uh, well, all economists understand that moldova is already going through a very deep economic crisis. last year , a significant drop in gdp and this fall will continue, and this year the exit from the cis or the suspension of certain agreements. uh, within the framework of the cis, this will hit the moldovan economy very painfully. we already have big problems with our agro-industrial products , for example. er, well, tens of thousands of tons of fruits and vegetables. and if for apples hundreds of thousands of tons of e cannot be exported. eh, why is this happening? well, it is necessary to answer the question of what exactly the moldovan authorities are building on the territory of our country ; they have decided to orient themselves completely backwards. such an economy will not survive. well, literally last year, more than 25%

of the country's budget expenditures were uh covered by uh, loans from foreign loans from european and uh, american, of course, the country will not survive the economy will not survive without traditional markets without the cis, without the possibility, uh, to have good relations with east orientation only to the west. this will lead to the creation of a banana the republic's economy, which will simply be completely dependent on uh grant and western loans. uh, our e partners. this is very bad for the country, because we are losing not only, but our production. we are losing our independence. this concerns economic security, practically moldova has completely lost its economic security. in fact, i'm not talking about the military or pragmatic, and so on, moldova is becoming. uh, hmm, some kind of appendix of western, uh, structures that

are completely focused only on getting the grant and credit to the west this also applies to other steps, which are literally. recently were taken young. well, for example, let's take, uh, the closure of the tv channel the world is young, while the tv channel mir shows without any problems and, uh, is not a threat to many for dozens of countries more than 50 countries of the same the united states in the countries of the european union moldova, the moldovan authorities have decided that this channel is conducting some kind of propaganda and just the other day it was closed. it's all done again. uh, what i said a little bit above is done in order to to please the western curators of the western e, the so-called partner, and in order to move away more. from our traditional friends of the russian federation from the cis country, this will not lead to anything good, does this mean leaving the cis of course not, it can take

some unilateral steps, but leaving the cis is accepted at the meeting of the heads of the cis i don’t think i really hope that the head of the cis will not make decisions on the exclusion of moldova from the cis because the government will change in the near future and we will continue to work to cooperate, uh, with our partners in the east from moscow, of course, from belarus , kazakhstan, with all cis countries. how has inflation and utility rates changed over the past month. did it seem to them that moldova resumed the consumption of russian gas after a three-month break in moldova, uh, an unprecedented increase in valuable tariffs, uh, everything that was promised to moldova with the advent of the new government. there will be good times. we got much worse. and this is recognized by absolutely everyone and the current authorities. they try to move it all on

war in ukraine but of course, when we do a very simple analysis, for example, gas tariffs in ukraine and gas tariffs in moldova which last year had 4-5 years of moldovan expressions in ukraine and we have 30 years. that is , almost 9 times more expensive and this applies to all prices. of course, people understand that the increase in prices and tariffs is due not so much to regional conflicts. ah, the fault in the current government is not the competence of the current government. we consumed russian gas all winter. although the moldovan authorities said something alternative. and that they do not buy gas from gazprom, but we all understand that it was the same russian gas that we bought through intermediaries and paid big money for it at a time when the price of gas on international markets fell to about 400-500 dollars for 1.000. m³. moldova bought at a price of more than 1,000 dollars per e, 1,000

cubic meters, of course, this led to a significant increase in the tariff inside the country and the poor people, who are suffering because the incompetence of the current authorities has led to impoverishment. people. no. it's simple salary pensions had to pay high prices for these energy resources. well, people hope that the situation will change in the near future. we did everything possible for this official led the socialist party in moldova intend to fight for the resignation of president aisa before its ruling solidarity action party for holding early elections. how are you going to consolidate your supporters and the opposition forces in general? what can be on whom you are betting and in general, what are you going to offer, doubting after a year and a half, a break , my colleagues from the leadership of the party of socialists hmm, offered me to return at the head

of the executive committee and become the executive secretary of the head of the executive committee of the party of socialists in the republic of moldova, i accepted this invitation task. the primary task is to consolidate the rows with rmp. because there have been certain hmm problems lately. we are doing this now in order to consolidate the nasheeds, the party of socialists of the republic of moldova remains largest opposition party on all issues. a-a is either the leader of public trust, or in second place and is the only alternative to the current government, of course. uh, most of the citizens of the republic of moldova want moldova to have early elections, if we speak according to the law, regular elections, presidential next year, parliamentary in 2025, wait a year before the presidential and 2

