Zakharova cites Greece over Cyprus and North Macedonia disputes

Spokesperson of Russia's Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova attends the yearly property league held by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov successful Moscow, Russia, January 14, 2025. [Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters]

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has launched a caller onslaught connected Western countries, adopting rhetoric echoing Turkish and North Macedonian positions successful narration to Greece.

In a station connected Telegram connected Tuesday, Zakharova responded to Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, who had accused Moscow of violating “every 1 of the ten principles of the Helsinki Agreement.”

Calling the statement a “blatant lie,” Zakharova claimed that, connected the contrary, subordinate states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation successful Europe (OSCE) had repeatedly breached those principles themselves.

Citing respective examples, she referred to “the involution of the achromatic colonels’ junta successful Greece successful the intercommunal struggle successful Cyprus [and] the attempted annexation of the land by Greece,” arsenic well arsenic “Greece’s blocking of planetary initiatives aimed astatine practice with the Republic of Macedonia (due to the sanction dispute).”

She besides pointed to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia successful 1999, the designation of Kosovo’s independency successful 2008, and Western support for what she described arsenic the “staged coup of 2014” successful Ukraine.

Zakharova concluded her station with idiosyncratic attacks, describing Valtonen arsenic “a technologist and fiscal executive, but not a diplomat,” and mocking European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, saying “everyone knows the existent weight of the EU, which is controlled by a gynecologist.”