🎙 Excerpt from Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova's weekly briefing on topical foreign policy issues (2 October 2024)
💬 We have taken note of the article published in the Spectator on September 21, 2024, titled It’s Time to Let Ukraine Join NATO. In it, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, with apparent seriousness, claims that granting Kiev NATO membership could send a "message to the Kremlin" and bring "faith, hope, and clarity" to the Ukrainian people. Notably absent, however, is any mention of love.
Such provocative remarks serve only to incite direct NATO involvement in an armed conflict with Russia.
Boris Johnson appears indifferent to the potential consequences, showing little regard for the lives of millions of people.
His cynicism was evident in April 2022 in Kiev, when he ordered that negotiations with Russia must be stopped and military operations must continue regardless of the casualties, up to the last Ukrainian.
☝️ This is the same Boris Johnson who claimed to have a deep affection for Russia, citing his name and education as reasons for his admiration. The global community must realise that personalities like Johnson and others from Western nations are pushing the world to the huge catastrophe.
We suggest he take a closer look at the recent statements made by President Vladimir Putin regarding our response to any potential NATO actions aimed at striking deep into our territory.
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💬 We have taken note of the article published in the Spectator on September 21, 2024, titled It’s Time to Let Ukraine Join NATO. In it, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, with apparent seriousness, claims that granting Kiev NATO membership could send a "message to the Kremlin" and bring "faith, hope, and clarity" to the Ukrainian people. Notably absent, however, is any mention of love.
Such provocative remarks serve only to incite direct NATO involvement in an armed conflict with Russia.
Boris Johnson appears indifferent to the potential consequences, showing little regard for the lives of millions of people.
His cynicism was evident in April 2022 in Kiev, when he ordered that negotiations with Russia must be stopped and military operations must continue regardless of the casualties, up to the last Ukrainian.
☝️ This is the same Boris Johnson who claimed to have a deep affection for Russia, citing his name and education as reasons for his admiration. The global community must realise that personalities like Johnson and others from Western nations are pushing the world to the huge catastrophe.
We suggest he take a closer look at the recent statements made by President Vladimir Putin regarding our response to any potential NATO actions aimed at striking deep into our territory.
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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Russia in Global Affairs magazine «The UN must recover its central role in coordinating actions by nations» (October 4, 2024)
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💬 The 79th Session of the UN General Assembly has recently completed the general debate, where President Vladimir Putin tasked me to represent the Russian Federation.
Does the Pact for the Future have a future?
Held as usual in the last week of September, the UN’s High-Level Week included the so-called Summit of the Future. The idea to convene it came from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and Russia has met this idea with understanding considering that the UN is sinking deeper and deeper into a crisis, and something has to be done about it. Russian diplomats joined efforts to prepare this meeting and acted in a sincere and honest way, even if we did not have any illusions in this regard. In fact, there were quite a few major UN events in the past which failed to go beyond bombastic declarations that were forgotten soon after their adoption.
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In 2015, the UN Summit on Sustainable Development adopted grand plans to fight poverty and inequality. In the end, they turned out to be empty promises in the face of the unwillingness of the Western countries to give up their neo-colonial practices of siphoning off the riches of the world for their own benefit. <...>
The current UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, just like Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon before him, has put forward an initiative under the slogan of giving a new start and resetting global cooperation.
This is a wonderful idea. Who could disagree?
But what global cooperation is there to talk about, when the West has trampled all those unshakeable values of globalisation we have been hearing about from everywhere for so many years. These perorations were designed to convince us that they would give everyone equal access to the goods of modern civilisation. Where is the inviolability of property, the presumption of innocence, freedom of expression, access to information, fair market competition under fair and constant rules?
How can we discuss global cooperation when the Western countries have unleashed a real war of sanctions against more than half, if not the majority, of the countries of the world, and the US dollar has been crudely turned into a weapon against undesirable countries? <...>
Key talking points:
• It is not too late to give the UN a new lease on life.
• It has gotten to the point where the West wants to turn the UN into an instrument for attaining itself-seeking goals.
