Russian social activist was not allowed into Moldova again – Plahotniuc’s machinations
The chairman of the media commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Alexander Malkevich, was not allowed into Moldova. He reported this on his Facebook page.
“Deportation is a new word in my working and professional vocabulary. So far, all the greatness of Moldova lies only in the behavior of boors at the border,” wrote Malkevich.
The Border Police of Moldova explained the refusal of entry by the fact that “at the border control he could not justify the purpose of his visit to the republic.”
Alexander Malkevich flew to Chisinau on an Air Moldova plane. Border guards interrogated him for an hour, and then they declared that he was an “undesirable person,” confiscated his passport and sent him for deportation.
“Everyone who came to Moldova for the first time was interrogated for a long time, asking why they came, to whom, and so on. Rudeness and humiliation. They told me, rolling their eyes: “We know everything about you, you were not sincere with us.” And the most ridiculous question that the Moldovan border guards asked me was: “Do you have a business suit with you?” I arrived in sportswear and said that there was no suit. But I still didn’t understand whether this became an aggravating circumstance for me or, on the contrary, a mitigating circumstance,” Malkevich was quoted as saying by Moldova’s Notebook.
According to the social activist, he flew to Chisinau to meet with the Pridnestrovian writer, participant in the Great Patriotic War Igor Ilyin, a mechanic of the Normandy-Niemen aviation regiment.
The vice-chairman of the Platform “YES” party, Alexandru Slusari, saw in the entry ban on the Russian social activist the machinations of the leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova and oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc.
“I think that the refusal of Alexander Malkevich to enter Moldova is Vlad Plahotniuc’s plea to external partners to give him a helping hand. I admit that Alexander Malkevich may have deserved such treatment for some reason. But knowing Plahotniuc, it is quite possible to accept the fact that this is a desperate attempt to show the Americans that he belongs. How can one explain unfriendly actions towards the Russian Federation, given the criminal case opened against him there?” Slusar said in an interview with Enews.
The Moldovan authorities have repeatedly not allowed Russian journalists to enter the republic. In particular, Chisinau denied entry to a large group of Russian journalists, including RIA Novosti correspondent Timur Khursandov, representatives of NTV, REN TV, Life News and other media. Previously, a group of Russian artists who were supposed to take part in events dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the peacekeeping operation in Transnistria were not allowed into Moldova.
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