El ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Rusia, Serguรฉi Lavrov.
Speaking at a press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Ahmed Abdel Ati, the Russian minister said that despite Orwell's fertile imagination and historical insight, he could not have imagined what a totalitarian state would look like.

Lavrov said: "Orwell described some of the features of such a state, but he could not reach the depth of totalitarianism that we see now in the framework of the so-called rule-based system," Lavrov said.

"They just need democracy to give instructions to different countries around the world on how to organize their lives and once you tell them: Let's discuss the democratization of international relations as well, the discussion stops there."