Moscow’s fears about the status of the Russian language and Russian speakers in Moldova are groundless, said experts invited to the talk show “Fabrika” on Publika TV channel, IPN reports.
Mihai Camerzan, ex-Deputy Speaker of Parliament and ex-ambassador, said the Russian speakers face no impediments in Moldova. “Nobody bans the Russian speakers from communicating in the language they want. Moreover, a part of them refuse to learn the official, Romanian language. On Moldova’s territory, there is a lot of Russian press and Russian TV channels are retransmitted. For their part, the Moldovan TV channels broadcast programs and news bulletins in the Russian language. We are the only Parliament in the European area where the legislative documents are translated in a language that is not the official one, in Russian,” he stated.
Political analyst Corneliu Ciurea noted that Moscow has always had a special interest in the status of the Russian language in Moldova. “The Russian language and the Russian speakers represent instruments for exerting pressure for Moscow,” he said.
Media analyst Cristian Tabara expressed his concern about the Russian propaganda in the Republic of Moldova.
In a recent meeting of Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Andrei Galbur and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, the latter inquired about the status of the Russian language in Moldova.
