{"id":159136,"date":"2009-08-11T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2009\/08\/11\/ukrainian-paper-sees-moldovan-president-losing-russian-support-203206-eng\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T12:37:10","slug":"ukrainian-paper-sees-moldovan-president-losing-russian-support-203206-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/ukrainian-paper-sees-moldovan-president-losing-russian-support-203206-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian paper sees Moldovan president losing Russian support"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 6<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The Communist authorities in Moldova were losing Russia&#8217;s support even ahead of the 29 July early parliamentary election, a Ukrainian newspaper has reported quoting a Moldovan expert. The author said that Moscow began to lose trust in President Vladimir Voronin after the Communists failed to produce evidence of Romanian involvement in the disturbances that followed the election on 5 April. He also suggested that the Communist Party had falsely reported that Voronin had had a bilateral meeting with Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev in Moscow on 18 July. The following is the text of the article by Dmitriy Krylov, entitled &quot;The end for Voronin and the Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova&quot;, published in the Ukrainian newspaper Kiyevskiy Telegraf on 8 August, subheadings have been inserted editorially: <\/p>\n<p>Moscow, Brussels and Washington have in recent days begun to give preference to the Democratic Party of Moldova (Marian Lupu&#8217;s DPM), the Liberal-Democratic Party of Moldova (Vladimir Filat&#8217;s LDPM), the party Alliance Moldova Nostrea (Serafin Urekyan&#8217;s AMN) and the Social-Democratic Party (Dumitru Bragis and Vasiliy Tarlev&#8217;s SDP). That is what many experts believe. The first to become aware of the lack of prospects for cooperating with the Communists were representatives from the EU. The events of 7 and 8 April showed them that all the Communists talk about democracy and observing human rights was nothing but a bluff. [President Vladimir] Voronin left the police in the 1990s, but the policeman lives in him as before.<\/p>\n<p>EU officials on the highest level made is perfectly clear that they see no prospects in Moldova for Voronin or the Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova (CPRM).<\/p>\n<p>The turn in relations between the United States and the Communists in Moldova began with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s famous letter to Moldovan President Voronin. Experts noted not just the text of this letter, which was plainly laced with dissatisfaction over how democracy is developing in Moldova, but also that not one single Communist newspaper reprinted the letter.<\/p>\n<p>As far as Russia is concerned, Moscow continued to believe the Moldovan president for a long time. Moscow believed that the events of 7 April had a &quot;Romanian footprint&quot;. And that the placing of the Romanian flag on the roof of the presidency worked to favour that version. The Russians believed that after these events Voronin and the CPRM were supported by over 80 per cent of voters and that there was no doubt he would win the election. They also believed that the opposition parties were anti-Russian and ill with Russophobia.<\/p>\n<p>Russia catches on <\/p>\n<p>But time passed and many secret things became clear. No-one found any Romanian footprint in the events of 7 April. Moreover, it became known that representatives from among the Communists allowed the looters into parliament. And it was they who allowed people no-one knows anything about to raise the flag of a foreign state above the presidential offices. Naturally, one asks the questions: why did they do this?<\/p>\n<p>It also became clear that the ban on speaking in the Russian language in pre-election debates did not come from the opposition, but from the Communists. People recalled that the initiative on the ban on teaching some subjects in institutions of higher education in the Russian language, which became law, was also forwarded by the Communists. They are the ones who voted for it in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the unionist with Romania and Russophobe nature of the opposition, with the exception of some marginal politicians who are not running for parliament, not one of the serious members of the Moldovan opposition is talking about any desire to unite with any other state or even making any Russophobic statements.<br \/>\nDoubts also cropped up around the figures cited by the Communist leader Voronin that 80 per cent of voters were ready to vote for the CPRM. Polls gave the Communists from 29 to 31 per cent. At the election on 29 July, the CPRM earned over 44 per cent of the vote &#8211; editor.<\/p>\n<p>Communist myths began popping one after the other and PR-managers in the CPRM began inventing new myths. They began to try to convince society that a trans-national mafia was trying to fight the Communists in Moldova. At one Communist news conference, Anatoliy Chubais was called the head of this &quot;black force&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Mr Chubais is used to attacks, but still he&#8217;s never been to such &quot;heights&quot; as the head of the Communist Party of Moldova raised him.