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2022-06-30 18:40:14+00:00
❗On June 30, the Embassy has forwarded a Note Verbale to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office due to the insulting statements made by the UK leadership on Russia, Russian people, the President of Russian and other Russian officials.
#Russia #UK
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2022-06-30 17:34:01+00:00
⚡️🇬🇧 On June 30, UK Ambassador to Russia Deborah Bronnert was summoned to the Foreign Ministry. She received a strong protest in response to the overtly inappropriate statements by UK leaders as regards Russia, its leader, government officials and the Russian people.
The ambassador was given a memo on the unacceptability of insulting rhetoric by representatives of the UK’s institutions of authority.
❗️ In a civilised society, it is customary to apologise for such statements.
Read in full
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2022-06-30 17:00:28+00:00
🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin answered questions from media representatives following visit to Turkmenistan
❓The NATO summit has begun with the war-mongering rhetoric. Russia has been declared a “direct threat” to the security of the Alliance. How would you assess these statements?
💬 President Putin: As regards their preparations for some actions against us since 2014, this information is not new to us. They have long been looking for an external enemy, for a threat that would rally their allies. I am referring above all to the United States.
This is fresh proof of what we have been saying all along: that NATO is a relic of the past, of the Cold War era.
They always replied that NATO had changed, that it had become more of a political alliance, but at the same time they were looking for an opportunity to give it a new lease on life as a military organisation. Well, this is exactly what they are doing now. There is nothing new in this for us.
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2022-06-30 15:50:34+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: New fabricated excuses are being invented to accuse Russia of “killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure.”
An outrageous provocation was held to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of striking a shopping centre in Kremenchug on June 27. The shops of the Kredmash Defence Plant are located several dozen metres away from this shopping centre. These facilities stored weapons and ammunition that were sent to the Ukrainian nationalists & military by the US and EU countries.
Why are the Western nations supplying Ukraine with weapons that are stored in direct proximity to densely populated civilian infrastructure? This is exactly what we call hiding behind civilians.
Russian Aerospace Forces’ precision strikes destroyed the plant’s shops, not the shopping center or the civilians.
(excerpt from weekly briefing of 29.06.22)
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2022-06-30 13:26:12+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov’s remarks at a meeting of the United Russia Commission on International Cooperation and Support for Compatriots Living Abroad
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206301330-LIVE11281
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
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2022-06-30 12:36:06+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of #Belarus Vladimir #Makei hold a joint news conference following talks in #Minsk
🔗 https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/62bc8d447a430a0fb9b3c059/21534/English
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
#RussiaBelarus
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2022-06-30 10:28:14+00:00
📸 #Photo
🇷🇺🤝🇧🇾 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov & President of Belarus Alexander #Lukashenko held a meeting in Minsk
#RussiaBelarus
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2022-06-30 09:26:05+00:00
📸 #Photo
🇷🇺🇧🇾 FM Sergey #Lavrov arrives at the Presidential residence in Minsk, is greeted by FM Vladimir #Makei
#RussiaBelarus
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2022-06-29 20:51:57+00:00
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2022-06-29 19:15:40+00:00
📆 Every June 29, Russia marks #Partisans and #Resistance Fighters Day.
🔻 Over one million Soviet partisans and resistance fighters from all ages and ways of life made an invaluable contribution to routing the Nazis. In 1941-1944, a real guerilla war flared up on the German-occupied territories. Saboteur teams made life unbearable for the enemy and its collaborators. They disrupted lines of communication, wiped out entire garrisons, thwarted preparations for offensives, raided various areas far behind enemy lines and provided the Soviet high command with valuable intelligence data.
Resistance fighters destroyed 42,000 vehicles, 350,000 rail carriages, cisterns and platforms, disabled 6,000 tanks and 1,100 aircraft. They also neutralized over 600,000 enemy officers and soldiers and captured 50,000 more.
🎖 More than 300,000 people were decorated for bravery during the war and received various other awards, and 249 partisans became Heroes of the Soviet Union.
🔗 See more details: https://is.gd/JGEvg3
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2022-06-29 19:15:18+00:00
⭐️ The battle for the Arctic that began 81 years ago, on June 29, 1941, lasted until November 1, 1944 and culminated in a Soviet victory. The Red Army managed to expel the Nazis from the Soviet Arctic and to liberate part of northern Norway, including Kirkenes.
The Nazis were trying hard to seize Murmansk. During the war, the port handled 1.2 million tonnes of foreign shipments under the Lend-Lease Act that proved invaluable for the entire Eastern Front.
To disrupt these supplies, Hitler deployed elite Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine units. In turn, Royal Navy warships helped Soviet sailors guard freight shipments and escorted them from North Atlantic ports all the way to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. Russia still pays tribute to this heroic feat.
🎖 On December 5, 1944, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR instituted the Medal for the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic. About 353,000 people received the medal.
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2022-06-29 18:45:36+00:00
💬'Western supplies of advanced weapons instigate the conflict and affect Ukraine itself.'
🎙Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin gave an interview to Cathy Newman, Channel 4 News (June 28, 2022)
Key points:
▪️Last developments in Ukraine
▪️G7/NATO summits
▪️Global food crisis
▪️Russia’s strategic aims on the Special military operation
▪️Sanctions against UK politicians and journalists
➡️https://youtu.be/U2E7XcY_tkA?t=1
#Russia #UK #Ukraine #RussiaUK #Channel4 #Kelin #Newman
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2022-06-29 18:04:22+00:00
#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova:
💬 What's up with the British government? Why are they so bent on gender and sex issues today?
Following in the footsteps of his prime minister, British Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace, who recently talked to Vovan and Lexus [prankers], said that MARIA ZAKHAROVA, DEFINITELY A WOMAN, THREATENS EVERY SINGLE WEEK TO DROP NUCLEAR BOMBS ON EVERYONE.
Then, he went on to discuss lunacy, comedy and machismo...
British Secretary of State Wallace, if you do not want to be known worldwide as a complete liar, give at least one example of how and when exactly did I “threaten to drop nuclear bombs on everyone on a weekly basis”.
Since you won’t be able to find a single quote, I accuse you of slander and pushing fake claims.
But most importantly, Mr Wallace recognised an important fact: Russian women are still women to him, and not “people with...” I take this opportunity to say hi to J.K.Rowling: she cannot be a woman nowadays, but at least I can, with Secretary of Defence Wallace’s permission.
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2022-06-29 17:02:03+00:00
🎥 FM Sergey Lavrov’s video address to the organisers of and participants in the roundtable discussion dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the SCO Charter and the 15th anniversary of the SCO Treaty on Long-Term Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation
Read in full
💬 The SCO is by right perceived in the world as a recognised, authoritative, reliable and attractive partner, which is making a significant contribution to maintaining peace and stability, and ensuring sustainable development in Eurasia.
We have consistently advocated greater coordination between the member states in international affairs and strengthening the impact of collaboration with observer states, dialogue partners, and interested multilateral organisations.
☝️ It is important to continue the coordinated policy towards expanding the SCO, while carefully weighing each step, primarily from the point of view of whether it can really strengthen the Organisation.
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2022-06-29 16:12:41+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following a ministerial meeting of the Caspian littoral states
Key points:
✅ Only the five states located off the Caspian Sea have sovereign rights over the Caspian Sea and its resources.
✅ The presence of armed forces of non-Caspian and non-littoral states in the region is out of the question.
✅ The more they pump Ukraine full of weapons, the longer the conflict and the agony of the Nazi regime supported by the Western countries will last.
✅ Western politicians declare our country a threat only because we don’t want to accept the neo-liberal world order. Having subordinated the entire West without exception, the United States is imposing it on all others as a “rules-based order.”
✅ The Ukrainian president is happy to gatecrash any format to pronounce a few words with tears in his eyes. We will have little interest in whether he hovers on the sidelines at the Bali summit or not.
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2022-06-29 08:56:17+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206290800-LIVE11252-Russian-MFA-spokesperson-Zakharova-holds-weekly-briefing
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-29 08:12:31+00:00
A Russian representative at the UNHRC during a discussion on combating the negative impact of disinformation on the exercise and enjoyment of human rights and ensuring the adoption of human rights-based response measures:
🤥 The widespread dissemination of disinformation is a serious modern challenge. Nowadays Russia is facing an unprecedented disinformation campaign unleashed by the Western countries. According to experts, up to $25 million is spent on it every day, and the overall costs have already reached almost $3 billion. Over 14 million disinformation messages have been identified in the media and social networks.
❗️ We believe that today it is necessary to focus on countering the phenomenon of disinformation, above all – by strengthening the media and information awareness of the population, as indicated in the relevant HRC resolution. The politicization of the fight against disinformation and its use as a pretext for obstructing the legitimate media activities is unacceptable.
FULL STATEMENT
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2022-06-29 06:43:54+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇳 From the Statement by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy at UNSC briefing on maintenance of peace and security in Ukraine
💬 The Security Council should not turn into a platform where President Zelensky, though remotely, can angle for more NATO weapons. This erodes the authority of the Council as a body responsible for collective decision-making in the interests of maintenance of international peace and security. The Ukrainian side, supported by our Western colleagues, seeks to undermine this authority and use UNSC members as audience at its performances.
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Ukrainians and their Western sponsors realized quickly that in a digital era, the developments on the ground do not matter.
But at some point everything went off the rails. On social media, there appeared more evidence and more reasons to blame Ukrainian soldiers and neo-Nazis for committing atrocities and war crimes.
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2022-06-28 14:26:50+00:00
⚡️In response to the constantly expanding US sanctions against Russian politicians and public figures, the stop list shall include 25 American citizens, including senators responsible for formulating the Russophobic policy, members of the so-called McFaul-Yermak International Expert Group, which drafts recommendations concerning anti-Russia restrictions, as well as family members of US President Joe Biden.
👉 The list as follows
❗️ A complete list of American citizens who are permanently denied entry to the Russian Federation is posted in this section of the Foreign Ministry website.
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2022-06-28 12:22:39+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks and answers to media questions following the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Caspian Littoral States.
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206281200-LIVE11260
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
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2022-06-28 12:13:39+00:00
📸 FM Sergey #Lavrov took part in the #FamilyPhoto ceremony ahead of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Caspian Littoral States.
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2022-06-28 11:09:33+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇲 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov held a bilateral meeting in Ashgabad.
#RussiaTurkmenistan
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2022-06-28 09:51:32+00:00
❗️ Russian Defence Ministry:
On June 27, in the city of Kremenchug (Poltava region), Russian Aerospace Forces launched a high-precision air attack at the hangars with armament and munitions delivered by the USA and European countries, located at the Kremenchug road machinery plant.
High-precision attack has resulted in the neutralisation of west-manufactured armament and munitions concentrated at the storage area for being delivered to Ukrainian group of troops in Donbass.
Detonation of the munitions in storage caused a fire in a non-functioning shopping mall next to the facilities of the plant.
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2022-06-27 17:33:49+00:00
🇷🇺🇧🇷📞 As agreed during the recent #BRICS Summit, President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro.
✅ The Leaders focused on the problems of global food security. The importance of restoring the architecture of free trade in foodstuffs and fertilizers, which was collapsed by Western sanctions, was emphasised.
✅ The Parties confirmed their mutual intention to consistently strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries.
✅ Some issues on the international agenda were also addressed.
#RussiaBrazil
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2022-06-27 17:16:29+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇲 FM Sergey #Lavrov arrives in #Ashgabad to take part in the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Caspian Littoral States.
#RussiaTurkmenistan
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2022-06-26 23:52:26+00:00
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2022-06-26 19:28:14+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
READ IN FULL
💬 The British establishment never tires of preparing for a nuclear apocalypse and inventing non-existent Russian statements on this matter. This is convenient topic is designed to divert attention away from the internal political collapse of the British monarchy in the context of endless conspiracies, crises, and corruption scandals. British Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces James Heappey claims that Russia may use "tactical nuclear weapons" during its special operation in Ukraine. British Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace promised our pranksters Vovan and Lexus (though he thought he was talking to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal) to discuss the creation of Ukraine's nuclear missile programme. Our favourite, Liz Truss, could not but rise to the occasion, talking about a potential conflict between Russia and NATO, to which even Russian President Vladimir Putin had to respond.
Someone may think that all of this is a new invention, that only recently has London started frightening everyone with the Russian threat. But only those who are not well-versed in the history of the subject.
I have a book that is a bibliographic rarity now, but that was almost a bestseller back in its time. It was written by an assistant professor at Lancaster University, Dr. Magnus Clarke, with the catchy title "The Nuclear Destruction of Britain", which went on sale in the early days of 1982. It has been translated into Russian and is now available at the Russian State Library.
The book provides a detailed reconstruction of the outcome of the Soviet Union's nuclear attack on the British Isles. It can be said that they have been preparing for this a long time.
Everything is very precise, from the well-reasoned choice of targets for destruction to the date of the actual attack. The Reds, they say, will hit the monarchy during the Christmas holidays because it is at this time the Kingdom will be most vulnerable.
In fact, the Kingdom is most vulnerable at times when professionals like Boris Johnson, Ben Wallace, and Liz Truss are appointed to the country's key offices. Long live the Queen, Clarke had no idea who would be running his country, otherwise he would have launched what he himself had written.
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The book also contains sober assessments, for which Clarke would definitely be "cancelled" today. However, they are all but forgotten today. For example, he writes in the distant 1980s: "in essence, there has never been any Soviet threat to the West. The creation of NATO was not a response to the Soviet threat. The Soviet "military threat" was an invention of the United States, which from 1946 to the present has harboured a deep suspicion of the USSR, mainly because of its refusal to agree to American plans to "redraw the map of the world" ..."
