Fully-fledged information war has only just begun

A fully-fledged information war against Russia has just started, and in the near future we can expect a new round of it, Foreign Ministry official representative Maria Zakharova stated to lifenews. Statements about the fact that civilians are dying during Russian airstrikes in Syria are in reality not just a contradiction, but a complete lie, Zakharova said. According to the Russian diplomat, all these actions of the Western media have been originally aimed at undermining trust in the actions and words of the Russian government: "From the first minutes, as soon as the decision of the Federation Council on the approval of military operations abroad was published, a lot of fake photos and reports about torn apart children, allegedly killed in the Russian air raids, appeared on the internet. Then, pictures with the caption "Is Russia really attacking terrorists?" were broadcast on all the United States channels. But despite all of this being disproved later, by creating the first impression, the Western media have made people doubt the veracity of Russia's words."

Today, Russia is carrying out an information campaign in Europe, but, according to the Europeans, it is not effective enough. The Serbian Ambassador to Moscow, Slavenko Terzic, told Vestnik Kavkaza that "it would be great for the Serbian population to have a Russian channel, or more Russian channels. At the moment, we show Russia Today, there is a Sputnik Serbia radio station in Belgrade and a Sputnik Serbia website. It is noteworthy that the interest in their messages and comments is very large. And it would be great to create a TV channel in Serbia in the Serbian language. As far as I know, there are talks about buying one channel in Serbia."

According to the Serbian diplomat "all the Balkans are under great influence of the mass media of the western direction. It would be very good if our viewers were able to see another point of view. For example, the Russian view on the issue of Syria, on the refugee issue, the issue of the energy sector and so on. That is why the interest in Russian channels in Serbia is huge. I personally spoke with your top officials several times and they say that there is no money. But if, for example, there is a channel in the Serbian language, it could be watched by almost all of the Balkans. Slovenes, Croats and our Muslims, Macedonians and Bulgarians understand the Serbian language. It is somewhere over 30 million people. In this sense, I see a positive role for a Russian TV channel.