• [The West is] hindering the badly needed change in the system of forming the UN Secretariat, where the key posts have been seized and are “inherited” by representatives of the Western minority.
• There must be an honest discussion by all UN member states, and not like a process in which the Pact for the Future was prepared – without a single plenary session of talks attended by all countries.
• Establishing a space of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia is crucial amid the all-encompassing processes unfolding in the macro-region.
• Our initiative is based on the understanding of the need for states and multilateral organisations of the Eurasian region to assume responsibility for ensuring their own security under the ‘Eurasian solutions to Eurasian problems’ formula.
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❗️ Today, the international community once again faces massive challenges, just like during World War II, which require united efforts rather than confrontation and desire of global dominance. Russia will always advocate collective efforts, truth and the rule of law, peace and cooperation in the interests of reviving the ideals set forth by the UN’s founding fathers.
🇺🇳 Working for the honest balance of the legitimate national interests of all countries, we can bring to life the purpose of the #UN as stated in its Charter: “To be a centre for harmonising the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.”
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💬 The 79th Session of the UN General Assembly has recently completed the general debate, where President Vladimir Putin tasked me to represent the Russian Federation.
Does the Pact for the Future have a future?
Held as usual in the last week of September, the UN’s High-Level Week included the so-called Summit of the Future. The idea to convene it came from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and Russia has met this idea with understanding considering that the UN is sinking deeper and deeper into a crisis, and something has to be done about it. Russian diplomats joined efforts to prepare this meeting and acted in a sincere and honest way, even if we did not have any illusions in this regard. In fact, there were quite a few major UN events in the past which failed to go beyond bombastic declarations that were forgotten soon after their adoption.
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In 2015, the UN Summit on Sustainable Development adopted grand plans to fight poverty and inequality. In the end, they turned out to be empty promises in the face of the unwillingness of the Western countries to give up their neo-colonial practices of siphoning off the riches of the world for their own benefit. <...>
The current UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, just like Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon before him, has put forward an initiative under the slogan of giving a new start and resetting global cooperation.
This is a wonderful idea. Who could disagree?
But what global cooperation is there to talk about, when the West has trampled all those unshakeable values of globalisation we have been hearing about from everywhere for so many years. These perorations were designed to convince us that they would give everyone equal access to the goods of modern civilisation. Where is the inviolability of property, the presumption of innocence, freedom of expression, access to information, fair market competition under fair and constant rules?
How can we discuss global cooperation when the Western countries have unleashed a real war of sanctions against more than half, if not the majority, of the countries of the world, and the US dollar has been crudely turned into a weapon against undesirable countries? <...>
Key talking points:
• It is not too late to give the UN a new lease on life.
• It has gotten to the point where the West wants to turn the UN into an instrument for attaining itself-seeking goals.
• [The West is] hindering the badly needed change in the system of forming the UN Secretariat, where the key posts have been seized and are “inherited” by representatives of the Western minority.
• There must be an honest discussion by all UN member states, and not like a process in which the Pact for the Future was prepared – without a single plenary session of talks attended by all countries.
• Establishing a space of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia is crucial amid the all-encompassing processes unfolding in the macro-region.
• Our initiative is based on the understanding of the need for states and multilateral organisations of the Eurasian region to assume responsibility for ensuring their own security under the ‘Eurasian solutions to Eurasian problems’ formula.
***
❗️ Today, the international community once again faces massive challenges, just like during World War II, which require united efforts rather than confrontation and desire of global dominance. Russia will always advocate collective efforts, truth and the rule of law, peace and cooperation in the interests of reviving the ideals set forth by the UN’s founding fathers.
🇺🇳 Working for the honest balance of the legitimate national interests of all countries, we can bring to life the purpose of the #UN as stated in its Charter: “To be a centre for harmonising the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.”
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🎙 Excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview to American Newsweek Magazine (7 October 2024)
❓ Question: As the Ukraine conflict continues, how different is Russia's position than in 2022 and how are the costs of conflict being weighed against the progress made toward strategic objectives?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: Our position is widely known and remains unchanged. Russia is open to a political and diplomatic settlement that should remove the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis.
