🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Argumenty i Fakty newspaper (April 4, 2023)

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#RussiaChina

• We share a vision of what is causing major international security challenges. We note the West's unwillingness to conduct a dialogue between the states based on the principles of equality. We oppose the use of sanctions pressure or other unfair competition tools.

• Our strategic cooperation is not directed against third countries, but contributes to the balanced development of the international system in its entirety.

• The alleged “dependence” and “inequality” of Russian-Chinese relations has been discussed ad nauseum mostly in unfriendly countries for a long time now. We see this as an attempt to cast aspersions on our successes and to drive a wedge into the friendship between Moscow and Beijing. These designs can be easily read into.

#InternationalSecurity

• Russia has repeatedly come up with constructive ideas and pragmatic and non-politicised proposals for overcoming pressing international issues, such as President Putin's December 2021 initiative to provide Russia with legally binding security guarantees in the western direction. However, Washington and Brussels ignored us or reacted to this initiative negatively which led to the current crisis in Ukraine.

#RussiaAfrica

• Our main difference from the Westerners is that we never lecture our foreign partners on how they should live. We do not have a hidden agenda or double standards.

• We view the St Petersburg (Russia-Africa) Summit as a systemic element of Russia-Africa cooperation. We are filling it with meaningful content in close cooperation with our African friends.

#RussiaEU

• If the Europeans decide one day to give up their anti-Russia course and start a mutually respectful dialogue with Russia, we will review their proposals and make decisions proceeding from our national interests.

🚀 क्या आप राकेश शर्मा को जानते हैं?

अगर आपको रॉकेट, स्पेस और साइंस में दिलचस्पी है तो आप इस नाम को ज़रूर जानते होंगे। और अगर नहीं भी, तो भी भारत के पहले अंतरिक्ष यात्री पर तो हम सभी को गर्व है। 3 अप्रैल, यानी आज का दिन भारतीय अंतरिक्ष यात्रा में सबसे अहम है। आज ही दिन साल 1984 में कॉस्मोनॉट राकेश शर्मा अंतरिक्ष में जाने वाले पहले भारतीय बने। उनके इस अभियान को सफल बनाने में सोवियत रूस का सबसे बड़ा हाथ था। शर्मा ने सोवियत रॉकेट “सोयूज़ T-11” में बैठ कर अंतरिक्ष की यात्रा की थी। राकेश शर्मा ने अंतरिक्ष में कुल 7 दिन, 21 घंटे और 40 मिनट बिताए। जब तत्कालीन प्रधानमंत्री इंदिरा गांधी ने राकेश शर्मा से पूछा “ऊपर से भारत कैसा दिखता है?”, तो उन्होंने एक मशहूर शायर इकबाल की पंक्तियों के ज़रिए जवाब दिया, वो बोले – “सारे जहां से अच्छा!”

🇷🇺🇮🇳 रूस और भारत की दोस्ती यूं ही नई ऊंचाइयां छूती रहे!

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शीत युद्ध हथियार सीरीज़ का दूसरा एपिसोड आ गया है! इस एपिसोड में जानिए 1960 से 1980 के दशक तक अमेरिका और सोवियत यूनियन में टैंक का विकास कैसे आगे बढ़ा। जहां सोवियत इंजीनियरों ने T-64, T-72 और T-80 जैसे टैंक बनाए, अमेरिकी इंजीनियरों ने M-60 टैंक को मॉडर्नाइज़ किया और M-1 एब्राम्स टैंक बनाया। जो आज तक अमेरिका का मुख्य युद्ध टैंक रहा है। हमारी होस्ट मरीना कोसारेवा टैंक की रेस में शामिल होंगी और आपको अलग-अलग गोलों का परीक्षण भी दिखाएंगी!

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💰🇺🇸 US military spending on the Ukraine conflict is now more than half what it spent on the Vietnam War.

Have a look at our infographic to see how much Washington has spent on each conflict.

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⚡️ Statement by the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on violations of religious rights in Ukraine

⚠️ @sovfedofficial resolutely condemns gross violations of religious rights in Ukraine resulting from the policy of religious intolerance adopted by the Kiev regime.

In fact, the Ukrainian government has been trying to impose on the people of Ukraine a quasi-political structure calling itself the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and created with Western support as an official church. At the same time, the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is facing persecution with its churches seized, communities facing illegal liquidation proceedings, while its clerics are being stripped of their citizenship and face repression. The recent decision to deprive the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of one of its most sacred sites, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, is appalling.

