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2022-04-30 20:19:13+00:00
#Opinion
✍️ Excerpts from the article by the Russian Foreign Ministry Diplomatic Academy’s Vice-Chancellor Oleg Karpovich «Washington’s old game: Domination through fascistisation»:
💬 One of the main goals of Russia’s ongoing special military operation consists of liberating the minds of the people living there from the destructive propaganda the people of Ukraine have been constantly exposed to.
The world has changed over the past half a century. It is no longer carved up into spheres of influence where might makes right, while the collective West carries out its cynical social experiments in some of the countries it “colonised.”
❗️ Russia’s steps in Ukraine must send a clear signal to the US and its allies: We understand all too well the “rules” of global politics they keep talking about. This time we refuse to put up with what they are doing, which lies squarely in line with the logic of pluralism and genuine multipolarity in international affairs.
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2022-04-30 15:20:32+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby is losing his nerve. He is being rude, insulting, and troublesome. He said some nonsense about the Russian President.
Among other gibberish, he said it was “hard to look at what Russian forces are doing in Ukraine.” Really? How hard can it be for an American rear admiral to look at anything?
Kirby has an impressive service record: 28 years in the Navy (1986-2015), including as Chief of Navy Information. This means he was among the senior US officers who received all of the Pentagon’s information, so he was aware of literally everything. He knew about depleted uranium in Yugoslavia and about the Iraq War Logs, as they now call a large body of documents testifying to war crimes committed by US military personnel in Iraq.
We learned about all this thanks to Wikileaks and its creators, who are being destroyed by Kirby’s colleagues, but John read these reports every day: about thousands and thousands of civilians who died in Iraqi and Syrian villages from the atrocities of the American troops. Considering the level of the US military’s equipment, there is no doubt that he saw photographs and video footage. I wonder, was it difficult for him to watch those inhuman spectacles?
But it’s different now. I can see 2️⃣ reasons for that.
First, his agency was caught engaging in illegal activities: developing biological weapons in Ukraine. Everyone would start to lose their nerve, considering the US international obligations.
Second, all of this is happening at the same time as the political team is leaving the White House. Everyone is fleeing. According to US media, the outflow of high-ranking officials from the White House has started. The reason given by experts in the United States is pervasive pessimism due to the lack of trust in the Administration and Biden personally.
If the control over Congress goes to the Republicans, these guys won’t know what hit them. Kirby will be the first to get dragged through public hearings. No, it will be Nuland first. Then Kirby.
I have already written about the sudden desire of Daleep Singh, Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics in the President’s Administration, the architect of anti-Russian sanctions, to take a break from his hard work.
☝️ It turns out many of them are feeling the strain of the past year.
According to US media, Senior Advisor to the President, Director of the Office of Public Engagement Cedric Richmond is about to retire; National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, Deputy White House Communications Director Pili Tobar, and Chief of Staff for the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Dan Feldman are all planning to retire, too.
John Kerry is considering leaving the ship by the end of the year, according to the same American media. But I believe in him. It would be dishonourable to leave climate and Biden at a moment like this.
I don’t even want to write about what’s going on in the team of US Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s an exodus. Chiefs of staff and the press service will follow the lead of dozens of key staff members who have already left.
❗️ So what’s hard for Kirby is to look at his own future, not at the developments in Ukraine.
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2022-04-30 11:09:40+00:00
📅 #OTD in 1945, the #RedArmy liberated the prisoners of the women's concentration camp #Ravensbrück.
The prisoners, who survived inhuman medical experiments & other atrocities of the SS, greeted the Soviet liberators with joy.
🕯 "Never forget the black night of Ravensbrück!"
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2022-04-30 10:42:20+00:00
🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on Ukraine’s case in the International Criminal Court
💬 An announcement made on April 25 to the effect that the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor’s Office will join the Joint Investigation Group comprised of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine and created under the auspices of Eurojust has come to our attention.
Everyone is aware of how such entities operate. It is safe to assume that the work of their brainchild will be similarly biased and one-sided.
☝️ If anyone doubts that the ICC is a body that is fulfilling political orders and has nothing to do with independent justice, this new “creative” format has made it perfectly clear.
We would like to ask the ICC Prosecutor’s Office and the countries that are now so concerned about justice in Ukraine why, for eight years, they ignored the suffering of Donbass residents?
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2022-04-30 06:13:43+00:00
🟥 On April 30, 1945, during the storming of the #Reichstag, the first Red Banner was installed on its facade by 20-year-old Rakhimzhan #Koshkarbaev and 19-year-old Grigory #Bulatov.
🎖For the heroism shown during the battle, they were awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
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2022-04-29 21:56:33+00:00
🇷🇺 Russia's Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov:
Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force 25 years ago today.
❗️ It is one of the greatest achievements in the field of disarmament.
▪️ Unfortunately after almost 20 years of its successful implementation the activities of OPCW were politicised.
▪️ Now OPCW is in a very poor shape.
https://t.me/ulyanov_mikhail/338
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2022-04-29 21:30:45+00:00
🎙 #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues (April 28, 2022).
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov's schedule
🔹 Update on Ukraine
🔹 Armed provocations in Transnistria
🔹 US State Department using ICT to discredit Russia
🔹 US blocks bank accounts of Russian Consulates-General
🔹 Russia’s withdrawal from the UNWTO
🔹 Possibilities for dialogue with NATO and East European countries
🔹 Nagorno-Karabakh settlement
And much more…
📰 Read
📺 Watch
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2022-04-29 16:30:30+00:00
Truth on Ukraine.
▪️ This video was made using open source data, including documentary footage from WWII and copies of archive documents and other imagery.
▪️ The authors and distributors of this video DO NOT share the views presented in it.
▪️ This video is not promoting any form of racial/ethnic hatred, xenophobia or terrorist ideology, and is provided for information purposes only.
#Russia #Ukraine #StopNaziUkraine #NoToNazism
https://youtu.be/Tq1zMoZBrJ4
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2022-04-29 09:42:05+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov following talks with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres:
📍Moscow, April 26, 2022
All these years, the entire Russian-speaking population, not only in Donbass and the two proclaimed republics, but also in Ukraine as a whole, was sternly oppressed. Everything is in the statistics. Look at the laws that were passed with respect to the Russian language and the media. Moreover, not only Russian channels were banned, but also Ukrainian ones if they were in the hands of a parliamentary, legitimate, legal but opposition party. Then decisions were eventually made to ban the Russian language in everyday life. Nazi ideology and practices were imposed. Everyone was bashfully "hiding their head in the sand" – both inside and outside the Normandy format.
The critical cause was the line of our American colleagues and their allies for the unlimited expansion of NATO and the establishment of a unipolar world.
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2022-04-29 08:35:50+00:00
🇷🇺🇪🇷 FM Sergey Lavrov at news conference following talks with Foreign Minister of Eritrea Osman Saleh
💬 We expressed appreciation for Eritrea’s objective and responsible position regarding the situation in Ukraine. We value its understanding of the fundamental nature of that situation, which is inseparably connected with the comprehensive crisis of the European security architecture brought about by the aggressive policy of NATO.
💬 Preparations for the #RussiaAfrica summit are underway. We are now making the necessary arrangements with our African friends. We must determine the time and format that would suit all the heads of state.
Read in full
#RussiaEritrea
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2022-04-29 05:01:24+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇴📞 President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Angola Joao Lourenco.
🔸Both sides said they were satisfied with the current level of friendly Russian-Angolan relations and reaffirmed their mutual striving to develop them still further, including mutually beneficial cooperation in trade, the economy, science and technology.
🔸At the request of Joao Lourenco, Vladimir Putin informed him about the causes and goals of the special military operation to protect Donbass, and he gave a principled assessment of the current status of talks with Ukrainian representatives.
🔸The leaders agreed to continue their contacts at various levels.
#RussiaAngola
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2022-04-28 22:23:07+00:00
#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
Nuclear DisInfo (Read in full)
Mechanisms for information attacks with a new thesis that target the public space have been launched in the West at the highest level in a transboundary and trans-format manner. The premise is primitive and completely horrifying: the Russians are threatening a nuclear war, and the Russians are waving the nuclear stick.
⁉️ Do I even need to say that this thesis is absolutely incorrect and false? Apparently, I do.
They are pushing this exact thesis because it plays on basic human fears, the experience of the older generation, which throughout the second half of the 20th century was bracing for the Third World War against global communism, and Western youth, for which their respective governments have come up with a new mechanism called “cancel culture” (cancelling everything Russian this time). Moreover, the West absolutely does not care what Moscow really says, and the meaning of words is distorted and outwardly perverted.
Let’s consider the specifics.
Two days ago, in his answer to a question by Dimitri Simes during an interview, Sergey Lavrov said literally the following 👉 full quote
What are the takeaways?
1. It was Russia that, with great difficulty, convinced the United States during lengthy talks to reaffirm the Gorbachev-Reagan formula that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.
2. It was Russia that persuaded the group of five nuclear nations to adopt a statement with the same content.
3. There are risks; they should not be blown out of proportion or underestimated.
We did everything possible to prevent a nuclear war, to create all the necessary obstacles on the way to slipping into this scenario (fortunately, they justified themselves during the Cold War and are working today), because we understand the real risks and threats posed by irresponsible behaviour in this area. We cannot allow the very thought of a nuclear war.
Now acting in the worst traditions of disinformation, Western officials are feeding the media, in a coordinated effort, fake news about Moscow’s alleged nuclear threats. The foreign ministries from the NATO countries started convincing the people in their countries that the Russians were “rattling their weapons.”
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Notice how clumsy this was in terms of media work. First, all the put-up quotes against our country were repeated by the journalist, and then they were again mentioned by Ned Price. A presentation designed for a not too sophisticated public. No one even paid attention to what the Foreign Minister said about the risks and Russia’s attempts to prevent the unthinkable.
It’s unthinkable to us, but, mindful of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is, unfortunately, possible for our colleagues from overseas.
The next day, the media started mass brainwashing. The British tabloids (the Daily Mail and others) and the high-quality analytical US press, French television and German tabloid magazines started talking with one voice that Moscow was threatening with a Third World Nuclear War. And this was already being discussed in Europe; French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that the Russian Foreign Minister’s words were the “rhetoric of intimidation.”
I would like to ask this Frenchman whether he at least saw what Sergey Lavrov said? We have translated the interview.
Our country is against any nuclear war, and this is exactly what the Russian Minister said, and this is what guides our diplomacy in its work.
Could it be that the Western capitals read the interviews as presented by the Western media? This is the only thing that can justify their words. To avoid that, one should simply DON'T turn off alternative sources of information, and listen to what Russia has to say close to the original text, rather than as interpreted by your media under NATO guidelines.
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2022-04-28 20:44:46+00:00
❗️ The Russian Foreign Ministry Statement on the publication of the names of 🇨🇦 Canadian citizens added to the #stoplist 🛑
In connection with the requests the Foreign Ministry has been receiving from Canadian politicians and public figures interested in Russia’s response to the unprecedented personal sanctions imposed by Ottawa against Russian citizens, the Russian Foreign Ministry has published a list of names of Canadian citizens who are permanently prohibited from entering the Russian Federation on its official website.
Full list of names
We emphasise that on the Russian side, sanctions of this kind are being imposed involuntarily and solely in response to the hostile actions by the Canadian leadership. Russia is striving for mutually respectful and neighbourly relations with the Canadian people, calling on the authorities in Ottawa to abandon the Russophobic policy that limits the country’s independence in foreign policy and runs contrary to its national interests.
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2022-04-28 17:55:16+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇷📞 President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The President of Russia expressed gratitude to the Turkish leader for his assistance in exchanging Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko for US citizen Trevor Reed at Ankara airport.
The parties continued discussing the humanitarian aspects of the developments in Ukraine and Donbass, in particular, taking into account the results of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s talks in Moscow.
🤝 Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to maintain further contacts.
#RussiaTurkey
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2022-04-28 08:50:55+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-04-27 18:42:58+00:00
🇺🇦The Kiev regime has not ceased its attempts at provocations to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of war crimes.
▫️Another such staging with the alleged deaths of civilians as a result of fabricated shelling by Russian units has been prepared by experts of the information and psychological operations of the AFU for its presentation to the world public in the coming days.
▫️In order to make staged photo and video recordings and to invite representatives of Ukrainian and Western news agencies (including the USA, Latvia, the UK and Poland) to the central market in Lisichansk, which the day before was mistakenly shelled by units of the 57th AFU motorized infantry brigade, broken equipment is being brought to the central market; ambulances bring bodies of AFU soldiers dressed in civilian clothes.
▫️This scenario, above all with regard to its own people as well as dead Ukrainian servicemen, replicates Nazi atrocities during the Great Patriotic War, but with the modern approaches of the Kiev regime.
❗️We warn the so-called civilised west in advance that this and other similar bloody fakes on the part of the Kiev authorities about alleged "Russian atrocities" are soon to be widely spread in the media and on internet resources.
📄Full text of the Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianResponse
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2022-04-27 15:01:24+00:00
💬 #Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
Information bomb 💣
During the recent G7 and G20 finance ministers’ meetings, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland pushed for the exclusion of Russia from global financial institutions and international organisations.
At the same time, Ottawa stepped up its arms deliveries to Ukraine, including the Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifles, used by the Canadian armed forces.
All this is presented as a response to alleged new evidence of atrocities perpetrated by the Russian military. Speaking ahead of the G20 meeting, Chrystia Freeland said: “War crimes have been committed in Ukraine. The evidence that we've seen … is absolutely horrifying.”
This would have looked like a piece of clumsy fake news, if it were not a bloody re-enactment of what happened during World War II.
Eighty years before Bucha, Krakivs'ki Visti – a major Ukrainian-language newspaper in Poland, censored and managed as it was by the Third Reich, published an article on NKVD killers torturing people to death and leaving them lying on Lvov’s streets after the Red Army withdrew from the city (Krakivs'ki Visti, July 6, 1941). The article placed special emphasis on the ethnicity of the victims. On July 8, 1941, it reported that the Bolsheviks executed 1,500 ethnic Ukrainians in Lutsk by firing at them with machine guns. The Nazi Reich accused the internationalist Soviet Union of genocide.
The Krakivs'ki Visti newspaper was well aware of its role in history. In the Ukrainian context, it spread Nazi Germany’s propaganda around the world. This is what we read in black and white on the front page of its July 6, 1941 edition, in an article titled “Winning instead of crying” (B. Khalit): “Regarding this awful disaster [the pogroms], on the plus side there is the fact that the entire world has learned about these horrible pogroms. Losing tens of thousands of responsible, proactive citizen is very painful. They cannot be replaced. The impact that these pogroms had on propaganda pales in comparison with the losses. However, since these people died simply for being responsible Ukrainians and loving Ukraine more than anything else, we must make sure that did not spill their blood in vain; we must use it to do good… We must use is as moral capital for our people… We now have this opportunity, and a sad one at that, but still an opportunity which we must not miss. The Jewish mafia in all its incarnations, from communist to Masonic, has long removed the word ‘Ukraine’ from the press or done everything possible to denigrate it. This is why, when the name of our nation once again makes headlines in major titles, we cannot miss this opportunity no matter how tragic its context.”
What a flashback! We are witnessing the very same situation right now.
Once again, Ukraine makes headlines, while we face groundless accusations of seeking to “cancel” Ukraine just as they cancel everything Russian. Once again, the Nazis use propaganda and a tragedy to denigrate Russia. Once again, they use this as an “opportunity, no matter how tragic.” They have not produced any evidence, hoping that eliciting an emotional response will suffice. Once again, people’s lives become the collateral damage in the propaganda games to win over public opinion. This is what Nazis always do.
Now for the most important part.
As a major Ukrainian-language Nazi propaganda tool, the Krakivs'ki Visti newspaper had Mikhailo Khomyak, a collaborationist journalist from Ukraine, as its editor.
Apart from his criminal record, there is only one notable fact in his biography. Mikhailo Khomyak was the grandfather of Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister.
You can now return to the top of the page and read this post one more time with fresh insight.
https://t.me/MID_Russia/19991
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2022-04-27 14:33:16+00:00
🇷🇺 Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov today during his guest lecture «Multilateral Diplomacy in Vienna: Challenges and Prospects for International Relations/Political Science/Non-Proliferation students hosted by Saint-Petersburg State University:
💬 «One of the most valued qualities of a diplomat is to be able to put oneself in the opponent’s shoes»
🔵 Over ~100 people in attendance from 2️⃣0️⃣+ universities in Russia and abroad, including:
🇷🇺 Saint-Petersburg State University
🇷🇺 Moscow State University
🇷🇺 MGIMO
🇷🇺 MEPhI
🇷🇺 Ural Federal University
and others.