<\/p>\n<p>Faltering ratings <\/p>\n<p>Russia could certainly not help but notice all of this. And the fact that [Russian] President [Dmitriy] Medvedev did not find time during his informal summit to meet his Moldovan colleague speaks volumes. Voronin&#8217;s PR managers understood that well and so they invented the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the situation is described by a well-known Moldovan expert, the director of the Moldovan Social-Democratic Institute, Bogdan Tirdea, on a popular Russian website. Commentary by the Russian news agency is also interesting as are the examples it gives of &quot;Voronin&#8217;s other meetings&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Bogdan Tirdea writes that this is not the first time Voronin has spoken of meeting heads of state when such meetings in fact did not take place. &quot;Statements by the press service of the president of Moldova about an alleged meeting between the leader of the CPRM, Vladimir Voronin, and Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, which the Kremlin does not confirm, is not the first time the Moldovan authorities have spoken of alleged meetings with heads of state which in fact never occurred,&quot; he said on 21 July in an interview with a correspondent from the news agency Regnum Novosti.<\/p>\n<p>The expert believes this only goes further in undercutting the authority of officials and the state on the international arena. &quot;But there is an explanation for this fact. The latest poll by Barometer of Public Opinion showed that the CPRM&#8217;s rating has dropped to 31 per cent and that means the Communists could lose power and go into opposition. In part, the CPRM&#8217;s rating is faltering due to worsening relations with neighbours, foremost, Romania and the EU. And this is forcing the authorities into a fever in trying to find outside support,&quot; Tirdea noted.<\/p>\n<p>He said that in order to fix its faltering rating the early parliamentary election took place on 29 July, the CPRM needs &quot;three outside whales&quot;, namely:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A meeting with [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin, preferably on t he Dniester settlement and a solution to some daily problem: the running of trains, mutual recognition of documents, diplomas and so forth;<br \/>\n&#8211; Obtaining a loan from China for 1bn dollars to develop infrastructure. If the CPRM manages to achieve this before the election, then its rating could be boosted by 1 to 2 per cent; and<br \/>\n&#8211; A meeting with a high-placed official or politician from the EU or the United States (with EU Chair Jose Manuel Barroso, Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis or Javier Solana) with a promise of support for Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And so the authorities should, and probably will, work in this direction. After all, whether or not the CPRM stays at the helm of the country or is replaced by the opposition depends on this&quot;, Tirdea said, summing up his comments.<\/p>\n<p>Invented meetings <\/p>\n<p>We remind the reader that on 18 July, according to a news report from the press office of the Moldovan President, Vladimir Voronin completed a &quot;working visit&quot; to Moscow. The press service of the leader of the Moldovan state confirmed that the leader of the CPRM, Vladimir Voronin, acting as president of the country, met the head of the Russian state, Dmitriy Medvedev. At the same time, the Kremlin&#8217;s press centre did not announce any alleged bilateral meeting between the president of Russia and the leader of the Moldovan Communists. The Russian president&#8217;s press service did state that on 18 July Dmitriy Medvedev held a bilateral meeting with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and with Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon. Later a statement was issued that there was a trilateral meeting between Dmitriy Medvedev and the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev. The only mentioned of Vladimir Voronin&#8217;s &quot;working visit&quot; to Moscow was his being cited in a list of individuals present at the Russian President&#8217;s Prize horse-race and on a photograph by the Kremlin press service in which Voronin is reading a menu and sitting at the same table as the heads of CIS members states.<\/p>\n<p>Here is it worth pointing out that on 29 January 2008, the Moldovan president&#8217;s press service stated that on 28 January, Vladimir Voronin completed a &quot;working visit&quot; to Bulgaria, where he met his Bulgarian counterpart, Georgi Purvanov. At the same time, neither the Bulgarian president&#8217;s press service nor Bulgarian journalists mentioned anything about the alleged 28 January 2008 &quot;working visit&quot; by the president of Moldova, Vladimir Voronin, to Sofia. The Moldovan state press service declined to offer any official comment on the issue at the time. The same thing happened in January 2007. Then the Moldovan president&#8217;s press service stated that the head of Moldova &quot;made a one-day visit to Sofia at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Georgi Purva nov&quot;. However, the press service of the Bulgarian leader noted that they knew nothing of the visit by Voronin to Sofia and denied that the two presidents met. In the end, the Bulgarian and Moldovan press reported that Vladimir Voronin really did visit Bulgaria and did so on a private &#8211; hunting &#8211; trip.