MOSCOW, August 1. /TASS/. The Russian Foreign Ministry has pointed to the distortion of truth about Russia in the materials of correspondent of the Italian La Repubblica Rosalba Castelletti, it said on Telegram.
"Because of people like her, Italians get an extremely distorted view of our country, and then when they arrive, expecting to see a tattered economy, they see beautiful, prosperous cities, and they are completely shocked," the ministry said. "It is Castelletti and pseudo-journalists like her who are producers of real fake news, damaging both honest journalism and Italy itself."
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Castelletti "threw a real tantrum the other day" in the Italian media. The journalist reacted to the publication of accurate quotes from Italian politicians in the recently launched section on the Russian Foreign Ministry's web portal, Examples of Statements by Officials and Representatives of Western Elites about Russia that Use ‘hate speech’, and to the stickers in Telegram with the image of Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
The ministry said that Castelletti "provoked such a scandal" that the Italian Foreign Ministry even summoned the Russian ambassador.
