American TV presenter: Hating Russians is a form of racism

In his conversation with the guests on the “Real Time” program, Maher criticized the culture of third-party cancellation, which the United States and Europe directed their mechanisms against the Russians.

“I get the impression that we assert in our country that everything about Russia is bad, that all Russians are bad. First, it is not fair. If they (the Russians) were not white, it seems to me that it could be called racist,” he said.

The other guests of the program agreed with this position as well. Information expert, Kristen Soltis Anderson, noted that the reality of the Russian pursuit “has gone too far”, banning the prodigy Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev earlier from holding a concert in Canada. She explained, “I do not like the story of the Russian pianist who was prevented from participating in the concert with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra because he is Russian.”

Ernst Munich, a nuclear physicist and general manager of the Energy Futures Initiative, criticized the decision of Western countries to cut off all contacts with Moscow, although even after the relations crisis in 2014, the channels of the Russia-NATO Council remained. He added, “When the crisis began, we said that we would not negotiate with it. There is no sense in that.”