Russian envoy points to political crackdown in U.S.

A political crackdown has begun in the United States despite Joe Biden’s statements on freedom of expression, Russian Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Alexander Lukashevich said, addressing an online meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council. “According to Fox News, FBI agents arrested journalist Douglas Mackay in Florida for spreading memes mocking the U.S. Democratic Party. Although incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden gave assurances that freedom of expression was the main principle of American democracy, a political crackdown and the strangling of freedom of expression began in the country,” the Russian envoy pointed out….