🧑🏼🎓We thank students and also their professors who raise new generations of specialists.
🔵 We also would like to express gratitude to those who made the event possible:
🏠 SPBU Strategic Studies Master Program for hosting the lecture;
👨🏼💻Anton Khlopkov (CENESS) for moderating the talk;
🤝🏼the entire CENESS team for providing support, including on organizational matters.
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2022-04-27 14:04:29+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova:
On April 27, 2022, as a result of a lengthy negotiation process US national Trevor Reed, convicted in Russia for 9 years of incarceration, was exchanged for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian citizen, who was sentenced by the US court for 20 years in prison.
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2022-04-27 12:21:50+00:00
🇷🇺🇿🇦 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa on Freedom Day.
✉️ The message reads, in part:
“Relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Africa are growing in the spirit of strategic partnership.
The two countries have established a substantive political dialogue, as well as productive cooperation in the trade, economic, research, technology, and humanitarian fields. The coordination of Moscow and Pretoria’s efforts at the UN, BRICS, the G20 and other multilateral platforms yields a good return.
I am confident that with joint efforts, we will further advance the entire scope of mutually beneficial Russian-South African ties. This fully meets the interests of our friendly peoples and goes in line with strengthening international security and stability.”
#RussiaRSA
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2022-04-27 11:07:34+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Eritrea Osman Saleh hold a joint press conference following talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇪🇷
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-04-27 10:38:03+00:00
💬 #Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
Just a few days ago, the former US defence, intelligence and security officials (once served, always serving, as the saying goes) called on the US legislators not to hamper the omnipotent IT corporations. In an open letter, they called on Congress to refrain from passing legislation that would limit Google, Meta and the like in their digital dictate.
Their rationale is quite straightforward: “A battle brewing between authoritarianism and democracy.” Authoritarianism, meaning, among others, Russia, uses cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns to bring about a change in the global order. At the same time, democracy, meaning the US, together with the champions of free speech embodied by US technology platforms “have given the world the chance to see the real story of the Russian military’s horrific human rights abuses in Ukraine.” They recommend a traditional set of methods: censorship and digital reprisals. It turns out that the intelligence community believes that you can build democracy and achieve free speech by silencing all those who disagree and by deleting from the information space everything at odds with what is being imposed from above, including by the intelligence community they represent.
There is no need to search for any further evidence on who was behind Facebook’s decision not to delete extremist materials targeting Russians.
It has to be noted that the ranks of the national security champions include prominent members of the US establishment, including high-profile figures like former Secretary of Defence and former CIA Director, as well as member of the Oracle board Leon E. Panetta, former Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Frances F. Townsend, former Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson, and several other equally notorious figures.
You may ask what do the representatives of the US security and intelligence community have to do with all this? Why have they decided to take a stand on such a hot topic?
Let me explain.
Just like all other representatives of the American “deep state,” they have been successful not only in their public offices, but also in the private sector. Many of them own stock in major corporations or sit on their boards, including in the IT industry. This is how the US government, the defence, intelligence and security apparatus, corporations and major media holdings came to form a single whole. This makes it virtually impossible to understand where free speech begins and where it ends. Most importantly, this is what they refer to as democracy.
By the way, Frances F. Townsend and James R. Clapper used to work for CNN and CBS. This explains a lot.
Apart from their similar career patterns, what the intelligence community members share in common is a keen focus on our country. They all went to great lengths to spread fakes on what they misrepresented as Russia’s meddling in the US election. Panetta and Clapper went as far as become the central figures on the Advisory Board of the Committee to Investigate Russia, a nonprofit resource.
Some members of the US security establishment just cannot get over their fixation on taking Russia out. This is merely a pretext, a veil for ensuring that technology monopolies retain their unchallenged sway over the public opinion in the United States and around the world. The vociferous and at times appealing slogans about democracy conceal pragmatic and cynical calculations.
It is at this particular point in history that Elon Musk went shopping online…
https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2492
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2022-04-27 10:24:17+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇳 President of Russia Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres in the Kremlin.
📍 Moscow, April 26, 2022
💬 President Putin:
🔸As one of the founders of the United Nations and a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia has always supported this universal organisation.
🔸 I know about your concern over Russia’s military operation in Donbass, in Ukraine. I think this will be the focus of our conversation today. I would just like to note in this context that the entire problem emerged after a coup d’état staged in Ukraine in 2014. This is an obvious fact.
🔸 You say that Russia’s humanitarian corridors are ineffective. Mr Secretary-General, you have been misled: these corridors are effective. Over 100,000 people, 130,000–140,000, if I remember correctly, have left Mariupol with our assistance, and they are free to go where they want, to Russia or Ukraine.
#RussiaUN
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2022-04-27 10:05:41+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Eritrea Osman Saleh commence bilateral talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇪🇷
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-04-27 06:58:58+00:00
🎉🇸🇱 Sierra Leone, our time-tested reliable partner in Africa, celebrates its Independence Day today.
🇷🇺🇸🇱 Our countries’ traditionally friendly relations continue their fast-paced development. Prospective areas of cooperation include mining, energy, oil and gas.
🌐 Sierra Leone generally shares Russia’s approach to issues of maintaining peace and security, counterterrorism measures and settling regional conflicts. Our two countries usually support each other during elections to international organisations.
Congratulations to the people of Sierra Leone on their national holiday! We wish you peace, prosperity and success.
#SierraLeone #RussiaAfrica
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2022-04-26 15:26:34+00:00
💬 #Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
Media reports: UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the Armed Forces) James Heappey: “It is completely legitimate for Ukraine to be targeting in Russia’s depth in order to disrupt the logistics that if they weren’t disrupted would directly contribute to death and carnage on Ukrainian soil.”
Does this mean that Russia can target military facilities in the NATO countries that are supplying weapons to the Kiev regime in order to “disrupt the logistics” of military deliveries, which are contributing to death and carnage on Ukrainian soil? As far as I know, Britain is one such country.
The “depth” of the UK Defence Ministry senior officials’ thinking is as shallow as the intellect of the Foreign Office leadership.
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2022-04-26 14:53:01+00:00
⚡️ Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on topical foreign policy issues at 10:30 am MSK (approximately) on April 28.
In light of measures taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and WHO recommendations on holding public events via teleconferencing, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson will answer media questions received by the call centre. Accredited journalists will be sent detailed information concerning the technical aspects of submitting questions.
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2022-04-26 11:41:23+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hold a joint press conference following talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇺🇳
https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/62668764fe5bc25e8aa69cc6/19992/English
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2022-04-26 09:41:47+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commence bilateral talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇺🇳
https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/626686d5fe5bc25e8aa69cc4/19989/English
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-04-26 07:10:35+00:00
⭐️ On April 26, 1945, the #RedArmy liberated #Brno, the industrial centre of Czechoslovakia, turned into a stronghold of the military power of the Third Reich.
About 17 thousand Soviet soldiers gave their lives during the Bratislava-Brno operation. #WeRemember
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2022-04-26 06:53:17+00:00
The US has a damning record on using “false flags” as a “casus belli” and for pretexts to justify its military atrocities.
The Russian Ministry of Defense warns of possible provocations with the use of chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine.
Possible targets:
☣️ Biological facilities in Kharkov and Kiev
☣️ Nuclear energy facilities, i.a. Zaporozhie nuclear power plant
☣️ Radioactive waste storage facility at the former Pridneprovsky chemical plant
☣️ Port “Yuzhny” in Odessa
📑 FULL REPORT
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2022-04-26 06:39:54+00:00
📌 Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response (April 25, 2022).
Excerpts:
Despite the humane initiative shown by the Russian Federation to evacuate civilians from the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant, the Kiev authorities again disrupted this humanitarian operation today. As of 20:00 (Moscow time) on April 25, 2022, no one has used the proposed humanitarian corridor.
On the one hand, Kiev officials constantly and publicly declare that the plant's workers, women and children are allegedly in the underground structures of Azovstal, and on the other hand, they deliberately reject all humanitarian initiatives of the Russian side and do not take any practical measures to evacuate these persons.
☝️ Such absolutely illogical and inconsistent behavior of the Kiev authorities once again confirms their outright indifference to the fate of specific people – to their own citizens.
📍 Despite the obstacles created by Kiev, over the past day, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 9,285 people were evacuated from dangerous areas of Ukraine, Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics to the territory of the Russian Federation, 733 of them children, and since the beginning of the special military operation, 975,234 people have already been evacuated, of which 178,091 children. 127,486 units of personal motor transport crossed the state border of the Russian Federation, 1,215 units per day.
🤝 Since March 2, the Russian Federation has already delivered 15,024.3 tonnes of basic necessities, food, medicines and medical products to Ukraine, 895 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including a humanitarian action in the Kharkov region over the past day, during which 22.6 tonnes of humanitarian aid were transferred to the civilian population.
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2022-04-25 18:11:22+00:00
📌 Remarks to the Press by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy on risks of WMD provocations in Ukraine.
🔹 The situation is very alarming. Our Ministry of Defence keeps collecting information that the Kiev regime backed by the US is preparing staged provocations in order to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of using chemical, biological or tactical nuclear weapons.
🔹 Even if we set aside a proven fact that Russia does not possess any chemical or biological weapons, what is the rationale for using them in Ukraine, in the close proximity to the Russian border?
❗️ The only beneficiary here is the Kiev regime & radical groups, which use terror and intimidation of civilians as a method of warfare.
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2022-04-25 14:27:45+00:00
7️⃣7️⃣ years ago, on April 25, 1945, Soviet and American troops met at the Elbe River, marking an important step toward the end of World War II in Europe.
❗️ There was a lot of symbolism attached to the meeting on the Elbe. It served as a harbinger of Hitler’s approaching defeat, as well as the apotheoses of Allied friendship in their struggle against Nazi Germany. Referred to later as the Spirit of the Elbe, the spirit of unity in fighting a common enemy carried the promise that radically new principles would guide post-war cooperation. With so many differences separating them, the representatives of the two countries solemnly promised to do everything to prevent a new war.
🇷🇺🇺🇸 On April 25, 2020, the Russian and US Presidents issued a joint statement commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the meeting on the Elbe. “The #SpiritOfTheElbe is an example of how our countries can put aside differences, build trust, and cooperate in pursuit of a greater cause.”
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2022-04-25 10:11:59+00:00
⚡️ Emergency statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response
▫️The leadership of the Russian Federation once again confirms the previously opened and permanently operating for the 36th day (from March 21, 2022) round-the-clock humanitarian corridor from Azovstal metallurgical plant for the evacuation of civilians (workers, women and children), whose alleged presence in the underground structures of the plant is publicly announced by the Kiev authorities.
▫️At the same time, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the formations of the Donetsk People's Republic from 14:00 (Moscow time) on April 25, 2022 unilaterally cease any hostilities, units are withdrawn to a safe distance and ensure the withdrawal of the specified category of citizens in any directions they choose.
▫️The actual readiness of the Ukrainian side to launch a humanitarian operation is indicated by raising white flags around the perimeter or in certain directions of Azovstal.
▫️The Russian Federation publicly and officially declares that there are no obstacles to the exit of civilians from Azovstal, except for the principled decision of the Kiev authorities themselves and the commanders of nationalist formations to continue to hold civilians as a "human shield".
▫️If civilians are still at the metallurgical plant, then we demand that the Kiev authorities immediately give the appropriate order to the commanders of nationalist formations for their release.
▫️This statement will be continuously brought to the Ukrainian formations at Azovstal via radio channels at intervals of every 30 minutes.
▫️Through operational communication channels, this statement is immediately brought to the Ukrainian side through the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk.
Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, Head of the Russian Federation Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response - Head of the National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation
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2022-04-25 09:40:03+00:00
📆 The United Nations Conference on International Organisation opened 77 years ago in San Francisco.
🇺🇳 Held between April 25 and June 26, 1945, the San Francisco Conference resulted in the establishment of a universal international organisation for the maintenance of international peace and security to be known as the United Nations.
ℹ️ The most active participation in the work of the conference, along with the delegation of the USSR, was taken by the Ukrainian and Byelorussian SSR. This became possible thanks to the efforts of Soviet diplomacy, which achieved the inclusion of the USSR and the BSSR among the founding countries of the UN.
❗️ At the time, the San Francisco Conference was the largest international gathering in the then history of diplomacy, demonstrating the unity of the international community in the wake of the hardships it suffered during World War II.
🔗 https://www.facebook.com/100069392071612/posts/296486289341105/?d=n
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2022-04-25 07:11:01+00:00
▪️Since the coup d'état in 2014, Ukraine has plunged into the abyss of political chaos.
👉 Learn more about military and other crimes of the Kiev regime - from 2014 to 2022 - in our video. Hard facts & testimonies that the "collective West" & the Kiev regime prefer to hush up...
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2022-04-24 21:33:43+00:00
#ElbeDay
📸 April 25, 1945
#WeRemember 🤝 #WeWereAllies
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2022-04-24 21:13:53+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions on the occasion of the #ElbeDay
1. What kind of associations do you have with the Elbe Day?
A world-famous photo comes to mind where soldiers of the Allied armies, who met at the Elbe River, are exchanging fraternal handshakes and an embrace. Back in those days, they shared a piece of bread and raised a frontline cup to the Victory and Soviet-U.S. friendship. To celebrate the meeting at the Elbe River our country fired a salute of 324 artillery guns. Photos that have survived till our days show overwhelming and sheer joy because of the approaching end of the war.
2. What does the Elbe Day mean to you?
The meeting at the Elbe River epitomizes the brotherhood-in-arms between the Soviet Union and the Unites States that fought together against a common enemy. The memory about this event lives on. Amidst the deepest crisis in Russian-U.S. relations we can and must draw on the experience of those who had the wisdom and bravery to put aside differences in order to achieve shared goals. There are a lot of challenges in the modern world that can be hardly addressed without cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
3. How can you describe the soldiers who met each other on this historic day?
They are the heroes who managed to beat Nazi tyranny, despite countless sufferings. Their feat pre-determined a peaceful and decent life for successive generations. Soldiers of the Allied armies sought a Victory – which cost them tremendous sacrifices – that will be not just the beginning of another interwar period, but a turning point in the humankind history which would begin the age of sustainable peaceful relations between countries. Our duty to the Generation of Victors is to remember the lessons of that war.
4. Do you have any message for the Americans today as a mark of respect for their sacrifice in World War II?
We will always pay tribute to the bravery of our brothers-in-arms and honor the memory of those who sacrificed their lives in the fight against the most dangerous evil of the 20th century. Supplies from the United States and other countries helped the Red Army to bring our common Victory closer.
I cordially congratulate all veterans on the Elbe Day and wish them good health, prosperity and peaceful sky above their heads.
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2022-04-24 09:40:42+00:00
Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted Orthodox Christians and all Russians celebrating Easter Sunday ☦️
💬 President Vladimir #Putin: This Feast of feasts, Easter brings Orthodox Christians and all Russians celebrating Easter Sunday together around high moral ideals and values, inspiring the best in people, as well as belief in the triumph of life, goodness and justice.
It is important that we note the creative, positive and fruitful efforts by the Russian Orthodox Church and other Christian denominations to preserve our rich historical, cultural and spiritual traditions, as well as to promote family values and educate the younger generation. Of course, Christian organisations deserve special credit for their community service and charity undertakings, and their commitment to helping those in need of care and support in these challenging times.
#EasterSunday
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2022-04-23 20:17:23+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
READ IN FULL
Key points
🔹 The report published by the Russian Ministry of Defence today clearly proves that Washington, in close coordination with its NATO partners, has reached the final stage of setting up provocations in Ukraine aimed at convincing the international community that “Russia has been using weapons-grade poisonous substances and biological agents.”
🔹 Their rationale is obvious: the shocking details of the illegal cooperation between the United States and the Ukrainian administration which still remains in power in making bacteriological weapons have been revealed to the world. The realisation that their criminal activities would inevitably be exposed was so patently clear that Washington began to prepare in advance:
👉 Shaped public opinion
👉 Picked the contractors
👉 Worked to influence international organisations
🔹 The Americans and their partners in Europe take no notice of the fact that Russia has had no chemical weapons at all for five years – since September 27, 2017, and this has been verified by the OPCW. The Ukrainians, aided by NATO specialists, are to remedy this flaw in the American plans crudely enough: just as corrupt police officers plant a weapon with prints on an innocent suspect, Washington and Kiev are going to plant chemical weapons at the Russian Armed Forces’ positions in Ukraine.
