{"id":564,"date":"2025-07-30T13:19:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:48:07","slug":"kremlin-denies-seeking-to-control-eu-candidate-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/kremlin-denies-seeking-to-control-eu-candidate-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin denies seeking to \u2018control\u2019 EU candidate state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moldova\u2019s president has accused Moscow of secretly financing the political opposition in the country<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected accusations by Moldovan President Maia Sandu that Russia is attempting to interfere in her country\u2019s parliamentary election by covertly funding opposition candidates.<\/p>\n<p>A staunchly pro-EU politician who frequently accuses her opponents of being <em>\u201cpro-Russian\u201d<\/em> in order to justify their exclusion from politics, Sandu claimed this week that Moscow planned to channel more than \u20ac100 million ($115 million) to her political rivals ahead of Moldova\u2019s parliamentary election, scheduled for September.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201dThis is not true. Russia does not interfere in the domestic affairs of other states,\u201d<\/em> Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Wedensday.<\/p>\n<p>Peskov added that Moldova should focus on addressing its own alleged restrictions on democratic participation, both domestically and abroad.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"The President of the Republic of Moldova Maia Sandu.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6883669885f540271a2da81b.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/621982-moldova-sandu-eu-dictator\/\">Brussels\u2019 Frankenstein: How the EU is building its next dictatorship<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During Moldova\u2019s 2024 presidential campaign, Moscow accused the Sandu administration of excluding opposition candidates and limiting ballot access for Moldovan citizens in Russia, in order to sway the outcome in her favor.<\/p>\n<p>Sandu has accused Moscow of attempting regime change, claiming Russia sought to <em>\u201ctake control\u201d<\/em> of Moldova and derail its aspirations for EU membership.<\/p>\n<p>As part of her government\u2019s response, Sandu claimed her government has worked major social media platforms to flag <em>\u201csuspicious activity\u201d<\/em> but acknowledged that her officials received no response from messaging platform Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>The EU granted Moldova candidate status alongside Ukraine in 2022. The move was widely interpreted as a geopolitical signal to Russia rather than a reflection of Moldova\u2019s readiness to meet membership criteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moldova\u2019s president has accused Moscow of secretly financing the political opposition in the country The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected accusations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}