Yahoo News has obtained an internal strategy document from Vladimir Putin’s Presidential Admin that reveals Moscow’s plans for Moldova, a small country vulnerably sandwiched between war-torn Ukraine and Romania.
from entering the country in a week in which 181 other foreigners tried to do likewise.
The document originates from the same Presidential Directorate for Cross-Border Cooperation that produced a similar strategy,, concerning Russian plans to annex Belarus. The Moldova strategy, according to the source who leaked it, was drafted in the fall of 2021, like its Belarusian counterpart, with input from Russia’s General Staff and Moscow’s main intelligence services: the FSB, SVR and GRU.
The Moldova plan, again in parallel with the one for Belarus, is broken up into three different chapter headings: the political, military and defense sectors; the humanitarian sector; and trade and economy sectors. These headings stipulate specific milestones the authors would like to achieve in the short term , medium term and long term . That final target year, the document says, should see the “creation of stable pro-Russian groups of influence in the Moldovan political and economic elites.
Several thousand protesters calling on Moldova's pro-Western leaders to leave office march toward the Constitutional Court for the ninth consecutive Sunday, on Nov. 13, 2022, in Chisinau, Moldova. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Unknown Soldier's Grave in Moscow on Feb. 23.
A woman with a child walks past a Soviet-era monument in memory of the Soviet soldiers who died in World War II, on May 3, 2022, in Chisinau. Moldovan Prime Minister-designate Dorin Recean speaks after being appointed by President Sandu, left, to form a new government in Chisinau on Feb. 10.
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