00:00Let's go back now to political consultant and human rights defender, Arnold Devillay.
00:05Stay with me. Arnold, I'm glad to have you stay with me.
00:08Thank you for your patience.
00:09Now, the footage shows how the Holy Fire steam made it to Kisinau,
00:14despite the authorities preventing the Archbishop from going to collect it.
00:18So, the question now is, what was that incident all about?
00:22Well, that incident was all about trying to provoke people of Russian culture at large,
00:34including Orthodox people, people of the Orthodox faith.
00:39It attempts also to create division within Moldova.
00:43We've seen already going back to the election cycle in that country,
00:48how the local authorities essentially had made it quasi-impossible
00:54for the nearly 500,000, 400,000 Moldovans living in Russia
00:59to exercise their right to vote there,
01:03with, I guess, the assumption that they would not be voting for the right candidate,
01:09what can assume.
01:11But, yes, Moldova also has illustrated itself
01:15in arresting members of the opposition
01:19simply for having traveled to Moscow,
01:22including the regional governor of Gagosia.
01:27So, this is a fault line, to be sure,
01:30Moldova is a place that we should,
01:32we would be wise to keep a close look on what's going to happen there.
01:37The current head of state, Maya Sandu,
01:41is pretty much a narrow-selected construct type of candidate,
01:48and she's been, you know, more than enthusiastic about
01:54putting forward some provocative policies like this.
01:58What this reminds me also is this kind of artificial split
02:05on religious fault lines that we've seen in Ukraine.
02:09We know that Western intelligence agencies have promoted a schism
02:13within orthodoxy in Ukraine going back to 2018,
02:19to be sure, specifically, but more, you know, going back further than that, even.
02:25And we know that those methods are definitely used to pry open
02:29and to divide societies
02:31to basically make it easy, then, for external control to take place.
02:37So, again, this is just one of the latest expression
02:41of this Russo-phobia, Slavo-phobia, Orthodox-so-phobia,
02:45and I'm not that surprised in and of itself.
02:50Now, Moldova's Ministry of Justice has now come out to say
02:54that he recognises Easter as constitutional,
02:58declaring the holiday as healthy,
03:00and that Easter and Easter cakes comply with EU laws.
03:05What do you make of those words?
03:06Well, as a Jewish, it just makes no sense.
03:12I mean, how can you compare secular law with religious belief?
03:19Religious belief in and of itself is incorporated into a fundamental right
03:24in any country that has a somewhat viable constitution
03:27to worship, you know, according to one's own beliefs.
03:33So I don't understand how this is actually constitutional.
03:36How it requires the Minister of Justice
03:40to make a determination as to whether or not this is constitutional
03:43when those types of rights are enshrined in any constitution
03:49in any modern country.
03:52So it's almost like he's reinventing the wheel,
03:57but in so doing, somehow this belies how they have maybe gone a step too far
04:05and tried to fix it, and it fails miserably, if you ask me.
04:11All right.
04:11We have to leave you here now.
04:13Arno Devile, political consultant and human rights defender,
04:16thank you so much for your time today.
04:19All right.
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