Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🏅 The XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, one of the most prestigious contests of classical music in the world and the oldest in Russia, is to take place on June 19 – July 1, 2023. The event is organized with the support of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
☝️ The main purpose of the Competition is to reveal new talent. First held more than 50 years ago, the contest has spawned a great number of prominent pianists, violinists, cellists, singers etc. Van Cliburn, Denis Matsuev, Gidon Kremer, Mario Brunello and many other renowned musicians gained worldwide recognition with the help of Tchaikovsky Competition.
🎶 The XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition invites musicians from 16 to 32 years old to participate, show their talent and gain worldwide recognition. Traditionally the event includes 6 nominations with their own jury chairman: "piano", "violin", "cello", "solo singing", "woodwind instruments" and "brass instruments".
👉 Applications are accepted until April 16. The participation is free.
☝️ The main purpose of the Competition is to reveal new talent. First held more than 50 years ago, the contest has spawned a great number of prominent pianists, violinists, cellists, singers etc. Van Cliburn, Denis Matsuev, Gidon Kremer, Mario Brunello and many other renowned musicians gained worldwide recognition with the help of Tchaikovsky Competition.
🎶 The XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition invites musicians from 16 to 32 years old to participate, show their talent and gain worldwide recognition. Traditionally the event includes 6 nominations with their own jury chairman: "piano", "violin", "cello", "solo singing", "woodwind instruments" and "brass instruments".
👉 Applications are accepted until April 16. The participation is free.
🎙President of Russia Vladimir #Putin on talks with #Ukraine:
💬Not we, but the Ukrainian leadership announced it would not hold any talks. Moreover, the current Ukrainian President signed the corresponding decree prohibiting any talks. This is why I understand your concerns, share them, and of course we are ready to consider any of your proposals. But we never rejected talks – it was the Ukrainian side, they even published a decree.
❓What do they want from us?
🔗https://is.gd/Uyr4YY
💬Not we, but the Ukrainian leadership announced it would not hold any talks. Moreover, the current Ukrainian President signed the corresponding decree prohibiting any talks. This is why I understand your concerns, share them, and of course we are ready to consider any of your proposals. But we never rejected talks – it was the Ukrainian side, they even published a decree.
❓What do they want from us?
🔗https://is.gd/Uyr4YY
President of Russia
Meeting with heads of delegations of African states
Vladimir Putin received heads of delegations of African states in the Constantine Palace.
🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, 15 June 2023 (excerpts)
🔹#Ukraine
As a result of the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant due to prolonged shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces, 36 settlements in Kherson Region were flooded.
A large-scale humanitarian operation has been taking place in this Russian region over the last few days. Russian Emergencies Ministry workers rescued almost 2,000 people, among them hundreds of children.
While Russia is making every effort to save the residents of the affected areas and to provide them with essential supplies, Kiev continues to target civilian sites.
🔹#NuclearDeterrence
Russia is fully committed to the principle of the inadmissibility of a nuclear war. There can be no winners in such a war, and it must never be waged.
The hypothetical use of nuclear weapons is only possible under extraordinary circumstances for purely defensive purposes.
Read in full👉https://is.gd/WvyHTE
🔹#Ukraine
As a result of the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant due to prolonged shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces, 36 settlements in Kherson Region were flooded.
A large-scale humanitarian operation has been taking place in this Russian region over the last few days. Russian Emergencies Ministry workers rescued almost 2,000 people, among them hundreds of children.
While Russia is making every effort to save the residents of the affected areas and to provide them with essential supplies, Kiev continues to target civilian sites.
🔹#NuclearDeterrence
Russia is fully committed to the principle of the inadmissibility of a nuclear war. There can be no winners in such a war, and it must never be waged.
The hypothetical use of nuclear weapons is only possible under extraordinary circumstances for purely defensive purposes.
Read in full👉https://is.gd/WvyHTE
⚡️ Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops General Lieutenant Igor Kirillov on US military-biological activity
▪️ On US Walter Reed Army Institute of Research branches
The Institute has four branches all over the world, every one of them has a high-containment laboratory and a network of departments, which gather samples and transport strains.
