For months, rising food and energy costs have brought protesters on to Moldova's streets but while the cost-of-living crisis is biting, the government claims outside forces are fuelling the unrest
For months, rising food and energy costs have brought protesters on to Moldova's streets but while the cost-of-living crisis is biting, the government claims outside forces are fuelling the unrest.of deliberately stoking the anger by reducing gas supplies to push up prices, spreading propaganda and backing a plot to overthrow them."We are supporting the protest because life in our country became too difficult," says Marina Tauber, ŞOR party's vice president.
Moldova's President Maia Sandu says they're fighting a hybrid war and are under attack from Kremlin interference, which is aimed at destabilising Ukraine's neighbours.In the past year, they've experienced"an explosion in security threats", according to the interior ministry - including hundreds of bomb hoaxes, a coup plot and an online disinformation campaign.
Monitoring group Watchdog MD says it has seen Russian disinformation rocket tenfold in Moldova since the war broke out in Ukraine.Until then, they continue to compile lists of concerning content that have been shared thousands of times.The posts range from fake polls comparing the president to Hitler to footage of an old military parade relabelled as Romanian troops moving towards the Moldovan border.
A recent poll showed 93.8% of respondents have a"positive" or"very positive" attitude to the Russian Federation.At the market in the capital, Comrat, no one I speak to believes Russia is a threat.
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