{"id":460169,"date":"2025-09-29T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460169\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:24:33","slug":"eu-grins-russia-grouses-after-pro-europe-forces-win-moldovan-election-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460169\/","title":{"rendered":"EU grins, Russia grouses after pro-Europe forces win Moldovan election \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, who faces being ousted from office by populist right-winger Andrej Babi\u0161 in an election this weekend, expressed hope for his own country.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreat news from Moldova! \u2026 Voters in Moldova gave a clear stop to the pro-Russian parties. This is hope also for Czechia; please come to the polls and don\u2019t let the country fall to Russian collaborators,\u201d Fiala wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The reaction from Moscow, however, was rather more sour. <\/p>\n

Russia wasted little time in denouncing Moldova\u2019s election outcome, casting the victory for Sandu\u2019s party as being illegitimate and orchestrated.<\/p>\n

Alexander Gusev, a Kremlin-aligned political scientist and professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences, accused Sandu of manipulating the process to cement her pro-European course.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Moldovan authorities, and Sandu personally, are doing everything to ensure that these elections effectively confirm her legitimacy and the course toward European integration,\u201d he told<\/a> the state-owned news agency RIA Novosti. \u201cFor them there is no such thing as justice, they have a simple task and they carry it out like puppets of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, who faces being ousted from office by populist right-winger Andrej Babi\u0161 in an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[13071,5898,153715,33,6561,2000,46647,299,5187,1105,2596,660,51099,48802,13491,6564,97492,332,811,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-460169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-disinformation","9":"tag-donald-tusk","10":"tag-election-security","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-enlargement","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-eu-russia-relations","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-far-right","18":"tag-kaja-kallas","19":"tag-kremlin","20":"tag-maia-sandu","21":"tag-mette-frederiksen","22":"tag-moldova","23":"tag-neighborhood","24":"tag-petr-fiala","25":"tag-russia","26":"tag-security","27":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115287101534999722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}