ARCHIVEAL PHOTO: Advisor to Russian president Kirył Dmitriev at the global economical Forum in St. Petersburg. © Getty Images / Maxim Konstantinov
Russian president Vladimir Putin's economical advisor, Kiryl Dmitriev, reported that he sued the "Washington Post", accusing the paper of misquoting him for the second time in 2 weeks.
Dmitriev previously condemned the portal for “distorting the truth” After he treated a republished message from another Telegram channel as a quote from a Russian authoritative in an article published on October 18.
The newspaper's actions were ‘like blaming users for retweets’, Dmitryev argued.
"Washington Post" later published the corrigendum, acknowledging that the earlier version of the article contained a comment ‘abnormally assigned’.
On Tuesday Dmitriev wrote on X that “The forgery Washington Post had already 2 weeks ago improved the quotes falsely attributed to me by the head of Moscow office Robyn Dixon.
Yet Mrs Dixon is again careless or biased – twisting me in yesterday's article."
He did not give a link to the article or specify which of his comments was distorted, but called on the paper to re-correct, apologize and “finally draw conclusions."
Dmitriev commented on his entry a fewer hours later, claiming that the article in question had not been amended.
"Tomorrow, we will apply to court.
We gave them adequate time to correct – there is inactive no correction" – he wrote.
In her Monday article, Dixon described Dmitriev's visit to America last week, which he held after the cancellation of the Budapest summit on the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine, scheduled between Putin and US president Donald Trump.
Dixon reported that in the interviews given during Dmitryev's trip, he stressed that the latest sanctions against Russia would not harm her economy, but would only origin a sharp emergence in fuel prices in the US.
She besides informed that she had rejected accusations of Russian military attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine and that "he had stated that the diplomatic solution to the war was comparatively close".
Speaking about his visit on Sunday, Dmitriev said his delegation ‘clear’ communicated to the American website, "that only constructive, respectful dialog will bear fruit.
Any effort to exert force on Russia is simply pointless”.
The advisor besides reiterated Moscow's position that the conflict in Ukraine can only be resolved by "to destruct its first causes".
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/627087-dmitriev-washington-post-lawsuit/
