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2022-08-31 21:26:14+00:00
Today, on Knowledge Day, not only schools open doors and the First Bell rings, but the entire nation remembers the tragedy of Beslan, mourns the 334 victims (including 186 kids) of the terrorist attack in there that happened 18 years ago - on 1 September 2004.
🙏 The pain of this tragedy is still as acute as ever, is shared by all Russians & many abroad.
❗️The tragedy serves as a reminder that international terrorism is a common threat to all nations and peoples!
We are convinced that it is possible to eradicate the fundamental evil of terrorism only though collective and concerted efforts on the basis of the norms and principles of international law.
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2022-08-31 14:15:06+00:00
⚡️The IAEA mission arrived in the city of Zaporozhzye
🔵 It is not far from the nuclear power plant which will be visited soon
❗️We wish the mission productive work on the site!
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2022-08-31 13:50:54+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the educational marathon Knowledge
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202208311345-LIVE11731-Lavrov-speaks-at-Knowledge-federal-educational-marathon-in-Moscow
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2022-08-31 11:36:05+00:00
🎊🇲🇾 On August 31, Malaysia marks 6️⃣5️⃣ years of Independence.
Malaysia, known as the Federation of Malaya at the time, adopted its Declaration of Independence in 1957. By casting off Britain’s colonial shackles, Malaysia marked a new stage in the development of the state.
✍️ On April 3, 2022, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Malaysia Saifuddin Abdullah exchanged greetings on the 55th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations. In the message to his Malaysian colleague, Sergey Lavrov noted that their two countries shared strong bonds of friendship, as well as traditions of respect and trust.
🤝 Russia and Malaysia have been proactive in promoting their bilateral relations by maintaining a regular dialogue at the high and highest levels. The nations have been working together on the international stage, including within the UN, in regional integration structures, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, promoting the Russia-ASEAN strategic partnership.
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2022-08-31 10:23:37+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian hold a joint news conference following talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇮🇷
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202208311000-LIVE11733-Lavrov-and-Iran-s-FM-Amir-Abdollahian-give-joint-press-conference-in-Moscow
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
#RussiaIran
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2022-08-31 09:48:42+00:00
⚡️The IAEA Director General Mr. Rafael Mariano Grossi confirmed today his plans to establish permanent presence of Agency’s specialists at the ZNPP
🇷🇺 Russia welcomes this intention
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2022-08-31 08:11:15+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian commence bilateral talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇮🇷
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/kanal_2
#RussiaIran
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2022-08-31 07:01:36+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202208310700-LIVE11723-Russian-MFA-spokesperson-Zakharova-holds-weekly-briefing-
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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2022-08-31 04:22:17+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States on the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan
🔹The twenty-year US military campaign in Afghanistan ended a year ago.
☝️The results of the longest war in the history of the United States are deplorable. Al-Qaida has maintained a presence in the country. With the connivance of the authorities of the Islamic Republic and their Western partners, ISIS and other terrorist groups have taken root on Afghan territory. Drug production has increased tenfold, turning Afghanistan into a narco-state.
❗️The U.S. military campaign turned into a tragedy for ordinary Afghans. According to official data, more than 150,000 Afghans, including 48,000 civilians, were killed, and another 75,000 were wounded. Hundreds of thousands have become refugees. The economic achievements in the former Islamic Republic, so widely advertised by American partners, appeared to be "Potemkin villages", which vanished immediately after the withdrawal of foreign troops. Trillions of dollars of U.S. taxpayers have been wasted.
‼️The humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Afghanistan a year later, threatening to become even more lethal scalewise than 20 years of military conflict were.
🔹We are convinced that Washington should admit that the Afghan war ended in defeat for the United States. Moreover, it brought nothing but troubles and the collapse of false hopes to the Asian state.
🔹It is necessary now to alleviate the sufferings of Afghans. Huge sums are needed to reconstruct the destroyed country. The first obligatory step in this direction is to unconditionally return all funds of the Central Bank of Afghanistan frozen by the US.
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2022-08-30 19:12:14+00:00
🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova on the German government’s change of approach to Germany's historical guilt for unleashing World War II
☝️ In connection with the anniversary of the outbreak of World War II on September 1, we would like to once again draw public attention to the policy pursued by the German authorities, aimed at revising Berlin’s historical role in the bloodiest conflict in the history of humanity.
❗️ We assert that in recent years, the German state – contrary to its representatives’ persistent declarations in recognition of Germany’s sole historical responsibility for unleashing WWII and for the inhuman crimes committed by the German Nazis and armed forces during that war – is in fact making consistent efforts to remove this question from the international public and political discourse.
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2022-08-30 11:05:43+00:00
⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 9:30 MSK (approximately) on August 31, 2022.
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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2022-08-30 10:24:26+00:00
⚡️Ukrainians continue attacking the Zaporozhskaya NPP using all means available to them
🔵 On August 28 they used a «kamikaze drone», which, fortunately, was shot down
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2022-08-30 09:09:10+00:00
🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC meeting on situation in Afghanistan
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🔹 Let me remind you that the US came to Afghanistan with a special mission - to fight against terrorism. In reality, their arrival to the country only strengthened its status as a hotbed of terrorism and a center for the production and distribution of drugs.
🔹 All our appeals to focus on the growing threat from ISIS in Afghanistan were met with the frantic attempts by our Western colleagues to belittle its scale or completely sweep this topic under the rug.
🔹 We would like to remind our Western colleagues, who have lately preferred to reduce any discussion on Afghanistan to the topic of human rights violations, of the irresponsible actions of the US and NATO military, who indiscriminately targeted ordinary Afghans on a regular basis.
🔹 Russia has been and is consistently pursuing policy aimed at speedy political settlement and national reconciliation in the country.
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2022-08-29 19:00:20+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲📞 During the telephone conversation, President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan congratulated each other on the 2️⃣5️⃣th anniversary of signing the bilateral Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.
They emphasised the importance of this document that formalised the high-priority aspects of interstate relations and helped elevate traditionally friendly Russian-Armenian cooperation to a whole new level. Vladimir Putin and Nikol Pashinyan reaffirmed their mutual commitment to further strengthen the all-round allied ties between Russia and Armenia.
They touched on certain practical aspects of implementing the trilateral agreements between the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan of November 9, 2020, and January 11 and November 26, 2021, that have key significance in maintaining stability and security in the region.
It was agreed to maintain contact at various levels.
#RussiaArmenia
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2022-08-29 16:19:56+00:00
On August 29, 2022, the Russian Mission to the UN in Geneva transmitted a diplomatic note to the Inter-Parliamentary Union with a statement of the Council of the Russian State Duma which draws international attention to the continued shellings of the Zaporozhskaya nuclear power plant (ZNPP) by Ukrainian military units.
The document, inter alia, emphasizes the following:
❗️ The continued violation by Ukrainian military units of nuclear and physical safety of the ZNPP – Europe’s largest nuclear power plant – could lead to a large-scale catastrophe with terrifying consequences.
❗️ At the UN SC Russia constantly raises the issue of inadmissibility of targeting nuclear facilities and calls on Ukraine’s patrons to force the Kiev regime to immediately cease the shellings of ZNPP.
The Council of the State Duma also reaffirmed the Russian side's readiness to do everything necessary in order to organize an international IAEA mission to the ZNPP.
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2022-08-29 14:43:09+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲 Today marks 25 years of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Joint Assistance between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Armenia, one of the fundamental documents of the entire system of Russian-Armenian relations signed on August 29, 1997.
🔸 The treaty consolidated the parties’ obligations to develop traditional relations of friendship and comprehensive cooperation between the two states and adhere to the principles of mutual respect for state sovereignty and independence, equality and non-interference in each other's internal affairs in bilateral relations.
💬 President of Russia Vladimir Putin: The 1997 Treaty began the modern stage of Russia and Armenia’s interstate ties. The signing of this important document created the conditions for expanding our political dialogue, and qualitatively increasing bilateral cooperation in trade, economic, scientific, technical, humanitarian and other spheres.
Learn more
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2022-08-29 11:09:48+00:00
⚛️ International Day against Nuclear Tests, declared by the UN General Assembly in 2009, is observed on August 29.
🔻 The idea behind it was to intensify the efforts of the UN, of states, as well as intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations to stop nuclear testing, which is essential to maintaining international peace and security.
Over 2,000 nuclear explosions have been carried out throughout the history of humankind. More than half of these tests were performed by Western countries: 1,032 by the United States, 210 by France and 45 by the UK.
📄 The main instrument for stopping nuclear testing is the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
❗️ The fact that one of the world’s largest nuclear powers, the United States, is among the countries still refusing to ratify this important document continues to cause deep concern.
☝️ The Russian Federation has consistently advocated that the #CTBT be transformed into a fully operational international legal mechanism.
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2022-08-28 10:20:39+00:00
⚡️The Ukrainian armed formations continue to shell Zaporozhskaya NPP regularly
📷 Here are the visual consequences of their attacks of August 26 and 27
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2022-08-27 17:00:00+00:00
Commentary of the Russian Mission to the UN in Geneva:
🇪🇺 Europe, which on paper pretends to be a stronghold of "freedoms and democracy", is in practice very selective in its approaches when it comes to defining and implementing fundamental human rights. In particular, regarding the freedom of expression and access to information.
❗️ The recent ruling of the Grand Chamber of the EU Court of Justice to dismiss a lawsuit filed by “RT France” requesting to lift the broadcasting ban imposed by the EU Council is a showcase example to this.
📩 In this regard, the Permanent Mission of Russia to the UN in Geneva has officially requested the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, and the Special Rapporteur of the HRC on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression Irene Khan, with an appeal to carefully study and give an appropriate response to this example of the obvious violation of freedom of expression taking place in the "enlightened Europe".
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2022-08-27 15:42:13+00:00
🎙 Statement by Mr. Andrei Belousov, Deputy Head of the Russian Delegation at Closing Meeting of the 10th NPT Review Conference
💬 The Conference has become a political hostage to those States that over the last four weeks have been poisoning discussions with their politicized, biased, groundless and false statements with regard to Ukraine.
☝️ Thus, they did everything they could to prevent a constructive, effective and result-oriented work of the Conference and as a whole of the NPT States Parties during the entire review process.
❗️These States, namely Ukraine and the backers of the Kiev regime, bear full responsibility for the absence of a final positive result of this review.
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2022-08-27 12:26:36+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
Emanuel in Japan
💬 What US ambassadors around the world have been doing recently is made clear in an interview by US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel to a number of publications. His remarks offer a glimpse into the guidelines that he and his colleagues receive from the State Department.
Let’s have a look:
1. Promoting “commercial diplomacy” the American way, which means it has nothing to do with traditional trade. Instead, what was once just about trade is now being treated in brazenly ideological and political terms. The goal is to force US satellites to sever trade with China as far as possible. No need to look far for a pretext: “The United States and Japan will be more eager to do business with each other and with similar secure and stable countries amid worries caused by the COVID pandemic, the war in Ukraine and Chinese economic coercion.”
2. Reinforcing “commercial diplomacy” through coercion and threats. Emanuel is open about how he brings about “a major change in thinking” among Japanese business leaders. In the past, “cost and efficiency” determined state policy and corporate decision making, but “stability and sustainability” are now words of the day. I just can’t recall how these fit into the paradigm of “liberalism”.
The US ambassador proudly declares that the Japanese are “now willing to pay more to avoid sanctions and instability.” In fact, this is just blatant blackmail used to attract multi-billion Japanese investments in US strategic research, technology and production projects (electric car batteries, semiconductors, small module nuclear reactors, etc.).
3. Promoting militarisation and new hotbeds of tension. Emanuel spares no praise for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s proposal to significantly increase both the country’s defence budget and its military potential. Earlier, Kishida admitted the possibility of delivering preemptive strikes against enemy bases as part of the revision of Japan’s national defence strategy. Instead of curbing such revanchist views of Tokyo’s political elite, Washington through its ambassadorial mouthpiece is openly pushing Japan to utterly renounce all restrictions on the use of force set out in the country’s Constitution: “Much to the prime minister’s credit, he looked around the corner and realised what was happening in this region and the world – Japan needed to step up in ways it hadn’t in the past.”
This is the gist of the US diplomacy today: it creates new hotbeds of tension all over the world, promotes the US as a guarantor and isle of stability, pumps out critical resources and technology from its satellites, and exposes them to the risk of the first retaliatory strike.
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2022-08-27 11:43:06+00:00
📆 On August 27, 1845, one of the greatest experts on the history and theory of international law Fyodor Martens was born. His works are widely known in Russia and beyond.
A Russian diplomat, member of the Board of Foreign Ministry of the Russian Empire, Vice-President of the European Institute of International Law, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, Fyodor Martens is the author of a seminal work on international law titled Contemporary International Law of Civilised Nations.
One of Marten’s foremost achievements was implementing the Russian initiative to hold the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. His theories laid the foundation of the Convention on Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.
Fyodor Martens was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize between 1901 and 1908 for his contribution to humanitarian law and his role as an intermediary in various international conflicts.
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2022-08-26 18:23:52+00:00
⚔️ On August 26, 1943, one of the WWII's largest operations - the Battle of the Dnieper - commenced.
The first Soviet units crossed the Dnieper in boats & rafts in September. They had to do it in the harshest conditions - water temperature was only 5⁰C, with the enemy firing from the right bank. However, in spite of everything, Soviet assault groups went into the water, attacked Wehrmacht positions & created landing sites for the main forces.
By the end of September the Soviet troops seized more than 20 springboards on the right bank of the Dnieper, which allowed them to continue the offensive and further liberate Kiev & begin operations to defeat the enemy in Right-Bank Ukraine.
The British & US commands closely followed the Red Army's successes, as overcoming such a wide water barrier could provide the necessary experience for Allied forces in their crossing of the English Channel.
🎖 2,438 soldiers, officers & military leaders were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title for crossing the Dnieper.
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2022-08-26 13:45:45+00:00
‼️ 🇺🇦 Ukrainian nationalists continue to use civilian infrastructure for military purposes on a daily basis.
🔹In Avdeevka - kindergarten, in Bereznegovatoye - cultural centre, in Krivoi Rog - school.
📢 We urge @UNESCO to stop turning a blind eye to the blatant crimes of the Kiev authorities and publicly condemn the use of educational and cultural institutions by 🇺🇦 Ukrainian armed formations for military purposes.
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2022-08-26 07:02:58+00:00
🇷🇺🇪🇬 On August 26, 1943, the USSR established diplomatic relations with Egypt.
The relations between our nations flourished in the 1950s-1970s. It was with the help of the Soviet Union that Egypt built about a hundred major industrial sites.
☝️ Today, comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation describes relations between the Russian Federation and the Arab Republic of Egypt. Russia and Egypt have been proactive in promoting their political dialogue. The two countries have demonstrated their commitment to constructive cooperation on key international and regional matters.
Trade and the economy have been key dimensions of Russian-Egyptian ties. Egypt is Russia’s largest trade and economic partner in the Arab world and on the African continent.
🇷🇺🤝🇪🇬 The Russian Foreign Ministry appreciates the level of relations Russia and Egypt have achieved. We are looking forward to further strengthening bilateral relations in all spheres.
🔗 https://is.gd/AgQrjj
#RussiaEgypt #RussiaAfrica
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2022-08-25 15:47:36+00:00
We urge the State Department to give a raise to the employees of the US Embassy in Moscow, given the un-bear-able working conditions.
Fighting us is surely a tiresome affair.
