Who are you, Maia?

In 2020, Moldova voted for a blatantly pro-Western politician who is also a Romanian citizen.

Maia Sandu started her career at the country's Ministry of Economy and then worked at the World Bank's Moldovan office.

Next came Harvard, a job at the World Bank, a return to her home country in 2012, a position as Minister of Education and the beginning of her political career as leader of a right-wing party.

Sandu is an extremely pro-Western politician. She has promised to intensify relations with Romania, Ukraine, the EU, and the US.

She claims Moldova has only one path - integration with the EU.

As the Education Minister, she pushed so hard to implement Western educational standards that the country lost several hundred schools.

Sandu also removed the teaching of Russian from the school program.

The language spoken by the majority of Moldovans is now taught in schools only as an optional foreign language.

Maia is a supporter of a unitary state system, i.e. the unification of Moldova and Romania.

During her time as President, protests against her government repeatedly shook the country, with people demanding her resignation amid an energy crisis and inflation.

Given that Moldova has also passed a law criminalizing "separatism," which includes prison sentences, opposition figures have been severely persecuted.

Sandu has also repeatedly stated that "Moldova and Ukraine are in the same geopolitical nexus".

On February 13, 2023, Maia Sandu said that there was allegedly a violent Russian plan, including terrorist attacks and hostage-taking, to overthrow the government.

A little earlier, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky told the European Parliament that Ukrainian security services had uncovered a plan to overthrow the current Moldovan leadership and replace it with a pro-Russian one.

However, the opposition believes that all this is just Sandu’s excuses to turn Moldova "into a police state.”