👉 This is more than serious. Clearly, the original US plan was to step up economic pressure on Russia to make it reconsider its legitimate security interests. That didn’t work. Now the US is going to use WMD; in fact, this is a game that crosses the red line. If this happens, the number of victims will be incalculable. Each of them will be on the conscience of the American strategists sitting in the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon, and on the conscience of their puppets in Kiev, if they still have any left.
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2022-04-23 17:59:57+00:00
🇷🇺🇱🇻 Comment of the Russian Embassy in Latvia regarding the decision of the city of Ogre authorities to dismantle five Soviet/Russian memorial sites:
💬 We are extremely outraged by the decision of the Ogre municipality to dismantle five Soviet memorials located on its territory. We are convinced that this undertaking has neither moral, nor historical, let alone legal grounds.
Any assault upon our memorial sites, regardless of justification, will be considered as a gross violation of Riga’s obligations under the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Latvia dated April 30, 1994 on the issues of social protection of military pensioners and members of their families.
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We sent a note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia with a demand to prevent these revanchist plans of the Ogre municipality and to ensure the strict implementation of existing bilateral international legal agreements.
👉 https://t.me/rusemblv/1809
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2022-04-23 16:56:29+00:00
#Opinion
💬 Russia's Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna Ambassador Mikhail Ulyanov:
The Russian Ministry of Defence is right when it points at high probability of provocations in Ukraine involving chemical substances.
🔸 Such provocations and staged incidents have been tested in Syria many times and proved to be very successful.
🔸 There is the need to be vigilant.
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2022-04-23 16:05:00+00:00
🇷🇺🇨🇦 Russia's Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov's Article "We know the truth and not afraid of it. Do and are you?" in response to the op-ed by Gwynne Dyer in the Hill Times.
READ IN FULL
💬 The story served by Mr. Dyer in his op-ed denigrating the Red Army is based on the false narrative invented on the terminal stage of the War in Europe by the Nazi Goebbels propaganda machine. And after the fall of Nazi Germany the story was re-launched with a doubled effort by the U.S. military intelligence and the CIA in coordination with the notorious Gehlen Organization (comprised of ‘rehabilitated’ Nazis, RHSA, Abwehr and SS officers) to confront Russia/Soviet Union <...>
My country lost to the WWII 27 million lives including about 15 million non-military toll – all civilian victims of the genocide unleashed by the German occupants supported by practically all of continental Europe that either joined the Nazis on the battlefields or economically sustained their fight. No other country in the world, with the exception of China, suffered on such a large scale during the war <...>
Let me be clear. I am personally against sweeping generalizations, but here providing a snap picture of the historical perception within Russian society. We understand that on a philosophical level the denigration of Russia emanates not simply from the strategic need of propaganda and information warfare. It is deeply rooted in the farthest corner of the Western soul. Every time it alleges Russia is committing atrocities, the West attempts to conceal in a secret room its own sins and liberate itself from guilt for its dark past. By demonizing us the West is trying to escape the shame it feels looking at its own reflection in the mirror.
What is the ‘dark past’, you’ll ask? The total genocide of the indigenous peoples of what now is known as the United States. The disgraceful and bloody history of colonialism by the British Empire (of which Canada was a part) – as a result millions and millions of dead, enslaved, tortured, harassed, traumatized. The list of others is long and well documented <...>
Russia and Russians won’t be hurt by the allegations in fake atrocities. We know those are lies. We also know that this article won’t change the views of those who on purpose or unwillingly in ignorance against the backdrop of the current historic moment are pouring on the Ukrainian propagandist mill to retrospectively reproduce the historical fakes.
However, our chief concern is that such narrative warfare is targeting Canadian audience in attempt to distort the real picture by intentionally falsifying history.
On the other hand, we also know that people of Canada whose grandfathers fought alongside my compatriots to liberate the world from Nazism are thoughtful and in terms of critical analysis can tell the truth from the lie. That is of high value especially on the eve of commemorating the upcoming anniversary of the Victory in the war in Europe celebrated on May 8th in Canada and on May 9th in Russia.
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2022-04-23 14:45:40+00:00
Russia's Ministry of Defence:
💬 Staged use of WMD is aimed at accusing Russia of using prohibited weapons with the subsequent implementation of the so-called «Syrian scenario», in which the state is subjected to economic and political isolation.
🇷🇺 We would like to recall that the Russian Federation completely destroyed its chemical arsenal on September 27, 2017, which is confirmed by an OPCW certificate.
🇺🇸 In turn, the United States, with its strong financial, economic and technical potential, is the only country party to the Chemical Weapons Convention that still possesses an impressive arsenal of chemical warfare agents (672.5 tonnes).
Today the United States is the only state in world history that has used all three types of WMD.
❗️ The dropped nuclear bombs during WWII on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the use of toxic chemicals in Vietnam & Iraq - all these crimes were not properly assessed by relevant international organizations.
READ IN FULL - Russian MoD urgent briefing on WMD provocations.
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2022-04-23 11:15:38+00:00
#See4Yourself & #Think4Yourself
📽 Watch (with ENG subs) the documentary by Russian journalist Andrei Medvedev #Donbass to learn more about the tragedy of the region, the horrors of the past 8 years under constant attacks by the Kiev regime, killings of civilians, murder of children. All the things the Western mainstream media has so resolutely turned a blind eye to, ignoring or even laughing at the human suffering.
Learn the story of Donbass and its people.
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2022-04-23 09:27:39+00:00
❗️ The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation held an urgent briefing, detailing a provocation against the Russian Federation prepared by the USA and NATO with the accusation of using nuclear, biological and chemical weapons
💬 The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation possesses the information related to the preparation of provocations by the United States of America in order to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of using chemical, biological or tactical nuclear weapons.
There are three scenarios to be applied in order to accuse the Russian Federation.
👉 The first one is a ‘staged incident under a false flag’ that is the most probable.
👉 The second one refers to a ‘Maximally covert use of weapons of mass destruction in small volumes’ for neutralising the will power and the capacity to resist within the fulfilment of a particular operational task.
👉 The third and the least probable one is the ‘overt use of weapons of mass destruction at a combat area’.
Learn more
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2022-04-22 20:30:00+00:00
🎥 Report by the TV channel «Rossiya 24» on the construction by the State Corporation «Rosatom» of the Nuclear Science and Technology Center in El Alto (Bolivia)
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2022-04-22 17:04:53+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: On April 26, FM Sergey Lavrov will hold talks Antonio Guterres in Moscow 🇷🇺🇺🇳
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2022-04-22 15:35:38+00:00
🇷🇺🇪🇺📞 President Vladimir Putin had a lengthy telephone conversation with President of the European Council Charles Michel.
The leaders discussed in detail the developments in Ukraine. Charles Michel told Vladimir Putin about his contacts with the Ukrainian leadership during his recent visit to Kiev.
Attention was drawn to the irresponsible statements by EU officials about the need to resolve the situation in Ukraine by force of arms and their neglect of numerous war crimes of Ukrainian security agencies. It was noted that Brussels could influence the Kiev authorities, compelling them to stop the massive shelling of residential areas in Donbass and refrain from other crude violations of international humanitarian law.
❗️ In addition, the leaders of the majority of EU countries are taking actions that provoke overt Russophobia, which is manifest in the cultural, humanitarian and sports areas.
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2022-04-22 13:13:43+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of #Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi hold a joint press conference following talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇰🇿
https://www.ruptly.tv/ru/events/202204221200-LIVE10601-Lavrov-and-Kazakhstan-s-FM-Tileuberdi-give-press-conference-in-Moscow
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-04-22 12:56:59+00:00
🎙 The Spokesman for the 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian Embassy in China Georgy Yegorov gives comment to @RT regarding the Western MSM's accusations towards Russian diplomats on spreading disinformation.
❗️ Unlike Western digital platforms, Chinese social media offer equal opportunity to all Embassies and diplomats to express their countries' approaches and perspectives.
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2022-04-22 12:42:50+00:00
#Opinion by Maria #Zakharova:
💬 Greece, with whom Russia shares deep historical roots, chose a specific date, April 6, to announce its decision to expel Russian diplomats.
First, Victoria Nuland was in Athens on this day, as reported by the Kathimerini newspaper in a small article about Nuland’s meeting with Greek Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos. If Nuland shows up somewhere, nothing good comes out of it.
Second, April 6 happens to be a dark day in Greek history. It was on this day in 1941 that the Nazi Reich attacked the peninsula (Operation Marita). For the Greek people, April 6 has the same significance as June 22 for Russians. Was this merely a coincidence or a diabolic calculation on behalf of the American advisors?
However, the outcome is obvious: there was a time when Russia helped Greece achieve independence and restore its statehood, and its first head was previously Russia’s foreign minister, but now this country’s diplomatic relations with Russia have been reduced to almost nothing. This happened despite the fact that we share the same faith with the Greeks, the same traditions, and were always there to help our Greek friends. Suffice it to mention Russia’s effort to help Greece fight last year’s wildfires in the Peloponnese.
This is not so much an issue of Euro-Atlantic solidarity erasing the past, since it is a sovereign choice for every nation to decide whom to honour. Even worse, this deprives people and nations of their future, independence and the right to make sovereign choices.
This is how these historical parallels become a solid double line between us.
👉 https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2449
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2022-04-22 11:52:09+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of #Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi commence bilateral talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇰🇿
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-04-22 10:54:47+00:00
International concern forced the Ukrainian Security Service to show that 🇨🇱/🇺🇸 reporter Gonzalo Lira, whom the nationalists detained on April 15, is alive!
However, he doesn’t have access to his cellphone and social media accounts, gagged on what he can say publicly, and not allowed to leave Kharkov.
In a way, he got “lucky”. A number of his fellow journalists, who received “the Ukrainian treatment of the free press”, will never be seen again.
FULL VIDEO (courtesy of “The Duran”).
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2022-04-22 10:05:51+00:00
🇷🇺🇪🇹 Statement by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
🔹 Since the beginning of the Special military operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on protection of the people of Donbass, denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine with the aim to ensure national security of the Russian Federation, the Embassy has been receiving by emails and in-person visits from citizens of Ethiopia expressions of their solidarity and support for the Russian Federation.
We regard it as an another manifestation of the unbreakable bonds of brotherly friendship and mutual support between the two peoples. We thank all Ethiopian friends for the kind words they addressed to our country. We are sincerely grateful to the Government of Ethiopia for the support extended to the Russian Federation at the United Nations during voting on Ukraine-related resolutions and look forward to continuing our cooperation with regard to this and other issues.
🔹 At the same time, it should be emphasized that the Embassy strictly complies with the provisions of its own national legislation and the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, according to which recruitment of foreign nationals in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is not within the scope of the diplomatic mission's activities.
In this regard, while reiterating our gratitude to all concerned citizens of Ethiopia, we would like to inform that the Embassy does not accept any applications for recruitment in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. We are confident that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have sufficient capacity to accomplish all the responsible tasks assigned to them.
#RussiaEthiopia #RussiaAfrica
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2022-04-21 14:53:40+00:00
⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Gonzalo Lira, a video blogger, author and famous film director and a citizen of Chile and the United States, has not been in contact since April 15 after he went missing in Kharkov. He was where the action was, actively commenting on the events in Ukraine, first in Kiev and later in Kharkov. He honestly and professionally reported about the causes of the crisis and the ongoing outrages, including the Nazis’ atrocities. His video reports have helped many people in the West see the truth. The far-right radicals hated what he did and he started receiving threats.
The liberal queers and “honest” Western journalists, which is often one and the same, echoed the neo-Nazis’ threats. And now these “members of the public” are merrily discussing Gonzalo’s disappearance and are openly threatening their colleagues who dare to speak out openly about the events in Ukraine without mincing words.
‘Patrick [Lancaster], you next,” tweeted a transgender journalist from Las Vegas, who is reporting from Kharkov and often takes photos with the thugs from the so-called territorial defence forces.
They are doing their best to cancel and cross out those who disagree with them.
Sergey Korotkikh, aka Botsman, a chieftain of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, has hinted that his neo-Nazi confederates could be involved in Gonzalo’s disappearance: “It is ironic that Gonzalo Lira, a Chilean, has been captured by the man whose alias is Chile. Anyway, hope to see a beheading video on Telegram soon.” How do you like that? Incidentally, Chile is one of those who murdered and tortured Russian servicemen.
The tweet has been deleted, because Lira is a US citizen, but nothing can be deleted from the internet without a trace.
This is fresh proof that the cannibalistic liberal logic is so closely interconnected with the Nazi ideology that it is sometimes impossible to tell which is which. This is indicative.
P.S. We sincerely hope that the media mayhem raised by Azov Nazis and Western propagandists is nothing more than theatrics and that Gonzalo and his family are all well.
https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2443
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2022-04-21 13:00:12+00:00
⚡️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.
💬 You must offer all those who have not laid down their weapons to do so. Russia guarantees them their lives and dignity as per the relevant international legal instruments. All the wounded will get medical assistance.
You successfully completed the combat effort to liberate Mariupol. Let me congratulate you on this occasion, and please convey my congratulations to the troops.
We have to <...> consider ways of perpetuating the memory of those of our comrades who displayed heroism and sacrificed their lives so that our people in Donbass live in peace and to enable Russia, our country, to live in peace.
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2022-04-21 11:30:31+00:00
💬⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Boris Johnson has urged the Russian government to treat the Briton detained in Mariupol while fighting on the side of the Ukrainian government forces “humanely and compassionately.”
Here is what we have to say in this respect.
Boris, we know that you personally and your Government have disavowed the British subjects who have fallen victim to British propaganda and went to Ukraine as mercenaries to kill people there.
Don’t pretend to be worried. You are utterly unconcerned about the fate of Britons in trouble. They didn’t drink champagne with you at Downing Street, and so they can wait for your protection till kingdom come.
I would like to tell the following to those Britons who are concerned about their compatriots: Don’t worry, Russia is taking care of them. They are given food and drink, as well as any other assistance they may need, just as the other foreigners who have surrendered or have been detained.
Unlike the Ukrainian fighters who brutally kill prisoners and torture civilians, the Russian Armed Forces are committed to humanitarian law. If there were no media censorship in Britain, everyone there would know this.
At the same time, we urge the British authorities to treat the citizens of Ukraine “humanely and compassionately,” as Boris Johnson said, by stopping the delivery of weapons to Ukraine. The more weapons London is sending to Ukraine, the more citizens of Ukraine die as a result. But the BBC will never tell Britons about that.
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2022-04-20 12:57:14+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202204201200-LIVE10574-PRYaMAYa-TRANSLYaTsIYa-Zakharova-provedet-yezhenedelnii-brifing
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2022-04-20 03:30:40+00:00
🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gives an extensive interview to the "India Today" TV channel, speaks on the Russia-India relations, situation in Ukraine and other topical international issues.
Watch in full 👆
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2022-04-19 18:53:42+00:00
🇷🇺🇱🇻 Commentary of the Russian Embassy in Latvia:
"On April 16, 2022, the Russian Embassy in Latvia received information on the detention of two citizens of the Russian Federation in Riga: I.Zakharov and D.Glebushev, on the suspicion of having committed a criminal offence.
Russian diplomats clarified the circumstances of the detention of Russian citizens and promptly contacted the Latvian government agencies, as well as relatives of I.Zakharov and D.Glebushev. They are currently released.
At the same time, we would like to point out that our countrymen tried to paint over the swastika (a demonstration of which is prohibited in Russia and Latvia), which is depicted as a part of an impromptu installation in the colors of the Russian flag in front of the diplomatic mission. It appears that such a provocative “exposition” could not take place without the knowledge of the local authorities, since representatives of the Latvian law enforcement agencies are on 24/7 duty in the area".
#Riga #Latvia #Russia
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2022-04-19 10:08:52+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's opening remarks at the inauguration ceremony of a photo display to mark the 3️⃣0️⃣th Anniversary of Russia’s diplomatic relations with #CIS countries.
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202204190930-LIVE10573-Russian-FM-Lavrov-speaks-at-opening-ceremony-of-photo-exhibition
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-04-19 08:08:32+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gives interview to India Today TV-channel
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202204190800-LIVE10576-Russian-FM-Lavrov-gives-interview-to-India-Today-TV-channel
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-04-19 07:38:18+00:00
British reporter Graham Phillips spoke in Donetsk, DPR, with the captured British national Aiden Aslin.
