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Russia\u2019s foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron and wife<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Monday mocked a viral video in which French President<\/a>Emmanuel Macron<\/a> appeared to have his face pushed away by his wife Brigitte upon their arrival in Vietnam.She wrote on Telegram that Macron had received “A right hook from his wife.” The clip, widely shared on social media, appeared to show an awkward moment between the couple , sparking speculation about a possible dispute.Zakharova also sarcastically suggested various explanations for the gesture, writing, \u201cDid the first lady decide to cheer up her husband with a gentle pat on the cheek and miscalculated her strength? Was she handing him a tissue but missed? Did she want to fix his collar but ended up reaching the beloved face?\u201d <\/p>\n Poll<\/p>\n Do you think disinformation campaigns can have a significant impact on public opinion?<\/p>\n \u201cHere\u2019s a hint: maybe it was the \u2018hand of the Kremlin\u2019?\u201d she addedThe French president has denied any conflict, saying the couple had simply been joking as they often do. \u201cNone of these are true” and “everyone needs to calm down.\u201dEven though the claims were later debunked, they still prompted a high-level reaction from the Elysee Palace and the French foreign ministry.This marks the third time in May that Macron has been the focus of viral video content, as France faces what it calls an uptick in disinformation campaigns \u2014 many of which it believes are linked to Russia, amid ongoing tensions over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron and wife Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[48798,59297,34,43718,59296,16257,332,59298,182,59299,6469],"class_list":{"0":"post-135151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-brigitte-macron","9":"tag-disinformation-campaigns","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-french-president","12":"tag-kremlin-hand","13":"tag-maria-zakharova","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-russia-foreign-ministry","16":"tag-social-media","17":"tag-vietnam-visit","18":"tag-viral-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114578227591978716","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}