📑Documents acquired during the special military operation prove the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research connection to the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency and its key contractor – the Metabiota company.
▪️ On Kharkov-based Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine involvement in American UP-8 and P-444 programs
This involved studying the migration routes of migratory birds and selecting and transmitting strains of avian influenza virus with high epidemic potential and capable of crossing the interspecies barrier abroad.
The consequences of such programmes for epizootic in the territory of the Russian Federation are yet to be evaluated.
In the result of infected birds migration from Ukraine to Russia, avian influenza morbidity rate has increased significantly.
▪️ On incidents at American high-containment laboratories
🦠The unacceptably high risk of accidents in U.S. biolaboratories is one of the reasons for their withdrawal from national jurisdiction and transfer to the territory of third countries, including Ukraine.
This explains the deterioration of the epidemic situation in their locations, the emergence of diseases that are not typical of these regions and their vectors.
***
👉 The United States, with the support of its allies, are conducting large-scale military-biological research aimed at finding effective methods of using infectious disease agents.
We see this as another argument in favour of an international investigation of U.S. military and biological activities.
Read in full: https://vk.cc/coUa4s
▪️ On US Walter Reed Army Institute of Research branches
The Institute has four branches all over the world, every one of them has a high-containment laboratory and a network of departments, which gather samples and transport strains.
📑Documents acquired during the special military operation prove the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research connection to the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency and its key contractor – the Metabiota company.
▪️ On Kharkov-based Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine involvement in American UP-8 and P-444 programs
This involved studying the migration routes of migratory birds and selecting and transmitting strains of avian influenza virus with high epidemic potential and capable of crossing the interspecies barrier abroad.
The consequences of such programmes for epizootic in the territory of the Russian Federation are yet to be evaluated.
In the result of infected birds migration from Ukraine to Russia, avian influenza morbidity rate has increased significantly.
▪️ On incidents at American high-containment laboratories
🦠The unacceptably high risk of accidents in U.S. biolaboratories is one of the reasons for their withdrawal from national jurisdiction and transfer to the territory of third countries, including Ukraine.
This explains the deterioration of the epidemic situation in their locations, the emergence of diseases that are not typical of these regions and their vectors.
***
👉 The United States, with the support of its allies, are conducting large-scale military-biological research aimed at finding effective methods of using infectious disease agents.
We see this as another argument in favour of an international investigation of U.S. military and biological activities.
Read in full: https://vk.cc/coUa4s
Ambassador’s Comment
I read another opus by Mr. Eyal "How the Ukraine war is changing Russia’s outlook", published in the Opinion section of the Straits Times on June 20, 2023.
The impressions are painful. It is as if everything is turned upside down in the author's head.
Let's take a look.
Among the characteristic signs of the evolving Russian outlook under the conditions of the hybrid war unleashed by the West against Russia since the crisis in Ukraine, Mr. Eyal refers, firstly, to the landslide deterioration of its economic situation; secondly, cultivating an anti-Western campaign there and returning to the use of the national liberation movements in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America for opportunistic interests, and finally, the saber-rattling of nuclear weapons as the only criterion for Russia's great power status.
Let's try to give a short answer.
In Ukraine, a special military operation continues, the goals of which are salvation and construction, not destruction.
The Russian economy, contrary to Eyal's assertions, is far from collapse. It is enough to read at least excerpts from Russian President Mr. V.V.Putin’s speech at SPIEF 2023: successful coping with Western sanctions, positive economic growth (2%), lower inflation, increased industrial activity, rise in other sectors, especially in agriculture, transition to innovative ways of development.
As for the Global South, the states of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Russia really enjoys authority and respect among them. But this state of affairs stems not from selfish interests, but from the common commitment of our countries to the emerging multipolar world, free from the colonial legacy. The foundations of such a world and the contours of this great future-oriented project are already being laid on such platforms as BRICS, ASEAN, SCO, CIS, African Union, CELAC and many others.
