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Russian president calls riots in Moldova 'monstrous'

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has described the recent mass public disorder in Moldova as "monstrous," adding that "color revolutions" result only in poverty.
MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has described the recent mass public disorder in Moldova as "monstrous," adding that "color revolutions" result only in poverty.

Protests initially led by the opposition turned violent after the April 5 parliamentary election results were announced, when some 10,000 rioters, mainly students, broke into the presidential residence and parliament building. Several hundred protesters and police were injured in the violence in Moldova's capital, Chisinau.

"Such civil activity should be held within the legal framework and not in the way of the so-called color revolutions, which bring nothing but poverty and problems with human rights," Medvedev said in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on Russia's NTV channel.

The president said it was unacceptable for protesters to hang Romanian flags on the parliamentary and presidential buildings demanding that Moldova should become part of Romania.

"What happened in our close neighbor, in Moldova, is unfortunately an example of how events can develop in an absolutely unconstitutional way. The footage we saw looked monstrous, when there were attempts to hang flags of another country on the main state buildings, the symbols of a state," Medvedev said.

Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin has accused neighboring Romania of involvement in the violence in the capital and last week the Moldovan Cabinet approved the introduction of a visa regime with Romania, whose ambassador was expelled over the disorder.

Voronin's Communist Party won almost 50% in the polls, which led to two days of public disorder. Voronin is due to step down on May 7, but his party won just enough seats in the parliament to be able to elect a successor without requiring votes from any other party.

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