{"id":13405,"date":"2023-04-17T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/moldova-tells-moscow-not\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T16:35:04","slug":"moldova-tells-moscow-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/moldova-tells-moscow-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova tells Moscow not to meddle after barring Russian governor from entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHISINAU (Reuters) &#8211;     Moldova told Russian politicians not to meddle in its internal affairs on Monday after barring a Russian delegation from entering the country ahead of a regional election.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation led by Rustam Minnikhanov, governor of Russia&#8217;s Tatarstan region, had been due to attend a forum in semi-autonomous Gagauzia region, which holds elections on April 30 to name the head of its government.  <\/p>\n<p>Moldova, which applied to join the European Union last year alongside its neighbour Ukraine, has repeatedly accused Russia of trying to destabilise the country, something Moscow denies. <\/p>\n<p>Minnikhanov arrived in an official Tatarstan government plane but was not allowed off the aircraft. Police said in a statement his trip aimed to bolster support for a pro-Russian candidate standing at the elections. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Supporting a candidate at local elections in Moldova is not a valid reason and the authorities ask Russian bureaucrats to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of our country,&#8221; the border guard service said. <\/p>\n<p>Minnikhanov posted a video on social media in which he said he and his delegation had been labelled undesirable, a move he described as regrettable. He said the people of Tatarstan and Gagauzia, both home to Turkic peoples, were &#8220;brothers&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Gagauzia is an autonomous region home to a Turkic population that is pro-Russian and Orthodox Christian.  <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Alexander Tanas; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Angus MacSwan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/moldova-tells-moscow-not\/st-petersburg-international-economic-forum-spief-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3G0LG-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3G0LG-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHISINAU (Reuters) &#8211; Moldova told Russian politicians not to meddle in its internal affairs on Monday after barring a Russian delegation from entering the country ahead of a regional election. The delegation led by Rustam Minnikhanov, governor of Russia&#8217;s Tatarstan region, had been due to attend a forum in semi-autonomous Gagauzia region, which holds elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3G0LG-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13407,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405\/revisions\/13407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}