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This "new, modern island at the centre of the world" is grim af.

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💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova: To learn how the West churns out fakes, take a look at our in-depth dissection of their latest one regarding the "Russian threat to food security".

We use only hard facts and statistics - that's our motto ✅

👉 https://telegra.ph/Man-Made-Famine-2022-05-17

Press release on global food security in the context of a statement by the G7 foreign ministers

We noted the final statement by the foreign ministers of the G7 countries, whereby they accused Russia of unilateral steps to undermine the agricultural potential of Ukraine and worsen the status of global food security.

☝️ In this context, we would like to remind others about the primary causes of the unfavourable situation that is taking shape in the world food markets.

👉 The crisis phenomena of the past few years are primarily linked to the miscalculations and accumulated system-wide mistakes in the macroeconomic (including finances and trade), energy (including climate) and food policy of the collective West.

👉 The COVID-19 pandemic made a bad situation worse. Its consequences, including the disruption of production and marketing chains, and higher freight and insurance costs, have caused even more turbulence in the world food and other markets.

Importantly, the unilateral actions by the Western states, primarily the G7 countries, have aggravated the disruption of logistics and financial chains for food supplies to the world markets.

A Russian representative at the World Intellectual Property Organization raises points of order seeking to concentrate the discussions on the issues within the competence of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property.

Unfortunately, some delegations continue to politicize the work of certain UN bodies, including the WIPO, instead of focusing on the issues within their mandate.

🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues

🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202205181200-LIVE10871-Russian-MFA-spokesperson-Zakharova-holds-weekly-briefing
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA Spokeswoman

💬 Tesla CEO Elon Musk called US President Joe Biden an "empty suit" and warned that, if the US Government continued printing money, then inflation would get worse and the country might follow the path of Venezuela.

I know nothing about the empty suit; they would know better.

❗️ But it is completely wrong to compare the United States to Venezuela.

The United States has caused all of Venezuela’s troubles while the United States is solely responsible for all its own problems.

The people of Venezuela are reacting staunchly and with great dignity to Washington’s criminal interference in their state’s domestic affairs, and they continue to live and develop despite tremendous US pressure. The people of the United States have not yet experienced even one-billionth of the sufferings to which US Presidents have doomed other countries and peoples. And when they feel all these hardships, including galloping inflation, sanctions, impoverishment, persecution, etc.

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov's remarks at the 30th Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy.

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❗️ Sergey Lavrov: We did everything in our power to avoid a direct conflict. But they issued a challenge and we have accepted it. We are used to sanctions. We have been living under one or another form of sanctions for a long time now.

The surprising thing is a surge of rabid Russophobia in almost all “civilised” countries. They have thrown to the wind their political correctness, propriety, rules, & legal norms.

The Americans started preparing the current crisis long ago, right after the end of the Cold War, having decided that the way to global hegemony was then open. NATO's eastward expansion has been one of the key components of such a course. We tried hard to convince them not to do this. We showed where and why our red lines are drawn. We were flexible, ready to make concessions & look for compromises. All this proved futile.

❗️🇯🇵On May 15, 2022 during the Ceremony Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Reversion of Okinawa, the American side represented by Ambassador Rahm Emanuel made a number of tendentious remarks about Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.

❗️We would like to remind that it is 🇺🇸the US who is “seeking to dominate through coercion and the exercise of raw power”. Look no further than Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.
The Washington’s call to “protect freedom” only implies that its allies, including Tokyo, are to “pay its price” (because “freedom is not free”) for American gambling. A good illustration is how American colleagues keep seeking maximum economic benefits from this situation. While prompting Europeans to adopt increasingly tough economic sanctions, Washington intends to make them depend on American LNG.

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▫️In the past 24 hours, 771 militants of the Azov nationalist unit have surrendered at the blockaded Azovstal plant in Mariupol. A total of 1,730 militants have surrendered since May 16, including 80 wounded.

▫️All those in need of inpatient treatment are treated in medical facilities in the Donetsk People's Republic in Novoazovsk and Donetsk.

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🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s greetings to the participants in the regular meeting of the Russia–Islamic World Strategic Vision Group and the 13th International Economic Summit Russia – Islamic World: #KazanSummit2022

💬 It is encouraging that today we are united by so many things. Above all, it is the commitment to the goal of democratisation of international affairs, as well as the unconditional respect for the right of the peoples of the world to independently determine their own destiny. We reject racist prejudices, claims of exceptionalism, and all other manifestations of neo-colonial mentality.

I am pleased to note that the Russian Federation and Muslim states share a common interest in promoting equal and mutually beneficial relations. The fact that this year Kazan holds the status of the OIC youth capital is a vivid illustration thereof.