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The book ends just as paradoxically, if not schizophrenically. Clarke seems to long for a quick nuclear apocalypse (which, by the way, fully explains the choice of the title), claiming that it will benefit the already-ruined Great Britain, and regrets that Britain is not destined to be around to enjoy the post-nuclear economic boom.
The book does contain parts that justify having to read the mental waste of Western propaganda. Clarke writes: "Whatever British estimates there are, they are most likely wrong." An excellent epigraph to the vast majority of such studies.
So what about all the nuclear ash over London, has it managed to scatter over the last 50 years?
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2022-06-26 18:50:32+00:00
A Russian representative at the UN HRC:
🔹 We are forced to use the right of reply regarding the speech of the EU delegation on behalf of a group of States that have proclaimed themselves to be the standards in the human rights and appropriated the right to judge others for conducting independent foreign and domestic policy.
🔹 Today, European countries and their “Big Brothers” overseas are overwhelmed by Russophobia, which is becoming increasingly ugly. Among the most common violations are refusals to provide educational, medical and other services, arrests and seizure of property, intimidation into public repentance, suspension from sports, music festivals and competitions, attacks, threats and insults.
🔹 I would like to ask the colleagues from the "collective West", who gave you the right to judge and label others? Wouldn't it be better to look at your own reflection first? Although, apparently, the feeling of shame is unknown to you to begin with.
FULL STATEMENT
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2022-06-26 12:30:39+00:00
❗️A day in the history of the peaceful uses of atomic energy:
On 2️⃣6️⃣ June 1954, the world's first nuclear power plant was put into operation in Obninsk.
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2022-06-26 11:07:30+00:00
🇷🇺🇧🇾 Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
💬 Vladimir Putin: The Americans have 200 tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, mostly atomic bombs. Two hundred of them are in six European countries, members of NATO, the North Atlantic bloc. To use these weapons, 257 planes have been prepared – and they are not only US planes.
🔹 As we had agreed on the issue you raised, a decision was made in our country: within the next several months, we will transfer to Belarus the Iskander-M tactical missile systems, which are known to use both ballistic and cruise missiles, both conventional and nuclear.
🔹 Last year Russia exported over 40 million tonnes of grain to the world markets. In the current agricultural year – until next summer – we will be ready to export perhaps over 50 million tonnes. I know that Belarus is also increasing production – under your leadership, Belarusian agriculture has been developing very confidently and successfully.
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2022-06-25 17:15:45+00:00
🎙 Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov's remarks and answers to media questions following at a joint news conference following talks with FM Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (Tehran, June 23, 2022) - watch in full with English subs.
Key points
🔸 We [Russia and Iran] stand together in rejecting the concept of the rules-based order that is pushed forward by the United States and its satellites. This concept is designed for use as a substitute for international law and the UN Charter’s basic principles, to subordinate the security of all countries to the interests of the Western world, ensure the total, “eternal” domination of Washington and its allies.
🔸 The Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations was established which, among others, includes Iran and Russia and has more than 20 members. I’m sure the group will expand.
🔸 Our US-led Western colleagues have been trying to turn Ukraine into a bridgehead for threatening and “deterring” Russia, in part, by developing Ukraine’s territory militarily.
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2022-06-25 17:00:00+00:00
🇸🇮 On June 25, Slovenia celebrates Statehood Day, a national holiday established to commemorate the country’s declaration of independence in 1991. On this day, the Slovenian Parliament announced Slovenia’s independence and its secession from Yugoslavia.
🤝 Russia and Slovenia have traditionally enjoyed constructive and mutually beneficial relations. This year, our countries have celebrated the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations.
🕯 Efforts to preserve war memorials play a special part in Russian-Slovenian relations. Russia highly appreciates the Slovenian people’s caring attention to preserving the memory of Russian and Soviet soldiers, with 80 gravesites located across the republic’s territory.
🔗 https://is.gd/DXmCgv
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2022-06-25 11:20:00+00:00
June 25 marks 3️⃣0️⃣ years of diplomatic relations between Russia and Belarus. On this day in 1992, a Protocol was signed in Minsk to consolidate the two independent states’ intentions to pursue a path of developing political, trade, economic and cultural ties based on a shared past, spiritual closeness, and neighbourly relations.
🇷🇺🇧🇾 Over the years, Russia and Belarus have worked consistently to develop bilateral contacts in all areas of interaction, and have actively advanced along the path of integrated cooperation. Russia and Belarus have maintained an intensive political dialogue, with regular top-level meetings being indicative of the special nature of the countries’ relations.
🤝 In the context of the aggravated international situation, Moscow and Minsk’s coordinated foreign policies are particularly relevant for protecting national interests in the world arena and countering common challenges and threats, including the illegitimate sanctions pressure from the West.
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2022-06-24 21:08:57+00:00
📰 FM Sergey Lavrov’s article on the 30th anniversary of the Organisation of Black Sea Economic Cooperation
READ IN FULL
Key points:
🔹 In these 30 years, the #BSEC has travelled a path of success starting out as a purely dialogue format and growing into an all-encompassing organisation in the Greater Black Sea region.
🔹 Today, the organisation is facing new challenges stemming from imbalances in leading global markets, growing geopolitical differences and the redistribution of global economic power.
🔹 These circumstances dictate the need to revise BSEC economic strategy. It is important to focus on promoting region-to-region connectivity and establishing productive cooperation between the BSEC and the EAEU.
🔹 We believe that the BSEC will remain a meaningful and sought-after platform that will ensure prosperity in the Black Sea region and among its peoples for many years to come.
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2022-06-24 19:15:15+00:00
🎙 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on political repression against dissenters is intensifying in Ukraine:
Kiev is going to introduce the practice of mass requisitioning Ukrainian enterprises from owners who, by the arbitrary decision of the authorities, are recognised as pro-Russia sympathisers. What kind of law, democracy or liberalism are we talking about?
❗️ The policy of forced Ukrainisation and persecution of everything that is Russian continues unabated.
On June 19, the Verkhovna Rada approved draft laws that effectively ban Russian music from being played in the streets of Ukrainian cities, music halls, stadiums and on radio and television.
Books, newspapers and magazines from Russia and Belarus have been banned in Ukraine and cannot be brought in. Russian-speaking writers are removed from world literature courses.
A native of Odessa, Anna Akhmatova wrote, “It’s not scary to die by a bullet, not painful to lose home, and we will protect you, Russian speech, the great Russian word.”
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2022-06-24 17:13:14+00:00
🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 President of Russia Vladimir Putin attended a BRICS+ meeting involving the leaders of several invited states, held via videoconference.
💬 President Putin:
🔹 It is notable that the leaders of the countries who are attending our meeting today stand for developing a truly democratic multipolar world order based on the principles of equality, justice and mutual respect
🔹 We have every opportunity to build up practical cooperation between the #BRICS countries and its partners, the countries represented here. We feel your mutual interest in maintaining close business contacts.
🔹 It is equally important for BRICS to expand cooperation with regional associations like ASEAN, the African Union, the Association of Caribbean States, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Indian Ocean Rim Association.
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2022-06-24 17:01:54+00:00
💬 Opinion by Maria #Zakharova
I have read surprising news: Swedish activists have called for investigation into Greta Thunberg’s link with a Russian NGO directly funded by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
I will gladly help the “Swedish activists.” Below is a list of Greta Thunberg’s links. Were all of them “directly funded by the Russian Foreign Ministry”? Or have the Western regimes grown tired of the girl and the green economy, and this is a sell-out?
At the very least, the Western majors should explain to their citizens why they have decided to reopen the coal-fired power plants, which were shut down to stop using the polluting fossil fuel.
https://telegra.ph/Greta-Thunberg-06-24
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2022-06-24 16:30:24+00:00
🚩 On June 24, 1945, 77 years ago, the historical parade marking the USSR’s victory in the GreatPatrioticWar over Nazi Germany was held on Moscow’s Red Square.
Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief Georgy Zhukov, dubbed by the people ‘Victory Marshal’, was tasked with inspecting the parade, and Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky commanded the parade.
The parade comprised 10 mixed regiments representing all the fronts that fought in the later stages of the Great Patriotic War. There were, in total, 24 marshals, 249 generals, 2,536 officers, 31,116 sergeants and soldiers, who distinguished themselves in combat and received orders and medals for their service.
The parade culminated when a column of soldiers carrying 200 trophy banners and standards of the defeated German army marched through Red Square and threw them at the foot of the Lenin Mausoleum.
Holding Victory Day Parades has become an annually-repeated tradition since 1995.
🔗 More details: https://is.gd/M0parU
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2022-06-24 15:28:13+00:00
A Russian representative in a dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression at the UN HRC:
🔹The topic of Ms. Khan's report appears to be quite relevant. This is confirmed, among other things, by the massive anti-Russian disinformation campaign unleashed by the Western countries and the "digital giants", as well as their adoption of unilateral restrictive measures.
🔹 The purpose of this Western sanctions policy is exclusion of the Russian media from the information field, the silencing of "undesirable" opinions that do not fit into the "mainstream narrative".
🔹 We regret that Ms. Khan is defiantly trying to ignore the information war declared in the West on everything Russian, as well as the “fake-spewing conveyor belt” created to vilify our country, the Russian people and culture. Moreover, the Special Rapporteur assumes the function of determining which information is true and which is false.
FULL STATEMENT
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2022-06-24 12:30:51+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova: Speaking about food security, I would like to recall that prices on food products and energy soared since early 2020 due to:
- coronavirus pandemic,
- bad climate conditions
- and, importantly, systemic miscalculations in the financial and economic policy of the Western countries.
This created difficulties in the world markets (higher freight and insurance rates and transport breakdowns). Transport logistics and insurance collapsed due to the pandemic. Unilateral sanctions were imposed on top of all that.
These sanctions introduced by Washington and the EU under its pressure exacerbated the situation to the utmost.
I would even call them not just unilateral sanctions but sanction harassment of our country.
The goal is obvious – to isolate and inflict maximum damage on the Russian economy and Europe.
In turn, we confirm our willingness to continue fulfilling our commitments regarding the export of grain, fertilizer, energy and other critical products.
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2022-06-24 09:10:37+00:00
🔴#LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov hold a joint news conference following talks in Baku.
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206240915-LIVE11221-Lavrov-and-Azerbaijan-s-FM-Bayramov-give-joint-press-conference-in-Baku
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-24 08:39:25+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇿 In Baku, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov.
#RussiaAzerbaijan
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2022-06-24 08:11:59+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇿 In Baku, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov paid respects, laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame Memorial on Martyrs' Lane.
📸 Maria #Zakharova
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2022-06-24 06:35:09+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇷 From FM Sergey Lavrov's statement following talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
#RussiaIran
💬 The Presidents are unanimous that relations between Russia and Iran have reached the highest point in their history.
At the same time, there is significant untapped potential for further advancement in our partnership. To this end, work is now underway on a new and comprehensive “big interstate treaty,” initiated by the President of Iran.
#JCPOA
💬 We will push for the JCPOA to be restored in its original configuration, the way it was approved in 2015 by a UN Security Council resolution, without exceptions or additions, to make sure that the illegal sanctions on Iran that are inconsistent with the JCPOA are lifted.
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2022-06-24 06:01:15+00:00
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the National State Television and Radio Company of Belarus
📰 READ IN FULL
Key points:
🔸The West fears honest competition. Hence, a desire to cancel the culture of any country that stands on its own, nationally-oriented positions.
🔸 When at last the Ukrainians have the grace to suggest resuming the diplomatic process, we will see what situation has emerged on the ground.
🔸 Ukraine tried to build its sovereignty by cancelling its own history. The West encouraged that approach and that conceptual vision of the Ukrainian state just to harm Russia.
🔸 Everyone understands the hypocrisy of the demagogic groaning about the absence of sanctions on food and fertiliser. Yes, food is not under sanctions, but all the necessary steps for delivering it to consumers fall under sanctions.
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2022-06-23 18:18:15+00:00
💬 #Opinion by Maria #Zakharova:
News about Berlin's ongoing pressure on the Telegram messenger app has been leaked to Der Spiegel. According to the information obtained by the magazine, the German criminal police forced the company to hand over users’ personal data under various vague pretexts, as well as to block channels at the request of law enforcement agencies.
I must say that the Germans have been putting up pressure on Telegram for a long time.
👉 https://telegra.ph/Opinion-by-Maria-Zakharova-06-23
And now this “no pressure” has forced the company's management to enter into a nexus dialogue with the German police. Regular consultations are held, and, according to Der Spiegel, the head of Telegram attends them “wearing a hoodie.” As a result, the Germans have forced the messenger app to leak user data to them.
What hypocrites! If you read the coalition agreement between the German parties on forming the government – the main document defining Germany’s internal politics for the next five years – the protection of personal data is high on the government agenda. It says, we promote anonymisation methods, establish legal stability through formalised standards and introduce criminal liability for illegal deanonymisation. The Germans have voted for this believing their government would uphold their rights to privacy and freedom. In reality though, the German justice and law enforcement agencies are giving their citizens less and less freedom online, reinstating the worst traditions of the “police state” (Polizeistaat).
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2022-06-23 17:05:22+00:00
📆 June 23 marks International Olympic Day, the day when the International Olympic Committee was established in 1894 after the first Olympic Congress in Paris supported the idea of resuming the tradition of Olympic Games.
