✉️ Vladimir Putin sent greetings to participants, organizers and guests of the 25th St Petersburg International Economic Forum:

🔷 The Forum’s anniversary is taking place at a difficult time for the entire international community. The mistakes of Western countries in economic policy over many years and illegitimate sanctions have led to a wave of global inflation, the disruption of usual supply chains, and a sharp increase in poverty and food shortages.

🔷 I am confident that for Russia the 2020s will become a period when the country strengthens its economic sovereignty, which involves the accelerated development of its infrastructure and technological base, qualitative upgrades in the level of training for specialists, as well as the establishment of an independent and efficient financial system. In addition, the Russian economy will increasingly rely on private initiatives and, of course, will remain committed to transparency and broad international cooperation.

⚡️ Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s news conference

On June 6, the Foreign Ministry Press Centre will host an online format news conference by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on topical issues on the international agenda. The news conference starts approximately at 1 pm.

Broadcast on the Internet will be carried out on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry in the "Video" section in Russian with translation into English, Spanish, Serbian and French, as well as on accounts Ministries in social networks Twitter, Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and Rutube.

⚡️Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.

💥High-precision air-based missiles have hit 2 command posts, 3 firing positions of artillery batteries, as well as 18 areas of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration. 2 ammunition depots have been destroyed in the areas of Vrubovka and Yakovlevka in Lugansk People's Republic.

✈️💥Operational-tactical aviation have hit 65 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.

▫️The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 170 nationalists, 9 tanks, 2 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 1 battery of field artillery and 8 various purpose vehicles.

💥Russian air defence means have shot down 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Liptsy, Streleche, Dement'evka, Borodoyarskoe, Mar'ino, Petrovskoe, Grakovo, Malye Prokhody in Kharkov Region, as well as Vasil'ievka in Nikolaev Region, overnight.

💥Missile troops and artillery have hit 39 command posts, 49 firing positions of AFU artillery, as well as 426 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration.

▫️The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 400 nationalists, 10 armoured vehicles, 3 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 10 special vehicles, and 3 launchers of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems near Kramatorsk.

▫️In addition, shelling resulted in the destruction of one 155mm self-propelled howitzer (M109A3) donated by Norway, 2 US 155mm howitzers (M777), and 7 field artillery and mortars, including 1 203mm Pion self-propelled artillery mount.

📊In total, 190 Ukrainian aircraft and 129 helicopters, 1,139 unmanned aerial vehicles, 333 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,443 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 478 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,807 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,464 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #Briefing
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Поздравляем наших соотечественников с Днём России!

Gratulerer våre landsmenn med den russiske nasjonaldagen!

#ДеньРоссии2022 #МыРоссия #Russland #Norge #ViErRussland
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#DebunkingMyths

The on-going attempts to blame Russia for "weaponising" grain and food supplies are completely without merit.

❗️ Faсts: Russia is a responsible member of the global food market. It is the Western illegitimate sanctions that are in fact damaging global food security.

We are deeply concerned about a possible food crisis and are well aware of the importance of supplies of socially important commodities, including food, to the socio-economic development of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East and the achievement of SDGs.

The illegitimate unilateral restrictions imposed by the EU, the US and their satellites remain the main obstacle to normal export relations between Russia (and Belarus) and buyers of grain and fertilizers.

#Think4Yourself

#DebunkingMyths

Certain politicians in the West attempt to score political points & avoid responsibility by putting the blame for soaring energy prices, food security issues and even inflation on Russia 🤷‍♂️

Fact: Western sanctions & poor economic policies are among the root causes for the crisis.