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2022-08-25 09:53:28+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Regarding a special Bible. For the slaves.
Today, Western liberal dictatorships have replaced the religious dogmas their societies relied on with words like freedom, democracy and human rights. These concepts are given the meanings that momentarily benefit NATO-centric regimes and are convenient for making the case they need.
It would seem that democracy – as a phenomenon – cannot be manipulated so easily, not with so many works written on the subject since antiquity. Historical experience cannot be ignored. Or can it? There was a time when even the Bible was subjected to manipulation, let alone some non-canonical concepts of modern political science.
You might say that's impossible. But you would be wrong.
Reverend Beilby Porteus, the Bishop of London published A Letter to the Governors, Legislatures, and Proprietors of Plantations in the British West-India Islands, in which he discussed the religious education of the slaves in the sugar colonies in the Caribbean. “Prepare a short form of public prayers for them <...> together with select portions of Scripture <...> particularly those which relate to the duties of slaves towards their masters,” he wrote.
But the colonizers didn't stop there. Custom prayers were just an appetizer.
Few people remember now, but I can remind you – that a special Bible was published at the turn of the 19th century (NOT joking) specifically for the British colonies, Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the use of the Slaves from Africa in the British West-India Islands.
In global biblical studies, it is referred to as the Slave Bible.
That Bible left out 90 percent of the Old Testament and 50 percent of the New Testament, and included only 232 chapters of the 1,189 in the standard Protestant Bible. For the sake of enslaving the souls of millions of slaves, the clergy heavily redacted the Holy Scriptures, omitting the parts such as Exodus, the Book of Psalms and the Revelation of John the Theologian, which could make slaves think about everyone being equal before God, which was a dangerous idea for slave owners.
The Slave Bibles have been printed in London by Law and Gilbert since the early 19th century, and enjoyed demand, given that there were several reissues.
Two copies of the first edition are kept in universities in Britain, and one in the Fisk University in Tennessee, US.
But liberal dictatorships continue to apply this method wherever they can – they use facts truncated beyond recognition, manipulated to the point where they become ‘anti-facts,’ and they spread them under the holy banners of ‘freedom and democracy’ through controlled media and websites. And those who cannot be controlled are simply destroyed.
The Western versions of freedom and democracy have become symbols that cover up enslavement and sanctify the dictatorship of liberalism.
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2022-08-25 09:15:48+00:00
📌 The NPT RevIew Conference participants work hard to conclude deliberations by adopting a final document
🔵 This is an extremely difficult task given divergent views on numerous topics
❗️Apparently the only way to succeed is reasonable flexibility in the drafting process
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2022-08-25 06:26:26+00:00
📃 Excerpts from the statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on Ukraine
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🔹 Nobody argues that Ukrainians are having a hard time today. However, the responsibility for this lies with the Kiev regime which came to power in 2014 as a result of an anti-constitutional coup.
🔹 From the very beginning, the new Maidan authorities have consistently led the country to disaster, encouraging Russophobia and the glorification of Nazi criminals.
🔹 The Ukrainian armed forces purposefully destroy civilian infrastructure. And instead of condemning their Ukrainian wards our former Western partners are supplying them with more and more new types of weapons.
🔹 Never since Goebbels Nazi propaganda has anyone come across falsification and manipulation at such a level, facilitated by Western and Ukrainian specialists in psychological operations. We have no doubt that history will reveal the truth about them.
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2022-08-25 04:55:36+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States on the State Department's statement on the upcoming Tribunal in Mariupol:
🔹We have taken note of another groundless accusations against our country related to the Tribunal over Ukrainian war criminals.
🔹The upcoming Trial is aimed at bringing justice to war criminals, among which there are Nazis from the Azov Regiment. Washington is clearly afraid of making public the evidence of the inhumane acts committed by the members of this terrorist organization.
❗️The International Tribunal in Mariupol can shed light on the true essence of the Kiev regime, of which the United States diligently creates a bright and heroic image. American citizens will finally learn that in reality, their government is helping those who purposefully kill and torture the Russian people of Donbass and Ukraine.
🔹Russia fully complies with the Geneva Conventions and guarantees Ukrainian captives proper conditions of detention. The same cannot be said of the Kiev regime, which militants mistreated captured Russian soldiers.
☝️Finally, if the US authorities have questions about what happened in Mariupol, they could discuss it with the administration of the Donetsk People's Republic. It is an independent state.
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2022-08-24 21:27:39+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
💬 We noted the diligently executed by the State Department - this fact however did not get one iota closer to describing the real situation - publication with the next sweeping insinuations addressed to our country. We refer to Russia allegedly "misinforming” the international community on the current situation in global food markets.
In violation of logic and cause-and-effect relationships, this stream of "slogans" with references to certain "credible reports” has inspired the authors to make the same old ridiculous accusations. Blocking the export of Ukrainian grain, plundering agricultural products, attacking merchant shipping, weaponizing global hunger… And to top it off – "disinformation campaign" allegedly carried out by Moscow together with the People's Republic of China.
👉 Negative trends in the food markets had manifested itself long before the start of the special military operation in Ukraine. Further aggravation of global disruptions in agricultural supply chains occurred with the introduction of suicidal sanctions by Western countries led by the United States. Naturally, not only their authors suffered from them.
Despite the repeated assurances about the alleged "exemptions" from imposed illegal restrictions, private companies are still afraid to conduct routine trading operations with Russian economic operators. This includes prohibiting vessels from entering ports, discrimination in cargo insurance, restrictions on the "posting" of payments. It is impossible to talk about the normalization of the situation in the agricultural sphere until the supply chains of Russian food, fertilizers and raw materials for their production have been restored.
❗️ We call on Washington to move from demagoguery and empty promises to the real removal of obstacles in order to strengthen world food security.
Russia is one of the largest suppliers of food products in the world. We are interested in stabilizing the markets and will make all necessary efforts to achieve that.
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2022-08-24 17:36:32+00:00
#Opinion
✍️ Article by @DipacademyMID Vice-Chancellor Oleg Karpovich
Why Eastern Europe distorts the history of World War II
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🔹 Influenced by the Young Europeans, political circles and the society in general in a number of Central and Eastern European countries have long revised their assessments of the nature of World War II and their attitude to Nazi collaborators, with these acquiring a clearly expressed anti-Russian slant.
🔹 Given that certain states including Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria had openly cooperated with Hitler’s Germany and sought to vindicate themselves and lay the blame for the tragedy on the USSR, many institutions that previously investigated Nazi crimes changed their tune and rushed to investigate “Communist crimes.”
🔹 After the Eastern European states joined the EU in 2004, they dexterously instilled a feeling of guilt in countries of Old Europe and suggested new assessments of the history of World War II, posing as “victims of communism.”
🔹 The demonization and denigration of the Soviet Union is automatically extended to Russia, which is allegedly characterised by its “imperial ambitions” and a propensity to bring “military pressure to bear on its opponents.”
🔹 Revising approaches to the history of World War II, the outcome of which formed the basis of the key international institutions, including the UN Security Council, could inflict an irreparable damage on the modern world order and place the entire world on the brink of a global nuclear disaster.
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2022-08-24 16:35:14+00:00
Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Gennady Gatilov:
💬 UN responses to the atrocities committed by the Kiev regime have remained “selectively neutral” since the 2014 coup.
🇷🇺 Whenever it is necessary to demonize Russia - it is done instantly with little to no extra thought.
🇺🇦 Whenever a situation isn’t in Ukraine’s favor, international bodies try to hush up such facts and keep a “low profile”.
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2022-08-24 10:32:48+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲📞 Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, at the Armenian side’s initiative.
The President and the Prime Minister continued discussing the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh. They confirmed the importance of consistent fulfilment of the trilateral agreements between the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, dated November 9, 2020, January 11 and November 26, 2021. They also noted the role of the Russian peacekeeping corps in ensuring stability in the region.
🤝 Vladimir Putin and Nikol Pashinyan also covered certain topical matters concerning further development of the strategic partnership and alliance between Russia and Armenia.
#RussiaArmenia #NagornoKarabakh
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2022-08-24 05:18:00+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answer to the question by TASS news agency:
❓: Dear Anatoly Ivanovich, how accurate is State Department spokesperson Mr. Price's statement on the US working with Russia to resume New START inspection activity, and on the US sanctions not affecting the inspections?
💬Anatoly #Antonov: After the inspection activity under the New START Treaty was “frozen” in 2020 due to COVID-19, we engaged in an active dialogue with the Americans on its resumption. We used the appropriate diplomatic channels including the Bilateral Consultative Commission. We were able to solve a number of organizational and technical issues related to conducting inspections during the pandemic. However, the process was seriously complicated by the anti-Russian sanctions imposed by Washington.
❗️The lack of normal air communication with the United States, closing of airspace to Russian aircraft by American allies, and problems in obtaining transit visas for members of our inspection teams and flight crews all have created conditions which impede, if not block, our ability to conduct inspections on the US territory. State Department claims to the contrary are untrue.
☝️The New START verification mechanism cannot function one-sided. The Treaty is based on principles of equality and mutual consideration of interests. Until they are fully implemented, resumption of inspections is detrimental to us.
🔹We continue to work with the US side to resolve the issues at hand. Washington should not in word but in deed demonstrate adherence to the Treaty and a good faith commitment to its obligations. It is in the interests of both Russia and the United States to promptly return to the full-fledged inspection regime.
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2022-08-23 15:41:01+00:00
🎙 Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov’s interview with Izvestia newspaper
August 22, 2022
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🔹 The START Treaty is not of an indefinite duration and ideally must be replaced with a new agreement or agreements.
🔹 We insist that any future cooperation between nuclear powers must be based on consensus and take into account the interests of all parties involved. This approach befits any format, whether we refer to potential contacts between the nuclear powers recognised in the NPT context, or efforts to enlist other states with military nuclear potentials. Our priority remains the same: we would like the UK and France to join this process as US military allies in the “nuclear alliance” framework.
🔹 The nuclear risks are quite substantial under the current turbulent conditions and should not be underestimated. At the same time, they ought not to be artificially fanned.
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2022-08-23 14:05:00+00:00
📆 The Battle for Kursk ended on August 23, 1943. It was one of the biggest battles of the Great Patriotic War. Over 4 million men fought on both sides. There were over 69,000 guns and mortars, over 13,000 tanks and self-propelled guns and up to 12,000 planes.
⚔️ The victory in the Battle for Kursk was a turning point, after which the Red Army took the strategic initiative. The defeat of German troops influenced the international situation. It was the start of the Nazi bloc’s disintegration and the eventual triumph of the anti-Hitler coalition became inevitable.
🎖 For courage, determination and heroism during the Battle for Kursk, over 100,000 officers and men were awarded orders and medals; 231 people received the title Hero of the USSR.
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2022-08-23 12:38:14+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s opening remarks during a meeting with Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia Aleksandar Vulin 🇷🇺🇷🇸
📍 Moscow, August 22, 2022
Full transcript
🔹 Despite a difficult international situation, our dialogue is progressing at all levels.
🔹 Regrettably, my June visit to Belgrade failed to materialise. Those who have scuttled this visit at the bidding of their “higher-ups” should know that their nasty tricks will not shake Russia-Serbia relations, which are based on the foundation of firm friendship between our people, and have deep historical, spiritual, and civilisational roots.
🔹 As for Kosovo, Russia’s position remains unchanged. It has been repeatedly reiterated by President Vladimir Putin. We are in favour of Belgrade and Pristina reaching a viable and mutually acceptable solution based on UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
#RussiaSerbia
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2022-08-23 12:14:58+00:00
🗓 83 years ago, Germany and the USSR concluded a Non-Aggression Treaty. The agreement was a harsh necessity for the Soviet Union, a forced and extremely difficult decision.
💬 President Vladimir Putin: The Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany was the last in a line of treaties signed by European countries that seemed to be interested in maintaining peace in Europe.
The USSR agreed to sign this document only after all other avenues had been exhausted and all proposals by the Soviet Union to create a unified security system, in fact, an anti-Nazi coalition in Europe were rejected.
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Being left alone, the USSR had to face the reality created by the Western states. The partitioning of Czechoslovakia was cruel and cynical, in essence, it was pillaging.
☝️ We have every reason to say that the Munich agreement was the turning point in history following which World War II became inevitable.
Excerpt from the President's remarks at the CIS informal summit, Saint Petersburg, December 20, 2019.
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2022-08-23 10:58:25+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of #Syria Faisal Mekdad hold a joint news conference following talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇸🇾
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202208231000-LIVE11677-Lavrov-and-Syrian-s-FM-Mekdad-give-joint-press-conference-in-Moscow
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
#RussiaSyria
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2022-08-23 09:15:03+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of #Syria Faisal Mekdad commence bilateral talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇸🇾
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
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2022-08-23 08:49:49+00:00
#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova:
💬 The US Department of State’s reaction to Darya Dugina’s assassination and the evidence of Ukraine’s involvement provided by Russia discredit the United States’ human rights protection efforts.
Washington has no moral right (or, needless to say, any legal grounds) to judge the human rights situation in remote parts of the world since the murder of a journalist does not even receive a comment from this perspective, apparently so important to US officials. They simply ignored the fact that the incident involved a public figure.
https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/3529
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2022-08-23 07:31:46+00:00
President of Russia Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Alexander Dugin and Natalia Melentyeva on the death of their daughter Darya Dugina and signed the Executive Order on awarding her (posthumously) the Order of Courage for courage and dedication while performing her professional duty.
💬 President Putin:
A vile, cruel crime cut short the life of Darya Dugina, a bright, talented person with a true Russian heart, kind, loving, sympathetic and open. Journalist, scientist, philosopher, and war correspondent, she honestly served the people and the Fatherland, and proved by deed what it means to be a patriot of Russia.
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2022-08-23 07:01:18+00:00
📃 From the statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing "Maintenance of international peace and security: Promote common security through dialogue and cooperation”
Full transcript
🔹 The international security system is going through a profound crisis. Almost all institutions it relied on have deteriorated, the level of trust between key international players has dropped to a critical low.
🔹 The United States deliberately dismantled key elements of the global arms control system, which for decades helped maintain a strategic balance and avoid armed confrontation.
🔹 The United States continue to refuse to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
🔹 Contrary to their own declared values, Western countries cynically turn a blind eye to the spread of neo-Nazi ideology, massacres of the people in Donbas and violations of international humanitarian law by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national guards.
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2022-08-23 06:21:39+00:00
📅 Today marks 83 years since the signing of the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the USSR: on August 23, 1939, Moscow hosted the signing of an intergovernmental agreement guaranteeing that the parties would not attack each other if one of them was involved in combat operations.
☝️Historians affirm that Soviet leadership had no illusions about the prospects for the agreement they had signed with Germany and understood that a war was inevitable. It was a matter of gaining time. The agreement helped to push the USSR’s western borders forward some 350 kilometres.
📹 Watch our retrospective video for information on the state of affairs in Europe prior to the signing of this document and on the Western capitals’ sabotage of the USSR’s diplomatic efforts to create an anti-Hitler coalition.
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2022-08-23 05:23:16+00:00
🇷🇺The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the United States of America has marked National Flag Day by carrying out a kids drawing contest and projecting the National Symbol onto the Embassy’s façade. 🇷🇺
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2022-08-22 19:01:01+00:00
❗Embassy comment on another anti-Russian statement by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
▪️ The Embassy has taken note of yet another anti-Russian statement by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, this time questioning Russia’s “moral right” to sit at the G20. We consider this a sign of London’s apparent despair amid the deadlocked efforts of British foreign policy to impose a perception of our country being internationally isolated on the global community.
