The information war against Russia began after Moscow started pursuing an independent policy, said Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Sputnik Kazakhstan.
According to the Russian foreign minister, the information war against Russia began before the special military operation, after Moscow started pursuing an independent policy, abandoned neocolonial forms of cooperation with the West and returned to its traditions and roots.
"This restriction gradually reached the current situation, where record sanctions have been announced against us compared to all other countries in the world, this is more than 30,000 restrictions," Lavrov said.
The Russian foreign minister stated that the West's information policy is based on creating fake news, promoting it to a "universal catastrophe" and blocking access to alternative information.