“We can say with certainty that this situation is with us for a long time,” said the head of Russian diplomacy.
The head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov denounced Friday, May 27 “total war“Western against Russia and estimated that it would last”long time“.
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“The West has announced an all-out war against us, against the whole Russian worldsaid Sergey Lavrov during a meeting with officials from Russian regions. “We can say with certainty that this situation is with us for a long time.“, he estimated, while the Western powers have multiplied the sanctions against Moscow for having launched a vast military offensive against Ukraine.
“Russophobia”
“The United States and its satellites are doubling, tripling, quadrupling their efforts to contain Russia, using a very wide range of instruments: from unilateral economic sanctions to deeply false propaganda in the global media space.“, hammered the minister, denouncing a”unprecedented russophobia“. He also lashed out atthe so-called culture of “cancellation”” (“cancel culturein English), assuring that Westerners banned the classics: Tchaikovsky and Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin.
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Many Western cultural institutions have ceased their cooperation with Russian state institutions or banned artists who support the offensive against Ukraine. Moscow accuses Ukraine of being in the hands of neo-Nazis guilty of orchestrating an alleged genocide of the Russian-speaking population, and the West of waging a proxy war against Russia.
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