▪️ We are puzzled to hear teachings about “moral rights” from a country, whose colonial crimes, committed almost in all corners of the former “empire on which the sun never set”, are still the subject of extensive studies and discussion around the world. If we start talking about morality, a legitimate question arises – by what right does the UK sit at the G20 alongside some countries which had in the past suffered themselves from the predatory, aggressive and bloody wars unleashed by London, the deception and looting of their people, as well as the massive removal of their national assets and cultural attractions.
▪️ We consider such statements especially hypocritical after the UK, together with NATO allies discredited itself by actively participating in illegal and aggressive military campaigns in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria, as well as in other countries of the Middle East and Africa. We would also like to recall the recent BBC investigations of war crimes committed by British soldiers in Afghanistan.
▪️We are well aware of the motives pushing the so-called “collective West”, including the UK, to persist with futile attempts to restore the former comfortable monopoly in international affairs and, for this purpose, to settle scores with independent states that conduct a sovereign policy based on national interests. In this regard we have to remind the FCDO that Western countries today account for only about 12 % of the world's population.
▪️We call on London to stop undermining the foundations of a successfully established and strengthening polycentric world order, with the G20 being one of its constituent parts, and to demonstrate a responsible and respectful approach to other countries and nations.
#Russia #UK #G20
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2022-08-22 17:31:23+00:00
‼️ On August 20, 🇺🇦 Ukrainian special services blew up a car with 🇷🇺 Russian female journalist and political scientist Daria Dugina. She openly defended her civic position.
🔹This caused fierce discontent of Kiev and its American 🇺🇸, British🇬🇧, Canadian🇨🇦, Australian 🇦🇺and New Zealand🇳🇿 sponsors, who tried to attack freedom of speech by including Daria in their sanctions lists.
📢 We urge @UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay to condemn this despicable assassination, an attack on the safety of journalists, freedom of speech and access to information.
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2022-08-22 16:41:23+00:00
⚡️The Kiev regime continues military strikes against Zaporozhskaya nuclear power plant
❗️Yet another shelling of this station by the armed forces of Ukraine took place on August 20
🔵 As a result one artillery shell exploded in the vicinity of Special building No.1 and three other shells near Laboratory and household building and Special building No.2
📸 Here is the scheme of Ukrainian strikes against the ZNPP on August 20 and photos of consequences of the strikes
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2022-08-21 22:24:07+00:00
🇷🇺 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin's address on National Flag Day
💬 President Putin: The national flag symbolises our faith in our traditional values that we will never give up – truth and justice, solidarity and mercy, and respect for Russia’s centuries-long uninterrupted history, the achievements and victories of our ancestors that inspire us to care for and defend our Motherland and never permit any foreign hegemony or diktat. The desire to live according to our own will, to choose our own path and to follow it, has become part of our people’s genetic code.
Russia is a strong, independent world power.
On the international stage, we are committed to pursuing only such policies that meet the vital interests of our Fatherland.
Full transcript
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2022-08-21 18:56:16+00:00
📅 On August 21, 1963, the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
🇷🇺🇯🇴 #Russia and #Jordan are bound by years of traditionally friendly relations based on close or shared approaches to key international and regional problems. Our closely coordinated action on the global arena is a significant factor that has a positive impact on developments in the Middle East and North Africa.
Our countries aim to overcome the crises in the Persian Gulf region and ensure stability in this part of the Middle East. Russia and Jordan maintain regular contacts at the high and highest levels, including between the foreign ministries.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
💬 “Our relations are developing across all areas. This is true of our political dialogue and our trade and economic links. Russia and Jordan have an intergovernmental commission.” (August 23, 2021)
#RussiaJordan
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2022-08-21 17:02:00+00:00
❗️ On August 14, the "Azov Brain Rot" documentary premiered. The film features exclusive footage and eyewitness accounts, as well as filmed testimonials by captured Azov militants and foreign mercenaries who surrendered in Mariupol. In addition, the film contains expert commentary and accounts of the civilians who were tortured and humiliated by neo-Nazis.
The documentary elaborates on the ideology of nationalist battalions as well as their neo-pagan beliefs and the widespread use of Nazi symbols.
The film’s creator, journalist, and television host Marina Kim visited the detention facilities where Azov members were being held captive in Yelenovka (DPR), days before the Ukrainian Army attack using a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher. The attack killed more than 50 prisoners of war.
📹 (English subtitles included)
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2022-08-20 15:22:42+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States to Newsweek on the current situation as it relates to arms control:
🔹The inspection activities under the New START Treaty have indeed been suspended since the early 2020 by mutual agreement due to COVID-19 pandemic. We are working closely with our American colleagues within the framework of the New START Bilateral Consultative Commission to remove organizational and technical obstacles to resume inspections. Some issues have been resolved but by no means all of them.
🔹The remaining problems stem from the anti-Russian restrictive measures imposed unilaterally by the United States. The State Department statement that the sanctions do not prevent our inspectors from conducting verification procedures on the US territory is misleading. Direct flights between the US and Russia have been cancelled. Washington’s allies have closed their airspace to transit flights and technical stops of Russian aircraft transporting our inspectors to the US. Members of our inspection teams and flights crews are prevented to obtain transit visas. The American side has none of these issues. As a result, Washington has got an obvious advantage.
🔹Without resolving these issues, it is impossible to resume inspections. Our American colleagues understand this. Therefore the US decision to notify us of their intent to conduct an inspection on the Russian territory was perplexing. We had no choice but to announce a temporary exemption of the inspection activities from the Russian facilities subject to inspections.
🔹This measure in no way contradicts New START terms and is not permanent in nature. Russia is committed to complying with all provisions of the Treaty and seeks to resume its implementation in full as soon as possible. It is the only working nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the US. It is referred to as a gold standard in arms control. It plays a key role in maintaining strategic stability and preventing an arms race.
🔹Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden reaffirmed their countries’ commitment to the New START in the August 1 messages to the participants of the 10th NPT Review Conference. The US president stated that the administration was ready to expeditiously negotiate a new arms control framework. However we have received no concrete proposals from Washington on the resumption of the bilateral dialogue on strategic stability.
🔹Meanwhile the New START Treaty expires in 3.5 years. The historic record of Russian-US negotiations shows that even if both sides are ready, the remaining time to work out an agreement is extremely short. Especially given that on Washington’s initiative the strategic consultations launched in 2021 have been frozen.
☝️Most importantly, any interaction on arms control matters must be conducted on an equal basis, with due consideration for mutual concerns and interests.
🔗Link to the material: https://www.newsweek.com/war-ukraine-pushing-last-us-russia-nuclear-treaty-off-rails-1735371
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2022-08-20 13:16:19+00:00
⚡️Against the backdrop of military defeats in Donbasы and elsewhere, the Zelenskyi regime sanctioned terrorist acts involving the use of chemical poisoning substances against Russian servicemen and civilians.
▫️On July 31, Russian servicemen carrying out tasks near Vasil'evka, Zaporizhzhya Region, were taken to a military hospital with signs of severe poisoning. As a result of examination, toxic substance, botulinum toxin type B, was found in servicemen' organisms.
▫️In order to establish the cause of the poisoning, specialists from the Main Research and Testing Institute of Military Medicine of the Russian Ministry of Defense (St. Petersburg) conducted an additional analysis, which unequivocally confirmed the presence of an organic poison of artificial origin - botulinum toxin type B.
▫️At present, the Russian Federation is preparing supporting documents with the results of all the analyses carried out on the chemical terrorism sanctioned by the Zelenskyi regime.
▫️The evidence of the Kiev regime's chemical terrorism will soon be officially sent to the OPCW through the Russian Permanent Mission.
▫️Given the evidence of State terrorism by the Kiev regime, an additional investigation is under way regarding the poisoning with chemical substances of the head of the provisional administration of Kherson Region, Vladimir Sal'do.
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2022-08-19 16:05:23+00:00
🇷🇺🇫🇷📞 President Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron.
🔹 The discussion focused on various aspects of the situation around Ukraine. Vladimir Putin, in particular, stressed that the regular strikes on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant by the Ukrainian military creates the danger of a major nuclear disaster that could lead to radiation contamination of vast territories.
🔹 Both leaders noted the importance of sending an IAEA mission to the power plant as soon as possible to allow experts to assess the situation on the ground. The Russian side confirmed its readiness to provide the necessary assistance to the agency's inspectors.
🔹 The President of Russia also informed the French leader about the progress of the package deal signed on July 22 in Istanbul to facilitate the export of Ukrainian grain from Black Sea ports and the export of Russian food and fertilisers to world markets.
#RussiaFrance
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2022-08-19 15:37:32+00:00
🇷🇺🇰🇿 President Vladimir Putin met with President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Sochi.
💬 Vladimir Putin: We will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations in October. Many events are planned to mark this milestone. Our ministries and departments are involved in these preparations. This concerns the Intergovernmental Commission, while the foreign and defence ministries are preparing different events together, including CSTO joint exercises.
Our trade is growing. It increased by 34.4 percent in the past year. In the first five months of this year, it went up by almost 9 percent, or 8.8 percent to be exact.
Russia is Kazakhstan’s biggest trade and economic partner. We are also developing promising large projects, including high-tech and space.
🤝 I am very glad that our meeting is certainly imparting an additional impetus to the development of our trust-based strategic partnership.
#RussiaKazakhstan
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2022-08-19 13:11:52+00:00
«Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action» - Ian Fleming
⚡️Armed forces of Ukraine have attacked Zaporozhskaya NPP at least eight times
❗️In five cases they used Western weapon systems
❓If this is not nuclear terrorism, then what is it?
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2022-08-19 09:51:09+00:00
🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Deputy Spokesperson Ivan Nechaev, August 18
Key topics:
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov's schedule
🔹 Situation in Ukraine
🔹 Kaliningrad transit
🔹 Censorship by US digital platforms
🔹 German payments to survivors of the Siege of Leningrad
🔹 Events in Japan to mark the WWII's end
🔹 Baltic states and Poland's campaign to demolish Soviet monuments
🔹 Russia-Kazakhstan relations
🔹 Situation in Ethiopia
and more…
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2022-08-19 08:39:00+00:00
🔴 Watch online-briefing by Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov at the site of the international multimedia press center «Rossiya Segondya»
🕰 12.00 p.m. Moscow time (11.00 a.m. Vienna time)
📌 Main topics:
🔵 #ViennaTalks on JCPOA
🔵 Situation around Zaporozhskaya NPP
🔵 IAEA
🔵 CTBTO
🔵 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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2022-08-18 17:14:30+00:00
🎙 Russia's Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov gives an extensive interview to Russia-24 TV Channel, discusses a wide array of topical issues.
Read in full (transcript)
Key points
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Finding solutions to global issues, let alone matters of our bilateral relationship, hinges upon a direct dialog between Russia and the US.
🔸 The New START is the benchmark for arms control treaties. It must be saved. It is bound to expire in 2026 and we need to decide, what comes the day after?
🔸 Washington sends its minions to Asia, Africa, Latin America. They are tasked with persuading the states there not to have any business with us.
🔸 The US administration is on a hunt for Russian nationals abroad. Since 2008, 58 Russians were arrested abroad. Remarkably, international community and human rights watchdogs are silent about it.
⚡️ Russians face discrimination simply for being Russians. They are intimidated, harassed, threatened.
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2022-08-18 14:31:15+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇩📞 President Vladimir Putin and President of Indonesia Joko Widodo spoke over the phone.
The President of Russia congratulated Joko Widodo and the people of Indonesia on their national holiday, Independence Day, which was celebrated on August 17.
The Presidents considered current issues pertaining to the development of Russian-Indonesian relations, with a focus on implementing agreements reached during Joko Widodo’s recent visit to Russia, including the promotion of a number of bilateral trade and economic projects.
They also discussed global food security. Among other things, Vladimir Putin informed his counterpart about the efforts to stabilise the global grain and fertiliser situation, which Russia has been making jointly with Turkiye and the UN Secretariat.
With Indonesia’s G20 Presidency in mind, they touched upon the subject of preparations for the G20 summit on Bali, scheduled for November of this year.
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2022-08-18 13:20:36+00:00
⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry is analysing the situation at Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
🔹 Since July 18, the station has been subjected to systematic shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces.
🔹 The Ukrainian side, together with their US handlers, are trying to play the card by causing what they believe to be a minor accident at the nuclear power plant and thus disrupting its normal and safe operation, blaming it on Russia.
🔹 We are ready to provide the IAEA with real high-resolution images, a sample placed on a slide, which shows that we do not place weapons on the territory of this station.
🔹 The US is keeping silent on objective data about the shelling and the situation at the nuclear power plant, thereby encouraging impunity for the Kiev regime and contributing to a possible nuclear catastrophe in Europe.
🔹 The ultimate goal of the provocation is to create an exclusion zone of up to 30 km, to bring foreign observers to ZNPP territory, and to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of nuclear terrorism.
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2022-08-18 11:40:15+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Deputy Spokesperson Ivan Nechaev on topical foreign policy issues
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202208181100-LIVE11636-Deputy-Director-of-Russian-Foreign-Ministry-s-Information-and-Press-Department-Ivan-Nechaev-holds-weekly-briefing-
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
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2022-08-18 10:42:08+00:00
⚡️Ukrainian armed formations continue to shell the Zaporozhskaya nuclear power plant, using mainly Western-made shells
On the photos one may see one of their components, found at the station after one of the attacks
🇺🇸 The manufacturer's data is clearly visible - the U.S. company EaglePicher Technologies
❗️That is how the Kiev regime and its Western supervisors day by day threaten nuclear safety and nuclear security of the largest NPP in Europe
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2022-08-18 05:43:05+00:00
🇷🇺🤝🇮🇳 On August 17 in Moscow, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev held talks with National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India Ajit Doval.
A wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation in the area of security, as well as topical problems on the regional and international agenda were discussed.
The Sides agreed to continue the dialogue between the two countries' Security Councils, having emphasized the progressive development of the Russian-Indian special and privileged strategic partnership.
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2022-08-17 16:35:33+00:00
🇬🇦 Today the Gabonese Republic marks Independence Day. 🎉
Once a colony of France, this African nation broke the chains of colonialism and gained its freedom in 1960.
🤝 Diplomatic relations between the USSR & Gabon were established on October 15, 1973.
🇷🇺🇬🇦 Today Moscow and Libreville are engaged in a transparent dialogue, committed to a close joint collaboration in order to expand mutually beneficial cooperation: priority areas were identified at a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Gabon A. Bongo Ondimba in Moscow in 2018.
In June, the Republic was elected a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the period 2022-2023.
🎉 Congratulations to our Gabonese friends and colleagues on their national holiday, we wish you peace and prosperity!
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2022-08-17 14:15:26+00:00
🇷🇺🇳🇮 On August 16, as part of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Russia donated more than 196 metric tons of sunflower oil to the Republic of Nicaragua in order to bolster its school meals programme, thus benefitting 1.2 million Nicaraguan children.
During the ceremony, Russia's Ambassador Alexander Khokholikov emphasized that this humanitarian aid will contribute to the Nicaraguan Government's efforts to enhance food security and nutrition.
The total volume of Russia's assistance via WFP to this Central American country in 2019-2023 is expected to reach 11 million dollars.
#RussiaHelps
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2022-08-17 13:37:12+00:00
🇮🇩 Today Indonesia celebrates Independence Day.
