FLY. Italy received “significant assistance” from Russia during the Covid-19 pandemic, also at “a request sent by the Defense Minister, Lorenzo Guerini, who is now one of the main” hawks “and inspirers of the anti-Russian campaign in the Italian government “. To threaten our country, the director of the European department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexei Paramonov, uses a subject already the subject of a Russian propaganda action and an intelligence operation that The print revealed in full pandemic, with consequent threats to the newspaper: aid against the virus. And launching the not too veiled accusation of treason, he now raises the tone: “There will be consequences if the sanctions against Russia are tightened”. In an exclusive interview with the Russian agency Ria Novostiaddressing Italy and Europe, he says: “We would not want the logic of the statements of the French Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire, who declared” total financial and economic war “on Russia, to find followers in Italy and cause a series of corresponding irreversible consequences “.
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“It is depressing – insists Paramonov – that now, against the backdrop of anti-Russian hysteria, the Italian authorities have overnight forgotten everything, the existing bilateral treaties and agreements, the special nature of our ties,” and have joined the frenetic russophobic campaign ». We hope – he continues – that Rome, as well as the other European capitals, will come to their senses and remember the deep interests of their peoples “and that” the fight against all Russians, bordering on absolute racism, will give way to sober and balanced aimed at finding ways to ensure the security and prosperity of the entire European continent, and not just a part of it ”.
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Regarding the supply of gas to Italy, the director stressed that “Russian energy companies have always fully fulfilled their obligations and continue to do so now”. Given Rome’s significant dependence on Russian hydrocarbons, which reaches 40-45%, “the abandonment of reliable energy transport mechanisms that have developed over many decades would have extremely negative consequences for the Italian economy and for all Italians, ”observed Paramanov.