The Times: In Ireland, Russian-speaking children are being bullied in schools

“They (classmates. -

) ... call them Russian fascists - this is just bullying.

This is Russophobia,” Smirnov said in an interview with the Times newspaper.

As noted, teachers ask Russian-speaking children to help translate the speech of Ukrainian refugees when they begin their studies in Ireland.

“Many (Russian-speaking children. - 

) are not even Russian - they are Lithuanians, Latvians or anyone else,” Smirnov clarified.

According to one of the mothers, her son, a Latvian, was called a Nazi several times at school.

Earlier it was reported that more than 200 cases were being investigated in Berlin in connection with crimes against Russian speakers.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that in many countries of the world there is a real persecution of Russians.

According to her, in the current situation, “because of information pumping and endless replication of either fakes or propaganda, animals simply start to come out of people.”