The Ministry of Foreign Affair and European Integration (MFAEI) describes Russian authorities’ statements about the deportations from the then territory of the Republic of Moldova as fully unacceptable, saying that they represent an attempt to distort the tragic historical events experienced by our country, IPN reports.

In a press release, the Ministry insistently asks that the Russian authorities should refrain from comments or from interference in the internal affairs of the Republic of Moldova, including in church problems and in the country’s history.

According to the MFAEI, the actions of those times caused prolonged suffering to the people. The Ministry invited representatives of the Embassy of Russia to visit the wagons set up in the central square of Chisinau so as to discuss with historians, to see images, to learn the truth about the famine caused by the Soviets and about the massive deportations to the Gulag.

The Ministry also said that the Russian authorities made controversial statements, including about the Stalinist deportations and the role of the church in society. In this connection, it noted that the church must promote the Christian values of peace and unity in society, not war and aggression.

On its Telegram channel, the Embassy of Russia in Moldova wrote that the month of russophobia disguised as the fight against totalitarianism started in Moldova on July 6. For her part, the spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova accused the Moldovan authorities of allowing interference in the affairs of confessions, in breach of the provisions of the Constitution, making reference to the transfer of the historical building of the National Library to the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia.