Putin writes to Sandu. Sandu calls Romania

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Maia Sandu on her election as President of Moldova an hour after the defeated incumbent Moldovan President Igor Dodon did so.

“I hope that your activities as head of state will contribute to the constructive development of relations between our countries. This would undoubtedly meet the fundamental interests of the peoples of Russia and Moldova,” the Kremlin’s official website quotes Putin as saying.

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As the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, explained, the Kremlin “respects the choice of the Moldovan people.”

“We have to establish relations with the new president of Moldova. We hope that they will be able to fix it. Russia values ​​its relations with the Moldovan people. You know that Russia has always helped the Moldovan people. Our relations should be based on a mutually beneficial basis, taking into account the interests of both parties. We know that Maia Sandu said that she would work precisely in the interests of the Moldovan people. We are confident that it is in the interests of the Moldovan people to build good and close relationships in all areas with our country,” Peskov said.

Meanwhile, Maia Sandu had her first telephone conversation in the status of elected president with the President of Romania Klaus Iohannis. He will become the first foreign guest of the new Moldovan leader immediately after her inauguration. This is not surprising, since last week both Iohannis and Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orbán directly called on Moldovan citizens to vote for Maia Sandu.
Sandu has a Romanian passport, participates in all Romanian elections and does not rule out the possibility of unification (unification) of Moldova with Romania based on a referendum in the future.

The European diaspora (250 thousand people) voted for the leader of the pro-Western opposition. These people expect that Unira will provide them with automatic EU citizenship and make life abroad easier.

One should not think that all of the above merely indicates close relations between the two neighboring states. The Soros Foundation, of which Sandu served on the board of the national council in 2009, provided financial support to a program aimed at bringing Romania and Moldova closer together (this follows from the foundation’s official reports).

That is, the dissolution of Moldova into Romania is part of the policy of the West. If this plan is implemented, Russia will lose an ally, albeit weak and inconsistent. But the state is strengthening, in whose defense strategy Russia is recognized as a hostile country.

“The risk of losing statehood is not only great, it is enormous. Such a referendum will be held sooner or later. Today we already have more than 30% unionists (supporters of unification - ed.), as all polls show. We have more than 5 thousand students studying in Romania every year. In our parliament, everyone speaks only the Moldovan language and calls it Romanian. We have people with Romanian citizenship in all government bodies. In schools they study the history of Romanians instead of the history of Moldova. This is not the case in any country in the world. This is not a horror story, but a sad reality,” said member of the Moldovan Parliament Bogdan Tsydrea on the Ren Moldova TV channel.

Political scientist Ivan Meziukho believes that a referendum on unification with Romania will take place in Moldova in the next four years.

“Something phantasmagoric, but quite real, is happening - Romanian citizen Maia Sandu wins the election for President of the Republic of Moldova. The President of Moldova is responsible for the state's foreign policy. The course towards European integration, and perhaps even unification with Romania, is assured for the next 4 years. This time is enough to suppress the conditionally (emphasize this word) pro-Russian political forces so that a turn to the East does not happen at the next presidential elections,” Mezyukho wrote in his Telegram channel.

He also predicts that Sandu will ask for help from NATO to force the Russian military to leave Transnistria.

“Sandu’s political orientation towards Europe is undoubted and obvious. At best, it will take into account the failed experience of Ukraine, which, for the sake of the European association, almost completely destroyed trade and economic ties with Russia, which became one of the main reasons for the collapse of Ukrainian GDP, which is still far behind the level of 2013. But this is the best case scenario. Until now, rationality has not been a distinctive feature of the pro-Western leaders of post-Soviet republics. Whether Sandu will break this “tradition” is an open question,” wrote Russian senator Alexei Pushkov.

Another senator, Konstantin Kosachev, points out that the severance of relations with Russia for agrarian Moldova, whose agriculture is focused on interaction with the Russian Federation, is fraught with serious economic problems.

“A close union with the EU, especially the Romanianization of the country, will lead to Moldova’s involvement in a sanctions impasse in the Russian direction. And fairy tales about a happy European future for Moldovans will not get out of it. Most likely, the forces leading in the elections understand these risks: for example, Sandu herself speaks on the need to find solutions to open exports to Russia for all companies, and not for a few close to the current government, on her party’s website. But these solutions can only come through dialogue, and not the “Ukrainian” way of tough confrontation,” Kosachev wrote on his Facebook.

Belarusian political scientist Alexei Dzermant does not believe in the prudence of the new Moldovan president.

“It was not in vain that the West carried out a multi-step operation, first with the expulsion of the oligarch (Vlad Plahotniuc - ed.), and then with the removal of Dodon, moreover, he had not only an electoral option, but also an option with the Maidan. That is, in Moldova there will be a gradual cleansing of everything that could change the country’s pro-Western course in the future. Having once taken, the West rarely gives back,” Dzermant wrote in his Telegram channel.