“In the near future, a military attack on Transnistria will begin. And then Romania plans to annex Moldova “, political scientist Sergei Markov announces in the Russian daily Pravda.
Sergei Alexandrovich Markov is the Vice President of the Russian Public Forum on International Affairs and the Co-Chair of the National Strategic Council of Russia.
He claims that Romania intends to attack Transnistria with NATO support, and will then annex the Republic of Moldova.
“Romania, with the support of NATO and the participation of the Ukrainian army, intends to seize Transnistria and carry out massive political reprisals against all supporters of Russia. This will put Russia in a very difficult position. After the military operation, Romania plans to annex Moldova “, Markov announced in the Russian newspaper.
Earlier, the former Minister of Defense of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Igor Strelkov, stated that according to the information he has, Romania is preparing for the occupation of the Republic of Moldova.
This information comes in the context in which explosions were heard inside the Ministry of State Security of Transnistria on Monday.
The self-proclaimed Transnistrian Republic seceded from Chisinau after the fall of the Soviet Union, has its own currency and institutions, and a territory of about half a million people.
The area is dependent on Russia, which has troops deployed on the territory of the pro-Russian separatist region.
Who is Sergei Alexandrovich Markov
Born in 1958, Markov is a Russian political scientist, journalist and former close adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to wikipedia.
He holds a doctorate in political science, is an assistant professor in the public policy department of the Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University, and a professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). Political Studies.
He was also a member of the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation for countering attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia’s interests, which existed between 2009 and 2012.
He is the Vice President of the Russian Public Forum on International Affairs.
Markov is co-chair of the National Strategic Council of Russia and a member of the Presidential Council for Facilitating the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Institutions in the Russian Federation.
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