Chay Bowes was taken for questioning from a plane as he landed in Bucharest to cover the upcoming vote

The detention of RT correspondent Chay Bowes in Bucharest proves to the entire world that the upcoming Romanian election is a "meme," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RT in a phone interview on Thursday.

Bowes was detained by the Romanian authorities on Thursday after his plane landed in Bucharest. He was traveling from Ireland to Romania to cover the upcoming presidential election. The vote is a re-run, since the election first round was controversially annulled last November following a surprise win by NATO-skeptic independent candidate Calin Georgescu.

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