The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, was outraged by the new wave of Russophobic propaganda campaigns in Sweden. His remarks were reported by the Foreign Policy press service. sections.
“We plan to continue to put pressure on the Swedish authorities to correct the current clearly discriminatory situation,” he says.
Zakharova said that the “ugly realities” of such manifestations were highlighted in a meeting with the new Swedish Ambassador to Russia, Karin Olofsdotter, during a personal meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry.
According to Zakharova, Swedish Russophobia is also directed at Russian citizens who permanently reside in Sweden, whose number is at least 20 thousand.
The diplomat noted that intolerance towards Russians in the kingdom sometimes takes criminal forms, expressed in vandalism and desecration of monuments to Soviet prisoners of war.
Before that Zakharova spokeRussophobia has “medical roots”.
Previously Patrushev accused Western countries are unleashing genocide against the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine.