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Moldova's parliament last week approved a new pro-Western
government after the previous administration resigned en masse
following months of political and economic scandals.
The new government, led by Prime Minister Dorin Recean, has
vowed to pursue a pro-European path and also called for the
demilitarisation of the Transdniestria region - a Moscow-backed
separatist region which borders Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Russia was
acting "responsibly" with regard to peackeeping forces it has
stationed in the breakaway region and warned Moldova against
inflaming the situation further.
"Our relations with Moldova are already very tense," Peskov told
reporters. "The leadership always focuses on everything
anti-Russian, they are slipping into anti-Russian hysteria."
Moldova's President Maia Sandu - as well as Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskiy - said earlier this month they had
intelligence which suggested Russia was plotting a coup to
"overthrow" the Moldovan authorities and sow chaos in the small
former Soviet republic.
Russia has denied those claims, but Moscow has bristled at the
possibility of Moldova - which is sandwiched between Ukraine and
NATO member Romania - joining the European Union
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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