years before the parliamentary, of course, the people's republic, moldova does not want to show this everything is easy to achieve early elections. this one of the tasks and the party of socialists and other opposition forces. how can this be achieved? i have repeatedly said that it is necessary to unite the efforts and protest movements of all opposition parties. and left current and right current. will it be possible? we will certainly discuss this with other opposition parties. i think the first such opportunity to join forces. it's may 9th. which will take place in just a few weeks, we intend to hold a single. victory march, the immortal regiment in chisinau, and now, if all parties agree to unite in this a single column, then this will create the prerequisites for the further unification of the protest movement in the republic of moldova, but, uh,

early elections. first of all , it depends on how much and how the west will continue to help the current moldovan authorities, who have almost completely lost the trust of the people. well, today we can clearly say that both the president of the country and its party. hmm, never will. uh, that support for the next choice they had a year or two ago. everyone understands this, you understand it, and the current authorities, therefore, they are afraid of early elections, but given that the current government is completely dependent on western grants and loans, of course, and early elections are possible. with the decline of this support, we understand that the processes that are taking place in the european union in other western countries. i mean, financial banking social crises will lead to the fact that hmm uh, this

assistance to support the current government will decrease. i think that together with the protest movement. this will create the prerequisites for achieving early presidential parliamentary elections in the republic of moldova, in any case, we will do our best. to this end, more than 10 criminal cases were opened against you for allegedly receiving a bribe of up to $1 million from the former leader of the democratic party of moldova, vladimir plohotnyuk. how is the review progressing? yes , dozens of criminal cases were opened against the leaders of the opposition and against me, of course, the task was to scare. well, do everything possible so that we leave and i and other opposition leaders leave the country in order not to spend active political activity, or try to put pressure on us to change our position. well, after all that pressure. uh, already to change 13 criminal cases. we have not

changed our position. we stayed in the country. we will fight here. on the front line, more than that, uh i'm consistent. e, i express my position and consistently go, according to those declarations, i did not change my vision on the main issues. i have always advocated and advocate the statehood of the republic. moldova for neutrality. we don't need nato in the republic moldova for our values ​​and orthodox and family traditional values ​​for friendship with the russian federation i believe that we urgently need to return the strategic dialogue with the russian federation, we need to sign a strategic partnership with china with other countries, therefore, despite all this pressure. we have remained in our positions and will keep these positions further in destabilizing the situation. in order to carry out a coup d'état in the interests of the pro-russian forces. has the pressure on the opposition increased in connection with this, my sandu and the current uh, power, uh, that's it.

this time, for the last year and a half, i tried, uh, all my incompetence and mistakes in managing uh, countries to argue that the war in ukraine or someone is trying to destabilize. well, i have said more than once that those countries that control civil society and the media can do some kind of coup in the republic of moldova. and at this stage , the russian federation does not control any other media, and most of the government civil society organizations. the so-called funded and is under the control of the west, therefore , it is impossible to carry out any kind of coup d'état, or some kind of sabotage in the republic of moldova . uh, the eastern players of the western side, uh, we know and we have seen something more than once carried out in different countries, so the statement that some pro-russian

forces want to carry out some kind of sabotage activities in moldova does not correspond to reality and this is only a cover to toughen up the fight against the opposition and the leader of the opposition. we are it we feel for ourselves. uh, they recently changed the law to themselves the security information service, which is given additional powers. hmm , in order to fight the opposition. we are holding this blow, and i am sure that we will continue to keep it going you proposed to my sandu to hold a referendum on the country's accession to the european union and under what conditions this could be done lately, in an hour more and more statements from the moldovan authorities from the country of european partners that moldova has chosen hmm the path of european integration, and this opinion the majority of citizens of the republic of madon. well, uh , that is the opinion of the majority of citizens of the republic of moldova, or the vast

majority. this is not true, moreover, support for the european vector to moldova has been declining over the past one and a half to two years, because people understand and see that the values ​​that they are trying to impose on us do not correspond to our goals, the values ​​of our citizens in order to give some clear signal. uh, to the west , my sandu decided on may 21 to hold a big event in chisinau and force the forces to force people come, well it's a big rally supporting european integration. we, of course, have already expressed our position. we understand that this is maysandu's pr-action. i think that most , uh, citizens of the republic of moldova understand this and will not participate. and in this pr campaign of the current government, if maia sandu wants to get an answer to whether he wants a young man in the european union or not? it is necessary to hold

a referendum. of course, they will not agree to this, because they understand that the people of the utterance will speak differently than they show in western curator, if we talk about european integration, we all understand that moldova received the status of an eu candidate based on the regional situation, based on the war. in ukraine, otherwise the young would not have received this status. will the young member of the european union become or not? i have always expressed my opinion. we must proceed from our national interests. yes , the european union, a very important player, and the european union are our neighbors and we must have good trade relations with them, but we categorically , uh, do not need values ​​that are on which insist the european union, we know about their attack on our church about the attack on our traditional family values. this is this , we don't need all this, so, uh.