During the lengthy interview Aiden tells his whole story - from how he first enlisted in the Ukrainian military till the moment he got tricked by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis, realized his poor life choices and made a wise decision to surrender in Mariupol.
It's unfortunate that a young man with supposedly valiant aspirations and noble causes was hoodwinked and simply used by the Ukrainian extremists. Although Aiden is, by far, not the first victim of the Kiev regime’s deception.
Re-evaluation of his decisions, however, is the first step to a healthy recovery!
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2022-04-18 19:49:21+00:00
🇷🇺🇩🇿📞 On April 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
The Presidents exchanged greetings on the 6️⃣0️⃣th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries marked this year and noted that Russia and Algeria enjoy steady and consistent development of friendly ties.
Vladimir Putin and Abdelmadjid Tebboune reaffirmed their intention to continue bilateral coordination within the OPEC+ format and the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in the interests of ensuring stability on global energy markets.
📍 When discussing current regional issues, the presidents expressed concern over the recent escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and stressed the importance of intensifying international efforts on a Middle East settlement.
They also discussed the situation in Ukraine. The Presidents agreed to maintain contacts at various levels.
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2022-04-18 18:50:48+00:00
🇷🇺🇵🇸📞 On April 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas, at the latter’s initiative.
The Leaders discussed issues pertaining to the settlement in the Middle East in the context of escalating tensions on the West Bank of the River Jordan and in East Jerusalem. They expressed the hope that this would not develop into a major confrontation between Palestine and Israel.
☝️ Vladimir Putin informed Mahmoud Abbas about the ongoing special military operation to protect Donbass and the talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives.
The Leaders also reviewed current bilateral issues, primarily relating to trade and the economy, and reaffirmed a mutual desire to continue developing friendly bilateral ties.
☪️ The President of Russia congratulated Mahmoud Abbas and all Palestinian people on the Holy Muslim Holiday Ramadan. The Leaders agreed to continue contacts.
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2022-04-18 18:35:42+00:00
🗓 International Day for Monuments and Sites is marked on April 18. The Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (#ICOMOS) established this day in 1982.
This day has been marked since 1984 with a view to drawing public attention to the need to protect world cultural heritage, to tell the public more about the efforts to protect and preserve it.
Unfortunately, a number of foreign states forget their commitments to preserve monuments and keep the memory of their general historical and cultural legacy.
We are seeing an increasing number of glaring cases of desecration and vandalism as regards Soviet war memorial heritage in Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Ukraine.
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2022-04-18 16:33:46+00:00
🎉🇿🇼 Today our Zimbabwean friends are celebrating Independence Day!
☝️ It was during the years of Zimbabwe's struggle for independence that the bonds of friendship and cooperation between our peoples began to form, which firmly bind us today.
#RussiaZimbabwe #RussiaAfrica
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2022-04-18 14:35:01+00:00
🗓 The Convention on Diplomatic Relations was adopted on this day 6️⃣1️⃣ years ago, in Vienna. It is one of the main international treaties offering a legal framework for diplomatic relations.
🌐 All UN member states, except Palau and South Sudan, signed and ratified the Convention.
📜 The Convention contains rules related to the appointment and seniority of heads of missions and members of diplomatic staff, declaring a member of a diplomatic mission persona non grata, ensuring the security of embassies and consulates, etc. A considerable part of the Convention is devoted to diplomatic privileges and immunities.
▪️ Unfortunately, the provisions of the Convention today are often violated by the Western nations' authorities.
💬 #Zakharova: Our diplomatic property was confiscated in the United States - five large diplomatic facilities. They were seized from us in violation of the Vienna Convention and common sense, and most importantly, in violation of US law.
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2022-04-18 13:53:02+00:00
While awaiting a response from Boris Johnson on his future, 🇬🇧 UK national Aiden Aslin (aka Cossack Gundi) also speaks about his neo-Nazi “comrades” from Azov and the tactics they’ve been using in Mariupol.
It’s no surprise that they were abducting and torturing civilians, not to mention using them as “human shield”.
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2022-04-17 12:17:04+00:00
Here's how the Western mainstream media and politicians whitewash the neo-Nazi #Azov Battalion, that has committed countless atrocities and crimes, targeting & killing civilians outright and using them as "human shield" (watch Mariupol residents give first-hand accounts). From terrorists to "patriots" in the eye of Western media.
📹 Donald Courter / @rtnews
#Think4Yourself
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2022-04-17 05:59:57+00:00
⚔️ On April 17, 1944, the Red Army liberated right-bank Ukraine from the Nazi invaders, having completed the Dnieper-Carpathian offensive.
The Red Army victory in western Ukraine invigorated the national liberation movement in central and southeastern Europe considerably. The frontline was pushed back closer to food, oil and other raw material sources that were vital for Germany.
☝️ The success of Soviet troops had huge international political repercussions. Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria started looking for ways to withdraw from the war, while the Soviet Union’s allies expedited preparations for landing their troops in France.
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2022-04-16 18:13:07+00:00
🎖 #OTD in 1934, the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was established - the highest distinction of the USSR.
For heroism and special services to the Soviet state, this title was awarded to more than 12.8 thousand people, including 44 foreigners.
🔗 Learn more: https://is.gd/WDrXjp
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2022-04-16 17:44:59+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokesperson Maria Zakharova on the anniversary of the Ukrainian assault on the Donbass.
▪️ On April 13, 2014 the Kiev regime began a civil war under the name Anti-Terrorist Operation against Donbass civilians who refused to accept the anti-constitutional coup by neo-Nazis.
❗️For eight years we have been witnessing Kiev’s war crimes and the West’s indifference to the tragedy in Donbass.
Our attempts to make Kiev abide by the #MinskAgreements failed, including due to the position of the Western countries who were playing their own game with their military buildup in Ukraine, turning it into a bridgehead against Russia while hiding behind talk of “engagement” in the political process of peace negotiations.
🛡 Having exhausted diplomatic means of protecting Donbass and ensuring its own security, Russia was forced to launch a special military operation.
(excerpt from weekly briefing of 14.04.22)
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2022-04-16 16:43:03+00:00
This is Snezhana.
She was born on 14.04.2014 - the very day that the Kiev regime started its "anti-terrorist operation" against the people of Donbass.
Snezhana lives in the town Makeevka near Donetsk, which has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian military for 8 years.
#See4Yourself / #Think4Yourself
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2022-04-16 13:11:04+00:00
🇷🇺🇸🇦📞 On April 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, at the initiative of the Saudi side.
The Leaders discussed current issues of bilateral cooperation, including in trade and the economy, and expressed their commitment to further developing mutually beneficial ties between Russia and Saudi Arabia.
🤝 They spoke highly of the joint work in the OPEC Plus format aimed at ensuring the stability of the global oil market.
The Leaders also exchanged opinions on some topics on the international agenda, including the situation around Ukraine and Yemen settlement.
☪️ Vladimir Putin congratulated the leaders and people of Saudi Arabia on the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan. It was agreed to maintain contact at different levels.
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2022-04-16 11:54:56+00:00
#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
Medvedchuk’s spouse Oksana Marchenko appealed to the British government and people: “I appeal to the relatives and friends of Aiden Eslin and Shaun Pinner: Angela Eslin, Nathan and Shannon Wood, Derby and Evan Pinner. It's in your power to ask the Prime Minister of your country, Boris Johnson, to influence the Ukrainian leadership and achieve the release of Aiden and Sean by exchanging them for the Ukrainian opposition politician detained by the Kiev authorities, my husband Viktor Medvedchuk.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recently went to Kiev, must be aware of the developments with Her Majesty’s subjects. He is sure to reply, isn’t he?
Meanwhile, Liz Truss might take the opportunity to reveal what exactly the British nationals were doing there [in Mariupol, with Neo-Nazis] anyway.
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2022-04-16 10:15:08+00:00
The Red Army’s Berlin offensive operation began 7️⃣7️⃣ years ago, on April 16, 1945. It resulted in the Soviet forces completely rooting out the Nazis, which led to the long-awaited Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
🕯 The Berlin offensive operation lasted from April 16 through May 8, 1945, with Soviet forces capturing about 480,000 enemy officers and soldiers, as well as 1,550 tanks, 8,600 artillery systems and 4,150 aircraft. The Red Army lost 274,184 officers and soldiers, including 78,292 killed and missing in action.
🎖 187 military units and elements received the honorary names Berlin for their soldiers’ bravery, heroism and impressive military professionalism displayed during the operation. On June 9, 1945, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree instituting the Medal for the Capture of Berlin. About 1,082,000 Soviet soldiers received this decoration.
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2022-04-16 09:40:17+00:00
🎙 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s interview with RT
❗️Russia has made public the facts that have come to light to date at the UN and other international organisations and called on the US authorities to provide detailed explanations, but, predictably, Washington does not appear to be ready to share with the public any meaningful information on its military biological programme in Ukraine.
📃 According to confirmed reports, Germany closely coordinated its work on biological security with its US allies, who established a network of at least 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine.
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☝️ We urge German officials to immediately stop spreading false allegations about our country’s intentions to use weapons banned by international law. We believe that such statements can only serve to push neo-Nazi battalions to commit horrible provocations, and moral responsibility for their tragic consequences will be shared by Berlin.
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2022-04-15 22:37:41+00:00
❗️According to reliable information, the Kiev regime is preparing another monstrous provocation, similar to the one in Kramatorsk, to accuse Russian servicemen of so-called war crimes with massacres of civilians.
▫️To this end, battalion of the 19th Separate Missile Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will soon launch a Tochka-U attack on an area of refugees concentration at the railway station in Lozovaya.
▫️The missiles will be launched from Staromikhailovka direction to simulate a strike from the territory allegedly controlled by the Russian Armed Forces and Donetsk People's Republic formations.
▫️Such actions by Ukrainian authorities once again demonstrate an inhuman attitude towards the fate of its own citizens and show a complete disregard for all norms of morality and international humanitarian law.
❗️We stress in particular that Tochka-U tactical missiles are only used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
▫️Taking the above into account, we warn the countries of the so-called "civilised West" led by the US in advance that the Russian Federation has an evidence base of another terrible crime being prepared by the Kiev regime.
Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, Head of the Russian Federation Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response - Head of the National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianResponse
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2022-04-15 15:43:24+00:00
📆 The Universal Day of Culture is marked on April 15. The date is connected with the signing of the first international Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments in 1935, which was referred to in international legal practice as the Roerich Pact. In 1998, the International League for the Protection of Culture established by the International Center of the Roerichs proposed the new holiday.
✍️ Russian artist and philosopher Nicholas Roerich advocated developing a code to regulate the protection of cultural and historic monuments from the destructive impact of external forces as early as 1904-1905. In 1929, he proposed a draft international treaty on the protection on cultural values. On April 15, 1935, heads of 21 states signed the Roerich Pact in the White House, Washington, D.C.
🏛 At the first International Conference of the Roerich Pact in Bruges, Belgium, in 1931 its author suggested instituting the Universal Day of Culture.
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2022-04-14 18:49:39+00:00
🎙 Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues (April 13, 2022).
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov's schedule
🔹 Update on the situation in Ukraine
🔹 Discussion of the missile attack on Kramatorsk by the Ukrainian armed forces at the OSCE
🔹 Japan’s decision to remove Azov battalion from the national survey of international terrorism
🔹 Polish authorities seize Russian diplomatic property in Warsaw
🔹 40th anniversary of the Argentine-British conflict over the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands
🔹 Britain’s colonial and neocolonial practices
🔹 Two Europes or how to read news in the historical context
And more…
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2022-04-14 17:18:31+00:00
🎙 The Director of Russia's Foreign Ministry's Department for Economic Cooperation Dmitry Birichevsky gave interview to RT, commenting on the anti-Russian sanctions hysteria in the West.
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2022-04-14 07:04:33+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in the "Digital International Relations 2022" Conference
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202204140700-LIVE10541-PRYaMAYa-TRANSLYaTsIYa-Lavrov-primet-uchastie-v-konferentsii-Tsifrovie-mezhdunarodnie-otnosheniya-2022-
https://mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-04-13 16:45:14+00:00
Russia’s candidate for the post of Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Rashid Ismailov, in an interview with RT:
💬 US dominance in the field of technology and communications does not allow the international community to set a legal framework necessary to ensure the protection of all players against “monstrous” things.
💬 In recent years, ITU members have repeatedly discussed the need to develop an international legal framework that covers not only the economic and technical aspects of communications, but also, as Russia has insisted, ethical aspects.
💬 These rules ‘palliatively’ exist, but have not been developed, because the US absolutely dominates these technologies. Its dominance is decreasing, but still remains overwhelming.
FULL INTERVIEW
RASHID ISMAILOV'S ELECTION PROGRAM
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2022-04-13 14:20:37+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202204131200-LIVE10525-Russian-MFA-spokesperson-Zakharova-holds-weekly-briefing-
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-04-13 13:44:39+00:00
❗️ Maxim Grigoryev, the chairman of the International Public Tribunal for Ukraine, shares first-hand accounts of citizens of Ukraine regarding war crimes committed by the Ukrainian military and Neo-Nazis in his telegram channel.
💬 Natalya Kudinova from Mariupol on crimes of Azov battalions:
- There was a grandmother with two little girls. One was 22 months old, the second one was probably 4 years old. They had been sitting in the basement all this time. They tried to get out, at least to get some water. She said: "Azov battalion was standing there. They were shooting at our feet" ...
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💬 Irina Bykova from Mariupol on crimes of soldiers of Ukraine:
- When we were crossing the street, Ukraine began to shoot at us. They deliberately did it...
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💬 Elena Buntseva from Mariupol on Ukrainian tanks’ fire at the houses of civilians.
- We were hiding in the basement at my brother's place. And there were tanks driving and other machines like that. They were shooting all the time and hit his house too...
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💬 Vita from Mariupol on crimes of Ukrainian soldiers:
- <...> They occupied appartements, occupied basements, were throwing people out into the streets and then shoot, from these appartements, from these basements.
👉 More testimonies
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2022-04-13 12:38:33+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 The USSR and India established diplomatic relations on April 13, 1947.
The friendship between Russia and India has deep roots in history. Russian trader and seafarer Afanasy Nikitin was one of the first Europeans to visit India.
❗️ Today, Russia and India are linked by a specially privileged strategic partnership. Russia-India ties are distinguished by: mutual trust, respect for core national interests, similar positions on various issues, intensive political cooperation.
💬 President Vladimir Putin: Russia views India as a major power, whose people have been very friendly to us. Our relations proceed from a very positive foundation. They are developing and forward-looking (New Delhi, December 6, 2021).
🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 The BRICS association established in 2006 has significant influence among other countries with developing economies
📈 In the first 11 months of 2021, Russia-India trade reached a record of nearly $12 billion.
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#RussiaIndia #DruzhbaDosti
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2022-04-13 12:28:10+00:00
⚡️ Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on topical foreign policy issues at 4 pm MSK (approximately) on April 13.
In light of measures taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and WHO recommendations on holding public events via teleconferencing, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson will answer media questions received by the call centre. Accredited journalists will be sent detailed information concerning the technical aspects of submitting questions.
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2022-04-13 04:57:43+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answer to a media question:
❓Dear Ambassador, how could you comment on the report on the situation with human rights in the world in 2021, published by the U.S. State Department on April 12?
💬Anatoly #Antonov: We are witnessing another round of hackneyed and baseless accusations against our country.
🔹 Before condemning other countries for violating human rights and freedoms, Washington should better address its own problems in the first place.
🔹 Racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other manifestations of intolerance are on the rise in the United States. Unprecedented Russophobia is continuing.
🔹 It is perplexing that the American Side does not support the annual UN General Assembly resolution on combatting the glorification of Nazism.
🔹 The inhumane policy of local authorities against immigrants is of a serious concern.
🔹 Washington hushes up the cases of torture and brutal treatment of prisoners in the Guantanamo Bay special prison.
🔹 And these are far from all the concerns that the international community could raise with respect to the human rights situation in the United States.
🔹 It is clear to us that the propaganda opuses of the State Department are aimed at demonizing political systems of undesirable countries and creating a pretext for interfering in their internal affairs.