#Think4Yourself

🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues

🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206150900-LIVE11137-Russian-MFA-spokesperson-Zakharova-holds-weekly-briefing-in-St-Petersburg
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC open debate on women, peace, and security
Mme. Minister, we welcome you as President of the Council at the meeting on a very relevant and important issue – Women, Peace, and Security. We thank Secretary-General for his insights, and we followed closely and with much interest all statements delivered by today’s briefers.
Mme. President,
The proposed topic for discussion, "Keeping the promises: the role of regional organizations in implementing the women and peace and security agenda in the face of political turmoil and seizures of power by force" appears rather vague, but to a large extent, it can be projected on the situation in Ukraine.
This state started to deteriorate and collapse back in February 2014, when an anti-constitutional coup d’état took place in Kiev. Western states actively supported the seizure of power by radical nationalist forces and the toppling of Ukraine’s legitimate President V. Yanukovych. After this overturn, forces came to power in Kiev, who embarked on forceful Ukrainization, eradication of everything Russian, repressions against political opponents, suppression of dissident views, bans of opposition parties, and shutdown of opposition TV channels. At the same time, under Western support, they were presenting Ukraine as a “showcase of democracy and diversity of opinions”. The Kiev authorities waged a civil war on Donbas, where Russian and Russian-speaking population did not recognize the coup and stood for keeping their right to live at peace with Russia and speak their mother tongue. But the regime wanted to drown all those who dared to disagree in blood. On 2 May 2014, Ukrainian nationalists burnt alive participants of a peaceful protest in the Odessa Trade Union House, among whom there were women. On 9 May 2014, Azov battalion (part of which recently surrendered at the Azovstal steel works) shot at peaceful protesters in Mariupol. On 17 August 2014, Ukrainian fighter aircraft launched a strike on Lugansk Regional Administration building, where people died again. Then Kiev spent the next 8 years bombarding peaceful cities of Donbas and maintaining a total blockade of the region. All in all, 3300 civilians including 152 children died in Donbas over that time.
Since then, Ukraine has lived under strict censorship. Mass Media and online resources that the authorities find unwanted get shut down, independent journalists face persecution. Opposition political parties become banned. There have been dozens of cases when Ukrainian special services either detained or abducted representatives of mass media and television because of their professional activities, including women-correspondents Valentina Solovyova, Olga Yurieva, Alina Eprimyan, Evgenia Koroleva, Elizaveta Khramtsova, Natalia Kalysheva, Elena Makarova, Ksenia Kolchina, Alexandra Cherepnina, Ekaterina Voronina, Maria Knyazeva, Tamara Nersesyan, Anna Kurbatova, and Natalia Goncharova. The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine has records of dozens of attacks on media workers – no data available for 2021, 77 cases in 2020, 75 – in 2019, 86 – in 2018. In 2015, editor-in-chief of newspaper “Neteshinskiy Vestnik” Olga Moroz was killed in the Khmelnitsky Region of Ukraine. Before she was murdered, she had worked on a story on illegal forest cutting.
Lately, rights advocate and anti-fascist activist Elena Berezhnaya was arrested by the SBU. Now she is facing absurd and far-fetched treason charges. We raised this blatant case in a letter that we circulated as a UNSC document.
Before Russian special military operation started, in 2015, Ukrainian special services at least twice crushed the website of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Ukraine.
Mme.President, 
The population of Donbas today lives under constant indiscriminate and deliberate shelling by the UAF, who i.a. use artillery and ammunition that Kiev had received from its Western sponsors. NATO states under the lead of the US, who deliver weaponry and ammunition to Ukraine, are directly involved in the killing and maiming of

