
Moldova President Igor Dodon asked Russia to "refrain from measures and sanctions" in response to the announcement of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin Persona Non Grat in the republic. He wrote about this in Facecam after a meeting with Rogozin in Tehran at the inauguration of President Iran Hassan Rukhani.
Not ministers and deputies of the ruling group will suffer from possible trade and migration sanctions, but ordinary Moldavian citizens who are not to blame for anything, ”wrote Dodon. - I urge our Russian partners to show wisdom, not to succumb to the obvious provocations of the Moldovan temporary workers and continue the positive agenda that we agreed with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and began to realize in fact this year. "
Dodon also stated that "he intends to block by all possible legal means, up to a boycott of draft laws adopted by parliament, attempts by the ruling Democratic Party to sabotage and destroy our bilateral relations with the Russian Federation."
On Wednesday, the Moldova government declared Rogozin by Persona Non Grata . The Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the country, Andrei Galbur, spoke with the corresponding initiative at a meeting of the government. He noticed that Rogozin "made a number of statements and comments that are unfriendly and slanderous in nature."
Now Rogozin is prohibited both by entry into the country and transit through it. The ambassador of Russia in Chisinau Farita Mukhametshin has already been called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European integration and notified the decision.
Rogozin is the co-chair of the Russian-Moldavian Inter-government Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation. At the same time, he is the special representative of Putin on Transnistria.
On July 28, Rogozin was heading to Chisinau at the invitation of Dodon, who, unlike the European -oriented Cabinet of Ministers of the country, is configured by pro -Russian. The Russian Deputy Prime Minister was supposed to negotiate with Dodon, and the next day they together intended to go to Bender for events on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the "peacekeeping operation" in Transnistria.
However, the authorities of Romania and Hungary did not miss the plane with Rogozin through their airspace. Since Ukraine also introduced the ban on flights of the official, he could not get into Moldova - the plane turned around and landed in Minsk.
After that, Rogozin threatened Romania on his Twitter: "Wait for an answer, bastards." Subsequently, this tweet was deleted. In addition, in an interview with Russia-24, the official accused of disrupting the visit of the leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova Vladimir Plahotnyuk. "We are dealing with Moldova today not with the legal authorities, which is chosen by the people, but simply with a mafia group that twists and turns Moldovan politicians," Rogozin said, in particular,.