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Conspiracy theories from the Russian media: what did they come up with about coronavirus

The Russian Foreign Ministry magazine linked the emergence of the coronavirus to the British authorities, but then deleted the text. The “American” version of the emergence of the virus was put forward in the Zvezda magazine of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Edition Air force studied theories of the origin of the virus put forward by Russian departmental media. The result was a rather interesting selection.

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“What kind of bastard unleashed this nasty thing on the people of Earth?”

The magazine “International Affairs”, established by the Russian Foreign Ministry, published an article on April 6 under the heading “Whose ears are sticking out because of the coronavirus? Version". The publication’s columnist Sergei Filatov suggested the “British” origin of the coronavirus.

“Sooner or later, when all this chaos is overcome - and it will be overcome - the question will be put on the agenda of the UN, the Hague, or the new Nuremberg: “What kind of bastard unleashed this muck on the people of the Earth?” - the article said.

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The author came to the conclusion that neither the Chinese nor the US authorities benefited from the negative effect of the epidemic. “Squally winds at the pinnacle of world power rocked the whole world. And, in conditions of general confusion, London strategists may be able to build such a political line that without them neither the West nor the East will pass into the Future,” the author wrote.

The Russian service of the BBC, the day after the publication, April 7, turned to the editor-in-chief of Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn, Armen Oganesyan, asking whether the hypothesis expressed by Filatov could be considered the official position of the magazine and the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Immediately after the request, the article was removed from the site. A copy of the text is preserved in Yandex Zen.

“I haven’t seen this material. I can’t say anything,” said Oganesyan. The magazine's editor-in-chief declined to comment further, citing being very busy, and hung up.

The author of the text told the BBC that the decision to remove the article was made by the management of the publication on April 7. “The management called me today and said: we will postpone the material. This is the story,” Filatov said.

He is convinced of the correctness of his version. “This is my deep conviction. But the editors decided that it was too deep for me and not really for the editors,” he complained. “You study the history of Great Britain, you work for the BBC after all, and you will understand what pain the British leadership has - to rule the world for 400 years, and now find itself on the sidelines.”

Founder of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Editorial Board of the Magazine “International Life” - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. The publication is included in the list of peer-reviewed scientific publications of the Higher Attestation Commission. Oganesyan, according to the website of the Russian International Affairs Council, is listed as a freelance adviser to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

“This magazine is connected [with the Russian Foreign Ministry], but we have a certain freedom of hand to publish our materials,” Filatov said. — The editorial policy is such that we are a free enough publication to publish such versions as well. This is not the official position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this is my version, which I presented as a journalist.”

In response to a question from the BBC whether the article reflects the position of the Russian foreign ministry, the ministry said: “The position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is stated by authorized representatives of the ministry.”

“Do you think the Pentagon’s money is spent on peaceful research?”

The version that the coronavirus outbreak in China was provoked by the US military gained publicity after Chinese diplomat Zhao Lijian wrote about it on Twitter on March 12. His statement was quoted by many Russian media.

The USA accused China of concealing real data on the diseased and the extent of the epidemic. During the pandemic, both countries exchanged mutual accusations more than once.

Some Russian experts supported the Chinese version.

“This is all financed from the Pentagon budget. Therefore, there is no need to say that peaceful humanitarian research is carried out there. Do you think the Pentagon’s money is spent on peaceful research?” - former adviser to the UN Secretary General Igor Nikulin said in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets at the end of January.

Another Russian diplomat, professor at the Department of Public Administration and National Security at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Ivan Surma, also said in March that the coronavirus could have emerged from American laboratories.

“You can look at the map of military laboratories, which have actually surrounded China and Russia along the perimeter. Even under Bill Clinton, a project was launched to develop military biotechnologies and, in particular, those related to gene analysis and so on,” said Surma.

“The worse it is for Beijing, the better it is for Washington”

The authors of the Ministry of Defense weekly Zvezda called the coronavirus “a US biological war against China and Russia” back in January.

It is beneficial for Washington if the new SARS unsettles its main competitors, because “the worse it is for Beijing, the better it is for Washington,” they wrote. And it was stipulated that American companies such as Apple and Starbucks are also suffering losses from the epidemic.

In March, Zvezda published another article developing the American version of the origin of the virus. “The collapse of stock markets, the oil crisis against the backdrop of a WHO-declared pandemic are increasingly reminiscent of a planned large-scale operation according to the canons of a hybrid war,” it said.

There is no evidence of the use of “viral weapons,” but “unusual cases of pandemic outbreaks lead to a lot of suspicion,” the author believes. He recalled the Ebola epidemic in Africa: “Not far from the raging pandemic was the biological laboratory of the American company Metabiota, which was accused of dubious experiments on healthy patients in Sierra Leone.”

The editor-in-chief of the weekly Zvezda, Yuri Stroev, told the BBC that the views expressed in these two articles reflect his position as editor-in-chief of the publication, and “[the position of the] Ministry of Defense does not reflect.”

Senator and head of the commission for the protection of state sovereignty Andrei Klimov wrote in the Parliamentary Gazette (the official organ of the Russian parliament) that he did not want to speculate on the origin of Covid-19, but also raised suspicions against the Americans.

“The United States itself has long admitted that it has been developing similar viruses since 1961. From the data they declassified in 1989, we know that Washington was seriously considering the issues of artificially reducing the population in third world countries in the interests of the United States,” the senator pointed out.

"This is a natural virus"

Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on April 6 that there was no reason to doubt the natural origin of Covid-19.

“Today, the majority still say that this is a natural virus that has adapted to the conditions of interaction with humans. I see no reason to doubt this. After all, this is a natural virus, there is no need for insinuations,” said Murashko.

We can’t say that such theories in the official media can be considered a state position on the issue of coronavirus, said Ilya Yablokov, a specialist in conspiracy theology and a teacher at the British University of Leeds.

“If this were the state line, it would already be in all the media. And so it appears marginally, first in one media outlet, then in some talk show - there is no unity here,” he told the BBC.

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Since April 1, Russia has criminalized the dissemination of false information about coronavirus. For fakes will be punished with a fine of up to 700 thousand rubles.

At the beginning of April, several criminal cases were opened regarding the dissemination of fake information about the virus. The case was brought against the author of a satirical video under the nickname AlexanderThorn. On Twitter, he linked the September explosion at Vector with smoke from forest fires, which allegedly were supposed to spread the virus produced in the laboratory throughout Russia and China. The video talked about a “conspiracy of the global shadow government” that is “hiding the truth” about microchipping the population. The author himself called it humorous.

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