women in Donbas.
Take a recent flagrant episode – unprecedented shelling of Donetsk by rocket systems and artillery on 13 June. Ukrainian forces fired over 350 rockets and artillery rounds on peaceful Donetsk. In particular, they fired French cluster munitions (that were said to have been eliminated in 2016) from US-delivered artillery systems. As a matter of fact, this was a barbaric terrorist attack that killed 6 people including a child and a woman, and injured 33 more. The total number of casualties in Donbas since the start of the SMO is even higher. The maternity hospital of Donetsk also got under shelling. At that moment, there were three newborns in ICUs on the fifth floor of the building. One of them was evacuated to the basement, because this baby no longer needed artificial oxygen supply. But the others had to stay. It was a happy coincidence that these babies, as well as doctors and other medical personnel of the hospital stayed alive. Yet no one in the West condemned this horrendous crime.
Do you remember the intensity of emotion that surrounded the info provocation around Russia’s alleged attack on maternity hospital in Mariupol that the Ukrainian side and Western journalists tried to organize in March this year? This ignominious provocation was debunked, but pseudo advocates of women’s rights in the West still recall this story about the Mariupol hospital from time to time. Will you recall the maternity hospital in Donetsk that unlike the one in Mariupol had not been turned into a gun post?
Our Western colleagues have no chance to succeed at exploiting the topic of sexual violence in Ukraine, allegedly committed by Russian troops. All you have is fakes and lies, and not a single fact or piece of evidence. But even in telling lies, you will never be able to outmatch former Ukrainian Ombudsperson for Human Rights L.Denisova. Everyone was puzzled at her unclear focus on the numerous details of sexual crimes and rape of children in the occupied territories that could not be confirmed by evidence. As she later admitted, she had been telling blatant lies to the whole world to convince Western partners of the need to deliver weapons to Ukraine as soon as possible. Such an unusual ombudsperson she was.
Currently, work is underway at Ukrainian territories that have been liberated from nationalists, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk to discover facts or other evidence related to crimes (including sexual crimes) committed by Ukrainian formations. This is being done by investigative bodies of Russia, DPR and LPR, as well as Inter-Agency Commission for the search of missing persons and discovery of burials of individuals who died in the areas of an armed conflict in Donbas.
Mme.President,
Ukraine’s armed forces still use civilians as a human shield, deploy heavy weaponry in urban settings and residential quarters while covering up with peaceful population. As Presidential Adviser to the President of Ukraine Mr. Podolyak revealed to The New York Times recently, the Ukrainian military will use the methodology of urban combat. It means that they will keep using civilians as human shields and destroy civilian infrastructure. Russian forces do their best to save civilian lives, make agreements to open humanitarian corridors and have people evacuated from combat zones. Saving lives of peaceful population of Ukraine, Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics is our overriding priority.
Mme.President,
As for the general aspects of WPS agenda, let me emphasize the importance of taking extra measures to promote the role of women in social and economic development of states in situations of armed conflict or post-conflict settlement. We need to ensure economic empowerment of women, create favorable conditions for development of women’s entrepreneurship, expand women’s access to material and financial resources, markets, technology and intellectual property.  
Unfortunately, our Western partners, who baselessly claim to be the champions of WPS agenda, unjustifiably downplay the issue of expanding women’s participation in social and

economic cooperation as a crucial element of global governance.
Eradication of poverty, development of women, and ensuring broader access to education and decent work must become leading tracks of international cooperation. Imposing unilateral coercive measures on states is unacceptable. It is clear that such steps affect the interests of women in social and economic areas in the first place.
The task of eradicating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and intolerance to women and individuals of African and Asian descent remains very relevant, especially for Western states. These countries for centuries adhered to colonial policies, which struck their roots very deep and by now have transformed to neo-colonialism. This must be put an end to. And women are to play the leading role on this process.
Thank you.

Из Доклада МИД России О нарушениях прав российских граждан и соотечественников в зарубежных странах
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/humanitarian_cooperation/1815559/#_Toc105665080

Норвегия

Несмотря на отсутствие в Норвегии целенаправленной дискриминации в отношении наших соотечественников, власти и правоохранительные органы Королевства продолжают поддерживать атмосферу настороженности и предвзятого отношения к выходцам из России. Норвежские спецслужбы призывают сограждан проявлять «бдительность» в контактах с русскими, сообщать компетентным органам обо всех подозрительных обстоятельствах, касающихся коллег по работе, соседей. В последнее время в российское Посольство вновь стали поступать жалобы в связи с оскорбительным отношением в столичном аэропорту и необоснованными задержаниями.

