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Disinfo: US aims to corrupt local authorities in order to obtain total control over Moldova

Summary

The US aims to corrupt local authorities in order to obtain total control over Moldova. Over the last 25 years Moldova has benefited from 1 billion dollars offered by USAID, but the ordinary people did not benefit from this money.

Disproof

No evidence provided that the USAID financial help aims to corrupt local authorities. List of USAID projects in Moldova here. The author tries to suggest that money coming from US funds is not being implemented in concrete projects, which is a fake affirmation. As Timpul.md reports, US funding has been used in infrastructure projects, e.g. $ 500,000 allocation for the construction of a water treatment plant in Teleneşti. Further debunking here (in Romanian): api.md/news/view/ro-amenintarea-americana-in-republica-moldova-preocuparea-propagandei-rusesti-1695,

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Sputnik Moldova - Russian
  • Reported in: Issue 85
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 20/09/2017
  • Outlet language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Moldova, US, Russia
  • Keywords: USAID, US presence in Europe, Corruption
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Disproof

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Disproof

Conspiracy theory. No evidence given. More information about the cooperation between the US and Russia after the Cold War: www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/11/trump-putin-russia-election-nato/508496/, Nato has also consistently worked hard to build a cooperative relationship with Russia since the early 1990s, through the Partnership for Peace and creation of a NATO-Russia Council, and specific cooperation in the Western Balkans on and issues like counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism. In fact, as NATO points out, no other NATO partner has been offered a comparable relationship, nor a similarly comprehensive institutional framework: bit.ly/2e0TZnG, . Cooperation was suspended only in response to Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine. www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_50090.htm,

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Sep 19, 2017
Disproof

An old Kremlin’s myth debunked many times. Ukraine is recognised in international law as a sovereign nation state, with its own flag, nationality, language etc. Ukrainian citizens are citizens of Ukraine, not Russia. Russia has no right to claim them or to legislate for them. The first historical state with a Slavic settlement was formed around Kyiv more than two centuries before the foundation of Moscow. Throughout the centuries, Ukrainians maintained their own cultural and linguistic identity. The distinction is apparent e.g. through the fact that in 1654, Ukraine and Russia needed translators to sign the Treaty of Pereyaslav. In the last Ukrainian census, carried out in 2001, 8.3 million people (17.3% of the population) identified as ethnic Russians bit.ly/1gKrIph, .