MOSCOW, October 1. /TASS/. The parliamentary elections in Moldova are not just a disgrace but another "global defeat for the West," with everything in the country being purged systematically, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik radio.
"Everything is being swept aside. I see and read various assessments of the elections. Some say it’s a failure of non-Western forces, others speak of a triumph of Western forces. I believe this is a global defeat of the West. Of course, it’s a failure," the diplomat said, commenting on the pressure exerted by the current authorities on opposition politicians in Moldova.
Zakharova emphasized that "everything was done so openly in a dictatorial fashion that no one can prove otherwise." "This is not just a disgrace. It’s a failure, another Western setback, which, like in Romania, will go down in the history of Western policy," she added.
The Foreign Ministry spokeswoman noted that such policies cannot exist if we are talking about democracy based on law. "If we’re talking about democracy under liberal dictatorship, then this is exactly how it happens, there’s no other way. The information space is being cleared, the political space is being purged, punitive measures are introduced, persecutions begin—from harassment to, let’s say, imprisoning people who are promoting their own agenda, not a foreign one, not an illegal one, but their own, which they consider necessary. This is what they are persecuted for, to the point of being entirely eliminated," Zakharova said.
