🎙 President Vladimir Putin during his address to the Federal Assembly:

💬The West wants to see a dependent, dying space in Russia’s place.

❗️If Russia is not strong, no stable world order is possible.

🔗http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73585

🎙President Vladimir #Putin during his Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly:

💬We did not start the war in #Donbass, but we will do everything to end it, to eradicate Nazism and to protect our sovereignty and ensure security of our citizens.

👉Read in full: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73585

🇷🇺President Vladimir #Putin on traditional values:

💬We can see what is taking place in some countries where moral standards and the family are being deliberately destroyed and entire nations are pushed to extinction and decadence. We have chosen life.

❗️Russia has been and remains a stronghold of the traditional values on which human civilisation stands. Our choice is supported by the majority of people in the world, including millions in Western countries.

🔗 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73585

⏰️ Only a few hours left until the ASEAN-Russia Young Diplomats Summit kicks off in Sochi, Russia 🇷🇺.

It is a great opportunity for the young participants to discuss achievements and prospects of the #ASEANRussia cooperation as well as to come up with fresh ideas that will pave the way for new creative initiatives to empower youth and increase their opportunities to be involved in the desicion-making for the benefit of the well-being of our nations.

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🎙 President Vladimir Putin's address to the participants in the opening ceremony of the World Youth Festival

💬 Our country has already held three of these large youth forums, and each time they confirmed that there are no borders or dividing lines for younger generations. Here you can interact with whomever you wish and find the knowledge and experience you need.

This was proven by the hundreds of thousands of applications to take part in the festival that we received from 190 countries. The only thing we regret is not being able to accept all of them.

Right now, representatives of almost 300 ethnic groups are gathered here, on this stage. Here in Russia, we know very well how valuable this diversity is, and what a powerful driver of progress and mutual spiritual enrichment it is. <...>

☝️ Multi-ethnic unity is our supreme value, and it has largely shaped the principles by which our state and society live and develop today.

I am speaking about equality and justice, traditions of a strong family and mutual assistance, about serving one’s Fatherland and feeling responsibility for its destiny. I know that these values are shared by the vast majority of the Earth’s inhabitants.

This is why we must take care of them and defend them together, fulfil our dreams together, and help each other to make the lives of billions of people better. We must work together for the generations to come, fight poverty and terrorism, diseases and drug trafficking, preserve the unique natural riches, cultural heritage, and all the beauty and diversity of the planet.

This world has no place for racism, dictatorship, double standards or lies, and people are free to speak their language and follow the beliefs and traditions of their ancestors. <...>

🤝 I am confident that you will get a colossal charge of positive emotion from the festival and return home with love for Russia.

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Proud to welcome #ASEAN friends in Sochi 🇷🇺 for the first ASEAN-Russia Young Diplomats Summit.

Great discussions and fresh look at further development of people-to-people contacts and youth cooperation between ASEAN and Russia.

📍 Sochi, March 2

#ASEANRussia #WYF2024

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during a meeting with Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovakia Juraj Blanar (Antalya, March 2, 2024)

💬 It is a pleasure to meet you. We are observing the formation of Slovakia’s new government and the renewed emphasis on national interests in its foreign policy.

We prefer to collaborate with states where elected governments give top priority to national interests, as Slovakia, Hungary and many other countries do. We respect this.

We understand that, in addition to being a sovereign state, Slovakia is also a member of EU and NATO, which entails certain issues. In this regard, we appreciate even more the ability of Prime Minister Robert Fico and his government to form their own opinion on the global situation.

🤝 We are grateful for the invitation extended by Robert Fico to the descendants of the Slovak National Uprising participants to attend the 80th anniversary celebration of that event in August 2024. The President of Russia described it as a humane gesture, and we highly appreciate it.

We look forward to the resumption of interparliamentary relations. Both chambers of our parliament have always been open to such contacts. There is a group for cooperation with Slovak legislators. As far as I know, this work has been suspended or terminated altogether in your parliament.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has a long-standing relationship with Deputy Speaker of the National Council of Slovakia Andrej Danko, including when he held other positions.

🎙 President Vladimir Putin's address to the participants in the opening ceremony of the World Youth Festival

💬 Our country has already held three of these large youth forums, and each time they confirmed that there are no borders or dividing lines for younger generations. Here you can interact with whomever you wish and find the knowledge and experience you need.

This was proven by the hundreds of thousands of applications to take part in the festival that we received from 190 countries. The only thing we regret is not being able to accept all of them.

Right now, representatives of almost 300 ethnic groups are gathered here, on this stage. Here in Russia, we know very well how valuable this diversity is, and what a powerful driver of progress and mutual spiritual enrichment it is. <...>

☝️ Multi-ethnic unity is our supreme value, and it has largely shaped the principles by which our state and society live and develop today.

I am speaking about equality and justice, traditions of a strong family and mutual assistance, about serving one’s Fatherland and feeling responsibility for its destiny. I know that these values are shared by the vast majority of the Earth’s inhabitants.

This is why we must take care of them and defend them together, fulfil our dreams together, and help each other to make the lives of billions of people better. We must work together for the generations to come, fight poverty and terrorism, diseases and drug trafficking, preserve the unique natural riches, cultural heritage, and all the beauty and diversity of the planet.

This world has no place for racism, dictatorship, double standards or lies, and people are free to speak their language and follow the beliefs and traditions of their ancestors. <...>

🤝 I am confident that you will get a colossal charge of positive emotion from the festival and return home with love for Russia.

Read in full

#Opinion by Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova

💬 Take note that comments from Germany’s government agencies regarding the scandalous audio do not come through their official spokespersons or written statements posted on their verified internet resources. Instead, they are reported by the media, quoting unnamed sources or are monstrously multidirectional.

Thus, Olaf Scholz promises to sort things out, whereas Roderich Kiesewetter, deputy chair of Bundestag’s committee that supervises intelligence, does not see anything problematic in the failure of German counterintelligence and the military.

Now the German Defence Ministry leaked to the DPA information agency and the Tagesschau news service that the German military’s discussion of plans to attack the Crimean bridge had been intercepted. And all this is done anonymously again, which means there’s no need to take responsibility.

Is this surprising? Not at all. What does it reveal?

1. The absence of a single authority in Germany. The elites, authorities and the people do not hold each other responsible, nor is there any feedback. This is a clear indication of the lack of democracy.

2. The sole purpose of media outlets in Germany is to maintain the illusion of a popular democracy. All information is distorted, and its presentation is carefully curated, while the authorities evade responsibility.

3. There is a power within Germany’s state apparatus which remains invisible and unknown to German voters. It has nothing to do with the electoral system and currently governs Germany. Germans write about Schattenstaat – a shadow state. But all materials on this topic are ridiculed, deleted and censored, while the authors are labelled as conspiracy theorists.

☝️ I think the German people have an unprecedented opportunity to save themselves now – to pull at this thread and get government officials to engage in a direct discussion about what is going on in Germany, what the leaked conversation is all about, who is running the country and where they are taking it.