russia is stepping up its interference in Moldova\u2019s parliamentary elections, which will take place on September 28, aiming to depress turnout or steer voters toward so-called pro-European forces. The National Security Advisor to the President of Moldova, Stanislav Secrieru, pointed to renewed activity by the \u201cmatryoshka\u201d network, which spreads disinformation to discredit democratic institutions.<\/p>\n
These manipulations are primarily aimed at the Moldovan diaspora. In the previous presidential election the diaspora played a decisive role, so now the kremlin is focusing on overseas voters. For example, in May pro-russian bots launched a campaign to drive a wedge between Maia Sandu and European Commission Vice-President Kaja Kallas.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> Moldovan President Maia Sandu previously stated that russia is trying to influence the country\u2019s domestic politics through project funding, disinformation, and cyberattacks in order to get loyal forces into parliament. Propagandists immediately ridiculed her remarks, calling them \u201cfear of defeat.\u201d<\/p>\n \u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> This is part of the kremlin\u2019s broader campaign to maintain influence in the region, destabilize the situation, and slow down European integration. Various methods are used \u2014 from hacking attacks to manipulative content.<\/p>\n Earlier, the Center prepared an analytical report on the channels and methods used to spread russian propaganda in Moldova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" russia is stepping up its interference in Moldova\u2019s parliamentary elections, which will take place on September 28, aiming to depress turnout or steer voters toward so-called pro-European forces. The National Security Advisor to the President of Moldova, Stanislav Secrieru, pointed to renewed activity by the \u201cmatryoshka\u201d network, which spreads disinformation to discredit democratic institutions. These…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36275,"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-36274","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\/36274","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=36274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}