Head of the International Committee of the Federation Council Grigory Karasin. File photoMOSCOW, June 7The fashion for everything connected with Russia could become a symbol of rejection of the neo-colonial world order based on the dictates of a narrow group of Western countries, said Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee of the Federation Council. According to the senator, given the campaign launched in the West to discriminate against Russian culture, «the task of expansion of the Russian humanitarian presence abroad is of particular importance».Lavrov: The West does not hide the fact that it has declared war on the Russian world «Currently, the Russian language is being directly discriminated against in Western countries. Attempts are being made to «cancel» Russian culture as a whole — to abandon the works of Dostoevsky and the music of Tchaikovsky,» Karasin said at the hearing. He recalled that such major Russian media as Sputnik and Russia Today were also banned. According to the senator, today it is important to develop a powerful and mobilizing people of good will counterbalance to the inherently totalitarian «cancellation culture» of Russia and everything Russian. «The fashion for everything related to Russia, for the Russian language and culture among the foreign public could become a symbol of rejection of the neo-colonial world order based on the dictates of a narrow group of Western countries representing a minority of humanity,» Karasin believes.
Slutsky compared Morawiecki's words with the rhetoric of the Third ReichThe politician noted that the Federation Council is well aware of the need to intensify humanitarian cooperation, therefore, the upper house pays special attention to the implementation of the program to create Russian schools in Central Asia. Of particular importance is the expansion of humanitarian cooperation with the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States. «There is a great demand for the study of the Russian language and culture from those states and regions that make up separate centers of the emerging multipolar world order, including in Africa and the countries of the Islamic world This, in particular, was shown by the recent visit of the delegation of the Federation Council to Mozambique and Zimbabwe,» the senator concluded. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and sanctions have dealt a serious blow to the entire world economy. According to him, the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people. Putin also said that the United States and the European Union had effectively defaulted on their obligations to Russia, freezing its foreign exchange reserves. He added that the current events draw a line under the global dominance of the West in both politics and economics. What's going on in Poland and the Baltics
