The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov called Twitter information monster due to blocking in the social network of the account of the President Nigeria Muhammad Bukhari. She reported this in her Telegram-Channel.
She reminded that Nigeria blocked Twitter after blocking the country’s leader.
“Information monster, even very attractive, can not dictate to the state of not his registration, how to live, how to interpret historical events, what movies to watch and what music to listen. Otherwise, instead of freedom of speech, the dictatorship of privatized freedom of speech appears,” said Zakharov .
According to her, the social network considered that the President of Nigeria knows the history of Nigeria “not so” as social network. “It was considered and calculated. There is now such a social network in Nigeria, until the authorities of Nigeria do not consider otherwise,” the representative of the Foreign Ministry entered.
Earlier, Zakharov spoke on the completion of the construction of the first Northern Stream-2 gas pipeline. The diplomat called the news about the end of the important stage of building a gas pipeline by the news, “blowing the Internet”. She told about trying to make a political process from the Russian project and stressed that the right, legality and economic interests took over.
Before this Zakharov at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (PMEF), said that the application of Western countries to the world leadership failed due to the fact that during the coronavirus pandemic they decided to prevent other countries to competition.