🇷🇺🇰🇿📞 President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev spoke over the phone with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to express deep condolences and solidarity with the Russian people over the tragic aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Dagestan.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev strongly condemned the barbaric missile attack on civilians in Sevastopol as well. Vladimir Putin thanked him for the words of support.

🤝 Both Sides emphasised willingness to build up cooperation in fighting terrorism.

The Russian President informed his counterpart about the results of his recent visits to Pyongyang and Hanoi.

Several aspects of further continued expansion development of Russia-Kazakhstan cooperation in the energy sector were also touched upon as well.

The Leaders agreed to maintain personal contacts, including at the #SCO summit in Astana on July 3–4.

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🇷🇺🇺🇿📞 In a telephone conversation with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev expressed deep condolences over the deaths of civilians and law enforcement officers in the terrorist attacks in Daghestan.

The Presidents discussed continued expansion of mutually beneficial Russia-Uzbekistan cooperation in the context of implementing the agreements reached following the President of Russia’s recent state visit to Tashkent.

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@_MariaZakharova is a fake (fan) account and, consequently, the whole article is bogus

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🎙️Комментарий Посольства относительно развития ситуации вокруг Дж.Ассанжа

▪︎Рассматриваем состоявшееся 24 июня в Лондоне освобождение Дж.Ассанжа из-под стражи как устранение одной из несправедливостей, объектом которых стал основатель «Викиликс». Надеемся, что это позволит журналисту восстановить серьезно пошатнувшееся в британской тюрьме здоровье и вернуться к полноценной жизни.

▪︎Вместе с тем очевидно, что вчерашнее событие – результат договоренностей Дж.Ассанжа и американской стороны, и еще предстоит увидеть, выполнит ли Вашингтон свою часть сделки. В любом случае заслуг британского правосудия в этом нет. Здешние власти сначала постановили лишить журналиста свободы и экстрадировать, а потом упустили возможность принять принципиальное решение об отказе от этой несправедливой и нелегитимной линии.

▪︎Все эти годы они действовали в интересах США и делали за них «грязную работу» по изоляции Дж.Ассанжа в рамках коллективного преследования, которое попирало основополагающие принципы свободы слова и прав человека. Теперь попросту отреагировали на отмашку из-за океана.

☝️На совести британского правительства и судебной системы навсегда останутся пять с лишним лет, которые основатель «Викиликс» провел в тяжелейших условиях одиночного заключения тюрьмы строгого режима, скорее предусмотренных для террористов, и те последствия, которые это имело для него лично и его семьи, а также для мировой журналистики и независимых СМИ в целом.

🇷🇺🇹🇷📞 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with President of the Republic of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

During telephone conversation President of the Republic of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned the heinous terrorist attack in Daghestan. He expressed solidarity with the Russian people, conveyed sincere condolences to the victims’ families and wished a speedy recovery to all the injured.

Vladimir Putin thanked his counterpart for his condolences and support. The Leaders agreed to continue close coordination in the fight against terrorism.

They also agreed to maintain further personal contacts, including at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) Summit in Astana on July 3–4.

#RussiaTürkiye

⚡️ The Foreign Ministry’s statement on retaliatory measures in response to the 14th package of EU sanctions against Russia

🔻 The European Union continues its confrontational policy with regard to Russia. The EU is trying to bring pressure to bear on the Russian Federation by introducing unilateral restrictions. On June 24, the EU countries approved the 14th package of sanctions. These actions are illegitimate from the international legal point of view, because they are taken in circumvention of the UN Security Council. They also lack prospects and can only undermine the Global Majority’s trust in the EU.

In response to these unfriendly steps, Russia has significantly expanded the list of representatives of European institutions and EU member states, who are banned from entering the Russian Federation under Federal Law On the Procedure for Leaving the Russian Federation and Entering the Russian Federation No 114-FZ dated August 15, 1996:

• representatives of the military and law enforcement agencies and EU countries’ government and commercial organisations, as well as citizens of EU member states responsible for rendering military assistance to the Kiev regime;

• employees of European institutions and EU countries’ government bodies implicated in persecuting Russian officials for alleged “illegal arrests and kidnappings from Ukrainian territories,” involved in organising a “special tribunal” for Russian leaders, officials who advocate confiscating Russian state assets or using revenues from them in the interests of the Kiev regime, officials responsible for introducing sanctions against Russia and trying to undermine its relations with other countries;

• civil activists and representatives of the scientific community notorious for their rhetoric.

