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Официальный Телеграм-канал Посольства России в Швеции / The official Telegram-channel of the Russian Embassy in Sweden
⚡️Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of Russia Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on US military-biological activity (December 11, 2023)
📄Western countries did sabotage the vote on the Security Council Resolution on the international investigation of the US biological labs.
Russian specialists gained access to several Ukrainian biological facilities: laboratories in Rubezhnoye, Severodonetsk, Kherson and their official documentation. It confirmed the dangerous nature of Pentagon's experiments to assess the Ukrainian population's susceptibility to zoonotic infections, the facts of testing pharmaceuticals on the local population and exporting biological samples to the US for their possible use in offensive biological programmes.
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❗️Office of the President of Ukraine is coordinating the actions of national special services in organising an anti-Russian provocative action with poisonous substances.
Taking into account the experience of the Syrian conflict, it is assumed that accusing the Russian Armed Forced of using chemical weapons will allow launching a new anti-Russian campaign in the UN institutions and the world media outlets.
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According to the reporting documents available to us for the Project 'Assessing Risk of Emerging Infections from Insectivorous Bats in Ukraine and Georgia', coronavirus studies were conducted in 2016–2020.
The spread of the new coronavirus infection has led to a significant increase in the profits of biotech companies that produce vaccines and drugs against coronaviruses, and increased the dependence of developing countries on the US, created the conditions for the continued implementation of dual-use programmes.
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☝️The US efforts to establish global biological control are accompanied by the replacement of the provisions of the BWC and other norms of international law with its own rules, which were developed in the US interest, supported by the collective West, and imposed on third countries for implementation
🇷🇺🇮🇱📞 President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu.
The discussion focused on the critical situation in the Palestine-Israel conflict zone, in particular, the disastrous humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
☝️ Vladimir Putin reaffirmed principled position of rejecting and condemning terrorism in all its manifestations.
❗️ At the same time, it is of the utmost importance to avoid such grave consequences for the civilian population while countering terrorist threats.
Russia is ready to provide all possible assistance to alleviate the suffering of civilians and de-escalate the conflict.
In addition, the parties expressed mutual interest in further cooperation on the evacuation of Russian citizens and their families, as well as the release of Israelis held in Gaza.
Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to continue contacts.
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💬”Vi kan hävda att ett amerikanskt utnyttjande av svenska baser för hot eller militära operationer mot en annan stat strider mot Sveriges suveränitet och plikter enligt FN-stadgan”
https://www.alliansfriheten.se/sverige-som-bas-for-obehindrad-amerikansk-militara-verksamhet/
CRIMINAL OFFENCES OF THE KIEV REGIME
20 – 26 November 2023
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman M.#Zakharova:
Ukraine has lost the remnants of state autonomy and independence.
❌ The Kiev regime has long ago put an end to Ukraine's future as a sovereign state and set a course for its enslavement by transatlantic corporations and transformation into a colony of the West.
🇷🇺 President of Russia Vladimir Putin received the letters of credence from 21 newly appointed foreign ambassadors. By tradition, the ceremony took place in the Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.
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💬 President Putin: The world entered a time of turbulence. It is undergoing drastic transformation. The underlying change is that the former unipolar world system is being replaced by a new, more just multipolar world order.
We pursue an independent, consistent, and principled foreign policy, and we are open to constructive partnerships with all countries without exception, and do not accept bloc confrontation or any steps that run counter to the UN Charter.
We expect that all our international partners will adhere to the principles of equality and mutual respect for each other’s interests.
👉 Next year, Russia will have a number of important foreign policy functions. We will be the first to chair the expanded BRICS association. And we will do our best to help the new members smoothly integrate into the activities of this organisation.
👉 Next year, Russia will also chair the Commonwealth of Independent States – our closest natural partners. And we aim to contribute to building up diverse interaction between them.
👉 We will also further develop integration processes in the Eurasian Economic Union and deepen cooperation within the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.
👉 We will pay special attention to working with our partners in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which became the institutional pillar of Greater Eurasia after India, Pakistan and Iran joined the organisation.
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🕯 On December 3, Russia commemorates the Day of the Unknown Soldier, a day established to immortalise the heroic deeds of all soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the Motherland and remain unnamed. Today, ceremonies are being held in remembrance of those fallen heroes both in Russia and abroad.
