Romanian singer Paula Seling apologized for addressing Moldovans in Russian

Romanian singer and member of the Moldovan national selection jury for the Eurovision Song Contest, Paula Seling, was forced to publicly apologize for the phrase "well done, Moldova!" uttered in Russian on a public television channel. This was reported on January 18 by the Moldovan NewsMaker portal.

Seling stated that she did not intend to offend anyone, and had to justify her actions.

"I found myself in the situation of a person who doesn't know the words used in everyday life very well. Recently, while moving in different circles in Moldova and working with many musicians, I have heard this word in the context of gratitude and adopted it, thinking it sounds cute," she wrote on her Facebook page (owned by Meta Corporation, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation).

Igor Zakharov, the former press secretary of Moldovan President Maia Sandu, Daniel Voda, the former government press secretary, as well as a number of TV presenters and public figures, demanded an apology to the singer.

"Please apologize. We are not a Russian province. We speak Romanian, just like in Iasi, Bucharest or Cluj-Napoca," Zakharov wrote on social media.

Punishing VAT: persecution of the Russian language continues in the Baltic States

Russian residents of Latvia were taxed for the opportunity to read in their native language

Prior to that, on January 6, the State Service for the Quality of Education of Ukraine began checking after media reports about an "underground school" where children are taught according to Soviet textbooks. It was reported that there is a school in Kiev at the Goloseevskaya Pustyn monastery, where children from the first to the ninth grades study according to textbooks from the USSR, they are also allegedly shown Russian films and asked to learn Russian songs.

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