Moldovan minister refuses to take questions in Russian
Moldova's Defense Minister, Anatolie Nosatii, refused to answer a reporter who asked a question in Russian at a press conference on Aug. 12, local outlet NewsMaker reported.
Moldova's Defense Minister, Anatolie Nosatii, declined to engage with a reporter who posed a question in Russian during a press conference on August 12, according to local outlet NewsMaker. Interrupting the query, Nosatii, speaking Romanian, stated, "I don't understand you." The reporter recited the same question in Romanian, to which Nosatii replied he would gladly answer, expressing gratitude for using the state's language and praising the reporter's proficiency.
NewsMaker highlighted that Nosatii's government profile lists proficiency in English and Russian, alongside his native Romanian. The politician also spent four years in military training in Ukraine during the 1990s. Moldova's parliament endorsed a legislation in March 2023, replacing terms such as "Moldovan language," "state language," "official language," "native language," and "our language" with "Romanian language" in all laws, including the constitution.
In October 2023, Romania's then-Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, during a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart in Kyiv, expressed appreciation to Ukraine for dropping the term "Moldovan language."
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