MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) - RIA Novosti...

On October 26, EUobserver.com published an article entitled "New pro-Russia campaign comes to EU capital," alleging the Russian news agency had teamed up with a consultancy firm called RJI Companies and "is trying to recruit one of the top 10 PR firms in Brussels to put the project in play."

"Utter rubbish. The author of the article did indeed ask me about plans concerning RIA Novosti"s cooperation with the RJI company. For about 40 minutes, I talked about the development of conference-related activities in the framework of the Valdai discussion club and the agency"s other projects. The upshot was just a brief quote that absolutely does not reflect the essence of my explanations to the EUobserver.com journalist. This alone shows the author"s fundamental bias and his obvious lack of professionalism," said Valery Levchenko, RIA Novosti deputy general director.

The text of the article shows that the EUobserver.com journalist lumped together everything, including rumors,

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