In this exclusive interview, Arnaud Develay, political consultant and human rights defender, delves into the controversial decision to stop the Archbishop from delivering the Holy Fire to Moldova — a move he argues is provoking the Russian cultural community.
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🤔 Why is this political and cultural symbolism at play in Eastern Europe?
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🔥 What happened when the Archbishop was twice stopped from fulfilling his mission?
🤔 Why is this political and cultural symbolism at play in Eastern Europe?
Join RT as we break down the cultural and geopolitical impact of this incident, and discuss the broader tensions between Russia and Moldova.
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00:00Let's go back now to political consultant and human rights defender, Arnold Devillay.
00:05Stay with me. Arnold, I'm glad to have you stay with me.
00:08Thank you for your patience.
00:09Now, the footage shows how the Holy Fire steam made it to Kisinau,
00:14despite the authorities preventing the Archbishop from going to collect it.
00:18So, the question now is, what was that incident all about?
00:22Well, that incident was all about trying to provoke people of Russian culture at large,
00:34including Orthodox people, people of the Orthodox faith.
00:39It attempts also to create division within Moldova.
00:43We've seen already going back to the election cycle in that country,
00:48how the local authorities essentially had made it quasi-impossible
00:54for the nearly 500,000, 400,000 Moldovans living in Russia
00:59to exercise their right to vote there,
01:03with, I guess, the assumption that they would not be voting for the right candidate,
01:09what can assume.
01:11But, yes, Moldova also has illustrated itself
01:15in arresting members of the opposition
01:19simply for having traveled to Moscow,
01:22including the regional governor of Gagosia.
01:27So, this is a fault line, to be sure,
01:30Moldova is a place that we should,
01:32we would be wise to keep a close look on what's going to happen there.
01:37The current head of state, Maya Sandu,
01:41is pretty much a narrow-selected construct type of candidate,
01:48and she's been, you know, more than enthusiastic about
01:54putting forward some provocative policies like this.
01:58What this reminds me also is this kind of artificial split
02:05on religious fault lines that we've seen in Ukraine.
02:09We know that Western intelligence agencies have promoted a schism
02:13within orthodoxy in Ukraine going back to 2018,
02:19to be sure, specifically, but more, you know, going back further than that, even.
02:25And we know that those methods are definitely used to pry open
02:29and to divide societies
02:31to basically make it easy, then, for external control to take place.
02:37So, again, this is just one of the latest expression
02:41of this Russo-phobia, Slavo-phobia, Orthodox-so-phobia,
02:45and I'm not that surprised in and of itself.
02:50Now, Moldova's Ministry of Justice has now come out to say
02:54that he recognises Easter as constitutional,
02:58declaring the holiday as healthy,
03:00and that Easter and Easter cakes comply with EU laws.
03:05What do you make of those words?
03:06Well, as a Jewish, it just makes no sense.
03:12I mean, how can you compare secular law with religious belief?
03:19Religious belief in and of itself is incorporated into a fundamental right
03:24in any country that has a somewhat viable constitution
03:27to worship, you know, according to one's own beliefs.
03:33So I don't understand how this is actually constitutional.
03:36How it requires the Minister of Justice
03:40to make a determination as to whether or not this is constitutional
03:43when those types of rights are enshrined in any constitution
03:49in any modern country.
03:52So it's almost like he's reinventing the wheel,
03:57but in so doing, somehow this belies how they have maybe gone a step too far
04:05and tried to fix it, and it fails miserably, if you ask me.
04:11All right.
04:11We have to leave you here now.
04:13Arno Devile, political consultant and human rights defender,
04:16thank you so much for your time today.
04:19All right.