Moscow expects London to react to the leaked Foreign Office documents on how the UK government manages various publications.
“We read it and wait for London’s reaction. Suddenly it’s all not true. But we have to speak out – millions of pounds were thrown out on secret information campaigns”, – Maria Zakharova, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, wrote on Facebook.
According to the diplomat, it follows from the documents of the British diplomatic service that were in the public domain that the Cabinet of the United Kingdom “through intermediaries financially supports and manually controls the work of various” media, and also formed a “network of agents of influence in the Russian-speaking segment of social networks”.
The focus of the work of the British was “Meduza” and “Mediazona”, and there are hundreds of documents revealing the London propaganda machine, Zakharova added.