Актуальным вопросом остается изъятие норвежскими органами опеки детей у проживающих в Норвегии российских граждан. Многие несовершеннолетние имеют также норвежское гражданство, что представляет собой дополнительную трудность для подключения российского дипломатического представительства к решению проблемы.

Примечательно, что с 2015 г. в Европейском Суде по правам человека зарегистрировано 39 исков против Норвегии, поданных родителями изъятых из семьи детей. В 10 из 14 уже рассмотренных случаев Норвегия была признана ответственной за «прерывание родственных связей» между родителями и детьми в нарушение ст. 8 Конвенции о защите прав человека и основных свобод.

После начала российской специальной военной операции по денацификации и демилитаризации Украины Норвегия заняла резкую антироссийскую линию. Осло последовательно присоединяется к ограничительным мерам ЕС за рядом исключений. В частности, норвежцы, сославшись на «особо сильную защиту свободы слова в конституции», отказались от блокировки «RT» и «Sputnik», несмотря на то, что «данные подконтрольные государству медиа задействуются для распространения дезинформации и фальшивых новостей, занимаются пропагандой».

Зафиксированы случаи отказов в обслуживании росграждан на территории Норвегии. Например, парк отдыха «Vesterland» (коммуна Согндал, западная Норвегия), имеющий в своем распоряжении 107 коттеджей и небольшую гостиницу, с 25 февраля 2022 г. отказался принимать туристов из России из-за событий на Украине. С 9 марта 2022 г. гостиничная сеть «Enter Tromse» (состоит из пяти небольших отелей и апартаментов в центре г. Тромсё) отказалась принимать туристов из России по тем же причинам.

На практике также отмечены случаи проявления русофобии, в том числе нападения в общественных местах и оказание давления на работе. 14 марта 2022 г. в н.п. Хундорп (коммуна Сёр-Фрон, восточная Норвегия) 12-летняя уроженка Латвии Мария Ф. из-за телефонного разговора с матерью на русском языке подверглась нападению неизвестного. В результате она получила сильные ушибы. Нападающий, убегая, по-норвежски кричал «чертова русская». Проживающая в коммуне Ауре российская гражданка Екатерина Ю., которая работает воспитателем в детском саду, была приглашена на беседу с представителями муниципальных властей в связи с её публикациями на личной странице в социальной сети «Facebook» о конфликте на Украине («сигнал» властям поступил от ее коллеги по работе). Встреча состоялась 15 марта 2022 г. в администрации коммуны в присутствии приглашенного россиянкой адвоката. Беседа была записана на диктофон.

Зафиксирован резонансный случай отказа в предоставлении выходцам из России медицинских услуг. Врач клиники «Йелёй Фисиотерапи» («Jeloy Fysioterapi») в г. Мосс Т.Квамсдал отказал в записи на приём проживающей в Норвегии российской гражданке Елене К., которой необходимы регулярные инъекции препарата для снятия болей в позвоночнике. Зная, что Елена К. переехала в Норвегию из России, физиотерапевт позвонил и поинтересовался её отношением к событиям на Украине и Президенту Российской Федерации В.В.Путину, заявив при этом, что «не будет обслуживать пациента, который не осуждает войну на Украине». Не добившись однозначных ответов, врач порекомендовал нашей гражданке «посмотреть новости по телевизору» и перезвонить ему позже.

В то же время официальный Осло подчеркивает, что его реакция направлена на российские власти, а не российских граждан, которые ни в коей мере не должны отвечать за действия руководства России. На фоне усиления русофобии министерство иностранных дел Норвегии опубликовало в «Twitter» призыв заботиться о русских в норвежском обществе и бороться с разжиганием ненависти. Заявления властей получают и практическое подтверждение. После того, как были выявлены случаи дискриминации русских студентов, сотрудников вузов и научных центров, министерство по вопросам знаний разослало письма-инструкции в учебные заведения. В них обращалось внимание образовательных учреждений на необходимость уделять этой проблеме самое пристальное внимание.