The Russian Foreign Ministry illustrated the tweet on the “discrimination of journalists” in Ukraine by the scope of detentions in St. Petersburg; Later he was removed

The representative office of Russia at the OSCE published a tweet that journalists in Ukraine were “subjected to all forms of discrimination”, accompanying it with the scope of the detention of the photojournalist “Mediazones” of David Frenkel in St. Petersburg.

After users of social networks drew attention to this, the tweet was deleted. The screenshot is at the disposal of "Mediazons". Soon, the tweet was restored, replacing the illustration of the frame with a broken lens.

The post was given by the words of the Deputy Director of the Department of Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maxim Buyakevich that journalists in Ukraine are discriminated "up to physical violence and the threat of life."

In tweet, without a signature, a picture of the journalist of the New in St. Petersburg Elena Lukyanova was used with the detention of the Mediazone correspondent David Frenkel at a rally against corruption on June 12, 2017. In total, more than 600 people were then in Tozaka in St. Petersburg. Frenkel was released without a protocol that day; After the detention with him, the Kommersant newspaper ceased to cooperate.