🇷🇺 Russia stood at the origins of the modern Olympic Movement. Russian general and military teacher Andrey Butovsky was one of the 13 members of the first International Olympic Committee in 1894. Russian athletes preformed at Olympic Games starting in 1900, winning top positions in the country team medal count.
💬 President Vladimir Putin: Russia has been and remains committed to the traditional Olympic values. We oppose the attempts to politicise sport or use it as a tool of coercion, unfair competition and discrimination. We reject the practice of “collective punishment” for acts perpetrated by individual people, which has recently become a frequent occurrence.
🔗 https://is.gd/FF8lzT
#OlympicDay
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2022-06-23 15:58:10+00:00
🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in the 14th BRICS Summit, held via videoconference and chaired by China.
💬 President Putin: The BRICS format has been consistently increasing its prestige and international influence. This is an objective process, since the five BRICS countries, as we all know, have immense political, economic, scientific, technical and human potential. We have everything we need to work together and achieve results for ensuring global stability and security, sustained growth and prosperity, and better well-being for our people.
I believe that the topic of today’s meeting, Foster High-Quality BRICS Partnership, Usher in a New Era for Global Development, is very relevant. Considering the complexity of the challenges and threats the international community is facing, and the fact that they transcend borders, we need to come up with collective solutions.
👉 The Beijing Declaration of the 14th BRICS Summit formalises the key agreements of the meeting.
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2022-06-23 15:10:42+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇿 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a bilateral meeting with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
#RussiaAzerbaijan
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2022-06-23 14:46:18+00:00
⚡️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on the US complicity in the recruitment of US citizens to fight in Ukraine
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💬 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has noted recent reports on US citizens being recruited and transferred to Ukraine, the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic to participate in hostilities, with the complicity of the White House and American intelligence services.
We are referring to the activity of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, which runs counter to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and involves overt recruitment of fighters to the so-called Foreign Legion of Territorial Defence Forces of Ukraine.
❗️ We regard the US authorities’ complicity in such activities as further proof of Washington not being interested in resolving the Ukrainian crisis.
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2022-06-23 14:22:51+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇿 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov arrived in Baku.
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2022-06-23 08:47:23+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian hold a joint news conference following talks in Tehran 🇷🇺🇮🇷
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206230800-LIVE11214-Lavrov-and-Iran-s-FM-Abdollahian-give-joint-press-conference-in-Tehran
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-23 07:58:01+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a bilateral meeting in Tehran.
#RussiaIran
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2022-06-23 07:36:01+00:00
🎙 From FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the National State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus
💬 What surprises me more are not the lies that we hear daily and hourly from Kiev, but the fact that Kiev's sponsors have joined in this game of lies.
They are covering for Kiev, whether they need to or not and have been doing so for quite a while now. You mentioned the eight-year period that followed the anti-constitutional coup. This coup was the result of the opposition spitting in the face of the European Union as represented by France, Germany and Poland, which signed the agreement between Viktor Yanukovych and the three opposition leaders as guarantors. The next morning it was torn to shreds. Instead they prioritised cancelling the regional status of the Russian language and sent armed thugs to Crimea. This is how it all began.
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2022-06-23 07:20:39+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇷 Opening remarks by FM Lavrov during talks with President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi
💬 It is a busy time for us right now: both in terms of domestic politics and the international agenda. The President of Russia is holding several meetings every day concerning the adaptation of the economic, social, banking and financial sphere to the realities that are now emerging as a result of the West’s aggressive and egotistical policy.
At the same time, all countries experiencing the negative influence of the egotistical policies of the United States and its satellites have an objective need to "reconfigure" their economic ties in such a way as not to depend on the whims and vagaries of our Western partners.
#RussiaIran
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2022-06-23 06:57:04+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇷 Sergey #Lavrov in Tehran
📹 Maria #Zakharova
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2022-06-22 19:14:22+00:00
🕯 On the 81st anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Russian President Vladimir Putin honoured the memory of those who perished in battles against Nazi invaders by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall.
In addition, the President laid flowers at the obelisks of Hero Cities in the Alexander Garden:
⭐️ Leningrad,
⭐️ Kiev,
⭐️ Minsk,
⭐️ Stalingrad,
⭐️ Sevastopol,
⭐️ Odessa,
⭐️ Kerch,
⭐️ Novorossiisk,
⭐️ the Brest Fortress,
⭐️ Tula,
⭐️ Murmansk,
⭐️ Smolensk.
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2022-06-22 17:01:28+00:00
📸 FM Sergey #Lavrov & President Ebrahim Raisi 🇷🇺🇮🇷 meet in Tehran
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2022-06-22 16:45:15+00:00
🌍 Neutral states (🇫🇮 Finland, 🇸🇪 Sweden,🇨🇭Switzerland) make tough statements regarding «Russia’s invasion of Ukraine»
🧐 If this is their principled position, why they kept silence during the aggression of NATO against the former Yugoslavia or invasion of Iraq?
❓What’s your guess?
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2022-06-22 16:20:32+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇷 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives in Iran
📸 Aerial view of Tehran from the Russian delegation's plane
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2022-06-22 16:10:37+00:00
Press release on threats to global food security and Ukrainian grain supplies to international markets
❗️We have noted the increasingly frequent statements by Western representatives, echoed by UN officials, on the threat of a major food crisis due to a shortage of grain and fertilisers on international markets, allegedly provoked by Russia's actions in Ukraine.
We feel compelled to once again reiterate what the real root causes of these problems are.
👉 As far as the blockage of Ukrainian grain shipments by sea is concerned, we emphasise that Russia has never hindered the export of grain from Ukrainian Black Sea ports. In reality, safe navigation in Ukrainian territorial waters and the use of ports are currently impossible due to the high level of danger posed by mines and threat of shelling created by Kiev.
👉 It would be worth recalling that since the beginning of 2020, food and energy prices have increased significantly driven by the coronavirus pandemic, adverse climate factors and, importantly, major miscalculations in Western countries’ financial and economic policies.
🇷🇺 In turn, we reaffirm our readiness to continue to fulfil our obligations to export grain, fertilisers, energy resources and other critical products.
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2022-06-22 12:53:19+00:00
⚔️ The heroic defence of the Brest Fortress began on June 22, 1941. Its garrison pinned down an entire Wehrmacht division for almost one month.
At the start of the Great Patriotic War, the fortress’ garrison comprised about 7,000 to 8,000 officers and soldiers from over 30 ethnic groups. The 45th German Infantry Division, with about 17,000 officers and soldiers, attacked the fortress. The German high command planned to seize the fortress in a few hours.
🕯 Surviving Soviet soldiers mostly conducted acts of sabotage and resisted until late July or even early August 1941. Most of the fortress’ defenders were killed in action, and some of them linked up with the partisans or reached the front line.
Today, the citadel remains a monument highlighting the indomitable willpower of those who were the first to engage Nazi invaders.
#BrestFortress #Victiory77
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2022-06-22 07:42:22+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/ru/events/202206220630-LIVE11198-Russian-MFA-spokesperson-Zakharova-holds-weekly-briefing
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-21 23:19:20+00:00
🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on incitement to violence in the context of the situation in and around Ukraine (June 21, 2022)
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💬 The ideology of violence and hatred stands at the core of present-day Ukrainian state policy. This ideology provoked atrocious crimes of the Kiev regime against its own people that became one of the key reasons of today’s crisis in Ukraine.
☝️ The United States and its Western allies were rather interested in this spread of Russophobia-based Ukrainian nationalism, because they perceived it as a good opportunity to sever historical ties of Russia and Ukraine, as prompted by their geopolitical considerations.
❗️ Despite ravaging primitive Russophobia and racism in Ukraine we hold nothing against the Ukrainian people, Ukrainian culture and language. The people of Ukraine is near and friendly to us. It is just that their leaders are pursuing a geopolitical agenda that is alien both to us and to Ukrainians.
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2022-06-21 15:38:26+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Remarks by Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council Vassily #Nebenzia at the UNSC meeting on Maintenance of peace and security in Ukraine, focused on hate speech.
🔗 https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1w/k1wygmfqqx
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2022-06-21 09:43:05+00:00
🗓 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 9:30 am MSK (approximately) on June 22.
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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2022-06-21 07:01:03+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) posted a consolidated list of grain production data for the 2021/2022 season on its website.
The figures provided by experts show that according to the 2021/2022 agricultural year results, the global grain production is expected to reach 2.8 billion tonnes, which is more than in the 2019/2020 season. The grain carryover will amount to a record high of 850 million tonnes (much higher than last year). According to the results of the current agricultural year, the stocks-to-use ratio will amount to 30.5 percent, which is above average as well.
That means there will be more grain in the world.
Now, let's take a look at the trade transaction data. Anticipated grain trade volumes are higher than in the 2019/2020 season at 439.2 million tonnes. Separate data for wheat are available. The physical level of stocks and the volume of trade in this commodity will increase to 192 million tonnes (up by 1.5 percent compared to the previous period). Similar dynamics are anticipated in feed grain and rice production and trade.
Here's why this is important.
Representatives of the West are using every platform, including the UN, to accuse Russia of reducing the amount of grain available on the market through its actions, allegedly throwing a wrench in grain operations which, according to the West, has sent prices for wheat and other grains up.
In reality, though, there’s more grain on the market than in previous years, and trade is up as well.
It turns out that the price (which is growing, indeed) is not growing because of Russia's actions. The cause of that is a separate matter, and experts are coming up with different explanations.
However, general conclusions can be drawn:
1. Systematic errors made by the West when making forecasts for its agricultural policy.
2. Global inflation caused by short-sighted financial and monetary mechanisms that the West used during the pandemic.
3. The ill-conceived transition of Europe and North America to green energy based on the forced introduction of bio fuel technologies.
4. Illegitimate sanctions that have disrupted the established commodity-money chains.
With regard to whether famine is a realistic scenario, experts increasingly foresee a pessimistic outcome. They believe that many nations will be impacted and even more will become destitute.
The Western regimes that instigate and cause destruction should be blamed for that.
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2022-06-20 17:25:11+00:00
#See4Yourself
You will not see this on mainstream media 👉 first-hand accounts (by kids & their parents) of the intentional shelling of the residential areas and civilian infrastructure of Donetsk by the Ukrainian military.
#Think4Yourself
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2022-06-20 16:33:48+00:00
🟥 77 years ago, the #VictoryBanner was delivered from Berlin to Moscow on a special transport aircraft.
Today, the scarlet banner is stored in a special capsule in the museum, remains a source of pride for all the peoples of the USSR who contributed to the common Victory over Nazism.
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2022-06-20 15:46:37+00:00
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the BBC TV channel (June 16, 2022). Unabridged. Now with English subtitles.
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2022-06-19 20:04:11+00:00
💬 Russia's Minister for Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic Alexei Chekunkov at the 2022 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum:
☝️ The Western nations aim to turn the Arctic into a 'battlefield', while for Russia the Arctic remains an area and territory of cooperation. This was proven by the Economic Forum held in St. Petersburg, where the Arctic agenda and its international aspects were discussed exclusively in a constructive manner - despite the emotional demarche of our northern neighbors who are trying to turn the Arctic Council into a semi-Arctic one.
#Russia4Arctic #SPIEF2022
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2022-06-19 13:46:57+00:00
🚛 Russian servicemen deliver around 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid to civilians in liberated settlements in Kharkov region during special military operation
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianAid
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2022-06-19 11:34:02+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
Kiev and its Western patrons are pursuing their disinformation campaign against our country.
In early April, they tried to accuse Russian military personnel of killing civilians in Bucha. The evidence clearly showed it was a staged performance carried out by Ukrainian and Western intelligence agencies.
But the way, what's up with Bucha? Where are the names and pictures of the people and their life stories?
A week after the incident in Bucha the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the railway station in Kramatorsk with a Tochka U missile and again accused our country of the air strike.
Even Western journalists, who started correcting their own mistakes and then stopped covering this topic altogether, said it was a lie.
On June 13, 2022, Kiev again tried to accuse Russia of shelling the central part of Donetsk with NATO-made ammunition.
Such cynicism can neither be understood nor qualified.
(excerpt from weekly briefing of 15.06.22)
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2022-06-18 16:15:00+00:00
🎙 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova speaks on #CancelCulture at a discussion panel at SPIEF-2022 (Saint-Petersburg International Economic Culture)
💬 The scope & magnitude of cancel culture today are apocalyptical. Cancel culture is a "culture" of destruction.
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2022-06-18 14:30:48+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲 On the sidelines of #SPIEF2022, President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan.
💬 President Putin: Armenia is not just our partner – it is our strategic ally, and we appreciate it.
We are determined to expand our partnership. We are interested in ensuring stability and progressive development in your country.
#RussiaArmenia
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2022-06-18 10:35:21+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Much has been said about the methods used by the Kiev authorities and their Western curators, and it is all the lowest of the low, absolutely all of it, from the exoneration of Nazism to biological experiments on people. However, one track of Kiev’s activities has kept a low profile until recently. And that’s unfortunate, because it directly affects us and our citizens.
It has to do with drugs, or, to be precise, the undeclared war being waged against our country by the Ukrainian special services since 2014.
📈 Let’s look at the figures for a start. In 2014, synthetic drugs (“spices” and “bath salts”) made up just 5 percent of the illegal turnover of drugs, whereas last year they accounted for 60 percent. The main suppliers of synthetic drugs are Ukrainians: 47 out of 67 members of the Khimprom drug syndicate, which was eliminated several years ago, had Ukrainian passports. In the Belgorod Region alone, which borders on Ukraine, the volumes of seized synthetic drugs grew by 20 times from 2019 to 2020. The labs set up by Ukrainians are operating at full capacity: just one laboratory can produce up to 30 kg of drugs (up to 300,000 doses) in a day, which is a formidable potential and colossal illegal money.
