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Kremlin respects Moldova’s decision to join EU but criticizes Russia’s abandonment

The Kremlin expresses its respect for Moldova’s decision to start negotiations with the EU Negatively assesses that this means turning away from Russia and post-Soviet space. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reported this: “This is a sovereign affair of each state, including Moldova (…) However, we believe that this is a trend that the majority of the population of Moldova does not like,” he said. . The representative of the Moscow government expressed.

In recent months, Russia has hosted two conferences of the pro-Russian Moldovan opposition, led by oligarch Ilan Shor, who is wanted by his country’s Justice Department. At its last meeting in June, the Moldovan opposition announced an information campaign to bring its country closer to the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union, as an alternative to the twenty-seventh.

The pro-Russian opposition, close to the Kremlin and resolutely opposed to their country’s entry into the EU, says such a move is against national and economic interests, as it would ruin the country’s agriculture. Rapprochement with the EU began with the rise of liberal Maia Sandu to power in 2020, intensified with her party’s absolute majority in parliamentary elections the following year and deepened with Moldova’s support for Ukraine since the start of the Russian military intervention in 2022.