The Russian stop-list also includes representatives of the Council of Europe, members of the legislative assemblies of the EU countries and their national delegations to PACE, who systematically coin aggressive statements targeting the Russian Federation.

☝️ Russia reaffirms that any unfriendly steps from the Western countries will not be left without a retaliation.

🇷🇺🇧🇾 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during a meeting with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko (Minsk, June 25, 2024)

💬 Thank you for your kind words about the foreign ministries of our countries. We do our best to achieve the strategic goals that you and President of Russia Vladimir Putin have set in foreign policy, and to organise our foreign political activities in a manner that provides diplomatic support for integration.

Yesterday, we signed the Joint Statement on the Main Foreign Policy Tasks of the Union Integration of Russia and Belarus. The statement directs us to always consider the interests of the Union State rather than the interests of Minsk or Moscow separately when strengthening our coordination.

All the agreements concerning the Shanghai Cooperation Organisations have been finalised. As the first act of the Summit in Astana, Belarus will be officially accepted as a full #SCO Member State. Minsk will participate in all events on par with the other members.

🌐 We can report on other matters as well. Yesterday, we held a detailed discussion about the #UN and the #OSCE. You are fortunate in that Belarus was never a member of the Council of Europe, so you did not have to withdraw.

Eurasian security are under discussion as well. Both you and Vladimir Putin have voiced your proposals.

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👉 Mr Aleinik and I discussed how to promote the concept of Eurasian security and get more like-minded Parties involved. I believe this concept has good prospects.

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⚡️ Foreign Ministry’s statement on retaliatory measures following EU restrictions against Russian media outlets

💬 In response to the May 17 decision of the EU Council, banning broadcasting by three Russian media outlets, including RIA Novosti, Izvestia MIC and Rossiyskaya Gazeta, effective from today, June 25, countermeasures are being introduced that limit access to broadcasting resources in the Russian Federation for media outlets of the EU member states and EU media operators that systemically spread false information about the special military operation.

The Russian Side has repeatedly warned at various levels that politically motivated persecution of Russian journalists and unjustified bans on Russian media outlets in the EU will not go unanswered.

This notwithstanding, Brussels and the capitals of the bloc’s countries preferred to further escalate the situation. By imposing another illegitimate ban, they forced Moscow to introduce symmetrical and proportional countermeasures. Responsibility for these developments rests solely with the EU leadership and the countries of this association that have supported this decision.

The Russian Side will revise its decision concerning the above-mentioned media operators, if restrictions against Russian media outlets are lifted.

👉 A list of media outlets of the EU member states and EU media operators, covered by retaliatory measures and restrictions limiting broadcasts and internet access on the territory of the Russian Federation.

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during a meeting with Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Igor Sergeyenko (Minsk, June 25, 2024)

💬 We appreciate the invitation to visit the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus as part of the Russian Foreign Ministry delegation’s official visit to the Republic of Belarus.

I would like to congratulate you in person on your election to this post in March. Without a doubt, you will focus your efforts not only on promoting the interests of the Republic of Belarus, but also the interests of the Union State. With 28 union programmes under its belt, the union’s integration processes have clearly picked up momentum over the past several years.

All of these programmes rely on solid legal framework. New goals have been set. Our countries have approved 31 priority areas for 2024-2026, which contain several hundred measures to be acted upon. Importantly, this work needs foreign policy support.

Yesterday, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Sergey Aleinik and I adopted a Joint Statement of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus on the key goals of the foreign policy dimension of the union integration of Russia and Belarus. We reviewed the status of the implementation of the action plan.

