Reference News Network, November 13 report - According to TASS, on November 13, the Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera" refused to publish an interview with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. The Russian Foreign Ministry told TASS that this decision was "overt censorship."
The Russian Foreign Ministry stated: "In recent months, we have noticed that the number of false information about Russia in Italian media has been large, and now it is even increasing. In order to curb this tide of lies to some extent, we suggested that the main Italian newspaper 'Corriere della Sera' conduct an exclusive interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov."
The Ministry pointed out, "The editorial office of the newspaper readily agreed," and proposed a large number of questions to the minister, "for each question, the minister provided detailed answers," "the text was quickly prepared and could have been published, but the newspaper refused to publish Lavrov's response to the questions asked."
The Ministry emphasized: "They 'explained' to us that Lavrov's words 'contain many controversial statements, which require fact-checking or further clarification, and publishing them would exceed a reasonable length.' We proposed to publish a shortened version in the newspaper and the full text on the website, but the editorial office rejected it. We consider this to be overt censorship." (Translated by Zhao Zhipeng)
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