Sergey Naryshkin, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR), said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has tasked the American media with instilling in the minds of Russians the idea that a strong fight against the authorities is needed. DEA News.
According to him, the State Department sent “instructions regarding a distorted reflection of events in and around Russia” to major conglomerates such as AT&T, Comcast Corporation, Graham Media Group, Nash Holdings, Newsweek Publishing and The New York Times Company in June.
It is stated that the task of the media is to introduce the ideas of fighting the authorities “until the armed rebellion” into the minds of Russians, to involve people in protest actions for this purpose, and to multiply fabrications about weakness. Russian state.
Naryshkin described the State Department as “a stinking dump for information junk.” The Foreign Intelligence Service said the US State Department had become the “Truth Department” envisioned by author George Orwell. According to the plot, the department was the propaganda organ of a totalitarian state.
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