And finally, the last. What kind of nuclear saber-rattling can we talk about if it was the United States and its NATO allies who led the way to breaking the foundations of global strategic stability, modernized and built up nuclear weapons, moved the military-bloc infrastructure closer to the Russian borders, consistently engaged in bringing the confrontational NATO infrastructure to Asia and the Pacific. This is despite the fact that on the part of Russia there was no lack of goodwill and desire to ensure equal and indivisible security, both in the form of proposals for a European security treaty, and initiatives to convene a summit of permanent members of the UN Security Council to revitalize the principles of the UN Charter and to recall that nuclear war should not be fought. The relevant P-5 Statement on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races could be regarded as a prelude.
In our opinion, everything should be clear to any unprejudiced person. But apparently this is not so for Mr. Eyal. So he is trying to put on the same level the aggressive West and the world majority opposing it, headed by Russia, China, India and other countries. So he is trying to push the changed realities into the bosom of the hackneyed ideas of the Cold War and turn everything upside down.
But it doesn't work out very well. The author's arguments do not stand up to scrutiny.
I read another opus by Mr. Eyal "How the Ukraine war is changing Russia’s outlook", published in the Opinion section of the Straits Times on June 20, 2023.
The impressions are painful. It is as if everything is turned upside down in the author's head.
Let's take a look.
Among the characteristic signs of the evolving Russian outlook under the conditions of the hybrid war unleashed by the West against Russia since the crisis in Ukraine, Mr. Eyal refers, firstly, to the landslide deterioration of its economic situation; secondly, cultivating an anti-Western campaign there and returning to the use of the national liberation movements in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America for opportunistic interests, and finally, the saber-rattling of nuclear weapons as the only criterion for Russia's great power status.
Let's try to give a short answer.
In Ukraine, a special military operation continues, the goals of which are salvation and construction, not destruction.
The Russian economy, contrary to Eyal's assertions, is far from collapse. It is enough to read at least excerpts from Russian President Mr. V.V.Putin’s speech at SPIEF 2023: successful coping with Western sanctions, positive economic growth (2%), lower inflation, increased industrial activity, rise in other sectors, especially in agriculture, transition to innovative ways of development.
As for the Global South, the states of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Russia really enjoys authority and respect among them. But this state of affairs stems not from selfish interests, but from the common commitment of our countries to the emerging multipolar world, free from the colonial legacy. The foundations of such a world and the contours of this great future-oriented project are already being laid on such platforms as BRICS, ASEAN, SCO, CIS, African Union, CELAC and many others.
And finally, the last. What kind of nuclear saber-rattling can we talk about if it was the United States and its NATO allies who led the way to breaking the foundations of global strategic stability, modernized and built up nuclear weapons, moved the military-bloc infrastructure closer to the Russian borders, consistently engaged in bringing the confrontational NATO infrastructure to Asia and the Pacific. This is despite the fact that on the part of Russia there was no lack of goodwill and desire to ensure equal and indivisible security, both in the form of proposals for a European security treaty, and initiatives to convene a summit of permanent members of the UN Security Council to revitalize the principles of the UN Charter and to recall that nuclear war should not be fought. The relevant P-5 Statement on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races could be regarded as a prelude.
In our opinion, everything should be clear to any unprejudiced person. But apparently this is not so for Mr. Eyal. So he is trying to put on the same level the aggressive West and the world majority opposing it, headed by Russia, China, India and other countries. So he is trying to push the changed realities into the bosom of the hackneyed ideas of the Cold War and turn everything upside down.
But it doesn't work out very well. The author's arguments do not stand up to scrutiny.
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🤝 More than 900 agreements were signed at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (#SPIEF2023) for total worth of 3.86 trillion rubles
This refers only to those agreements that are not protected by non-disclosure agreements.
💼150 delegates from 25 “unfriendly” countries took part in the #SPIEF, many of them participating incognito, as everybody is interested in the development of Eurasian cooperation.
Anton Kobyakov, Advisor to the Russian President, said this at a press conference on the SPIEF results.
