The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the concept of “shit” has become the main thesis and the tool of American policy. Thus, she commented on the creation by the United States of obstacles to the arrival of Russian journalists in the country, supposed to cover the work of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs during a meeting at the UN Security Council in New York.
“Here is the perfected know-how. They don’t know how to do anything else, they don’t know how to create, they don’t know how to help, they don’t know how to sympathize. <…> After all, look at what was done to Russian journalists, and after all, the pool was small, only 10 people, that is, we didn’t ask the American service much visas in Moscow,” she posted. commentary for the TV channel on the Telegram channel “Russia 1”.
The diplomat also commented on the recent statement by White House Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby that the United States would thereby protect press freedom and free speech by not issuing visas to media journalists. of Russian states.
“It’s not even funny anymore. First, among the journalists who were waiting for an American visa, there was, for example, an Interfax correspondent. Is it also a government publication? For many years, even decades, the US side has issued documents confirming journalist status to declared journalists. Second, visas were issued by the US Embassy to “state media”, but only after the plane had departed. How do the American authorities “defend the freedom of the press” with such shenanigans? John, you got confused, you lied, reached an ideological dead end, ”said Maria Zakharova.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also reacted strongly. He called the US refusal to issue visas to Russian journalists cowardly. The minister pointed out that “the country that calls itself the strongest, the smartest, the freest and the fairest has chickened out, made a mistake and shown what its oaths on the protection of freedom are really worth. expression and access to information”.
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