🌐 Following the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, the participants adopted the Leaders' Declaration.

The Russian delegation was helmed by Maxim Oreshkin, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of the Russian Federation.

Excerpts from the Declaration:

1. We, Leaders of the #G20, who gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, for this historic first Summit on the African Continent under the South African G20 Presidency, on 22 and 23 November 2025, addressed major global challenges and discussed ways to promote solidarity, equality and sustainability as key pillars of inclusive growth.

2. For the first time, G20 Leaders have convened in Africa. <...> We understand our interconnectedness as a global community of nations and reaffirm our commitment to ensure that no one is left behind through multilateral cooperation, macro policy coordination, global partnerships for sustainable development and solidarity.

3. We meet against the backdrop of rising geopolitical and geo-economic competition and instability, heightened conflicts and wars, deepening inequality, increasing global economic uncertainty and fragmentation. In the face of this challenging political and socio-economic environment, we underscore our belief in multilateral cooperation to collectively address shared challenges. We note with distress the immense human suffering and the adverse impact of wars and conflicts around the world.

4. We affirm our unwavering commitment to act in accordance with international law including international humanitarian law and the Charter of the United Nations and its principle of peaceful settlement of disputes and in this regard, we condemn all attacks against civilians and infrastructure. <...>

23. We recognise the inequalities and challenges, along with opportunities for growth, that exist in the current energy landscape globally, particularly in Africa and other developing regions. <...>

27. We will advance energy security, affordability, and access as well as market stability through diverse pathways, and a technologically neutral approach to accelerate just and inclusive sustainable energy transitions, including through additional energy supply and demand- side management and transmission expansion and modernisation efforts that contribute to domestic and collective goals in order to meet growing energy demand. <...>

35. We recognise that inequality, unemployment, under-employment and informal employment, pose significant threats to global economic growth, development, social and economic stability. We underline the imperative to address these challenges, as well as disparities in wealth and development both within and between countries. <...>

38. As Leaders of the G20, we share a vision to harness science, technology, entrepreneurship, and Indigenous and local knowledge in partnership to unlock new pathways to prosperity, leaving no one behind. <...>

81. We emphasise that 2025 marked the 80th Anniversary of the UN and its Charter. We reaffirm our commitment to strengthening multilateralism, with the UN at its core, rooted in the principles of international law as they are reflected in the Charter of the United Nations. <...>

84. We reaffirm peace as a path to sustainable economic development and the importance of international cooperation and multilateral solutions in addressing global challenges, including growing economic inequality and instability. <...>

118. We embrace the African Union as a full member of the G20 in its second year in the group, as we are gathered for the first time on African soil. Africa’s voice should continue to be amplified in the G20 and all other international fora. <...>

121. We reiterate our commitment to the G20 as the premier forum for international economic cooperation and its continued operation in the spirit of multilateralism, on the basis of consensus, with all members participating on an equal footing in all its events including Summits in accordance with international obligations.

📄 Full text of the Declaration

🎙 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova interviewed by representatives of the International “People’s Unity Club”, a discussion with Pepe Escobar, Larry Johnson, George Galloway and others on topical political matters (November 20, 2025)

Key points:

👉 ON US VISA RESTRICTIONS

US citizens receive Russian visas "just like that", while Russian nationals must leave the country, wait months for an interview, and still have no guarantee that a US visa will be issued.

We never retaliate against ordinary people. Many have families abroad, elderly relatives, or health-related needs. People must not suffer because of the actions of their governments.

That is why Russia will continue to treat visa matters responsibly and humanely. Everything will be fine on our side.

👉 ON PERSECUTION OF CANONICAL ORTHODOXY IN UKRAINE

Orthodox Christianity is the largest and canonical religion in Ukraine – a traditional form of Christianity that has never advocated violence or acted as a religious sect.

What is most striking is this: the Zelensky regime claims to be “decommunizing” Ukraine, supposedly rejecting all communist legacy. Yet its actions against the Orthodox Church go far beyond anything the communists ever did.

The Kiev regime seizes churches, kills, imprisons and politically persecutes priests, drives congregations out into the streets and forces them to swear allegiance to a newly created, artificial schismatic church.

Western audiences need to hear the voices of those who have spent months on the defendants’ bench, the priests now behind bars, the relatives of the clergy who were killed, and the congregations that were, quite literally, destroyed.

👉 ON CULTIVATION OF HATRED IN BRITISH SOCIETY

The British signature “licence to kill”, glorified in the James Bond franchise, is essentially an indulgence to eliminate those whom the state designates as enemies. And we know from Britain's colonial past, the Crown and state agencies often designated ordinary people in Africa and other world regions as its enemies.

This institutionalised hatred directed at our country is not a response to Russia’s actions – it is part of a long-standing, state-level ideology. And I am speaking about the British elites, not ordinary people.

Most people in the UK know little about Russia – they are poorly informed and heavily influenced by tabloid culture. The yellow press sets their worldview. This Russophobia is not a British national trait – it is cultivated by the ruling class and passed down through generations.

👉 ON HISTORICAL FALCIFICATIONS

The situation around Ukraine is part of a wider crisis of fakes. Western youth know little about history nowadays – ask them about the Nuremberg Trials, which mark their 80th anniversary, and few will answer.

The events in Bucha were constructed using the same template as the Nazi provocation in Nemmersdorf in 1944. The same tropes: Soviet forces withdraw from the settlement, the Nazis enter, declare a “terrible massacre”, bring in foreign journalists, and even convene an "international tribunal".

Only decades later did representatives of modern Germany acknowledge that it had been a staged operation to smear the victorious Red Army.

The Bucha narrative was driven primarily by British media and served one goal – to sabotage the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul in spring 2022.

👉 ON CORRUPTION IN UKRAINE

The Kiev regime is at the centre of an international corruption scheme. Another bubble (aka "the Mindich case") has just burst, exposing the true nature of this system.

Western defence ministries have no proper mechanisms to track arms sent to Ukraine. There are no mixed monitoring or audit teams, no reconciliation of what was shipped and what was received.

What exists instead is a mafia-style operation that launders money through arms deliveries and the ongoing bloodshed.

One must keep in mind the fact that all Western weapons received by Zelensky for acts of terrorism against Russia are legitimate targets and will be eliminated.