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State Duma deputy Sergei Zheleznyak called statements claiming that Moscow allegedly sowed panic among Europeans and Americans in connection with coronavirus infection absurd. According to him, the panic emerged because the European authorities were not ready to face the situation, RIA Novosti reports. They failed to coordinate national governments and organize a joint response to the new threat.
The parliamentarian is convinced that the EU is trying to blame someone from the outside. He also noted that the European countries did not exercise the unity they used to be so proud of.
According to Western media, the EU released a report, whose authors claimed that Moscow had allegedly launched a campaign on the Internet to misinform Europeans about the new coronavirus.
Zheleznyak believes that these accusations are not surprising at all. It is rather strange, the politician stated, that Russophobes still have not blamed Moscow for creating the coronavirus itself. Instead of rallying in the fight against the real threat faced by the entire planet, the European Union, like the United States, “dumps all its flaws and miscalculations on Russia”.
European officials cannot understand how Russia manages to keep a low number of carriers of the dangerous disease. They could join forces with Russia and China, but instead they are looking for a way to avoid responsibility for their mistakes, the deputy said.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov regretted that "Russophobic obsession" is not declining. According to him, the statements put forward in the West cannot be commented "from the point of view of common sense." “If this document contained at least one example, I would probably be able to comment,” Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
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