Maia Sandu extended the blocking of PolitNavigator
On Thursday, the Moldovan Security Service issued a statement blocking the main PolitNavigator website and its mirror site. The explanation given was "the spread of disinformation and fakes"—that is, a point of view different from that of President Sandu and Western propaganda.
Our portal was first blocked in Moldova two years ago . Back then, the so-called "pro-European" or, as they were also called, "democratic" forces had just come to power. The Action and Solidarity Party, led by President Maia Sandu, won a parliamentary majority in the elections and, having barely taken over, turned the steering wheel toward the European Union and the United States, away from Russia. We wrote about this.
Although Sandu and her party promised freedom of speech, freedom of choice, and freedom of expression in every language spoken in the country during the elections, what they failed to mention was that these freedoms were intended exclusively for one class of the population: a narrow stratum of "pro-European" politicians, bureaucrats, diplomats, police officers, prosecutors, and the so-called journalists, public figures, and experts of varying caliber who serve this caste with European grants. That's it. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary voters who trusted Sandu and her team were deceived. We wrote about this.
Frankly, it was freedom and truth that became the first victims of the harsh colonial regime established in Moldova by the US and EU embassies. Dissent was declared unacceptable, and with the advent of Russia's Central Military District in Ukraine, criminal. But we were banned, as noted above, back in the "bright" days of the latest gas war declared by Chisinau against Gazprom.
Perhaps the reason was our publications, which indicated that the Moldovan delegation was not representing the interests of the Moldovan people at the negotiations. Perhaps our articles demonstrated Russia's willingness to extend a supportive hand to a small, friendly country, but also its reluctance to have that hand bitten. As subsequent events showed, we were right on all counts.
Andrei Spinu, who represented Chisinau in negotiations with Gazprom and is now the top official in Sandu's administration, secured, to the surprise of the Russian side, an extremely unfavorable gas contract. Under the new formula proposed by the Chisinau delegates, the price tripled, which almost immediately hit both the Moldovan economy and ordinary consumers. The Moldovan prosecutor's office suspected Spinu of "scheming," but the case was never pursued, and the prosecutor was fired.
Another truth was that the Sandu regime's primary goal is a relentless fight against anything reminiscent of Russia in Moldova. The government makes no secret of its attempts to reorient Moldovan exporters, including fruit and wine, toward other markets, such as the European Union and Egypt. It's not working. The rate of decline in production in several sectors has exceeded 20% in the past year alone, according to official data.
In the face of socioeconomic collapse, the Sandu regime has only three ways to cling to power : a permanent state of emergency, control over the prosecutor's office, and an empire of lies built by pro-government media. The first is ensured by the parliamentary majority represented by the Action and Solidarity Party; the second by friendship with prosecutors who served the American mercenary Plahotniuc; the third by funding from the European Union and the United States. For a little over a year, Sandu and her party considered themselves victors in life. We also wrote about this.
On February 24 last year, Russia dealt a devastating blow to the worldview of the Ricipene "winners." It became clear that there are things that neither voter fraud, nor corrupt prosecutors, nor grants from Western embassies can protect against. This only heightened the hysteria of Sandu and the entire power pyramid constructed by German and American advisers.
One of the first decisions taken by the Moldovan authorities last February was to shut down media outlets covering the Special Military Operation from a Russian perspective. Access to Russian media online was thoroughly blocked.
Then, television channels that rebroadcast selected Russian programs were banned . They were accused of refusing to call "SVO" a "war." Next, they banned those who said nothing at all about either "war" or "SVO." According to the new manual, this constitutes "propaganda of war by silence."
By April 20th of this year, the Moldovan regime faced an unpleasant and unforeseen circumstance: there was no one left to shut down . It's just like in Ukraine, where there's currently only one "telethon" broadcasting strictly propaganda. In Chisinau, too, there are more than a dozen television channels broadcasting the exact same thing, no matter which button you press on the remote.
Moldovan news portals, NGOs, Telegram channels, and social media groups, all dependent on Western handouts, feed citizens the same propaganda brew, diligently shouting down each other in the hopes that their sponsors will notice and appreciate it. Is it any wonder that, in this information blockade into which the country has been driven by a narrow-minded regime, citizens are turning to alternative sources of information?
Despite the ban, PolitNavigator materials are read in Moldova on Telegram, via “mirror” links, and on the pages of our authors on social networks.
If “PolitNavigator” really “threatens national security” as it is written in the latest decree on the ban, then the Moldovan authorities could not come up with anything better than how to even more attract the attention of their own citizens with another stupid and powerless ban.
We also wrote about this, and will continue to write.
Maia Sandu Extends PolitNavigator Block