❗️In total, 17,000 persons from 130 countries took part in the forum, with the most numerous delegations coming from:
🇦🇪 the UAE;
🇨🇳 China;
🇮🇳 India;
🇲🇲 Myanmar;
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan;
🇨🇺 Cuba;
🇺🇸 the USA.
👉🏻 The forum was attended by 150 high-ranking officials from foreign countries, with the President of the UAE leading the guest country delegation at SPIEF. The President of Algeria and the Prime Minister of Cuba were also in attendance, and six African leaders arrived for talks with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
🔗 https://t.me/RoscongressDirect/4406
This refers only to those agreements that are not protected by non-disclosure agreements.
💼150 delegates from 25 “unfriendly” countries took part in the #SPIEF, many of them participating incognito, as everybody is interested in the development of Eurasian cooperation.
Anton Kobyakov, Advisor to the Russian President, said this at a press conference on the SPIEF results.
❗️In total, 17,000 persons from 130 countries took part in the forum, with the most numerous delegations coming from:
🇦🇪 the UAE;
🇨🇳 China;
🇮🇳 India;
🇲🇲 Myanmar;
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan;
🇨🇺 Cuba;
🇺🇸 the USA.
👉🏻 The forum was attended by 150 high-ranking officials from foreign countries, with the President of the UAE leading the guest country delegation at SPIEF. The President of Algeria and the Prime Minister of Cuba were also in attendance, and six African leaders arrived for talks with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
🔗 https://t.me/RoscongressDirect/4406
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⚡️ More than 900 agreements were signed at SPIEF for total worth of 3.86 trillion rubles
This refers only to those agreements that are not protected by non-disclosure agreements.
150 companies from 25 “unfriendly” countries took part in the SPIEF, many…
This refers only to those agreements that are not protected by non-disclosure agreements.
150 companies from 25 “unfriendly” countries took part in the SPIEF, many…
🎥 Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov’s interview with RT TV Channel on the sidelines of the 26th St Petersburg International Economic Forum
📍 St Petersburg, June 16, 2023
🔗 Read in full: https://is.gd/eUGYd5
Key talking points:
🔹 We can no longer rely on the promises and the agreements signed with the West which were presented as a foundation for developing constructive partnership. <...> The West has “lost” Russia at this point of history.
🔹 The dominant trend today is the awareness of the need to regionalise the development processes. This includes the #SCO and, in a wider sense, the Greater Eurasian Partnership, which President Vladimir Putin mentioned at the #RussiaASEAN Summit a few years ago.
🔹 The Anglo-Saxons and their ilk are bringing pressure to bear across the board, including on our closest #CSTO allies. The Gulf Arab countries are not an exception. I would say that the Western methods are boorish. I cannot think of another word.
🔹 Our relations with the Africans and our other partners are not based on money. What we are trying to do is identify projects that meet the interests of both sides.
🔹 #BRICS will expand, with the countries representing major Arab, or Islamic civilisation in a broader sense, joining it. This will strengthen the multipolar principles that we are discussing now and that are objectively taking shape.
📍 St Petersburg, June 16, 2023
🔗 Read in full: https://is.gd/eUGYd5
Key talking points:
🔹 We can no longer rely on the promises and the agreements signed with the West which were presented as a foundation for developing constructive partnership. <...> The West has “lost” Russia at this point of history.
🔹 The dominant trend today is the awareness of the need to regionalise the development processes. This includes the #SCO and, in a wider sense, the Greater Eurasian Partnership, which President Vladimir Putin mentioned at the #RussiaASEAN Summit a few years ago.
🔹 The Anglo-Saxons and their ilk are bringing pressure to bear across the board, including on our closest #CSTO allies. The Gulf Arab countries are not an exception. I would say that the Western methods are boorish. I cannot think of another word.
🔹 Our relations with the Africans and our other partners are not based on money. What we are trying to do is identify projects that meet the interests of both sides.
🔹 #BRICS will expand, with the countries representing major Arab, or Islamic civilisation in a broader sense, joining it. This will strengthen the multipolar principles that we are discussing now and that are objectively taking shape.
