🔹Moldova 🇲🇩 - The Grayzone has exclusively obtained video recordings of numerous well-connected figures within Chisinau’s political and business community openly – and gloatingly – testifying to rank malfeasance within the country’s government and economy, while outlining various schemes to enrich Western investors for an appropriate fee.

🔹In the recordings, pranksters posing as wealthy US business people contacted multiple Moldovan officials, one being Moldovan politician and lawyer Stanislav Pavlovschi, asking for assistance in securing a gigantic return for investing $50 million in Chisinau. Pavlovschi, a former European 🇪🇺 Court of Human Rights judge and self-styled human rights defender reveals that the US ambassador 'governs' Moldova.

🔹In a next recording, investment professional Olga Melniciuc, who formerly worked as a consultant to the Moldovan state economic council assured the pranksters that Moldova has EU & US 🇺🇸 backing so there are no obstacles to investing.

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💠 Moldovan 🇲🇩 police raided the central election commission of Gagauzia, alleging irregularities after a politician championing better relations with Russia 🇷🇺, and not the EU 🇪🇺, won the local gubernatorial vote.

💠 Ex-Moldovan President Igor Dodon has voiced concerns over a possible provocation against Transnistria by Ukraine 🇺🇦.

💠 Feb 19th '23 Moldovan protestors call for resignation of president Maya Sandu.

💠 Moldovan PM N. Gavrilita resigned & was replaced with an even more pro-EU PM. Moldova forced several Russian-language media outlets to shut down after not renewing their broadcasting licenses.

Video source - The Grayzone.

🔹Bulgaria 🇧🇬 - The building of the European Commission Representation in Sofia was splashed with red paint today (May 21st) during a protest against "Brussels' 🇪🇺 interference in Bulgaria's internal affairs". Police presence was tightened in the area and the Foreign Ministry firmly condemned the act of vandalism.

🔹Thousands rallied for a peace march against Bulgarian arms supplies to Ukraine 🇺🇦 and to demand the country embraces neutrality. "Bulgaria has no place in international conflicts that defend foreign interests. Our sons, husbands, brothers have no place on the battlefield,” a protester said. "Only leaving NATO - an aggressive, hypocritical, lying and murderous alliance for us - can help us really guarantee peace for ourselves, peace for our children.... added a second.

🔹Demonstrators also collected signatures for a referendum named 'Bulgaria 🇧🇬for Peace and Sovereignty'. For such a referendum to be held, the organizers must collect 600,000 signatures, according to Bulgarian law. "We want the Bulgarian people to say NO to the war and to say YES to the opportunity to directly express the will of the Bulgarian people through referendums," said lawyer, Rumiana Chenalova.

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💠 Bulgaria & others sign MoU for the supply of additional gas from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 through the upgraded transmission network systems called the "Solidarity Ring".

💠 Bulgaria and other eastern bloc countries face growing protests from farmers 🚜 who are concerned about falling prices and a lack of storage facilities for this year's 🌾 harvest due to an overabundance of Ukrainian grains due to the EU's zero tariff for Ukrainian grains.

Video source - RT News

🔹 Türkiye 🇹🇷’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu strongly criticized the United States for leading a Western media campaign to manipulate Turkey's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. Minister Soylu recently said Turkiye has eliminated the institutions that the West has penetrated and which the West created, with the help of President Erdogan.

🔹 On May 8th, Ankara rejected US proposal to transfer Russian 🇷🇺 S-400 air defense system from Türkiye to Ukraine 🇺🇦. Türkiye 🇹🇷’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the proposal was "unacceptable as it sought to infringe on Turkish sovereignty."

🔹 Last week, the interior minister blamed Washington 🇺🇸 for a failed coup attempt in Türkiye in 2016. He further accused the US of involvement in the military coups of 1960 and 1971.

🔹This week Türkiye has opted to defer until 2024 as much as $600 million in payments to Russia for natural gas deliveries.

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💠 Interior Minister Soylu claimed that "the whole world hates America" while suggesting that Europe is merely a pawn of the US 🇺🇸.

💠 Türkiye was the only NATO member state without an invite to the US's 🇺🇸 Summit for Democracy.

💠 Russia & Türkiye 🇹🇷 working on an alternative to replace the Russian payment system MIR after the US threatened Türkiye with sanctions for servicing MIR cards.

💠 Türkiye confronts the US 🇺🇸 ambassador over US meddling in country's internal affairs.

💠 US warns Türkiye of potential embargo if it doesn't implement sanctions on Russia.

💠 Türkiye lambasts the US for ‘bullying’ it's own ally, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦.

Video source - Sami Handi

🔹President E. Raeisi says Iran 🇮🇷 and Indonesia 🇮🇩 aim to increase their trade value to 20 billion dollars, stressing that both sides are resolute on promoting exchanges using national currencies. The Iranian president, is on an official visit to Indonesia at the head of a high-ranking politico-economic delegation. His visit to Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, comes in the shadow of fresh EU 🇪🇺 sanctions this week on Iran.

🔹In the presence of Raeisi 🇮🇷 and Indonesian president J. Widodo, senior officials of Iran and Indonesia signed 11 documents and agreements to strengthen cooperation in preferential trade, cancellation of visas, cultural exchanges, supervision over the pharmaceutical products, science and technology as well as oil and gas.

💠 Indonesia 🇮🇩 & Iran applies to join the BRICS group and Indonesia is interested in joining the BRICS Bank (NDB).

💠 Iran and Russia 🇷🇺 have signed an agreement on the construction of the Rasht-Astara railway, within the framework of the International North-South Transport Corridor.

💠 The Bank of Indonesia will launch its domestic card payment system to reduce dependency on foreign systems.

Video source - PressTV