The outrage committed against the Quran, the sacred book for Muslims around the world, was a new revolting development along the same lines. This act of vandalism directly results from the policy by the Kiev officials to discriminate against representatives of ethnic and religious communities living in Ukraine.

This policy of the Ukrainian government constitutes a gross violation of the rights of every person to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, as guaranteed by the fundamental international documents of the United Nations: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief.

❗️ All citizens of the Russian Federation are angered by these developments and refuse to accept them.

@sovfedofficial calls on other countries’ parliaments and international parliamentary organisations to take a principled stand and demand that officials in Kiev bring Ukraine back into compliance with its international obligations, stop discriminating against believers & desecrating holy sites.

⚡️ Foreign Ministry Statement on Finland 🇫🇮 completing the process to join NATO

💬 On April 4, 2023, it was officially declared that all the legal procedures related to Finland becoming a NATO member were completed.

As we have warned on multiple occasions, the Russian Federation will have to respond with military-technical, as well as other measures in order to address national security threats arising from Finland joining NATO.

Specific decisions regarding the build-up of defence capabilities along Russia’s northwestern borders will depend on the specific terms on which Finland joins NATO, including the deployment of NATO’s military infrastructure and offensive weapons on its territory.

☝️ The line of contact between NATO and the Russian Federation’s border has more than doubled. This constitutes a major shift for Northern Europe, which used to be one of the most stable regions in the world. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has made another step to move closer to the territory of Russia.

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By joining NATO, Finland has given up on its unique identity and lost its independence, which for decades gave it a special status in international affairs. Helsinki’s policy of military non-alignment has long served its national interests and was a major confidence-building factor in the Baltic region and across the European continent. But now all this has become a thing of the past.

Finland became a minor NATO member without the possibility to influence any decisions. It has lost its ability to have a say in international affairs.

History will tell whether Finland needed to take this ill-conceived step, undertaken by the country’s government without taking into consideration what the people think about it by holding a referendum and carefully examining the consequences of NATO membership. We strongly believe that this is the case.

❗️ Finland’s accession to NATO will have a negative effect on the bilateral relations between Russia and Finland.

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🇫🇮 फिनलैंड NATO में शामिल हो गया है

फिनलैंड मिलिट्री ब्लॉक नाटो का 31वां सदस्य बन गया है। 74 साल पहले 12 देशों से नाटो गठबंधन की शुरूआत हुई थी, लेकिन समय के साथ ये 2.5 गुना बड़ा हो गया है।

इतिहास गवाह है कि जहां नाटो जाता है, वहां युद्ध शुरू होते हैं। अफगानिस्तान, इराक और यूगोस्लाविया इसके मुख्य उदाहरण हैं। अब यूक्रेन में भी यही हो रहा है। हालांकि यूक्रेन गठबंधन में शामिल नहीं है, लेकिन पिछले नौ सालों से नाटो यूक्रेन को डोनबास के लोगों के खिलाफ लड़ने के लिए भड़का रहा है। इसके अलावा नाटो डोनबास के लोगों के नरसंहार को सही ठहरा रहा है। आखिर क्या चाहता है अमेरिका और पश्चिमी देशों की क्या मंशा है? इस संगठन के वास्तविक लक्ष्य क्या हैं? जानिए हमारी फिल्म “रूसी मिलिट्री ऑपरेशन: अनसुनी कहानी” के विश्लेषकों से।

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❗️EXCLUSIVE: Rupee-Ruble Trade is Way Out of Western Blockade: Russian Industry Chamber Head

💭 "We don't want our Indian colleagues to face [western] sanctions either," Sergey Katyrin, the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation (RF CCI) told Sputnik. "That’s exactly why the Ruble-Rupee trade settlement mechanism presents an optimal opportunity for both Russia and India. We would be able to circumvent the sanctions and carry out our trade with each other in an active manner."

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions from the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin television programme (April 5, 2023)

❓Question: We do not interfere in the affairs of the United States, but a former US president has never been indicted in the history of the United States.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: You yourself said that we do not interfere. They are doing fine without us.

❓Question: Your deputy said today that we are actually in the hot phase of a war against the United States. At the same time, the US ambassador presented her credentials today. How does it add up?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: Indeed, we are in the hot phase of a war, because the Ukrainian Nazis are fighting with US-made weapons. The US administration is threatening to supply longer-range and more lethal systems.

I believe, though, that relations should be maintained. At least, we do not lose hope that the Americans will wake up eventually and resume some kind of a dialogue. We’ll see. It won’t be a long wait.