Attacks on Russian cultural workers in West unacceptable, witch hunt – Turkish President
*Our embassies in West have been facing cyber attacks, living under blockade for months, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said March 6
“Fascistic actions against people of Russian descent and Russian cultural figures living in the Western world are completely unacceptable. Look at the situation where a philharmonic orchestra director gets fired in Germany…”
Erdogan, according to TASS, said: “Fascistic actions against people of Russian descent and Russian cultural figures living in the Western world are completely unacceptable. Look at the situation where a philharmonic orchestra director gets fired in Germany as a friend of Putin’s? Is it nonsense? They are banning Dostoevsky’s works. Is it nonsense?”
The Turkish president earlier compared such actions to “a witch hunt.”
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on March 6 that Russian embassies had been facing cyber attacks for months, actually living under a blockade.
According to her, diplomatic mission workers, Russian compatriots and cultural activists have been receiving threats and “envelopes with unknown substances.”
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation based on a request from the heads of the Donbass republics.
The Russian leader stressed that Moscow had no plans to occupy Ukrainian territories and the goal was to demilitarize and denazify the country.
