💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:

US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy stated the significance of developing humanitarian connections between the US and the Russian people, adding that acquiring proficiency in English does not compromise one’s sense of patriotism.

However, she refrained from discussing the extent to which the United States supports the so-called NGOs involved in subversive activities in our country.

Additionally, there was no mention of Washington’s openly declared objective to achieve Russia’s “strategic defeat”. Exactly. There can be no country without a people. So, what the Americans want is to inflict a strategic defeat on our people.

She also refrained from acknowledging that the US is providing long-range weapons to the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, enabling it to carry out terrorist attacks against the Russian people.

Moreover, there was no acknowledgment of the fact that the US is allocating billions for the bloodshed it has provoked and organised for many years.

She did not say any of that. But I will. I will also add: Lynne, stop lying; instead, support your fellow citizens.

At the World Youth Festival in Sochi, young people from America expressed their desire to foster friendship with Russia (see the video). Perhaps it is time for the Embassy to personally welcome not those who are against Russia but those who support it, especially considering they are American citizens. Are you up to the challenge?

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the special session of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Antalya (March 1, 2024)

Key talking points:

• Multipolarity is today’s reality. Not by design to challenge the West, but as a natural progression driven primarily by economic advancement.

• The centre of global development has shifted to the Asia-Pacific region, primarily to South and East Asia. In general, Eurasia is now the engine of the world's development. The Euro-Atlantic has already lost this role.

• A draft treaty that we prepared jointly with China, which prohibits the introduction of any weapons in outer space and aims to prevent an arms race in outer space, has been on the table at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva for 15 years or even longer. The Americans are blocking it. Now they have decided to blame us for it.

🤷‍♂️ We are not anticipating any changes that the US elections will bring.

• Russia is actively engaged in restoring Palestinian unity. The division between the Palestinians (Fatah and Hamas, the West Bank and Gaza) weakens their position and hampers their ability to have meaningful conversations with the international community.

❗️ Our Western colleagues must abandon colonial thinking, stop living at the expense of others, and refrain from adopting arrogant, essentially racist, approaches to international relations.

• Chisinau regime, which is following in the footsteps of the Kiev regime: cancelling everything Russian, discriminating against the Russian language in all spheres and, together with the Ukrainians, putting serious economic pressure on Transnistria.

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BRICS EXPRESSES INTERESTS OF GLOBAL MAJORITY, SAYS RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL AIDE USHAKOV

Russia took the rotating presidency of the BRICS group in 2024. Yury Ushakov, Russian presidential foreign policy aide, has granted TASS an interview in which he previewed Moscow's priorities, prospects for BRICS development and expansion, and commented on the West's attempts to impede the association’s activities.

Read in full: https://tass.com/politics/1755449/

❗️This year Moscow is hosting the Russian Energy Week International Forum on 26-28 September 2024.

Russian Energy Week International Forum (REW) is a key international event to address the most pressing issues in the energy sector.

The Forum has been held since 2017 and has immediately become the most important energy efficiency event in Russia or abroad.

🌐The Forum is attended by government officials from various countries, heads of major energy companies and organizations, scientists, and experts. Last year, in total, over 5,000 delegates from 84 countries and territories took part in REW-2023.

ℹ️ More information is available at the official website: https://rusenergyweek.com/en/

🎙Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Antalya, March 2, 2024 (excerpts):

💬The #West is using the current international situation to push through its rules, on which it believes the world order must be based. In fact, when you start analysing these #rules, they signify only the [Western countries’] desire to continue acting in neocolonial ways, to live at the expense of others. We can see this in the events unfolding in Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, including the East China Sea and other regions of the world.

We believe that the #GlobalMajority understands that it is necessary to go back to the roots and to the principles of the #UN laid down by the founding fathers, which the West is now simply not only ignoring, but also flagrantly violating.

🔗 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1936336/

📰 Excerpts from Aide to the President of Russia for Foreign Policy Yuri Ushakov's interview (March 5, 2024)

💬Russia has never set BRICS in opposition to other international platforms, be it the Group of 20 or the Group of Seven.

Moreover, in all of their actions, statements and declarations, as well as in practice, BRICS nations show openness to a fair and equal dialogue. Together, we call for building horizontal network ties between various regional and sub-regional integration processes in Eurasian, African and Latin American countries. It is particularly about platforms such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). By the way, the EAEU maintains robust cooperation with its Chinese partners, particularly in implementing Beijing’s Belt and Road project. I would like to emphasize that all these processes are expected to accelerate and become more eventful.

👉Read in full: https://vk.cc/cvc8fl

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions during a special session of a large MGIMO discussion programme combined with the 7th Global Forum of Young Diplomats, Russia and Its Role in Shaping a Multipolar World (Sochi, March 4, 2024)

🔹 Western priorities in relations with Russia
🔹 The modern concept of multipolarity
🔹 The role of the UN in international relations
🔹 EU plans to interfere in the Russian presidential election
🔹 Fighting the politicisation of sport
🔹 Russia's relations with its closest partners
🔹 Russia-US relations


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#CrimeanBridge

What is interesting are the words said by Western figures, including the response of German politicians when the truth about the recording of conversations between German generals was revealed. Some of them are concerned there was a leak from a secure line. The fact that German weapons and the personnel servicing them are going to be used to attack the Russian Federation, including the Crimean Bridge and ammo depots, is not surprising. They wonder why the secure line turned out to be not so secure. This says a lot.

#Election2024

We have accumulated a lot of evidence on how the EU embassies in Moscow are preparing for our presidential elections. I am referring to interference mechanisms, certain “supporting projects” for the non-systemic opposition – in short, things that embassies have no right to address.

#RussiaUS

The Americans approach us every now and then. They have asked us not to deploy weapons in space. They have asked for a meeting. As if nothing happened. They say they must defeat us on the battlefield in Ukraine but other than that, let’s discuss strategic issues. President Vladimir Putin said that they are not serious and it goes against the natural course of things.

⚛️ On March 6, 2024, President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (#IAEA) Rafael Grossi.

💬 President Putin: Russia continues to cooperate with the IAEA in a lot of very important areas and remains an undisputed world leader in this area. We not only use but actively promote nuclear energy and consider it an environmentally friendly form of energy; we do everything to improve the safety of nuclear facilities.

• We are building new power plants according to today’s principles: the Kursk-2 NPP uses fast neutrons. We are making small stations and developing a nuclear fleet. A small floating nuclear power plant was installed in the north.

• All this is in great demand not only in Russia, but also in the economies and energy sectors of the whole world. And we are ready to share what we have developed with all our interested partners.

• We are implementing numerous projects in many countries with your assistance and support.

• I know that you have particularly sensitive and important issues on the agenda of our meeting today, and we, of course, are ready to discuss them and do everything to ensure security in any place where we are in one way or another involved in nuclear energy.

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