Our heartfelt congratulations and warm wishes of peace, prosperity and well-being go to the Government and friendly people of this country on their national holiday!
💬 President Vladimir Putin: Indonesia is one of our key partners in the Asia-Pacific. Russian-Indonesian relations are constructive and mutually beneficial and are developing steadily on the basis of long-standing traditions of friendship and mutual assistance.
Our country helped Indonesia build its statehood and strengthen the young republic’s position in the international arena.
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2022-08-17 11:46:59+00:00
#AntifakeOfTheDay
👉 The US media continues spinning the flywheel of misinformation surrounding the Zaporozhye nuclear power station. This time, Russia stands accused of “stealing” Ukrainian electricity.
☝️ The Wall Street Journal reporters came to this conclusion by taking their cues from Ukrainian officials, plant workers and “international nuclear-power experts.” The choice of these would-be independent experts recruited by the local propaganda mouthpieces and their level of expertise are ironic.
Just glancing over this new anti-Russia story planted in WSJ is enough to state the abysmal degradation of the authors’ ability to establish cause-and-effect linkages.
❗️By destroying the energy infrastructure, the Kiev regime exposes millions of people on the European continent to the danger of a nuclear disaster with Washington’s connivance. Located thousands of kilometres away from this threat, The Wall Street Journal couldn’t care less about any of it.
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2022-08-16 17:16:59+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the US:
We paid attention to another Russophobic attack by US Commission on International Religious Freedom. The candidates for experts accuse us of organizing repressions against supporters of the so-called "Orthodox Church of Ukraine", murdering and torturing clergy. It is claimed that the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church justifies the manifestations of cruelty.
Such insinuations have nothing to do with reality. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has repeatedly defended Ukrainians who profess Orthodoxy oppressed by Kiev nationalists.
Through the efforts of the Russian Orthodox Church, more than 670 tons of humanitarian aid were transferred to the affected civilians in the conflict zone. More than 380 tons were sent to the Donetsk, Lugansk, Gorlovka, Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporozhye dioceses. Church refugee assistance centers have been opened in Belgorod, Simferopol and Rostov-on-Don. The Moscow Patriarchate Synodal Department for Charity received over 200 million rubles collected to help victims of Ukrainian military forces.
🤦 At the same time, Washington prefers not to notice how schismatics, with the support of the Kiev authorities, seize churches belonging to the canonical Russian Orthodox Church and cynically appropriate the property of church parishes and communities. The decision of the leadership of the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine to canonize the Nazi criminal Stepan Bandera was also ignored. Is this the notorious American concern for the rights of believers?
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2022-08-16 16:40:15+00:00
🎙 President Vladimir Putin's address to participants and guests of the 10th #MoscowConference on International Security
💬 The situation in the world is changing dynamically and the outlines of a multipolar world order are taking shape. An increasing number of countries and peoples are choosing a path of free and sovereign development based on their own distinct identity, traditions and values.
These objective processes are being opposed by the Western globalist elites, who provoke chaos, fanning long-standing and new conflicts and pursuing the so-called containment policy, which in fact amounts to the subversion of any alternative, sovereign development options. Thus, they are doing all they can to keep hold onto the hegemony and power that are slipping from their hands; they are attempting to retain countries and peoples in the grip of what is essentially a neocolonial order. Their hegemony means stagnation for the rest of the world and for the entire civilisation; it means obscurantism, cancellation of culture, and neoliberal totalitarianism.
They are using all expedients. The United States and its vassals grossly interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states by staging provocations, organising coups, or inciting civil wars. By threats, blackmail, and pressure, they are trying to force independent states to submit to their will and follow rules that are alien to them. This is being done with just one aim in view, which is to preserve their domination, the centuries-old model that enables them to sponge on everything in the world. But a model of this sort can only be retained by force.
❗️ They need conflicts to retain their hegemony. It is for this reason that they have destined the Ukrainian people to being used as cannon fodder.
They have implemented the anti-Russia project and connived at the dissemination of the neo-Nazi ideology. They looked the other way when residents of Donbass were killed in their thousands and continued to pour weapons, including heavy weapons, for use by the Kiev regime, something that they persist in doing now. Under these circumstances, we have taken the decision to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine, a decision which is in full conformity with the Charter of the United Nations.
It is obvious that it is only possible to reduce tensions in the world, overcome military-political threats and risks, improve trust between countries and ensure their sustainable development through a radical strengthening of the contemporary system of a multipolar world.
The era of the unipolar world is becoming a thing of the past.
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2022-08-16 16:04:47+00:00
🇷🇺🇬🇧 The Russian Embassy in the UK:
Comment on hostile actions by YouTube.
On 15 August, YouTube deleted without warning 29 videos from the Embassy channel. Most of the videos were Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin’s interviews as well as videos containing evidence of war crimes committed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the civilian population of Donbass.
Acting against and in violation of the principle of freedom of speech, YouTube itself is undermining the initial reasons for its establishment, prompting numerous users to switch to other platforms.
We call upon YouTube’s administration to restore all deleted videos and offer an apology to the Russian Embassy in London for its groundless, excessive and discriminatory actions. Such a step would demonstrate to YouTube’s multi-million audience as well as hundreds of thousands of video bloggers from around the world that the platform can still be trusted.
After all, without them YouTube is just digital code.
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2022-08-16 09:30:58+00:00
The World Construction Championship, an event that combines a competition between industrial construction experts, a business programme and an exhibition, will take place in Kazan on October 5-8.
The event was founded by the Russian Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities and Rosatom state corporation and is designed to expand the economic integration of Russia and the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union in industrial construction.
📌 The first championship was held in 2021 in Sochi; the competition brought together experts from 34 companies that implemented major industrial projects in Russia and abroad.
✅ The championship’s mission is to strengthen Russia’s position on the international stage in the area of industrial construction and ensure the country’s global competitiveness.
✅ The goal is to improve workforce productivity in the industrial construction sector.
✅ The task is to provide more professional and career growth opportunities for workers in the sector.
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2022-08-16 07:46:46+00:00
💬 President Vladimir Putin: All attempts to cancel our culture, to cancel Russia are futile. It is just stupid.
☝️ And those who think otherwise, unfortunately for them, have not learned the lessons of history. But history is made by ordinary people.
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2022-08-16 04:30:14+00:00
⚡️Interview by Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov to «Rossiya 24» on the situation around Zaporozhskaya NPP in the context of a recent statement by the EU Delegation to the UN Organisations in Vienna (with English subtitles)
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2022-08-15 14:15:39+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲✉️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.
💬 Please accept my deepest condolences over the death of people as a result of a fire in a shopping centre in Yerevan.
Please convey my words of sincere sympathy and support to the families of those killed and wishes for a speedy recovery to all the injured
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2022-08-15 13:09:03+00:00
🇷🇺🇪🇬✉️ President Vladimir Putin sent a message of condolences to President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
💬 I would like to express my sincere condolences over the tragic consequences of the fire that broke out at the Abu Sefein church in Giza.
We share the grief of the victims’ families and friends and hope for a speedy recovery of all the injured.
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2022-08-15 11:40:10+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳✉️ President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the 75th Anniversary of India’s Independence.
💬 In the decades since your country became independent, it has achieved widely acknowledged progress in a variety of areas, including the economy, social sphere, science and technology. India by right enjoys considerable authority on the world stage, playing a constructive role in solving urgent issues on the international agenda.
The Russia-India relationship is developing in the spirit of a privileged strategic partnership. Moscow and New Delhi are cooperating successfully in various areas and interacting effectively as part of the UN, BRICS, SCO and other multilateral structures.
I am certain that our joint efforts will ensure continued development of the entire set of the fruitful Russian-Indian ties for the benefit of our two nations and in the interests of strengthening regional and global security and stability.
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2022-08-15 10:48:19+00:00
🇨🇬 On August 15, the Republic of the Congo celebrates the 62nd Anniversary of Independence.
The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in what is today the Congo in the 15th century, when it became one of the main centres of slave trade. In the late 19th century, the country came under the direct French control, which lasted until October 1947, when it was granted the status of an overseas territory of France. In 1958, its status was upgraded to an autonomous republic within the French Commonwealth.
🤝 Diplomatic relations between the USSR and the Republic of the Congo were established on March 16, 1964.
🇷🇺🇨🇬 Today, the approach of Russia and the Republic of the Congo to the majority of current problems discussed at the UN and other multilateral forums are practically identical or close.
🎉 We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations on this occasion to our Congolese friends. Wishing you peace and prosperity 🙏
🔗 https://is.gd/4GZCwd
#RussiaAfrica #RussiaCongo
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2022-08-15 07:38:50+00:00
⚡️ Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department Ivan Nechaev will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 14 pm MSK (approximately) on August 18.
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.
Accreditation is open until 12.00 am on August 17.
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2022-08-15 04:18:01+00:00
🎉🇮🇳 On August 15, the Republic of India celebrates Independence Day.
The Indian Independence Act adopted on that day 7️⃣5️⃣ years ago crowned decades of the Indian people’s difficult struggle against the oppression of the British colonialists for the right to determine their own future.
🇷🇺🤝🇮🇳 Today, the Russian Federation and the Republic of India have a special and privileged strategic partnership. The forward-looking ties continue to grow. Russia-India cooperation is multifaceted, and offers enormous potential for deepening it further.
💬 “Russia views India as a major power, whose people have been very friendly to us. Our relations proceed from a very positive foundation," President of Russia Vladimir Putin emphasised during the talks with Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on December 9, 2021.
🥳 Sincere congratulations to our Indian friends on this national holiday. We wish you peace, prosperity and further achievements.
🔗 is.gd/SmY2C8
#DruzhbaDosti
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2022-08-14 12:40:16+00:00
🇷🇺🇵🇰 President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Arif Alvi and Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif on the 7️⃣5️⃣th anniversary of the Republic’s independence.
✉️ The message reads, in part:
💬 Your nation has achieved considerable economic and social progress over the recent decades. Islamabad enjoys well-deserved authority on the world stage, playing an important role in solving urgent issues on the international agenda.
The relationship between our countries is at a high level. Russia and Pakistan are active partners in the bilateral setting and as part of multilateral formats on a range of issues, including on combating terrorism and on Afghanistan.
I am confident that our joint efforts will ensure continued development of the entire range of the Russian-Pakistani ties for the benefit of our two nations and in the interests of strengthening regional security and stability.
🔗 https://is.gd/KA8AmY
#RussiaPakistan
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2022-08-14 10:30:26+00:00
📰 Read an interview by Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov to TASS agency:
🔵 Zaporozhskaya NPP
🔵 #ViennaTalks on JCPOA
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2022-08-13 09:11:45+00:00
🕯 Today we commemorate Major Roman #Filipov - valorous Russian air pilot , who was shot down by terrorists in #Syria in 2018, sacrificed himself to take out the extremists closing in on him.
💬 His last words resonated with millions around the globe: "This is for the boys"...
🎖 He was named Hero of Russia. Posthumously.
He would have turned 38...
#ForeverInOurHearts
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2022-08-12 10:15:00+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States on the appeal of a group of economists to the American authorities regarding the unblocking of the reserves of the Central Bank of Afghanistan
🔹We have paid attention to the letter published by the Center for Economic and Policy Research signed by more than 70 economists from the United States and other countries with a call to unfreeze all international reserves of the Central Bank of Afghanistan.
🔹We fully support this appeal. Considering unacceptable the situation in which the American authorities illegally withhold financial resources belonging to the Afghan people. At the same time, we believe that their bargaining with Kabul regarding the conditions for allocating half of the amount to it is cynical.
🔹The population of Afghanistan is experiencing an unprecedented social and economic crisis. Washington's actions are exacerbating the suffering of innocent Afghans and provoking the largest humanitarian catastrophe in the Asian country. We call on the administration to reconsider its decision and release the international holdings of a sovereign state.
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2022-08-12 06:26:30+00:00
🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing regarding the attacks of Ukrainian armed forces on the Zaporozhye NPP
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🔹 Ukrainian armed forces have used heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems against the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe – the Zaporozhye NPP.
🔹 Developments at the ZNPP these days are the climax of Kiev's criminal actions against nuclear infrastructure and personnel servicing nuclear facilities.
🔹 From the very start, we supported the IAEA efforts aimed at ensuring safety and security of Ukrainian nuclear facilities.
🔹 We carefully observe the mentioned seven principles and do our best to let IAEA representatives make sure of that themselves.
🔹 Heinous attacks by Kiev against nuclear facilities push the world onto the brink of a nuclear disaster, the scope of which would be comparable to that of the Chernobyl tragedy.
❗️ We call on the states that support the Kiev regime to check their proteges, make them stop attacking the ZNPP and residents of Energodar once and for all.
❗️ We urge the top officials of the United Nations and IAEA to demonstrate their leadership and global responsibility and indicate clearly and without diplomatic courtesies the real source of the threat to the safety and security of the ZNPP.
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2022-08-11 14:16:11+00:00
📌 Facts to know on the eve of today’s meeting of the UN Security Council on Zaporozhskaya NPP
🔵 On 5-6 August the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) once again attacked ZNPP by shelling the critically important infrastructural objects of the plant as well as its satellite city Energodar. Twenty shells have been fired during the strikes
🔵 On 5 August, at 14:45, the Ukrainian shelling (three shells hit in the proximity of the training centre next to the territory of the open switchgear of the NPP) resulted in shutdown of the autotransformer and the high voltage line providing backup power to the Units №1 and №2 of ZNPP
🔵 On 5 August, at 16:45, the Ukrainian side committed an artillery shelling (four shells) of oil and fuel oil handling equipment and the site of hydrogen receivers. Damage of the pipeline caused jet fire that was localized due to timely and professional actions of ZNPP personnel and Russian military
🔵 On 6 August, at 19:42, the AFU units attacked ZNPP once again. Three artillery shells of 155 millimeters caliber (NATO standard) exploded next to the spent fuel storage and only 200 meters from the operating unit. One person was injured
🔵 On 7 August ZNPP was again shelled by the Ukrainian armed formations. The high-voltage power line “Kakhovskaya” was damaged. Equipment of an open switchgear (750 kW) was damaged as a result of a power surge. At Unit №4, that was operational at 10% capacity, the power supply of control and safety system went offline. This triggered the emergency protection of the Unit №4
🔵 The Ukrainian personnel of the plant has decided on cooldown of the Unit №4 of ZNPP, as well as downpower of the Units №5 and №6. Currently, the Units №5 and №6 are downpowered to 500 MW
🔵 On 11 August Ukrainian armed formations again tried to attack the ZNPP with missiles and UAVs. This attack was repulsed by the air defense forces
🔵 In addition to direct military threats to the security of ZNPP the Kiev regime is working on other scenarios to create intentional preconditions for a nuclear accident at ZNPP. Inter alia, Kiev is considering different options of cutting the plant off from the Ukrainian power grid and keeps increasing psychological pressure on ZNPP employees and their relatives (they regularly receive phone calls threatening them with criminal prosecutions and physical reprisals)
🔵 Attacks of the Kiev regime on ZNPP endanger the safety and security of Europe and the whole world. In case of an accident at this station the radiation contamination zone (more than 5300 square kilometers, length around 420 km) would cover the population of Kievskaya, Zaporozhskaya, Kharkovskaya, Poltavskaya, Khersonskaya, Odesskaya, Nikolaevskaya, Kirovogradskaya, Vinnitskaya oblasts, Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, border areas of Russia and Belarus, as well as Moldova, Bulgaria and Romania. The situation could get worse because of adverse weather conditions and spread of possible contamination zone to South-Ukrainian NPP and the nuclear fuel storage at Chernobyl NPP, as well as water arteries. The Black Sea and the Bosphorus Strait would become unsuitable for navigation for a long time. The shores of Abkhazia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania and Türkiye would be contaminated with high levels of radiation
❗️The UN, the IAEA, as well as all countries that have influence on the Kiev regime should do everything possible to ensure immediate cessation of Ukrainian attacks on ZNPP before they resulted in devastating consequences for the whole mankind
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2022-08-11 10:05:30+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇺 Russian Embassy in Australia:
The Embassy's CCTV cameras recorded an attempt of unauthorized entry. No one got hurt.
