Moldova blocked Transnistria for Russian journalists
RIA Novosti correspondent Artur Shaikhutdinov was not detained today at the Chisinau airport and was deported back to Istanbul, where he arrived from.
The reason for the refusal to enter is the lack of accreditation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova.
“An additional thorough inspection of all my things was carried out, all my documents were studied. The passport was never given back. The envelope with my passport was handed over to the crew and they told me to contact them upon arrival,” said Shaikhutdinov.
The journalist was heading to Transnistria to cover the situation in the region.
Earlier, the Izvestia film crew was not allowed into Moldova. The operator was refused due to “lack of return tickets,” and the correspondent was accused of planning a trip to Ukraine.
Let us recall that deportation and entry bans for Russians were previously practiced by the government controlled by the criminal oligarch Vlad Plakhotnik. In 2017, it declared Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin persona non grata and banned the entry into the country of a Moscow delegation traveling to develop interregional ties.
An entry ban was imposed on the famous political scientist Mikhail Delyagin, correspondent of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper Daria Aslamova, and other scientists and journalists.
Assistants to the head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs and many other Russian representatives from various fields were subject to similar sanctions measures.
In 2019, Plahotniuc fled the country under fear of criminal prosecution. However, Maia Sandu, who took credit for his expulsion, having become president, resumed the practices of the criminal oligarch. Last December, the Moldovan border service detained and deported 9 Russian political scientists who were sent as observers to the presidential elections in Transnistria.
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