i am quite skeptical about the fact that the young will become members of the european union. the european union has its own problems , internal problems, serious problems both in the economy and in the social part, and even at the level of consensus within the european union, if many countries that have received candidate status for decades back, but a member. they never did, so the membership application in the european union, this is nothing more than a pr campaign and a carrot, which shows the moldovan citizens that someday you will endure this. be patient with my garden, be patient with the redemption of smuggling, because someday, maybe something will happen. well, we've had enough of that already. we have seen it all. we have seen under previous governments who also held such large rallies, who were also told that a member of the european union is about to be. we do not believe in this. we must proceed

from our national interests european union. our neighbor with them, of course, you need to have a good attitude to be friends, but nothing more than that. here is my position. i think that the position of very many citizens of the republic of moldova of plans for euro integration, sandu's team distanced themselves from these contacts, who repeatedly offered to report in detail on this topic. and not only what it can lead to, but the strangeness of this situation is that. what about the regional situation? that 's right. at this stage, it would be right for us to intensify contacts with tiraspol because uh, we're in the same boat. i think that now is a good opportunity to achieve some concrete steps that we could not even set agendas for the last few decades, and as far as we saw from tiraspol, there were several concrete steps. in

this direction, there was an appeal that let's sit down and discuss the political settlement of the transnistrian conflict. unfortunately, the moldovan authorities uh. well, they are looking for different motives and do not want to start a conversation about it. well , probably the west allows it, because about this area. maybe they have other plans. maybe some sort of, uh, destabilization. they cook here. i do not rule it out, but we should use this situation in order to bring closer uh communication and the solution of specific problems between chisinau and tiraspol, the country of tiraspol, we saw openness in this issue, chisinau so far, that it does not react in any way. and this is very bad, but we very much hope that hotheads in chisinau, in kiev and in other countries will not destabilize the situation in transnistria in order to create

we don't need any additional hot spots. i have said more than once that the president of the country in the current conditions had to go, uh, to the terrace, or invite the leader of pridnestrovie here and together make an appeal to international ones. uh, playing an international partner in the same he and say that we are a single country. what, yes, we have the unresolved transnistrian conflict, but we do not need it. uh, help from the outside in solving this problem, because we heard various statements from kiev that we are ready to enter transnistria to solve this problem for us don't need your help. we will solve it ourselves if the president of moldova would take such a step. i am sure that this calmed all the citizens of the republic of moldova and, uh, internationally. it would be clear that moldova would not be involved in these hostilities. well, for now, such risks persist, unfortunately. how do you assess the real possibility and

prospects for chisinau's refusal of a neutral status, as well as joining nato and even the unification of moldova with romania while maintaining the current course? here is what has been happening in moldova for the last 2 years attempt to go. uh, according to the scenario of our ukrainian uh neighbors, what do i mean. now, if over the past 10 years in ukraine you have seen clear steps to e-combat the russian language about the closure of e-opposition tv channels to put pressure on the opposition a statement that you need to join nato re the church, that's all that we saw in a neighboring state well, there has been for a certain period of time about 10 or more years in moldova, the current government is trying to do the same thing, but for a shorter period. they think they can to do this in a year and a half in moldova, we have already

partly passed this agenda, we closed the opposition channels in december last year. we see this pressure on the opposition by some parties. they want to ban. literally in may there will be a meeting of the constitutional court to ban pressure on the russian language by one of the opposition parties. it is we who feel the pressure on the church every day. in june , they want to hold gay pride parades in chisinau before , the mayor of chisinau opposed this. now it doesn't seem to say anything about it. and here's the next step in joining nato and that's us we have seen and see in ukraine and we hear the statement of my sandu and her party that this would be a solution from the point of view of security, of course, the majority of citizens of the republic of moldova do not agree with this, therefore the current government does not raise this issue harshly. they are trying to somehow

hide the statement that here we are, we will buy some kind of weapon, we will arm ourselves in order to be stronger and so on. uh, will there be a young steel nato in the near future, of course not, because the constitution clearly states that young neutral states and in addition, the majority of citizens of the young republic are categorically opposed to joining nato. but if the same propaganda that has been taking place over the past one and a half to two years in 2-2.5-3 years is continued, unfortunately, the situation may be different, therefore, this needs to be fought and the opposition needs to understand this, because as soon as moldova becomes part of some kind of military bloc, then definitely. uh, this uh puts the security risks above the young one. must stay, neutral country. under no circumstances should the youth take part in any hostilities. otherwise, they should become a party to the conflict

