Russian Ambassador to the USA thanked the Americans for their solidarity after the death of Charles – RIA Novosti

04:3722.12.2016

(updated: 04:38 22.12.2016)

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WASHINGTON, 22 Dec — RIA Novosti, Dmitry Zlatarev. the Russian Embassy in the United States on Wednesday thanked Americans for their expressions of solidarity in dealing with the death of the Russian Ambassador in Turkey Andrey Karlov.

“We would like to thank the Americans, who expressed the Embassy on 20 December, the outrage over the article, published in the New York Daily News, and solidarity in the rejection of any justification of terrorism. We appreciate that, despite biased to Russia of the majority of materials in American media, there are people who can distinguish free speech from fabrications justifying the violence against Russian diplomats and thereby inciting hatred”, said the head of the press service of the Embassy of Nicholas Lihonina on the official website of the diplomatic mission in Facebook.

according to the report, “the author of the article, Hersh Kuntzman compared the assassination of the German Ambassador in Paris in 30 years with the murder of the Russian Ambassador in Ankara Charles 19 Dec, responsibility for which had already assumed replaced the name “Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Syria”)”.

According to Lakhonin, “any justification of terrorism is unacceptable”. “Comparing our country with Nazi Germany immoral and offends the memory of all who gave their lives for the salvation of the world from the Nazi plague. Russia and other peoples of the USSR lost 27 million people. Only a perverse view of history and today’s realities can generate similar parallel.

“I would Like to hope that the editors do not share the view of Kunzman. From our point of view, in this case it’d be the wave appropriate,” — said the press Secretary of the Embassy.

Earlier, Kurtzman refused to apologize for the article about the murder of the Ambassador of Russia to Turkey Andrei Karlov, which he likened to the Ambassador of the Third Reich.

Official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the Ministry will send a letter that demands an apology from an American newspaper New York Daily News for an article that killed the Russian Ambassador in Turkey Andrey Karlov compares with the Ambassador of the Third Reich. As noted by the diplomat, an American journalist Hersh Kuntzman wrote in the article that don’t “shed tears” on the Russian Ambassador. According to her, Kuntzman calls the murder of Charles “historical justice”, and the article as a whole justifies the actions of a terrorist.