Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE): "Russia has interfered in electoral processes and has tried to influence elections in Romania, just as it recently tried in the Republic of Moldova."

"Russia has interfered in electoral processes and has tried to influence elections in Romania, just as it has recently tried in the Republic of Moldova. It does this systematically. It has failed because the citizens of these countries prefer other values and perspectives.

We have made it very clear before that we will never accept lessons about democracy, elections, or press freedom coming from Moscow. A country, an aggressor of a sovereign neighbor, which tries to annex its territories in a brutal conquest war, which commits war crimes, which sends its citizens to death by the hundreds of thousands, where the opposition is assassinated just a few steps from the Kremlin and where there is no independent press or freedom of expression, is not in a position to give lessons to anyone." said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.