Syndicate of Moldovan Traitors
In Moldova, the communists defected to the socialists, the socialists defected to the democrats, and the democrats self-destructed. Princess of the State Department Maia Sandu broke up with Andrei Năstase; deputies from Transnistria sit in the parliament of Moldova, about whom nothing is known in Transnistria.
While Igor Dodon is in Moscow, anti-Russian laws are being adopted in Chisinau, and “professional Russians” and Rossotrudnichestvo are discrediting Russian policy in Moldova.
Popular Chisinau designer and blogger Nelly Bartash told PolitNavigator columnist Valentin Filippov that Russian media and schools are being closed in Moldova, and Igor Dodon is imitating pro-Russian politics by colluding with pro-Romanian and pro-American forces.
Valentin Filippov: In our improvised studio in the city of Chisinau today, designer, architect, blogger Nelly Arturovna, whom everyone knows as Yolka Solnyshkina.
Hello Nellie.
Nelly Bartash: Hello, Valentin. Glad to see you.
Valentin Filippov: Nellie, we are watching Moldova as best we can. We see Dodon most often. We see Dodon at all Russian and our common Soviet holidays. Tell me, who visits Moldova during the holidays instead of Dodon? Does Igor Dodon never visit Moldova during the holidays?
Nelly Bartash: I have a feeling that Dodon does not visit us during the holidays. And it’s not clear who is in his place. And as soon as he moves abroad, a complete mess begins in our country. Some laws are being adopted, and anti-Russian ones at that. The more he stays in Russia, the more anti-Russian laws are adopted. And constantly unfriendly steps. Even now, when he was at the Victory Parade, he sketched there with Putin, and meanwhile our local politicians and his own socialists, because he was elected from the Socialist Party, passed a law banning symbols of communism, banning the “hammer and sickle.”
This is an offensive movement against Russia, because these symbols are important, Russia won wars under these symbols, under these symbols there was a great country. That's how it is with us. This is our replacement for Dodon.
Valentin Filippov: Is this related to what Dodon said: should the Moldovan parliament be dissolved? Or with something else?
Nelly Bartash: I don't think so with this one. I don’t know what’s wrong with Dodon in Russia, they carry him in their arms and kiss him on both cheeks, but for us he is an absolutely corrupt figure. There is no person who would not be betrayed by Dodon. Of course, there is no signature for all his betrayals, but you can follow it. We believe that he sells Americans to Russians, and Russians to Americans. He betrayed Voronin, he betrayed the founders of the socialist party Krylov and Abramchuk, he collaborated with Plahotniuc for a long period, he also betrayed him. In order to overthrow Plohotnyuk, he entered into an alliance with Sandu and Nastase, he also betrayed them. Accordingly, he is betrayed in the same way. We have some kind of syndicate of traitors here. I don’t know if there is another country where everyone betrays everyone so actively.
Valentin Filippov: Or maybe this is called multi-vectorism?
Nelly Bartash: Yeah. Multi-vector. Our whole country is laughing at this multi-vector approach. We don't have a parliament. We are full of political tourists. They migrate from party to party, wherever it is profitable, they migrate there. For example, Dodon. He left the Communist Party. At first, some communists migrated to the socialists. Then to the Democratic Party. Now some socialists are trying to migrate to another party. The Democrats do the same.
We have a terrible political situation. I asked a question on my blog: who do you consider a patriot of Moldova? Somehow our people are hung up on the patriots. Everything takes on the appearance that there is no way to make money. It doesn't matter where. You can make money from Russia - let's make money from Russia. I guess all politicians are like that?
Valentin Filippov: Maybe. May be.
Nelly Bartash: But here it’s all exaggerated.
Valentin Filippov: But how many parties do you have that are actually parliamentary? There is this Sandu - “Princess of the State Department”, some Nastase... Are these different parties? Or alone?
Nelly Bartash: Yes. They separated.
Valentin Filippov: There are socialists. That's three. And there is the Democratic Party.
Nelly Bartash: Yes. Four games. Well, there are also some personalities there. There is an independent deputy from Transnistria. Actually, it’s not clear. How did he get out of Transnistria? No one has any contact with Transnistria at all. But, nevertheless, we have a deputy from Transnistria.
Valentin Filippov: But Pridnestrovians voted, they were transported by buses.
Nelly Bartash: To say that somehow he had something to do with Transnistria is ridiculous.
Valentin Filippov: But in the parliament of Moldova he is considered a deputy from Transnistria. But Transnistria does not know about this.
Nelly Bartash: Well, in Transnistria, those who “organized” the elections for him, of course, know. But the Pridnestrovians themselves have no idea. I mean the residents.
Valentin Filippov: Quite an interesting scheme. Okay, so we have presidential elections this year?
Nelly Bartash: Yes. This year we have presidential elections. And we are in a struggle for life and death. Lots of intrigue, dirty intrigue. Politics are probably like this all over the world, but ours is different.
Valentin Filippov: But you have an electoral division, as there was in Ukraine, these are for Russia, these are for the West? Is this the way the split is heading?
