MOSCOW. March 2 (Interfax) - Russia has reaffirmed its readiness to develop the constructive interaction with Chinau and continue efforts to settle the Transdniestria problem, while calling on Moldovan authorities to stop using the contentious rhetoric towards Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
"We took note that the new Moldovan government formed on February 16 continued with the traditions of anti-Russian rhetoric, the degree of which is getting ever hotter," the ministry's spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a comment published on the ministry's website.
"[Moldova] has been circulating fake stories about non-existent Moscow plans to destabilize the situation in the country, to create an atmosphere of fear in the face of an imaginary 'Russian threat'," it said.
"We therefore renew our call on the Moldovan authorities to end the contentious anti-Russian rhetoric that is totally unfounded, and to exercise restraint in regard to the in Transdniestria situation," the website said.
"[Russia] reaffirms its readiness to develop the constructive, pragmatic interaction with Chisinau and continue efforts to settle the Transdniestria problem," it said.
At the same time, there have been "parallel [attempts] to artificially foment tensions around the Transdniestria problem," it said.
"Chisinau has been turning a blind eye on the Kiev regime's attempts to stir up the situation in that region," the comment said.