Political scientist: the West is waging a propaganda campaign against Russia on the Syrian Arab Republic and Ukraine

Western and Arab media started an information war against Russia's actions in the Syrian Arab Republic to the same canons, the same methods which were used to impose against Russia in connection With events in Ukraine, said Director of the Russian Institute for strategic studies Leonid Reshetnikov.

"a very important topic (the study of the information war against Russia in Ukraine - ed.) and it becomes even more important in connection With the events currently in the Syrian Arab Republic, in connection With the information war that we're trying to deploy, the actual deploy Arab and Western media against Russia," - he said in the process of multimedia round table: "the Crisis in Ukraine and events in Crimea 2014: the practice of information war ", organized by the Wednesday MIA " Russia today ".

According to the expert, the information war against the Russian Federation in the Syrian Arab Republic " goes by the same canons, the same methods that we observed in connection With the events in Ukraine and Crimea ". The Director of RISS is not called, what methods we have in mind.

review Reshetnikova, " All organized, clearly, the impression that the national press, there is a worldwide global press that, there is the impression that is controlled from a single center "." The main conclusion that we did Everything - goes world information war against Russia. Ukraine subsided a bit, now Syrian Arab Republic. All on a single center, " he said.

first of authorized official of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that certain foreign media outlets, publishing the data as if the civilian casualties as a result of airstrikes of the Russian HQs in Syrian Arab Republic, are engaged in the manipulation of information.

From September 30 to Russia at the request of Bashar al-Assad began to apply air strikes against the "Islamic country" in the Syrian Arab Republic. According to the Ministry of defense, Russian aviation has already greatly disrupted the system of management and logistics of terrorists and have caused harm to the infrastructure for the training of suicide bombers.

Targets are chosen on the basis of reconnaissance data from Russia and Syria, including aerial reconnaissance. At the written request of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation, the equipment of aircraft of Russia gives the chance to strike ISIS throughout Syria With " absolute precision ".

The Syrian Ambassador to Russia Riyad Haddad confirmed first that strikes are exactly on the terrorist armed groups, not the opposition or civilians. According to the Ambassador, the Syrian army has the exact coordinates of the militants.


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