It may appear at first glance that we’re talking about a typical criminal story: Ukrainians driven to despair by their government embarked on a crooked path of spreading drugs. But it’s not that simple.
It turns out that each of the drug mules, dealers and producers from Ukraine went through the same procedure before going on a business trip to Russia: they had a talk with a curator from the Security Service of Ukraine.
👉 Once again: the Ukrainian special services identified potential criminals on their territory and provided them with money and equipment to distribute drugs in our country.
In all probability, they targeted young people, which is why instead of classical opiates the Ukrainians have been selling salts and spices popular among teenagers. Obviously, the proceeds from illegal trade didn’t go to the poor Ukrainian drug couriers (who were, in addition, threatened with reprisals against their families, as they said during interrogation) but into the clutches of the Ukrainian special services.
These methods are nothing new. In the 19th century, in order to obtain quasi-colonial trade preferences, the West began to sell Indian opium among the Chinese, which naturally displeased the authorities in Beijing. China issued decrees to limit the British drug cartels. In response, London, backed up by Washington, unleashed opium wars against the Chinese.
It’s unlikely people in Ukraine know much about the history of the Western drug expansion to the East, so nobody should have any doubt about who is helping Ukraine’s security services to organise drug supplies to Russia.
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2022-06-18 09:09:01+00:00
🎖 On June 18-20, 1937, pilot Valery Chkalov, co-pilot Georgy Baidukov and navigator Alexander Belyakov flew a single-engine Tupolev ANT-25 airplane non-stop from Moscow to Vancouver in the United States via the North Pole for the first time in history. In all, they covered over 8,500 kilometres.
🔹 The three pilots spent 63 hours in mid-air and constantly had to deal with unexpected problems, including strong side winds, low clouds and a shortage of oxygen. When the plane used up almost all its fuel, Chkalov managed to land it at Pearson Field in Vancouver, a suburb of Portland, Washington.
🔹 President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt received the pilots in the White House.
🔹 In 1975, the Chkalov Trans-Polar Flight Monument honouring the Soviet pilots was unveiled in Vancouver. In 2019, Russia’s Ambassador to the United States and the Mayor of Vancouver laid wreaths at the monument under a long-standing tradition.
🔗 Read more: https://is.gd/RhC54O
#Chkalov #OurHeroes #OurHistory
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2022-06-17 21:22:55+00:00
🎙 The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin attended the Plenary Session of the 25th St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
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🔹 After declaring victory in the Cold War, the United States proclaimed itself to be God’s messenger on Earth, without any obligations and only interests which were declared sacred.
🔹 Step by step, we will normalise the economic situation. We have stabilised the financial markets, the banking system and the trade network.
🔹 We see social and economic problems worsening in Europe, and in the US as well, food, electricity and fuel prices rising, with quality of life in Europe falling and companies losing their market edge.
🔹 Russia is ready to contribute to balancing global markets of agricultural products, and we see that our UN colleagues, who are aware of the scale of the global food problem, are ready for dialogue.
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2022-06-17 20:31:23+00:00
🇷🇺🇰🇿 President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on the sidelines of SPIEF-2022.
💬 It is important for us to emphasise our special relationship and, of course, to have an opportunity to compare views with you personally on major issues, primarily on the economy, of course.
🤝 This year we will observe the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations. We will celebrate this as well. And the regional forum is still ahead. In general, our governments are working very intensively. Times are difficult and they are looking for solutions to every arising issue.
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2022-06-17 15:01:17+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the BBC TV channel
🔹 We announced a special military operation after being left with no other means to make it clear to the West that it is engaging in criminal activity by dragging Ukraine into NATO, by coddling and doting on a neo-Nazi regime, whose president Vladimir Zelensky said in September 2021 (you didn’t tell your viewers about it, did you?) that, if someone in Ukraine feels Russian, they should leave for Russia.
🔹 Today, the Ukrainian regime is attacking civilians with your Western weapons just like they did in 2014 when the putschists came to power, when the centre of Lugansk was bombed by aircraft and 50 people were burned alive in Odessa.
🔹 I think that NATO is a threat. We are told not to worry, that Ukraine’s accession to NATO wouldn’t pose a threat to the Russian Federation. With all due respect for our colleagues from the North Atlantic Alliance, I must say that Russia has the right to decide for itself what threatens its security and what does not.
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2022-06-17 13:55:51+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the NTV network
📍 Saint-Petersburg, June 16, 2022
◻️ To attain its strategic goal, the West, first, is ready to hurt its own citizens for the sake of its geopolitical ambitions, and second, is forcing all others to act likewise through open blackmail, threats, ultimatums and other lowbrow methods and moves.
◻️ I hope that along with politicians who irresponsibly demand to supply Ukraine with whatever it wants, there are military people who realise what is at stake and understand the risks involved.
◻️ We do not have a goal to become one of the poles of a multipolar world. We are just stating an objective reality. This world is developing objectively, all by itself. All the current “labours” of the West are aimed at “containing” this objective historical process.
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2022-06-17 12:42:35+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian President Vladimir Putin's remarks at the Plenary Session of the 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206171100-LIVE11149-Putin-addresses-at-plenary-session-of-SPIEF-2022-in-St-Petersburg
🔗 https://forumspb.com/en/programme/business-programme/100065/#broadcast
#SPIEF2022
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2022-06-17 08:10:35+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with TASS news agency, St Petersburg (June 16, 2022)
💬 We are defending Donbass. We had to recognise the independence of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic. We will uphold their independence within the borders where they held the referendum in 2014.
💬 You see the people’s response in the DPR, the LPR, the Kherson region and Zaporozhye region, and a number of other Ukrainian regions. They want to build a peaceful life without constantly experiencing fear of the neo-Nazis who have been abusing them all these long years.
💬 We are key initiators of the statements that were made at the Russian-US summits, as well as those made on behalf of the leaders of the five UN Security Council permanent member countries, saying that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and so it must never be unleashed. That is our position. We are strongly committed to it.
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2022-06-17 07:28:40+00:00
🎙Briefing by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, June 15.
Main topics:
🔹 FM #Lavrov. Schedule
🔹 Update on #Ukraine
🔹 #SPIEF2022
🔹 Outcomes of the Summit of the Americas
🔹 EU project of rebuilding Ukraine
🔹 ECHR ruling on the Russian law On Foreign Agents
🔹 Russia - Ukrainian talks
🔹 Prospects of direct conflict between Russia and the US
🔹 60 years of #RussiaSenegal diplomatic relations
🔹 #BRICS
And more...
📺 Watch in full
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2022-06-17 05:31:00+00:00
✍️"A Russian Perspective on the Food Crisis" article by Ambassador Anatoly #Antonov specially for The National Interest:
🔗 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russian-perspective-food-crisis-203055
💬 If Washington really wants to improve the situation in the global agricultural market, let us cooperate.
Russia has become a target for accusations that have nothing to do with reality. Our country is being imputed with trying to take steps aimed at deliberately degrading global food security, preventing Ukrainian agricultural exports by sea, and blocking the sowing campaign in that country. It’s time to put an end to these speculations. <...>
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2022-06-16 21:05:56+00:00
⚡️ Excerpts from @mod_russia_en briefing on the results of the analysis of data and documents, related to the military-biological activity of the USA in Ukraine
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📈 Slides
🗂 Documents
☣️ We have previously spoken about the experiments held by the employees of a laboratory in Merefa on the patients of a psychiatric clinic in Kharkov since 2019 to 2021. It has been noted that one of the organisers of this illegal activity was a US citizen Linda Oporto Al-Haroun.
The documents received during the special military operation have revealed that this kind of investigations has been carried out in Ukraine at least since 2011 and Al-Haroun repeatedly visited the branch of the Merefa laboratory built with funds of the Pentagon in Sorokovka, Kharkov region.
According to the available information, highly active neuropeptides were tested on socially vulnerable citizens of Ukraine that caused irreversible damage to the central nervous system. This is a clear violation of the international treaties related to human rights.
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Despite the assurances of the United States that the biological research in Ukraine is carried out exclusively in the field of civilian healthcare, there are documents that confirm the direct cooperation between the military departments of these countries.
Since 2015 that was the beginning of large-scale financing of Ukrainian projects by the Pentagon, numerous cases of infectious diseases have been recorded among servicemen and residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics.
Analysis of documents on the activities of the Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in Ukraine implies that one of the prioritised tasks of DTRA is to train field epidemiologists. Within this training course, the US side has actively been introducing its own standards for diagnosing infectious diseases that do not correspond to current public healthcare problems.
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2022-06-16 18:57:35+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: Every week brings further tragic evidence of war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law committed by the neo-Nazi regime and foreign mercenaries that are fighting on its side.
They are resorting to the terrorist, extremist tactic of intimidating civilians and are using locals as human shields.
On June 13 of this year, Ukrainian nationalists subjected Donetsk to the most barbaric shelling since 2015. They fired 620 units of different ammunition from tube, rocket and missile artillery, killing five people, including an 11-year-old boy. Thirty-nine civilians, including three children were injured Is the US delegation walking in sacrosanct circles around the UNSC hall of sessions? Where is the US Permanent Ambassador with angry speeches and yelling? Where are the US humanitarians? What’s wrong with the NGOs? Why are they silent?
(excerpt from weekly briefing of 15.06.22)
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2022-06-16 16:53:10+00:00
🎙 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's interview to RT's Ilya Petrenko on topical issues of the current global agenda, given "on the sidelines" of the Saint-Petersburg International Economic Forum
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2022-06-16 14:00:18+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Interview by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to NTV channel
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-16 13:31:18+00:00
🇮🇷🇷🇺🇹🇷 Joint Statement by the Representatives of Iran, Russia and Türkiye on the 18th International Meeting on Syria in the Astana Format, Nur-Sultan, 15-16 June
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The representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Türkiye as guarantors of the Astana format:
✔️ Reaffirmed their unwavering commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic.
✔️ Expressed their determination to continue working together to combat terrorism in all forms and manifestations and stand against separatist agendas aimed at undermining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria as well as threatening the national security of neighboring countries.
✔️Reviewed in detail the situation in Idlib de-escalation area, agreed to make further efforts to ensure sustainable normalization of the situation there and improve the humanitarian situation in and around the area.
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2022-06-16 13:25:10+00:00
On June 15, 2022, the Permanent Russian Mission to the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva hosted a reception on the occasion of the Russia Day
We were glad to welcome colleagues and friends from the diplomatic community, Permanent Representatives of other countries, public officials from international organizations, fellow compatriots and guests.
In his welcome speech, Ambassador Gennady Gatilov noted i.a. that:
🗺 Russia’s millennial history has always had global importance. We take pride in our culture and traditions.
💪🏻 Russia’s strength comes from the unity of our people. It is the greatest virtue that helped our country overcome the perils of the past.
🛡 Our country always had and continues to bear a unique historic mission – to defend other nations from tyranny and oppression.
❗️ Russia will not and cannot be isolated. It is impossible to “cancel” the centuries-old Russian culture. There is no way our voice can be muted at the international institutions.
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2022-06-16 12:25:40+00:00
🇷🇺🇸🇬 Russian Embassy in Singapore:
Comment by Ambassador Nikolay Kudashev (excerpts)
• It is with growing concern that we monitor continued Western attempts to proliferate its influence in Asia and the Pacific to subvert positions of traditional formats of cooperation with the final purpose of instigating confrontation not only with China but also with the Russian Federation.
• To further these aims, the “small geometry” block structures are being planted in the region to fit hidden American design and to establish destabilizing alternatives to ASEAN-centric mechanisms.
• The talk is on with the Collective West about convergence of strategic interests of Euro-Atlantics and APR to convince regional powers to develop joint ASEAN-NATO programs for maritime security, cyber security and counterterrorism.
❗️NATO’s quest for proliferation to the APR runs counter to ASEAN-centric vision nurtured for decades, destabilizes the situation and brings evil and disorder to the region.
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2022-06-16 11:15:00+00:00
👩 🚀 On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova performed her historic mission aboard Vostok-6, became the first woman in space. And to this day she remains the only female to have ever ventured to orbit solo.
🔹 Launched from Baikonur Vostok-6 orbited the Earth 48 times and successfully landed in the Altai Territory. The flight took 2 days, 22 hours and 50 minutes. During the flight, Valentina Tereshkova took a series of pictures of the horizon, which was later used to detect aerosol levels in the atmosphere.
🔹 Tereshkova’s space flight became a global sensation. Three days after the flight, she was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Later on, she received the titles of Hero of Socialist Labour of Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Vietnam and Mongolia, and also became honorary citizen of 18 Russian and foreign cities.
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2022-06-16 10:19:08+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russia's Special Presidential Envoy for Syria Alexander #Lavrentiev holds news conference following the 18th International Meeting on Syria in the Astana Format.
#AstanaMeeting #Peace4Syria #AstanaProcess
https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/62a9b5064529312aa1bf991d/21186/English
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2022-06-16 09:58:20+00:00
⭐️ #OTD in 1894, prominent Soviet commander, Marshal Fyodor #Tolbukhin was born.
🎖 Received high state awards of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria & Hungary for his contribution to their liberation from Nazis.
👉 Secured Romania’s alliance with the anti-Hitler coalition.
