The Foreign Ministry stated the impossibility of objective coverage of the situation in the Russian Federation by Western media

Western mass media (mass media) will not be able to write that foreign brands that left Russia have been successfully replaced by domestic manufacturers and partners from friendly countries. Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Izvestia about this on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2025).

"Well, what should they write? That instead of the Western car industry, there are cars from other countries that instantly replaced the market, plus new products from the domestic car industry? <...> That people listen to domestic music of all categories, and also on domestic platforms, and that their crazy political course contributed to this to a large extent?", Zakharova noted, commenting on the article. The New York Times, which talks about the "price of divorce" between Russia and the West: allegedly, the SPIEF used to bring multibillion-dollar deals, but now the situation has changed.

According to Zakharova, the Western media will not be allowed to publish a different opinion, because otherwise they will have to work on mistakes and count losses.

"Right now, the President of the United States [Donald] Trump stated how much they had lost from anti-Russian sanctions, and mentioned some unrealistic figures. Add to them those unrealistic figures that they spend on supporting the terrorist Kiev regime, and then the American people will realize that they have simply been fooled all these years. Do you expect American newspapers to write about this?", — the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized.

She added that the Western media publishes those narratives that political parties or lobbying groups order for them, "for which they receive appropriate grants and funding in the form of advertising." According to her, foreign journalists have already announced their departure from Russia, but changed their minds.

"The scariest thing for Western journalists who have been accredited and working in Moscow for many years, by the way, many of them have been here for decades, is to imagine that they will no longer work here. They like it so much here, it's comfortable, delicious, sweet, and interesting," Zakharova concluded.

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Putin's meeting with the heads of world news agencies at the SPIEF. Main quotes

On June 18, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia needs to communicate its point of view and the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Western public. The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation also noted that in direct communication with Putin, foreign media for the most part do not distort the words of the Russian leader.