Russia‘s #propaganda #botnets are going all in with their German Bundeswehr anxiety today. They REALLY don‘t want more of that. All of these are fake of course. The last one (next post) is particularly funny. #matryoshka

🤯 Toys in the form of Shahed strike drones with firecrackers have begun to be sold in Russia, — The Telegraph The advertisement states that they are intended for children aged three and above and are an ideal gift for young patriots.

Der Führer eines Landes hat Großmachtfantasien und plant Angriffe auf andere Länder. Russland meint damit Merz und Deutschland.

Moldovan police announced on August 13 that they sent official requests to the TikTok platform administration to block 443 channels containing thousands of videos, which they accused of spreading disinformation about war and the upcoming elections. www.eurointegration.com.ua/news/2025/08...

Moldova: The battleground of Russia’s state-of-the-art hybrid influence operation

Pro-Russian oligarch Ilan Shor announced from Russia that he will offer “salaries of $3,000 per month” to Moldovan citizens to participate in anti-government protests aimed at undermining Moldova’s pro-European government. False rhetoric, fake protests — this is how Russia fights against democracy.

#Moldova Fugitive Moscow-based oligarch Ilan Shor has called for a permanent anti-PAS/Sandu protest as of Saturday and until the elections. He promised participants they will receive a compensation of $3000 although he didn't specify how they will receive the money.

Moldovan authorities say that Russia proposed to use Favnir Trade as an intermediary for payments for Russian gas deliveries to the contested region of Transnistria. Favnir Trade features significantly in our investigation into oligarch Ilan Shor and sanctions busting company A7.

⚡️ Moldovan regional head jailed for 7 years over illegal funding of pro-Kremlin party. A Chisinau court ruled that Evghenia Gutul was guilty of systematically bringing funds from Russia to Moldova for the now-banned pro-Russian Shor Party's needs between 2019 and 2022.

We're proud to announce that Emerging Threats Observatory joined FIMI Defenders for Election Integrity Project ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections in #Moldova. #emergingthreats #FIMI

Moldovan Police have reported uncovering a new scheme of illegal financing and election corruption coordinated from Russia through the #TAITO app, which runs on the Telegram platform. newsmaker.md/ru/video-v-m...

🇲🇩 Moldovan President Maia Sandu has warned that Russia is preparing an unprecedented interference campaign ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections scheduled for September.

⚡️Moldova's EU path depends on pro-European party win, Sandu says. Moldovan President Maia Sandu said her country's path toward European Union integration can only continue if her pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) secures a parliamentary majority in the upcoming elections.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu accused Russia of planning an “unprecedented” campaign to interfere in the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections, warning of large-scale illegal financing, cyberattacks and disinformation.

After the Telegram founder interfered in the Romanian election to help the far right, the platform is now being used to undermine pro-EU forces in Moldova's upcoming legislative election (Sep. 28). MD President Maia Sandu said Telegram is used for vote-buying and pro-Russian ...

More emails about Moldova and Maia Sandu from Russia's Matryoshka disinformation campaign this morning. A lot relates to the upcoming election, and I'm starting to think they want a repeat of what happened with the Romanian election.

#FactsMatter. And in order to keep having access to accurate facts, we need access to both old and new data. Without it, evidence can be questioned, and we will have as much missing information as misinformation. ✍️ Blog by Full Fact trustee Claire Wardle.

Romanian extremist party, AUR, is also carrying out attacks against pro-EU president Maia Sandu, through a network of "ghost" websites, tools aimed at spreading propaganda and disinformation in Moldova. 1/2

1/2 I had a valuable exchange in Chișinău, Moldova 🇲🇩 today with President Maia Sandu, Prime Minister Dorin Recean and Minister Doina Nistor on digital innovation, creativity, cybersecurity, and protecting democracy. @dorinrecean.bsky.social

On my way back from Brussels, where I participated in the final Central Europe Plus workshop on the Enlargement-Security-Nexus, hosted by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 🇪🇺

This week Moldova has officially started the electoral season. We look at the final results of the 11th Parliament, and at a new investigation that shows the violent preparations by Ilan Shor’s paramilitary camps from last year. open.substack.com/pub/moldovam...

So there’s a Russian Andrew Tate?

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

Membrii „Șor” foloseau o aplicație mobilă pentru a influența scrutinul din 28 septembrie / Două persoane, reținute în Republica Moldova sub acuzația de coruperea electorală

Operation Overload: An AI fuelled escalation of the Kremlin-linked propaganda effort

OP OVERLOAD: "At the heart of the campaign lies a focused effort to interfere in elections and the wider political landscape in Ukraine, France, Germany, and most recently Poland and Moldova." Ny rapport fra Check First. @tjekdet.dk har tidligere skrevet om Moldova: www.tjekdet.dk/indsigt/rusl...

