MOSCOW. June 10 (Interfax) - The European Parliament elections have shown that the popularity of right-wing parties is growing, and they will soon start "stepping on the heels" of the pro-Europeans who currently lead, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
"It seems that the [European Parliament] majority will be pro-European and pro-Ukrainian. We have yet to analyze the future composition of the European Parliament but we are also observing a trend towards the rising popularity of right-wing parties. This dynamics are visible to the naked eye," Peskov told reporters on Monday.
"There is no doubt that although the pro-Europeans retain their paramount, leading positions for now, the right-wing parties are likely to start stepping on their heels at some point," he said.
The Kremlin is closely watching these processes, Peskov said.
"[Moscow] has to state that the European elections were held amid tough limitations, lack of honest competition, an information field cleared from alternative sources of information, and a rampant anti-Russian campaign," the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Maria Zakharova said later.
"The political forces opposed the EU mindless, self-harming confrontation with Russia were subjected to discrimination and oftentimes direct pressure and witch-hunt," she said on a comment published on the ministry's website.
"Over the past years the EU parliament's confrontational position towards our country has degraded to an unprecedented level of hostility," she said.
"Overall, the EU parliamentary election results have preserved the 'ideological base' for continued support to the EU's current self-destructive political course based on Russo-phobia," Zakharova said.