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Moldova reports 'unprecedented' Russian interference in leadup to 2 major votes
Fox online ^ | 5 March 2024 | AP Staff Writer

Posted on 03/05/2024 4:36:08 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan

Moldova’s national intelligence agency warned Tuesday against "unprecedented" Russian interference as the country gears up for a referendum on joining the European Union and a presidential election.

The Intelligence and Security Services, or SIS, released a report saying it has gathered data indicating Russia plans to launch vast hybrid attacks against Moldova through 2024-2025 to try to bring the former Soviet republic back under Moscow's influence.

Head of the SIS, Alexandru Musteata, said in a press conference that Russia sought to undermine the democratic polling this year in the eastern European country.

"There is information about an attempt to compromise the referendum on European integration, the presidential elections, to denigrate institutions and candidates who will promote the idea of European integration," Musteata said.

The report said part of Russia’s strategy would be the "extensive use of social networks," such as Telegram and TikTok, to back pro-Moscow political figures, create socio-political and economic crises, encourage anti-government protests, as well as provoke "social clashes to incite inter-ethnic hatred" on top of sprawling disinformation campaigns.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Afghanistan 2001

Approved by the entire UN - General Assembly AND the Security Council!


21 posted on 03/05/2024 5:29:59 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Compare Moldova to Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania. Their downtown area next to the international airport looks like Detroit. They are corrupt to the core.


22 posted on 03/05/2024 5:31:09 PM PST by LukeL
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Russia’s buying Facebook Ads again. Call Bob Mueller!


23 posted on 03/05/2024 5:37:46 PM PST by PGR88
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To: dforest

“Not my problem . They sound like RATs Russia Russia Russia.”

Russia got interested in Moldova when the Neocons started to threaten Transnistria.

But now with Nuland canned, the idea of trying to expand The Neocon War in Ukraine to draw-in NATO might not take hold.


24 posted on 03/05/2024 5:54:19 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: canuck_conservative

And totally corrupt and useless and bled our country dry.

So to a Canadian, if globalists vote for an invasion, it’s “legal.”


25 posted on 03/05/2024 5:56:20 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Its Moldova. Why is this a surprise. You can drive cross country in 30 mins.


26 posted on 03/05/2024 5:58:07 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: BobL

That corrupt jaded shrew will still meddle in a unofficial capacity elsewhere. Or else she will be given a position in Ukraine after Zelensky gets booted or whacked.


27 posted on 03/05/2024 5:58:47 PM PST by dforest
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Of course, your standard is much simpler ...

“whatever Russia does is fine, whatever the US does is imperialistic hegemony”

got it


28 posted on 03/05/2024 5:59:54 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: dforest

“Or else she will be given a position in Ukraine after Zelensky gets booted or whacked.”

She wouldn’t be too smart going there no longer protected by the US government as Russia might have a thing or two to ‘discuss’ with her.


29 posted on 03/05/2024 6:03:27 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: canuck_conservative

Nations invade other nations as an instrument of foreign relations -hopefully after diplomacy fails - decided by the nation itself.


30 posted on 03/05/2024 6:08:10 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Let me know when it’s been verified by sources other than Ukraine’s Military Intelligence.

Meanwhile Russian troops continue advancing, taking new ground, along the long front line that stretches from north to south across eastern Ukraine.


31 posted on 03/05/2024 6:26:53 PM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: canuck_conservative; Chad C. Mulligan

When did you zeepers start spelling Russia correctly instead of the childish zeeper version, RuZZia?

I guess you all finally realized how stupid it made you look.


32 posted on 03/05/2024 6:34:03 PM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Economically, Moldova ranks just below Albania. Not much to be gained there. Moldovans i know are closer to Romania than Russia.


33 posted on 03/05/2024 6:41:25 PM PST by stiguy
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To: buwaya

No matter how you look at the CIA then, they are a catastrophe waiting to happen.


35 posted on 03/05/2024 7:15:33 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

No, its quite important which sort of catastrophe they are.
The implications of each are quite different.

Now, I am quite sure that :
#1 is largely wrong.
#2 is correct more often than not.
#3 is incidental. Bad when it happens but not something that vast bureaucracy is actually attempting to do.


36 posted on 03/05/2024 7:20:07 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: bimboeruption

It was the Russians that made a big deal of the Z thing early on in 2022. It was a big patriotic deal at the time.

Thats because the Russian Army used theater symbols Z, O and V. I think they designated theater destination supply points.

Z was southern/eastern front, logistics going through Rostov. O was for those forces oriented vs Kharkiv, logistics through Belgorod, and V for those directed at Kiev, logistics run through Belorussia.

Z however was picked up by the Russian media, and became symbolic of the whole war. So blame them.


37 posted on 03/05/2024 7:32:40 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Why did Victoria Nuland resign today, Chad?


38 posted on 03/05/2024 7:50:40 PM PST by Kazan
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To: mass55th

I hope you are not implying that America interferes in other countries elections! lol and yes... /s


39 posted on 03/05/2024 11:18:47 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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