Patriarch Daniel's urging Romanians to get vaccinated is the result of "secret deals" between him and the head of state, Klaus Iohannis, after the meeting they had in February. The fact that the Easter services were allowed this year would be the result of a trade-off between the Church and the Presidency, so that the ROC priests become promoters of vaccination.
Russia carries out a classic type of diplomatic activity, within the law, while other diplomats accredited to Bucharest interfere in Romania's internal affairs, says Russian Ambassador Valeri Kuzmin, who repeats the fake narratives used by the Kremlin in its attempt to pose as a victim.
Romania will neighbor Russia, once the Russian army have conquered a large part of Ukraine and cut its access to the Black Sea. Also, Russia will conquer the east and south of Ukraine, along with the Transnistria region in the Republic of Moldova.
The US, Romania and the Republic of Moldova are preparing to attack Russia's main strategic sites in the Transnistrian separatist region, such as the former USSR arms depot in Cobasna, according to Kremlin’s propaganda arm, Sputnik. The narrative is being promoted while tensions are building up around Ukraine as Russia is concentrating troops in the area.
The narratives are part of the attempt to undermine Romanians’ trust in NATO and puts a question mark over Romania’s commitments as a member of the North Atlantic Alliance.
The Kremlin-affiliated press condemns the Romanian authorities who criticize the protests launched by the AUR party against the restrictions imposed by quarantine in the context of an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in Romania and around the world.
The Romanian Parliament is preparing, out of obedience to the United States, an anti-Russian law designed for a corrupt lawyer. This false narrative appears in a post on the Facebook page of the Russian embassy in Bucharest, criticizing the so-called Magnitsky law, which is in the Chamber of Deputies now after it was endorsed by the Senate. The law provides, in fact, for the imposition of sanctions on foreign nationals who are guilty of serious human rights violations.
Romania purchasing High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) is presented by the Kremlin’s channel Sputnik as a move by means of which the US is trying to bring into the region equipment that will be used in a future attack on Russia.
Timișoara’s mayor, Dominic Fritz, is working for German intelligence, according to a so-called investigation distributed by Sputnik. The story bears all the hallmarks of fake news promoting the Russian narrative (which is similar to that of the Romanian national Communism) of the West as a hostile force.
The Republic of Moldova would suffer in the event of a war between NATO / the United States and Russia or China, and the North Atlantic Alliance would not protect it. It's fake news promoted by Sputnik, quoting Konstantin Sivkov, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences. The Russian portal resumes older narratives, meant to undermine the trust of the NATO member and partner countries in this organization.
Moldovan citizens require a special invitation or a recommendation from the Embassy in order to enter the Russian Federation, former president Igor Dodon has been quoted as saying by a number of publications. This false narrative is meant to justify the fact that the Russian Embassy in Chișinău has booked Dodon a seat on the flight to Moscow.
Conservative circles in the United States are writing that the new Democratic President of the United States, Joe Biden, has allegedly signed an executive order that will promote homosexuality as a central element of US foreign policy and, moreover, "blacklists" will be drawn up of world religious leaders who oppose the LGBT phenomenon. It would also target American ultra-conservative organizations that have links with Romania.
The renaming of the Tolbuhin park in Bucharest is used as a pretext for reinterpreting history
The Moldovan leader allegedly agrees to Ukraine’s plans to build a hydroelectric power plant on the Dniester, which would drastically reduce the Republic of Moldova’s water resources and would cut off the country’s water supplies, including for Chișinău.
Russia's ambassador to Bucharest, Valeri Kuzmin, reinterprets history from the perspective of the Soviet-era Cominternist theses and accuses the USA of invading Europe.
The new leader in Chisinau, Maia Sandu, will pursue the West's and Romania's interests in the Republic of Moldova and will try to diminish the Russian influence, and this will affect Russian speakers and the Russian minority.
