MOSCOW, November 14. /TASS/. The Western countries’ systemic efforts to vilify Russia have climaxed, but Moscow has been fighting back and doing that quite successfully, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the 4th international forum Mass Media and Digital Technologies Facing the Challenge of Information and Historical Falsifications.
"We are witnessing the culmination of the Anglo-Saxons' systematic efforts to vilify our country, exerted over decades, and maybe even centuries," Zakharova said.
She noted that the falsification of history began not today or yesterday: "The West has long existed in the paradigm of alternative history. It actively exports this alternative history and imposes it on the whole world."
"The technological transition, the emergence of the Internet, the social networks and the digital platforms have provided new, unprecedentedly powerful tools for implementing this strategy of containment and subjugation of our country and, as they put it, of inflicting a 'strategic defeat’," Zakharova said. "But, just like all new technologies, this is a double-edged sword. It can and should be used, and we are using it, to fight back and promote historical truth".