MOSCOW, November 24./TASS/.
Moscow hopes that no practical moves will follow after the EU Parliament’s resolution to counter propaganda of third countries, otherwise counter measures will be taken, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.
"We have to state with regret that attempts to demonize Russia don’t stop in the European Union, and this document cannot be called otherwise than paranoia," the diplomat said. "The document is overloaded with phobias, fictitious messages, myths, it reflects very explicitly the ideology that the EU has been cultivating towards Russia over the recent time," she said.
"This document compares the ‘propaganda war of the Kremlin’ waged against the East to propaganda means of the outlawed in Russia terrorist organization Islamic State," she noted.
"We have repeatedly stated that Russia is not conducting any anti-European propaganda. Russia is interested in seeing the European Union a strong, stable, predictable partner with which we would like to develop equal and mutually advantageous cooperation," Zakharova said.
"We hope that no practical decisions to restrict the activity of Russian media will follow after the resolution," the diplomat said. "There is a reason for such hope, as the approval of this document has triggered a colossal wave of rejection in the European Union itself," the diplomat went on.
"However, if practical moves are made under this document, countermeasures will follow," Zakharova said.
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http://tass.com/politics/914380https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Z0C3_MhdcSpokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova hit out at Western “hysteria” and “empty accusations” from their institutions aimed at Russia, speaking from Moscow on Thursday, in reaction to the EU's approval of draft legislation to counteract so-called "anti-EU" propaganda.
The Russian Foreign Ministry had "stated, multiple times that there is no anti-EU propaganda from the Russian side" said the spokesperson. She added that if Europe decided to take this path, it would "prohibit the activity of mass media as its priority", tantamount to installing "transmitters at the borders of European countries with other countries, which will be broadcasting the propaganda of western values."
SOT, Maria Zakharova, Spokesperson for Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russian): "This document compares, and I want to emphasise this, the so-called propaganda war of the Kremlin against the European Union to the propagandist methods of the Islamic State, a terrorist organisation which is prohibited in Russia. Colleagues, this is a clinical case. We have stated, multiple times, that there is no anti-EU propaganda from the Russian side. If the European Union has any internal problems, they should not look for reasons of propaganda by third parties, but to themselves."
SOT, Maria Zakharova, Spokesperson for Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russian): "If Europe takes this path and will choose it as the main one, in particular, it will prohibit the activity of mass media as its priority. So honestly speaking, if this ideology prevails, it is very close to the installation of transmitters at the borders of European countries with other countries, which will be broadcasting the propaganda of western values. I am asking you to remember this since we will get back to this topic in some time even if I hope it doesn't happen. Maybe it will even come to the book burning, which somebody in the European Union will consider as not corresponding to the dominant ideology. Indeed, this has already happened in Europe."
SOT, Maria Zakharova, Spokesperson for Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russian): "Remember what happened with the question of the journalist of the Russia Today TV Channel who tried to clarify with the US State Department which exact civic objects he meant when he said that they [the objects] were destroyed by the Russian Federation and the Syrian regime? Just one question - what exactly do you mean? Tell us names, geographical points and coordinates. Remember what happened? Hysteria, quite simply, which resulted in accusations of propaganda. What kind of propaganda is that? You [the US] never tell us the coordinates, dates, and locations of those objects which, according to you, were destroyed by Syrian army with Russia's aviation support. Never. Just words. Just empty accusations."