🇷🇺🇨🇳 On June 20, the first Russian-Chinese consultations on biological security in an inter-agency format took place in Moscow .
An exchange of biological security threat assessments was carried out.
☝️ Particular attention was paid to the military and biological activities of the United States and strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). The issues of bilateral cooperation in the field of biosecurity were discussed.
🤝 The meeting confirmed the unity of approaches of Russia and China to the biological security. The need for further close coordination and constructive interaction both in bilateral format and at relevant multilateral fora, primarily within the framework of the BTWC, the UN and the SCO was noted.
🔗 https://is.gd/FRQXhT
An exchange of biological security threat assessments was carried out.
☝️ Particular attention was paid to the military and biological activities of the United States and strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). The issues of bilateral cooperation in the field of biosecurity were discussed.
🤝 The meeting confirmed the unity of approaches of Russia and China to the biological security. The need for further close coordination and constructive interaction both in bilateral format and at relevant multilateral fora, primarily within the framework of the BTWC, the UN and the SCO was noted.
🔗 https://is.gd/FRQXhT
Forwarded from Russian Mission to ASEAN
🗓 On June 21, Russia 🇷🇺 and Cambodia 🇰🇭 co-chaired 2nd ASEAN Regional Forum (#ARF) Workshop on Terminology in the Field of Security of and in the Use of ICTs in the Context of Confidence Building. More than 17 ARF Members took part in the meeting.
🔹️Representatives of specialized government agencies and academia discussed topical issues related to using specific terminology, shared their national experience and approaches in developing terminology in the field of security of and in the use of #ICTs. The participants also touched upon terminological aspects in the context of the work on universal #UN convention on countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes.
#ARF #ICT
🔹️Representatives of specialized government agencies and academia discussed topical issues related to using specific terminology, shared their national experience and approaches in developing terminology in the field of security of and in the use of #ICTs. The participants also touched upon terminological aspects in the context of the work on universal #UN convention on countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes.
#ARF #ICT
Forwarded from Russian Mission to ASEAN
🗓 On June 21, delegation of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 headed by the Rear Admiral Konstantin Zadorin took part in the #ASEAN Regional Forum Security Policy Conference (#ASPC) in Jakarta 🇮🇩.
🔹️Participants exchanged views on international and regional issues of common concern, with a focus on emerging security challenges in the region and the world, measures for building trust and strengthening solidarity and cooperation among the #ARF members.
#ARF #ASPC #ASEAN
🔹️Participants exchanged views on international and regional issues of common concern, with a focus on emerging security challenges in the region and the world, measures for building trust and strengthening solidarity and cooperation among the #ARF members.
#ARF #ASPC #ASEAN
🇷🇺MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on organ trade in #Ukraine:
💬We have talked many times at our briefings and provided facts to show that Ukraine is quickly becoming a global hub for illegal #organ harvesting. A recent documentary titled "Tanks for Kidneys" provided more evidence of Kiev using its wounded service personnel as organ donors.
❗️These horrible procedures would have been impossible without the consent of the Kiev regime’s top leaders because they have been formalised by law. Ukraine has become a bonanza for criminals. Illegal transplantology specialists are raking in huge money, and they are not planning to stop.
Read the briefing in full👉 https://is.gd/aPLboe
📽WATCH the documentary in full: https://rtd.rt.com/films/tanks-for-kidneys/
💬We have talked many times at our briefings and provided facts to show that Ukraine is quickly becoming a global hub for illegal #organ harvesting. A recent documentary titled "Tanks for Kidneys" provided more evidence of Kiev using its wounded service personnel as organ donors.
❗️These horrible procedures would have been impossible without the consent of the Kiev regime’s top leaders because they have been formalised by law. Ukraine has become a bonanza for criminals. Illegal transplantology specialists are raking in huge money, and they are not planning to stop.
Read the briefing in full👉 https://is.gd/aPLboe
📽WATCH the documentary in full: https://rtd.rt.com/films/tanks-for-kidneys/
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Tanks for Kidneys
Investigating cases of organ trafficking in Ukraine