Deputy editor of Chisinau Timpul newspaper: We fell prey to “well masterminded action”
“Recent developments around Chisinaus Timpul newspaper mean that all the events are a well-directed action,” Sorina Stefarta, the deputy editor of Timpul, announced on February 13.
“The whole information campaign was masterminded starting from Russian media publishing high-ranking reactions to Constantin Tanases statement, taken out of the context and driven to interethnic relations, and finishing with the reaction of the General Prosecutor's Office that decided not to take into account corrections made by Timpuls editor,” Stefarta noted.
As REGNUM reported earlier, Chisinau prosecutors office started criminal proceedings on the charge of “deliberate actions aimed at kindling enmity, national, racial and religious dissention” during a meeting on February 3, 2008 in support of Moldovas integration into NATO, where Constantin Tanase, the editor of Timpul, announced: “The Republic of Moldova must get rid of not only Voronin and the Communists, but of Russians as well.” This statement was treated by many politics and experts as the one directed against Russians living in Moldova. Later, on February 6, Tanase said that “he meant Russia but ethnic Russians from Moldova”; he also added that the “Russian imperialist propaganda” had distorted his statement. It is noteworthy, the news article of Moldovan Deca-press news agency on the February 3 rally that caused further comments cited only the above-mentioned statement by Tanase. Deca-press published no other statements that could provide the context for the call and the reason for interpretations.
19:42 02/13/2008
COMMENT ON THIS NEWS ! (please, do not use "http://")
