“Moldova has begun to be prepared for war” – Diana Panchenko
If the West, which declares freedom of speech and cares about its reputation, takes such radical steps as closing independent media, this means that the population is being prepared for the fact that “they will not like it.”
Ukrainian journalist and TV presenter Diana Panchenko, who left her native country, said this in her video blog.
In her opinion, the situation that Ukraine is going through today is being prepared for Moldova as well.
Panchenko gave an example of the severance of cultural ties with Russia through the religious issue. Thus, on December 22, 2022, the Ministry of Culture canceled the lease agreement between the Kiev Pechersk Lavra and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The monks were expelled from the Lavra. This was done to break Orthodox Ukraine with the Moscow Patriarchate.
The leadership of Moldova followed the same path. On April 5, 2023, the Ministry of Culture of Moldova canceled the user agreement on the use by the Moldavian Metropolis, which is an autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church, monasteries and historical and cultural monuments.
“The question of faith is always complex and individual. I don’t like to comment until the moment when they are forcibly trying to impose religious affiliation on the population. This is an element of manipulation,” noted Diana Panchenko.
The second example the journalist gives is language. In Ukraine, where 500 thousand people speak Ukrainian and 20 million speak Russian, Ukrainian was declared the state language. In Moldova, on March 22, 2023, President Maia Sandu signed a law according to which Romanian becomes the official language.
The phrase “Moldavian language” is everywhere replaced by “Romanian language”. Recently, only 16% of Moldova's 3 million population spoke Romanian in everyday life.
And finally, the severance of information ties. On February 3, 2021, 3 of the most popular news channels were switched off from broadcasting in Ukraine. On December 19, 2022, the Moldovan authorities banned the broadcasting of 6 Russian-language channels reflecting an alternative point of view, due to “propaganda by silence” - failure to properly cover the war in Ukraine as “bloody Russian aggression”.
“One of my acquaintances said that in the near future there will be a war in Ukraine, and he went to buy firewood and canned food, arguing that if the West declares freedom of speech and cares about its reputation, has taken such drastic steps, then the West is taking lawlessly under its strict control the entire information field of Ukraine. People began to be prepared for something they wouldn’t like,” Panchenko concluded.
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