At the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov was treated to a traditional coffee-making ceremony. This is not a foggy screen, but smoke from incense ☕️ 🇷🇺 🇪🇹

At the Russian Embassy in Ethiopia, the foreign ministers of our countries planted trees in honor of friendship. - What is the name of the tree? - asked Lavrov - Sasa, - RT correspondent Maria Finoshina shouted and added - Something like juniper. - We will make gin, - Sergey Viktorovich joked or did he?

🇺🇿🇷🇺Sergey Lavrov arrived on a visit to Uzbekistan.

The Russian Cabinet will take part in the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers.

Negotiations with the President of the Republic Shavkat Mirziyoyev are planned,

After that, there will be communication with the Foreign Ministers of China and Pakistan.

The US Senate passed a resolution on the inclusion of the Russian Federation in the list of countries - sponsors of terrorism

The US Senate passed a resolution calling on the State Department to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism due to events in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria and Ukraine. This was reported on Thursday on the website of the US Congress.

The resolution is non-binding. The document specifically states that "nothing in this resolution shall be construed as authorizing the use of military force or the entry of the United States Armed Forces into hostilities."

Earlier, Politico reported that the United States would have recognized Russia as a sponsor of terrorism anyway, either through Congress or through the State Department. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky asked Joe Biden for such a favor back in April. The State Duma considered this proposal to be the ravings of a madman, and the Kremlin stated that at the present time it is difficult to do something else that would further spoil relations between Russia and the United States.

Experts believe that the recognition of Russia as a "sponsor of terrorism" will be worse for the West.
Russia is already studying options for a "mirror response". For example, a few days ago "Fair Russia - For the Truth" submitted to the Government of the Russian Federation a draft law on the recognition of Ukraine as a terrorist state. According to party leader Sergei Mironov, the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass and in the border areas with Russia have all the signs of terrorist attacks.

◾Back in 2014 when the British BBC reported about the Neo Nazi problem of Ukraine.

🇷🇺 Russia is not to blame for the fact that the Americans elected a strange grandfather with dementia as their president, and the Europeans will be "hard freezing in their homes this winter" - Medvedev

🇷🇺 🇨🇳The Chinese Foreign Minister took off his mask as he entered the hall for talks with Sergey Lavrov

"Don't be afraid, you are among friends," Lavrov told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. "We trust each other," Wang Yi replied.

At this moment, the Foreign Ministers of Russia and China are holding talks "on the sidelines" of the SCO Council of Ministers in Tashkent.
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“I don’t have anything about it” a hundred times in a row: The main phrase of Biden’s press secretary

Xi Jinping, speaking by phone about the Taiwan issue in a conversation with Biden, said that "he who plays with fire will certainly burn himself," according to China Central TV.

a) Today's conversation lasted more than 2 hours, for a high-level phone talk it is quite a long time.
b) Judging by the first reaction of the Chinese media, the conversation was not very friendly. Taiwan was definitely in it, and most likely, Ukraine.
c) According to the first reaction of the Chinese media, the tension in China-US relations will only intensify.

#China