The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, has ordered the summoning of the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Italy to formally protest the inclusion of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, along with other institutional figures of the Italian Republic, in a list of alleged “Russophobes”.
Minister Tajani regards the inclusion of the Head of State in such a list as a provocation against the Republic and the Italian people, and expresses both his institutional and personal solidarity with President Mattarella.