🇦🇺 #AustraliaHappens #AustraliaMoment
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2022-08-11 08:06:09+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Deputy Spokesperson Ivan Nechaev on topical foreign policy issues
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202208110800-LIVE11602-Deputy-Director-of-Russian-Foreign-Ministry-s-Information-and-Press-Department-Ivan-Nechaev-holds-weekly-briefing
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
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2022-08-11 06:37:52+00:00
🎥 Interview by Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov to «Fifth Studio» («Rossiya 24») with English subtitles
🔵 Zaporozhskaya NPP
🔵 IAEA
🔵 Urgent meeting of the UN Security Council
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2022-08-10 18:00:42+00:00
🇷🇺🇲🇱📞 President Vladimir Putin and Interim President of the Republic of Mali Assimi Goita spoke over the phone.
Assimi Goita thanked Vladimir Putin for Russia’s multifaceted support. The leaders discussed the further development of bilateral cooperation in trade, the economy and other areas. They touched upon, among other things, the issue of possible deliveries to Mali of Russian food, fertiliser and fuel. The leaders agreed that the relevant Russian and Malian departments would step up their practical cooperation.
The leaders expressed satisfaction with the level of Russia-Mali foreign policy cooperation, including coordination of positions in the UN.
Vladimir Putin expressed hope that the Russia-Africa summit scheduled to be held in St Petersburg in 2023 would help promote traditional friendship with all African states.
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2022-08-10 17:30:13+00:00
We took a note of an interview of Valur Gunnarsson published in the “Fréttablaðið” on August 10, 2022. The article contains a photo which shows an identified person trampling upon the flag of the Russian Federation. The description to the picture says that “the Ukrainians have found a new way to use the Russian flag”. ( https://www.frettabladid.is/frettir/enginn-uppgjafarhugur-i-ukrainumonnum/ )
We consider the fact of publishing of such a photo alone in one of the major Icelandic media as a manifest of uncovered disrespect towards the Russian Federation and its state symbols. We would like to remind the editors of the “Fréttablaðið” that the Icelandic government hasn’t repealed yet Art. 95 of the General Penal Code of Iceland according to which anyone who publicly insults foreign state symbols shall be fined or even imprisoned.
The question is why media representatives in Iceland, a country positioning itself as a consistent follower of the European democratic virtues, consider it appropriate to publish such materials breaching the existing law and common moral values, as well as journalist ethics. And please, don’t waste your time trying to hide this fact behind the curtain of freedom of speech. This has nothing to do with mass media rights and freedom of speech. To those who don’t see the obvious difference the only thing left is to recommend spending some time doing their homework more carefully.
The Russian Embassy in Reykjavik expects that the newspaper editorial office will offer official apologies for publishing the materials insulting the state symbol of the Russian Federation.
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2022-08-10 09:28:13+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 The United States urged all African states to respect each other’s territorial integrity. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made this statement at a news conference in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He did not add though that only the Western countries are not required to respect territorial integrity. They isolated Kosovo from Serbia and called this territory a state contrary to the opinion of Belgrade and the Serbian people.
He did not add, either, that local self-rule was introduced in the Comoros in 1968 and a referendum on independence held in 1974. On July 6, 1975, the Chamber of Deputies of the Comoros Parliament proclaimed the country’s independence. Sayyid Ahmed Abdallah was elected President. In the same year, the Comoros joined the United Nations.
After the Comoros received independence, its former coloniser, France, refused to recognise Comorian sovereignty over the Island of Mayotte, referring to the 1974 referendum at which 63 percent of its population voted for preserving its French colony status. In 1976, Mayotte was granted the status of a territorial unit of the French Republic. Since 2011, Mayotte has been part of France as its overseas department.
In 1976, the Comorian government addressed the UN with a request to take measures to preserve the territorial integrity of the state. On December 12, 1979, the UN General Assembly recognised the rights of the Comoros to Mayotte by Resolution 34/69. Subsequently, the UN General Assembly passed several resolutions on the need to return this island to the Comoros. However, the status of Mayotte is still outstanding.
Meanwhile, the Comoros are part of Africa.
Therefore, it is not the West that should urge Africa to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other states.
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2022-08-10 07:51:13+00:00
#Antifake
The South African mass media continue publishing distorted information about Russia.
❗️ Most examples are based on groundless assertions of the Western media.
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The Daily Maverick website did not hesitate to grant Ambassador of Ukraine to South Africa Lyubov Abravitova space to spread Kiev’s propaganda.
☝️ This is yet another attempt to use false claims of Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the express purpose of evoking an emotional response in the audience..
In her article, Abravitova cited poorly staged videos fabricated by Ukraine’s “creative farms.” She also asserted that the Russian armed forces were being defeated on the battlefield despite numerous statements to the contrary at different levels.
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2022-08-09 22:04:21+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
On the night of August 5, Twitter suspended the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official English-language account for seven days, allegedly for posting excerpts from the briefing by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Commander of the Russian Armed Forces’ Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, about the biological warfare activity of the United States.
The harsh measure came in response to our tweet quoting the Russian Defence Ministry, which stated that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) could have been involved in the emergence of Covid-19. It is doubtful that Twitter has sufficient expertise to question the findings of the Defence Ministry that are based on reviewing documents and the latest data. Clearly, this is yet another awkward attempt to shut our mouths.
This is not the first time we have been subjected to such punishment. Some of our tweets have been blocked in the past. But suspending the official account of the foreign ministry of a major country, even if for a week, is beyond good and evil. The same trick has been tried on our embassies multiple times. The accounts of the Russian embassies in London and Berlin were suspended for posting, for example, facts (actual facts, not hoaxes) about the provocation in Bucha.
All this is happening amid the Russophobic madness of Western politicians, experts and even common users, as well as the unprecedented activity of Ukrainian trolls and bots. Tell me again about “inauthentic behaviour” ‒ the term Twitter used when cancelling unwanted bloggers with pro-Russia views over the past few years. Meanwhile, direct calls for violence and punishing Russians are now considered authentic in the West. I don’t recall a single suspension of a Ukrainian official account, despite generating eye-popping fakes in the style of former Ukrainian “ombudsperson” Lyudmila Denisova, who was spreading tales about “atrocities” and “rape” committed by Russian military officers.
☝️ Acting so cluelessly in violation of the freedom of speech, Twitter is shooting itself in the foot, with stubbornness that deserves a better application. This platform has been stagnating for a long time, with almost zero trust from users who are leaving it en masse.
It is not surprising that, once he realised the actual state of affairs, Elon Musk, appalled, broke off the deal to buy this social network.
So, they can block us all they want, but the truth will still find a way. We will just refrain from disseminating facts via US online platforms, which have become tools of censorship in the interests of Washington censors.
If Hemingway was alive, I am sure that Twitter would have blocked him too, for posting that he is under surveillance and hounded by the FBI.
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2022-08-09 20:25:54+00:00
⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Statement on preparing an IAEA international mission to Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
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On June 3, Russia and the IAEA Secretariat reached agreement on the itinerary and timetable for the visit by the Agency’s international mission to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi planned to head the mission, which also included prominent experts from several countries.
❗️ However, the Department of Safety and Security within the UN Secretariat switched on the red light at the very last moment, and the Kiev authorities jumped on this opportunity by stepping up their provocations and shelling the nuclear power station.
☝️ We hope that in the current situation the UN Secretary-General awakes to the responsibility that rests upon him and refrains from creating obstacles for the IAEA mission through a department within the Secretariat which reports to him.
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2022-08-09 20:00:59+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russia & Iran enjoy fruitful cooperation in multiple areas, including space.
🚀 Today at 20:52 (Moscow time) Russia's Souyz-2.1B carrier rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying 17 satellites to Earth orbit.
Among those is the Iranian satellite #Khayyam tailored for long-distance remote sensing. It comes with a resolution of 1 metre, to be used to bolster management and planning capacities in agriculture, environment, water resources, mining and disaster management.
#RussiaIran #SpaceCooperation
📹 © Roscosmos
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2022-08-09 19:27:57+00:00
🎙 Statement by Mikhail Kondratenkov, Member of the Delegation of the Russian Federation at the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Main Committee III
📍 New York, 8 August 2022
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💬 Mikhail Kondratenkov: In the context of nuclear and physical nuclear security, we would like to draw attention to the emergency situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. On 5–7 August, Ukraine committed several criminal acts in the form of artillery and rocket attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP. As a result, a fire broke out on the territory of the plant and the high-voltage power line and pipelines were damaged, which could lead to a large-scale disaster. This left more than 10 thousand people without electricity and water supply.
☝️ The Russian Federation has evidence confirming that the Kiev regime is the organizer and executor of these crimes. We are ready to share them with the international community.
❗️ We call on the UN and relevant international organizations, as well as states that have influence over Kiev, to compel Ukraine to refrain from such criminal actions.
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🎙 Statement by the Deputy Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation at the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Igor Vishnevetskii, Main Committee II
📍 New York, 8 August 2022
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💬 Igor Vishnevetskii: NATO has openly declared itself a nuclear alliance.
There are U.S. nuclear weapons on the territory of non-nuclear bloc allies. Its practical use is being exercised with the involvement of non-nuclear members of the bloc.
Such actions, which are contrary to Articles I and II of the NPT, not only continue to be a significant negative factor for international and European security, but also increase the risk of nuclear conflict and generally hamper nuclear disarmament efforts.
❗️ U.S. nuclear weapons must be withdrawn to the national territory, the infrastructure of their deployment in Europe must be eliminated, and the practice of NATO "joint nuclear missions" must be stopped.
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2022-08-09 19:04:04+00:00
⚔️ On August 9, 1944, the Red Army won the Battle of Leningrad, putting an end to the longest confrontation during the Great Patriotic War.
For over three years, Soviet soldiers waged a fierce battle in the northwest, while the people of Leningrad endured the horrors of a besieged city.
This event had a major bearing on developments in other sections of the Soviet-German front, drawing in major German forces and the entire Finnish army. The German command could not transfer troops deployed near Leningrad to fight other decisive battles.
☝️ The heroic defence of Leningrad became a symbol of the Soviet people’s courage. Soldiers and Leningrad residents suffered deprivation beyond all reason, demonstrating heroism and self-sacrifice while defending the city.
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2022-08-09 18:36:09+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has urged European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russians adding that “visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right.”
⁉️ Are you surprised that a high-ranking official of an EU member state can talk such nonsense verging on nationalism?
It makes sense. She did not become prime minister through her own merit, but inherited the position dynastically, by birthright, getting it all through connections – her place in the party, and her position in the Government.
So, since Kaja was not paying attention in college, I will have to enlighten her on Telegram.
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2022-08-09 15:02:44+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇱📞 Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the State of Israel Isaac Herzog, at the latter’s initiative.
🤝 The Presidents discussed bilateral cooperation, including in humanitarian affairs in view of the extensive historical legacy of Russia-Israel relations. In this context, they spoke about the Red Army’s decisive contribution to the Victory over Nazism and saving the Jewish people from extermination during the Great Patriotic War, as well as about the positive role of Jews in Russia’s public and cultural life.
They covered the operation in Russia of the organisation representing the interests of the Jewish Agency for Israel and agreed that the contacts on this matter will continue between the respective agencies of the two countries.
☝️ The leaders confirmed the intention to develop the multi-dimensional cooperation between Russia and Israel.
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2022-08-09 12:00:29+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answer to a media question:
❓: Dear Ambassador, how could you comment on the administration's decision on the new "package" of military assistance to Ukraine?
💬 Anatoly #Antonov: Washington continues to "add fuel to the fire" of the Ukrainian conflict. The allocation of an additional 1 billion dollars for these purposes confirms that the United States does not intend to listen to reason and is not going to contribute to a peaceful settlement of the crisis.
🔹Against this background, the statements of the administration representatives that the supply of defense products will strengthen Kiev's position at the "probable" negotiating table look especially cynical. It is unclear how one can, in principle, talk about dialogue in conditions when the only goal of the United States is to prolong the conflict as much as possible.
🔹Washington's short-sighted steps create an illusion among unscrupulous figures in Kiev about the possibility of "exhausting" Russia and winning on the battlefield. As a result, the number of victims of the adventurous policy of the ruling class of Ukraine is growing.
🔹The United States of America is increasingly drawn into the conflict, approaching a dangerous line in the confrontation with the Russian Federation. Such an approach will not do anything good for peace and security. It will only prolong the agony of the Ukrainian regime.
🔹We state that the unrestrained pumping of Ukraine with weapons is increasingly causing concern in the United States itself. American experts, columnists of leading publications and ordinary citizens are wondering: how much help reaches its destination? There is a lot of evidence of fraudulent schemes during the transportation of defense products. This proves that it is becoming more difficult to hush up the pernicious aspects of military assistance to Kiev.
🔹However, some of the American weapons still end up on the front line. Zelensky's militants carry out deadly strikes on residential areas of Donbass cities on a daily basis. And now they are also exposing whole Europe to extreme danger by attacking the Zaporozhye NPP. We hope that these facts will open the eyes of US citizens as soon as possible and they will understand whom exactly their country supports.
🔹Developing countries are watching Washington's policy in the Ukrainian direction with surprise and incomprehension. They ask a fair question: is it really so easy to throw into the void billions of dollars that could be spent on the economic and social demands of Latin America, Africa and Asia. Especially in the post-covid period, when these regions most urgently need the funds and assistance from the leading economies of the world.
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2022-08-09 08:02:00+00:00
🕯 On August 9, 1945 at precisely 11:02 A.M. − 7️⃣7️⃣ years ago − the world became witness to the most horrific atrocity − the A-bombings of Nagasaki. It was an act of utter cruelty & barbarism. The city, full of civilians, was obliterated, some 70'000 people perished instantaneously.
❗️ It is our duty to remember & ensure that history never repeats itself.
💬 FM Sergey Lavrov: To this day, the terrible death of innocent civilians strikes a chord with millions of people on our planet.
We must join our efforts to ensure that the terror and pain of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will never repeat.
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2022-08-09 06:38:39+00:00
❗️On August 8, 2022, the Russian Federation officially notified the United States, through diplomatic channels, of its decision to temporarily exempt the inspection activities from the facilities subject to inspection under the Treaty. This exemption includes the appropriate facilities at which exhibitions may be conducted under the Treaty.
🇷🇺🇺🇸 We hope to continue close cooperation with the American side. We have always advocated and continue to advocate a discussion on the resumption of inspection activities under the Treaty from a position of practical reality.
☝️ We would like to emphasise that the measures we have adopted are temporary. Russia is fully committed to the observance of the provisions of the Treaty, something we consider to be a very important instrument in maintaining international security and stability.
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#START #NewSTART
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2022-08-08 18:49:44+00:00
❗️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Ukraine’s continued shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant
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💬 Russia has long been calling on the international community, in various contexts and at various levels, to strongly condemn the Kiev regime’s incessant military strikes against the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), while using increasingly destructive weapons systems.