On a separate note, yesterday, we signed an expanded petition to the heads of several Eurasian organisations with a proposal to join in the development of a concept of continental security, which will be open to all Eurasian countries and have these countries themselves decide on ways to ensure reliable and indivisible security without the involvement of regional forces. All Euro-Atlantic security models failed miserably in matters of ensuring equality. As a matter of fact, all of them have been put at the service of the United States and its allies.

In preparation for the second High-Level International Conference “Eurasian Security: Reality and Prospects in a Transforming World” to be held this autumn, to which I was kindly invited (I will definitely go there), we will hold consultations with our Belarusian friends and other invitees. We will do our best to bring onboard sub-regional entities such as #CSTO, #CIS, #SCO, #ASEAN, #GCC, and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia. The agenda is quite fulfilling.

🕯 I appreciate your offering condolences in connection with the heinous criminal terrorist attacks in Dagestan and Sevastopol. We made tough demarches to the United States, because there is no doubt that without at least their tacit approval, and in fact direct technological participation, the terrorist attacks in Sevastopol would not have been possible.

The reaction to these atrocities coming from Washington and the European Union reveals that they will stoop to anything, including outright terrorism, in their ephemeral attempts to inflict a “strategic defeat” on the Russian Federation in every sense of these words.

I have no doubt whatsoever that the people of Europe do not need this at all. They need to address their own issues. However, the US-led elites have united behind yet another idea (after Napoleon and Hitler) to enslave and subjugate our country.

🤝 Just like we joined hands with our Belarusian friends to respond to the invaders before, there is no doubt that the Russian army and the people, with the support of Belarus and our other allies, will achieve every goal that President Vladimir Putin has set as part of the special military operation.

🎙️Embassy comment on attempts to whitewash NATO's role in the ongoing European security crisis

▪︎We took note of the hypocritical attempt by the UK Ministry of Defence to portray NATO as a guardian of peace, security, and freedom, while casting Russia as the "aggressor".

▪︎This dubious claim is contradicted by basic post-Cold War facts. Primarily, the full-scale armed aggression by NATO against Yugoslavia in 1999, followed by the unlawful secession of part of its territory, in violation of the UN Charter and other fundamental norms of international law.

▪︎NATO's key member states were extensively engaged in aggressive campaigns against Iraq and Libya, employing the alliance's infrastructure and military capabilities to serve their aims. <...>

▪︎To this set of "achievements" should be added the infamous decisions of the 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest, alleging that Ukraine and Georgia would eventually become members of NATO. <...>

▪︎The alliance's activities neither contain a positive agenda nor contribute to maintaining peace and security. A telling example is the abandonment of promises made to the leadership of the former USSR to create a space of common and indivisible security in Europe. Instead, the West chose a strategy of expanding its sphere of exclusive influence under NATO’s military-political umbrella. <...>

▪︎The leadership of the alliance and its key member states played a decisive role in igniting and sustaining the Ukrainian conflict, aimed solely at containing and inflicting a "strategic defeat" upon Russia. The unconstitutional coup d’etat in 2014 which brought into power Ukrainian nationalists with their Nazi cult of Bandera and Shukhevich; the burning of the Trade union house in Odessa; the eight-year military siege of Donbass and the blockade of Russian Crimea; the suppression of the Russian language and Orthodoxy; <...>

▪︎and, as of today, overt terrorist raids and shelling of peaceful Russian cities with NATO-supplied weapons, such as the strike on Sevastopol on Sunday – all these are links in a chain extending to Washington DC, London and Brussels.

☝️Attempts by the UK Ministry of Defence to cloak NATO's aggressive posture with "sheep’s clothing" of its own making are unconvincing. Russia has never threatened nor threatens any NATO country. On the contrary, as Western decision-makers and NATO officials continually tell us, it is NATO that has for many years been preparing for conflict with Russia.

❗In view of these circumstances our country will persevere in its efforts to assure its essential security interests on its western borders.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Sergey Aleinik (Minsk, June 24, 2024)

💬 Sergey Lavrov: I would like to once again express my gratitude to our Belarusian friends for your warm hospitality and excellent arrangements during my official trip to the Republic of Belarus.

Our talks were held in a trust-based and friendly atmosphere, were quite substantive and covered an extensive number of issues.