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2022-04-12 21:25:20+00:00
🎙 #Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 We have been saying for the past eight years that the West is training Ukrainian nationalists. The “exceptional” and “civilised” countries refused to listen, but we continued to make our point with facts in hand. That was easy: you only had to go to Ukraine to see the regular events involving SS Waffen veterans, torchlight marches and the huge portraits of Nazi accomplices on buildings in Ivano-Frankovsk, Lvov and Ternopol.
This week, Canadian correspondent Simon Coutu published the results of a simple investigation on his page at Radio Canada. He studied the pictures posted to social media by the National Guard of Ukraine and compared them to the training programmes conducted for the Ukrainian military by the Canadian Department of National Defence. What did he see?
He writes that many photographs made at the Canada-sponsored training centre in Zolochyov show men in fatigues with the symbols of SS divisions Das Reich and Galizien on their sleeve patches. The experts Coutu contacted have confirmed that these men are neo-Nazis, most probably from the Azov regiment. Moreover, Coutu writes that the Azov Regiment has been incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard as “a special detachment of Military Unit 3057.” He also found out that Canada has spent nearly a $1 billion on training the Ukrainian military since 2014. How much of these funds went to train neo-Nazis? It’s anybody’s guess.
☝️ As I have said, the Canadian journalist has simply looked at the pictures and has seen what we have been talking about for years. He just looked at the photographs. We call for this every day.
Do you understand now why Russian film director Elem Klimov named his film about Nazism “Come and See”? Sometimes that is all that is needed. But it turns out that even this takes a great deal of courage.
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2022-04-12 21:03:44+00:00
🚀 April 12, 1961, marked the dawn of a new space era - a major milestone in the history of humanity which cannot be understated.
Of course, it is also a golden page in the biography of a legend, a remarkable man who had a direct bearing on the march of world history and later came to symbolise space exploration.
Every year at 9:07 am Moscow time on #CosmonauticsDay, we start counting minutes until Gagarin’s return home - all 108 minutes (that's how long the flight took).
🌏 Launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, his spacecraft, Vostok 1, completed a full orbit around the Earth, landing in the Saratov Region. Two days later, the capital and the entire country welcomed the space hero back. The world applauded the space pioneer!
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2022-04-12 20:24:55+00:00
A clip on how human 😞 emotions are being exploited to cripple critical thinking and clear judgment. “His face says it all” = look, don’t think.
The video also features a German reporter Thomas Röper’s story from Volnovakha, on how his own photos were used to suit the “narrative”.
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2022-04-12 19:55:00+00:00
🎙 Russia's Deputy Permanent Delegate of the Russian Federation to UNESCO Mrs. Tatiana Dovgalenko comments on the rejection of the proposal to hold Day of the #RussianLanguage by the UNESCO.
💬 This move not to adopt the decision on a language is unprecedented for the UNESCO. It undermines the very basis of the organisation. Multilingualism is recognised as a fundamental value of the United Nations.
Our Western colleagues confess between themselves that they don't care about the UNESCO mandate. What they do care, is using the UNESCO platform to punish and harm Russia.
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2022-04-12 17:46:18+00:00
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya television network (April 11, 2022)
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💬 This is a major shift in the policy of the EU and the entire West under the leadership of the US (there is no doubt about that) that occurred after the start of our special military operation. Their current policy is rooted in bitterness and derangement (excuse the non-diplomatic word choice), though it’s not all about Ukraine but rather turning that country into a bridgehead from which Russia can finally be subjugated and subordinated to the global system built by the West even though the Cold War ended and the USSR and Warsaw Treaty disappeared.
The West was moving closer to our borders all the time despite its promises not to expand NATO, statements to the effect that we were no longer adversaries and many other things. Our special military operation is designed to put an end to NATO’s unlimited expansion and to keep the US and other NATO countries from achieving total world domination.
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2022-04-12 14:08:09+00:00
⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Our European and US “partners”, who agitate for confronting Russia at home and play nice with “volunteers” (aka mercenaries), are carrying on a faulty tradition and do not see the repercussions of tailoring their decisions to fit a blind Russophobic logic even if it will backfire in the long term.
Craig Lang’s case is illuminating in this regard (read more in D. Yermolayev’s article) "Will Latvia reap a neo-Nazi whirlwind?" of April 9). Lang is a former US soldier, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who was discharged after a PTSD diagnosis. In 2015 he set out for Donbass to fight for Right Sector but was kicked out a year later. Then he attempted to fight in Sudan, was detained with his buddy on the border with Kenya and deported to the US. There he killed two people to finance a trip to Caracas to fight the “government regime.” Finally, he fled law enforcement back to Ukraine. Kiev ignores the calls to extradite Lang and today this serial recidivist and “dog of war” is fighting alongside with other “legionnaires” such as Latvian activists. This makes for quite a tough company of such “wild geese.”
Those “activists” who don’t flee in the first days will undergo training and join the ranks of Ukrainian paramilitary units, fighting side by side with outright Nazis. And they will come back home not just with a broken mind but also as militants poisoned by a misanthropic ideology who are accustomed to violence and handling weapons. They are ready for membership in the international neo-Nazi underground. Azov will not teach them anything good.
The question is whether it is possible that the authorities and intelligence agencies in countries such as Latvia, which allow and even encourage volunteers, fail to understand this. Some, if not all, are sure to come back. Will they still blame Moscow then and not themselves?
https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2384
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2022-04-12 12:01:44+00:00
🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment
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💬 The Confederation President Ignazio Cassis, who also heads the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, used his April 7 interview with Luxembourg’s Le Quotidien to proclaim the end of an era, which had lasted since the end of World War II, “when no sovereign, democratic country on the continent suffered from an attack.”
☝️ We would like to remind the head of the Swiss state that it was the 1999 NATO bombings and missile strikes against peaceful cities in Yugoslavia that undermined the foundations of the post-war era and disrupted international law.
Forgetting these historical facts and loosely interpreting them to fit the current political agenda is totally unacceptable.
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2022-04-12 09:10:58+00:00
🇺🇳 On April 8, the FAO Council held its extraordinary 169th session at the FAO Headquarters in Rome in a hybrid format. The extraordinary session was convened at the initiative of United States and the EU countries.
❌ This is the first time in the history of this organisation that the participants in a session voted to approve a decision on measures affecting the FAO’s subsequent activities in response to a specific conflict and its impact on food security. The opinions of a large number of Council members were ignored, as they insisted on a comprehensive analysis of the reasons behind the worsening situation in the global food market.
🇷🇺 The Russian delegation underscored the importance of keeping the food security agenda apolitical. We expect the FAO will return to pursuing is goals and objectives in line with its mandate.
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2022-04-11 20:19:16+00:00
❗️New false staged provocations to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly abusing the population of Ukraine are being prepared by the Kiev regime under the guidance of the British intelligence services in Sumy region.
❗️Representatives of the Ukrainian and Western media have been invited to Seredina Buda town in Sumy Region, which was formerly under the control of Russian troops, to conduct staged video footage. In order to conceal the provocation and prevent it from being exposed by real witnesses, a curfew has been imposed in the city and the local population has been forcibly evicted from the places where the filming took place.
▫️In Nizhnyaya Syrovatka near Sumy, bodies are being dragged into one of the basements of residential buildings to be presented as allegedly another victim of the Russian Army. As conceived by the "British filmmakers", units of Russian troops allegedly massacred and humiliated civilians as they withdrew. Another fake will be promoted by the Western media in the very near future. Its aim is to further increase Russophobia against the backdrop of Europe's rapidly developing economic crisis.
❗️Please note that Russian troops withdrew from this location three weeks ago - on March 20. Such events, if they really happened, could not have failed to become public in such a long period. Moreover, the Kiev regime is looking for any reasons to accuse Russia of genocide of the Ukrainians. A whole network of foreign information-psychological influences on the population is currently operating in Ukraine, producing "dirty tricks" on a professional basis. We will see the results of their anti-Russian activities more than once.
▫️The Ukrainian authorities also make extensive use of interested countries and non-profit organisations.
▫️For example, the French leadership has sent a group of French servicemen and the Gendarmerie to Ukraine to collect information on alleged crimes committed by Russian servicemen, together with representatives of the "International Commission on Missing Persons" (created at the initiative of the USA).
▫️On April 11, French special operations forces personnel, together with technical experts from the French Gendarmerie and the Interior Ministry, arrived in Ukraine via Germany and Poland through the so-called "diplomatic corridor".
Given the partisanship of these "experts", there is no hope of an impartial investigation. Apparently, their main areas of activity will be to cover up numerous war crimes against the population of Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics committed by the Ukrainian authorities over the last eight years, as well as fabricating accusations against the Russian Armed Forces.
📑 Statement Full Text
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianResponse
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2022-04-11 15:19:21+00:00
🎙 #Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba has called on scholars throughout the world to investigate the causes that have led to the atrocities in Bucha: “For many years, Russian political elites and propaganda have been inciting hatred, dehumanising Ukrainians, nurturing Russian superiority, and laying ground for these atrocities. I encourage scholars around the globe to research what led to Bucha.”
Kuleba’s call has been echoed by Alexey Arestovich, an adviser to President Zelensky, who wrote: “So, these are the buttons we need to press. Incite concern with a statement and after that, evoke a feeling of guilt: ‘While the boys are out there in the trenches, you are having a good time in Kiev nightclubs, you bastards!’ Or say: ‘You are not giving money to the army.’ And then press the button of security needs. After that, make the persons in question ‘part of a significant group’ and reward them. The first set of buttons is to raise concern, and the second group is aimed at rewarding them and leading them to where we want them to be. In other words, first we scare them silly, and then we show them a way out, foster their expectations and tell them what they must do, and that after that everything will be great. We are nurturing their expectations and a feeling of being part of specific groups: ‘We are brothers,’ ‘We are Ukrainians,’ ‘We have repelled a terrible Russian onslaught, which means that there is nothing to fear,’ ‘Ukraine is respected throughout the world,’ ‘Ukrainians are the best soldiers, they will fight to the bitter end,’ ‘We won’t be deceived.’ Being part of a significant group, feeling that they are part of the significant group that is working to solve the problem. ‘Those who are on Maidan are the good guys.’ And this leads us to a feeling of pride and self-praise: ‘Ukrainians are the best soldiers in the world, we can defeat anyone.’ And then they are offered a reward, that is, they must be shown what will happen if they do this or that.”
This is how the Ukrainian fighters who staged the criminal provocation in Bucha were trained. Next time Kuleba should not appeal to “scholars around the globe” but to Alexey Arestovich, “a politician, intelligence officer, blogger, political and military columnist, actor, organiser of psychological seminars and trainings and a charity fund for psychological support to the military” who fought against people in Donbass in 2014-2017. This is how he is described on Wikipedia. Arestovich will tell Kuleba how cyborgs were created in Ukraine.
🔗 https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2379
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2022-04-11 12:56:19+00:00
🕯 April 11 is the International Day of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps.
The date was established to commemorate the uprising of the inmates of Buchenwald, one of the largest death camps in the Third Reich.
✊ On April 11, 1945, the inmates started a rebellion after learning that the Allied forces were close. They disarmed and captured 200 guards and kept control of the camp until the US troops arrived.
DYK that Majdanek, Poland, was the first Nazi camp to be liberated. The Red Army set its inmates free in July, 1944. After that, the soviet forces liberated Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbruck and many other extermination camps.
☝️ Before and during WWII, the Nazis established a network of 14,000 death camps. Overall, 18 million people were sent to Nazi camps, 11 million of them were killed.
The system of concentration camps was destroyed after the routing of Nazism, condemned by the Nuremberg Trials as a crime against humanity.
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2022-04-10 19:41:04+00:00
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2022-04-10 10:55:28+00:00
7️⃣8️⃣ years ago – on April 10, 1944 – the Red Army liberated Odessa from the Nazis
⚔️ The Odessa Operation took place from March 26 to April 14, 1944. In the early hours of April 10, the 8th Guards Army and the 6th and the 5th Attack Armies, along with guerilla forces attacked hostile forces in Odessa after a short shelling attack. By 10 a.m. Soviet troops had fully liberated Odessa.
🕯 During the Nazis’ Siege of Odessa, which lasted 907 days, 82,000 citizens perished, and an additional 78,000 people were sent to Germany to work as slave labourers.
🎖 Twenty seven units and troops, which distinguished themselves during the liberation of the city, were designated “Odessa” units. For heroism and bravery displayed during battle 14 people were awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1965 Odessa was awarded the title of #HeroCity.
🔗 https://www.facebook.com/MIDRussia/posts/286281677028233
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2022-04-09 20:49:57+00:00
#DebunkingFakes
With facts.
Facts. The false-flag nature of what happened in the city of Kramatorsk - an unthinkable, cynical attack on civilians - is getting more evident by the minute.
Not only a Tochka-U missile was used (this alone is an answer - Russian forces have literally 0 of these armaments), the m.o. and the ballistic trajectory point to the Ukrainian military & Neo-Nazi units as the responsible party.
The serial numbers themselves on the very missile that killed people this week is a near match to the one fired by the Ukrainian army in 2015 against the town of Alchevsk (a documented case) - 9M979-1 Ш91579 in Kramatorsk and 9M979-1 Ш91565 in Alchevsk. Same batch?
#Think4Yourself & #See4Yourself
https://t.me/RussiaGeneva/33
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2022-04-09 20:30:49+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova regarding High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell's remarks that "This war will be won on the battlefield":
Here you have it, an "economic-focused" organization [EU].
👉 This is EU no longer. Now it's simply a NATO department on trade and economic relations.
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2022-04-09 19:04:57+00:00
🚨Read extracts from the statement of the Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich «Gross violations of the rights of the Russian and Russian-speaking population in some OSCE participating States as open disregard for international law and international legal instruments» (OSCE Permanent Council meeting, 7 April 2022):
🔺Canada, USA, «collective» Brussels and EU member states foment unprecedented Russophobic sentiments, condone Russophobic actions, ignore hate speech in all public and social strata.
🔺In their anti-Russian fervor, they consciously disregard the fundamental principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and their international legal obligations, including those under the relevant international covenants.
🔺In violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, in some OSCE pS Russian-speaking minors are bullied, humiliated, insulted, and beaten in schools. Not to mention psychological pressure and creation of conditions that hinder educational process.
🔺Campaign has been launched to eliminate Russian presence in the global information space, Russian journalists are banned from expressing their opinions, Russian-speaking residents of some OSCE pS are denied the right to access to information in their native language.
🔺A number of U.S. social media platforms have willingly joined the campaign of rabid Russophobia. Meta stated that in the context of situation in Ukraine, it will not prohibit its users from calling for violence against Russians and the Russian military.
🔺We are concerned about the safety of Russian-speaking journalists and civic activists, incl. in light of the appearance in Latvia of an equivalent of the notorious Ukrainian website «Myrotvorets», which publishes data of those who support Russia's actions in Ukraine.
🔺Unfortunately, some OSCE executive structures - ODIHR and RfoM - turn a blind eye to the mass Russophobia. Apparently they are too busy spreading fakes on their social media about Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.
🔺We call on OSCE pS to stop neglecting their international obligations and to finally start practically countering Russophobic hysteria.
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2022-04-09 17:26:37+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Article by Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly #Antonov for Newsweek 👉
🔵 The special operation in Ukraine is the result of the unwillingness of the Kiev regime to stop the genocide of Russians.
🔵 The nationalist frenzy and revanchist sentiments of the Kiev regime resulted in the full sabotage of the Minsk agreements.
🔵 Russia had no other choice but to recognize the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
🔵 The occupation of Ukraine is not the goal of the special operation.
🔵 The provocation in the Ukrainian city of Bucha was egregious. While the Russian military was deployed in this city, not a single local resident was injured.
🔵 The policy of our country is based on the right for all the peoples living today in the Ukrainian territory to choose their own future.
🔵 Russia is doing everything possible to negotiate a path to the prompt completion of the confrontation.
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2022-04-09 15:42:37+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲📞 President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan at the latter’s initiative. 🤝 The leaders discussed current issues on the bilateral agenda, including preparations for the forthcoming visit by the Prime Minister of Armenia to Russia.
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🇷🇺🇦🇿📞 President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the initiative of the Azerbaijani side. 🤝 The leaders reaffirmed their mutual commitment to continue close interaction on the current agenda of bilateral relations.
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2022-04-09 15:10:34+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Remarks by Russian Ambassador to the United States
Anatoly #Antonov at the Schiller Institute "Conference to Establish a New Security and Development Architecture for All Nations":
💬 The new Russia made an attempt to meet the West halfway. We demonstrated our readiness to compromise, making unforgivable concessions in some cases. The West cynically took advantage of such a constructive approach.
