Moscow: UNESCO fails to protect Russian culture

Moscow (ST): Russia’s delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Alexander Kuznetsov stressed that the Organization does not protect Russian culture in light of what he described as the witch-hunt practiced by the West, and has also ignored the persecution of Russian speakers in Ukraine.

The Russian TASS news agency quoted Kuznetsov as saying at the seventh extraordinary session of the UNESCO Executive Board Committee that UNESCO’s voice in defense of Russian culture has not been heard until today, in light of the announcement of a real witch hunt in Europe, noting that the victims of this operation are personalities directly linked to the organization, such as the UNESCO peace artist Valery Gergiev.

Kuznetsov stressed that the threat to Ukraine’s civilians and infrastructure, including UNESCO, does not come from the Russian army, which is targeting military points, but from the Kiev regime and the nationalist battalions who unleashed terror against their citizens, explaining that the neo-Nazis deploy tanks, artillery and rocket launchers near kindergartens and schools and prepare firing positions on the roofs of houses, taking shelter with women and children as human shields, not to mention the Kiev authorities releasing criminals from prisons to send them to fight.

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