​EXPERTS REGARD CHISINAU EVENTS AS WESTERN SUPERVISORS’ ATTEMPT TO CHANGE FIGURES IN POWER

Moldovan and Russian political experts seem to share the opinion that the Sunday’s and other recent actions of protest in Chisinau were but the Western supervisors’ attempt to reshuffle figures in power in Chisinau.

Director of the Institute of Diplomatic and Security Researches Valeriu Ostalep, a former Moldovan Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, said in the course of the video bridge called “In whose interests is it to change political landscape in Moldova?”, organized between Chisinau and Moscow on Monday, that everything taking place in Moldova since early 2009 has been conducted exclusively under the European Union’s flags and under Euro-integration slogans.

“In Moldova, state institutions and even police cars are decorated with EU flags. It is amazing that European and American diplomats are now pretending to have been unaware of what was going on in the republic, though everything was developing on their eyes. However, due to the authorities’ incapability to rule the country, due to their downgrading living standards in Moldova to the level of Mozambique, the number of discontented people is multiplying every day. Eventually the people gathered in the Chisinau's central square to express their complete mistrust in the rulers and politicians, whereas the DA Platform has only straddled that protest wave. Presently the DA leadership consists of very different personalities ranging from the moderate right to overt unionists [adherents to the idea of Unire – Moldova’s unification with Romania], who had demanded the unification only a year ago. Now they are being directed by supervisors from Brussels”, believes Valeriu Ostalep, who called the September 6 rally “theatre of the absurd”.

Moldova’s former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Romania Emil Ciobu drew attention to the fact that Moldova’s current rulers have no experience of state construction or state governance whatsoever.

“That cohort of politicians, who had governed Moldova since the early 1990s – Presidents Snegur, Lucinschi and Voronin – received their state governance experience from Moscow. But our present-day politicians, who have received a parliamentary mandate or have found political parties for themselves, do everything only for solving their own personal problems. It may sound paradoxically, but it is a fact: the Moldovans are being deprived of the right to call themselves Moldovans and are being imposed another nationality on – the Romanians”, said the ex-diplomat.

“Try and tell the Latvians that they are Germans, or to the Estonians – that they are Swedes! Before, we used to strive for communism, but now we believe that we are moving towards Europe, and our supervisors are showing us the way. As a matter of fact, there is no civil society as such in Moldova. The society which we think we have, together with its slogans and actions – this has all been paid for from abroad. Moldova is now hanging in the air without a point of support”, said Emil Ciobu.

Yury Nagernyak, Director of the International Foundation for the Development of Culture, Sciences and Education “Humanism, Progress, Law and Order”, presumes that Moldova, not presenting a particular value as such, has become a small coin in a global political game.

“Moldova has been objectively related to Russia as well as to Romania. The United States’ wish is only in replacing the current politicians in power, who have compromised themselves, with other personalities. As for the Western supervisors’ goal, it is remaining as before: even if Moldova is dragged into the European Union one day, this must be done only through Romania. For the Moldovan populace, this is the worst variant possible, but alas it is the more probable variant”, said the Moscow expert.

Director of the Institute for Independent States Alexei Martynov believes that the Moldovan political class does not perceive the republic’s sovereignty and even the need for such sovereignty as their political conviction.

“For them, this is primarily a commodity. Since the medieval epoch of King Dmitry Cantemir to date, Moldovans have had an experience of governing the state only in the period of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR, as the country used to be called officially until 1991). Currently, those who have come into power from businesses are sucking away the last juices from the population, having converted the Moldovan state into a police/oligarchic organization that serves the interests of a handful of people under the slogans of European integration for fooled and robbed philistines. These people are rallying not against the European vector of the republic’s development but against concrete people sitting in power chairs”, presumes the Moscow political scientist.