MOSCOW, September 13 Russia's response to with the deportation of the head of Sputnik Moldova Vitaly Denisov will definitely follow, Moscow demands that relevant international structures give a proper assessment of the actions of Chisinau, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
«We demand that relevant international structures give a proper assessment of the actions of the Moldovan authorities. As for our response measures, they will definitely follow,” says Zakharova’s message published on the department’s website.
“The course taken by the Moldovan authorities to suppress any manifestations of dissent and eradicate objectionable sources of information is taking on increasingly grotesque forms,” — the diplomat emphasized.
Earlier, the head of Sputnik Moldova, Vitaly Denisov, said that he would be deported from Moldova. He explained that in Chisinau, migration service officers came to his home, put him in a car and took him to the airport with a deportation order on the first flight. According to Denisov, the Moldovan authorities believe that he poses a threat to national security. The general director of the Rossiya Segodnya media group, Dmitry Kiselev, commented on the situation. He noted that the destructive policy of the Moldovan authorities crosses all adequate boundaries of interstate relations.
At the end of February last year, after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the Information and Security Service of Moldova blocked Sputnik Moldova, explaining this by the risk of spreading “disinformation affecting national security «. On March 7, the agency's radio station also stopped broadcasting. The Russian embassy condemned the actions of Chisinau and called the accusations against Sputnik Moldova biased and politicized.