We focused on important international matters. We compared notes on numerous aspects of bilateral cooperation, including interministerial interaction and foreign policy alignment.

Key talking points:

• Our absolute priorities include foreign policy support for the Union integration and strengthening international positions of the Union State, the 25th Anniversary of which we will celebrate on December 8, 2024.

• We will provide every bit of assistance to our Belarusian allies in order to get them fully onboard at the #SCO and various #BRICS mechanisms as soon as possible.

• We condemn the Western countries’ actions that have led to the Ukraine crisis and the final collapse of the security system in Europe, based on the Euro-Atlantic principles. In this context, we have paid special attention to the prospects for creating a new architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia, inviting all countries in our common continent to cooperate in this process.

• Our proposal [on Eurasian security] is addressed to all those who are willing to consider the prospect for creating a new security system on an equitable basis with regard for the interests of all countries on the continent and based on the balance of these interests, excluding any outside interference.

• We reiterated our commitment to jointly uphold traditional values and the historical truth, and to prevent the rewriting of history and the glorification of Nazism.

• We noted the counterproductive consequences of politicising international cultural, humanitarian, scientific and sports relations.

• We focused on creating a common Union State space in defence and security. We noted that the joint regional grouping of troops and forces deployed in the Republic, as well as advanced Russian defence complexes and tactical nuclear weapons which reliably shield our common western borders in accordance with the decisions of the presidents of the two countries, are quite helpful in achieving this goal.

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🎙️Embassy comment regarding the developments surrounding Julian Assange

▪︎We regard the release of Julian Assange from custody on June 24 in London as the rectification of one of the many injustices faced by the founder of WikiLeaks. Hopefully, this will enable the journalist to improve his severely compromised health due to his incarceration in a British prison and to resume a normal life.

▪︎Nevertheless, this event is evidently the result of agreements between Mr Assange and the US side, and it remains to be seen whether Washington DC will fulfill its part of the bargain. In any case British justice can claim no credit for this outcome. The authorities initially decided to deprive the journalist of his freedom and to extradite him, and subsequently missed the opportunity to take a principled stand against this unjust and illegitimate course of action.

▪︎Throughout these years, they have acted in the interests of the United States, undertaking the "dirty work" of isolating Mr Assange as part of a collective persecution that trampled on the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and human rights. Now, they have simply responded to a directive from across the Atlantic.

☝️The British government and judicial system will forever bear the responsibility for the more than five years that the founder of WikiLeaks spent in the harshest conditions of solitary confinement in a high-security prison, conditions more befitting terrorists, and the repercussions this has had for him personally and for his family, as well as for global journalism and independent media at large.

✍️ President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the participants, organisers, and guests of the 12th St Petersburg International Legal Forum (June 26, 2024)

💬 The extensive agenda and impressive composition of the forum have made your meetings a major social event. In the course of substantive discussions, prominent legal scholars, experts, and practicing lawyers will exchange experience, discuss legislative innovations and initiatives and expand their professional contacts.

Russia invariably defends the principle of the rule of law both in its domestic life and in the international arena. I firmly believe that in present-day conditions, the generally accepted laws remain a solid foundation on which we should build to promote stability on the planet and protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states, as well as human and civil rights and freedoms. The key role of law is undeniable in solving global and regional problems, developing economic and humanitarian ties and, of course, combatting common threats.

🤝 Russia is the #BRICS chair country this year. Along with our partners, we are committed to developing effective legal regulation that can strengthen food and energy security and contribute to the protection of the environment and climate, as well as to the creation of fair rules for global trade and technological cooperation. We are ready to step up cooperation in these areas with other countries, above all from the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, and Latin America.

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7️⃣9️⃣ years ago, on June 26, 1945, The United Nations Charter was signed, which became the main result of the San Francisco Conference.
 
This fundamental document was signed by 50 participating countries, including the USSR as well as its constituent entities: the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. On behalf of the USSR, the UN Charter was signed by Andrey Gromyko.

The establishing of the UN – a universal international organization, the main goals of which are defined as the maintenance and strengthening of peace and security – was a natural consequence of the Second World War, an expression of the desire of the world community to resolve conflicts without global military action.

