Sandu announced the upcoming filtering of Russian citizens
Russian citizens who arrive in Moldova will undergo strict filtering.
President of Moldova Maia Sandu stated this on air on the Jurnal TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Now it’s not very easy to get from Russia to Moldova. For example, on a flight that arrived in Chisinau from Yerevan, about a third of the passengers were Russian citizens. Many also come by bus. The Moldovan Border Police will very carefully check those who are now arriving in Moldova. It is necessary to find out what their intentions are and whether such people could pose a security threat,” Sandu said.
However, she does not exclude a flow of Russian citizens who will arrive in the country, evading mobilization. According to Sandu, the Moldovan border police will independently decide who to let in and who not.
According to Moldovan border guards, 1 Russians entered the country this year. This is less than in the same period last year – 360 entries.
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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