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Moscow welcomes the fact that the Russian language has regained the status of “inter-ethnic communication language” in the Republic of Moldova and urges the West not to get involved in the “affairs of the sovereign Moldovan state,” the Foreign Ministry announced. from Russia, according to Independent.md, which takes over TASS. . The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova annulled this status in 2018, following a notification from the Liberal Party.
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zaharova, stressed that despite the fact that in 2018 the Russian language was deprived of the status of “inter-ethnic communication language” and the Russian-language media had limitations in the transmission , the demand for the language The Russian population in the Republic of Moldova has not decreased.
“To one degree or another, 80% of the country’s population speaks Russian, including ethnic Russians, Moldovans, Ukrainians, Gagauzians, Jews, representatives of other nationalities. The problem of the Russian language is important in the context of the Transnistrian settlement. In this sense, the decision of the Moldovan Parliament has a special importance for the internal stability of the republic, “Zaharova stressed, according to Independent.md.
He also drew attention to statements made by the EU and Romania on recent decisions of the Chisinau Parliament.
Initially, the official EU representative in Brussels accused the Moldovan parliamentarians of putting bills on the agenda in a hasty and non-transparent way, and the vote was carried out without respecting current parliamentary procedures and with the support of the village. involved in acts of corruption, “said Zaharova. Moldovan lawmakers were also criticized by the official EU representative in Chisinau, suggesting that the adoption of the laws would have a negative impact on the republic’s financial assistance. The same attitude was demonstrated for the MFA of Romania, writes Independent.md.
“We call on our Western partners to abandon the double standards policy of imposing advantageous political decisions to the detriment of the interests of Moldovan citizens and to get involved in the affairs of the sovereign Moldovan state,” Zaharova said.
Independent.md mentions that the European Union and Romania reacted to the way a set of controversial laws was voted in the Chisinau Parliament. According to a press release from the European External Action Service, the laws passed, including that of limiting presidential prerogatives through the transfer of the SIS from the Presidency to Parliament, were passed without respecting the necessary parliamentary procedures.
Russian is becoming the “language of inter-ethnic communication” in the Republic of Moldova
The Chisinau parliament voted on December 16 on the bill on the functioning of the languages spoken in Moldova. Russian thus becomes the “language of inter-ethnic communication.”
According to the approved bill, the Republic of Moldova must guarantee the necessary conditions for the use and development of the Russian language as a “language of inter-ethnic communication” in the Republic of Moldova. In this capacity, the Russian language will be used on the territory of the Republic of Moldova together with the language of the state.
Secretarial activities in the organs of state power and public administration will be carried out in the language of the state (Moldovan language). Russian translation will be provided upon request. The official acts of the state powers and of the public administration will be drawn up and approved in the state language, and they will be translated into Russian, and in the Autonomous Territorial Union of Gagauzia they will also be translated into Gagauzian.
Editor: Bogdan Pacurar
