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CHISINAU GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS WOULD NOT BE GIVEN ACCESS TO RELEASED MOLDOVAN PILOTS IN MOSCOW

13 february, 2019

So far, Moldovan governmental officials have not received an access to the liberated Moldovan pilots in Moscow.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, on the Government's request the Ministry's Secretary General Mihai Capatina and the Chief Physician of the State Chancellery Office Eugen Vasiliev flew to Moscow urgently on February 11 evening. Upon learning that liberated pilots Lionel (Ion) Buruiana and Mihai Crihan had been successfully delivered from Afghanistan to Moscow, the Moldovan governmental officials were requested to render necessary assistance and start in Moscow the paper and other procedures for bringing the pilots back home.

"So far, the Moldovan side has not received from the Russian authorities either an access to the pilots or information about where they are being kept. The only news the foreign ministerial representatives have learnt from their conversation with Moscow officials was that the two Moldova citizens have been under the care of not the Russian Government but of a non-governmental organization", reported the Ministry.

Meanwhile, the Moldovan pilots have given a short interview to the NTV channel of Russia, saying: "Thank God, now we are feeling better and recovering. We have made all necessary medical analyses, and were examined by profiled specialists. We are recovering both physically and psychologically, and are trying to forget all that horror, those sufferings and fear. We want to begin a new life. Now we are free and are grateful to all the people who made our liberation possible: Moldova President Igor Dodon, the Russian leadership, and Mr. Igor Chaika [Co-Chairman of the public organization "Delovaya Rossiya" ("Business Russia")]. Without them, we would not be here now", said Buruiana. On Tuesday, President Igor Dodon held a meeting with foreign ambassadors accredited in Moldova, told them inter alia the pilot liberation story, and said: "As a head of state, I am very glad that this story has ended so happily. The pilots have the right to decide themselves when and where they should go upon the completion of the medical rehabilitation course". Igor Chaika, a prominent Moscow businessman and the son of Yury Chaika, the Russian Federation's Prosecutor General, visited Chisinau and Tiraspol many a time. In Tiraspol, he negotiated possibilities of founding a cryptocurrency farm.

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