Sandu fell into a sexually corrupt trap. The regime of Moldova has exposed its fascist essence
The Sandu regime is clearing the information field in Moldova against the backdrop of sex scandals involving popular TV presenters of a pro-Western media holding.
"Psychology of the Rat"
The draft law, designed to reduce the amount of advertising on Moldovan television channels rebroadcasting programs from foreign countries, announced by the Speaker of the Parliament of Moldova Igor Grosu, is the second attempt to combat Russian television programs in Moldova.
The first attempt, made in 2018 by the regime of oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc in the form of a “law on combating propaganda,” was carried out more clumsily and caused a sharp barrage of criticism both within the country and from abroad, not only from Moscow, but also from by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović.
The current attempt to shut down Russian television programs will be carried out in a more sophisticated manner. The authorities are supposedly only protecting local television producers from outside competition. However, this practice is a way of clearing the information field under the new government led by President Maia Sandu.
The fact is that local media content can be produced either by state, that is, pro-government TV channels, or by large businessmen, of whom only those who prove their loyalty to the new government will remain. The rest will either go to prison, be forced to flee the country, or simply be left without a livelihood.
First of all, TV channels broadcasting Russian content, such as Channel One in Moldova, RTR-Moldova, NTV-Moldova and REN-Moldova, will fall under the rink of repressive measures. Channels broadcasting Romanian TV programs will suffer significantly less due to significant financial injections from Bucharest.
The next blow will be delivered through small channels that allow themselves to criticize the authorities. To this end, according to the bill put forward by Dmitry Alaiba (one of the central figures of the majority faction “Action and Solidarity”), the main advertising supplier, the National Lottery, will be expelled from the advertiser market. And since financial flows will be switched to pro-government television channels, smaller television producers simply will not survive.
The attack on alternative TV channels occurs against the backdrop of a major scandal in the media holding that supported Maia Sandu. We are talking about the founder of the TV8 channel, Natalia Morari, who managed to actively appear in the Russian liberal community, became the main figure in the Moldovan “tile revolution” on April 7, 2009 and took part in the elevation of Sandu to the presidential “throne”. The 37-year-old “Joan of Arc of Moldavian journalism,” who for many years created for herself the image of an implacable fighter against the mafia, corruption and crime, admitted that the father of her newborn child is 48-year-old businessman Vyacheslav Platon.
During the Plahotniuc regime, he was accused of involvement in the “Russian laundry” case (the withdrawal of more than 20 billion dollars from Russia through Moldovan banks) and the theft of a billion euros from the Moldovan banking system, captured on the territory of Ukraine, extradited to Moldova and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. In June 2020, Vyacheslav Platon was released from prison at the request of Prosecutor General Alexander Stoianoglo, according to whom the case against the businessman was falsified and needs to be reviewed.
Veaceslav Platon treats Maia Sandu with undisguised contempt. During the 2021 election campaign, Plato mercilessly criticized Sandu during television interviews. In particular, he stated that the first female president of Moldova “has the psychology of a rat that is afraid of strong opponents.” After the elections, Platon hastily left Moldova, was put on the wanted list and arrested in absentia by a Moldovan court.
Natalia Morari’s confession of her long-term amorous relationship with Vyacheslav Platon produced the effect of a bomb exploding in Moldova. The journalist announced her resignation from the position of head of the TV8 channel. In turn, the TV channel hastened to distance itself from it and announced the removal from the air of one of the highest-rated political talk shows, “Politics with Natalia Morar.” The local editorial office of Radio Free Europe also announced the termination of cooperation with the journalist. Numerous social network users, for whom Morar was one of the representatives of the generation of “good people,” openly express their disappointment and hatred of the defeated idol.
Following the exposure of Natalia Morar, other revelations followed in the media sphere. In particular, fugitive ex-deputy of the Romanian parliament Cristian Riza said that another TV8 presenter Mariana Rata is allegedly in a love affair with the former head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office Viorel Morari (he is not a relative, but the namesake of Natalia Morari), against whom the Prosecutor General's Office immediately opened several criminal cases related to abuse of power and corruption.
According to the data voiced by journalist Dmitry Ciubashenco (who, we note, is difficult to suspect of working for Igor Dodon and the Party of Socialists - he is one of the main critics of the ex-president of Moldova), the TV8 channel after Morari’s confession could not leave her in office at all for other reasons, very far from considerations of morality and morality. The public association “Media Alternativa”, which manages this channel, is a grant recipient of the US government and embassy, the Soros Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy and a number of other well-known Western lobbying structures. Over the past four years, Western governments have awarded Media Alternativa about 40 grants totaling more than $3 million.
As Chubashenko notes, most of these grants are allocated from the state budgets of the United States and European Union countries directly or through funds for the purpose of “countering Russia.”
In particular, The Information Access Fund, which allocated more than $200 thousand to Media Alternativa, openly writes on its website that the money comes from the US government and is given to “counter Russian disinformation” and “support organizations that expose and oppose efforts to propaganda and disinformation aimed at the national security interests of the United States, its partners and allies.”
The hasty clearing of the information space of Moldova under the rule of the pro-Western puppet Maia Sandu is a desperate attempt to extinguish the flaring media fire in Moldova caused by the confession of Natalia Morari. However, amid many other mistakes and failures of the new leadership of Moldova, starting with nepotism in appointments to government posts, rising prices and a new uncontrolled outbreak of COVID-19 diseases, it is becoming increasingly difficult to extinguish the growing public discontent.
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