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Posted on February 15, 2017, at 4:41 p. Russian information campaign, calling out the BBC, The Independent, The Times, and the Sunday Times. 10, compiled by a former MI6 agent investigating claims of ties between Donald Trump and Russia. Zakharova first denounced the publication in a blog post on the website of radio station Ekho Moskvy on Jan. The spokeswoman called out, in particular, the dossier’s mention of a former employee at the Russian embassy in Washington, DC.
She noted that the dossier mentioned employees of the Russian foreign ministry — namely, a former employee of the Russian embassy in Washington, DC. I can say again that, never mind the fact that we addressed ourselves to this outlet, there were no denials, no additional material published. You’re producing them yourself and then yourselves think of some kind of nonsense relating to Russian media. You prepared the publication of the report. Foreign ministry employees were mentioned there. You’re required to come to us for comment BEFORE. You didn’t respond to that either.
I correspondent with you about this in the days after. When pressed, she said she had tagged this reporter in a post on Facebook. Our serif font, Pensum, is brought to you by Typemates. Zakharova was born to a family of diplomats and she spent her childhood in Beijing, where her mother and father worked. In 1998, she graduated from the Faculty of International Journalism at MGIMO in the field of orientalism and journalism. From 2003 to 2005 and from 2008 to 2011, she worked at the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. From 2011 to 10 August 2015, Zakharova was the Deputy Head of the Department of Information and Press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Her duties included organizing and conducting briefings of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman, the organization of work of official Ministry accounts in social networks and information support of foreign visits of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Zakharova is known for her participation in political talk shows on Russian television and for contributing commentary on sensitive political issues in social networks. She is one of the most quoted Russian diplomats. On 10 August 2015, by order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zakharova was appointed director of the Information and Press Department. Zakharova became the first woman in the history of the department to hold this post.
In 2016 she was chosen as one of BBC’s 100 Women. On 13 November 2016, Zakharova was criticised for joking on Russian state television that the U. Russian Jewish conspiracy, stating “If you want to know what will happen in America, who do you have to talk to? You have to talk to our people in Brighton Beach, naturally”. On 2 March 2017, Zakharova refused to discuss allegations against the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak with a CNN reporter.
She advised the broadcaster to stop spreading lies and fake news and said that Kislyak is a well known world-class diplomat. On 28 April 2017, Zakharova appeared on Yahoo! News discussing the current international relations with Katie Couric. When Couric brought up the issue of torture against LGBT individuals in Chechnya, Zakharova shut the question down, stating it was not her issue to discuss. On 7 November 2005, Zakharova married Andrei Makarov at the Russian Consulate in New York City.