#FacesОfVictory
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2022-06-16 06:10:51+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign MInistry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova takes part in a panel discussion on "Dictatorship of Neoliberalism through the Eyes of Russian Fellow Countrymen Abroad" on the sidelines of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
🔗 https://roscongress.org/en/sessions/spief-2022-diktatura-neoliberalizma-glazami-rossiyskikh-sootechestvennikov-za-rubezhom/translation/
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-16 05:37:16+00:00
Right of reply by a Russian representative at the UNHCR 50th Session:
🔹 The current discussion once again confirms a complete absence of intent among the "collective West" countries to conduct a mutually respectful dialogue with other states.
🔹 In order to achieve their geopolitical goals, they do not shun anything – they engage in mass disinformation without a twinge of conscience, exert undisguised pressure on sovereign states, clamp down on rights and freedoms, trample on the principles they declare. When it comes to their own actions, they remain blind and deaf.
🔹 Apparently, the Americans and Europeans manipulating the information space believe that it is possible to forget the atrocities committed by the West over recent years and decades.
🔹 A lot of data is surfacing nowadays that indicates not just a well-thought-out geopolitical scheme to turn Ukraine into "Anti-Russia".
FULL STATEMENT (🇷🇺/🇬🇧)
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2022-06-15 19:00:00+00:00
🇷🇺🇿🇦📞 President Vladimir Putin and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had a phone conversation.
The presidents expressed satisfaction with the current level of the two countries' strategic partnership and stressed the shared intention to expand mutually beneficial cooperation, above all in trade, the economy, and investment.
They also discussed in detail issues of food security, including the supply of Russian agricultural products and fertilisers to the African continent, in particular South Africa.
The leaders also noted the importance of joint work within BRICS in order to further promote the role of this association in global politics and economics.
Vladimir Putin and Cyril Ramaphosa also exchanged views on the situation in Ukraine.
It was agreed to maintain contact.
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2022-06-15 18:17:36+00:00
🇷🇺🇨🇳📞 President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke over the phone. The leaders exchanged views on a wide range of issues on the bilateral and international agendas.
🔸 reaffirmed their commitment to deepen the comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction;
🔸 agreed to expand cooperation in energy, finance, the manufacturing industry, transport and other areas;
🔸 touched upon further development of military and defence ties.
It was emphasised that Russia and China have overlapping or very close positions, consistently uphold the fundamental principles of international law, seek to build a truly multipolar and fair system of international relations.
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2022-06-15 14:42:21+00:00
🎙 Remarks to the Press by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia regarding shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian military
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🔷 The Ukrainian military continue to shell civilians. Recently their assaults have intensified. And on June 13 the Kiev regime launched a large-scale shelling of the city of Donetsk and adjacent areas in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
🔷 This shelling could not bring to Kiev any military advantage as Donetsk is not on the line of contact. There are no military objects where the shells fell. The Ukrainian military deliberately targeted civilian districts and infrastructure – hospitals, markets, residential areas.
🔷 It is a disgrace that the Western media largely stay blind, deaf and numb to these appalling incidents. And those who speak up, only do so to promote nonsense that the city was shelled by the Russian forces.
🔷 I would like to say to the Western countries supplying weaponry to Ukraine – the blood of civilians is on your hands.
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2022-06-15 11:47:34+00:00
⚡️🇬🇧 Foreign Ministry Statement on personal sanctions on UK citizens in the media and the defence lobby
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In response to the British government’s anti-Russia actions to impose personal sanctions on our country’s leading journalists and heads of defence companies, Russia has included senior executives and correspondents from a number of major British media, as well as representatives of the command of the armed forces, the defence industry, and the UK defence lobby on the Russian “stop list.”
👉 The list of British subjects who are no longer allowed entry into the Russian Federation
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2022-06-15 09:10:47+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206150900-LIVE11137-Russian-MFA-spokesperson-Zakharova-holds-weekly-briefing-in-St-Petersburg
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-15 08:26:21+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova: The Kiev regime continues to recruit foreign mercenaries as the Ukrainian Armed Forces lose fighters. They have recruited more than 6,500 ‘soldiers of fortune’. By early June, there was a two-fold decrease in the number of foreign mercenaries.
Still, efforts to recruit mercenaries and ‘volunteers’ continue unabated, mostly targeting Afghan refugees and what is left of the ISIS fighters in Syria. These people have probably found new and fertile ground for their hateful ideology. Private military contractors from the United States and Great Britain have been helping select these fighters and send them to Ukraine. However, there has been no talk of sanctioning them in any way.
The West has a two-fold agenda: to help Vladimir Zelensky, while also getting rid of its own extremists and radicals.
What faulty logic. These fighters will return home having acquired extensive combat experience.
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2022-06-15 07:36:46+00:00
📅 #OTD in 1798, Alexander #Gorchakov was born - a great diplomat, legendary Foreign Minister & statesman of the 19th century.
🔹 Having headed the Foreign Ministry in 1856, he set a goal to rewrite the results of the Crimean war. He wanted to reestablish control over the Black Sea and Bessarabia “without spending money and without shedding a drop of Russian blood.”
🔹 Using his diplomatic skills, Gorchakov managed to prevent Austria from entering the Franco-Prussian war, which brought a complete victory to Prussia. Having won the support of this new empire, Russia announced that it would no longer fulfil the obligations of the Paris Congress and not a single European power dared contradict this.
💬 “Russia is not angry, it is focusing.” This famous phrase is attributed to Gorchakov. He created favourable conditions for the reforms that allowed Russia to make an economic leap in the last third of the 19th century.
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2022-06-15 06:15:11+00:00
🇷🇺 Permanent Representative of Russia to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov’s interview to «Rossiya 24» («Fifth Studio») on Iran and IAEA-issues (with English subtitles)
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2022-06-14 18:35:13+00:00
It is time for the UK to assume full responsibility for its short-sighted policy.
#Donetsk #DPR #Ukraine #UK
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2022-06-14 17:33:19+00:00
When it comes to lies - some Western mainstream media know no shame.
A German national TV network Tagesschau reported that Russia was responsible for for yesterday’s massive shelling of Donetsk’s residential area, when, in fact, it was the Ukrainian military behind the heinous crime.
Confirmed i.a by the UN, but would it really matter for those, who “support the current thing”?
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2022-06-14 16:20:06+00:00
📆 Today marks the 239th Anniversary of the foundation of Sevastopol. It was on this day in 1783 that Rear Admiral Thomas MacKenzie ordered to lay the foundations of the first four stone structures in Sevastopol: a house for the commander of the Sevastopol naval squadron, a chapel, a smithy in the Admiralty, and a wharf, which was later given the name of Grafskaya.
❗️ An important landmark in the contemporary history of Sevastopol was undoubtedly the March 16, 2014 Crimean referendum on the status of Crimea. As a result of the vote, 95.6% of referendum participants spoke in favour of the city joining the Russian Federation.
🇷🇺 Today, the legendary Sevastopol retains its honorary title as the main base of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, a city of martial glory and valour of Russian sailors.
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2022-06-14 15:17:07+00:00
🇷🇺🇩🇰 Russian Embassy in Denmark:
Comment by Russian Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin
💬 The decision to resume cooperation within the Arctic Council on a project basis, taken without Russia and without Russia's participation, discredits international cooperation under the auspices of the #ArcticCouncil. The principle of consensus decision-making has been violated. Strong impetus has been given to the fragmentation of international Arctic cooperation and its politicization. Contrary to assurances from Russia's neighbors in the region about the importance of sustaining Arctic Council activities, new formats for Arctic interaction have begun to run in where Russia is not represented. The role of the Arctic Council as the main regional forum for intergovernmental interaction has been eroded.
Russia, for its part, will strengthen dialogue in all possible ways and promote joint projects with non-regional states interested in interacting with our country in the Arctic.
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2022-06-13 16:02:09+00:00
#DebunkingMyths
❌ Myth: Russia is using energy supplies for political purposes.
✅ Faсts: It is the EU which, by imposing or planning to impose further unilateral sanctions against Russian energy supplies, is politicizing the energy sphere, attempting to use interdependences between energy consumers and suppliers as an instrument of political pressure, while damaging its own economy and the well-being of its citizens and aggravating what is already a precarious situation in the global energy markets.
Unfounded allegations that Moscow is using energy supplies for political aims are part and parcel of the fact-twisting information warfare unleashed by the EU and the US, the latter seeking to increase its LNG exports to the EU.
#Think4Yourself
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2022-06-13 10:44:19+00:00
#Food4Thought
🔎 RIA Novosti have launched a new special project - a journalistic investigation “Joint. Drug War of Ukraine Against Russia".
The project presents hard evidence of the hybrid war launched by Kiev against our country 8 years ago with the main goal to “drown the Russians in drugs”.
📰 Just a small excerpt:
The Interior Ministry’s Centre for Information and Analysis has reported an annual increase in the trafficking of synthetic drugs in our country, from 5 percent of the market in 2014 to 60 percent in 2021.
Security services officers told RIA Novosti that Ukrainians set up laboratories in border regions to smuggle drugs into Russia or organise their manufacturing and sale in Russia.
In 2019, 62 kg of drugs were confiscated in the Belgorod Region. The figure increased nearly nine-fold, to 534 kg, in 2020. The figure doubled in 2021, when security services confiscated 1,066 kg.
👉 Read in full
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2022-06-12 16:30:30+00:00
🇷🇺 #Russia is... so many things, all at once. A lifetime worth of amazing things to explore & discover.
Immerse in Russia's enigmatic & friendly atmosphere, enjoy its natural beauty and rich traditions of its peoples - #ExploreRussia!
Happy #RussiaDay! 🥳
#RussiaDay2022 #RussiaIs #Russia1Love
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2022-06-12 14:14:09+00:00
🇷🇺 Russia's President Vladimir Putin presented today the Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation medals and the 2021 National Awards for outstanding achievements in science and technology, literature, and the arts, and for outstanding contributions to human rights protection.
💬 Vladimir Putin on the occasion of #RussiaDay and state awards ceremony: We are proud of the achievements and combat victories of our ancestors, and all those who aspired to press forward and did so to make new discoveries and ensure progress for our Motherland, as well as those who defended it on the battlefield and cemented its well-deserved place in the world.
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2022-06-12 13:01:04+00:00
1000 volunteers from 13 nations, under the aegis of the the Nepokoryonnye (Unbowed, Unconquered) movement, displayed today the world's largest 🟥 #VictoryBanner in Moscow at the Poklonnaya Gora Memorial Complex on the occasion of the #RussiaDay.
The enormous banner dimensions: 33 m wide x 63 m long = 2022 sq m!
In the next few weeks it will tour the cities of Russia & Belarus, with the final stop being is the legendary #BrestFortress - where the Soviet heroes withstood against overwhelming Nazi forces for several months.
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2022-06-12 12:14:22+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇹 On the occasion of the #RussiaDay our colleagues at the Russian Embassy in Austria have prepared a virtual 360° tour of the Embassy's historical building. Enter the premises, explore the interiors and visit the very spots where important talks and heads of state meetings took place.
👉 https://360.eostrixvision.com/tour/rembassy
#RussiaDay #RussiaDay2022
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2022-06-12 11:15:13+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇱 Russian-speaking Israelis also celebrate #RussiaDay - and in style - they have a huge (600 sq m!) Russian flag in the central park of Tel-Aviv.
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2022-06-12 10:11:40+00:00
🇷🇺🇨🇦 Russian Embassy in Canada:
Russia Day reception attended by diplomatic corps, compatriots, Russian and Canadian media, representatives of Canadian society and GAC.
Ambassador Oleg Stepanov addressed the participant and in his speech noted that on June 12 this year we also mark the 80th Anniversary of establishing 🇷🇺🇨🇦 Russian-Canadian diplomatic relations.
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2022-06-12 06:01:05+00:00
🇷🇺 Happy #RussiaDay! 🥳
💬 I discovered that I’ve got
Relatives and they’re my lot
They are woods that are so dear
Friends of corn and every ear
Streams of water, skies of blue
I will tell them: “I love you”.
It’s the Homeland of mine
I shall love it all the time.
#RussiaDay2022 #Russia1Love #WeAreRussia
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2022-06-11 21:01:17+00:00
🇷🇺 Happy Russia Day!
#WeAskedPolitely
#RussiaDay #RussiaDay2022 #Russia1Love #WeAreRussia
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2022-06-11 20:42:17+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Maria #Zakharova: Do you remember the recent incident when Sergey Razov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Italian Republic, filed a lawsuit at the prosecutor’s office in Rome against the Italian newspaper La Stampa and its journalist Domenico Quirico for the publication of an article called “If Killing a Tyrant is the Only Option,” which discussed in all seriousness the possibility, expediency and hypothetic perpetrators of the Russian President’s assassination?
The Italian Criminal Code contains Article 414, Clause1 and Clause 3 on incitement to commit a crime.
The Russian Ambassador cited these clauses in the court case. But the wonders of democracy never cease to amaze.
That same daily published an article the other day reporting that the lawsuit by the Russian Ambassador had been dismissed at a preliminary hearing in Turin. Despite the established procedure, we have not received any official response so far. According to the newspaper, the court cited the absence of a constitutional principle confirming that a criminal offence had been committed, while descriptions of an assassination constitute no threat to state security (whose security – Russia’s or Italy’s?) and do not constitute incitement to commit a crime since “there are no essential elements of an offence.”
Isn’t that great?
Based on these conclusions, La Stampa editor-in-chief proudly stated that the newspaper has its own beliefs which it fights for: the beliefs of liberal democracy.
No doubt about that. This is clearly a case of liberal totalitarianism.