<\/p>\n<p>The president of Moldova has a good life. Hunting in Bulgaria, horse-racing in Moscow and fishing at the summer house in Kondritsa&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>But let us get back to the position of Russia, the EU and the United States. Judging from the interest with they are beginning to show some of the Moldovan political parties mentioned at the beginning of the article, they are happy that these parties, in contrast to the Communists, are not trying to play on the contradictions which still exist between Russia, the EU and the United States, and are not trying to get the East and West to fight over Moldova. <\/p>\n<p>And they tie progress in Moldova to these parties&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 6<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>The Communist authorities in Moldova were losing Russias support even ahead of the 29 July early parliamentary election, a Ukrainian newspaper has reported quoting a Moldovan expert. The author said that Moscow began to lose trust in President Vladimir Voronin after the Communists failed to produce evidence of Romanian involvement in the disturbances that followed the election on 5 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 6<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The Communist authorities in Moldova were losing Russia&#8217;s support even ahead of the 29 July early parliamentary election, a Ukrainian newspaper has reported quoting a Moldovan expert. The author said that Moscow began to lose trust in President Vladimir Voronin after the Communists failed to produce evidence of Romanian involvement in the disturbances that followed the election on 5 April. He also suggested that the Communist Party had falsely reported that Voronin had had a bilateral meeting with Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev in Moscow on 18 July. The following is the text of the article by Dmitriy Krylov, entitled &quot;The end for Voronin and the Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova&quot;, published in the Ukrainian newspaper Kiyevskiy Telegraf on 8 August, subheadings have been inserted editorially: <\/p>\n<p>Moscow, Brussels and Washington have in recent days begun to give preference to the Democratic Party of Moldova (Marian Lupu&#8217;s DPM), the Liberal-Democratic Party of Moldova (Vladimir Filat&#8217;s LDPM), the party Alliance Moldova Nostrea (Serafin Urekyan&#8217;s AMN) and the Social-Democratic Party (Dumitru Bragis and Vasiliy Tarlev&#8217;s SDP). That is what many experts believe. The first to become aware of the lack of prospects for cooperating with the Communists were representatives from the EU. The events of 7 and 8 April showed them that all the Communists talk about democracy and observing human rights was nothing but a bluff. [President Vladimir] Voronin left the police in the 1990s, but the policeman lives in him as before.<\/p>\n<p>EU officials on the highest level made is perfectly clear that they see no prospects in Moldova for Voronin or the Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova (CPRM).<\/p>\n<p>The turn in relations between the United States and the Communists in Moldova began with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s famous letter to Moldovan President Voronin. Experts noted not just the text of this letter, which was plainly laced with dissatisfaction over how democracy is developing in Moldova, but also that not one single Communist newspaper reprinted the letter.<\/p>\n<p>As far as Russia is concerned, Moscow continued to believe the Moldovan president for a long time. Moscow believed that the events of 7 April had a &quot;Romanian footprint&quot;. And that the placing of the Romanian flag on the roof of the presidency worked to favour that version. The Russians believed that after these events Voronin and the CPRM were supported by over 80 per cent of voters and that there was no doubt he would win the election. They also believed that the opposition parties were anti-Russian and ill with Russophobia.<\/p>\n<p>Russia catches on <\/p>\n<p>But time passed and many secret things became clear. No-one found any Romanian footprint in the events of 7 April. Moreover, it became known that representatives from among the Communists allowed the looters into parliament. And it was they who allowed people no-one knows anything about to raise the flag of a foreign state above the presidential offices. Naturally, one asks the questions: why did they do this?<\/p>\n<p>It also became clear that the ban on speaking in the Russian language in pre-election debates did not come from the opposition, but from the Communists. People recalled that the initiative on the ban on teaching some subjects in institutions of higher education in the Russian language, which became law, was also forwarded by the Communists. They are the ones who voted for it in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the unionist with Romania and Russophobe nature of the opposition, with the exception of some marginal politicians who are not running for parliament, not one of the serious members of the Moldovan opposition is talking about any desire to unite with any other state or even making any Russophobic statements.<br \/>\nDoubts also cropped up around the figures cited by the Communist leader Voronin that 80 per cent of voters were ready to vote for the CPRM. Polls gave the Communists from 29 to 31 per cent. At the election on 29 July, the CPRM earned over 44 per cent of the vote &#8211; editor.<\/p>\n<p>Communist myths began popping one after the other and PR-managers in the CPRM began inventing new myths. They began to try to convince society that a trans-national mafia was trying to fight the Communists in Moldova. At one Communist news conference, Anatoliy Chubais was called the head of this &quot;black force&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Mr Chubais is used to attacks, but still he&#8217;s never been to such &quot;heights&quot; as the head of the Communist Party of Moldova raised him.