☝️ It is impossible to ignore the obvious: the situation is growing more dangerous by the hour.
We note the IAEA Director General’s intention to go through with the planned visit to the plant.
❗️ We consider it necessary to remind you again that just a few weeks ago, Russia did everything necessary for a successful visit. There can be no complaints against us in this regard. The fact that this international mission was never accomplished is entirely on Kiev, as Kiev is the only player that has a reason to keep the IAEA away from Zaporozhye.
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2022-08-08 16:00:49+00:00
🛑 The Ukrainian nationalists have recently intensified the shelling of residential areas in Donbass, now use even anti-personnel munition, the so-called butterfly mines.
The use of butterfly mines goes against the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of August 12, 1949.
The fact that the Ukrainian nationalists even possess butterfly mines speaks volumes. By signing the 1997 Ottawa Convention, Ukraine made a commitment not to use anti-personnel mines under any circumstances, not even on the battlefield, and to destroy all stocks of such mines held in arsenals.
Apparently, Kiev has not done any of that.
On August 1, Russia’s Permanent Mission to the UN sent the information about the use of butterfly mines by Ukraine to UNSG Antonio Guterres and the head of the Security Council. The letter with attached photographic evidence will be distributed as an official document of the UNSC & UNGA.
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2022-08-08 15:16:29+00:00
❗️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on anniversary of the August events of 2008 in the South Caucasus
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💬 Today, on the 14th anniversary of the beginning of Georgia’s military aggression against the people of South Ossetia and the Russian peacekeepers of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces in the zone of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, we yet again pay the tribute to the memory of the victims of that treacherous attack and to the courage of those who sacrificed their lives to save the South Ossetian people from extirpation.
The criminal military adventure of Mikhail Saakashvili’s regime was not left unanswered: in the extreme circumstances, Russia successfully conducted a peace enforcement operation, and then recognised South Ossetia and also Abkhazia, which was facing the same fate, as sovereign and independent states and took them under its protection.
Another result of the Georgian aggression being repelled was the launch of a new negotiations track in Switzerland, the Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in the South Caucasus. Their main task is to provide stable and reliable security for Abkhazia and South Ossetia by maintaining a direct dialogue between the two republics and the Georgian side.
However, this important dialogue platform has recently been overpowered by the politically motivated approach of certain players, guided by their egoistic interests. As the result, the Geneva format has been essentially frozen. For the past eight months, it has not been possible to hold the next, 56th round of the Geneva Discussions.
The prospects for holding the postponed round of discussion are still dim. It is not our choice. All responsibility for the sabotage of the negotiation process and the repercussions of this lies with the initiators of these destructive actions and those pandering to them.
🔗 https://is.gd/oseQPw
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2022-08-08 14:45:08+00:00
📃 Press release on meetings of Foreign Ministers of the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum
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On 5 August, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended the 12th Ministerial Meeting of the East Asia Summit (#EAS) and the 29th Session of the ASEAN Regional Forum (#ARF) in Phnom Penh.
🔹 The Russian side placed emphasis on stable trends towards a multipolar world order based on the principles of common and indivisible security, and on the need to consolidate efforts in countering growing risks in the Asia-Pacific region, including in the context of the West provoking a global crisis in the food and energy spheres.
🔹 Sergey Lavrov drew special attention to the destructive consequences of NATO's globalisation plans and the growing militarisation of the region.
🔹 Russia put forward the idea of creating a region-wide mechanism within the EAS in the field of anti-epidemic response.
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2022-08-08 14:00:28+00:00
🕯 Today marks the 14th anniversary since the beginning of the military aggression launched by Mikhail Saakashvili’s regime against the people of South Ossetia.
On the night of 7 to 8 August, 2008, Georgia's armed forces commenced the so-called operation to restore constitutional order in South Ossetia, which led to numerous casualties.
❗️ That operation was a blatant violation of international agreements on the peaceful settlement of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, and Mikhail Saakashvili’s deliberate actions were later recorded in the 2009 report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia, created under the auspices of the EU.
☝️ Further escalation was avoided thanks to the direct involvement of Russia, which stopped the Georgian invasion by conducting a peace enforcement operation, and then ensured safety of the people in South Ossetia and Abkhazia by recognising the two republics as sovereign and independent states.
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2022-08-08 13:17:53+00:00
🎉 On August 8, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) marks its 55th anniversary. Today ASEAN is a successful and reputable regional intergovernmental organisation that has become a significant element of the emerging multipolar world order.
The development of ties with ASEAN is among the priorities of Russia’s foreign policy on the Asian track. In 2017, the Russian Permanent Mission to ASEAN opened in Jakarta, and in 2018, Russia-ASEAN relations reached the level of strategic partnership.
On August 4-5, Sergey Lavrov took part in Russia-ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ meeting, the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum on security in Phnom Penh.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: Despite the current international turbulence, the range of mechanisms for our dialogue is expanding, the level of industry platforms is rising; trade, and economic and humanitarian ties are deepening.
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2022-08-08 11:57:51+00:00
📅 Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department Ivan Nechaev will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 11 am MSK (approximately) on August 11.
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 Deputy Spokesperson will answer media questions received by the call centre. Accredited journalists will be sent detailed information concerning the technical aspects of submitting questions.
❗️ Accreditation is open until 9.30 am on August 10.
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2022-08-08 10:15:43+00:00
Key takeaways from the statement of Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Mission the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva Andrey Belousov at the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
1️⃣ So far, the most recent statements made by US President Joe Biden on strategic stability dialogue, nuclear arms control and reduction are merely declarations that have not been supported with concrete proposals;
2️⃣ Russia does not accept preconditions for the resumption of New START negotiations;
3️⃣ Russia doubts that the US is ready for a constructive, open and respectful dialogue on strategic offensive arms, which would be mutually beneficial for each other’s interests;
4️⃣ Washington, which unilaterally severed strategic stability dialogue with Russia, must itself take tangible steps to resume the New START dialogue with Moscow.
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2022-08-08 09:25:51+00:00
❗️ FM Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the escalation of tensions around the Gaza Strip
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💬 Moscow is gravely concerned about a new round of armed violence in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
This round of escalation was triggered by Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip on August 5, in response to which Palestinian groups began massive indiscriminate shelling of Israeli territory.
We view these developments with deep concern. They can lead to a resumption of full-scale military confrontation and a further deterioration of the already deplorable humanitarian situation in Gaza.
We call on all parties involved to exercise maximum restraint, prevent an escalation of armed hostilities and return to a sustainable ceasefire without delay.
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2022-08-06 18:55:14+00:00
On August 6, 2022, members of the Russian-speaking community of Ireland held a peaceful protest rally in the center of Dublin in defence of the population of Donbass, demanding that the governments of the Western countries cease to support Zelenskiy's regime in Ukraine.
🔗https://bit.ly/3BMZnU3
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2022-08-06 17:41:00+00:00
📄 ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM STATEMENT TO PROMOTE PEACE, STABILITY, AND PROSPERITY THROUGH CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES AND PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY
✍️ Adopted on the Fifth of August in the Year Two Thousand and Twenty-Two (2022) at the 29th ASEAN Regional Forum in Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia.
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☝️ RECOGNISING the impacts and uncertainties posed by the growing complexities of regional and global security challenges, including traditional and non-traditional security issues, and ACKNOWLEDGING that such challenges require a holistic and comprehensive approach to address these challenges;
☝️ RECOGNISING the continued relevance of the ARF and the commitment of its members in promoting and maintaining peace, security and stability in the region and its vital role in building confidence and trust amongst its participants;
☝️ REAFFIRMING the role of #ASEAN as the primary driving force of the ARF and emphasizing that the active, and equal participation and cooperation of all ARF participants is critical for the success of the ARF;
DO HEREBY ENDEAVOUR TO:
✅ Commit to maintain and promote peace, stability and prosperity through confidence building measures and preventive diplomacy in the spirit of upholding the fundamental principles of international law as reflected in the UN Charter and ASEAN basic principles, and shared values and norms;
✅ Support ASEAN Centrality as driving force in upholding an open, transparent and inclusive regional architecture based on the principles of international law;
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📄 ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM STATEMENT ON REITERATING COMMITMENT TO PRESERVE SOUTHEAST ASIA AS A NUCLEAR WEAPON-FREEZONE
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☝️ Noting that the Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ Treaty) entered into force on 27 March 1997 and 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty;
☝️ Noting that the current security context requires more efforts to strengthen the indispensable role of the IAEA in nuclear non-proliferation verification through safeguards implementation and efforts to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of safeguards regime including through universalization of the Additional Protocol;
☝️ Recalling the UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1540 (2004) and the Comprehensive Reviews on the status of its implementation, whose aim is to prevent non-state actors from getting access to nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, their means of delivery and related materials;
HEREBY DECIDES TO:
✅ Reaffirm the efforts of ARF Participants at the national, regional and international levels to promote nuclear disarmament, nuclear non-proliferation and the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, strengthen nuclear safety and security, and combat nuclear terrorism;
✅ Reiterate support to the efforts of preserving Southeast Asia as a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone and free of all other weapons of mass destruction consistent with the SEANWFZ Treaty and the ASEAN Charter;
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2022-08-06 16:02:15+00:00
💬 FM Sergey Lavrov: On August 6, 1945, the United States launched a nuclear attack against Hiroshima and three days later against Nagasaki.
To this day, the terrible death of innocent civilians strikes a chord with millions of people on our planet. It is hard to fully understand what the masterminds and perpetrators of such an inhumane act were guided by.
The Soviet offensive in the Far East, as part of the agreements between the Allies, not only liberated China and Korea, but also took away Japan’s motivation to continue military operations. In that situation, atomic bombings by the United States were in fact a show of force and an operational test of nuclear weapons on civilians.
🇺🇸 United States was the first and only country to use this type of weapons of mass destruction.
(excerpt from Sergey Lavrov’s message to the participants of the memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing, August 6, 2020)
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2022-08-06 12:04:45+00:00
⚡️🇨🇦 Russian Foreign Ministry Statement on imposing personal sanctions on certain Canadian nationals
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In response to the most recent expansion of personal sanctions by Canada on June 27 and July 7, 2022, which this time targeted the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in addition to officials, journalists and experts deemed undesirable by Ottawa, a ban on entry to the Russian Federation is imposed on 62 Canadian citizens.
In view of the particularly hostile actions by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s regime, intended to insult not only the multiethnic and multifaith people of Russia but also Orthodox Christian believers across the world, including Canada, the malicious activities targeting the Russian world and our traditional values by those banned from entry were taken into account as the stop list was being compiled.
The list of the names of Canadian citizens included in the permanent stop list
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2022-08-06 11:19:42+00:00
💬 Deputy Head of the Russian Delegation, at the 8th Plenary Meeting of the 10th NPT Review Conference Igor Vishnevetskii: Right during our meeting, alarming information is coming about the situation at the Zaporozhye NPP.
❗️ Just two hours ago, the Ukrainian armed forces shelled the Zaporozhye NPP with large-caliber artillery.
❌ According to the information we receive in real time, repair crews cannot reach the scene of the fire as there is still a possibility of artillery shelling.
The situation is extremely alarming, fraught with the risk of a man-made disaster at Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
‼️ If the accident happens, it will be akin to Chernobyl.
☝️ Thus, we appeal to international organizations – the UN, the IAEA – as well as to nations that have an influence on the Kiev regime to take action so that the shelling of nuclear power plants stops immediately.
Otherwise, the consequences will be hard to predict.
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2022-08-06 09:45:19+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇷 President of Russia Vladimir Putin and the Turkish President met in Sochi on 5 August 2022.
🤝 Ongoing regional and global challenges notwithstanding, the two Leaders reaffirmed their common will to further Türkiye-Russia relations based on mutual respect, recognition of reciprocal interests, and in accordance with their international undertakings.
Within the framework of this understanding, the Leaders, who conducted extensive consultations on the issues that are on the agenda of Türkiye-Russia bilateral affairs, agreed:
✅ to increase the bilateral trade volume on a balanced basis and to achieve designated targets;
✅ to meet one another’s expectations on the economy and energy;
✅ to take concrete steps to boost collaboration about issues that have been pending on the agenda of both countries for a long time, concerning sectors such as transportation, commerce, agriculture, industry, finance, tourism and construction.
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2022-08-06 08:02:59+00:00
🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the extradition of Alexander Vinnik from Greece to the US
❗️ We are indignant at the unfriendly actions of the Greek authorities, which have extradited our compatriot Alexander Vinnik to face the punitive US justice system.They did this under pressure from the United States as it hunts down Russian citizens under far-fetched pretexts in third countries.
The Russian citizen was arrested over five years ago in Greece, transferred to France and returned to Greece just for a quick extradition, or rather abduction. The enthusiastic participation of Athens in this most recent unlawful, arbitrary act by the US as regards the Russian citizen is further evidence of Greece’s confrontational posture toward our country.
☝️ Russia will not abandon a citizen in need. Russian diplomats will do all they can to safeguard his lawful rights and interests.
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2022-08-06 07:39:58+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇷 Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with President of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi.
🎙 Following international consultations, the Presidents of the two countries adopted a Joint Statement.
💬 Vladimir #Putin: We have large projects we are working on. Everybody knows about the construction of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant. This is energy, which is very important, but there are other areas as well.
In this regard, I would like to note that TurkStream, the construction of which we completed some time ago, is today one of the most important routes for supplying Europe with Russian gas.
TurkStream, unlike all other directions of our hydrocarbon supplies to Europe, is operating well, smoothly, and without failure. I do not mean only deliveries to consumers in Turkiye, but, let me repeat, also to consumers in Europe.
☝️ I believe that our European partners should be grateful to Turkiye for ensuring the continuous transit of gas to their markets.
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2022-08-05 21:05:14+00:00
❗️ On August 6, 1945, the A-bombing of #Hiroshima took place - the ultimate barbaric and inhumane act of cruelty.
A city full of civilians, women and children was annihilated in a flash by a devastating nuclear attack carried out by the US.
80'000+ victims perished instantaneously.
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: On this day, the terrible death of innocent civilians strikes a chord with millions of people on our planet. The United States was the first and only country to use this type of weapons of mass destruction.
We need to eliminate the risk of military confrontation between the nuclear powers and rule out the possibility of a nuclear war. We firmly believe that such a war cannot be won and must never be unleashed. We suggest that all nuclear powers officially confirm their commitment to this tenet.
#NeverAgain #LestWeForget
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2022-08-05 14:10:11+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇭 On August 5, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand Don Pramudwinai on the sidelines of the ASEAN ministerial events in Phnom Penh.
🤝 The two Ministers discussed the state and future of bilateral cooperation, including the political dialogue, trade, economic ties and humanitarian and cultural exchanges. They paid special attention to holding cultural events in both countries to mark the 125th anniversary of Russia-Thailand diplomatic relations in 2022.
The foreign ministers reaffirmed their commitment to stepping up cooperation within international and regional platforms, including within multilateral associations in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as their commitment to adding more substance to the Russia-ASEAN strategic partnership.
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2022-08-05 10:52:26+00:00
🇷🇺🇰🇭 On August 4-5, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had meetings with Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia Hun Sen and Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn during his visit to Phnom Penh for ASEAN ministerial events.
🤝 Sergey Lavrov and Hun Sen discussed the current state and development plans for bilateral cooperation in politics, trade, the economy, investment, science and technology, as well as culture and education.