❗️ The Russian Side finds efforts of the NATO members to "militarily explore" the territories of Ukraine and Georgia and establish a network of US biolabs along our borders totally unacceptable!
☝️ Today it is extremely important to achieve the demilitarization and deNAZIfication of Ukraine. There should be no threats to the Russian Federation coming from the Ukrainian territory. This is the objective of our special military operation.
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2022-04-09 13:59:37+00:00
⚡️ Statement by the Russian Defence Ministry (excerpt from the MoD briefing of 09.04.2022)
❗️ Kiev nationalist regime is preparing another provocation to accuse Russia of allegedly massacring civilians in Irpen, Kiev Region
☝️ Units of the Russian Armed Forces left the town more than a week ago.
◾️ The Security Service of Ukraine plans to bring the bodies of local residents killed by Ukrainian artillery shelling from the morgue of the town hospital on Polevaya Street to the basement of a building on the eastern outskirts of Irpen.
◾️ Then a staged action with shooting and "destruction" of an alleged "Russian reconnaissance group" that arrived in Irpen "to kill witnesses of Russian war crimes" will be staged by the Security Service of Ukraine in Puscha-Voditskii forest area.
◾️ At the same time, the bodies of captured Russian servicemen previously killed by nationalists under torture will be presented as "undeniable evidence" in the forest.
◾️ This cynical staged action is organised for later distribution of video footage through the Western media.
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2022-04-09 13:47:44+00:00
🇷🇺Russian and DPR servicemen evacuate civilians from Mariupol districts that remain in the area of possible shelling by Ukrainian nationalists
▫️During the day, more than 80 residents, including 14 children, were evacuated from the basements of residential buildings near the contact line.
▫️IFV-1 infantry fighting vehicles and armoured personnel carriers were used to safely evacuate civilians from under AFU fire.
▫️The movements of the evacuation units were camouflaged with smoke.
▫️All people were taken to safe locations. The inhabitants affected by the shelling were provided with qualified medical assistance by Russian servicemen, including at the medical unit of the special-purpose medical unit.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #Mariupol
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2022-04-09 12:34:35+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on the planned exchange of prisoners of war between the Russian and the Ukrainian Side:
❗️ Ukraine turned down all proposals and agreed-upon positions without explaining its motives.
Before that Russia and Ukraine negotiated a plan for exchanging prisoners of war. It was intended to do everything under the established procedure, as stipulated by humanitarian norms and in cooperation with international organisations.
We have every reason to believe that the situation with captive Russian service personnel (and their condition) leaves much to be desired.
Also: The Kiev regime notified that it does not intend to honour the Geneva Convention.
Not only are Western countries aware of Kiev’s crude violations of international humanitarian law with regard to Russian prisoners of war. They receive all information, and they are also trying to help Ukrainian authorities avoid responsibility.
(excerpt from weekly briefing of 06.04.22)
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2022-04-08 21:39:14+00:00
#DebunkingFakes
❗️ The Ukrainian military has once again used a Tochka-U missile to target and hit civilians, same m.o. as during attack on Donetsk of March 14.
The Truth is: this horrific and crude provocation was done by the Kiev regime, aimed at maintaining the anti-Russian hysteria in the West at the cost of lives of the people of Kramatorsk, a predominantly Russian-speaking city in the Donbass area, that has suffered greatly in the past 8 years under the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis.
Fact: Russia simply has no Tochka-U missiles, it is a well established fact. None, nada.
The Russian Defence Ministry has repeated on multiple occasions that it is not targeting civilian infrastructure let alone civilians, taking the careful approach, choosing precise strikes on military infrastructure, while the Ukrainian forces & Neo-Nazis use their own people as human shields. Thousands first-hand accounts from liberated parts of Mariupol tell the truth.
Watch the rundown
#Think4Yourself / #See4Yourself
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2022-04-08 20:44:47+00:00
⚡️⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on Ukraine’s strike at Kramatorsk.
On April 8, the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) committed yet another war crime by striking a railway station in Kiev-controlled Kramatorsk with a Tochka-U tactical missile.
Dozens were killed and over a hundred injured.
🕯 We convey our deep condolences to the families and friends of the deceased.
🚫 The choice of the target was not random – the Kiev regime is striving to maximise the number of civilian victims.
Their murders in Donbass have become standard practice for Ukrainian armed units in the past eight years. By cynically killing civilians in cold blood, Kiev is trying to blame Russia for its own crimes in order to discredit Moscow’s special military operation to defend the DPR and the LPR.
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❗️ We urge the international community to objectively evaluate the crimes committed by Ukrainian units, to stop supplying them with arms and prompt Kiev to renounce its unacceptable methods of hostility.
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2022-04-08 19:20:56+00:00
💬 Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
Apparently, having arrived in Britain, Raed al-Saleh (chief of the White Helmets' head, the pseudo-humanitarian organisation that is remembered for its provocations in Syria) expected a reception like he used to receive in the past (there are many photos of him with European leaders on the internet).
But this time he was accorded the dubious honour of being received by a couple of MPs and the deputy head of a Foreign Office department.
👍 The Brits are rightly famous for their self-possession. It takes real skill to demonstrate to a person that he is not welcome with as much dignity.
☝️ It will be different if the White Helmets are needed again. So much was said in Washington and the surrounding area about “the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine” that it will be impossible to do without the “tried-and-tested humanitarian experts” that are ready to witness the presence of “Moscow’s hand.”
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2022-04-08 17:42:19+00:00
🚫 On April 8, Krzysztof Krajewski, the Polish Ambassador to Russia, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow where a resolute protest was lodged in connection with the March 23, 2022 decision to declare 45 officials of Russian diplomatic missions in Poland personae non grata.
The Russian side told the Ambassador that it saw this step as confirmation of Warsaw’s deliberate efforts to completely destroy bilateral relations. Responsibility for this rests entirely with the Polish side.
ℹ️ As a retaliatory measure following Poland’s unfriendly move to expel Russian diplomats and under the principle of reciprocity, 45 officials from the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and its consulates-general in Irkutsk, Kaliningrad and St Petersburg have been declared personae non grata. They will have to leave the territory of the Russian Federation by midnight April 13. The relevant note was presented to the Ambassador of Poland to Russia.
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2022-04-08 17:25:59+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇯📞 On April 8, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon.
The Heads of State exchanged greetings on a landmark event, the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations and pointed out the importance of consistently implementing the agreements reached during a visit by President of Tajikistan to Russia in December 2021 and of close coordination of their actions within the framework of multilateral organisations, first of all the CIS, the CSTO and the SCO.
#RussiaTajikistan
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2022-04-08 16:35:16+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇲📞 On April 8, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov.
The two Leaders exchanged greetings on the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries and discussed topical issues on the bilateral agenda and prospects for cooperation in regional formats, including within the Caspian Five. They reaffirmed their mutual resolve to further promote the strategic partnership between Russia and Turkmenistan.
Vladimir Putin invited Serdar Berdimuhamedov to visit Russia. The invitation was accepted with gratitude.
#RussiaTurkmenistan
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2022-04-08 14:53:19+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲 FM Sergey Lavrov during talks with FM of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan
💬 This meeting offers a good opportunity to review all aspects of our cooperation and allied relations. We are interested in the further development of Russian-Armenian ties.
☝️ As its main ally, we will continue helping Armenia to strengthen its combat capability and to protect the border. Being the main trade and economic partner and foreign investor in Armenia, Russia will continue looking for new projects to ensure the stability of our trade and to create new production facilities and new jobs.
#RussiaArmenia
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2022-04-08 12:09:53+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇲 Today, on April 8, Russia and Turkmenistan mark the 3️⃣0️⃣ Anniversary of diplomatic relations.
🤝 The relationship between Moscow and Ashgabat is based on equality, mutual respect and consideration of each other’s interests. This is largely made possible by the fraternal ties between the peoples of our two counties, our rich shared history, and the centuries-old traditions of friendship that bind us.
The political dialogue at the top and high levels is well established.
It was noted that Russia and Turkmenistan enjoy a high level of cooperation at major international forums.
📈 The two countries managed to overcome the negative trends in trade to reach $865.1 million in 2021.
📚 Both countries are devoting considerable attention to contacts in culture and education. Ties in culture and science are being steadily promoted.
READ IN FULL
#RussiaTurkmenistan
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2022-04-08 11:17:39+00:00
🔴#LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Foreign Minister of #Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan hold a joint news conference following talks in #Moscow 🇷🇺🇦🇲
https://is.gd/6NZCmr
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-04-08 10:47:08+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇯 Today marks 3️⃣0️⃣ years of diplomatic relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan.
✍️ The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance signed on May 25, 1993 is the foundational bilateral legal document. In all, about 200 interstate, intergovernmental and interagency agreements have been signed to date.
🤝 Tajikistan is Russia’s strategic partner and ally in the Central Asian region. Bilateral relations are marked by a wide-ranging political dialogue, a high level of trust and close cooperation in a variety of areas.
✅ The Russian Federation is traditionally among the top donor countries providing humanitarian aid to Tajikistan. Russia and Tajikistan cooperate within the CIS and other integration associations, such as the CSTO and the SCO.
🔗 https://www.facebook.com/MIDRussia/posts/284916153831452
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2022-04-08 10:15:59+00:00
⚡️Russian Defence Ministry denies statements made by Kiev regime about an alleged missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region
▫️All statements by representatives of the Kiev nationalist regime about an alleged missile attack by Russia on the railway station in Kramatorsk city on April 8 are a provocation and are absolutely untrue.
▫️The Russian Armed Forces did not have or plan to carry out any firing missions in Kramatorsk city on April 8.
▫️We emphasize in particular that Tochka-U tactical missiles, the wreckage of which was found near the Kramatorsk railway station and published by eyewitnesses, are used by Ukrainian Armed Forces only.
▫️On March 14, 2022, a similar Tochka-U missile of Division of 19th Separate Missile Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the centre of Donetsk, killing 17 people on the spot and injuring another 36 civilians.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
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2022-04-08 09:54:01+00:00
🔴#LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Foreign Minister of #Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan commence bilateral talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇦🇲
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-04-08 09:40:04+00:00
⚡️ Foreign Ministry’s statement on personal sanctions against New Zealand’s senior government officials and members of parliament 🇳🇿
Read in full
In view of the unprecedented sanctions imposed by Wellington on the senior government officials of the Russian Federation and a significant share of its parliamentarians, and guided by the principle of reciprocity, Russia has blacklisted senior government officials and members of parliament of New Zealand, effective April 7, 2022.
By taking this step, Russia responds to the unfriendly actions by New Zealand’s cabinet, which joined the United States and its satellites in the campaign to contain Russia. . <...>
☝️Russia emphasises that it will be firm in its response to any anti-Russia actions.
📄 The stop list of New Zealand nationals banned from entering the Russian Federation.
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2022-04-08 08:27:02+00:00
⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on personal sanctions on senior officials and MPs of Australia 🇦🇺
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Obediently following the policy set by the collective West, Canberra has fallen into a Russophobic frenzy and introduced sanctions against Russia’s senior leadership and practically all members of parliament. In response, on April 7, 2022, Russia added to its stop list members of the Australian National Security Committee, House of Representatives, Senate and regional legislative assemblies.
This step comes in response to the unfriendly actions by the current Australian Government, which is prepared to support any actions aimed at containing Russia.
Subsequent announcements will expand the sanctions blacklist <...>.
☝️ We will resolutely oppose every anti-Russia action.
📄 The list of Australian citizens who are denied entry into the Russian Federation.
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2022-04-08 08:10:05+00:00
🇷🇺🇧🇭 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks following talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani
💬 We had a constructive exchange of views on the most recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa.
With regard to Syria, we are of the same opinion about the need to fully implement UN Security Council Resolution 2254.
For obvious reasons, we specifically discussed at length the situation in and around Ukraine. I expressed my gratitude to our Bahraini friends for taking a balanced and consistent pan-Arab approach.
We noted that the King of Bahrain has proposed initiatives to make additional efforts to advance a peaceful settlement. Those initiatives are in the context of understanding the common goal to ensure reliable indivisible security on the European continent.
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2022-04-08 07:52:54+00:00
🇷🇺🇧🇭 FM Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani
💬 I would like to congratulate you on the start of the holy month of Ramadan and to wish you health, happiness and all-out prosperity 🌙
We maintain good relations, and we see Bahrain as our reliable partner in the Arab world.
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2022-04-08 07:31:43+00:00
⚡️ In Russia’s view, the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly in New York on April 7 on suspending the membership of the Russian Federation in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is an unlawful and politically motivated act of punishment designed to make an example of a sovereign UN member pursuing independent domestic and foreign policies.
❗️ Effective April 7, 2022, the Russian Federation has decided to end its membership in the UNHRC.
Our decision to end our membership in the UNHRC effective immediately does not mean Russia is retreating from its international human rights commitments.
☝️The Russian Federation intends to continue helping to facilitate a constructive dialogue on human rights and engaging all stakeholders in collective decision-making in the interests of all groups of states.
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2022-04-07 20:14:57+00:00
❗️ Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on the situation in Ukraine:
💬 I am accusing Western and primarily the US media of not only spreading fake news and disinformation, but of being accomplices in the massacre in Bucha.
Western media can block us on Twitter all they want. They can cut things out, apply labels and threaten users that certain information is supposedly “hazardous to human health.” They are spreading fake stories and presenting them as fact. They can do this as long as they like but they must remember that history always dots its i’s and crosses its t’s.
The truth will always prevail.
(excerpt from weekly briefing of 06.04.22)
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2022-04-07 19:58:03+00:00
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comment on the new draft agreement presented by the Ukrainian side, Moscow, April 7, 2022
Yesterday, the Ukrainian side presented its draft agreement to the negotiating group. It shows a departure from the most important provisions included in the document signed by head of the Ukrainian delegation David Arakhamia at the meeting in Istanbul on March 29 of this year.
❗️I would like to remind the other side that after Istanbul, in response to a glint of realism in the Ukrainian approach, the Russian armed forces de-escalated operations on the Kiev-Chernigov track as a gesture of goodwill and to expedite the progress towards an agreement.
👉 Despite all the provocations, the Russian delegation will continue the negotiation process, promoting our draft agreement, which spells out all the key positions and demands very clearly and in full.
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2022-04-07 19:51:00+00:00
💬 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s response to a media question about Russia’s alleged preparations for cybersecurity attacks against the United States
❗️We would like to emphasise that we have much more evidence with which to accuse the Western countries of sponsoring cybercriminals, but we are displaying common sense and self-possession. We are ready to discuss specific factual reports on computer system hacking on a mutual basis. We are also prepared to conduct a broader dialogue on renouncing the militarisation of the information space and using it for peaceful purposes. The dual goal is to prevent the turning of the ICT environment into an arena for interstate confrontation and to guarantee the development of this technology for the benefit of progress by all states.
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2022-04-07 19:45:26+00:00
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani, Moscow, April 7, 2022
👉 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain maintain regular contacts. Following several of their meetings, our relations are developing under mutual agreements encompassing the trade, economic and investment spheres, cultural and educational cooperation, and our coordination on the international scene.
I hope to discuss regional affairs today. It is important for us to hear the assessments of our friends regarding Middle East and North Africa developments.
Read in full
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2022-04-07 18:52:10+00:00
Statement by Ambassador Gennady Gatilov regarding the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the UN Human Rights Council on April 7, 2022
Russia has made a conscious decision to withdraw in advance from the UN Human Rights Council on April 7, 2022.
The resolution initiated by the United States, which was adopted today by the UN General Assembly, is based not on the human rights situation in a specific country, but solely on geopolitical priorities of the collective West, which does not abandon attempts to subjugate various spheres of interaction between states in the international arena.
Those who disagree with their approach, as the Westerners see it, should be "punished". The main goal is to find a pretext.
FULL STATEMENT
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2022-04-07 15:32:24+00:00
🇷🇺🇧🇭 Foreign Ministers of Russia and Bahrain Sergey Lavrov and Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani met in Moscow, held fruitful talks today.
#RussiaBahrain 🤝
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2022-04-07 13:37:25+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani hold a joint news conference following talks in Moscow
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-04-07 12:11:26+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani commence bilateral talks in Moscow
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-04-07 10:51:24+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇳 On April 6, Russia organized an #Arria-formula meeting of the UN Security Council hosted by the Russian Federation on the topic "Threats to international peace and security emanating from military #biological activities in regions across the globe".