The date was not chosen by chance: on December 3, 1966, a solemn burial ceremony for the remains of an unknown soldier took place in the Alexander Garden near the Kremlin Wall. These remains were discovered during construction work on the 41st km of the Leningrad Motorway, where intense battles for Moscow occurred in December 1941.
The soldier was found in a well-preserved uniform, but he had no identification documents. To this day, his name, like those of tens of thousands of other heroes who sacrificed their lives to defend Moscow, remains unknown.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier stands as a monument of eternal glory for all those who perished on the battlefield while defending their homeland. In May 1967, the Eternal Flame, brought from the Field of Mars in Leningrad, was ignited near the memorial. In December 1997, a permanent honour guard post was established at the monument.
💬 The inscription on the monument reads: “Your name is unknown, your feat is immortal.”
Approximately two million Russian and Soviet citizens went missing during past and present wars and conflicts. The Russian Defence Ministry conducts regular search activities and works persistently to immortalise the memory of these fallen heroes. Abroad, significant efforts in this regard are undertaken by Russian diplomats.
❗️ Regrettably, memorials dedicated to Soviet liberator soldiers are presently being destroyed in some Eastern European countries as part of a campaign to falsify history. The Russian Foreign Ministry brings these outrageous facts to public attention and actively works to preserve and restore these memorials. The memory of those who sacrificed their lives for our future remains immortal.
Report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Regarding the Situation with the Glorification of Nazism and the Spread of Neo-Nazism and Other Practices That Contributeto Fuelling Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination,Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
🇸🇪 During World War II, Sweden formally maintained a neutral status and at the same time made significant concessions to Nazi Germany by providing resource support and territory for the transit of Hitler's troops to the Eastern Front.
Double standards are visible in Sweden's attitude to today's manifestations of neo-Nazism and racism.
Right-wing radical and neo-Nazi movements are still active in Sweden.
At the same time, Swedish municipal authorities are diligently monitoring the condition of Soviet military burials located on their territory.
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🗓 On November 30 and December 1, the OSCE Ministerial Council will meet in Skopje, North Macedonia, for its 30th regular meeting, which Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plans to attend.
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The main theme at the upcoming meeting will be the crisis situation within the OSCE. We hope to be able to discuss all the outstanding issues
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👉 The current profound crisis within the OSCE is the result of destructive actions by certain Western countries, which are using the organisation in their own interests and violating its fundamental principles. The OSCE agenda has been focused on Ukraine since 2022.
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Russian delegates at OSCE governing body meetings consistently draw attention to the most pressing issues within the organisation's zone of responsibility:
• combating terrorism and drug trafficking,
• safeguarding traditional values,
• countering neo-Nazism, preventing the distortion of history, and addressing Christianophobia and Islamophobia.
The Russian delegation to the OSCE regularly updates the delegations of other member states on progress towards the objectives of the special military operation and provides objective information regarding war crimes committed by the Kiev regime, attacks on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the extensive campaign in Ukraine to "cancel" the Russian language and culture, and the persecution of Russian media.
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🎙 President Vladimir Putin addressed, via videoconference, the plenary session of the World Russian People’s Council. The key topic of the forum, dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of the organisation’s establishment, is the Present and Future of the Russian World.
💬 Our fight for sovereignty and justice is, without exaggeration, one of national liberation, because we are upholding the security and well-being of our people, and our supreme historical right to be Russia – a strong independent power, a civilisation state.
It is our country, it is the Russian world that has blocked the way of those who aspired to world domination and exceptionalism, as it has happened many times in history.
We are now fighting not just for Russia's freedom but for the freedom of the whole world. We can frankly say that the dictatorship of one hegemon is becoming decrepit. We see it, and everyone sees it now. <...> This is now clear to the global majority.
☝️ I would like to stress this: without a sovereign and strong Russia, no lasting and stable international system is possible.
We know the threat we are opposing. Russophobia and other forms of racism and neo-Nazism have almost become the official ideology of Western ruling elites. They are directed not only against ethnic Russians, but against all groups living in Russia
The West has no need for such a large and multi-ethnic country as Russia as a matter of principle. Our diversity and unity of cultures, traditions, languages, and ethnicities simply do not fit into the logic of Western racists and colonisers, into their cruel plans for total depersonalisation, separation, suppression, and exploitation.
👉 They want to dismember and plunder Russia. If they cannot do it by force, they sow discord.
