Posted on 03/12/2023 7:57:43 AM PDT by Nextrush
Protesters in the center of Chisinau ended the rally by issuing an ultimatum to the authorities
The rally of the "Movement for the People" in the center of Chisinau ended with the adoption of a resolution demanding that the government pay bills for heating and electricity, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
"We demand that the authorities pay for all bills for gas, electricity and heat for all citizens of the country for three winter months. This is our ultimatum demand. We give the government 24 hours to implement our demands<" said Maria Tauber, vice charman of the Shor party...
(Excerpt) Read more at ria.ru ...
Moldova between Ukraine and Romania.
So here's the story from Russian media.
Hit the translation prompt to read it in English
“We demand that the authorities pay for all bills for gas, electricity”
A bunch of ex-communists sore about the fall of the USSR want communism back. Not a surprise.
Moldova is a desperately poor country. The energy price hikes mean there are people unable to stay warm:
https://balkaninsight.com/2022/11/30/fresh-electricity-price-hike-hits-moldova-hard/
This is on top of huge increases in cost for food: “Prices for food increased in September by almost 39 per center and for non-food goods by 23.26 per cent, and the costs of services provided to the population increased by 45.25 per cent.”
Back in November: “More than 70 per cent of all housing in Moldova falls into the high and very high vulnerability category. We will compensate people to help get through this winter well,” Spinu pledged.
The people were promised help. Do you not think there would be protests and demands here in such a case?
See my #4 on this thread.
Also, thanks for posting that photo. See how many of them are old ladies? They are stuck with miserably low “pensions” as a legacy of past changes in governance. They worked hard all their lives and now this on top of the tiny pension.
Did you even read the wiki entry you posted? Go back and read it. They do *very poorly* in elections and get only a tiny percent of the vote. Big whoop. Now go look up who is Prime Minister and President, etc.and what parties they do and don’t be!omg to.
“Did you even read the wiki entry you posted? Go back and read it.”
I read the entry properly and completely the first time. Apparently you did not read my comment - which was not even addressed to you. Maybe you should stop trying so hard to come across as a twit. You clearly don’t have to put that much effort into it.
Must be thir leadership was unsuccessful in obtaining help from attending the recent summit in th EU .....they want to join Nato but are a far cry from being eligible....
Not our problem.....EU’S problem if any.
Lots of Socialists in Moldova. Younger generations move out. It’s a country that cannot stand on it’s own.
It’s not a country at all.
It’s the Eastern 1/3 of the former Ottoman province of Moldavia. Moldavia and Wallachia merged in 1878 to form Romania, which had a huge part of Hungary added to it by the victors of WW I in 1919.
Americans talk about “countries” like Iraq, Georgia and Moldova in the same way they use “country” to designate France or Iceland.
It’s just more neocon warmongering.
It is indeed very poor and backward. It always has been. In many ways it is not a viable country and will have to attach to Romania at some point. (The reason the people of Transnistria opted for autonomy back in the day was they anticipated Moldova would become part of Romania).
There are lots of socialists in Western Europe. In fact, the majority of the population in most Western European countries.
Where did I ever say it was our problem? I simply said I could understand why the protests. I feel sorry for those old ladies, very sorry, but never said it was our problem.
On the other hand, had we not pushed Ukraine joining NATO, and then not leaned on them to implement Minsk, there would not be this stupid war that is not only causing suffering in Ukraine, but other countries as well.
Yes, I read your comment. Your entire comment was “STILL communists” as if the people of Moldova were all commies when the reality is only a tiny sliver belong to that party.
Your only response is silly insults. No facts or reasonable debate. Just knee-jerk raw emotion and nastiness.
Great, so it was never part of Russia.
They’ve tried many times to get Moldova to join with Romania....since most of their population speak Romanian.
As for the elderly there.....you would think their children would see to them but most move out to other countries to make a living.
NATO expansion will always be a problem fro Russia and China and some other nations who see it for what it is. They will refuse “welfare states”.
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