It should aim to end the conflict rather than achieve a ceasefire. The West should stop supplying weapons, and Kiev should end the hostilities. Ukraine should return to its neutral, non-bloc and non-nuclear status, protect the Russian language, and respect the rights and freedoms of its citizens.
The Istanbul Agreements initialled on 29 March 2022 by the Russian and Ukrainian delegations could serve as a basis for the settlement. They provide for Kiev's refusal to join NATO and contain security guarantees for Ukraine while recognizing the realities on the ground at that moment. Needless to say, in over two years, these realities have considerably changed, including in legal terms.
On 14 June, President Vladimir Putin listed prerequisites for the settlement as follows:
🔸 complete Ukrainian army's withdrawal from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions;
🔸 recognition of territorial realities as enshrined in the Russian Constitution;
🔸 neutral, non-bloc, non-nuclear status for Ukraine;
🔸 its demilitarization and denazification;
🔸 securing the rights, freedoms and interests of Russian-speaking citizens;
🔸 and removal of all sanctions against Russia.
Kiev responded to this statement by an armed incursion into the Kursk Oblast on 6 August. Its patrons – the US and other NATO countries – seek to inflict a «strategic defeat» on Russia. Under the circumstances, we have no choice but to continue our special military operation until the threats posed by Ukraine are removed.
❗️ The costs of the conflict are greatest for Ukrainians, who are ruthlessly pushed by their own authorities to the war to be slaughtered there. For Russia, it is about defending its people and vital security interests.
Unlike Russia, the US keeps ranting about some sort of "rules," "way of life" and the like, apparently poorly understanding where Ukraine is and what the stakes in this war are.
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❓ Question: As the Ukraine conflict continues, how different is Russia's position than in 2022 and how are the costs of conflict being weighed against the progress made toward strategic objectives?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: Our position is widely known and remains unchanged. Russia is open to a political and diplomatic settlement that should remove the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis.
It should aim to end the conflict rather than achieve a ceasefire. The West should stop supplying weapons, and Kiev should end the hostilities. Ukraine should return to its neutral, non-bloc and non-nuclear status, protect the Russian language, and respect the rights and freedoms of its citizens.
The Istanbul Agreements initialled on 29 March 2022 by the Russian and Ukrainian delegations could serve as a basis for the settlement. They provide for Kiev's refusal to join NATO and contain security guarantees for Ukraine while recognizing the realities on the ground at that moment. Needless to say, in over two years, these realities have considerably changed, including in legal terms.
On 14 June, President Vladimir Putin listed prerequisites for the settlement as follows:
🔸 complete Ukrainian army's withdrawal from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions;
🔸 recognition of territorial realities as enshrined in the Russian Constitution;
🔸 neutral, non-bloc, non-nuclear status for Ukraine;
🔸 its demilitarization and denazification;
🔸 securing the rights, freedoms and interests of Russian-speaking citizens;
🔸 and removal of all sanctions against Russia.
Kiev responded to this statement by an armed incursion into the Kursk Oblast on 6 August. Its patrons – the US and other NATO countries – seek to inflict a «strategic defeat» on Russia. Under the circumstances, we have no choice but to continue our special military operation until the threats posed by Ukraine are removed.
❗️ The costs of the conflict are greatest for Ukrainians, who are ruthlessly pushed by their own authorities to the war to be slaughtered there. For Russia, it is about defending its people and vital security interests.
Unlike Russia, the US keeps ranting about some sort of "rules," "way of life" and the like, apparently poorly understanding where Ukraine is and what the stakes in this war are.
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Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova’s comment on Kiev regime using and planning to use chemical weapons
⚠️ Ukrainian armed formations continue to use toxic chemicals (chlorine, ammonia, ammonium nitrate, and sulfuric acid) against Russian military units, civilians, and local administration officials. These include substances listed under Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) schedules 2 (BZ) and 3 (chloropicrin) and the RCAs.
This behaviour is enabled by political backing and approval coming from Washington, Berlin, London, and Paris.
