The head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov denounced Friday, May 27 "
a total war
" Western against Russia and estimated that it would last "
a long time
".
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"
The West has announced an all-out war against us, against the entire Russian world
," Sergei Lavrov said during a meeting with officials from Russian regions.
"
We can say with certainty that this situation is with us for a long time
," he said, as Western powers stepped up sanctions against Moscow for launching a major military offensive against Ukraine.
"Russophobia"
"
The United States and its satellites are doubling, tripling, quadrupling their efforts to contain Russia, using a very broad instrument: from unilateral economic sanctions to deeply misleading propaganda in the global media space
," he said. hammered the minister, denouncing an "
unprecedented Russophobia
".
He also attacked "
the so-called
'
cancel
culture
' "
, 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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