Sergey Lavrov announced the escalation of the information war against Russia in the Western media in a conversation with the chief editors of the African media, he noted that lies about our country are splashed on the television screens and on social networks. According to the head of the Foreign Ministry, the worsening of Russia as a threat in the doctrinal documents of NATO and the European Union condemns the West to isolation. It is about joining promising multilateral initiatives that are now setting the agenda for the future, Lavrov noted. "What's the reason? I don't think the reason is ignorance of the facts on the part of the elites. But these elites want to limit their constituents' access to information in any way possible. And the methods of such work are very different: they close the media, or, if they don't close them, then they limit their access," the Russian foreign minister added.