The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday congratulated the participants of the first congress of the International Russophile Movement, which is being held in Moscow, the EFE agency reports, citing Agerpres.

“We highly appreciate your steadfast determination to fight the Russophobic campaign, your desire to develop mutually beneficial humanitarian dialogue and cooperation,” Putin’s telegram published by the Kremlin reads.

The Russian president expressed his belief that this congress “will be held in a constructive manner and will provide promising joint projects and initiatives aimed at strengthening friendship, trust and mutual understanding.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking at the opening ceremony of the first congress of the International Russophile Movement, said that Nazism is spreading more and more in European countries.

“With the creation of blocs such as AUKUS (an alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to provide nuclear submarines called – no) and the expansion of NATO structures into Asia, the Anglo-Saxon world declares that it is seriously preparing for a long-term confrontation,” Lavrov said .

The head of Russian diplomacy stated that “we see not only neo-Nazism, we see Nazism that covers more and more countries. We see how history is being destroyed before our eyes, shrines are being destroyed.”

Sergey Lavrov again condemns Western civilization

“We are adults,” Lavrov insisted, “we don’t try to look over others’ shoulders, as our Western colleagues do, who publicly ask everyone, including countries that represent great, extremely ancient civilizations, to follow their orders.”

According to the Russian minister, this is the difference from “Western civilization, obsessed with its greatness and exclusivity, which is fighting almost to the death by all means to preserve its lost dominance in the international arena.”

In particular, the chairman of the National Movement of Russophiles of Bulgaria, Mykola Malinov, and the special representative of Russia for humanitarian relations with the United States and Japan, American actor Steven Seagal, who was awarded the Order of Friendship by Putin at the beginning of March for his “great contribution to international cultural and humanitarian cooperation”.

Russia has repeatedly condemned the “anti-Russian campaign” in the West after the start of its invasion of neighboring Ukraine, EFE reminds.

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