Russian experts have documented Ukraine's breaches of CWC provisions, as well as violations of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
Ukrainian armed formations also pose an environmental threat to chemical plants in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, and the Sumy, Kharkov, and Odessa regions.
The West has created an atmosphere of impunity that emboldens the Kiev regime as it proceeds to perpetrate larger-scale crimes involving toxic chemicals.
❌ We have credible information that, with Western support, Ukraine plans to stage a series of anti-Russia provocations in the special military operation zone. Preparations are underway to fabricate evidence to accuse Russia of CWC violations during combat operations. <...>
The motive behind this campaign is clear. No international legal standard will stop NATO countries from pursuing their stated goal of achieving a "strategic defeat" for Russia, especially when it involves chemical provocations under false flag, as used for long years in Syria.
Moreover, Ukraine’s close ties with Islamist-affiliated terrorist groups and nationalist-extremist groups in the Middle East and Africa underscore the very real threat of "chemical" terrorism coming from Ukrainian special services.
☝️ We caution Washington and its allies against "playing with fire," so as not to irreparably damage the CWC framework established in 1997.
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⚠️ Ukrainian armed formations continue to use toxic chemicals (chlorine, ammonia, ammonium nitrate, and sulfuric acid) against Russian military units, civilians, and local administration officials. These include substances listed under Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) schedules 2 (BZ) and 3 (chloropicrin) and the RCAs.
This behaviour is enabled by political backing and approval coming from Washington, Berlin, London, and Paris.
Russian experts have documented Ukraine's breaches of CWC provisions, as well as violations of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
Ukrainian armed formations also pose an environmental threat to chemical plants in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, and the Sumy, Kharkov, and Odessa regions.
The West has created an atmosphere of impunity that emboldens the Kiev regime as it proceeds to perpetrate larger-scale crimes involving toxic chemicals.
❌ We have credible information that, with Western support, Ukraine plans to stage a series of anti-Russia provocations in the special military operation zone. Preparations are underway to fabricate evidence to accuse Russia of CWC violations during combat operations. <...>
The motive behind this campaign is clear. No international legal standard will stop NATO countries from pursuing their stated goal of achieving a "strategic defeat" for Russia, especially when it involves chemical provocations under false flag, as used for long years in Syria.
Moreover, Ukraine’s close ties with Islamist-affiliated terrorist groups and nationalist-extremist groups in the Middle East and Africa underscore the very real threat of "chemical" terrorism coming from Ukrainian special services.
☝️ We caution Washington and its allies against "playing with fire," so as not to irreparably damage the CWC framework established in 1997.
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Russian Embassy to the UK
🎙 Excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview to American Newsweek Magazine (7 October 2024) ❓ Question: As the Ukraine conflict continues, how different is Russia's position than in 2022 and how are the costs of conflict being weighed against…
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: The world order needs be adjusted to the current realities.
Today the world is living through the "multipolar moment". Shifting towards the multipolar world order is a natural part of power rebalancing, which reflects objective changes in the world economy, finance and geopolitics.
The West waited longer than the others, yet it has also started to realize that this process is irreversible.
We are talking about strengthening new centres of power and decision-making in the Global South and East.
🤝 Instead of seeking hegemony, these centres acknowledge the importance of sovereign equality and civilizational diversity and support mutually beneficial cooperation and respect for each other's interests.
Multi-polarity manifests itself in the increasing role of regional associations, such as the EAEU, SCO, ASEAN, African Union, CELAC and others. BRICS has become a model of multilateral diplomacy. The UN should remain a forum for aligning the interests of all the countries.
We believe that all states, including the US, should comply with their obligations on an equal basis with others rather than disguise their legal nihilism with mantras of their exceptionality.
☝️ Here we are supported by the majority of countries, which see how international law is violated with complete impunity in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, just the way it had earlier been violated in Kosovo, Iraq, Libya and many other places.
Today the world is living through the "multipolar moment". Shifting towards the multipolar world order is a natural part of power rebalancing, which reflects objective changes in the world economy, finance and geopolitics.
The West waited longer than the others, yet it has also started to realize that this process is irreversible.