❗️We view any outside interference or provocations to incite ethnic or religious conflict as acts of aggression against our country, and an attempt to once again wield terrorism and extremism as a weapon against us, and we will respond accordingly.
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🎙 Выступление и ответы на вопросы С.В.Лаврова на международном форуме «Примаковские чтения»
📍 Москва, 27 ноября 2023 года
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Основные тезисы:
🌐 В мире события сегодня динамично развиваются. Сказать так – ничего не сказать. Многие некогда «константы международных отношений» проходят проверку на прочность, на соответствие новым реалиям. Среди них – магистральные тенденции формирования многополярного миропорядка.
🤝 То, что мир становится другим, видно на примере многосторонней дипломатии. Среди наиболее ярких свидетельств – сотрудничество по линии БРИКС. В его рамках страны, представляющие различные цивилизации, религии, макрорегионы, эффективно развивают связи в самых различных областях – от политики и безопасности до экономики, финансов, здравоохранения, спорта и культуры. Делается это на принципах равенства, взаимного уважения, формирования баланса интересов через консенсус. Никто никому ничего не навязывает, никто никого не шантажирует, не ставит перед выбором: «либо мы, либо они», «либо с нами, либо против нас». Неудивительно, что с БРИКС хотят сблизиться десятки государств.
☝️ В своих целях США и их европейские союзники используют широкий набор инструментов геополитической «инженерии». Среди них – провоцирование конфликтов (мы это видим по всему периметру российских границ), проведение информационно-психологических операций, развязывание торговых и экономических войн.
↩️ Деструктивные действия западного меньшинства имеют эффект, который по большому счёту является обратным задуманному, поскольку стимулирует построение в пользу укрепления многополярных начал международной жизни.
Растёт понимание, что никто не застрахован от агрессивных действий Вашингтона и Брюсселя.
🎙 President Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the Artificial Intelligence Journey (AI Journey) 2023 international conference on AI and machine learning titled The Generative AI Revolution: New Opportunities.
💬 In the past few years Russia’s economic and social sectors have increased the use of AI solutions by 50 percent.
The Russian Direct Investment Fund is actively involving co-investors, putting its own money into domestic software companies, and helping them develop global cooperation and enter foreign markets, and today especially in Asia and the Middle East.
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☝️ We will continue to strive for Russia to become one of the world’s most conducive jurisdictions for the development of artificial intelligence and bold exploration of the technological solutions that everyone needs.
Alongside legislative measures, voluntary consent of market participants regarding key rules of creating breakthrough technologies is of immense importance.
👉 I would like to highlight the special role of the National Code of Ethics in the sphere of artificial intelligence. It has been signed by domestic companies and organisations, as well as by participants from 16 countries worldwide. I believe complementing this document with a declaration on the responsible development of large language and generative models would be the right thing to do.
Russia’s experience can be instrumental in shaping international ethical standards in the field of artificial intelligence. We should strive for balanced and justified legal regulation that serves the interests of all, rather than select countries. I propose thoroughly discussing these issues during Russia's chairmanship in BRICS next year.
I suggest considering granting our partners from friendly countries access to Russian large language and generative models.
🌐 I am absolutely convinced that the technological world of the future must be multipolar, and we must build it together on the basis of trust and mutually beneficial cooperation.
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О роли Запада в конфликте на Украине 👇🏻
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🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin took part in the extraordinary G20 summit, held via videoconference.
💬 Vladimir Putin: The state of affairs in the global economy and the world at large require collective, consensus-based decisions that reflect the views of the overwhelming majority of the international community, including both developed and developing countries. <...>
The enormous stress on the global economy is a direct consequence of the ill-considered macroeconomic policies of some countries. <...>
Unlawful trade restrictions and the climate agenda pursued by some countries in order to improve their own competitiveness, continue to have a negative impact. <...>
🇷🇺 Russia advocates restoring the spirit of open and mutually beneficial international economic cooperation based on the UN Charter and the principles of collegial and mutually respectful joint work.
It is important to achieve an effective optimisation of the global economic governance system, in particular, to restart the WTO in its entirety, including its arbitration function.
We need to enhance the role of developing economies in international financial institutions, including the IMF and the World Bank, and to use those bodies’ resources to promote the development of countries and regions that really need it, and not for opportunistic political purposes.
