{"id":36039,"date":"2025-07-30T12:28:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=36039"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:55:20","slug":"kremlin-intensifies-information-attacks-on-moldova-ahead-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/kremlin-intensifies-information-attacks-on-moldova-ahead-of-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin intensifies information attacks on Moldova ahead of elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia is preparing an unprecedented interference in the parliamentary elections in Moldova, scheduled for September 28. This was officially announced by the country\u2019s President Maia Sandu following a meeting of the Supreme Security Council.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x1xsqp64 xiy17q3 x1o6pynw x19co3pv xdj266r xjn30re xat24cr x1hb08if x2b8uid\" data-testid=\"emoji\"><span class=\"xexx8yu xcaqkgz x18d9i69 xbwkkl7 x3jgonx x1bhl96m\">\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> According to her, the kremlin is investing in a number of political projects to push its loyal figures into parliament. These projects are being coordinated from a single center, financed through schemes involving the fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor, who is under sanctions, and accompanied by disinformation campaigns, cyberattacks, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x1xsqp64 xiy17q3 x1o6pynw x19co3pv xdj266r xjn30re xat24cr x1hb08if x2b8uid\" data-testid=\"emoji\"><span class=\"xexx8yu xcaqkgz x18d9i69 xbwkkl7 x3jgonx x1bhl96m\">\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> russian propagandists reacted to Sandu\u2019s statement immediately \u2014 already accusing her of \u201cfearing defeat\u201d and mocking the threat of interference. This is a typical tactic that only confirms the existence of a coordinated information operation.<\/p>\n<p>russia is trying to derail Moldova&#8217;s course towards European integration and maintain its influence in the country. Systematic interference in the internal affairs of Eastern European states has long been part of the kremlin&#8217;s foreign policy. russian propaganda has already attempted to sow destabilization ahead of the presidential elections in Poland, as well as during the election campaign in Romania.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Center published an analytical report on the channels and methods of spreading russian propaganda in Moldova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia is preparing an unprecedented interference in the parliamentary elections in Moldova, scheduled for September 28. This was officially announced by the country\u2019s President Maia Sandu following a meeting of the Supreme Security Council. \u25ab\ufe0f According to her, the kremlin is investing in a number of political projects to push its loyal figures into parliament&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}