{"id":446883,"date":"2019-03-15T15:14:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=446883"},"modified":"2019-03-15T17:20:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:20:48","slug":"moldova-vladimir-plahotniuc-featured-al-jazeeras-moldova-puppet-master-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/moldova-vladimir-plahotniuc-featured-al-jazeeras-moldova-puppet-master-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova and Vladimir Plahotniuc featured in the Al Jazeera\u2019s investigation \u201cMoldova and the Puppet Master\u201d"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>The journalists from the <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> news portal published recently an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/peopleandpower\/2019\/03\/moldova-puppet-master-190313132917187.html\">investigation<\/a> and produced a film about the oligarchic regime established at Chi\u0219in\u0103u and its key figure \u2013 the Democrats leader Vladimir Plahotniuc. In order to realize the material, the <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> journalists and filmmakers Glenn Ellis and Viktoryia Kolchyna have visited the Republic of Moldova in February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/peopleandpower\/2019\/03\/moldova-puppet-master-190313132917187.html\">article<\/a> on the <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> portal starts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHis critics say he&#8217;s a secretive oligarch who pulls all the strings in a country caught between Europe and Russia, while his supporters say he&#8217;s a just a successful businessman-turned-politician with his country&#8217;s best interests at heart.<\/p>\n<p>Who is the man whom many call Moldova&#8217;s \u2018Puppet Master\u2019? And what lies behind allegations of blackmail, hitmen, and a billion-dollar bank fraud?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article presents the filmmaker and author&#8217;s view, Glenn Ellis: \u201c<strong>What is undeniable is that Plahotniuc exercises a remarkable degree of influence over Moldovan political life. [\u2026] He also oversaw legislation that made it practically impossible to recover money stolen in a 2014 billion-dollar bank fraud that crippled Moldova&#8217;s state finances. [\u2026] I wondered to what extent the perceived invincibility of the Plahotniuc brand would feature in the upcoming vote. Was he indeed the all-powerful Machiavellian character often portrayed?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, the declarations of Igor Dodon, the President of Moldova, Lilia Carasciuc, the director of the NGO Transparency International in Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Alexei Tulbure, Moldova&#8217;s former permanent representative to the UN, Andrei N\u0103stase and Maia Sandu, the leaders of the political bloc ACUM, Natalia Morari, a popular independent journalist, along with the declarations of other members of political parties, experts, and journalists were used in the film for reporting the situation in Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: aljazeera.com<\/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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The journalists from the Al Jazeera news portal published recently an investigation and produced a film about the oligarchic regime established at Chi\u0219in\u0103u and its key figure \u2013 the Democrats leader Vladimir Plahotniuc. In order to realize the material, the Al Jazeera journalists and filmmakers Glenn Ellis and Viktoryia Kolchyna have visited the Republic of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":446884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[261,35,27,112,75],"class_list":["post-446883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","tag-al-jazeera","tag-important","tag-moldova","tag-plahotniuc","tag-politics","post_format-post-format-video"],"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>The journalists from the <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> news portal published recently an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/peopleandpower\/2019\/03\/moldova-puppet-master-190313132917187.html\">investigation<\/a> and produced a film about the oligarchic regime established at Chi\u0219in\u0103u and its key figure \u2013 the Democrats leader Vladimir Plahotniuc. In order to realize the material, the <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> journalists and filmmakers Glenn Ellis and Viktoryia Kolchyna have visited the Republic of Moldova in February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/peopleandpower\/2019\/03\/moldova-puppet-master-190313132917187.html\">article<\/a> on the <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> portal starts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHis critics say he&#8217;s a secretive oligarch who pulls all the strings in a country caught between Europe and Russia, while his supporters say he&#8217;s a just a successful businessman-turned-politician with his country&#8217;s best interests at heart.<\/p>\n<p>Who is the man whom many call Moldova&#8217;s \u2018Puppet Master\u2019? And what lies behind allegations of blackmail, hitmen, and a billion-dollar bank fraud?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article presents the filmmaker and author&#8217;s view, Glenn Ellis: \u201c<strong>What is undeniable is that Plahotniuc exercises a remarkable degree of influence over Moldovan political life. [\u2026] He also oversaw legislation that made it practically impossible to recover money stolen in a 2014 billion-dollar bank fraud that crippled Moldova&#8217;s state finances. [\u2026] I wondered to what extent the perceived invincibility of the Plahotniuc brand would feature in the upcoming vote. 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