Moldovan President Maia Sandu has stripped Alexandr Kalinin, leader of the marginal pro-Russian Party of Regions and the Congress of Moldovan diasporas in Russia, of his Moldovan citizenship. Source: The corresponding decree appeared on the website of the Moldovan head of state on Tuesday, 28 November, reports European Pravda Details: The grounds for depriving Kalinin of Moldovan citizenship were "recruitment into the armed forces of a foreign state," as stated in Article 23.