Kiev acts under the total control of Washington and London, the Russian foreign minister has said
FILE PHOTO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. © Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev The US and UK, along with their NATO allies, directly control the authorities in Ukraine, acting like colonizers, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed. Lavrov issued the statement during his speech at the roundtable meeting with heads of accredited diplomatic missions in Moscow on Friday. ”The Kiev regime is directly controlled by the Anglo-Saxons (the US and UK) and works in line with colonial practices,” the foreign minister said. Lavrov emphasized that Western allies have been “employing a method of information wars and media misrepresentation to complete their dirty political tasks.” The top diplomat pointed to the so-called slave bible, an abridged version of Scripture specifically made for teaching a skewed version of Christianity to subjected people in the British West Indies as an example of what he referred to as colonial practices. Lavrov said that the book, which was published in the early 19th century, lacked 90% of the Old Testament and 50% of the New Testament. ”In the name of enslaving the souls of millions of bondsmen, the predecessors of modern Western liberals censored the holy scriptures, having excluded the sections that could instill the thought about the equality of all before God, which was dangerous for slave owners,” he said. Not much had changed since the 19th century, the foreign minister stressed, saying that “today the Kiev regime uses much of the modern ultra-liberal ideology imposed by the West, such as cancel culture.”
Lavrov highlighted that the Ukrainian propagandists systemically rewrite history and falsify the facts of the country’s past, blocking out entire chapters from history books. The top diplomat emphasized that Kiev’s Western allies control large media corporations that promote the idea of mass support for the neoliberal aspirations of Washington and London, adding that alternative sources of information are being silenced. RT was banned in Ukraine in 2014 after Crimea reunited with Russia following a peninsula-wide referendum. 
Western governments have taken a series of drastic steps against Russian media outlets since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. In March of that year, most such news sources were banned in the EU, including RT and Sputnik. Earlier this month, the German authorities ordered the closure of the Russian public broadcaster Channel 1’s bureau in Berlin and told its staff to leave the country by early December. The German Foreign Ministry quickly rejected these claims as “false,” insisting that “Russian journalists can, as before, broadcast freely and unhindered in Germany.”
At the same time, the country blocked 14 Russian television channels from its cable networks. RT’s Russian-language Telegram channel was blocked in the country last month.