The meeting allowed for an open exchange on the challenges posed by the military biological activities that can lead to devastating consequences for international peace and security as well as for the world's population.
The briefers and Member States were invited to present their views on possible ways to redress with the situation, in particular on how to uphold biological weapons prohibition regime, including through efficient verification mechanism.
Watch
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2022-04-06 22:28:39+00:00
🎙 MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question about Finland’s seizure of Russian artwork
💬 On April 2 and 3, Finnish customs officers seized three vehicles bound for Russia via Finland at the Russian-Finnish border, citing a likely violation of the so-called sanctions against Russia. The vehicles carried in transit artwork from the Hermitage, Tretyakov Gallery and Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, which earlier were on display in Italy.
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Basically, the situation can be described as legal anarchy. We are talking about the seizure, in violation of international law, of Russian-owned artwork that temporarily was on display abroad.
☝️ We are waiting for the Finnish authorities to act with due haste to ensure that all these works are returned to Russia.
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2022-04-06 21:03:36+00:00
🎙 Comment by MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Romania’s decision to declare Russian diplomats persona non grata 🇷🇴
💬 On April 5, the Romanian authorities declared ten Russian diplomats in Bucharest persona non grata. Simultaneously, the Russian Ambassador was informed of Romania’s position on the crimes committed in Bucha and other Ukrainian cities, for which Russia is held responsible, despite the absence of supporting evidence.
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Because of Bucharest’s actions, our bilateral relations have been at a serious impasse in recent years, while Romania’s hostile actions are yet again putting the basic mechanisms of a civilised intergovernmental dialogue and cooperation in jeopardy. This course of events is not our choice and we deeply regret it.
❗️ Clearly, the decision to expel Russian diplomats from Romania will not remain without an appropriate response.
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2022-04-06 20:52:15+00:00
🎙 MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the Slovenian authorities’ unfriendly actions 🇸🇮
💬 The Slovenian authorities ordered a fivefold reduction in the diplomatic staff of the Russian Embassy in Ljubljana and made other unprecedented demands, including ones that run counter to provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
We regard these steps as extremely irresponsible and unfriendly. They reflect the anti-Russian position adopted by the current Government of Slovenia, which sometimes crosses the line into blatant Russophobia. We see Ljubljana’s recent unlawful decisions to terminate a number of bilateral cooperation treaties, primarily in the cultural and humanitarian sphere, in the same light. Clearly, these steps are designed to systematically destroy Russian-Slovenian relations, which turn 30 this year.
Responsibility for the inevitable consequences of the ongoing anti-Russian hysteria will fall entirely on the current Government of Slovenia, which, in an effort to please its foreign mentors and to the detriment of Slovenes’ national interests, is literally tearing up the centuries-old ties of friendship between our peoples.
We reserve the right to take political and diplomatic measures in response, such as limiting the total number of staff of the Embassy of Slovenia in Moscow, including local staff, among them citizens of Russia and third countries. Such precedents are known to exist.
☝️ We demand that Ljubljana strictly comply with its international commitments and fully ensure the security and proper conditions for the normal functioning of the Russian Embassy in Slovenia.
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2022-04-06 20:35:49+00:00
🎙 MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Greece 🇬🇷
💬 On April 6, 12 diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Athens and the Consulate-General in Thessaloniki were declared “persona nоn grata.”
This is an unprecedented move in Russian-Greek relations. It only confirms how zealous the Greek authorities are in following the course of dismantling our bilateral versatile and mutually beneficial cooperation. It is sad that centuries-long historical, cultural and economic ties are sacrificed in the name of “trans-Atlantic solidarity.”
There is no doubt that those who made this baseless decision wanted to sow discord between the Russian and Greek people. Even though everything is being done now to discredit Russia, do the biggest possible damage to our bilateral ties and deplete our diplomatic missions, we are convinced that these schemes are doomed to fail in the long run.
☝️ Athens is wholly responsible for this hostile move.
We will respond appropriately.
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2022-04-06 17:09:42+00:00
#Opinion
By Sergey Ivanov, Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Consular Service at the Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy
Read in full
💬 In many countries, public and media attention is focused on the events in and around Ukraine. Adjusting their actions to the situation, some political analysts and journalists have become “experts on Ukraine” and Russian-Ukrainian relations. At the same time, politicians in the West and allied countries in other parts of the world, seeking to improve their ratings, are making rash and ill-considered statements in the hope of achieving immediate results.
One striking example of this was the recent statement made by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who said that there was “no justification” for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As they say, a word spoken is past recalling, and serious politicians, especially at such a high level as Minister Lapid, have no right to talk idly.
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Our country, which knows about the threat of terrorism from its own experience, has always expressed sympathy and unconditional solidarity in connection with the terrorist attacks which, regrettably, happen regularly in Israel.
In this context, it is all the more strange to hear anti-Russia statements from the Foreign Minister of Israel – the country that has been largely responsible, over many decades, for the failure to achieve a peaceful solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It is one of the lingering regional problems that continues to affect the lives of millions of people and their futures, as well as international security. <...>
Let us briefly recall the background, and also highlight the roles of the main players.
For decades, Israel has been continuously expanding its military and administrative presence in areas where, according to UN resolutions and international law, a Palestinian state was to be established.
The situation regarding the Gaza Strip deserves special attention. In fact, most of the people living there were forced into a reservation. They are like prisoners in a huge prison under an open sky.
This is how the situation is in reality: numerous documents released by UN experts and Middle Eastern think tanks show that following the 15-year blockade, the humanitarian situation for the people of Gaza is on the verge of collapse.
❗️ In this context, it was emphasised that the creation of an independent and territorially continuous State of Palestine was not even under consideration. Aimed at perpetuating the present-day status quo in the shape of the longest-lasting postwar occupation, this policy is conducted with the tacit connivance on the part of the United States.
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In our opinion, it is blasphemous for Israel to voice support for the Kiev regime, which has openly started Nazifying all aspects of state and public life, and it is impossible to interpret Mr Lapid’s words in any other way. This betrays the memory of numerous Jews who were tortured to death by Bandera’s henchmen in Babiy Yar and in other locations in Ukraine, Poland and Belarus. We hope that Tel Aviv will modify its rhetoric in this connection, and that it will objectively assess the Kiev regime’s persistent neo-Nazi practices.
☝️ At this time of radical transformation of the world order, an opportunistic approach pandering to the Russophobic western line is an extremely near-sighted tactic. This could impair interaction with one of the 21st century’s global centres of power and development and a country that continues to play a highly important role in world affairs, including efforts to facilitate international security in the Middle East and elsewhere.
🔗 https://rg.ru/2022/04/06/izrail-otreagiroval-na-ukrainskij-krizis-eshche-raz-o-politicheskih-manevrah-tel-aviva.html?tgm
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2022-04-06 14:06:01+00:00
⚡️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community
💬 On April 5, the European Union announced the expulsion of 19 diplomats from the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union in Brussels under far-fetched and groundless pretexts.
We view this step as categorically unacceptable and overtly unfriendly. The EU institutions, which have for some years been systematically demolishing the architecture of Russia-EU cooperation, now demonstrate a clear lack of interest in sustaining normal diplomatic channels of communication with our country.
The EU bears full responsibility for the consequences of this destructive action.
Our response will follow shortly.
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2022-04-06 13:04:37+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202204061000-LIVE10487-Russian-MFA-spokesperson-Zakharova-holds-weekly-briefing
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-04-06 12:09:27+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s comment on Ukraine
💬 In the past few days, the propaganda machine of the West and Ukraine has focused exclusively on fueling hysteria over video taken, as we understand, by the military and security service of Ukraine in the city of Bucha, Kiev Region.
What purpose does this blatantly false provocation serve? We are inclined to view it as a pretext to torpedo the ongoing negotiations at a time when some light, however dim, has appeared at the end of the tunnel. At the talks in Istanbul on March 29, 2022, Ukrainian representatives set forth in writing their vision for a treaty on Ukraine’s status and security guarantees for the first time during contacts between our delegations.
☝️ In order for us to make real progress, instead of just the appearance of progress, we insist that Kiev be sent an unambiguous message not to resort to sabotage. Otherwise, we risk repeating the fate of the Minsk agreements. And that is something we will never do.
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2022-04-06 10:17:04+00:00
#Opinion
❗️ The young are the target audience of the provocation in Bucha
By Oleg Karpovich, Pro-Rector of the Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy
A generational shift is underway among Western politicians.
The Economist, a mouthpiece of radical liberalism, recently published the results of a poll of the views of US citizens on the events in Ukraine. The editorial board was stunned by the outcome: half of Americans under 30 are not interested in who wins the conflict and a mere 47 percent of them still believe the propaganda myth of “the deliberate targeting of Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces.” Slightly more, 56 percent, sympathise with Ukraine to some extent, but this is still 36 points lower than for respondents over 30. Sociologists have also discovered a strong generational divide in views of the current crisis in France and Britain.
It appears that several months of mass brainwashing of the population in the West with anti-Russia clichés and disinformation failed to produce the desired effect. The most active and passionate segment of society – or, in simple terms, those to whom the future belongs – refuse to see Russia as an outright enemy and an absolute evil. This is surely concerning to the powers that be.
The generational shift in US and European politics may come very quickly. Some figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Marion Marechal-Le Pen broke into the political firmament at fairly young age. There is also Sebastian Kurz who became foreign minister at 27 and chancellor at 31. More wunderkinds are on the way. The so-called Millennials are rapidly strengthening positions thanks to their peers’ protest activities, and this trend will only accelerate.
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The provocation in Bucha is designed not so much for older people, who already believe passionately in Russia’s evil, as for the younger generation. It is no accident that photos and videos from the scene flooded social media in the first minutes of this information campaign. The goals of the provocation are simple: to take the legs out from under all those who doubt the correctness of the Western “crusade” against Russia, to convince young Americans and Europeans to forget about the crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazi, and to bury forever the hopes for constructive dialogue. Nobody will even think about ending the senseless sanctions on our country.
❗️ The perpetrators of this incident obviously smelled blood (both figuratively and literally) and are not going to stop. New discoveries and accusations are bound to follow. After all, this is no longer a psychological war against Russia, where over 80 percent of the population support President Vladimir Putin’s course of action and the chances of rocking the boat are close to zero. This is a war for the hearts and minds of people in Western countries. In launching this economic onslaught against Moscow, Washington and Brussels simply forgot to ask their opinion. However elaborate or cynical the next provocations may be, though, they will not change the general dynamics – time is not on the side of Biden and his allies. It is just a pity that the lives and fates of ordinary Ukrainians are again being used as a bargaining chip in this high-stakes game.
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2022-04-06 08:51:29+00:00
ℹ️ In the 16th and 17th century, the Zaporozhian Host designated military and political entities formed by Cossacks in the Zaporozhye region. Controlled by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century, many Cossacks, who were Orthodox Christians, sought to flee the arbitrary rule of the Polish and Lithuanian nobility by resettling in bordering Russian towns.
🔵 The Ukrainian Cossacks escalated their struggle for independence when Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky emerged as the Zaporozhian Host leader in 1648. He sent several envoys to Tsar Alexey I pleading to take Ukraine under the Tsar’s protection.
📆 On January 8, 1654, the Rada officially declared Ukraine’s reunification with Russia. On April 6, 1654, Tsar Alexey I signed a charter in which the title “sole ruler of Greater Russia and Russia Minor” was used for the first time to refer to the Russian monarch.
🔗 https://is.gd/7moJeW
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2022-04-06 08:15:04+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov at a joint news conference with Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Foreign Minister of Egypt Sameh Shoukry following talks in Moscow
💬 We answered our friends’ many questions, including those about prospects of settling the current situation [in Ukraine], notably, the requirements for doing this and its influence on our bilateral relations and cooperation with the Arab world, the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
These relations are influenced not by the situation as such but by the West’s absolutely unlawful unprecedented sanctions against Russia. They are dealing a heavy blow to the global economy, including countries that import agricultural produce, fertiliser and many other things that are directly linked with trade and investment ties that involve the Russian Federation.
We expressed our gratitude to the Arab League for the decisions it made in connection with and during the crisis in Ukraine.
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2022-04-05 21:29:08+00:00
⚡️ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comment on Ukraine, Moscow, April 5, 2022 ⚡️
💬 In the past few days, the propaganda machine of the West and Ukraine has focused exclusively on fueling hysteria over video taken, as we understand, by the military and security service of Ukraine in the city of Bucha, Kiev Region.
☝️ Assertions of “war crimes” committed by the Russian Armed Forces in the course of the special military operation have repeatedly been proved false at the detailed briefings by the Russian Defence Ministry, our Ministry and the Permanent Mission to the UN where we held a special news conference yesterday.
❓ The question, then, is what purpose does this blatantly false provocation serve? We are inclined to view it as a pretext to torpedo the ongoing negotiations at a time when some light, however dim, has appeared at the end of the tunnel.
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2022-04-05 19:49:55+00:00
The tweet with an official Statement by @mod_russia_en, that was censored by the said digital platform 👆
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2022-04-05 19:49:17+00:00
⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement regarding Twitter’s act of censorship ⚡️
❗️ On April 5, the US social media company Twitter resorted to a blatant act of censorship by concealing a post on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official account in English behind a warning that it violates the platform’s rules. The post covered the main points of the Russian Defence Ministry’s statement about the provocation in the Ukrainian town of Bucha and a link to the full text of the statement. The material was marked as "offensive" (supposedly violating "abusive behaviour"... with facts apparently) and the ability of Twitter users to share it has been drastically curtailed. This is the first time such a restriction has been placed on the Foreign Ministry’s verified account since it was created in 2011.
We regard this step as clear confirmation that Twitter as well as other US tech companies are direct participants in an unprecedented act of information aggression launched by Washington and its satellites, which is designed to shape international public opinion, creating a vastly distorted picture of events in Ukraine. Large-scale measures are being taken to conceal the horrendous crimes committed by the Kiev regime that is steeped in Nazi ideology. The fabrication of pretexts for ramping up political and sanctions pressure on Russia and flooding Ukraine with an endless supply of weapons continues unabated. Before it was censored, the post was seen by over two million users, mainly outside of Russia. Obviously, the widespread interest prompted Twitter executives to resort to these unscrupulous methods.
☝️ We demand that Twitter immediately restore access to this post. There can be no place for bias in the company’s content moderation in the future. Otherwise, it may acquire a reputation as an accomplice to the Kiev regime’s atrocities.
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2022-04-05 18:00:17+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇳 On April 4, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a meeting with UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths.
They had an in-depth discussion about pressing items on the international humanitarian agenda with an emphasis on the situation in Ukraine. The Russian side provided detailed assessments of the events in the town of Bucha near Kiev, emphasising that what happened there was an outright provocation aimed at portraying Russia as guilty of crimes that had been committed after the Russian Armed Forces had withdrawn from that town.
With regard to the situation in Ukraine in general, it was mentioned that it was important to provide urgent and comprehensive help to everyone in need in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, without politicisation, discrimination or any preconditions.
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2022-04-05 17:03:29+00:00
🇷🇺🇪🇬 On April 4, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt Sameh Shoukry, who visited Moscow as head of the delegation of the Arab League Contact Group on Ukraine.
In the course of their confidential conversation, Sergey Lavrov and Sameh Shoukry discussed a number of issues concerning the further development of traditionally friendly Russian-Egyptian relations. They confirmed the willingness of Moscow and Cairo to build up multifaceted bilateral ties in accordance with the Comprehensive Partnership and Strategic Cooperation Agreement signed in 2018.
#RussiaEgypt
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2022-04-05 14:48:22+00:00
🇷🇺🇯🇴 On April 4, FM Sergey Lavrov met with Ayman Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, who is currently in Moscow as a member of the delegation of the Arab League’s Contact Group on Ukraine.
During the conversation, Sergey Lavrov and Ayman Safadi focused on the main areas of further developing cooperation between Moscow and Amman in various areas. They laid emphasis on the mechanism of the Intergovernmental Russia-Jordan Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation, which held its latest meeting on February 2, 2022, via videoconference.
The Ministers also held an extensive exchange of views on key aspects of the Middle East agenda with emphasis on the problems of settling the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and resolving the situation around Holy Sites in Jerusalem.
#RussiaJordan
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2022-04-05 10:42:23+00:00
⚔️ #OTD in 1242, the Russian forces under Alexander #Nevsky bested the Livonian Order at the legendary Lake Chudskoye Battle.
☝️ Not only they repelled foreign aggression, but also defended the Orthodox faith.
