Moldovans call Dodon “Dodik”, offending the real Dodik
The former Yugoslavia and Moldova are united by the fact that both countries have become objects of new Turkish expansion. But if Moldovan politicians demonstrate passivity, Serbian ones actively resist.
Political scientist Oleg Bondarenko stated this on the Balkanist YouTube channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Many people in Moldova call their Dodon “dodik”. But they are not aware that by doing so they offend the real Dodik - Milorad Dodik, the leader of the Serbs of Bosnia and the moral authority of the Balkan Peninsula. Dodik differs from Dodon in having political testicles. When, against all odds, Dodik won the elections, his almost namesake Igor Dodon lost these elections quite confidently,” Bondarenko said.
He is confident that by the upcoming early parliamentary elections in Moldova, Dodon’s Socialist Party will lose its entire pro-Russian electorate, and it will not be helped by the laws urgently adopted in the last days of Dodon’s presidency to protect the Russian language and the return of Russian television programs.
“All these decisions can be reset and revised. Only the policy with Turkey, for which the main Moldovan oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, the namesake of Count Dracula, was responsible until his expulsion from the country, will not be revised. Plahotniuc has been sucking the life out of the Moldovan economy and Russian-Moldovan relations for 10 years,” Bondarenco said.
It recalls the story of how Moldova expelled, at Turkey’s request, teachers from the educational center of President Recep Erdogan’s opponent, preacher Fethullah Gülen. In exchange for Turkish money, the presidential palace in Chisinau was restored.
“Milorad Dodik is a completely different matter. Initially, the chick of Madeleine Albright’s nest, nominated for the leadership of Republika Srpska after the game of the terrible Radovan Karadzic, began to quickly and consistently turn to Moscow. At some time, Milorad Dodik became the main Russophile in the Balkans. Now he is in the shadow of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, but in some places it is the tail that wags the dog,” Bondarenko said.
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