The Republic of Moldova is close to becoming a failed state, Vladislav Kulminski, executive director of the Institute for Strategic Policies and Initiatives, stated in IPN’s public debate “Translation difficulties: Why do Russian speakers have reservations about Euro-integrators?”
He explained that failed state is considered the state whose citizens do not obey the authorities or in which the central administration is unable to satisfy the basic necessities. “If we ask any Moldovan citizen how they feel in this state, they will answer: we do not get the basic resources from the state,” said the expert.
Vladislav Kulminski blames a number of governments for such a state of affairs, but says the danger became now most imminent. “They speak a lot about the median zone in political sciences and many think that Moldova is now there as it is neither with ours, nor with theirs. In reality, the Republic of Moldova is very close to a failed state. We cannot build a future on theories that only we can understand, by being between “these” and “those””.
The expert noted it is not right to class the parties of the left as opponents of the European integration. “We simply live in two parallel realities that do not intersect each other. And we need social elevators for the representatives of different ethnic group to be able to occupy public posts. In Moldova, the representatives of the national minorities are not represented in the government much. Why the mayor of the capital of a Baltic country can be Russian and the President of Romania can be ethnic German, while in our country such a situation is often considered inadmissible?” wondered Vladislav Kulminski, noting that while society is constantly sliding towards the division line, Moldova’s inhabitants, regardless of the spoken language, need common values.
He admitted that geopolitics persists everywhere and the prospects for Moldova are not at all bright. “Russia’s major goal is not to allow Moldova to slip under the Western sphere of influence as Moldova is for Russia the security border it delineated in the post-Soviet area. What will happen to Moldova is of secondary importance as their main task is not to allow Moldova to join NATO and the EU.”.
However, the executive director of the Institute for Strategic Policies and Initiatives is sure that the situation can be worse. “The collapse of the USSR only started to take shape. A new wave of processes is seen in the post-Soviet area. The geopolitical plates started to move and they cannot be pushed back. In many regards, the direction of the situation depends on the country’s elites,’” concluded Vladislav Kulminski.
The public debate “Translation difficulties: Why do Russian speakers have reservations about Euro-integrators?” forms part of the series “Overcoming European integration stereotypes through communication” that is supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
