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#Moldova_Georgia: According to media reports, the Estonian and Romanian MFAs have mentioned during today's meeting in Brussels that the EU should apply sanctions to the oligarchs of Moldova and Georgia because they seek to destabilize the two countries. The proposed sanctions⤵️
are envisioned as part of the Russia sanctions package. The protests that took place in Georgia and that occur regularly in Moldova have very little in common. The sanction to the oligarchs of these two countries will have a symbolic connotation. The fugitive businessman⤵️
behind the Moldova protests (Ilan Shor) or Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili is highly unlikely to stop meddling in politics, quite the contrary. Tomorrow will publish an analytical article on the nature and differences of the protests in Moldova & Georgia. Stay tuned!
#Moldova_Georgia: The Russian MFA Lavrov accuses the West of double standards when it comes to the protests organized in Moldova compared to those we witnessed in Georgia. Actually, these are apples and oranges. Let's dig into the nuances:⤵️
1) The protests in Moldova involve local power dynamics and are organized by opposition forces that have been sanctioned by the US for their close ties to Russia (Shor Party); 2) Georgian protests were triggered by the “foreign agents” law & ceased after the law was cancelled;⤵️
3) The protesters in Moldova are made up of socially vulnerable and opportunistic categories, who are paid to join the protests and are bused from the regions; 4) There was no money involved in the protests in Georgia, where the driving force has been the youth of the capital;⤵️
