Sydney, AustraliaMOSCOW, Jul 6 Moscow regards imposing a severe measure of restraint on a Russian citizen as a double standard Semyon Boikov, who was sentenced to 10 months in prison in Australia, was told by Alexei Zaitsev, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. with the anti-Russian mainstream on the green continent,” the diplomat said during the weekly briefing of the Russian Foreign Ministry.The ambassador spoke about frequent rallies near the building of the Russian diplomatic mission in Australia. He explained that the Sydney city court sentenced the ataman of the Trans-Baikal Cossacks, Semyon Mikhailovich Boikov, to 10 months in prison. In one of his speeches at an election rally in support of independent politicians, he cited the specific fact that the local authorities had imposed a symbolic measure of restraint on a person accused of child molestation, and posted this speech on his own YouTube channel, which has over 150,000 subscribers,» the diplomat explained. Zaitsev also noted that a Russian citizen living in Australia «not only openly supports Russia's NMD in Ukraine and organized several actions in support of it at the Russian Consulate General in Sydney, but using his resources in social networks, disseminated objective information about the Donbass «.
Australia sent the first M113AS4 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine The sentence «was served by the activity of our compatriot, which for a long time runs counter to the Russophobic line of official Canberra.» «We join the demands of sober-minded Australians and compatriots to stop the persecution of Boikov,» the diplomat concluded.
