Russian ambassador in Bucharest Vladimir Lipayev on Thursday termed as an "aberration" allegations that Russia was behind the campaign of ultra-nationalist Calin Georgescu, who was barred from running for Romania's president this May, and that it has financed his campaign in November last year. The diplomat argued that such statements have a negative impact on Russian-Romanian relations, the official Russian news agency TASS reports on Thursday.
The problem is that there is an active attempt to involve Russia in the internal political struggle, and the situation is presented in such a way as to make it seem that Russia is behind Georgescu and the forces that support him, with claims that Russia financed his campaign and that everything is a Russian special operation that failed only thanks to the brave Romanian special services. Obviously, everything is nothing but an absolute aberration," Ambassador Lipayev declared in an intervention on the Rossia-24 television channel.
According to him, such statements should not be taken seriously, but unfortunately this has an impact both on the bilateral relations between Russia and Romania, and, to a certain extent, on the situation in the country. AGERPRES
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