Security and Intelligence Service

of the Republic of Moldova

Three Fake News Websites – Blocked

In accordance with the Decision no.1 of 22.10.2021 of the Commission for Emergency Situations of the Republic of Moldova, the Security and Intelligence Service requests to block the websites politnavigator.net, politnavigator.news and aparatorul.md that deliberately published fake news.

 

Some of the fake news spread by the mentioned online portals:

 

  1. Electricity disconnection of entire districts.

  2. Stopping the supply of electricity by the Cuciurgan Power Plant.

  1. The temporary disconnection of the Eternal Fire at the "Eternitate" Memorial Complex reflected as “a response of the Moldovan authorities to Gazprom's threat to stop the delivery of natural gas”.

  1. False assumptions about the reasons of the energetic crisis of the Republic of Moldova in the natural gas sector: “New authority from Chișinău decided to risk that Moldovans freeze over winter only to argue with Russia”/ “Big minds of the USA together with other from Ukraine found the formula to bankrupt Gazprom: to stop the gas supplies from Russia to Moldova”.

 

The erroneous information presented by the three websites is denied by the following facts:

 

  1. JSC “Premier Energy Distribution”, operator of the national electricity distribution system in the Republic of Moldova, published on its official website the schedule of activities for maintenance, renovation, and modernization of electricity networks, including the addresses and time frames. Thus, all the works are planned.

  1. A comparative analysis with previous months showed that there is no substantial increase in the number of addresses for which works have been scheduled.

  1. The disconnections are not systemic, hence the statements about disconnection of entire districts from electricity networks are false.

  1. During the state of emergency, the Cuciurgan Power Plant did not stop the supply of electricity.

  1. “The temporary disconnection of the injection system from the Eternal Fire at the “Eternitate” Memorial Complex as a demonstrative action of the Moldovan authorities” is a false hypothesis with potential to instigate interethnic hatred.

  1. In an official press release published on October 22, the Ministry of Defense mentioned that the supply of natural gas to the Eternal Fire at the “Eternitate” Memorial Complex was temporarily disconnected, until the gas injection system was fixed. The Fire was re-ignited on October 23.

  1. The fake news article from the website aparatorul.md includes false assumptions about the reasons of the energetic crisis of the Republic of Moldova in the natural gas sector.

 

In this context, the SIS requests the online portals that shared/ published the mentioned information to delete it.

 

Reducing the impact of fake news phenomenon is a joint effort. Therefore, if you find fake news or social network profiles used for spreading misinformation, the SIS encourages you to inform the institution at the following email address: press@sis.md.