State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said he is convinced that the West has started a new propaganda campaign against Russia.
"Everything is accumulating: more lies about an alleged Russian trace in the crash of the Malaysian Boeing, about the alleged dispatch of our troops to Ukraine’s southeast, our ‘ardent’ desire to confront Europe, etc.," Naryshkin wrote in an article in the Izvestia daily.
"The fact that the current campaign to defame Russia, timed for the June summit of the EU, where the issue of sanctions could be raised again, is being carried out in USA again and is coordinated from there, is absolutely clear," Naryshkin noted.
According to Naryshkin, "President Barack Obama is eager to have a wide-ranging trade agreement with the EU signed before his term is over in order to shut out Russia and brand our entire nation as ‘uncivilized'."
"That is why the Department of State, on the one hand, is trying to put rebellious European politicians into its ideological 'stall'. And on the other hand, it wants to continue military and economic expansion. That's why they need a new 'Russian threat', which will help to ward off the accusations of obstructing the 'Normandy process' in Ukraine at the same time," the speaker of the State Duma said.