We are talking about strengthening new centres of power and decision-making in the Global South and East.
🤝 Instead of seeking hegemony, these centres acknowledge the importance of sovereign equality and civilizational diversity and support mutually beneficial cooperation and respect for each other's interests.
Multi-polarity manifests itself in the increasing role of regional associations, such as the EAEU, SCO, ASEAN, African Union, CELAC and others. BRICS has become a model of multilateral diplomacy. The UN should remain a forum for aligning the interests of all the countries.
We believe that all states, including the US, should comply with their obligations on an equal basis with others rather than disguise their legal nihilism with mantras of their exceptionality.
☝️ Here we are supported by the majority of countries, which see how international law is violated with complete impunity in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, just the way it had earlier been violated in Kosovo, Iraq, Libya and many other places.
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Комментарий Посольства в связи с антироссийскими ограничительными мерами Лондона
❌ Введение односторонних ограничительных мер против нашей страны уже стало рутиной для настроенного исключительно на конфронтацию Лондона. Но от этого не приобрело ни легитимности, ни эффективности.
Зато, судя по используемому в материалах Форин Офиса и, особенно, его руководителя языку, теперь ещё и свидетельствует об утрате профессионализма, окончательно превратившись в политическую показуху.
Удивление вызывает использованный на это раз предлог – некое «грубое пренебрежение» Конвенцией о запрещении химического оружия (КЗХО).
❗️ Россия строго придерживается норм международного права, включая положения Женевских конвенций и Химконвеции. Химическое оружие отсутствует в арсеналах наших Вооруженных сил, что подтверждено международными инспекциями.
Ссылки на применение мифического «Новичка» и вовсе смехотворны. Напомним, что британцы отказались следовать установленным процедурам и взаимодействовать с нашей страной для установления истины после провокации в Солсбери в 2018 году. Впоследствии так и не представили результатов своего расследования, но использовали историю для раскручивания масштабной антироссийской кампании.
На этот раз лицемерие британских властей бьёт рекорды. Беспочвенно обвиняя Россию, они замалчивают подтверждённые факты использования запрещённых отравляющих веществ и химических средств формированиями киевского режима.
И речь идёт не только о хлорпикрине, который, кстати, был применён украинскими националистами ещё в 2014 году в Одессе при трагической осаде Дома профсоюзов. При этом есть неопровержимые доказательства того, что токсичные химикаты, среди прочего, поставляются на Украину при содействии Запада. <...>
☝️ В этом контексте нам сложно не усмотреть в британских инсинуациях попытку создать «дымовую завесу», камуфлирующую антироссийские замыслы самого Лондона.
Ведь нам достоверно известно, что киевский режим при активном содействии евроатлантических кураторов, включая Великобританию, планирует совершить серию провокаций в зоне СВО с целью последующего обвинения нашей страны в нарушении положений КЗХО при ведении боевых действий.
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❌ Введение односторонних ограничительных мер против нашей страны уже стало рутиной для настроенного исключительно на конфронтацию Лондона. Но от этого не приобрело ни легитимности, ни эффективности.
Зато, судя по используемому в материалах Форин Офиса и, особенно, его руководителя языку, теперь ещё и свидетельствует об утрате профессионализма, окончательно превратившись в политическую показуху.
Удивление вызывает использованный на это раз предлог – некое «грубое пренебрежение» Конвенцией о запрещении химического оружия (КЗХО).
❗️ Россия строго придерживается норм международного права, включая положения Женевских конвенций и Химконвеции. Химическое оружие отсутствует в арсеналах наших Вооруженных сил, что подтверждено международными инспекциями.
Ссылки на применение мифического «Новичка» и вовсе смехотворны. Напомним, что британцы отказались следовать установленным процедурам и взаимодействовать с нашей страной для установления истины после провокации в Солсбери в 2018 году. Впоследствии так и не представили результатов своего расследования, но использовали историю для раскручивания масштабной антироссийской кампании.
На этот раз лицемерие британских властей бьёт рекорды. Беспочвенно обвиняя Россию, они замалчивают подтверждённые факты использования запрещённых отравляющих веществ и химических средств формированиями киевского режима.
