"A producer of our RUPTLY video agency in Chisinau has been ordered to leave and get back to Moscow. Video equipment has been confiscated. We are keeping an eye on the whole situation,” Simonyan wrote on Twitter.
Earlier reports said that a LifeNews TV crew had been prevented from entering Moldova due to “accreditation problems.”
Late on Sunday afternoon, the government accepted an official list of demands from the organizers, but refused their request to speak directly to the hostile crowd.
The protesters insist that not only must the top officials and parliament resign, but also that the constitutional system must change so that the president is chosen by direct ballot, rather than by members of parliament.
They have also called for the removal of “oligarchs” thought to be close to the levers of power.
The petition has also asked for the punishment of those behind last year’s bank fraud that wiped out an estimated 1/8th of the country’s GDP.
The scam devalued the local currency and has caused inflation in what is already the poorest country in Europe, with average wages of about $200 a month.
