Russia Embassy slams media reports that it interfered in SA elections, calls them 'hit pieces' | CowansView
In response to a query by News24, Russian Embassy press-attache Alexander Kulyaev said Russia"does not interfere or meddle in the internal affairs of other countries" and slammed reports as 'hit pieces' designed to portray Russia in a negative light.to discredit opposition party leaders Julius Malema and Mmusi Maimane.
Prigozhin's employee Yulia Afanasyeva was the author of a series of documents seen by Daily Maverick and obtained by the Dossier Centre, an investigative unit based in London funded by former Russian oligarch turned rights-activist Mikhail Khodorkovsky. "We would like to point out that the Daily Maverick article is the latest of a series of publications designed to portray Russia in a negative light, invent and promote a false narrative attempting to involve our country in internal South African politics," he said.
Prigozhin is linked to the Wagner Group, a paramilitary organisation that has been active in several African states, including the Central African Republic. His political operatives popped up last year in Sudan and tried unsuccessfully to keep President Omar al-Bashir in power. They also traveled to Madagascar ahead of elections there last November, the Guardian reported.
Kulyaev said the Daily Maverick and Guardian articles"on first glance do differ from previous Russo-phobic speculative fiction that emerged in SA media" the month prior.
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