READ MORE:\u00a0Queen dragged into Brexit battle over alleged pro-leave stance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe find this unfair towards both Russia, with whom Britain maintains diplomatic relations, and the British people, who deserve a better treatment from their own government,\u201d<\/em> reads a statement <\/a>from the Russian embassy published on Friday, referring to remarks recently made by British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026None of our allies want us to leave the EU: nor Australia, nor New Zealand, not Canada, not the US. In fact, the only country would like us to leave the EU is Russia. That fact should probably tell us everything we need to know,\u201d<\/em> said Hammond, in an attempt to counter anti-EU campaigners.<\/p>\n Hammond\u2019s statement shows that UK officials have once again resorted to the \u201cwicked Russia thesis,\u201d<\/em> dragging Russia into the debate on UK\u2019s domestic issues against its will, the embassy said. In doing so, they \u201cadmit they cannot win an argument in an open and straightforward debate\u201d<\/em> with the British people, it argued.<\/p>\n The embassy stressed that the referendum on EU membership has no connection to Russia. Moreover, the Russian government \u201cdoesn\u2019t have an opinion on Britain\u2019s place in the EU.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n However, the anti-Russian rhetoric employed by UK authorities to justify Britain staying in the EU appears to reflect a familiar pattern from the Western narrative of the last 25 years, the statement argues. It is not surprising, since Russia has been publicly blamed \u201cfor almost everything that has gone wrong in Britain and the West,\u201d<\/em> including the war in Iraq, the protracted conflict in Libya, global financial woes, and the Ukrainian and Syrian crises, with the newest addition to the list blaming Russia for the ongoing refugee crisis gripping Europe, the embassy said.<\/p>\n \u201cTogether, Russia and the Assad regime are deliberately weaponizing migration in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve,\u201d<\/em> NATO General Philip Breedlove told the US Senate earlier in March.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Britain was unprepared for scale of Syrian civil war \u2013 report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This accusation is anything but true, the embassy stressed, as the European migration crisis had begun long before the Russian military operation was launched in Syria on September 30, 2015. On the contrary, Russia\u2019s involvement in the Syrian conflict has contributed to resolving the refugee crisis in at least four ways: by fighting Islamic State (IS, ISIS\/ISIL), bringing about a ceasefire deal, providing humanitarian aid, and working with the US and International Syria Support Group.<\/p>\n The Russian Defense Ministry had already denounced these accusations earlier, with ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov pointing out that \u201cthe UN is registering the reduction of refugee flows from Syria and a process of reconciliation has been initiated, which is something the Western so-called \u2018anti-ISIS coalition\u2019 has been unable to achieve.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Russian Embassy to the UK has also reminded London that it would better be off minding its own business.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have enough problems of our own to mind somebody else\u2019s business. More than that, we believe that if our Western partners had minded their own business well enough, all of us would have had fewer international problems on our hands,\u201d<\/em> the statement stressed.<\/p>\n READ MORE: How EU & NATO exploited Ukraine to serve their own geopolitical goals (OP-ED) <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russia is concerned about the British government\u2019s attempts to make it a \u201cscapegoat\u201d in the Brexit debate, the Russian Embassy to the UK has said. The diplomatic outburst follows the UK foreign secretary\u2019s claim that Moscow wants the UK out of the EU. 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