Paul Goble
Staunton, July 27 – Mariya Zakharova, the official spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry says that Moscow considers that it is necessary to establish an International Day for the Struggle against Russophobia on the model of the International Day of Memory of Holocaust Victims because anti-Russian propaganda has led to so many tragedies.
She says she has become increasingly convinced an International Day for the Struggle against Russophobia is essential because “Russophobia is the very same extremist, Nazi and today already neo-Nazi ideology which kills people both directly and indirectly” (nazaccent.ru/content/44292-mariya-zaharova-predlozhila-sozdat-mezhdunarodnyj-den-borby-s-rusofobiej/).
Zakharova’s proposal follows calls by Kremlin human rights ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova to increase the penalties set by Russian law for any manifestation of Russophobia inside the Russian Federation (nazaccent.ru/content/42364-tatyana-moskalkova-predlozhila-uzhestochit-nakazanie-za/).
And it is the latest example of Moscow which has attacked so many others seeking to present itself as the victim so as to distract attention from what Russians under Putin have done in Ukraine and against so many other peoples inside and beyond the current borders of the Russian Federation.
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