of a military conflict of no country, and the other will only allow it. uh, save our statehood. otherwise, we will lose the country at the end of march. it is known that the european union allocated about one billion euros to moldova to strengthen its stability. and there are also plans to send a consultative civilian mission to moldova, which is designed to assist in supporting the stability and security of the country. is it known what exactly will this money go? and in general, what depends on most of the aid of the west is a loan. these are loans that will have to be repaid with interest to the grandchildren. most of this money does not go to the development of the economy, they are spent on current needs. and unfortunately, the citizens of moldova did not feel anything with this help, on the contrary. we are moving further into the debt hole. the government's debt in relation to gdp is growing; it has grown significantly over

the past one and a half to two years. and uh. this, of course, creates serious risks for the economy and for the country as a whole in the future. now i'm talking about the mission that they want to send to chisinau, we do not understand the purpose of this mission. and today, and so most of the state power structures of moldova are controlled with the west through various representatives of the soros foundation ngos and so on , they probably want to send here another team of curators who will manually manage the power structures of the governments, the parliament and the president. well , this is a complete loss of the independence of our country. we have been feeling this in recent years, and most of the citizens of the republic understand this before who oppose may extended the state of emergency for the situation in the energy sector, the opposition opposed. why september 2021. uh, in a few months, in six months

, it will be 2 years, like moldova, uh, young , there is a permanent state of emergency . of course, this is nonsense, no country in the world region has had an emergency situation for two e, almost 2 years. we are not supporters, not participants in hostilities, and we need to argue something in order to solve some energy problems. well , it seems that the energy problems have been solved. uh, this is uh the situation uh, is extended every 60 days, this is done in order to avoid parliament and not be transparent. uh, to distribute budgetary funds, to shoot , to appoint positions of pleasing people. here recently through the emergency commission . they tried to appoint judges above the judicial chamber, which is completely unconstitutional, of course, most of the decisions of this commission are unlawful, unconstitutional and are subject to change

of power. uh, they'll only be considered, but that will be the basis for opening a hundred. criminal cases against those who are now involved in this production of the immortal regiment will be held in chisinau on may 9 , lithuania is not afraid of provocation. moreover, st. george's ribbons are always prohibited. victory day may 9 was victory day, it was and will be. and i am sure that no one will be able to prevent this, of course, last year they banned the wearing of the st. george ribbon on may 9 and not only on may 9 , we went to the victory march. with the st. george ribbon, administrative cases were opened against us and they were ordered to pay a fine for this, literally a few weeks ago, the constitutional court, at the request of the deputies of the socialist party, canceled this law, which prohibits st. george's ribbon, that is, we turned out to be right that the ban on

st. george's ribbon, affects the rights of our citizens on e. hmm uh, saying your name, uh, your position, therefore, this year on may 9, of course, such a ban will not be a provocation, well, every year they try to somehow provoke, but uh, tens of thousands of citizens come out on this march, and those several tens or hundreds of provocateurs nothing can interfere with these events. it is very important for may 9 this year that everyone unites in a single column, so that the opposition and the opposition party do not hold separate events. here we need to show unity. this is a holiday for everyone without sports symbols without a sports flag. we must all come out on this together. uh, mars, i'm sure there are tens of thousands of people in the center this year too. chisinau will be together, uh, celebrating victory day and, of course, we will walk around with portraits of our grandfathers

, fathers, who participated in the great patriotic war. on april 30 , the elections of the head of the gagauz autonomy are scheduled for the post of the head of gagauzia, a large-scale struggle has unfolded between the opposition, how can you explain this has always been different. and-and their clear clear position, they have always been aimed at a strategic partnership with the russian federation with turkey and the majority. e hmm here are a few e poll was the majority of the citizens and residents of the region favored. e for returning the strategic partnership with the russian federation, of course. current the authorities of e have no chance of getting any support from the treaties, so they have not put up any candidate. they do not have a candidate for the election of the governor of gguzi, which will be held on april 30th. basically, there is an independent candidate, but there is certainly a candidate from the

socialist party. the authorities are supporting some independent candidates in the hope that the gguzi will be able to install a controlled bashkan, because they need to control the region. i think they won't succeed very important now, so that the inhabitants of the region understand, uh, and make the right decisions desire. chisinau has always been repairing the gguzia. well, this has never been possible, so i'm sure that this time, er, the gagauz, they will also show. wisdom. we promote and we support this in the region of candidates. uh, grigory uzun and we are sure that he can win this bashkan election. igor nikolayevich thank you very much for the interview. thank you very much and i really hope that in the near future we will achieve a change in the situation in the republic of moldova and

let's return our dialogue at the strategic level, at the level at which most of the citizens of our country certainly want

the chernivtsi region of ukraine to burn down the temple of the canonical orthodox church is already known. it was deliberate arson. what kind of conditional enemy of the west threatens poland to counteract which warsaw was preparing during the exercises in the un security council what was the us and its satellites so opposed to? northern lights in moscow and other parts of european russia exactly what caused it?