🤝 We are ready to work together to address these urgent issues at the G20 and other international institutions, including BRICS, an association that is gaining weight and influence – this much is obvious, especially considering its ongoing expansion.
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🎙 Briefing by Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik on the crimes committed by the Kiev regime.
📍 Moscow, November 21, 2023
Key talking points:
• The Maidan became a trigger that led the country to decades of bloodshed and degradation. The acting president was illegitimate and he ordered gangs of radicals to kill the residents of Donbass that did not agree with the coup d'etat.
❗️ We are convinced: were the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic not recognized by Russia on February 21, 2022, and the agreements on mutual assistance were not signed, the residents of Donbass could've faced the plight of the victims we are now witnessing in the Middle East.
• We can state the facts of the Ukrainian army hitting ambulances, medical staff, and the purpose is to deprive people of getting emergency medical assistance.
• The use of terrorist methods by the Ukrainian armed forces has become a common practice.
• The Kiev regime is striking technogenically hazardous and radiation-hazardous sites. They try to use the technogenical danger in order to aggravate the situation.
☢️ The issue of attempts to create a radiation catastrophe for the Kiev regime is a separate item, as the Ukrainian armed forces and other special services of Ukraine have made repeated attempts to strike three nuclear facilities at once run by Russia. The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant was the most frequently hit by Ukrainian armed formations.
• Latest data confirms that time for the purposeful strikes by Ukrainian military on social institutions on Russian territory is chosen deliberately to target more civilians, given that high-precision weapons are used.
☝️ We investigate all of these cases in order to follow the prosecutors for these crimes. <...> We will finally move to organizing a specialized criminal investigations against the political leadership of Ukraine for their terrorist activities and violating humanitarian law, as well as those crimes mentioned before.
🎞️Battle for Mariupol
“Azov” troops literally drove people into basements and placed artillery in residential buildings. Many children were living in inhuman conditions in Mariupol.
🇷🇺 But Russia doesn’t abandon its own. Peace will return and people will have their home back.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following the 21th Doha Forum, 10 December 2023
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💬 The domination of the “collective West” was based on diverse history including ruthless exploitation of peoples and territories of other countries.
On the basis of this five hundred years, the US & its allies built the model of globalization, which they believed would serve THEM well to continue to be number one in economy, in military exercises, in culture, politics, and so on and so forth. And they thought that they would be using this globalization scheme to continue their domination.
However, other countries, using exactly the principles and instruments of the western globalization, managed to beat the West on its own turf, building economies on the basis of national sovereignty, on the basis of balance of interests with other countries.
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We see this process very much underway, which is clearly changing the balance of power in the world, and not to the West liking.
This is especially seen in various conflicts which the West ignites all over the world. Everything goes to keep the hegemony.
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❓ The analysis of all these events raises a question: is there a single place where the US intervened with military force, where life has become better?
I think you know the answer 👉 Ruined statehood, human tragedies, and bleak prospects for the future of the countries where the Americans & NATO interfered.
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We have to accept the existence of new organizations, new formats, new structures like #BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, #ASEAN, #AfricanUnion, and many subregional organizations in Africa, CELAC and subregional groups in Latin America. They are going to be the bricks of the new polycentric world. This must be recognized as an objective course of history and this must be respected. This is something which we actually miss when we analyse the modern Western diplomacy. But this is for the West to draw conclusions.
🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the Russia Calling! Forum (December 7, 2023)
💬 You know that the global system of economic relations is going through radical, irreversible changes, as we have just heard, which is due to the fact that a multipolar model is about to replace yesterday’s globalisation model. <...> This change in the global economic landscape and the rise of new leaders are an objective and to a large degree predictable process.
Western elites are trying to contain growth artificially in what they regard as the global periphery, which they have traditionally exploited and used as a resource, as a source of [economic] rent and simply as a colony. To attain this goal, they use sanctions, for example, exacerbating the political situation and provoking conflicts in whole macro-regions in an attempt to maintain their slipping domination.
☝️ Despite any external pressure, rebuffing, pounding on the table, whispering in the ear, there are people who are leaders of countries, and powerful countries at that, who do not succumb to this pressure and are guided primarily by their own national interests, and they fit into the model that we offer for development.
