Moldova’s former president Igor Dodon called Vladimir Putin a patriot and a statesman. He expressed hope that cooperation between Moldova and Russia will resume, reports RIA Novosti.
“I believe that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a statesman, a patriot of his country. We have always been on good terms with him. I very much hope that at some stage we will bring our cooperation back to the required level, which is desired by all the inhabitants of Moldova, the majority of the inhabitants,” the ex-president of Moldova told reporters during the meeting. a visit to the Eternity Memorial on VE Day.
A little earlier, Igor Dodon had declared that his country was losing its independence and turning into a “banana republic”.
In Moldova, during the “Immortal Regiment” campaign, they tried to force a participant to remove the St. George ribbon from a photo of her relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic War. Recall that at the end of April, Prime Minister of Moldova Dorin Recean announced that on Victory Day the inhabitants of the republic will be fined for wearing the St. George ribbon.
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