US editors try to undermine stable US-Russian partnership

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/20-07-2007/95081-russia_usa-0

Relations between Russia and the United States continues to spread onto new areas. Disputes embrace the fields of missile defense, European security, Kosovo’s independence and so on. Spokespeople for the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Russia released a statement yesterday about the rejected publication of the ministry’s head Sergei Lavrov in US magazine Foreign Affairs. The ministry particularly accused the respectable publication of biased censorship.

“The editors of the magazine cut the article by almost 40 percent, which made it lose the original point. Some of the edited points virtually suggested Mr. Lavrov should agree upon well-known approaches of the incumbent US administration, which we strongly do not accept. As a result of the wearisome communication with the editing team of the magazine we eventually decided to withdraw Sergei Lavrov’s article from Foreign Affairs. This experience recalls the worst traits of the past Soviet censorship, which, as it seems, someone would like to repeat in America. It is a great pity for us to know that some of the US media display restrictive tendencies which narrow USA’s intellectual resource. We are certain that the USA deserves something better,” a statement from the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Russia ran.