This is not the first time we see that liberal democracy in the modern western interpretation does not exclude but in fact encourages a discussion on the pages of a national newspaper with a huge circulation on the possibility and expediency of assassinating the head of a foreign state.
The cancel culture has become the foundation of liberal thought. If it is possible to cancel entire nations as a class, as a historical phenomenon, the assassination of statesmen certainly fits into this logic.
Nazism, which was quite democratic by Western standards, first burned books in the squares, banned dissent and then took up exterminating people in gas chambers. This is the same philosophy. This school of thought justifies the cancellation of the native language, the cancellation of those who oppose the cancellation of the native language, the cancellation of the defence of one’s own values if they don’t fit into the current environment of scoundrels of every hue hiding behind the banner of neo-liberalism.
Incidentally we never found a question mark in the title of the article, despite the newspaper’s statement to the contrary, and we didn’t need the help of a qualified translator for this, which the newspaper recommended. Now that there is a court ruling (surprisingly fast despite the expectations), the conclusion is obvious: both moral and legal limitations to distributing such provocative materials have been lifted in modern Italy.
By the way, Italy’s Criminal Code stipulates a harsh punishment – up to 1.5 years in prison – for insulting the honour and dignity of the Italian president.
In my humble opinion, no one should be insulted, no matter if he or she is the Italian president, an Italian citizen or a citizen of another country. What does liberalism think about that?
Let me give you a hint. Freedom is the opportunity to create and implement worthy and useful things.
Today’s liberalism stems from the opposite ideology, one that glorifies freedom as impunity to commit abominations.
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2022-06-11 10:48:42+00:00
🤝 Russia's EMERCOM continues to provide uninterrupted assistance to the people of Donbass.
In the last few days alone:
✅ Specialists continue to sort through the rubble and clear the debris.
✅ 15'000 tonnes of drinking water were delivered to those in need.
✅ 1,3 tonnes of vital supplies were distributed among the residents.
✅ In addition, 32'000 explosive dives were found and disarmed.
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2022-06-11 10:11:30+00:00
Key statements made by Director of the Economic Cooperation Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Birichevsky during his briefing on global food security
(June 10, 2022, Geneva)
The unfavourable situation on the global food market began to take shape a while ago, not since the beginning of Russia's special military operation.
It dates back to February 2020 and is linked to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the world economy was "disoriented" and had to be restored.
Three reasons behind the current crisis
1️⃣ US missteps in regulating its economy during the pandemic
2️⃣ EU overestimation of the alternative energy sources resulting in a dramatic price hike
3️⃣ Irrational one-sided sanctions against Russia - one of the world’s leading food and energy producers
🇺🇦 The current situation in Ukraine was also discussed.
📑 READ THE FULL STATEMENT
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2022-06-11 07:03:29+00:00
⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the election of UN Security Council non-permanent members for 2023-2024
On June 9, the UN General Assembly elected the following non-permanent members to its Security Council for 2023-2024: 🇲🇹Malta, 🇲🇿Mozambique, 🇨🇭Switzerland, 🇪🇨Ecuador and 🇯🇵Japan.
We hope that Valetta, Maputo, Bern, Quito and Tokyo will pursue a balanced and unbiased policy in the Security Council and facilitate the drafting of effective responses to the challenges and threats to international security in strict conformity with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.
🇷🇺🇺🇳 Russia is firmly committed to constructive cooperation with the newly elected non-permanent members of the Security Council, with a view to settling the most urgent crises of our time. We are convinced that in the current conditions depoliticised cooperation and the pursuit of mutually acceptable solutions should be our common priority.
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2022-06-10 22:02:25+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇲 President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, who is on an official visit to Russia, held talks in the Kremlin.
The Presidents discussed further development of cooperation between the two countries in politics, trade and the economy, humanitarian affairs, as well as topical regional and international issues.
After the talks, the Russian President presented the President of Turkmenistan the Order of Friendship, a national decoration of the Russian Federation.
Following the top-level talks, a Declaration on Deepening Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan was signed.
#RussiaTurkmenistan
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2022-06-10 21:29:41+00:00
⚡️ FM Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions at a news conference following a meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers
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💬 The participants of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting adopted an important statement on international security, in which they fixed, for the first time in the CSTO format, the principle of indivisibility of security – the need to ensure equal and indivisible security where not a single country will enhance its security at the expense of the security of any other state.
Today, we reaffirmed our commitment to this principle not only within the OSCE but also with regard to the international situation.
The second document signed at the meeting was an intensive plan for consultations between our foreign ministries and defence ministries. It provides for coordinating actions in the Euro-Atlantic Region (the OSCE space), approaches to the UN General Assembly agenda and consultations on various regional crises and conflicts.
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2022-06-10 15:49:56+00:00
🇷🇺 Joint reception by Permanent Mission of Russia to the International Organizations in Vienna, Embassy of Russia in Austria, Permanent Mission of Russia to the OSCE and Russian Delegation to the Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control - on the occasion of the 🇷🇺 Day of Russia - was held today at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Austria
#DayofRussia #DayofRussia2022
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2022-06-10 11:30:30+00:00
#DebunkingMyths
The on-going attempts to blame Russia for "weaponising" grain and food supplies are completely without merit.
❗️ Faсts: Russia is a responsible member of the global food market. It is the Western illegitimate sanctions that are in fact damaging global food security.
We are deeply concerned about a possible food crisis and are well aware of the importance of supplies of socially important commodities, including food, to the socio-economic development of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East and the achievement of SDGs.
The illegitimate unilateral restrictions imposed by the EU, the US and their satellites remain the main obstacle to normal export relations between Russia (and Belarus) and buyers of grain and fertilizers.
#Think4Yourself
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2022-06-10 10:47:24+00:00
🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov took part in the #CSTO Foreign Ministers Council meeting, held in Yerevan.
#RussiaCSTO #CSTOMinisterial
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2022-06-10 10:07:12+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲 On the sidelines of the CSTO Ministerial Council, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov took part in the meeting of the
Heads of the Delegations with CSTO Chairperson-in-Office and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinian.
#RussiaCSTO #CSTOMinisterial
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2022-06-10 09:50:08+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov's remarks and answers to media questions following the #CSTO Foreign Ministers Council meeting.
🔗 https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/629f77494529312aa1bf80e5/21030/English
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-10 06:58:30+00:00
📸 FM Sergey #Lavrov took part in the #FamilyPhoto ceremony ahead of the #CSTO Foreign Ministers Council meeting.
#RussiaCSTO #CSTOMinisterial
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2022-06-09 20:54:06+00:00
💬 Russia's President Vladimir Putin on sovereignty in today's rapidly changing world:
We live in an era of change. Geopolitical, scientific and technological transformations are happening. The world is changing, and it is doing so rapidly.
In order to claim some kind of leadership – any country, any people, any ethnic group should ensure their sovereignty.
Because there is no in-between, no intermediate state: either a country is sovereign, or it is a colony, no matter what the colonies are called.
I am not going to give any examples so as not to offend anyone, but if a country or a group of countries is not able to make sovereign decisions, then it is already a colony to a certain extent. But a colony has no historical prospects, no chance for survival in this tough geopolitical struggle.
(excerpt from President Putin's meeting with young entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists ahead of the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum).
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2022-06-09 19:20:01+00:00
🎙 Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia gives interview to Stephen Sackur (BBC World's HARDtalk) on the situation regarding Ukraine.
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2022-06-09 17:55:59+00:00
📆 June 9 marks the 350th birth anniversary of a great statesman, Tsar, then Emperor Peter the Great. It would be no exaggeration to say that he was one of the most extraordinary rulers in Russian history. His tireless and never-ending energy, governance talents and dedicated service to the Motherland helped to radically transform the international, political, economic, social and cultural image of Russia.
📜 The reforms of Peter the Great made it possible to considerably reduce the lag between Russia and advanced Western European countries, and they drastically transformed the country’s public life. In 1721, Russia was proclaimed an empire, and Peter the Great became the first Russian Emperor.
Numerous commemorative events narrating various stages of Peter’s life and activities mark the 3️⃣5️⃣0️⃣th birth anniversary of the Russian Emperor.
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2022-06-09 17:25:25+00:00
#DebunkingMyths
Certain politicians in the West attempt to score political points & avoid responsibility by putting the blame for soaring energy prices, food security issues and even inflation on Russia 🤷♂️
Fact: Western sanctions & poor economic policies are among the root causes for the crisis.
#Think4Yourself
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2022-06-09 15:55:53+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 The Irish media have learned that the government is putting together an emergency plan in the event of a major fuel crisis in the country. According to Ireland’s Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, even in the most optimistic scenario, as early as September, there will be a 20 percent reduction in petrol available in the country. In this case, Dublin intends to unseal its national oil reserves to offset the lost volumes.
This drop in supply is expected to reach 35 percent by winter, which is viewed as a realistic scenario. In this case, the government will deactivate market mechanisms and enact a fuel allocation scheme.
Under a pessimistic scenario, Dublin will fully switch to a centralised planning approach to managing its energy sector and motor transport by restricting individual mobility for cars, creating a network of critical fuel stations, followed by …. darkness and chaos.
My question is: Who is being sanctioned? The answer is – the EU.
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2022-06-09 11:08:56+00:00
🇷🇺🇨🇳 #Russia & #China continue to strengthen economic cooperation - in January-May 2022 trade turnover grew by 28,9% ($65,8 bln) according to latest data.
📈 Russian exports to China increased nearly by 50% - $41,2 bln in the first 5 months of 2022.
#RussiaChina 🤝
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2022-06-09 09:35:00+00:00
🇷🇺🇨🇦 The Russian Embassy in Canada responded to the Joint statement on limited resumption of Arctic Council cooperation following its release by the Canadian Foreign Ministry:
❗️ There is no Arctic Council without Russia.
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2022-06-09 08:30:00+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan hold a joint news conference following talks in Yerevan 🇷🇺🇦🇲
🔗 https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/629f741c4529312aa1bf80d3/21056/English
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
#RussiaArmenia
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2022-06-09 08:17:56+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲 In Yerevan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan.
#RussiaArmenia
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2022-06-09 08:07:41+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲 In Yerevan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov laid a wreath at the Memorial to the Armenian Genocide Victims and flowers at the Eternal Flame.
#RussiaArmenia
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2022-06-09 06:13:16+00:00
❗️ Today marks 3️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ years since the birth of #PeterTheGreat!
One of history's greatest statesman, famous for progressive reforms & elevating 🇷🇺 Russia to a Great Power status.
Among his many achievements is #SaintPetersburg itself (!), named after him - an amazing city & a cultural nexus!
To recap watch our video and read the essential Peter The Great factsheet 👇
👑 Russia's last Tzar & first Emperor.
💼 Great Statesman, who turned Russian into a Great Power
🛳 Founder of the Russian Navy
🏛 Father of #SaintPetersburg!
🇷🇺 Introduced Russia's flag colours
📏 2+ metres tall and exceptionally strong
⚒ Skilled shipwright & craftsman
He was all this, and much more! Happy 350th Anniversary, dear Peter! 🥳
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2022-06-08 20:15:32+00:00
⚡️ ForeignCombatants.ru — is a joint database of foreign mercenaries and volunteers, participating in the hostilities on the Ukrainian side collected by independent blogger & think tank communities @rybar and @vatfor .
❗️The purpose of this project is to "convince the soldiers of fortune to abandon their cannon fodder role, and to show that the Ukrainian authorities treat them as mere disposables".
More details
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2022-06-08 18:28:16+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 How many times do we have to explain who is responsible for the unfolding tragedy in the vegetable oil and grain markets? Still, the talking (not thinking) heads in Europe go through the same song and dance every day. Josep Borrell on Twitter once again blamed the global food crisis on “Russian missiles.” Who on earth writes this nonsense for him?
Once again. In lay terms. The sanctions against the Russian Federation have dealt a serious blow to the global economy, which had only just begun to gradually recover from the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The sanctions disrupted existing production, supply and logistics chains, and the payments system for our companies. We have a product – grain – while buyers have the money and the desire to buy it. But sanctions are preventing this from happening in a very simple way, both physically (transporting grain) and financially (paying for it).
This situation has harmed everyone. Disrupted supplies and payments have led to a global food shortage, contributed to a further increase in prices, and threatened global food security. No transactions mean decreased activity, and that combined with growing demand makes prices go up.
And yet, despite the objective transport and logistics difficulties, we remain global market participants in good standing. We fulfill and will continue to fulfill our obligations under international contracts regarding the export of grain, fertiliser, energy commodities and other critical products.
Unlike Europe, we are concerned about the unfolding food crisis. Western experts – and even more so the leaders of developing countries – understand the importance of Russian supplies of socially significant goods, including food, for the socioeconomic development of the countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
This is a flagrant Western hypocrisy.
Russia – out of humanitarian considerations – wants to ensure that Ukraine can provide itself with grain, including for planting. And what is the West doing? It is taking Ukrainian grain away by the truckload, leaving the Ukrainian population to struggle with the coming shortage. The West's actions undermine food security not only in Africa, but in Ukraine as well.
It seems that the vaunted expertise and intellectual capacity of our colleagues in Europe and America are now being used in the service of propaganda. Nothing too fancy, but they are expanding colossal energy to indoctrinate their population and convince them that the Russians are to blame. No other issues are discussed anymore, not even the economy or infrastructure. Indeed, why solve problems with food, electricity prices, their own inflation or other issues, including cybersecurity, space exploration safety, etc., when every problem can be blamed on the Russians?
