Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera refused to publish an interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. About this reported on the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In recent months, in the Italian media, Russian diplomats have noted a large increase in the amount of fake information about Russia.
“To somehow stop this flow of lies, they asked one of the leading newspapers in Italy – Corriere della Sera – to conduct an exclusive interview with Sergei Lavrov,” the publication said.
The newspaper's editors enthusiastically agreed and sent extensive interview questions to the Russian Foreign Ministry. The Minister gave comprehensive answers to each issue.
“But this publication refused to publish Mr. Lavrov's answers to its own questions,” the Foreign Ministry noted.
At the same time, the newspaper explained that Mr. Lavrov's words allegedly “contain many controversial statements that require verification of facts or further clarification, their publication would lead to an excess of reasonable amounts.”
At the request of the Russian Foreign Ministry to publish the abridged version in the newspaper and the full version on the publication's website, the editors refused.
“We consider this blatant censorship,” the publication emphasized. The Russian Foreign Ministry believes that Italian citizens have the right to access information guaranteed by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This publication also contains links to the full edited version of the interview with Sergei Lavrov and Corriere della Sera, in which, according to diplomats, the editors deliberately deleted all the moments that were inconvenient for the Rome official.
This case is a clear example of how Italian citizens are not provided with objective information about the situation around Ukraine and are deliberately misled, Smolenskaya Square emphasized.
Let us note that the answers to the questions of Corriere della Sera, which the publisher refused to publish in full without abbreviations and censorship, published on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