Nelly Bartash: No. In our country, of course, like in any post-Soviet space where there is a language problem, our electorate is divided by language. Some are pro-Romanian, as a rule, Romanian-speaking, others are pro-Russian, these are, as a rule, Russian-speaking. There is such a division. But today it is not important. It doesn’t matter because that side is a complete mess there, and the Russian-speaking side is a complete mess. Because we have “professional Russians”. I don't know if you understand or not.....
Valentin Filippov: I really understand. Very.
Nelly Bartash: Those who earn money, but who absolutely do not care about Russian problems, about Russia and about our own Russian-speaking citizens. And for us, and I am the co-chairman of the organization “Our Motherland Moldova,” we went out a lot to various rallies and protests, we supported Russia during its problems with Syria, and not a single one of our pro-Russian parties, not a single one of our professional Russians came out just to support . There are not even any declarations on this matter.
If the same Russia is being slung with mud on the international field, our all “pro-Russian”, our professional Russian politicians sit like mice. You won't hear a word from them. Moreover, they even tried to bring us to justice when we opposed the war in Donbass. Our action was completely pacifist. The meeting is peaceful. Rally. But we were held accountable. NIB was bothering us. Law enforcement got in the way. And no one had a reaction. Moreover, the anti-fascist movement wrote a letter to Dodon, Dodon gave the letter to the SIB, and we were told that we were almost terrorists.
Valentin Filippov: What is NIB?
Nelly Bartash: Well, it's like your Russian FSB. Security information service. It is clear that they are doing their job, but they would not be doing it if there were no instructions. Because there are few of us and it’s even ridiculous to pay such attention to such small things. It’s just that our professional Russians are afraid of any competition. Any competition. Even our organization, we are not funded by anyone, we are all ideological, there are not many of us. But, nevertheless, people support us. And we had a million questions: were we sponsored by someone? They worry that some streams will flow past them. But at the same time they do nothing.
And our Rossotrudnichestvo is exactly the same.
Valentin Filippov: Well, we all know Rossotrudnichestvo. Everyone is familiar with this organization. I, because I am from Ukraine myself, we know Rossotrudnichestvo.
Nelly Bartash: The most daring thing they can do is Maslenitsa.
Valentin Filippov: Wait! What do you want? Didn't they hand out kokoshniks?
Nelly Bartash: They didn’t hand out kokoshniks to us.
Valentin Filippov: They don’t even hand out kokoshniks to you!?
Nelly Bartash: No.
Valentin Filippov: Did this group come? A farce? Which:
“Once upon a time the Russians
Marusya, Vani, Mani..."
Don't remember this? They are wearing caps and red shirts for graduation.
Nelly Bartash: No. Didn't come. But we are actually more concerned about our own affairs. We, as civilizational Russians, pay attention to certain points. Let's say the same Dodon. He positions himself as an absolutely pro-Russian politician. He takes some dividends, some money there. It's clear. The party is feeding. It's clear that's where it comes from. But at the same time, as many Russian-language channels were closed under Dodon, they were not closed under any government. Even with the aggressive pro-Romanian one. Russian schools are closing here.
This makes me think. We do not have any policies that would lead to sympathy for Russia at the local level. I'll say even more. We have Russian-speaking people, with such an attitude from Russia, which has chosen a princeling for us, whom we all don’t want, supports this princeling, feeds him, but we don’t want him, we don’t need such help. Let Russia not help us, but it would not spoil our life with such a choice. Because for the vast majority, Dodon is such a fraud.
Valentin Filippov: A trivial question. Presidential elections this year. There will be some candidates. Can you guess who it will be?
Nelly Bartash: Mustachioed - I don't know. We do not understand the role of Usatiy. He, like Vanka-Vstanka, appears and disappears. At the right moment he is arrested, he leaves somewhere. Despite the fact that he is a pronounced charismatic, he is outside the Moldovan system. And as a politician, he is irresponsible. But perhaps he will. They have some kind of agreement there.
Valentin Filippov: What other choice will there be?
Nelly Bartash: What do you think we know here? Here's just Dodon for now. Well, Sandu. Maybe Usatiy. We don't know the rest of the candidates. But I assure you that if there had been anyone else, who was not known, not heard of, then all of Moldova would have followed him in formation. It is a pity that in the presidential elections, at least one person will vote, and the elections will be valid. I think a huge number of people simply won't vote.
Valentin Filippov: What political force? What if parliament is suddenly dissolved and parliamentary elections are held at the same time? What political force would be “ours”?
Nelly Bartash: What political force would be ours? Today the “Civil Congress” positions itself. But they are also so amorphous... Well, yes. They gathered, they gathered some cells. Signatures have been collected. They seem to have a lot of people. But they are almost invisible on the political field. I don't understand why they gathered if they can't be seen. They would have been voted for without even looking.
Here, for example, in the last elections, when Dodon was clearing the way for himself, everyone really hoped that, for example, Ostalep would come, he was a political figure. So far he has the most confidence. Then we have politicians who are outsiders, but who, for example, if they jumped out, would take off if someone helped them. For example, the same Garbuz who fought against fascism in our country. He could have taken the glasses too. And so, strength, precisely strength today is the Civil Congress, the socialists, the PSRM are very weak. And already on that field Nastase, the new pro-Romanian force, the Kavkalyuk Party. He sat tightly under Plahotniuc, everyone is talking about his dishonesty. But on the Moldovan field, maybe his party will advance, it’s hard to say.