🔗 https://is.gd/RNA8Id
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2022-06-08 15:45:34+00:00
📆 On June 8, 1926, Oleg #Koshevoi, one of the most active members of the Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard) underground organisation, part of the Soviet resistance movement, was born in the city of Priluki.
▪️ In July 1942, Nazi forces occupied the city of Krasnodon where Koshevoi lived. Local Young Communist League (Komsomol) activists soon started setting up anti-Nazi resistance groups. Oleg Koshevoi headed one of them.
⭐️ Under Koshevoi, Komsomol activists did everything they could to rid Soviet Ukraine of the Nazi scourge as fast as possible.
On January 12, 1943, Koshevoi was arrested by the Nazis and executed on February 9 after being subjected to horrendous torture. He was only 16 at the time of his death.
🎖 On September 13, 1943, Oleg Koshevoi was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
🔗 Read more
#FacesOfVictory
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2022-06-08 15:30:46+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇷📞 President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Iran Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi.
Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences over the railway accident that occurred in Iran this morning and claimed human lives.
The parties also discussed bilateral cooperation and praised the current level of Russian-Iranian relations.
When considering the situation around the Iranian nuclear programme, the presidents noted the need to continue diplomatic efforts to reach a final agreement that would ensure the preservation and full implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and UN Security Council Resolution 2231 of July 20, 2015, which approved it.
#RussiaIran
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2022-06-08 15:00:31+00:00
⚡️ On the outskirts of Kherson, Russian air defense forces shot down three Tochka-U missiles fired by Ukrainian nationalists.
📸 And here are some images depicting the Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles reached the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as damage they caused.
Source: RIA Novosti
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2022-06-08 14:20:11+00:00
🎖Today is the 102nd birthday of Ivan Kozhedub (1920-1991), the highest scoring Allied fighter pilot of WWII and a three-time Hero of the Soviet Union.
⚔️ Kozhedub scored his first victory on July 6, 1943, during the Battle of Kursk. Between October 1 and 12, 1943, he downed 14 German planes near the Dnieper River, achieving an unprecedented feat in the history of Soviet aviation.
During the Great Patriotic War, he flew 330 sorties, engaged in 120 aerial battles, and shot down 62 enemy planes.
Kozhedub finished the war as a 25-year-old Guards Major with three Golden Star medals. He continued serving in the air force after Victory. During the Korean War, he commanded a fighter division. On the 40th anniversary of Victory, Kozhedub received the Marshal of Aviation title.
#FacesOfVictory
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2022-06-08 13:33:47+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov arrives in Yerevan
#RussiaArmenia
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2022-06-08 10:57:28+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 The US Department of State spokesperson urged Serbia to focus on its stated goal of EU membership, including aligning its foreign and security policies with Brussels instead of concentrating on its derailed talks with Russia.
🗺 Just look at the physical and political maps of the world and locate the United States, Europe, Russia, Serbia and ‘Brussels’ on them.
Go figure why on earth the US Department of State is commenting on the European agenda and telling countries on other continents what they need to do and how.
Tough question, isn’t it?
Let me give you a hint. Any country joining the EU forfeits its European identity by submitting itself to Washington’s will. In fact, the European Union cannot exist without America and has turned into NATO’s economic arm.
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2022-06-08 09:25:13+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206080800-LIVE11063-Russian-MFA-spokesperson-Zakharova-holds-weekly-briefing
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-08 08:43:00+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu hold a joint news conference following talks in Ankara 🇷🇺🇹🇷
#RussiaTurkey
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206080900-LIVE11077-Lavrov-and-Turkey-s-FM-Cavusoglu-give-press-conference-in-Ankara
🔗 https://mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-06-08 07:34:56+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇷 In Ankara, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu hold bilateral talks.
#RussiaTurkey
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2022-06-07 21:16:24+00:00
Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answer to a media question:
❓ How would you comment on the accusations of the the U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price against the Russian authorities in committing a “full-scale attack” on freedom of speech?
💬 The allegations of an American official has nothing to do with the real state of affairs.
The openness of the Russian media contrasts strongly with the attitude of the American press towards Russian officials. Today we can talk about the information blockade.
Embassy's numerous attempts to convey to ordinary US citizens our position on current issues of international politics, with rare exceptions, were immediately rejected by local media outlets as “malicious propaganda”. There is no possibility to publish materials even on a commercial basis.
❗️ The American authorities should focus on ensuring freedom of the press and equal access to information in their own country before lecturing other states.
READ IN FULL
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2022-06-07 13:45:39+00:00
Statement by a Russian representative at the World Intellectual Property Organization
❗ We strongly reject the statements made by various delegations addressed to us as untrue and irrelevant to the substance of the issues considered within the framework of the Committee, as well as going beyond the WIPO mandate. We once again urge you to refrain from this kind of politicization of its work.
‼ A new trend grows deeply concerning – the struggle in the information field continues not just in complete isolation from reality, but with a goal of distorting and even completely replacing it by an intense flow of informational, ideologically charged spam.
🔹 Russia consistently supports and will continue to support WIPO as a leader in international cooperation in the field of IP rights protection. Russia aims at constructive interaction with all partners, we hope and expect that our colleagues will follow suit.
FULL STATEMENT
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2022-06-07 13:19:51+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 In response to a constantly expanding list of sanctions imposed on Russian politicians and public figures, as well as representatives of Russian business, 61 US nationals have been included in the blacklist: heads of the leading defence corporations, media platforms, rating agencies, aircraft design and shipbuilding companies, as well as a number of officials from the US Department of State involved in planting false stories about “malicious” Russian cyber-attacks.
👉 The names of blacklisted US citizens
The complete list of US nationals who have been banned indefinitely from entering the Russian Federation is published in the dedicated section on the Foreign Ministry website.
#RussiaUS
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2022-06-07 09:30:57+00:00
🎖 Two-Time Hero of the Soviet Union Sidor Kovpak (1887-1967), one of the leaders of the partisan movement in Ukraine, was born 135 years ago, on June 7, 1887.
⚔️ Kovpak went through World War I and Russia’s Civil War receiving many state decorations for bravery. By the time the Great Patriotic War began, he was an experienced soldier.
His partisan unit first engaged the Nazis in the autumn of 1941. During the war, the group covered over 10,000 kilometres while fighting enemy units. They moved through Nazi-controlled territory, wiped out garrisons and destroyed trains, enemy equipment and infrastructure.
In the summer of 1943, Kovpak conducted a Carpathian raid far beyond enemy lines, which made a substantial contribution to the Red Army’s victory in the Battle of Kursk. This was one of the most remarkable partisan operations in history.
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2022-06-07 07:50:52+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Despite record inflation, above all in the fuel and energy sector, Biden does not appear to be losing optimism, at least in public.
On Friday, he made a policy statement about successes of his own economic policy based on labour market indicators.
It is hard to say how convincing this sounds, because gas prices are going up and the amount of cash given by the previous administration during the Covid pandemic is not diminishing. The last time inflation was this high in the United States was back during the global financial and economic crisis triggered by the collapse of the US real estate market in 2007-2008. The rate has soared to 8.6 percent, a 40-year high.
The oil embargo on the biggest energy producer, Russia, is only making a bad situation worse. The United States does not have a way out. Some media are carrying leaks that the The United States is pressing its hydrocarbon giants, including Chevron, to cooperate with Venezuela (Hello Guaido), promising protection from sanctions. All this talk about “the green transition” and “the spirit of Glasgow” seems to be forgotten. US emissaries are chasing after hydrocarbons – oil and gas – all over the world. They first want to get them for themselves and then for the Europeans whom they have dragged into this sanctions vortex. At first, Latin American countries rejoiced at the soaring demand (American oil refineries were selling a record 1.34 million barrels) but now they have reached the limit. Selling more hydrocarbons will only harm their own interests in the fuel and energy sector. Even such close US allies as Columbia won’t do this.
And what about sanctions? Western media are publishing more and more critical articles written by economic strategists in Washington, London and Brussels. The Swedish Dagbladet and even the British Guardian write how useless sanctions have been. They are backfiring, and everything in the EU is now more expensive.
A shattered economy, declining approval ratings for governments, and dubious electoral prospects. They dreamed that this would be Russia’s lot but they miscalculated and sanctions boomeranged, hitting them in a soft spot.
It would seem heavy-handed if it were written as fiction.
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2022-06-07 07:06:25+00:00
📺 Watch the new documentary Foreign Fighters of Donbas based on the stories of the foreign volunteers who risk their lives on a daily basis to protect civilians in #Donbass.
💬 "The Ukrainian nationalists don’t care about the locals. They treat them very badly, like a human shields. They left them there without food or water". These are the words of an Italian volunteer with the codename Spartak. He came to Donbass to protect civilians from the aggression of the Ukrainian army.
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2022-06-06 14:51:45+00:00
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Bosnian Serbian TV and radio company Radio Televizija Republike Srpske
📍 Moscow, June 4, 2022
📰 READ IN FULL
Key points:
🔹 The standard of living in Europe is declining, inflation is on the rise and economic growth is waning. The new poor have become a fact of life. People are impacted by multiple problems, including higher prices. Many are in danger of becoming destitute. Despite this, tens of billions of dollars and euros are being used to arm Ukraine.
🔹 Ukraine is a bargaining chip and a tool that is manipulated primarily by the United States and Great Britain - an Anglo-Saxon team now heading the West.
🔹 The West prohibits Ukraine to negotiate.
🔹 As a reminder, there was no referendum in Kosovo, but there was one in Crimea, which was attended by multiple foreign observers, albeit representing not nation states, but reputable civil bodies, honest people who wanted to see everything with their own eyes.
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2022-06-06 13:15:56+00:00
Watch the consequences of recent Ukrainian army shelling of densely populated area in #Donetsk.
❗️ 5 civilians killed, 20 injured, numerous residential buildings destroyed.
🎞 Video by @Izvestia
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2022-06-06 11:33:54+00:00
⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 11 am MSK (approximately) on June 8.
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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2022-06-06 10:54:39+00:00
✉️ Vladimir Putin sent greetings to participants, organizers and guests of the 25th St Petersburg International Economic Forum:
🔷 The Forum’s anniversary is taking place at a difficult time for the entire international community. The mistakes of Western countries in economic policy over many years and illegitimate sanctions have led to a wave of global inflation, the disruption of usual supply chains, and a sharp increase in poverty and food shortages.
🔷 I am confident that for Russia the 2020s will become a period when the country strengthens its economic sovereignty, which involves the accelerated development of its infrastructure and technological base, qualitative upgrades in the level of training for specialists, as well as the establishment of an independent and efficient financial system. In addition, the Russian economy will increasingly rely on private initiatives and, of course, will remain committed to transparency and broad international cooperation.
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2022-06-06 10:12:46+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds news conference on current issues of the international agenda
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206061000-LIVE11060-Lavrov-holds-press-conference-in-Moscow-via-video-conference
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-06 09:25:48+00:00
⚡️ Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s news conference
On June 6, the Foreign Ministry Press Centre will host an online format news conference by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on topical issues on the international agenda. The news conference starts approximately at 1 pm.
Broadcast on the Internet will be carried out on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry in the "Video" section in Russian with translation into English, Spanish, Serbian and French, as well as on accounts Ministries in social networks Twitter, Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and Rutube.
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2022-06-05 14:00:37+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 German priest and theologian Martin Niemöller is known for being one of Nazism’s most principal foes. He was a hero as a submarine commander during the First World War. After the war he became a priest. As a nationalist and an anti-communist he joined the Nazis and welcomed Hitler’s rise to power. Nevertheless, he was arrested by the Nazis in 1938 and sent to, first, a Sachsenhausen concentration camp and then to Dachau where he was freed by the Americans. Imprisonment had a major impact on him: for many years Niemöller, who lived until 1984, condemned the Nazi ideology.
The phrase with which he described the mood among German intellectuals, who were dismissive of the evildoings happening at the time, has become well known (recently we recalled it).
First, they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
And now let’s go back to the present, to Ukraine, where the ideologic successors of the Nazis have paid visits to most diverse places over the last several years. The chronology is as follows:
April 30, 2014
The Kyiv Court banned (https://is.gd/4mDPP8) the activity of the political party, Russian Unity, in Ukraine.
May 13, 2014
The Russian Block party was (https://is.gd/cKLqJb) banned by a Ukrainian court for its appeals to overthrow the constitutional order.
December 16, 2015
The Kyiv Court ruled that the activity of the Communist Party of Ukraine be prohibited in the country for decommunisation purposes (https://is.gd/MsjrAV).
February 25, 2021
There were reports of searches being conducted in the office of the Opposition Platform – For Life! party during which its employees were detained by the Ukrainian Security Service.
March 19, 2022
The Kyiv leadership suspended the activity of the following political parties: The Opposition Platform – For Life!, the Shariy Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Leftists, Derzhava, Progressive-Socialist Party, The Socialist Party of Ukraine, The Socialists, and The Volodymyr Saldo Bloc.
May 14, 2022
Zelensky signed a law (https://is.gd/8UgI8T) banning the activity of political parties taking a pro-Russian stance.
June 1, 2022
According to Oleg Sinyutka, a member of Poroshenko’s party, European Solidarity, Ukraine is steadily moving toward an authoritarian government; by granting MPs the right to vote remotely the country’s parliament is becoming a “pocket” body.
So, what do you think– is history repeating itself?
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2022-06-04 18:27:08+00:00
🎙 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Rossyia 1 TV channel:
💬 We are seeing attempts to place the responsibility on Russia for developments in the global food market and the growing problems there. I must say that this is another attempt to pin the blame on someone else.