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🇷🇺 Russia is Europe’s largest economy and is now ahead of all the leading EU countries in terms of growth rates. Moreover, the so-called essential non-commodity industries are accounting for an increasing share in the structure of Russia’s economic growth.
We are interested in making our market open and competitive. This is the key to development, a stimulus for the qualitative growth of domestic businesses and the entire Russian economy.
You know, you can waste your breath as much as you want, making slogans and threats – let this be up to those Western politicians who intend to cancel Russia. But all this hype cannot cancel the immutable fact that it has always been profitable to work with Russia and in Russia; it is profitable today and will remain profitable.
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🤝👋 #HappeningNow
🇷🇺🇦🇪 President of Russia Vladimir Putin concluded his fruitful working visit to the UAE, and has departed for the 2nd leg of the tour - for Riyadh 🇷🇺🇸🇦
📹 #VideoOfTheDay © Kremlin News
🇷🇺 Russia's EMERCOM aircraft to deliver 27,5 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip
✅ Bedding & warm blankets;
✅ Personal care items;
✅ Food supplies and kids formula.
The EMERCOM's IL-76 aircraft flew to the airport of El-Arish. In Egypt, the humanitarian aid will be handed over to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society. They will redirect it to the to the people of the Gaza Strip.
📹 EMERCOM of Russia
#RussiaHelps
🎞️Azov’s last stand
«Azovstal» was the main fortress, hardest site to capture.
Azov’s nazis sowed fear and panic.
But all that media hype going round since 2014 how they were ready to “die for their idea” turned out to be just that: pure hype
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🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following the 30th OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting
📍 Skopje, December 1, 2023
I regret that we have approached the 30th OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in an atmosphere that is not conducive to anniversary celebrations. We are seeing the complete degradation of everything that has been created within the OSCE (previously within this Conference) in all three security dimensions.
We have become convinced that our Western colleagues have not learned any lessons from their disastrous policy line towards destroying the OSCE. They continue to finish it off with a zeal worthy of better use.
👉 Everything has been destroyed in the military-political area. They refused to ratify the Adapted CFE Treaty and many other agreements that helped maintain a security balance.
👉 Everything has been destroyed in the economic area as well. This second “basket” was demolished by the unprecedented sanctions that the EU and the US have imposed on the Russia Federation.
👉 There is nothing to say about human rights. No problems at all arose for many years despite the killing of children, women and civilians in general, and the full trade and economic blockade of Donbass and the suspension of water supplies to Russian Crimea.
The Macedonian Chairmanship set the right motto – “It’s about people.” During yesterday’s working lunch, I told my colleagues that when talking about people we were referring to all citizens of the OSCE countries and even “non-citizens” that are kept in this shameful status in Latvia and Estonia.
🤦♂️ In reality, it appears that all this excitement and concern about people is limited to the four heads of the OSCE offices. At any rate, I cannot reach any other conclusion from the nervous activity of our Western colleagues.
I do not care about the outcome of this get-together and the attempts to bargain for an extra day or week to continue the crude violation of all OSCE principles.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks during the 30th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council (November 30, 2023)
Key points:
• In just over a year, the Helsinki Final Act will mark its 50th anniversary. Regrettably, the OSCE is approaching this milestone in a lamentable condition, and its prospects remain uncertain.
• Unfortunately, Western political elites appropriated the role of rulers of humanity’s destiny and made a shortsighted choice in favour of NATO rather than the OSCE. They embraced a philosophy of containment, geopolitical zero-sum games, and the leader-follower logic. The bloc’s reckless expansion to the East, which started after the dissolution of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation, was a key component of this approach.
• The genuine intentions of the Western politicians again revealed themselves when Washington and Brussels rejected Russia’s December 2021 proposals on legally binding security guarantees in Europe.
• In a bid to crush the Russian economy, the United States and its European satellites have introduced thousands of anti-Russia sanctions, thereby making impossible any significant East-West practical cooperation in what was once our common region.
• The Kiev regime is Washington’s investment into its egoistic interests of deterring Russia and resolving its own problems at the expense of others. This applies to the removal of economic competitors, primarily the EU.
• The current situation is a direct consequence of the persistent attempts by our Western neighbours to ensure their dominance, as they shamelessly use the OSCE to aggressively push through their self-serving interests and consciously undermine the fundamental principle of consensus and the culture of diplomacy.