☝️ Following the talks, the ministers adopted a joint statement and signed a plan of consultations between the Foreign Ministry of Russia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia for 2022-2024.
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2022-08-05 10:51:05+00:00
🇷🇺🇧🇳 On August 5, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Second Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brunei Darussalam Dato Erywan Yusof on the sidelines of ASEAN events in Phnom Penh.
🤝 The sides discussed in a traditionally friendly and constructive spirit the current aspects of bilateral cooperation and Russia-Brunei interaction in international and regional affairs. They also reaffirmed mutual commitment to strengthening Russia-ASEAN strategic partnership.
#RussiaBrunei
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2022-08-05 08:17:06+00:00
🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 On August 5, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi on the sidelines of ASEAN, ARF, and EAS events in Phnom Penh.
☝️ The two ministers expressed their satisfaction with the momentum Russia and China have generated in promoting their relations, which have been immune to external developments. They noted the consistency with which the two countries have been stepping up their practical cooperation and foreign policy coordination in keeping with the agreements reached by their respective heads of state.
🤝 During the conversation, the two ministers had a detailed exchange of views on bilateral interactions within ASEAN, ARF, and EAS formats, emphasising the need to support the security architecture with ASEAN at its core in light of proactive efforts by the United States and its satellites to build exclusive bloc-based structures in the Asia-Pacific Region.
#RussiaChina
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2022-08-05 08:14:22+00:00
⚡️ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi, Phnom Penh, August 5, 2022
💬 This is our third meeting in the past 30 days: we met in Bali on July 7 and in Tashkent on July 28, and on August 5 we are meeting here, in Phnom Penh. This schedule is not part of an obligatory procedure. Every time we meet, we see that Russia and China have more issues to discuss and adopt practical decisions on.
🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 I am sure that our strategic partnership is a motivating force behind the movement for the priority of international law over the “rules” invented by the United States and its satellites. The matter concerns above all international law, beginning with the UN Charter and its fundamental principle of the sovereign equality of states. The United States is violating this principle everywhere every day. We must respond to that.
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2022-08-05 08:12:45+00:00
📜 Foreign Ministry statement on the results of the #RussiaASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
✅ The Russia - ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting co-chaired by the Russian Federation and the Kingdom of Cambodia showed that the Russia - ASEAN strategic partnership is unaffected by the geopolitical environment.
✅ The ASEAN countries welcomed Russia’s firm support for the Association’s central role in the regional architecture and unity of its states, and the active role of our country in ASEAN-centric mechanisms, including the East Asian Summit, the ASEAN Regional Forum on security and the meeting of the ASEAN Defence Ministers and Dialogue Partners.
✅ The participants reaffirmed their plans to hold a second round of Russia-ASEAN consultations of senior security officials and the second dialogue on cybersecurity in the latter half of 2022.
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2022-08-05 07:00:32+00:00
🇷🇺🇰🇭 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov takes part in the signing ceremony of the Plan of Russian-Cambodian inter-ministerial consultations for 2022-2024
#RussiaCambodia
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2022-08-05 06:50:03+00:00
📜 Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Russian Federation
🇷🇺🇰🇭 The Foreign Ministers of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Russian Federation held fruitful negotiations in Phnom Penh on 5 August 2022.
☝️ Cambodia and Russia will maintain and intensify political dialogue, regular contacts between the governments, parliaments, local authorities and political parties. They will enhance mutually beneficial cooperation in trade and investment, science and technology, education and culture, defence and security, creating favourable conditions for activities of organisations and companies in all the areas.
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2022-08-05 05:29:39+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks and answers to media questions following visit to Cambodia 🇷🇺🇰🇭
🔗 https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/62ebfc115c3d7b666d4e3806/22259/English
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
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2022-08-05 04:41:02+00:00
MFA Spokeswoman M.Zakharova:
The Russian delegation is taking part in the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. Mr.Blinken is sitting within 2 meters from Mr.Lavrov. Do you think he will reach out to buttonhole Sergey Viktorovitch?
Don’t show this picture to the White House. Firstly, they will get sad when they see Mr.Lavrov in the midst of “isolation”. Secondly, they will have to comment somehow on the story of the buttonholes – reply as to why Secretary of State didn’t grab the Russian Foreign Minister by his accessories.
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2022-08-05 04:34:35+00:00
🤝 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov participates in the 12th meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the #EastAsiaSummit participating countries
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2022-08-04 21:33:57+00:00
⚡️🇹🇱 On August 1, East Timor ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (#CTBT), having become the 174th country to carry out the required procedures to comply with this important international agreement.
👏 We welcome this step that is a practical contribution to making this treaty universal and ensuring its entry into force as soon as possible.
🇷🇺 Russia consistently advocates converting this document into a full-fledged mechanism of international law. We urge all countries that have not yet done so to sign and ratify the treaty without further delay.
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2022-08-04 21:13:34+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the #RussiaASEAN Post Ministerial Conference
💬 I am pleased to state that despite the current international turbulence, we are expanding the range of our dialogue, enhancing the level of our industry-specific platforms, and deepening trade, economic and humanitarian ties.
I would like to mention separately the implementation of the joint initiatives in science and technology during the current Russia-ASEAN Year of Scientific and Technical Cooperation.
We believe that our entire system of cooperation, including our multilateral and bilateral ties, objectively facilitates the consolidation of the regional architecture for security and sustainable development.
🇷🇺 Russia consistently supports many integration platforms and projects and the pooling of their efforts to promote a unifying, future-oriented agenda.
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2022-08-04 19:02:06+00:00
🗓 #OTD in 1924, Mexico became the first nation in the Western Hemisphere to recognise the young Soviet Union.
🤝 An embodiment of sovereignty and political independence, this diplomatic action marked an important milestone in the history of our bilateral relations.
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2022-08-04 15:43:04+00:00
🎙 Foreign Ministry statement on the aggravation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
💬 The escalation of tensions in the Lachin corridor and other sections of the contact line is cause for grave concern. Unfortunately, there are human losses. We would like to convey our sincere condolences to the loved ones of those who lost their lives and to wish speedy recovery to the wounded.
Russian peacekeepers are doing all they can to stabilise the situation on the ground. Intensive work with both sides is conducted via all channels and at all levels, including top leadership. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov maintains close contact with his Azerbaijani and Armenian colleagues.
We urge the sides to display restraint and observe the ceasefire. We firmly believe that all differences must be settled exclusively by political and diplomatic means, with the account of the sides’ positions and in strict conformity with the Statement by the Leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia of November 9, 2020.
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2022-08-04 14:37:10+00:00
⚡️ The Russian Ministry of Defence continues to analyse the military and biological activities of the US and its allies in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world in the light of new information obtained in the liberated territories.
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Key points
☣️ Work continues on the study of biological samples from Ukrainian soldiers who have voluntarily laid down their arms.
Particular attention should be paid to the discovery of narcotic drugs, including opioids such as methadone, codepsin, codeterp, as well as ephedrine-type substances: t-phedrine and tri-phedrine, at positions abandoned by Ukrainian military personnel.
A side effect of such addictive drugs is primarily excessive aggression, which explains the extreme cruelty towards civilians displayed by some Ukrainian servicemen, as well as the shelling of towns in Donbass.
☣️ A few weeks ago, during the special military operation, Rubezhnoye in Lugansk People's Republic was liberated. Documents have been found in the laboratory of the Pharmbiotest medical centre, confirming that research had been carried out in Ukraine for several years on behalf of the so-called Big Pharma.
☣️ We are considering the possibility that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was involved in the emergence of the new coronavirus. Since 2009, the agency has funded the Predict programme, which has investigated new species of coronaviruses by capturing bats that carry the viruses. One of the contractors for the project was Metabiota, a company known for its military-biological activities in Ukraine.
❗️ We see a clear trend: infectious disease agents that reach the Pentagon's zone of interest are subsequently pandemic, with US pharmaceutical companies and their patrons, the leaders of the US Democratic Party, as the beneficiaries.
☣️ US impunity has contributed to the continued use of bioweapons technology by Washington in Latin America, including the assassination of undesirable politicians.
On July 18, 2022, the President of the Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, publicly declared the involvement of the United States in the assassination of former head of state Hugo Chávez.
According to information available to Venezuela, U.S. security services have been working since 2002 on possible ways to eliminate the Venezuelan leader, who has pursued an active anti-American policy. Numerous assassination attempts involving members of the US embassy in Caracas were uncovered and thwarted.
A causal link between the Venezuelan leader's death and the development of biological weapons is confirmed by forensic evidence and the testimony of Cuban doctors who treated Chavez about the atypical course of the disease and its resistance to the use of medicines.
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2022-08-04 14:01:28+00:00
📸 #FamilyPhoto
#RussiaASEAN Ministerial in Phnom Penh.
🤝 Foreign Ministers of 11 nations, including Sergey Lavrov are participating.
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2022-08-04 13:02:28+00:00
🇷🇺🇰🇭 FM Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen
💬 We appreciate our bilateral relations with the Kingdom of Cambodia, which have a long and positive history. Our peoples have warm, sincere and friendly feelings towards each other. We are expanding cooperation in the economy, in the cultural, military, military-technical, security and many other spheres.
We are interested in strengthening these relations.
#RussiaCambodia
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2022-08-04 12:25:32+00:00
🇷🇺🇱🇻 Commentary of the Russian Embassy in Latvia:
On August 2, 2022, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Latvian Saeima has adopted a declaration recognizing Russia as “a state sponsor of terrorism”.
This anti-Russian manifest, replete with barefaced lie and hackneyed clichés, has nothing to do with reality and serves as a yet another rude and provocative escapade of the Latvian lawmakers aspiring to score extra political points before the parliamentary elections in October.
The local proponents of “hate speech”, driven by irrepressible desire to spite Russia and cater to their overseas supervisors, seem to resort to any opportunity, without shying away from outright bias and lies.
However, there is nothing to be surprised at, the representatives of the current ruling majority in the Latvian parliament have long ago embarked on the path of separating our peoples and severing ties with their eastern neighbor, in which, we must admit, they have succeeded a lot.
We would like to believe that there are still sensible and responsible people among the Latvian parliamentarians who beware of the deplorable consequences that may stem from the support of this initiative as well as the continuation of this unscrupulous campaign designed to whip up hostility against Russia.
We urge you to listen to the voice of reason and prevent the complete degradation of our relations.
#Saeima #Riga #Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy
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2022-08-04 11:49:52+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov participates in ASEAN-Russia Post Ministerial Conference
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202208041015-LIVE11557
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
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2022-08-04 10:48:15+00:00
🇷🇺🇱🇦 On August 4, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Saleumxay Kommasith on the sidelines of the #ASEAN ministerial events in Phnom Penh.
The officials discussed the status and prospects of the Russia-Laos strategic partnership in the Asia-Pacific Region, stressing the importance of enhancing cooperation in trade, the economy and investment, as well as scientific, technical and humanitarian ties.
The exchange of opinions on international issues confirmed the proximity of the two countries' approaches to key issues on the regional and global agenda.
💬 FM Sergey Lavrov: As you said, we have been and will be together in both good and bad times. The world situation requires regular consultations and a better understanding of each other. I think our relations are a model in this respect.
#RussiaLaos
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2022-08-04 08:50:10+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following talks with Foreign Minister of Myanmar Wunna Maung Lwin
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💬 We held good talks with our colleagues from Myanmar. This year, we have intensively developed contacts in all areas. Our mechanisms for cooperation include the trade, economic, military, military-technical, humanitarian and education fields.
🇷🇺🇲🇲 Today, we discussed our positive progress. In 2021, our trade went up by 20 percent to $430 million, and it has increased another 50 percent in the first five months of this year (over 2021).
We have good potential in the energy industry, including nuclear energy. Rosatom State Corporation is working with its partners on using nuclear technology for non-energy purposes. This applies to ICT and traditional hydrocarbons. Bashneft maintains strong cooperation with its Myanmar partners.
#RussiaMyanmar
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2022-08-04 07:31:12+00:00
🇷🇺🇲🇲 Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
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🤝 On August 3, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey #Lavrov visited the Republic of the Union of #Myanmar where he was received by the Chairman of the State Administrative Council, Prime Minister of the Provisional Government, Min Aung Hlaing. He also held talks with Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin.
Sergey Lavrov and Min Aung Hlaing had an in-depth discussion of the geopolitical situation that is emerging against the background of the unprecedented sanctions campaign unleashed by the collective West both against Russia and against Myanmar.
✅ The meetings in Nay Pyi Taw were held in a constructive and friendly atmosphere, traditional for relations between the two countries, which in 2023 will mark 75 years since being established.
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2022-08-04 06:28:00+00:00
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Chairman of the State Administrative Council and Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing, Nay Pyi Taw, August 3, 2022
🤝 We always talk as good friends and strategic partners. Our colleagues fully understand this.
🇷🇺🇲🇲 Our ties are becoming more intensive. We expect to see a military delegation from Myanmar at the International Security Conference, the International Army Games and the Army-2022 International Forum in August.
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2022-08-04 06:09:27+00:00
🎙 Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya on the third session of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025
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💬 We insisted on including Russia’s proposal to create a list of contact points for all UN member states in the OEWG report in order to establish feedback between the action agencies, to exchange information about computer incidents, and to overcome differences.
❗️One of the alarming stories is the Western countries’ plan to impose on everyone the reporting mechanisms for compliance with the norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace, which have not been agreed upon by the international community. The idea appears to be good, but clearly premature, because these rules are voluntary and non-binding.
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2022-08-04 05:07:27+00:00
🇷🇺🇰🇭 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen held a meeting in Phnom Penh.
#RussiaCambodia
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2022-08-03 19:03:56+00:00
🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, August 2, 2022.
Key points:
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov's schedule
🔹 Update on Donbass and Ukraine
🔹 Vadim Skibitsky's statements to UK’s The Telegraph
🔹 Preparations for IAEA international mission to Zaporozhye NPP
🔹 The 55th Anniversary of ASEAN
And more…
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2022-08-03 18:33:56+00:00
⭐️ #OTD in 1943, the #RailWar, the most important operation carried out by Soviet partisans in the occupied territory of the western regions of the RSFSR, Byelorussia and Ukraine, began. In just a few weeks, they managed to destroy about 215,000 rails, or over 1,500 km of enemy railway lines.
The operation took place on August 3 - September 15, at the same time as the Soviet counteroffensive near Kursk. Russian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian and Latvian partisans took part in it: 167 partisan brigades and separate units, involving about 100,000 people in total.
☝️ The Rail War provided invaluable aid to the Red Army in winning the Battle of Kursk and the deploying of a general offensive. The interaction between the Nazi South and Centre army groups was disrupted, the volume of the Nazis’ transportation was reduced by 40 percent by autumn. In addition, the successful actions of the partisans forced Hitler to throw all the military units that were not involved on the front into guarding the railways.
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2022-08-03 18:01:07+00:00
❗️FM Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s Comment on anti-Russia statements by the President of #NorthMacedonia 🇲🇰
💬 Maria #Zakharova: In an interview with the sociopolitical magazine Focus that was published recently, President of the Republic of North Macedonia (RNM) Stevo Pendarovsky burst into an avalanche of harsh accusations against Russia, including interference in his country’s domestic affairs. As is common, he did not provide any evidence and limited himself to general phrases based on “available related information.”
This demarche by the North Macedonian leader is obviously packaged so as to make a wide audience think his statements are based on complex analytical work performed by the author and his team, the unflattering results of which he is forced to present to the public.
