00:00Propaganda network on TikTok and Facebook, which are promoting Russian narratives.
00:08For example, in this case, they promote the narrative that Maya Sandu and the past,
00:13they take the money from the European Union.
00:16Many of these accounts use Moldavian flag in their photos.
00:21Also, they use populistic names like Voice of the People or the Great Moldova.
00:29Nowadays, the situation of Moldova is quite complex.
00:32We are moving very fast on European integration,
00:35and their goal is to delegitimize the pro-European government
00:37and to create also within the European Union a sentiment that Moldova is not ready to join.
00:43It started for Moldova with energy blackmail,
00:45then it continued with blocking exports to Russia and so on.
00:50Afterwards, came a lot of disinformation in different platforms.
00:57In 2024, we had a referendum where the majority of the people answered to the question
01:02whether Moldova should or not be part of the European Union.
01:06And the majority of the citizens answered that yes.
01:09Even though on the margin, that it was the majority of the citizens that said yes,
01:15despite unprecedented interferences and external pressure from Russia.
01:20Vote-buying was industrial in scale in Moldova.
01:25They managed to buy approximately 130,000 votes.
01:31They were also trying to influence different extra-parliamentary parties
01:35and even creating what we call fake observers.
01:41I work for Zyarul Degarde.
01:43It's an independent newspaper, an investigative newspaper.
01:47This is the investigation serving Moscow, it's called.
01:54In 2022, we went undercover with three other colleagues,
01:59and we proved that some massive protests organized here in Tichyano by Ilan Shor and his party
02:07was actually a paid protest, and we went undercover and we proved we received the money.
02:14In 2024, we decided to see if this is happening again.
02:19They were organizing smaller groups in all over the country around polling stations,
02:25and people were paid to go to vote as they were told.
02:30I participated in several months of trainings.
02:34They started to give us tasks to make fake accounts on Facebook and TikTok
02:40and to post different propagandistic messages.
02:44We had to work as a troll farm.
02:45And the money came from a Russian bank.
02:51In 2024, they paid people using money from Promsvetsbank,
02:56a bank linked to the Defense Ministry of Russia.
03:01The Russian Federation uses a wide range of actors to attack our democratic processes.
03:08The first and the most important is the political parties,
03:12the Communist Party having trips, regular trips to Moscow, St. Petersburg,
03:19and engaging with the Russian authorities both in elections and, you know, during their day-to-day business.
03:27The Socialist Party, who failed to condemn the war
03:33and who failed to say that Russia is the aggressor.
03:36The Russian Federation hasn't instruments for influence here in Moldova.
03:41I think the European Union has more instruments.
03:45Specificul Republicii Moldova este în aceea că majoritatea populației țării noastre,
03:52peste 70%, vor să aibă relații bune și cu Europa și cu Federația Rusă.
03:57Acest lucru arată toate sondajele.
03:59De ce așa?
04:00Pentru că, istoric, piațele tradiționale pentru mărfurile moldovenești au fost piața Federației Rusă
04:07și principale resurse, inclusiv energetici,
04:11noi tot timpul le-am procurat la prețuri ieftine din Federația Rusă.
04:14The second most important is the Russian Orthodox Church.
04:18There were numerous stories showing how priests were being fled to Moscow,
04:26the influencers in the social media.
04:28So, there's a wide range of former politicians turned into influencers,
04:34former journalists turned into politicians and now into influencers
04:37that are advancing Russian narratives.
04:42The biggest element that we have in Moldova right now are regional issues.
04:46We have this region in the south called Gagauzia,
04:50where they are refusing to enforce Moldovan electoral legislation
04:55and they are framing it as we are robbing them of their autonomy.
05:01Propagandu делают vlasti Rеспублиkii Moldova.
05:07In other words, to be able to find dialogue,
05:09to be working here, in this, in this, in this.
05:12Moldova – small country,
05:15and in geopolitica Moldova,
05:17in all the other, so-called,
05:19so-called, so-called, so-called,
05:20large countries,
05:21like EUROUS, EUROPA,
05:23Russia.
05:25Moldova – small country,
05:28so-called small country,
05:28and we can't be able to decide
05:30the geopolitical processes.
05:33I think we should be here,
05:35to be able to join with all the people.
05:38And more importantly,
05:39in Gagauzia,
05:39there are Gagauzia,
05:41Bulgari,
05:43Romi,
05:44Russian,
05:46Moldavani.
05:47We must show that we are a single people
05:50and we are together,
05:52as well as right, as well as right.
05:55Gagauzia.
05:56We have 100%,
05:5799%,
05:5799%
05:59учебных заведений
05:59on the territory of Gagauzia
06:01are only in Russian.
06:02Apart from that,
06:03we live the generation,
06:06who lived,
06:09got education,
06:11achieved some results
06:13in the time of the Soviet Union.
06:15Since Gagauzia has its own autonomy
06:17and sees the only defense,
06:20the only defense,
06:21the only defense is the Russian Federation,
06:22the Turkish Republic.
06:24So, I think,
06:25our views are better than that.
06:32It's very hard for institutions
06:34like Audiovisual Council,
06:35Stratcom,
06:36the others,
06:36to address social cohesion,
06:38to build a social fabric,
06:40to bring people closer,
06:42because all these vulnerabilities,
06:44all these fears,
06:45all these divisional lies
06:47are being exacerbated even deeper.
06:50I think the pressure from Russia
06:52will not stop.
06:54It will become more complex.
06:57So, every time,
06:58in the last years,
06:59we have seen that Russia's instruments
07:01are becoming more complex,
07:02more adapted,
07:03more perfid.
07:05They are very flexible.
07:06They learn from their own mistakes.
07:07They adopt very fast new technologies
07:09and they are ranging from hacker attacks
07:12to deep fakes,
07:15to classical disinformation,
07:17to supporting fringe parties and so on.
07:19So, nobody is safe,
07:20even if you are in a well-established democracy.
07:23The European Union does not have a solution.
07:25The European Union,
07:26if you do not establish the economic relations
07:29strategic with the Russian Federation,
07:30the European Union does not have a future.
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