MOSCOW, May 9. peoples, but there are unfriendly governments, said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the Victory Parade, said that for Russia there are no unfriendly and hostile peoples «neither in the West nor in the East.»
«We do not have unfriendly peoples. This is a big difference, this is the meaning of the President's signal, as we understood it. This is the main thing that distinguishes our line in the current geopolitical situation of acute confrontation from the line of our Western opponents,» he said he reporters.
“They are completely consumed by Russophobia, and attempts to present any holder of a passport of a Russian citizen as an enemy are the alpha and omega of the information campaign that has been going on in the West for many years and is especially active, outrageous in terms of the methods that are used after the start of the special military operation,» the diplomat stressed.
As Ryabkov noted, the Russian president stressed «that there are no unfriendly peoples for us.»
«But, of course, there are unfriendly governments,» he pointed out.