📃 The UN Charter is a fundamental international document mandating the main principles and norms of states’ international behaviour and regulating relations between states as well as the activities of UN agencies and organisations within its system.
 
🇺🇳 Today, the UN comprises 1️⃣9️⃣3️⃣ Member States, with its activities embracing every sphere of the planet’s international, political, economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian life through its specialised agencies, committees and sub-committees.
 
🇷🇺 Russia invariably remains committed to multilateralism and the UN’s coordinating role in world affairs, and is actively involved in the effort to reform and adapt the UN to new international realities.

🎙 From Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks during the UN Security Council open debate on "Effective Multilateralism through the Protection of the Principles of the UN Charter" (New York, April 24, 2023):

💬 It is our shared responsibility to preserve the UN as the enduring model of multilateralism and coordination of world politics. The key to success is working together, refusing to claim exclusivity and - I repeat once again - respecting the sovereign equality of states. This is what we all signed up to when we ratified the UN Charter.

#UNCharterIsOurRules

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Speaker of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Natalya Kochanova (Minsk, June 25, 2024)

💬 We are always in contact with members of parliament, especially our brothers and sisters. I would like to congratulate you in advance on the upcoming Independence Day of Belarus and the 80th anniversary of liberation from Nazi invaders. Speaker of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin will attend these celebrations on instructions from President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

One of our key tasks is to preserve our historical memory and prevent the revival of Nazism, especially in the context of a crusade against monuments to the liberators and the glorification of those who attempted to “conquer” Europe by imposing a fascist dictatorship on it. Our mission is especially important in light of attempts to glorify Nazism.

They are not only glorifying criminals and their memory and deeds but also Nazi practices. A totally racist and fascist regime of Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine has prohibited everything Russian, including the language, media outlets, culture and education. Even the use of Russian in public space can put you in the dock.

🕯 We are grateful for the condolences we have received over the terrorist attacks in Sevastopol and Dagestan. There can be little question that they were synchronised or that the attack on Sevastopol was masterminded in the United States. President Putin said many times that from the military-technical viewpoints the Ukrainians cannot independently launch ATACMS. Launch missions are determined by American experts, and data from American satellites is used to target these missiles.
 
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🤝 We are working on a security concept for the Union State and an agreement on security guarantees of the Union State on the principle of reciprocity.

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The main point of what is happening in the “creative minds” is that the #OSCE has fully discredited itself. The Russia-NATO Council has completely collapsed. We used to have extensive ties with the European Union. They were severed overnight. As President of Russia Vladimir Putin said, we should not wait until they deign to propose meeting again. We will develop our own formats with reliable partners. When the Western countries come to reason, they should approach us and we will see what they can offer. It will be our time to set conditions. We must not rely on them in strategically important areas of the economy and other matters that are essential to the state.

The OSCE and the Russia-NATO Council are formats that cover the Euro-Atlantic region, including Europe, the US and Canada. Located overseas, these countries are not concerned about the physical threats they create for Europe and to the south of Europe, treating it as an experiment.

The Euro-Atlantic security models have discredited themselves. We will create Eurasian security, a system that is open to all countries on the continent. Our doors will not be closed to Europe unless it builds its own firmly locked doors. We will not shut them out, but we plan to begin working with Eurasian structures such as the #SCO, the #CSTO, #ASEAN, the #GCC and the #CICA. Yesterday, Foreign Minister of Belarus Sergey Aleinik and I signed letters to these organisations outlining our vision of Eurasian security and inviting them to join the dialogue.

☝️ What prompted us was the international high-level conference, Eurasian Security: Reality and Prospects in the Transforming World, that Belarus hosted in 2023 during its tenure as the Chair of the CSTO. The second conference will take place this autumn. Speaking at the Russian Foreign Ministry on June 14, President of Russia Vladimir Putin confirmed his support of the Belarusian initiative to adopt a Eurasian charter of diversity and multipolarity in the 21st century. When we specify our approaches, it is advisable to also include parliamentarians in the contacts schedule.