🎙Ambassador Andrei Kelin's interview to Eunan O’Neill on RT English, 19 April, 2023

📍Main topics:

- Press freedom in the UK
- Russia-UK relations
- UK seizure of Russia’s funds
- Possibility of a direct conflict between Russia and the UK
- UK censorship over Russian TV channels
- Socio-economic situation in the UK
- Impact of anti-Russian sanctions on European economy
- UK plans to supply of depleted uranium shells to Ukraine
- A Multipolar World as modern geopolitical trend

💬Key statements:

▪British media are pressured to follow narrative of UK government.
▪Moscow and London must maintain contacts despite conflict in Ukraine.
▪Britain Is highly involved in Ukraine conflict by supplying weapons and funding.
▪Seizing funds from Russia undermines western banking system.
▪The West must realise that the world is multipolar.
▪Western armies use depleted uranium weapons despite risks to health and soil contamination.

🔗https://youtu.be/vrI6mv74r0Q

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2️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ years ago, on April 19, 1783, Empress Catherine the Great published a Manifesto on the accession of the Crimean Peninsula to the Russian Empire. This document gave Russia reliable access to the Black Sea and ensured the security of its southern regions for centuries ahead.

📈 After the accession, the Russian authorities banned slave trade, which had existed in the region for centuries, and built new cities, including Sevastopol. The economy and culture received a powerful impetus for development. Domestic trade duties were cancelled, which facilitated the progress of Crimean agriculture, industry and trade and a rapid growth of Crimean cities.

🗝 The Manifesto, which was written by Catherine the Great and General-Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin, was kept in great secrecy in a wooden box upholstered with iron. The Empress had apprehensions about a new war with Turkey and interference by European countries. The Manifesto was published only after the residents of Crimea swore allegiance to Russia by signing oath sheets.

☝️ Grigory Potemkin, who was appointed by Catherine the Great Governor-General of Novorossiya, played a key role in the accession and development of Crimea. His contemporaries noted that he managed to turn the steppes of the Crimean Khanate into a promising and flourishing region of the Russian Empire in a short span of time.

🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions during a joint news conference with Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Yvan Gil following talks 🇷🇺🇻🇪

📍 Caracas, April 18, 2023

💬 Venezuela is one of Russia’s most reliable partners. Russia and Venezuela are bound by a close strategic partnership based on a conceptual affinity of approaches to the key issues on the global agenda, mutually beneficial projects, tight links of friendship and mutual affinity between our nations.

🤝 We agreed on practical measures to expand our cooperation in trade and investment, and contacts between our business circles in view of the current circumstances. We have multiple projects planned, including in oil production, gas field development, agriculture, healthcare and pharmaceutical production, communications, space and new technologies.

Both Russia and Venezuela are committed to the fundamental principles of the UN Charter, including the sovereign equality of countries and non-interference in their domestic affairs.

☝️ Dependence on the US dollar and the globalisation principles, which the Americans have been trying to incorporate into the international community for years, can do no good. The Americans and their allies can dump all these principles, including free market, fair competition the inviolability of property and the presumption of innocence, in no time if they want to punish somebody for “disobedience.”

Everyone knows that the United States can deceive you any at moment. Washington more often deceives than fulfils its promises and initiatives.

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🇷🇺🇻🇨 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Everard Gonsalves held a meeting.

📍 Caracas, April 18, 2023

🇷🇺☪️ هنأ الرئيس الروسي فلاديمير بوتين المسلمين الروس بعيد الفطر:

"أشير بارتياح الى أن المسليمين في بلادنا يحترمون التقاليد الأبوية التاريخية والدينية والثقافية التي ظهرت منذ قرون عديدة ويدفعن الشباب الى متابعتها. إن حياة الأمة الإسلامية مليئة بالحسنات والمبادرات الصالحة. يتطور تفاعل الامة الاسلامية الروسية مع المؤسسات الحكومية والعامة بالنشاط ويتم إيلاء الاهتمام الدؤوب للمبادرات في مجالي الدراسة والتعليم بالاضافة الى المبادرات الخيرية."

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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov has arrived in New York.

Read in detail about FM Lavrov's participation as chair in the upcoming meetings of the UN Security Council.

🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations in New York (April 23, 2023)

💬 The United States violated again its obligations under the UN Headquarters Agreement, having denied issuance of US visas to Russian journalists who were supposed to accompany Minister Lavrov on his official visit to New York to take part in the flagship events of the Russian Presidency of the UN Security Council.

This was done despite the fact that Russian media representatives complied with all relevant terms and requirements, including a valid UN accreditation.

❗️ We consider this step as another manifestation of neglect of the international law by the United States. When denying access to UN events for Russian journalists, the US authorities once again demonstrate their true attitude to freedom of speech and availability of information.

We count on the UN leadership and specialized international mechanisms to pay due attention to this egregious situation and take all necessary steps against the violator.

⚡️ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comment on the non-issuance of US visas to Russian journalists to visit the UN headquarters during the Russian Federation's chairmanship at the UN Security Council

💬 Dear friends, of course, I was aware how well our American colleagues are known for such things but I was certain that this time it would be different, considering the focus placed on their ugly behaviour. I was mistaken.

The country that calls itself the strongest, the smartest, the freest and the most just, has chickened out, did an unwise, stupid thing, that I am convinced of, by showing what its asseverations about protecting freedom of speech and access to information are really worth.

We will also have to work for you, show more energy, and put more effort into bringing the truth to the world community and the public.

Please try to keep track of what we are going to do there and spread this truth through your channels. I am convinced that it will draw much more interest all over the world than the “filtered” information that our Western colleagues bring down on the heads of their viewers, listeners, and readers.

⚡️ Most importantly, be sure that we will not forget or forgive.