According to Zakharova, the Moldovan authorities are using all available methods, including “legislation as an instrument of political struggle, not even of the destruction of their opponent.”

“Then, immediately after the elections, the people who supported Hutsul defended her.

We remember these dramatic events.

Now the second round begins [after Hutsul’s meeting with Putin],” she said in a conversation with RT.

Zakharova noted that the construction of dictatorship instead of democracy is observed not only in Moldova, but also in “a number of other countries that are either part of the EU or NATO or are associated with them,” including the Baltic states.

Last spring, elections for the head of the region were held in Gagauzia; Evgenia Gutsul, who was a candidate from the Shor party, won.

After the elections of the head of Gagauzia, the central authorities of Moldova began to put pressure on the region.