И речь идёт не только о хлорпикрине, который, кстати, был применён украинскими националистами ещё в 2014 году в Одессе при трагической осаде Дома профсоюзов. При этом есть неопровержимые доказательства того, что токсичные химикаты, среди прочего, поставляются на Украину при содействии Запада. <...>
☝️ В этом контексте нам сложно не усмотреть в британских инсинуациях попытку создать «дымовую завесу», камуфлирующую антироссийские замыслы самого Лондона.
Ведь нам достоверно известно, что киевский режим при активном содействии евроатлантических кураторов, включая Великобританию, планирует совершить серию провокаций в зоне СВО с целью последующего обвинения нашей страны в нарушении положений КЗХО при ведении боевых действий.
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❗️ The Russian Embassy emphatically rejects the unsubstantiated allegations by Director of MI-5 Ken McCallum.
By virtue of his profession Mr McCallum is well aware that the Russian Federation is the real target of proxy and mercenary warfare as well as hostile intelligence operations, conducted in the context of the Ukraine crisis by NATO countries, including the UK.
The scare tactics he seeks to employ are clearly aimed at sustaining the ebbing public support for the Kiev regime which is quickly draining the UK's finances and arsenals.
By virtue of his profession Mr McCallum is well aware that the Russian Federation is the real target of proxy and mercenary warfare as well as hostile intelligence operations, conducted in the context of the Ukraine crisis by NATO countries, including the UK.
The scare tactics he seeks to employ are clearly aimed at sustaining the ebbing public support for the Kiev regime which is quickly draining the UK's finances and arsenals.
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Embassy comment on London's anti-Russian restrictive measures
❌ Imposing unilateral restrictive measures against Russia has become a routine exercise for London preoccupied with its confrontational agenda. These measures have gained neither legitimacy nor effectiveness.
However, judging by the language used by the FCDO in its official materials, and especially by that of the Foreign Secretary, the generation of sanctions seems to be accompanied by a decline in professionalism, now substituted by political grandstanding.
The Embassy is perplexed by the pretext used on this occasion, namely our country’s alleged "flagrant disregard" for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
❗️ In fact, Russia remains unequivocally committed to upholding norms of international law, including the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and the CWC. International inspections have clearly confirmed that Russian Armed Forces do not possess chemical weapons.
References to the alleged use of the mythical "Novichok" are quite preposterous. Following the Salisbury provocation in 2018 it was the UK side that refused to follow established procedures and cooperate with Russia to uncover the truth. Subsequently, London never made public the results of their investigation, employing the story to instigate a large-scale anti-Russian campaign.
This time around the British authorities are taking their hypocrisy to new levels. While making groundless accusations against Russia, they are overlooking the many instances of confirmed use of banned toxic substances and chemical agents by the Kiev regime's militarised units.
This is not limited to chloropicrin, used by Ukrainian nationalists in Odessa during the tragic siege of the Trade Unions House in 2014. Ukrainian armed formations are systematically employing toxic chemicals, including those listed in CWC schedules, against the Russian Armed Forces, local civilians, and administration officials.
Furthermore, Russia has compelling evidence that such substances, among others, are being supplied to Ukraine with Western assistance.
☝️ In this context we cannot but regard the current British insinuations as an attempt to create a "smokescreen" to conceal London’s anti-Russian intentions.
We are well-aware from trustworthy sources that the Kiev regime is planning a series of provocations in the Special Military Operation zone with assistance by its Euro-Atlantic handlers, including the UK. The aim is to subsequently accuse Russia of violating the CWC in the execution of its military operations.
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❌ Imposing unilateral restrictive measures against Russia has become a routine exercise for London preoccupied with its confrontational agenda. These measures have gained neither legitimacy nor effectiveness.
However, judging by the language used by the FCDO in its official materials, and especially by that of the Foreign Secretary, the generation of sanctions seems to be accompanied by a decline in professionalism, now substituted by political grandstanding.
