MOSCOW, December 10 – RIA Novosti. Rossotrudnichestvo’s vice president, Pavel Shevtsov, told RIA Novosti that Germany’s statements about the arrest of a Russian citizen for participating in the coup preparations were a provocation and part of anti-Russian rhetoric, and Rossotrudnichestvo was monitoring the situation.

“There, of course, the investigation will be determined by what it is: a coup plotting or part of the psychosis that Western society is currently facing? Unfortunately, there will be more like this. We have to be ready for it,” he said.

Shevtsov noted that “through such provocations, they were only looking for an opportunity to further escalate the psychosis in society, to talk about the fact that Russia is bad, you have to fight everything that is Russian, and then a Russian woman automatically appears. We have prepared all this.”

He did not rule out that the situation with the “holding” of a Russian woman, the emergence of information about it, is part of a “well-developed anti-Russian position” that will “take root in the minds of the people.”

“There is such a mass of mainstream information that people abroad begin to perceive it normally, when they begin to mix everything into one pile and many things that seem unreal and unreal,” Shevtsov emphasized.

According to him, Rossotrudnichestvo has no information about the arrest of a Russian citizen.

“We are monitoring the situation and trying to provide assistance if necessary,” summed up Rossotrudnichestvo’s vice-president.

On Wednesday, 25 people were detained on suspicion of participating in a plot to seize power in Germany, and the homes and apartments of 27 more were searched in support of him. Detentions were held in the German federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Thuringia, and in Austria (Kitzbühel) and Italy (Perugia).