📽 “Whoever comes with a sword, will die by the sword!”
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2022-04-04 20:39:42+00:00
🎙 Press-Conference by Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia on the issue of the Bucha provocation.
Watch in full 👆
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2022-04-04 20:04:51+00:00
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during a meeting of the League of Arab States’ Ministerial Contact Group on Ukraine, Moscow, April 4, 2022
We have discussed a number of bilateral issues and held separate meetings. We will continue these discussions after this meeting.
❗️In addition to the materials that we regularly provide concerning the special military operation, we will update you on the most recent developments.
I hope we will get a chance to discuss the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and North Africa that is caused by the aggressive policies of a number of countries, mostly NATO members. They continue to destabilise the situation and hinder the sustainable development of the region for the benefit of the people of all countries.
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2022-04-04 18:10:05+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇳 FM Sergey Lavrov at a meeting with Martin Griffiths, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
💬 Quite some time ago, we established contacts with your Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. We can see how this interaction helps resolve humanitarian problems, above all those facing people in eastern Ukraine as well as in other parts of the country.
☝️ We believe that it is necessary to provide humanitarian aid to all people who find themselves in a difficult situation. We are actively doing this for the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics.
We cooperate with international partners, including the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross, in order to organise humanitarian convoys to Ukrainian cities such as Sumy, Kharkov and Mariupol.
❗️ Unfortunately, attempts continue to politicise humanitarian issues and even to speculate on them.
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2022-04-04 17:45:00+00:00
🎙 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the Bucha provocation.
💬 I'd like to draw our attention to one thing. The Heads of State, Foreign Ministers and opinion leaders have been making their statements based exclusively on video footage that is less than one minute long and a few images. This is enough for them to lay the whole blame on us. There were no experts on site, they did not receive any other information <...>
Let me remind you that several days ago the entire world saw authentic footage of our soldiers being tortured over there in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian “side” recognised authenticity of these recordings. Have you heard anything from President Emmanuel Macron, or UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, or others about this? <...>
Who is the master of provocation? The United States and NATO, of course.
In this case, I think that the very fact that these statements came in a matter of minutes after these materials surfaced leaves no doubt as to who was behind this entire story.
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2022-04-04 16:42:34+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Press conference following talks of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the Contact Group of the Arab League on Ukraine
https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/62472e15ff00f746cc6cf1a0/19552/English
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-04-04 16:37:26+00:00
🙏 FM Sergey Lavrov greets the Contact Group of the Arab League on Ukraine, including Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, FMs Sameh Shoukry, Ayman Safadi, Fuad Hussein, Ali al-Sadiq and other participants.
📍 Moscow, Russia
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2022-04-04 14:34:48+00:00
🇸🇳🎉 April 4 #Senegal celebrates Independence Day!
🇷🇺🤝🇸🇳 Traditionally friendly relations between Russia and Senegal are based on the principles of equality & mutual respect.
Congratulations to our Senegalese friends! We wish you peace & prosperity!
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2022-04-04 13:46:09+00:00
#DebunkingFakes
WarOnFakes.com on the situation in #Bucha:
👉 Firstly, Russian troops left Bucha on March 30th. Here is the official statement.
👉 Secondly, on March 31, another evidence of a cynical provocation in Bucha was heard – a statement by Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk. “March 31 will go down in the history of our settlement and the entire territorial community as the day of liberation from Russian orcs, Russian occupiers of our settlements by our Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the mayor said with a joyful smile on his face.
❓ Would he rejoice if dozens of his countrymen at that time were lying on the streets shot? Why does he say nothing in his statement about the atrocities of the Russian executioners? About torture, rape and murder?
👉 Moreover, the first unit of the Ukrainian armed forces to enter Bucha was the special forces of the National Guard of Ukraine. The official telegram channel of the National Guard posted a video, filmed by the fighters of this detachment themselves. We can see on this video that the Ukrainian military calmly pass through the streets of the city – and no “mountains of corpses” are visible on these streets.
❓So where did the corpses on the streets of Bucha come from - and who are these people?
👉 The answer may lie in the video of the territorial defense of Ukraine, which clearly states the question “Can I shoot at them if there are no blue armbands?” to which a positive answer follows. The video was originally posted by the leader of the territorial defense Sergey “Botsman” Korotkikh.
👉 By the way, on the videos distributed by the Ukrainian side, almost all the corpses have white bandages. This is a distinctive sign of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the civilian population.
Learn more and draw your own conclusions from these facts.
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2022-04-04 12:43:02+00:00
▪️ The virus of Nazism is rampant in today's #Ukraine.
❓Who is behind that?
❓ Who is responsible for the thousands of young people roaming Ukrainian cities, doing the Nazi salute and shouting "heil"?
Watch the documentary (2021) by Arkady #Mamontov to find out 👇
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2022-04-04 12:05:42+00:00
#Facts 👇
#NATO claims to be a "defensive" alliance & points a finger at Russia.
Meanwhile, its military spending exceeds Russia's ≈1️⃣8️⃣ times, constituting ≈5️⃣6️⃣% of global spending.
And the "Russian threat" is a good excuse to continue the buildup (≈6️⃣% in 2021).
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2022-04-04 09:04:19+00:00
#OTD in 1949 NATO was formed.
In the early 1990s we were promised NO eastward expansion. Yet, by 2022... 5 waves of enlargement, 14 new member states, bases & military infrastructure right on Russia's borders.
"Defensive", they say.
👉 Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan...
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2022-04-04 06:20:47+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇿 On April 4, Russia-Azerbaijan diplomatic relations turn 3️⃣0️⃣!
🤝 Azerbaijan is an important strategic partner of Russia. Bilateral relations are based on the principles of equality and neighbourliness, and age-old traditions of friendship and mutual respect. Cooperation between our countries objectively promotes stability and security in the South Caucasus and the Caspian Region. It is actively facilitated at the highest levels, between foreign ministries and parliaments as well as heads of key departments.
🔷 Trade and economic cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan is making steady headway. Azerbaijan is Russia’s main trade partner among CIS countries that are not EAEU members. Our business communities, including small and medium companies, are expanding ties. The Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation is an important part of bilateral efforts.
#RussiaAzerbaijan
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2022-04-03 15:33:09+00:00
⚡️ Statement by the Russian Defence Ministry ⚡️
The Russian Defence Ministry denies accusations of Kiev regime of allegedly killing civilians in Bucha, Kiev Region
Facts 👇
❗️All the photos and videos published by the Kiev regime allegedly testifying to some "crimes" committed by Russian servicemen in Bucha, Kiev region are just another provocation.
During the time that the town has been under the control of the Russian armed forces, not a single local resident has suffered from any violent action. Russian servicemen have delivered and distributed 452 tonnes of humanitarian aid to civilians in Kiev Region.
For as long as the town was under the control of the Russian armed forces and even then, up to now, locals in Bucha were moving freely around the town and using cellular phones.
The exits from Bucha were not blocked. All local residents were free to leave the town in northern direction, including to the Republic of Belarus. At the same time, the southern outskirts of the city, including residential areas, were shelled round the clock by Ukrainian troops with large-calibre artillery, tanks and multiple launch rocket systems.
❗️We would like to emphasise that all Russian units withdrew completely from Bucha as early as March 30, the day after the Russia-Ukraine face-to-face round of talks in Turkey.
Moreover, on March 31, the mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, confirmed in a video message that there were no Russian servicemen in the town, but he did not even mention any locals shot in the streets with their hands tied.
👉 It is not surprising, therefore, that all the so-called "evidence of crimes" in Bucha did not emerge until the fourth day, when the Security Service of Ukraine and representatives of Ukrainian media arrived in the town.
It is of particular worry that all the bodies of the people whose images have been published by the Kiev regime are not stiffened after at least four days, have no typical cadaver stains, and the wounds contain unconsumed blood.
❗️All this confirms conclusively that the photos and video footage from Bucha are another hoax, a staged production and provocation by the Kiev regime for the Western media, as was the case in Mariupol with the maternity hospital, as well as in other cities.
🔗 https://t.me/mod_russia_en/656
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2022-04-03 12:53:26+00:00
This video is a reminder to everyone why Ukraine needs a special denazification and demilitarization operation.
These are the children of Donbass, whom Ukrainian army has been killing since 2014 with silent connivance of the entire "civilized" world.
The Western media did not write or film anything about these children for 8 years.
Ask yourself: why?
Why is it considered "ok" by the West for these innocent children to be murdered? How are they any different than other kids?
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2022-04-03 12:17:20+00:00
Fake:
The Russian military withdrew from Bucha, having previously left civilian casualties.
Reality:
Stories about Bucha appeared in several foreign media outlets at once, which looks like a planned media campaign. Taking into account that the troops left the city on March 30, where was the footage for four days? Their absence only confirms the fake.
The video of the bodies is confusing: here at the 12th second the "corpse" on the right is moving his arm. At 30th second in the rear view mirror the "corpse" sits down. The bodies in the video seem to have been deliberately laid out to create a more dramatic picture. This is easily seen if you play the video at 0.25 of normal speed.
After Russian troops withdrew from Bucha, the AFU shelled the city. This may have also caused civilian casualties.
Mikhail Podolyak uses such staged footage as a pretext to request weapons from Western countries.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #FakeNews
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2022-04-03 07:05:06+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲 April 3 marks 3️⃣0️⃣ years since the establishment of Russia-Armenia diplomatic relations!
✍️ The two countries have signed over 270 interstate, intergovernmental and interdepartmental treaties and agreements. Moscow and Yerevan traditionally maintain close dialogue, up to and including at the highest levels, including as part of integration associations – the EAEU, CSTO and CIS – as well as at the interdepartmental level.
🤝 Russia and Armenia closely coordinate their actions in the world arena. As a result, they have identical or similar positions on the majority of key foreign policy issues. The friendly and mutually beneficial bilateral relationship is rooted in a cultural and spiritual affinity that goes back centuries.
#RussiaArmenia
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2022-04-02 19:45:58+00:00
Czech diplomats, we do indeed have something in common. Except you have forgotten all about it - forgotten, betrayed and sold the chapters of our common history. While we remember. And we do not betray the memory of those, who gave their lives for our future, yours and ours.
https://t.me/MFA_Czechia/5
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2022-04-02 15:31:04+00:00
🇷🇺🇰🇿📞 On April 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
The Presidents discussed current issues on the bilateral agenda with a focus on practical aspects of developing mutually beneficial trade and economic cooperation. They considered the prospects for deeper interaction within integration associations in the Eurasian space. The Leaders reaffirmed their shared commitment to strengthening Russia-Kazakhstan relations of allied and strategic partnership.
☝️ Vladimir Putin informed his counterpart on the progress of the special military operation to protect Donbass as well as on the negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian representatives.
#RussiaKazakhstan
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2022-04-02 14:11:29+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 A few bloggers have reported today that official Chanel brand stores abroad are refusing to sell their products to Russian nationals.
Allegedly, Chanel customers must sign a form saying that they will not take the items sold by the brand to the Russian Federation, as per some internal document of the boutique chain.
Seems like those running the legacy of the “great Coco” have found a way to join the Russophobic “cancel Russia” campaign.
Weird, right? What’s the link between Russia’s anti-Nazi operation and the French fashion house?
But the link is there. We just opened a closet to find some well-preserved 80-year-old skeletons.
During World War II, Coco Chanel herself was a collaborator and a Third Reich agent. She is widely known to have had connections to the occupation authorities in France. Baron Hans Guenther Freiherr von Dincklage, an attaché of the German government in charge of the Nazi propaganda in Paris, was among her dearest friends.
Coco Chanel, also known as informer F-7124 as per Abwehr records, supported the German masters of Paris so much that she took part in the attempts to organise secret negotiations between the Reich and the United Kingdom. One should say that the Germans valued Coco and had her live in a luxurious apartment at the Ritz hotel, while ordinary Parisians struggled to make ends meet under the German occupation, while the country’s economy was under enormous strain.
Moreover, the fashion designer accepted the help of the Nazis to reach her business goals. Before the war, she sold her Chanel No. 5 production facility to Jewish manufacturers. Then, she engaged the Germans to try and reclaim the rights to the perfume sale profits.
After France was liberated, she was called to answer for all of that. The fashion house does not advertise it but Coco was arrested at the end of the war. She was later released as a favour to Churchill (and here is London again) and was banned from France after the occupation was over, for years, residing in the “neutral” Switzerland.
The brand’s management has always emphasised that the Chanel house traditions are as strong as ever. Well, no doubt about that now. Investigative reporter Hal Vaughan wrote about the founder of the fashion house: “The Nazis were in power, and Chanel gravitated to power.”
The brand was never bothered by such things as concentration camps, mass killings and war crimes perpetrated by the SS and Gestapo divisions.
We are a very patient and forgiving country. We have forgiven everyone for everything, turned the page and cleared the way for the future.
But if the way turns out to be a ring road, we will break the vicious circle.
And the Chanel house can get back to square one and support Nazism, just like its founder did. But now everyone will know.
#Chanel #NaziChanel #TruthAboutChanel
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2022-04-02 12:52:25+00:00
✉️ On April 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on the Day of Unity between the Peoples of Russia and Belarus.
“Our countries have done a great deal to promote integration cooperation and constructive bilateral interaction in recent times. A number of important documents have been adopted, including Union sectoral programmes, an updated Military Doctrine and the Migration Policy Concept of the Union State,” the President of Russia noted in his message.
🇷🇺🇧🇾 Vladimir Putin expressed confidence that the implementation of the agreements will create conditions for boosting Russia’s and Belarus’ positions in the international arena and for further progress along the path of establishing a common socioeconomic and cultural space.
#RussiaBelarus
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2022-04-02 07:13:22+00:00
🇷🇺🇧🇾 April 2 is the Day of Unity between the Peoples of Russia and Belarus.
📅 On that day in 1996, the two countries signed a Treaty on the Creation of the Community of Russia and Belarus.
🤝 Russia and Belarus are working within the framework of the Union State to implement joint programmes in industry, energy, construction. The legal framework of bilateral cooperation comprises some 200 interstate and intergovernmental treaties and agreements.
❗️ On November 4, 2021, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko co-chaired a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, during which a Decree of the Supreme State Council of the Union State was signed and 28 industry-based integration programmes were adopted.
🎊 We congratulate the people of Belarus on this day, which is a symbol of the unbreakable bonds of brotherly friendship between our states!
#UnityDay
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2022-04-01 18:56:14+00:00
🎙 Remarks to the Press by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy regarding US biolabs in Ukraine.
💬 We have been seeking clarification from the US side on the true nature of its bioactivity in Ukraine and explanations with regard to the above-mentioned documents. In particular, we asked to clarify why the US Department of State keeps insisting that the US operates no laboratories in Ukraine, while there is documented proof of Pentagon directly managing these labs, with its sub-contractors implementing projects with deadly bio agents.
We have received no answers so far. The US as well as other Western delegations have been totally dismissive.
Military biological activities of the US on the territory of Ukraine are a violation of the Biological Weapons Convention. Such activities bring up biological threats of global scale, which respect no border and can lead up to a new pandemic which can surpass COVID-19 pandemic.
❗️Documents speak for themselves.
Read in full
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2022-04-01 13:56:32+00:00
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, New Delhi, April 1, 2022
Friendship is the key word to describe the history of our relations. Our relations were very sustainable during many difficult times in the past and I don’t have the slightest doubt that our mutual respect and the search for balance of interests will prevail in our relations in the future as well.
🤝 We have been developing a specially privileged strategic partnership with New Delhi and this is one of the key priorities of the Russian foreign policy. It’s equality and mutual trust that underlie our actions on the international arena, and in the context of a multipolar world, which is being objectively shaped, as you alluded to yesterday addressing a conference in New Delhi. We are certainly interested in having the world order balanced, which makes it sustainable.
#RussiaIndia #DruzhbaDosti
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2022-04-01 13:10:59+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov was received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his official visit to #India
#RussiaIndia #DruzhbaDosti
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2022-04-01 09:22:23+00:00
🔴#LIVE: In New Delhi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds a press conference following talks with External Affairs Minister of India Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/624584f7ff00f746cc6cebb3/19515/English
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-04-01 07:31:20+00:00
🔴#LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and External Affairs Minister of India Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar commence bilateral talks in New Delhi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mRykDONvEU
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-04-01 07:17:05+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov meets with Indian Foreign Minister Dr Subrahmanyam #Jaishankar, holds bilateral talks in New Delhi
#RussiaIndia