{"id":10516,"date":"2026-06-08T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:00:58","slug":"extremist-romanian-mep-diana-sosoaca-compliments-vladimir-putin-during-russia-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10516","title":{"rendered":"Extremist Romanian MEP Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103 compliments Vladimir Putin during Russia trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103, the president of the far-right party SOS Romania and an MEP, addressed Russian president Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg Forum, claiming that Romanians love him and that they do not want to support Ukraine in the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u0218o\u0219oac\u0103 told the Russian dictator during the Q&A session of a panel that Romania is \u201cgoverned by Brussels\u201d and that the country is without a president.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to tell you that Romanians do not hate you. Romanians want peace with Russia. We do not want to help Ukraine. We do not want to give them money and weapons, but unfortunately, Romania is governed by Brussels,\u201d Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103 said during her speech at the St. Petersburg Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to cooperate with Russia. We are not enemies,\u201d emphasized the SOS Romania leader. \u201cYou are the largest country in the world. You are one of the largest economies. We admire your strength, and we admire the entire Russian people. This is a lesson for the European Union. I hope that very soon we will no longer have Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission.”<\/p>\n

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For his part, Vladimir Putin said that he did not wish to comment on Romania\u2019s internal affairs, but asked Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103 to convey warm greetings to all Orthodox Christians in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I cannot and, to be honest, I do not want to comment on Romania\u2019s internal affairs. Romania is an Orthodox country, so I ask you to convey my warmest greetings and best wishes to all Orthodox Christians in Romania,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n

Selfies and convicts<\/h4>\n

During her time in Russia, the self-proclaimed patriotic Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103 also took a selfie with Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova and posted the photo on Facebook. A week ago, Zaharova threatened Romania with retaliation after the Romanian government expelled the Russian consul in Constanta<\/a> following the crash of a Russian drone into a residential building in Gala\u021bi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u0218o\u0219oac\u0103 was especially active on social media during the event in Russia. She appeared alongside Marina Tauber, the former vice-president of the dissolved \u0218or Party in the Republic of Moldova, who has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison and is internationally wanted. At the same time, fugitive oligarch Ilan \u0218or, sentenced to 15 years in prison in the Republic of Moldova and currently residing in the Russian Federation, published photographs in which he appears in cordial poses with Romanian MEP Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103, whom he presents as the \u201cfuture president of free Romania.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also present in St. Petersburg were former Moldovan president Igor Dodon, former prime minister Vasile Tarlev, Russia\u2019s accredited ambassador to Moldova Oleg Ozerov, and Victoria Furtun\u0103, leader of the \u201cGreater Moldova\u201d party, all considered pro-Russian figures. So was Errol Musk, father of Elon Musk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Romanian Foreign Ministry’s reaction<\/h4>\n

The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted to Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103\u2019s presence and messaging from Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo European country participated in the festival of Russian supporters in St. Petersburg. The EU and member states represent values incompatible with economic oligarchy and state capture or with regimes that wage illegal wars of conquest against sovereign neighbors,\u201d wrote Romanian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Andrei \u021a\u0103rnea on X on Sunday, June 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe aggressor\u2019s loneliness cannot be hidden by guests who do not speak in the name of their country. In reality, the effect is the opposite of what was intended, with the forum becoming a textbook example of deceptive propaganda,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Foreign Ministry representative described the few European citizens present at the gathering as \u201cembarrassing exceptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The St. Petersburg Economic Forum was also attended by US right-wing podcaster Candace Owens. At the same time, Andrew and Tristan Tate, dual UK-US citizens investigated in Romania<\/a> for several offenses, were in Moscow drinking cocktails.\u00a0<\/p>\n

radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source: Diana Sosoaca on Facebook video capture)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103, the president of the far-right party SOS Romania and an MEP, addressed Russian president Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg Forum, claiming that Romanians love him and that they do not want to support Ukraine in the war.\u00a0 \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103 told the Russian dictator during the Q&A session of a panel that Romania is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}