Exclusive: Russia’s secret document for destabilizing Moldova

Yahoo News has obtained an internal strategy document from Putin’s Presidential Administration.

It reveals Moscow's plans for Moldova, the small country vulnerably sandwiched between war-torn Ukraine and a member of NATO and the European Union.

The document is part of a reporting collaboration with European news organizations: Delfi Estonia, the Swedish.

Moldova has joined Ukraine in moving away from Russia’s orbit and towards the West.

Russia doesn’t let its ex-Soviet bloc states drift away easily; typically it blames the U.S., NATO and the EU for engaging in the sort of internal interference in which it specializes itself.

But Belarus and Moldova are on very different trajectories.

Russian plan goes after not just elections but what it labels as Moldova’s “humanitarian sector” Moscow seeks the “neutralization of attempts to limit the activities of Russian and pro-Russian media in Moldova, document says.

Moscow also seeks the creation of a network of NGOs promoting the development of Russian-Moldovan relations.

Russia has an extensive foreign security apparatus embedded in embassies throughout the world.