{"id":107069,"date":"2024-11-04T22:34:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=107069"},"modified":"2024-11-05T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T07:12:52","slug":"zakharova-the-elections-in-moldova-fell-far-short-of-democracy-in-the-countrys-years-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/107069\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakharova: The elections in Moldova fell far short of democracy in the country\u2019s years of independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In all the years of Moldova&rsquo;s independence, the presidential elections in Moldova fell far short of democracy; the authorities mounted an unprecedented crackdown against the opposition and independent media, especially the Russian-language media, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/politika\/22310417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TASS<\/a> writes, referring to Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Experts and political scientists point out many violations and falsifications committed by the authorities. They draw attention to the non-transparent voting by mail, which opens an opportunity for fraud,&rdquo; Zakharova noted.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all the years of Moldova&rsquo;s independence, the presidential elections in Moldova fell far short of democracy; the authorities mounted an unprecedented crackdown against the opposition and independent media, especially the Russian-language media, TASS writes, referring to Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova. &ldquo;Experts and political scientists point out many violations and falsifications committed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":106996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}