdraw Russian peacekeepers, but it will hardly help resolve the issue and we will hardly be able to accept this kind of irresponsible demand.”
Source: TASS, December 1, 2020The U.N. has said Russian troops in Transnistria aren’t peacekeepers and should leave Moldovan territory. -
“[I]t is unfair to claim that the two-day visit to Moscow of Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop was the main reason for the start of the Second World War. All the leading countries are to a certain extent responsible for its outbreak.”
Putin’s view is not shared by most historians. The subsequent Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the USSR and Germany triggered the Nazi invasion of Poland, and it provided Soviet economic aid that made German conquests possible. -
The names may have changed since Russian tycoons rallied around Boris Yeltsin in the early post-Soviet era, but there are still Russian oligarchs aplenty, and they have clout.
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“Transnistrians will not be able to cross the Moldovan-Ukrainian border by car.”
Moldova temporarily banned cars with unrecognized license plates from Transnistria from entering Ukraine. But not all cars – those with special “neutral” plates aren’t affected. -
We fact check six false or misleading claims by made by the Russian Foreign Ministry in its annual review of the Kremlin’s policy initiatives.
Each year, the Russian Foreign Ministry issues an annual review. Polygraph.info fact-checks six of the false or misleading claims made about cybersecurity, Syria, the United States, Latin America and the INF treaty. -
In a radio interview, Alexey Martynov did not use words asserting Transnistria’s independence, as attributed to him by First Transnistrian TV
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“The annual training exercises for young ‘civil activists’ from 15 countries were held in the capital of Moldova -- in an atmosphere of strict secrecy and with American money, volunteers were told about strategies for fighting the authorities, [and] about the organization of and media support for mass protests.”
Open source information debunks the claim that #CampCamp2019 is a base for planning protests and the overthrow of the government. The U.S. was not the sole sponsor -- it was a multinational effort. Videos from the forum were shared openly via social media. -
“The Ukrainian Navy’s claims that the Black Sea Fleet’s Smetlivy patrol vessel entered the closed area of the Sea Breeze 2019 exercise are untrue.”
Whether or not the Russian guided-missile destroyer Smetlivy sailed into a zone being used for multinational naval live-fire drills, the ship was present in the vicinity of the drills. Russia is demonstratively aggressive toward NATO’s presence in the Black Sea. -
"I understand that some countries would like to forget as soon as possible about the role that they played in the years of prior to World War II. However, I deem those attempts to accuse us of militarizing public opinion as offensive."
Many countries distort or omit inconvenient facts from their pre-World War II history, but Russia has all but eliminated the most difficult discussions from its state education system. One man was even fined for posting factual information.