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The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow have been notified by a senior Russian deputy about “hostile actions” by the Romanian authorities towards Russia, TASS reports.
The announcement was made by Vasily Piskarev, chairman of the State Duma Commission for the Investigation of Foreign Interference in the Internal Affairs of Russia. The State Duma is the lower house of the Russian parliament.
“The commission studied the materials of the forum Black Sea: the future border for a safe and stable Europe recently held in the Romanian parliament with the participation of representatives of a terrorist organization banned in Russia. (…) The collected materials were sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation for a legal assessment and decision-making in accordance with our political and diplomatic actions, as well as Russian and diplomatic legislation,” Piskarev said in a statement published on the Telegram channel of the commission he heads.
He also accused the Romanian authorities of “providing terrorists with a parliamentary platform to carry out provocations against our country.”
According to the Russian deputies led by Piskarev, during the event organized in the Romanian parliament, “repeated appeals were made to Western countries, including from foreign agents, to achieve the military defeat of Russia and dismember it into many independent states.”
In addition, Piskarev added, there were proposals to “remove Russia from the Black Sea,” which “contain elements of crimes expressed in public calls for actions aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation and in public calls for the outbreak of an aggressive war.”
Piskarev appears to be referring to the 15th Forum of Free Nations of Post-Russia – Black Sea: Future Frontier for a Secure and Stable Europe, an event that took place at the Palace of Parliament on March 19, according to the organization’s website. The organization is banned in Russia. The Moscow Supreme Court declared the organization a terrorist organization in the fall of 2022.
The organization’s website notes that its goal is “the decolonization of the so-called Russian Federation.”
“What we are doing is an anti-colonial and national liberation struggle against Moscow’s Kremlin imperialism. The terrorist empire of the Russian Federation must be replaced by the liberation of occupied nations and colonized regions, thus creating a peaceful and civilized post-Russian space. This is an indispensable component of the new long-term security architecture, both in Europe and globally,” the Forum of Free Nations in Post-Russia also says.
What was discussed at the event in the Romanian Parliament?
The event that drew accusations from the Russian Federation that Romania was interfering in Moscow’s internal affairs took place on March 19 at the Palace of Parliament. Moscow claims that the forum was attended by “representatives of a terrorist organization banned in Russia.” In reality, the founder of a civic movement that is indeed calling for a greater degree of autonomy or even independence for several regions of Russia attended. In his speech at the event, he congratulated Romania for not allowing Moscow to control its internal politics and stressed that the Russian Federation is the last colonizing empire in Europe.
The “terrorist organization” that Russian officials are talking about is the “Post-Russia Free Nations Forum,” an international organization accused in the Russian Federation of promoting “separatism” and trying to break up the Russian Federation into several independent states. The organization, registered in Poland, was included on the list of organizations considered “terrorist” by Moscow in 2024, according to Radio Free Europe. The civic movement, as described by its founders, demands that several regions (of the more than 80 that make up the Russian Federation) obtain a greater degree of autonomy or even independence from Moscow.
On its own website, a map of the “Northern Eurasia” appears, in the association’s vision, in which the Russian Federation would be divided into several independent states by 2030.
In Bucharest, on March 19, Oleg Magaletsky, the founder of this movement, was also present, and gave a speech at the opening of the event. Magaletsky began his speech by congratulating Romania for “not allowing Moscow to control internal politics (Romania’s n.r.)” and warning that the Russian Federation would try to “occupy” Central and Eastern Europe. He emphasized that Russia is the last colonizing empire in Europe.
“We should have a clear vision, a strategy for the post-Russia space. Let’s understand that Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine are not Eastern Europe, they are in Central Europe. Eastern Europe should be in Eastern Europe itself, in Komi, Bashkertostan, Kuban (…) We need to take it step by step to achieve peace in Europe,” Magaletsky said at the forum.
He mentioned several regions that are now within the current borders of the Russian Federation. Bashkortostan (or Bashkiria), for example, is a region located between the Volga and the Urals which, according to its own Constitution, is “a sovereign state within Russia”.
The topics of discussion in this forum focused on the strategic role of the Black Sea or Balkan states for a post-Russia world, the economic and energy potential of the region, or Romania’s strategic role in the reconstruction of Ukraine.
The event was organized by the “Post-Russia Free Nations Forum”, the Paneuropa Romania organization (which presents itself as the oldest European unification movement), the Faculty of Business Administration with teaching in foreign languages (FABIZ – ASE) and the Center for Economy and Society (CES).
The forum “The Black Sea: the future frontier for a secure and stable Europe” included speakers from Romanian parliamentarians, ministers and officials, such as: Cătălin Predoiu (Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister), Daniel Fenechiu (PNL senator), Nicoleta Pauliuc (PNL senator) or Pavel Popescu (Vice President of ANCOM), among others.
In addition to Romanian officials, university professors or experts (in the fields of economics and energy, for example), ministers from Bulgaria (such as Daniel Mitov, the Minister of the Interior from the neighboring country) or representatives of international organizations also participated. In addition, according to the event program, the founder of the organization “The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum” (Oleg Magletsky), Pavel Mezerin (political expert from Saint Petersburg), Ivan Kulenko (blogger and activist from Chelyabinsk, Urals or Ahmed Zakayev (prime minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria) were also present in Bucharest.
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