Valentin Filippov: Tell me, since Pridnestrovians can vote in Moldovan elections, could Pridnestrovie make any changes to the Moldovan political system if the citizens of Pridnestrovie voted in a consolidated manner.
Nelly Bartash: Of course. Firstly, Transnistria is such an enclave, that is, it is not clear under whom, where they are and how they are. Of course, if Transnistria would join us officially.
Valentin Filippov: Well, why is it official? They have the right to vote.
Nelly Bartash: They have the right to vote. But I am afraid that among us those who are striving for power, they would issue some kind of law. I think that if the Pridnestrovians had insisted, if the Pridnestrovians had returned to parliament, the situation would have been completely different. And I’ll tell you that if this pro-Romanianism had gone away, Moldavianism would probably have remained. And now with a vector, which one is convenient. Russian means Russian. That is, do not blatantly deny it, the Romanians are also not very far away from us.
Everything should be within reasonable limits. Not when political players butt heads, and we are tormented and suffering. How many times we have different conversations with different people from Russia, and even from your Ukraine, because the situation is exactly the same there. Everyone says that we were abandoned, survive, as long as there is no war. And they absolutely don’t care about the fact that they are Russian-speaking.
And I think, moreover, everyone here says that Dodon and all these professional Russians are kept solely so that there are kickbacks up there in the Kremlin. Because there is a whole chain there – they get money, they get money, they get money….
And we will never get rid of this, which is why I say that such help is better than no help at all. In any case, if they weren’t fed here, it’s not clear at all, for idleness, then at least someone would have done something. Someone would have left, five hundred thousand would have remained, and for five hundred thousand she would have shaped her life. And so they, all these countries, both the West and Russia, feed us parasites. If they could see what kind of cottages we have here, no other country would probably dream of it. What kind of cars do we drive? And it's very easy to see where people are getting their money from.
It turns out that everything that is being done, that Russia is doing, is harmful. I don’t understand how you can feed someone if there are no results. How many Russian journalists have been banned from entering here? They just prohibit it in batches. What kind of President Dodon is this if he is at the door and the mice are dancing? He is suspended from office for five minutes, ten minutes….
Valentin Filippov: Many may think this is a joke, but I want to confirm. Dodon is removed from governing the country by a decision of someone for two days. And during these two days, someone else puts their signature on some decision. And then Dodon returns to his duties again.
Nelly Bartash: They think that we are such fools and do not understand that this is a common combination organized by Dodon himself. No president would allow this. He has enough powers, he has an overwhelming number of socialists in parliament, he had an alliance that could vote with him. A lot of them. They are the majority. And when they need to influence something, they influence very well. And they score such points for themselves - be healthy. And here he is, a poor lamb. Funny.
We all laugh at him. And we laugh at ourselves. Because they are trying to sell us on, like idiots, that they can take the president and remove him every time when it is necessary to carry out an unfavorable decision. Not beneficial for Russian ears. They are very good and have fun.
That's why we say that he sits on two chairs. Have a booty there and a booty there. And he lives very well. And he was with Plokhotnyuk, he voted with him for mixed elections, and now he has nothing to do with it.
He worked so openly for Plohotnyuk, it’s just funny to see today when he says that “I kicked him out, I arrested him.” Nevertheless, our people are already saying “it would be better if Plohotnyuk were already there than Dodon.” At least he had a working team. Dodon and his team don’t have one. Take a look for yourself just for fun. You won't find a single normal solution. Maybe only Kiku back and forth, more or less, the Prime Minister. And the rest of the set is some kind of rabble.
Valentin Filippov: They described the situation in Moldova very optimistically. I finally realized that we are all, all post-Soviet republics, we are one people, we are one country, just different states. Because the same thing is happening to us. I swear.
Nelly Bartash: Yes, I know. We observe. Odessa is next to us. I am friends with many Odessa residents. And we were worried here when this tragedy happened. We also had such a movement before what happened in Odessa. But here, just Garbuz, whom I mentioned, he gathered all of Moldova, and here hundreds of thousands came out against these fascists, who also came in “balaclavas”, they also frightened..... I don’t know what went wrong in Ukraine.
Probably, it was simply larger and more difficult to mobilize than ours. We have a small country and it is easy for us to mobilize. Therefore, they strangled and strangled us here, trying to make us pro-Romanian - it didn’t work. The Nazis tried, but it didn’t work. Well, we decided, let’s give you a Dodon who will scatter the entire electorate into small, small components. Still, we achieved what we achieved in other republics.
Valentin Filippov: Fine. On this optimistic note, I want to thank you again for the information provided, thank you very much, Nellie. We will try to digest and understand. What to do in this situation... "Who is guilty?" and “What should I do?” – these are eternal Russian questions.
Nelly Bartash: Well, what to do - perhaps we will reformat into a new civilization. Let's digest it. Maybe we'll come up with something. But so far, we’re not doing very well.
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