Opposition politician Alexei Navalny commented on the failure of the debate with the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in the planned format. He told his version of what happened on the page in Facebook.
According to Navalny, late in the evening before between him, Zakharova and Aleksey Pivovarov, an agreement was reached on how we will hold the debate. The brewers were supposed to play the role of moderator of the meeting, wrote on Twitter during the night. The journalist said that the debate moderator Zakharov refuses, said the politician.
Navalny noted that “a debate without an anchor – a piece of strange”, especially when they are online. Despite this fact, he still is ready to meet with Zakharova in any format, as mentioned earlier.
“once again, directly and publicly acknowledge that my position has not changed. I agreed to this debate and are willing to spend even without a moderator,” said the politician.
According to him, he asked me to give Zakharova its readiness to meet without a third party.
“However, she immediately published a post that I refused and “Coward you Bulk goner”. High school of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” he said.
the Brewers in the telegram channel “editor” confirmed that in the morning he phoned Zakharova, and she said that she “refuses to debate with any moderation”.
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