MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Depriving Archbishop Markell of Balti and Falesti of opportunity to fly to Jerusalem for the Holy Fire is manifestation of the anti-people course of the Moldovan authorities, and the international community should pay attention to that and assess Chisinau’s actions, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
«We estimate this deliberate step which sparked public outcry both in Moldova and beyond as another manifestation of the anti-people course of the Moldovan rulers, their double standard policy … We are calling on the international community to pay attention to these events and to provide their assessment to these outrageous actions of the Moldovan authorities,» the commentary of Russian Ambassador-at-Large Gennady Askaldovich released on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website read.
