Parliamentary elections Moldova: 28 September 2025
The Justice for Prosperity Foundation (JfP) investigated foreign manipulation and disinformation targeting eight European elections between September 2025 and April 2026. In our report, we mapped the operations, domestic amplifiers and their effect for each country. This page focuses entirely on Moldova.
During the Moldovan parliamentary elections, the democratic process was undermined at every level. Social media, news websites, the electoral commission and even the polling stations came under fire. What Russia experimented with here, the Kremlin subsequently applied during the elections in Germany, France and Hungary. In that sense, the FIMI operations during the 2024 presidential and 2025 parliamentary elections formed a blueprint for other elections in Europe.
During the 2025 parliamentary elections, AI-generated videos were produced via the Matryoshka Approach and quotes fabricated via copied news sites. On election day, an estimated 1,347 fake accounts were active on TikTok with 42 million interactions. On X, 155 fake accounts accounted for six million views.
A BBC undercover investigation exposed the funding. Ninety TikTok accounts, controlled via Telegram, paid “content creators” 3,000 Moldovan lei (€150) per month to produce pro-Kremlin videos. The money flowed to the content creators via Promsvyazbank , a sanctioned Russian state bank and the fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Șor . Alina Juc, the linchpin behind the TikTok network, was caught on video soliciting money directly from Moscow.
On election day, a DDoS attack followed on the Central Electoral Council. The entire host.md platform went offline , approximately 4,000 websites simultaneously. In addition, the Moldovan authorities accused Russia of wanting to disrupt the diaspora vote, including through false bomb threats at polling stations abroad.
FIMI operations per country
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