JAKARTA (Sputnik) – John Shipton, an Australian activist and the father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in an interview with Sputnik has praised the work of the Russian Foreign Ministry, especially former Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov, as well as performance of the Rosatom state nuclear corporation.
«There’s two institutions that I really admire. One is the Russian foreign ministry. And particularly, I admire tremendously Primakov, who at the worst of times preserved the foreign ministry, managed to get enough money and stopped it being broken up. And the other one is Rosatom. These are magnificent institutions,» Shipton said.
He also wondered why people in the United States would contemplate «breaking up such magnificent human achievements,» adding that those who want to do it are «devils on the earth.»
The 16th BRICS summit was held in Russia’s Kazan from October 22-24.