The Embassy is perplexed by the pretext used on this occasion, namely our country’s alleged "flagrant disregard" for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
❗️ In fact, Russia remains unequivocally committed to upholding norms of international law, including the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and the CWC. International inspections have clearly confirmed that Russian Armed Forces do not possess chemical weapons.
References to the alleged use of the mythical "Novichok" are quite preposterous. Following the Salisbury provocation in 2018 it was the UK side that refused to follow established procedures and cooperate with Russia to uncover the truth. Subsequently, London never made public the results of their investigation, employing the story to instigate a large-scale anti-Russian campaign.
This time around the British authorities are taking their hypocrisy to new levels. While making groundless accusations against Russia, they are overlooking the many instances of confirmed use of banned toxic substances and chemical agents by the Kiev regime's militarised units.
This is not limited to chloropicrin, used by Ukrainian nationalists in Odessa during the tragic siege of the Trade Unions House in 2014. Ukrainian armed formations are systematically employing toxic chemicals, including those listed in CWC schedules, against the Russian Armed Forces, local civilians, and administration officials.
Furthermore, Russia has compelling evidence that such substances, among others, are being supplied to Ukraine with Western assistance.
☝️ In this context we cannot but regard the current British insinuations as an attempt to create a "smokescreen" to conceal London’s anti-Russian intentions.
We are well-aware from trustworthy sources that the Kiev regime is planning a series of provocations in the Special Military Operation zone with assistance by its Euro-Atlantic handlers, including the UK. The aim is to subsequently accuse Russia of violating the CWC in the execution of its military operations.
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1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ years ago a one of a kind Russian artist, thinker and explorer Nikolai Rerikh (Nicholas Roerich) was born.
While his legacy, Russian at heart, is truly international, Rerikh did have a specific British connection.
His works were well known and praised in the UK since the 1900s. In 1919-1920, he and his family stayed in London, close to Hyde Park.
At the time Rerikh had major solo exhibitions organised, gave lectures, was involved in Diaghilev’s famous Saisons Russes and was welcomed and embraced by British artistic figures.
🤝 Interestingly, it was in London that he befriended Rabindranath Tagore, which contributed to their respective spiritual journeys.
While his legacy, Russian at heart, is truly international, Rerikh did have a specific British connection.
His works were well known and praised in the UK since the 1900s. In 1919-1920, he and his family stayed in London, close to Hyde Park.
At the time Rerikh had major solo exhibitions organised, gave lectures, was involved in Diaghilev’s famous Saisons Russes and was welcomed and embraced by British artistic figures.
🤝 Interestingly, it was in London that he befriended Rabindranath Tagore, which contributed to their respective spiritual journeys.
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🗓 On 8 October, a meeting of the CIS Heads of State Council took place in the Grand Kremlin Palace.
The CIS Summit opened with a restricted-format meeting. It was attended by the Presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, Prime Minister of Armenia and CIS Secretary General. The talks continued in the extended format with the CIS member states’ delegations.
Following the CIS Summit, a package of documents was signed, including an appeal of the CIS Heads of State to the CIS peoples and the international community on the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. A number of documents were also signed on the sidelines of the Summit.
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The CIS Summit opened with a restricted-format meeting. It was attended by the Presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, Prime Minister of Armenia and CIS Secretary General. The talks continued in the extended format with the CIS member states’ delegations.
Following the CIS Summit, a package of documents was signed, including an appeal of the CIS Heads of State to the CIS peoples and the international community on the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. A number of documents were also signed on the sidelines of the Summit.
Cooperation within the CIS is one of the Russian Federation's top foreign policy priorities. The member states of the Commonwealth are our closest neighbours, friends, and strategic partners, and we are naturally committed to strengthening our cooperation across the board. <...>
Through our collaborative efforts, we have built a robust financial infrastructure that is immune to external influences. The use of national currencies in mutual payments has expanded.
In addition, import substitution processes are moving fast thus strengthening our country’s technological sovereignty which is critically important considering the challenging global economic and political environment and the unprecedented pressure, particularly in the economy, coming from a number of countries.
— President Vladimir Putin
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