It was an event marked by incidents. On June 7, the Neus Català Foundation organized a debate in ‘La Model, Memorial Space’, under the title ‘Ukraine, Russia and Europe: towards a perpetual war?’, In which they participated Rafael Pochcorrespondent of the avant -garde in Moscow between the 80s and the beginnings of the presidency of Vladimir Putin, Inna Afinogenovaex -sub -director of the RT website in Spanish, governmental propaganda channel of the Kremlin today vetoed in the EU, and Héctor SànchezSecretary General of Communishes of Catalonia. To the protests that visible before, during and after act activists Ukrainians and members of the Russian opposition in Spain due to the content of the debate, which fundamentally responsible for the West of the Russian Ukraine invasion, a new controversy has been added: the presence of foreign diplomats in an event that was presented to the audience as “pacifist“.
David Acostaadvisor to Communs in the Gràcia neighborhood and also a member of the European Solidarity Network with Ukraine (Resu), sent a letter to El Periódic Communists of Catalonia identified as “Russian Embassy staff“.” There was Five agents y Communist militants Easily identifiable for their shirts, filtering who could pass and who not. The official excuse was that the capacity was complete, but they only let known people; To my question of why one and others, they answered that some of these people were part of the staff of the Russian embassy“, He wrote.” My intention was to participate in the debate, because I defend solidarity with the peoples attacked by imperialist powers, regardless of who they are, in respect for international law, from Palestine to Ukraine, “he says.
This newspaper contacted The activist from Catalunya Communishes with which Acosta talked, who declined to comment on and He sent the subject at the press service of the Neus Català Foundation. Angel Ferrerospokesman for the Foundation, has denied such an extreme, with the following words: “It does not know how Neus Català Foundation that there would be among the personal audience of the Russian consulate. “He has admitted, however, that he attended the personal event of consulates and legations” of the On global“That they had previously communicated their assistance. To the question of whether they could specify the countries that did have that day with diplomatic representatives in the talk, Ferrero has refused to answer, claiming that the agency that represents” considers that (the question) exceeds The allegations made by Mr. Acosta. “
Responsibility of the West
The talk lasted during an hour and a half. The speakers, some of whom had been accused in the past of defending Russia favorable or directly to misinform In favor of the Kremlin, they sought to give a Neutrality image and solidarity with “all” the victims, although making mostly the responsibility of the Russian invasion in the West, and distributing in equal parts the rest between the authorities of Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Towards the end, the Secretary General of Communishes of Catalunya described as practically inevitable that, if kyiv did not yield before Moscow, the conflict ends with the partition of Ukraine, in terms identical to those raised by former president Dmitri Medvedev, considered today one of the members more radical of the elite of the Kremlin.
“The more it is expected (for a pact), worse for Ukraine … the final scenario is a Ukrain Russia, “he riveted as he insisted that it was not under any circumstances what he wanted. Currently, Moscow demands as conditions for the cessation of hostilities The relief of the government of Volodímir Zelenski, The diplomatic recognition of the annexation of the territories occupied by force, and the demilitarization of the country, points that both kyiv and its western partners equate with a ‘de facto’ surrender.
Mediated the talk, the Mossos took a Ukrainian woman that protested aloud to some of the statements expressed. In the prolegomena of the event, Russian opposition activists explained to the attendees some cases of misinformation carried out by RT, a platform in which he worked, with a charge of editorial responsibility, one of the speakers, such as the false crucifixion of a three -year -old boy by the Ukrainian forces in the city of Sloviansk in 2014, denied by the Russian independent press. They also occurred Increased Towards the speakers at the end of the meeting, while members of the Resu distributed a triptych criticizing the positioning of these leftist forces in the Ukrainian conflict. The speakers left the enclosure “escorted by a dozen people,” says Acosta in their writing.
Days after the event, specifically on June 20, the Technical Commission of ‘La Model, Memorial Space’, where the debate took place, denied Victoria Tissotfounder of the so -called ‘Embassy of the Art of Ukraine’, the organization of a commemorative exposure of the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of the Eslavo country, alleging “high demand” and prioritization of “acts of historical memory”. The Neus Català Foundation plans to celebrate new talks from its ‘A Món at War’ cycle, although they will not deal with the issue of Ukraine. The Ferrero spokesman cannot confirm whether they will take place in the same enclosure.
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