A new cryptocurrency token designed to allow cross-border payments in spite of western sanctions on Russia, launched by a fugitive Moldovan oligarch and a Russian defence sector bank, has moved some $9.3bn on a dedicated crypto exchange in just four months since it was launched, the FT has found.

The Iran-Israel conflict marks the first time in a war where AI-generated videos and images have been widely shared by supporters of both sides as an effective tool to fight the information war. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🧵 Kaja Kallas has become, indirectly, one of the targets of the Russian state disinfo machine. As a part of 2-month campaign smearing Maia Sandu, Matryoshka bot network is today inciting a conflict between Sandu and Kallas. Likely to put spokes in the wheel of the Moldova-EU summit.

Matryoshka started targeting Pashinyan on 2025-06-12; the campaign spans 3 days now. @theins.press gave an overview yesterday based on our findings; hopefully they will release it in English as well. theins.ru/news/282170

@annafromukraine.bsky.social #KREMLIN 😭🇷🇺INFLUENCE COLLAPSE: IRAN, TRANSNISTRIA, SYRIA, ARMENIA Vlog 1078: War in Ukraine youtu.be/om0McqVsmg4 #ukraine 💥 #russia Ep 6/17/2025 📰 💪🏽🇺🇦

Today MM brings you a guest post by Valeriu Pașa, Chairman of Watchdog.md on the scale of the hybrid war the country will face going in to September’s elections. He looks at the nature of the threat and how people can prepare themselves. open.substack.com/pub/moldovam...

No job too dirty for the amoral Russians.

Irina Rimes – Dudadu www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pJl...

⚠️ According to The Insider Ilan Shor (Putin's Moldovan asset) is openly recruiting students for campaigning against pro-European and pro-democratic parties in Moldova 🔍 theins.ru/news/282056

#Moldova #Sandu #Transnistria

A failure of verification (website failed), deliberation (card charged in error), and accountability (no idea what happens next). MAGA in a nutshell.

"Kremlin has steadily expanded its foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations globally. We have tracked their footprint across the EU neighbourhood, especially Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, but increasingly also across Africa." euvsdisinfo.eu/african-init...

The Ukrainian military intelligence cyber specialists disabled Orion Telecom, one of the largest internet providers in Siberia. Russian forces were actively using Orion Telecom to carry out aggression against Ukraine. The hackers took out 370 servers and 500 network switches.

If the US refuses even to sell weapons to Ukraine, then Putin will fight harder. The only way to end the war is to help Ukraine defend itself

"Reducing US military aid to Ukraine will neither lead to a sustainable peace in Ukraine nor compel Russian President Vladimir Putin to reassess his theory of victory" understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Who paid $45,000 to a DC lobby firm to promote Moldovan politician Vasile Tarlev — and why isn’t it reported anywhere? A tangled story of hidden money, foreign influence, and missing disclosures. A new original investigation from Moldova Matters open.substack.com/pub/moldovam...

Osteuropäisches Dreieck gegen Putin: Die Präsident*innen Rumäniens, der Republik Moldau und der Ukraine. Wichtiges Treffen heute in Odessa. Leider unterberichtet - wie so oft, wenn es um (Süd-) Osteuropa geht.

⚡️Zelensky holds first meeting with Romania's new president Dan. President Volodymyr Zelensky hosted a trilateral meeting with Moldovan President Maia Sandu and newly elected Romanian President Nicusor Dan.

A fake Telegram channel masquerading as Euronews Romania spreads false claims about President Nicușor Dan and Maia Sandu, distorting their discussions and undermining pro-European governments amid Moldova's upcoming elections. #Disinformation #Romania #Moldova

The newly elected President of Romania, Nicușor Dan, will visit Ukraine today. He is scheduled to attend the Ukraine–Southeast Europe Summit. President of Moldova Maia Sandu will also participate.

🇲🇩🇪🇺Always good to see you again, dear Maia Sandu! Our goal: investing in people’s future! That is why EU is stepping up its support for Moldova with EU Growth Plan - €1.9 billion. It will boost Moldova’s resilience in the times of economic uncertainty – where social investments are essential.

... platform, one of them is Dmitri Ciubașenco, who has previously said that "diaspora worship" in Moldova is a new "pagan religion" (he was mad at the diaspora voting for pro-EU forces (evedomosti.md/news/chubaas...).

Something to watch for as Moldovan legislative elections approach in September: efforts by pro-Russian groups in Moldova to join forces or coordinate actions. Recently, three pro-RU figures announced the creation of a "For Moldova" platform to "unite" pro-RU groups ...

Nicușo Dan Thegheter con Maia Sandu. https://www.csseo.org/720500/ Nicușo Dan Thegheter con Maia Sandu. https://i.redd.it/xy0zex2rz26f1.jpeg di Soft_Pomelo407