Russian Foreign Ministry sends note to Britain after incident with journalist at Vnukovo airport

The Russian Foreign Ministry expects the British Embassy to assist in the investigation of the criminal case related to a freelance correspondent of an online publication, who was injured while trying to interview British diplomats arriving in Russia. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said this on February 8 in a response to a question published on the agency's website.

"It has been repeatedly noted that the actions of diplomats of some Western countries towards representatives of the Russian media not only go far beyond the limits of diplomatic decency, but also in principle do not correspond to the high status of a diplomat of a foreign state," she pointed out.

In addition, it is noted that the Russian Foreign Ministry sent an official note to the British diplomatic mission in Moscow, in which the Russian side calls on the British Embassy to provide full assistance to the Russian law enforcement agencies in the investigation of the criminal case, as well as not to evade participation in the investigation.

Earlier, on February 7, a criminal case was opened in Moscow after an appeal by a journalist who was injured while trying to interview British diplomats arriving in Russia. The complainant specified that she was filming at Vnukovo airport and tried to interview British diplomats arriving in Moscow, after which an unknown person pushed her.

The journalist's appeal to the police about the incident became known in October last year. The girl appealed to the Moscow authorities to take action against the man, presumably an employee of the British Embassy in the Russian Federation, who had caused her physical and moral harm.