• There are no particular reasons to be optimistic now. Essentially, the OSCE is being reformatted to become an appendage of NATO and the EU. This organisation (let’s face it) is on the brink of the abyss.
❓ Hence, a simple question: Does it make any sense to invest in any effort to revive it?
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🎞️Blind devotion
N.Tarasenko has been building an Orthodox Church on a mountain for more than 30 years.
War came to Lugansk region in 2014…
He received a head wound and began to lose his eyesight. Church construction has now stopped. All men who helped in building the church has gone to front…
But he plans to finish building the church against all odds.
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👉 https://sweden.mid.ru/en/embassy/embassy-news/blind_devotion/
🎙 Russian Foreign Ministry's official Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova interview with RT International
🔸 The situation in the Middle East.
🔸 On solving the humanitarian crisis & the need for a ceasefire
🔸 The evacuation of Russian nationals from the Gaza Strip
🔸 The fight against terrorism
🔸 The Kiev regime's crimes
🔸 Western disinformation
💬 The Biden administration was the one that created the Zelensky regime. Moreover, it fed it with money, weapons and, what was most awful, the sense of impunity.
🎞️ Operation Ukraine: Crime without Punishment
The history of Ukraine’s crimes against Donbass civilians
⁃ an RT.Doc film
The documentary traces back the war crimes committed by the Ukrainian side starting from as early as 2014. Journalists and activists who collect evidence of atrocities speak on how the Kiev authorities have been directing them and have given a free hand to nationalist battalions in the southeast. They share their thoughts on why the Western media and human rights organisations ignore hours of video evidence of Ukraine’s abuse.
https://rtd.rt.com/films/operation-ukraine-crime-without-punishment/
🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in a Plenary Session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Minsk.
💬 President Putin: The Belorusian chairmanship and the team of all states taking part in this session have conducted active work throughout the year. This work facilitated the consolidation of our allied ties in the CSTO on the principles of respect, consideration of each other’s interests and support.
In this way, the CSTO member-countries in effect promoted the CSTO’s key role as a regional defensive structure responsible for the maintenance of peace and stability in the vast Eurasian space.
☝️ Importantly, this year the CSTO has also developed its contacts with our natural partners, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) and the #CIS.
I would like to make a special mention of our joint efforts to improve the collective rapid deployment forces, aviation and the CSTO peacekeeping forces. A number of measures have been taken to maintain combat readiness, enhance the command and control system and provide more training for military personnel.
✅ We have consistently promoted cooperation between our security services and law enforcement bodies. Notably, the CSTO is continuing its Operation Mercenary aimed at preventing the recruitment of citizens of our countries and blocking the channels of their exit for participation in international terrorist groups.
✅ We implemented together a package of measures on countering extremism, cross-border crime, illegal migration and drug trafficking.
✅ The CSTO Coordination Council on Biological Security has launched its work. It has focused on preventing threats linked with the development and use of biological weapons and ensuring radiation, chemical and medical protection.
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🎞️Donbass War: Summer 2014
⁃ an RT.Doc film
The Euromaidan movement, which began as a struggle for Ukraine’s integration into the European Union, rapidly veered towards outright nationalist ideas. Radical groups started to play a leading role in Maidan. The regime change, which occurred due to Maidan, was seen in south-eastern Ukraine as a coup d'état.
All the more so because the forces that won in Kiev immediately outlined a new vector for the country’s development. One of the first decisions by Ukraine’s parliament was to cancel the special status of the Russian language. Thousands joined the protests in the south-eastern regions. As a result, Donetsk and Lugansk regions proclaimed themselves the People’s Republics.
But the new authorities responded with force. In the spring of 2014, the ATO, an anti-terrorist operation, was announced.
👉https://rtd.rt.com/films/donbass-war-summer-2014/

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman M.#Zakharova:
💬 The European Union deliberately seeks to undermine Russia's role as a leading supplier of agricultural products and fertilisers to world markets.
❗️Anti-Russia sanctions create even greater risks for global food security.
🎞️Donbass - that’s why I’m here
«We don’t care how many Ukrainians die.
And we will fight it to the last Ukrainian death» - R. Black, US state senator 2012-2020
Donetsk is on fire. But the fact that the Ukrainian army has been shelling civilians for 8 years and the majority of the people in Donbass support what Russia is doing is never explained or shown in the Western mainstream media.
Watch the full film and #Think4Yourself