MOSCOW, November 7. /TASS/. The Moldovan authorities’ decision to shut down the Russian House in the country’s capital of Chisinau is stupefying, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.
"It's hard to figure, to understand their logic, and one can only assume one thing about what Chisinau is aiming for," she said at a news briefing.
"Let me remind you that on November 5, the government of [new Moldovan Prime Minister Alexandru] Munteanu unreasonably and absolutely counterproductively drafted, adopted, and announced a decision to denounce the Russian-Moldovan intergovernmental agreement of 1998," Zakharova continued.
She recalled that the bilateral agreement between Russia and Moldova focused on the creation and operation of cultural centers, and the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Chisinau, also known as the Russian House, also worked based on this agreement.
"We also focused our attention on the wording in a statement made by the head of the Moldovan Ministry of Culture that the Russian House had allegedly turned into a tool for spreading harmful narratives and a threat to national security," Zakharova continued.
