“The accusations and conclusions based on emotional and incorrect skirmishes in social networks more than 10 years ago are understandable, but exhausted.
This virtual garbage has long decayed,” he said in an interview with Sputnik Kazakhstan.
It is noted that the condition of the interview was the minister's written answers to the agency's questions.
The minister did not answer some of the questions sent by the editors - for example, to the question of whether he was banned from entering Russia and in connection with this.
Earlier, the head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Yevgeny Primakov, said that the agency would not work with Askar Umarov.
According to him, he "carefully read the numerous quotes of the new Minister of Information," in which he speaks unflatteringly about the Russians.