<\/p>\n<p>Faltering ratings <\/p>\n<p>Russia could certainly not help but notice all of this. And the fact that [Russian] President [Dmitriy] Medvedev did not find time during his informal summit to meet his Moldovan colleague speaks volumes. Voronin&#8217;s PR managers understood that well and so they invented the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the situation is described by a well-known Moldovan expert, the director of the Moldovan Social-Democratic Institute, Bogdan Tirdea, on a popular Russian website. Commentary by the Russian news agency is also interesting as are the examples it gives of &quot;Voronin&#8217;s other meetings&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Bogdan Tirdea writes that this is not the first time Voronin has spoken of meeting heads of state when such meetings in fact did not take place. &quot;Statements by the press service of the president of Moldova about an alleged meeting between the leader of the CPRM, Vladimir Voronin, and Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, which the Kremlin does not confirm, is not the first time the Moldovan authorities have spoken of alleged meetings with heads of state which in fact never occurred,&quot; he said on 21 July in an interview with a correspondent from the news agency Regnum Novosti.<\/p>\n<p>The expert believes this only goes further in undercutting the authority of officials and the state on the international arena. &quot;But there is an explanation for this fact. The latest poll by Barometer of Public Opinion showed that the CPRM&#8217;s rating has dropped to 31 per cent and that means the Communists could lose power and go into opposition. In part, the CPRM&#8217;s rating is faltering due to worsening relations with neighbours, foremost, Romania and the EU. And this is forcing the authorities into a fever in trying to find outside support,&quot; Tirdea noted.<\/p>\n<p>He said that in order to fix its faltering rating the early parliamentary election took place on 29 July, the CPRM needs &quot;three outside whales&quot;, namely:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A meeting with [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin, preferably on t he Dniester settlement and a solution to some daily problem: the running of trains, mutual recognition of documents, diplomas and so forth;<br \/>\n&#8211; Obtaining a loan from China for 1bn dollars to develop infrastructure. If the CPRM manages to achieve this before the election, then its rating could be boosted by 1 to 2 per cent; and<br \/>\n&#8211; A meeting with a high-placed official or politician from the EU or the United States (with EU Chair Jose Manuel Barroso, Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis or Javier Solana) with a promise of support for Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And so the authorities should, and probably will, work in this direction. After all, whether or not the CPRM stays at the helm of the country or is replaced by the opposition depends on this&quot;, Tirdea said, summing up his comments.<\/p>\n<p>Invented meetings <\/p>\n<p>We remind the reader that on 18 July, according to a news report from the press office of the Moldovan President, Vladimir Voronin completed a &quot;working visit&quot; to Moscow. The press service of the leader of the Moldovan state confirmed that the leader of the CPRM, Vladimir Voronin, acting as president of the country, met the head of the Russian state, Dmitriy Medvedev. At the same time, the Kremlin&#8217;s press centre did not announce any alleged bilateral meeting between the president of Russia and the leader of the Moldovan Communists. The Russian president&#8217;s press service did state that on 18 July Dmitriy Medvedev held a bilateral meeting with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and with Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon. Later a statement was issued that there was a trilateral meeting between Dmitriy Medvedev and the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev. The only mentioned of Vladimir Voronin&#8217;s &quot;working visit&quot; to Moscow was his being cited in a list of individuals present at the Russian President&#8217;s Prize horse-race and on a photograph by the Kremlin press service in which Voronin is reading a menu and sitting at the same table as the heads of CIS members states.<\/p>\n<p>Here is it worth pointing out that on 29 January 2008, the Moldovan president&#8217;s press service stated that on 28 January, Vladimir Voronin completed a &quot;working visit&quot; to Bulgaria, where he met his Bulgarian counterpart, Georgi Purvanov. At the same time, neither the Bulgarian president&#8217;s press service nor Bulgarian journalists mentioned anything about the alleged 28 January 2008 &quot;working visit&quot; by the president of Moldova, Vladimir Voronin, to Sofia. The Moldovan state press service declined to offer any official comment on the issue at the time. The same thing happened in January 2007. Then the Moldovan president&#8217;s press service stated that the head of Moldova &quot;made a one-day visit to Sofia at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Georgi Purva nov&quot;. However, the press service of the Bulgarian leader noted that they knew nothing of the visit by Voronin to Sofia and denied that the two presidents met. In the end, the Bulgarian and Moldovan press reported that Vladimir Voronin really did visit Bulgaria and did so on a private &#8211; hunting &#8211; trip.<\/p>\n<p>The president of Moldova has a good life. Hunting in Bulgaria, horse-racing in Moscow and fishing at the summer house in Kondritsa&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>But let us get back to the position of Russia, the EU and the United States. Judging from the interest with they are beginning to show some of the Moldovan political parties mentioned at the beginning of the article, they are happy that these parties, in contrast to the Communists, are not trying to play on the contradictions which still exist between Russia, the EU and the United States, and are not trying to get the East and West to fight over Moldova. <\/p>\n<p>And they tie progress in Moldova to these parties&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/ukrainian-paper-sees-moldovan-president-losing-russian-support-203206-eng\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" 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