{"id":36895,"date":"2025-08-20T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=36895"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:51:29","slug":"moldova-protects-elections-from-russian-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/moldova-protects-elections-from-russian-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova protects elections from Russian influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 19, the Chisinau Court of Appeal temporarily restricted the activities of four pro-russian parties associated with oligarch Ilan Shor.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fThe decision is based on a lawsuit by the Moldovan Ministry of Justice regarding the succession of the unconstitutional &#8220;Shor&#8221; party. The restrictions will remain in effect until the lawsuit is reviewed and are aimed at preventing destabilization ahead of the parliamentary elections on September 28 of this year.<\/p>\n<p>These measures protect Moldova from external interference and aggressive influence, ensure transparency and fairness of the electoral process, and neutralize any mechanisms of influence from third countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fFor Ukraine, this decision is an important signal regarding the neutralization of russian influence in the region. kremlin systematically uses political parties \u2014 &#8220;Trojan horses&#8221; \u2014 to undermine democratic processes and destabilize countries bordering our state.<\/p>\n<p>russia is increasing informational pressure on Moldova ahead of the parliamentary elections on September 28. This is part of a campaign to maintain russia&#8217;s leverage in the region and weaken pro-European forces through discrediting the authorities and mobilizing the pro-russian electorate.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Center prepared an analytical report on the channels and methods of spreading russian propaganda in Moldova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 19, the Chisinau Court of Appeal temporarily restricted the activities of four pro-russian parties associated with oligarch Ilan Shor. \u25ab\ufe0fThe decision is based on a lawsuit by the Moldovan Ministry of Justice regarding the succession of the unconstitutional &#8220;Shor&#8221; party. The restrictions will remain in effect until the lawsuit is reviewed and are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36896,"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-36895","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\/36895","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=36895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}