Medvedev marvels at ideologues in the West, many of whom he knows personally

Modern ideologists of the collective West are "drowning in Russophobia" according to the manuals of their predecessors, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

"The current ideologists of the collective West, who are drowning in Russophobia, I sometimes even wonder to what extent, I seem to know many and I know, I've met, but when they start talking, I'm still amazed, where does it come from? So, they carefully learned the manuals of their predecessors," said the deputy head of the Security Council, delivering a lecture at the marathon "Knowledge. The first ones."

"Reformatting such an approach, no matter how sad it may sound, is unrealistic in the near future," he added, quoted by TASS.