russia is increasing information pressure on Moldova ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for September 28. Part of this campaign is an article by the russian security council secretary sergey shoigu titled \u201cMoldova at a Crossroads.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f The article\u2019s theses replicate classic kremlin narratives: accusations of \u201cexternal governance\u201d by the EU and \u201cdragging into NATO.\u201d Special attention is given to the expected election results. shoigu stated that russia \u201cwill accept any choice of the citizens\u201d but warned that it must be a \u201cgenuine expression of will, not falsification.\u201d Such wording creates an informational basis to challenge election results and can be used to justify further destabilization and interference in Moldova\u2019s internal affairs.<\/p>\n
It is important that such publications are synchronized with the actions of pro-russian media and political forces in Moldova, as well as with disinformation campaigns on social networks.<\/p>\n
The influence operation in Moldova aims to maintain russia\u2019s leverage in the region, disrupt European integration, and weaken pro-European forces through discrediting the authorities and mobilizing the pro-russian electorate.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the Center prepared an analytical report on the channels and methods of spreading russian propaganda in Moldova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russia is increasing information pressure on Moldova ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for September 28. Part of this campaign is an article by the russian security council secretary sergey shoigu titled \u201cMoldova at a Crossroads.\u201d \u25ab\ufe0f The article\u2019s theses replicate classic kremlin narratives: accusations of \u201cexternal governance\u201d by the EU and \u201cdragging into NATO.\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36609,"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-36608","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\/36608","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=36608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}