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Moscow will not allow the Council of Europe to forget about the issue of infringement of the rights of the Russian-speaking population and discrimination against the Russian media, noted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He promised that Russia would not allow this despite all the efforts made by Brussels to cover these topics "under the rug," RIA Novosti reports.
In the West, they diligently close their eyes to the infringement of the rights of the Russian-speaking population in a number of countries. This includes the existence of the shameful status of statelessness in the Baltics, and the elimination of Russian schools due to the educational reform in Ukraine. Sergei Lavrov recalled that the only language against which discrimination was directed in Ukraine was Russian. All these transformations do not apply to the languages of other national minorities, since they belong to the languages of the European Union.
The head of Russian diplomacy said that Russia was not going to put up with the fact that some European countries turn a blind eye to both the oppression of Russian journalists and attempts to glorify Nazism.
Sergey Lavrov is sure that Germany, having taken the chair of the Council of Europe, should not forget about these topics.
Russkiy Mir
