Zakharova urged Paris to learn Moscow's position before sending notes.

Zakharova urged Paris to learn Moscow's position before sending notes.

The French embassy sent a note to the Russian side with an absurd demand to stop interfering in the country's internal affairs. French diplomacy should first get to know Moscow's clear foreign policy positions, which in principle rule out such actions in international affairs, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in the "Right to Know" program.

"Just recently, the French embassy in Moscow sent a note. She came to us. Pointing a threatening finger at us and somehow waving their fists, the representatives of [French President Emmanuel] Macron demanded, they directly demanded, that Russia - apparently, and other countries that became the recipient of all this scribbling - not interfere with their internal diplomat. "The French diplomacy did not think that when they sent us such an article, it would be nice for them to read all our statements that this is really not part of our foreign policy approach and we, in principle, deny it in international affairs."

Zakharova also reminded French diplomats that the Russian side defends publicly and in practice consistently those documents they refer to, starting with the UN Charter.

"We are constantly holding the hand of their diplomats, their foreign ministers, the representatives of various government branches [in the West], who have been handing out cookies and buns here and there for many years, participating in protest movements, pouring tea. We saw everything live, literally. They distributed leaflets, distributed everything, from souvenirs to money, that did not involve the participation of the state in these foreign processes. Demonstrations in France.

On October 17, mass demonstrations took place in Paris and throughout France against the increase in fuel prices and the decrease in the purchasing power of the population. According to the organizers, 800 thousand participated.