👉 In fact, we are dealing with the RNM leader’s desire to not fall out of the ranks of Western propagandists who continue a shameless information attack against our country. Clearly, the escapades against Russia are an attempt to earn favour in the eyes of Brussels and Washington and, while doing so, to divert their own people from the difficulties at hand, and to conceal the conciliatory policy of unilateral concessions that Skopje is practicing in its relations with its EU neighbours.
Russians treat Macedonians with sincere respect, as brothers.
The historical ties between our peoples are resistant to trials like the anti-Russia hysteria of the North Macedonian authorities, which, unfortunately, is gaining momentum with no reason whatsoever.
🔗 https://is.gd/EqMBTZ
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2022-08-03 17:30:35+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇷 FMs Sergey #Lavrov & Mevlut Cavusoglu met on the sidelines of the #ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.
👉 The Ministers had an in-depth discussion of the international and regional agenda, above all the developments in Ukraine. They reviewed progress in implementing the package agreements on transporting Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea ports and promoting Russian exports of food and fertiliser signed on July 22 in Istanbul. The discussion also covered the Syrian settlement process.
The ministers considered at length topical issues and prospects for Russian-Turkish cooperation, primarily in the trade and economic sphere, in the context of preparations for the upcoming highest-level contacts.
🔗 https://is.gd/YsCipf
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2022-08-03 17:10:27+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Union of #Myanmar Wunna Maung Lwin
✅ We appreciate the traditionally friendly and trust-based nature of our partnership, which is immune to the influence of time-serving foreign policy considerations.
✅ Despite the pandemic, our trade grew by 20 percent in 2021 and by 50 percent in the first six months of 2022, year on year.
✅ We have developed close ties in education and the training of personnel. Over 7,000 Myanmar citizens have been given an opportunity to receive a higher education in Russia.
✅ We have close or similar positions on the majority of current global and regional issues and are closely coordinating our efforts at the UN and other multilateral platforms.
#RussiaMyanmar
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2022-08-03 16:30:47+00:00
🎙 Statement by Mr. Igor Vishnevetskii, Deputy Head of the Russian Delegation at the 10th #NPT Review Conference
💬 The confidence of the NPT states parties in IAEA safeguards is a key factor in the sustainability of the entire nuclear non-proliferation system.
We believe that the basic principles of the IAEA safeguards system should remain:
✅ objectivity,
✅ technical objectivity,
✅ consistency with the safeguards agreements concluded between states and the IAEA.
☝️ The presumption of innocence and respect for sovereignty remain legitimate rights of all NPT states parties, and the application of safeguards should take this fully into account.
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2022-08-03 15:00:51+00:00
✍️ Article by Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department Alexey Drobinin for the International Affairs magazine
👉 https://telegra.ph/The-lessons-of-history-and-vision-for-the-future-Thoughts-on-Russias-foreign-policy-08-03
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Russia can be either strong or perish – the latest developments have proven in all clarity the accuracy of this axiomatic statement. Sanctions, military, media and political pressures and attempts to cut us from the global markets and deprive us of technology are effective only as long as we stay within a matrix shaped by those who are hostile to us. Russia’s policy to reinforce its national sovereignty in recent years has proven to be incompatible with its involvement in global processes on someone else’s terms or as a member of Western-centric structures such as the Group of Eight, which Russia left for good back in 2014. Injecting more sovereignty across the board, including in the world of ideas, politics, culture, research, economics, finance and other spheres while remaining open to broad mutually enriching equitable international cooperation can well place Russia on the path to steady development and secure the place it deserves in the multipolar world order. <...>
It is high time for Russia to go back to its roots and to realise that it forms a historical core of a civilisation with a unique identity and is, in fact, the largest Eurasian and Euro-Pacific power and one of the world’s most powerful geopolitical centres.
The special military operation creates ample opportunities for reclaiming this identity. Russians, Chechens, Avars, Tatars, Yakuts, Tuvans and members of other indigenous peoples are all fighting within a multi-ethnic and multi-faith Russian army against the troops of Kiev’s puppet regime, which has put its stakes on a retrograde policy of radical nationalism and an unconditional and humiliating subordination to its foreign masters. Cossacks and Chechens had been adversaries for a long time, but now they worked together to liberate Lisichansk and call each other comrades in arms. A Chechen commander received a Cossack military award. This is something that deserves some thought. It emerges that efforts to promote an interethnic unity and traditional values generate creative energies, while relying on a falsified vision of history and illusions about the future is unnatural, paving the way to domestic instability and aggression against dissenters.
Of course, going back to one’s roots would be impossible without mobilising the state and society on the ideological front. This is another essential prerequisite for an effective foreign policy as we move away from our dependency on the West in all its forms and manifestations. Prominent Russian researchers have been making this point as they presaged many of the issues that emerged at the current historical stage. Ivan Solonevich wrote back in 1951 that the unique nature of the Russian civilisation can be defined as a “singular national state and cultural whole that is clearly distinct from both Europe and Asia.” In 1993, Vadim Tsymbursky referred to Russia as a “special ethnic and civilisational platform.” Alexander Zinoviev wrote in 2003 that Europe was the Western tip of the Eurasian continent saying: “The prosperous West that Russia is dreaming of is but a small island in the ocean of filth and suffering.”
History has chosen Russia as a force poised to accelerate the transition to a new world order through its persistence and steady resolve to achieve truth and justice for all. Not only Russia’s foreign policy positions but the stability of the entire system of international relations hinge on our ability to play a unifying role and create a cross-civilisational network of priority partners within the next decade.
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2022-08-03 12:39:29+00:00
🇷🇺🇰🇭 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov arrives in #Cambodia on a working visit
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2022-08-03 10:53:57+00:00
The Moscow-based Victory Museum presents an online multimedia exhibition "Auschwitz. The Truth."
This online project was created to preserve the permanent exhibition "Tragedy. Courage. Liberation", that, until recently, was on display at the "Auschwitz-Birkenau" Museum in Poland.
Its first sections are devoted to the tragedy of Soviet prisoners of war, prisoners of camps. The exhibition follows the chronological order, telling how the first PoWs entered the camp, how they were used by the Nazis as lab rats to test the deadly Cyclone B gas. There is a section on underground resistance. A large portion of the exhibition tells about the Red Army's liberation of this horrifying concentration camp - materials, photos, witness testimonies, memoirs and personal items.
👉 Visit the virtual exhibition & learn more about Auschwitz
An extensive video collection is available for free in 3 languages - Russian, Polish and English - includes a film on the liberation of Auschwitz.
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2022-08-03 08:40:26+00:00
🇷🇺🇲🇲 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov meets with the Chairman of the State Administration Council, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
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2022-08-03 08:10:19+00:00
💬 Opinion by Maria #Zakharova
China’s Foreign Ministry has summoned US Ambassador Nicholas Burns overnight.
He is the very same ambassador who took the floor just a month ago at the World Peace Forum in Beijing in the presence of our Ambassador Andrey Denisov to accuse Russia of violating all possible international norms and failing to respect the sovereignty of other countries.
This is the very same ambassador who adopted an ultimatum-like tone, as he demanded that China stop supporting ‘the war in Ukraine’ or relaying ‘Russian propaganda.’
He is also the ambassador who is now keeping an embarrassed silence, unable as he is to find a justification for the brash and insolent stunt mounted by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, which could well undermine regional stability and security.
After all, he understands that by staging this provocation the United States once again demonstrated its disdain for the rights of other nations. How can the Americans lecture others about the need to respect international law if Washington itself violates the obligations it has towards Beijing?
It is telling that the US Embassy in the People’s Republic of China switched from its proactive communications policy to silent mode and has not issued a single release over the past two days.
How so?
The American diplomats have literally swallowed their tongues and huddled up in a corner. It is obvious that they are afraid of the righteous wrath of Chinese society. And they should be. The hard-working people of China do not deserve such treatment.
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2022-08-03 06:48:28+00:00
🇷🇺🇲🇲 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov participated in the signing ceremony of the Plan of Russian-Myanmar interministerial consultations for 2022-2024
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2022-08-03 05:34:08+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following talks with Foreign Minister of Myanmar Wunna Maung Lwin 🇷🇺🇲🇲
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202208030500-LIVE11546
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
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2022-08-03 05:09:06+00:00
🇷🇺🇲🇲 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds talks with Foreign Minister of Myanmar Wunna Maung Lwin
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2022-08-03 04:53:35+00:00
🇷🇺🇲🇲 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov meets with Foreign Minister of Myanmar Wunna Maung Lwin in #Naypyidaw
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2022-08-02 23:41:04+00:00
🇷🇺🇲🇲 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov arrives in #Naypyidaw (Myanmar) on a working visit
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2022-08-02 18:25:22+00:00
⚡ Russian Foreign Ministry statement on US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan
Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, arrived in Taiwan on August 2.
❗ We consider her visit a clear provocation in keeping with the US’s aggressive policy of comprehensive containment of the PRC.
We believe relations between both sides of the Taiwan Strait are exclusively China’s domestic affair. The Chinese side is entitled to take any measures necessary to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity in terms of the Taiwan issue.
🇷🇺 🤝 🇨🇳 Russia's principled position remains unchanged: we operate on the premise that there is only one China, and the PRC government is the only legitimate government representing all of China, and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China.
In the Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China on international relations entering a new era and on sustainable global development, which was adopted after the talks between the leaders of our countries on February 4, the Russian side reaffirmed its adherence to the “one China” principle and opposed the independence of the island in any form.
We call on Washington to refrain from actions, that undermine regional stability and international security, and to recognise the new geopolitical reality, which has no place for US hegemony.
#WeStandWithChina
#ThereIsOnlyOneChina
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2022-08-02 13:20:58+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s video address to participants in the 2nd BRICS International Youth Camp
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🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 BRICS is based on our common commitment to the values of equal dialogue and cooperation, and the mutual affinity of our unique cultures and civilisations, which represent different parts of the planet. Our association provides an example of a truly multilateral and multipolar diplomacy concordant with the realities of the 21st century.
☝️ The development of cultural, educational and sports ties is aimed at strengthening the atmosphere of friendship and trust among the peoples of our five countries. We traditionally pay much attention to ties between our young people. Our interaction in this sphere is vivid proof of the vitality and great appeal of the BRICS concept.
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2022-08-02 09:32:24+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202208020800-LIVE11530-Russian-MFA-spokesperson-Zakharova-holds-weekly-briefing
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
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2022-08-02 06:46:56+00:00
🎙 Commentary of the Russian delegation with regard to the statement by the US Secretary of State, Mr.A.Blinken, at the 10th NPT Review Conference
💬 In his statement at the 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), US Secretary of State A.Blinken accused Russian forces of using the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant as a military base.
We strongly reject such allegations. We repeatedly stated that actions of our Armed Forces in no way undermine Ukraine’s nuclear security or impede routine operation of the NPP.
Zaporozhye NPP which is located in the zone of the Russian special military operation was taken under guard with the sole purpose – prevent Ukrainian nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries from making use of the current situation in Ukraine in order to carry out a nuclear provocation.
There are no armed formations at the Zaporozhye NPP, except for a limited number of military servicemen, that is required to ensure safety and security at the power plant.
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2022-08-01 21:29:59+00:00
✉️ President Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to the participants and guests of the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
💬 As a party to the NPT and one of its depositaries, Russia consistently follows the letter and spirit of the Treaty.
Our obligations under the bilateral agreements with the United States on the reduction and limitation of the relevant weapons have been fully realised.
❗️ We believe that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, and we stand for equal and indivisible security for all members of the world community.
We believe that all NPT-compliant countries should have the right to the peaceful use of the atom without any additional preconditions. We are ready to share our experience in nuclear energy with our partners.
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2022-08-01 20:45:03+00:00
❗️ In response to the British government’s expanding list of personal sanctions on the leading representatives of Russia’s social and political circles, business and the media, Russia has included the British politicians, journalists, and businesspeople, who promote London’s hostile policy aimed at demonising Russia and isolating it internationally, on the Russian “stop list.”
It has been noted more than once that the pernicious actions of the UK in planting Russophobic notions, spreading false information on Russia and supporting the Kiev neo-Nazi regime would result in an appropriate and decisive response from the Russian side. The choice of confrontation is the conscious decision of the British political establishment, which bears all responsibility for these consequences.
☝️ Considering London’s destructive desire to spin the sanctions wheel under far-fetched and absurd pretexts, Russia’s “stop list” will continue to expand.
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2022-08-01 19:45:33+00:00
🕯 Today, Russia observes the Day of Remembrance for the Russian soldiers who died in World War I. On that day in 1914, Kaiser Germany declared war on the Russian Empire and invaded its territory. This is how our country entered into the biggest conflict in history, which reshaped the image of Europe and the rest of the world.
The Russian front sidetracked substantial enemy forces which allowed the allies to gain the strategic initiative. It is hard to overestimate the sacrificial feats of the Russian Army, and the courage and heroism of its soldiers and officers.
Through all of WWI, the Russian Empire mobilised 12 million people. Over 3 million of our compatriots died in action in 1914-1918. Many Russian cities have memorials to these fallen heroes including Moscow, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Lipetsk, Pskov and Rostov-on-Don and others.
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2022-08-01 12:40:08+00:00
August 1 is the 🇨🇭Swiss National Day!
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis on this happy occasion.
Russian Mission to the UN in Geneva joins the wishes of prosperity and well-being to the citizens of the Swiss Confederation!
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2022-08-01 11:40:02+00:00
💬#Lukashevich: On August 1, 1975, the Helsinki Final Act of the CSCE was signed, which opened up wide opportunities for pan-European dialogue and cooperation on the entire spectrum of security issues
➖The OSCE, which was created later, had every opportunity to become the main pillar of European security. However, the Western alliance did not want to build inclusive security, and began to impose the positions of NATO and EU, in the same time directly violating the principles of Helsinki
➖Now Western countries are increasingly moving away from the Helsinki Decalogue approved in 1975 and are imposing confrontation in international affairs. They launched an unprecedented pressure campaign against Russia
➖Despite this, the OSCE retains great potential for establishing multilateral cooperation. We strongly urge Western countries not to undermine it, but to use it for the benefit of international peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasia
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2022-08-01 10:26:13+00:00
The Khaled Alkhateb International Memorial Awards for conflict zone journalism is a prestigious award, established in memoriam of Khaled Alkhateb — RT stringer killed in 2017 by ISIS terrorists in Syria.
The participants will compete in two categories: Best journalism from a conflict zone & Best humanitarian journalism.
▪️ Written
maximum 5 articles on one subject, totaling 10,000 words or less, published in print or online media, including independent platforms.
▪️ Video
maximum 5 pieces on one subject, totaling 60 minutes or less, published online or broadcast on air, including independent platforms.
👉 Submissions for 2022 are now open
The winners will be announced in late November 2022.
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2022-08-01 09:30:52+00:00
❗️ Foreign Ministry statement concerning personal sanctions against heads of municipal agencies, members of the command of the armed forces and journalists of New Zealand 🇳🇿
💬 In response to the sanctions adopted by the New Zealand government against an increasing number of Russian citizens, both officials and their families, businesspeople and representatives of mass media, 32 New Zealand citizens have been added to the national stop list, including heads of municipal agencies, security, defence and law enforcement agencies, as well as journalists who are promoting a Russophobic agenda in that country. The said individuals will be prohibited from entering the Russian Federation with no time limit.
👉 The list of persons added to the stop list
Since Wellington appears unwilling to abandon its anti-Russia policy and continues to introduce new restrictions, we will subsequently update this blacklist.