First, the situation with the global food market did not become worse yesterday or even with the launch of Russia’s special military operation. The situation took a downturn in February 2020 during the efforts to counter the pandemic when the global economy was down and had to be revived.
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The second reason was European countries’ short-sighted policies, and above all, the European Commission’s policy in regard to energy.
Read in full
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2022-06-04 17:06:47+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 Another political scandal has flared up in London.
Correspondence by ex-chief of the MI6 Richard Dearlove with high-ranking officials in the power block of the British government and civil activists has come to light.
Background: the UK is leaving the EU in 2018-2019, and long and very tough talks with Brussels are underway about the “divorce” parameters. Some hardliner politicians headed by Richard Dearlove believe that Theresa May is too slow, her plan is too “soft,” and the prime minister needs to be replaced.
For instance, an advisor to the UK Ministry of Defence Gwythian Prins writes, “At the moment I am heavily involved in trying to kill off the Prime Minister’s awful Withdrawal Agreement…If Henry [Kissinger] is game to help with this, then I can provide him the background material…”
Here is another excerpt from the correspondence, “The goals are to block any deal to leave the EU arising from the disastrous and craven Checkers White Paper, […] remove this Prime Minister and replace with one fit for purpose.” And here’s more, just a few months later: “Now kill her and it.” To be honest, this doesn’t really fit with the ideals of the British parliamentary monarchy.
The entire operation to replace the prime minister was sponsored by the “old money” of Timothy and Mary Clode, a pair of aristocrats who in the past decades set roots in Jersey’s tax haven. Journalists acknowledge that it is hard to find such low-profile wealthy people as they deliberately avoid any publicity in social networks and online. The correspondence notes that they are “quite good at consciously discreet conversations, if required.” Thus, they were ideal for the role of money bags and supplied the funds monthly to prepare “the products,” meaning compromising materials and defamation.
The selective strikes result in Theresa May’s failing with her Brexit plan in parliament and in talks with the EU. The forces that brought her down don’t conceal their satisfaction at the outcome of the EU-UK Summit in Salzburg, which they refer to as “May’s fiasco.”
Now resolute Boris Johnson comes in to replace her and finishes what had been started the way the power establishment wanted it done. “Immediately on taking power, Boris needs to summon all Conservative MPs, ask for firm (preferably written) undertaking to support the strategy of clean exit.” Actually, in the last letters there is talk of replacing Johnson with another puppet: “I’m coming to believe that I cannot see how the PM will not flounder one way or another; he has so lost control of his mind and willpower that maybe this will be for the best?” I wouldn’t argue with the latter point, by the way.
The candidates proposed for the Prime Minister’s position are Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, and, my God, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. “Plainly the Foreign Secretary with Frost’s backing, has and is showing determination” to finish Brexit. “Before the holiday closure I happened to be seated at a dinner next to one of BoJo’s long-time funders who told me that he had dumped him and shifted his money to Truss.”
Now it is clear why only her erudition comes second to her manageability. In all probability, Liz has been selected back in the 1990s and is being guided through life changing her views and rhetoric as needed and contrary to her earlier principles. So there are no more questions as to why she talks about matters she has no idea about. This is the reason for her notorious embarrassments.
Sure enough, Richard Dearlove and the “experts” on his feeding list promptly attributed the leaks to the Russians. Do I understand it right that the British can only find out the truth about their democracy from the Russians? Is that the reason why London banned RT broadcasts?
Do you think this sort of change of power is a coup or an intrigue? I think it is neither. It is a very English tradition. As much as poisonings.
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2022-06-04 07:48:24+00:00
🇷🇺🇧🇯 Today is the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and Benin.
Our countries were engaged in strong cooperation in the 1970s and 1980s. At that time, government delegations paid reciprocal visits, and agreements were signed on cooperation in a number of fields. Thousands of Benin citizens received university degrees in the USSR, and many of them hold high ranking positions in government, parliament, state administration and businesses.
Today stepping up Moscow and Cotonou’s interaction is based on close or overlapping conceptual approaches to the current issues on the international and regional agendas.
💉 Russia has provided the friendly people of Benin with humanitarian aid on many occasions. Thus, 100,000 doses of the Sputnik Lite vaccine were sent to the country in 2022 to fight the spread of COVID-19.
🎉 We congratulate the Government and the people of Benin on our common anniversary and wish them peace, wellbeing and prosperity!
#RussiaAfrica #RussiaBenin
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2022-06-03 19:48:38+00:00
🎙 On EU myths of food and energy security
🇪🇺 Due to the EU’s ongoing insinuations that blame Russia for provoking a global food and energy crisis, we consider it necessary to provide detailed explanations on the state of affairs in this area.
👉 The presented materials show that these rabid Russophobic accusations are groundless. They directly point to the EU’s own responsibility for promoting attitudes of panic in world markets, for the growing prices of energy and agricultural products and for the deliberate and massive export of Ukrainian grain reserves for its own purposes.
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2022-06-03 17:41:20+00:00
Statement by a Russian representative at the "Towards a Common Approach to Countering Disinformation Online" session held during the World Summit on the Information Society 2022
❗️Thruth is objective. It means that any opinion pretending to be the truth must originate from a fair analysis of facts obtained from open, reliable and professional sources.
❓How can it be objective, if the "collective West" its allies are continuing to block all official Russian media, judgmentally and categorically calling them "propaganda"?
🚫 The EU is blocking the transmission from Russia. Our international proffesional media like «Russia Today» and «Sputnik» can't operate in the Western countries. YouTube and other social networks are taking down videos and comments published by Russian authorities, even ordinary people who stand up for our nation, culture, government and traditional values.
🧯 To overcome this, simply stop fanning the flames of the Russophobic campaign.
FULL STATEMENT
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2022-06-03 16:55:16+00:00
🇷🇺🇸🇳 President Vladimir Putin held talks with Chairperson of the African Union, President of Senegal Macky Sall with the participation of Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat.
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💬 Vladimir Putin: I would like to note that our country has always been on Africa’s side and has always supported Africa in its fight against colonialism.
I am glad to note that the Russia-Africa summit was held here in Sochi in 2019. We have entered a new stage of development and we place a great emphasis on our relations with African countries. This has had a certain positive result.
Africa’s role on the international stage and in the political area in general is growing. We believe that Africa as a whole and its countries, with which we traditionally share friendly relations, have huge potential, and we are going to continue to develop our relations with Africa in general and with its states.
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2022-06-03 12:14:48+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the ceremony to mark the 140th Anniversary of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-03 08:43:52+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
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🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-02 19:33:45+00:00
👉🏻‼️Read the extracts from the statement of Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich “On ongoing crimes by Ukraine against civilian population with the support of Western alliance of OSCE participating States”, (meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, 2 June 2022):
▫️What is happening in 🇺🇦 Ukraine is not a game, it’s about the fate of real people whom #Kiev regime actually took hostage.
▫️Ukrainian armed formations continue to commit crimes against the civilian population with extreme cynicism - there are children among the killed and injured from targeted shelling of residential areas
▫️Attacks of 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Armed Forces against civilians demonstrates that Kiev regime seeks to use the tactics of "scorched earth", destroy peaceful life to the ground where the ideas of Ukrainian national exceptionalism will no longer return
▫️The goal of 🇺🇦Kiev’s external minders is obvious - to prolong the armed confrontation, create a zone of long-lasting military and geopolitical instability in Eastern Europe near Russian 🇷🇺borders
▫️There has been cases of Illegal “redirection” of weapons supplied by NATO countries to Ukraine 🧨 to other zones of instability, for example, to non-government-controlled areas of Syria
▫️Spreading sleazy fakes about the actions of the Russian military has long been a favorite technique for representatives of the Kiev 🇺🇦 regime and some of its foreign sponsors. Such tactics are written off from the worst examples of Goebbels propaganda
▫️Recently, law enforcement agencies of the DPR released the SSU documents and video materials from which it follows that the special services of 🇺🇦Ukraine have been secretly spying on #OSCE employees and members of foreign diplomatic missions
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2022-06-02 19:01:14+00:00
🇷🇺🇨🇦 #Opinion by Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov:
💬 The Embassy curiously observes how Ottawa is amassing sanctions against Russian citizens and entities. Our position remains the same: besides their Russophobic symbolism, these unfriendly gestures have neither sane meaning nor practical effect. It’s not a big deal for those persons sanctioned by Canada to miss local touristic opportunities. And Trudeau’s cabinet banning or discouraging Canadian companies from working in the Russian market harms only Canadian business interests. Restrictions cannot undermine Russia’s economy or compel Russia to change its sovereign national security policy.
👉 Read in full
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2022-06-02 18:07:13+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 America’s reputation following the exposure of the Pentagon’s involvement in developing biological weapons and testing them on people in Kiev has finally become a matter of concern for Washington. The White House seems to have ordered an information campaign, which enabled American journalists, with the consent of the Ukrainian government, to visit one of the biological weapons laboratories.
To prove that the US never went beyond civilian research projects in Ukraine they organised a visit to one of these laboratories for CBS reporters who had to put together a story that would reassure America, as well as the international community.
How ridiculous, right?
What did they show these propaganda mouthpieces that allowed them to reassure everyone that the Pentagon’s biological programmes are safe? An obsolete sterilizer and Rambo the dog guarding the entrance to the building. What else do you need? The dog survived, so you will all survive, too. After all, there was nothing unusual about this dog, it didn’t grow a second head or anything, so you won’t either.
While we’re at it, I suggest we take a closer look at how they scripted this would-be report. With military-grade precision, it runs exactly 200 seconds. In it, we have:
- a 20 second introduction by the presenter about “Russian propaganda” which America believes for some reason
- another 20 seconds ridiculing Americans who believe “Russian propaganda”
- and 5 more seconds on “Russian disinformation,” probably to make sure everyone gets the message
- a 15 second sequence showing artillery strikes and a column of Russian tanks (what are they doing in a report on US biological research?)
- 10 seconds from Sergey Lavrov’s interview
- a 5 second recording from the Red Square parade (what does a Russian parade have to do with the Pentagon’s biological weapons programmes, especially considering that Moscow and Washington are quite far apart when it comes to defining notions like parades and pride?)
- for 30 seconds, the journalist talks with the laboratory’s chief researcher Dr. Natalia Vydaiko
- 10 seconds are devoted to a closed refrigerator and another 5 to an old sterilizer
- 3 seconds highlighted Rambo the dog.
But not a word about the Pentagon’s involvement in these programmes.
Why didn’t CBS show the fragment from Sergey Lavrov’s interview where he said that any involvement by the US Department of Defence in biological research is unacceptable? This is exactly what he said in the interview. What was the message of this report? And what was Russia lying about?
What kind of myth does this report debunk if no one even mentions the Pentagon?
By the way, Natalia Vydaiko’s English language proficiency was quite impressive. Of course, English language proficiency is the first thing that comes up during an interview for recruiting virologists in Ukraine, and Ms Vydaiko has been in the business for quite a while now. Back in 2010, she was asked to comment on the US opening a new reference laboratory in Odessa,
although back then she shied away from saying anything, probably because she had yet to get her English up to par. However, when the Pentagon sponsored a research conference in Ternopol in 2018, Ms Vydaiko attended it and even presented a report. It seems that by that time her language teachers had done their job.
In short, if the US media need someone they can talk to on biological security in Ukraine, Ms Vydaiko is their best option. I think this might not be the last time you hear about her from us.
According to available polls, a quarter of Americans believe that the US is developing biological weapons in Ukraine. I think this number rose to one third after this outstanding report.
Great job CBS. Keep up the good work!
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2022-06-02 11:57:45+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions following a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council
💬 Today, we had a practical conversation that helped us better understand the serious and momentous processes that are now taking place in the world arena.
The main conclusion from the assessment of the geopolitical situation is that one group of countries must not be allowed to establish domination in the world. Unfortunately, our Western partners have made this an absolute priority.
We do not mind the West arranging its own affairs in the institutions it created, including NATO and the EU. However, we are against the West violating its global commitments, including those made in the OSCE, in the process of developing these institutions.
They read that not a single side can strengthen its security at the expense of the security of others and not a single organisation can claim dominance in the Euro-Atlantic region. It is easy to understand that this is exactly what NATO is doing.
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2022-06-01 15:09:32+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲📞 Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.
The President of Russia extended warm birthday greetings to the Prime Minister of Armenia.
While discussing the implementation of the fundamental trilateral agreements between the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, it was noted that it was important to step up joint work to ensure regional stability as well as the development of transport and logistics infrastructure in the South Caucasus.
Nikol Pashinyan talked about his contacts with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of the European Council Charles Michel held in Brussels on May 22.
In light of the outcome of the Prime Minister’s official visit to Russia in April, certain topical issues on the bilateral agenda were also discussed.
Earlier, Vladimir Putin sent birthday greetings to Nikol Pashinyan.
#RussiaArmenia
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2022-06-01 13:13:39+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a news conference following his visit to Saudi Arabia
🔗 https://player.ruptly.tv/?streamurl=https://rldvr.gcdn.co/m3u8/202206011130-LIVE11000_Enc4_Ch3.m3u8
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-06-01 12:00:19+00:00
🇷🇺🇰🇼 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a meeting with Foreign Minister of Kuwait Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah
📍Riyadh
#RussiaKuwait
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2022-06-01 11:46:15+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇪 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a meeting with Foreign Minister of UAE Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
#RussiaUAE
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2022-06-01 10:52:52+00:00
📸 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov takes part in the Russia – Gulf Cooperation Council meeting.
📍Riyadh, Saudi Arabia