Комментарий Посольства в связи с дезинформацией в британских СМИ об Общеобразовательной школе при российской дипмиссии в Лондоне

❌ Вызывает возмущение опубликованная 6 сентября в издании «Таймс» (а вслед за ней — и «Мэйл») клеветническая статья о деятельности Общеобразовательной школы при Посольстве России в Великобритании.

Вынесенные в заголовки броские обвинения в «милитаризации» учебного процесса носят провокационный характер и построены на сознательной фальсификации авторами сведений из находящихся в открытом доступе документов, регламентирующих деятельность школы. Эта дезинформация, в свою очередь, густо замешана на примитивных русофобских стереотипах.

Школа при Посольстве России в Лондоне – сертифицированное гражданское образовательное учреждение, которое предоставляет услуги в полном соответствии с российским и британским законодательством.

Она действует уже более полувека и не прекращала свою работу даже в разгар «холодной войны». Её безупречная репутация основана на высоких образовательных стандартах, исключительном профессионализме педагогического состава и индивидуальном подходе к обучению.

☝️ Усматриваем цель публикаций в британских СМИ в том, чтобы разрушить этот наработанный десятилетиями авторитет.

Происходящее свидетельствует о неуклонной деградации журналистских стандартов некогда респектабельных британских СМИ. В стремлении поддержать на плаву выдыхающуюся антироссийскую кампанию, к которой местная общественность во многом утратила интерес, репортёры не гнушаются низкопробными нападками на российских школьников, их родителей и учителей.

Эта ситуация весьма контрастирует с Россией, где созданы и обеспечиваются условия для успешной деятельности немалого числа англоязычных учебных заведений.

❗️ Вынуждены рассматривать данную выходку в контексте двусторонних российско-британских отношений как нарушение положений Венской конвенции о дипломатических сношениях 1961 года, а также базовых норм журналистской этики, принципов защиты частной жизни и персональных данных.

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question of the Moscow.Kremlin.Putin programme (Vladivostok, September 8, 2024)

❓ Question: The Kiev regime renames everything. Now they are drafting a project of renaming the copeck to have nothing in common with the Russian language. Will it be possible to reverse everything happening there one day?

💬 Segey Lavrov: In general the Ukrainian people are brotherly to us – we don't just talk about it, we know it. Those, whom the West has brought to power [in Ukraine] through a coup d'état, are executing its order – to turn the country one more time into a Nazi threat for the Russian Federation.

It is already clear to everyone that it cannot be done. However, the convulsions and the agony, which we are now witnessing, including in the course of the “Kursk action” are evident to everyone. Our cause is just.

Embassy Comment on disinformation in the British media about the Russian Embassy School in London

❌ The Embassy is appalled by the slanderous article of September 6th in The Times (and subsequently in the Daily Mail) on the activities of the Russian Embassy School in London.

The flashy allegations of "militarisation" of the educational process, elevated to the headlines, are provocative in nature and based on the authors' deliberate distortion of information from publicly available documents regulating the activities of the school. This disinformation, in turn, is heavily laced with primitive Russophobic stereotypes.

The Russian Embassy School in London is a certified civil educational institution that provides services in full compliance with Russian and British legislation.

It has been operating for over half a century and did not cease to function even at the height of the Cold War. Its impeccable reputation is based on high educational standards, the exceptional professionalism of the faculty members and a tailored approach to pupils.

☝️ In their publications the relevant British media seem to be intent on destroying this reputation, which has been built up over decades.

This further highlights the steadily degrading journalistic standards of the once respectable British media. In an effort to sustain the fading anti-Russian campaign, which the local public has largely lost interest in, some reporters do not shy away from low-quality attacks on Russian schoolchildren, their parents and teachers.

This situation is in stark contrast to Russia, where conditions have been created and are maintained for the successful operation of a considerable number of English-language educational institutions.

❗️ The Embassy is obliged to consider this action in the context of bilateral Russia-UK relations as a violation of the provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, as well as the basic norms of journalistic ethics, the principles of privacy and personal data protection.

🎙 Excerpt from President Vladimir Putin's remarks the launch of the naval drills Ocean-2024

💬 We can see that the United States is doing everything to hold on to its global military and political dominance no matter the cost by utilising Ukraine and seeking to inflict a strategic defeat on our country.

The US and its satellites have been using the alleged Russian threat and the China containment policy as a pretext for building up their military presence along Russia’s western borders, as well as in the Arctic and in Asia-Pacific.

The US and its allies have made no secret of their plans to deploy intermediate and shorter-range missiles in the so-called forward deployment areas. They view islands in the Western Pacific, as well as several APR countries as priority vectors for these deployments. Meanwhile, the US armed forces have already held exercises to practice the way they will transfer and deploy their future missile systems in Asia-Pacific.

The purpose of these aggressive undertakings by the Washington consists of achieving a substantial edge in terms of its military capabilities, which would upend the existing security architecture in Asia-Pacific with a disruptive effect on the balance of power there.

❌ In fact, the United States is seeking to provoke an arms race, while disregarding the security interests of its European and Asian allies. This lays the groundwork for a dangerous crisis in Europe, as well as in the Asia-Pacific Region.

I would like to stress that Russia must be ready regardless of how this situation unfolds, while our Armed Forces must reliably defend Russia’s national sovereignty and interests, as well as to counter any possible military aggression no matter where it comes from, including in the ocean and at sea.

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