{"id":24258,"date":"2026-10-19T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/19\/russia-criticizes-france-double-standards-protests\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:00:15","slug":"russia-criticizes-france-double-standards-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/19\/russia-criticizes-france-double-standards-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Criticizes France Over &#8216;Double Standards&#8217; in Handling Public Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry, has described France\u2019s handling of public protests and recent unrest as contradictory.<\/p>\n<p>She said France takes decisive measures in response to domestic unrest, but adopts different and critical positions when it comes to protests in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Zakharova added that the French government condemns violence at home while supporting Western interventions in other countries under the pretext of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Russian official, Western countries have often turned human rights into a tool for \u0432\u043c\u0435\u0448\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0430 in the internal affairs of sovereign states, and the same standards should be applied to all protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia criticizes France for double standards in handling protests at home and abroad, according to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}