"Russian rescuers flew to the catastrophic earthquake zone in Turkey and Syria," Ministry of Emergency Situation
Group includes 7 crews and over 100 specialists for rescue operations in the zone of the destruction. They've all necessary equipment for search and rescue of victims.

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⚡️The number of earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria has risen to 4,300. The total number of injured is approaching 20,000.

🇷🇺🇸🇾 Personnel of the Russian Group of Forces in Syria continue providing assistance in eliminating the consequences caused by the earthquake that occurred at the territory of the republic.

◽️ The joint detachments use special equipment remove debris in several settlements of Latakia province.

⛑ Each area is operated by doctor-nurse crews from special medical detachment.

The Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergei Shoigu gave instructions to the Commander of the Russian Group of Forces in Syria to provide assistance in eliminating the consequences caused by the earthquake that had occurred at the territory of the republic.

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🇷🇺🇱🇰 Sri Lanka is holding talks with Russia on the construction of a low-power nuclear power plant (NPP), representatives of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom are expected to visit the country, Sri Lankan Ambassador to Moscow Janita Liyanage told Sputnik.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on February 6

▪️A Soviet-made Ukrainian Tu-141 Strizh drone crashed on the outskirts of Kaluga.

The drone was carrying a makeshift bombshell with integrated ammunition and was meant to hit a military facility.

▪️Russian troops develop their offensive in the Kupyansk area. The advanced units have fought their way to Syn'kivka.

According to some reports, street battles are already taking place in the village itself.

▪️In the Lyman section, Russian motorized rifle troops have taken control of several heights in the area of the Balka Zhuravka.

In the Yampolivka area, the enemy is retreating and suffering heavy losses in personnel.

▪️The Russian forces are reported to be continuing their offensive in the area of the liberated Bilohorivka.

Successful access to Serebryanka will significantly complicate supplies for the enemy grouping on the other bank of the river.

▪️In Bakhmut, Wagner PMC assault detachments have been conducting an offensive along the entire front line. Several blocks in the eastern and southern parts of the city are occupied.

Artillery and aviation are striking identified AFU positions around the clock.

▪️To the south, the Wagner PMC units are fighting on the approaches to Krasne and the Kostyantynivka-Bakhmut highway.

Success on this flank will allow to take under fire control the active road to Chasiv Yar and actually close the ring of operational encirclement.

▪️In Mar’inka, Russian motorized rifle troops managed to push through the enemy's defenses and occupy a number of important positions along the southern outskirts.

Fighting continues in the center of the village along Druzhba Avenue, where the Russian Armed Forcees took control over several multi-story buildings.
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⚡️Statement by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy at UNSC briefing on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine (6 February 2023)

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Key talking points:

💬 Evidence of international humanitarian law (IHL) violations by Kiev and its targeted attacks against civil facilities is multiplying by the day.

🔹Ukrainian armed forces did not just target civil facilities, but the infrastructure that is meant to support and ensure the wellbeing of children.

☝️ All facts of the criminal outrage that Ukrainian armed forces commit under Western supervision. None of those will go unpunished.

🔹Taking into account the huge scale of Kiev’s crimes, it becomes increasingly harder for international human rights organizations who at least pretend to be objective, to disregard these offenses.

🇷🇺 Russia responsibly approaches the issue of POWs. We strictly adhere to our obligations under the IHL, which imply, among other things, a humane treatment of prisoners.

🔹There are hostilities not just between Russia and Ukraine, but between Russia and the collective NATO-led West that uses Ukraine as a tool in its geopolitical “crusade” against Russia.

❗️ If the collective West continues to supply weapons to Ukraine and postpone peace prospects for that country, then all goals of our military operation will be achieved by military means.

❗️341 Ukrainian Tanks Destroyed In January — Russian MoD

Critical statements from Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu on Tuesday:

▪Through the last month, Ukraine lost around 6,500 fighters, 33 aircraft, and 341 tanks

▪Russian forces have secured seven DPR settlements, including the town of Soledar

▪According to Shoigu, the US and its allies are attempting to prolong the Ukrainian conflict as much as possible

▪Russian forces continue to destroy all Western weaponry shipped to Ukraine

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На слова Жозепа Борреля о том, что "запрет российских СМИ – это защита свободы слова", напомню о том, что Европа уже однажды эту логику исповедовала.

В Третьем рейхе книги запрещали – около 300 авторов. Среди них – Эрих Мария Ремарк, Карл Маркс, Зигмунд Фрейд, Анри Барбюс, Джек Лондон, Максим Горький и многие другие.

Тогда тоже всё началось с запретов, с сожжения книг, а завершилось сожжением людей, потому что книги – это напечатанные мысли, а люди – это мысли оживающие.

Расскажу, как всё было.

Чтобы оправдать запреты, гитлеровцы подожгли Рейхстаг, что позволило начать репрессии против политических оппонентов. Тогда и приступили к сжиганию книг неугодных авторов. После этого было принято распоряжение, что каждый журналист Рейха должен был вступить в НСДАП, чтобы продолжать профессиональную деятельность. Затем все органы власти обязали выписывать нацистскую прессу. Сжигать тела жертв концлагерных палачей и извергов начали уже позднее. Точную дату первых свидетельств "чёрного дыма" из труб застенков назвать сложно, но явление стало повсеместным, превратившись в истинный символ нацистского режима.

Кстати, Жозепу Боррелю будет интересно, что именно после поджога Рейхстага нацисты впервые оправдали "запреты" "защитой". Декрет президента Рейха "О защите народа и государства", принятый сразу после поджога, создал предпосылки для запрета свободной политической жизни в Германии. Позднее к этому риторическому приёму, который нынче использовал Боррель, и соответствующей юридической практике, в Третьем рейхе обращались неоднократно. Согласно закону "О защите германской крови и германской чести", вводился запрет на межрасовые браки, а закон "О защите национальных символов" запрещал использование нацистской символики в свободном режиме.

Прошли десятилетия.
В Германии эти законы отменили, а книги не просто "разрешили", но во искупление грехов ещё и учредили День книги в память о книжных кострах 1933 года.

Именно наш солдат тогда вернул Европе человеческий облик. История циклична – сегодня наши вновь борются с этой человеконенавистнической логикой.

❗️Russian Ministry Of Emergency Services Personnel Get To Work In Syria

50 personnel and three search-and-rescue canine crews arrived in Syria on Tuesday to assist with emergency operations following the deadly earthquakes that struck the country.

Earlier, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu instructed Russian military personnel deployed to Syria to begin assisting search-and-rescue operations.

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❗️11 million books in Russian have been burnt in Ukraine.

The deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada committee for humanitarian and information policy, Evgeniya Kravchuk, said that as part of the "derussification" of Ukrainian libraries, 19m books were written off, of which 11m in Russian. Some Ukrainian-language editions published in the Soviet Union also fell under the rubbish.

❗️A note was handed to the US Embassy today demanding that it stop interfering in Russia's internal affairs, a source close to the Russian Foreign Ministry's leadership told RIA Novosti.

The US Embassy has been making inappropriate remarks about Russia's leadership and spreading fakes about the Russian army, the source said.

Press review: Earthquake relief to rally Turkey, Syria and Lavrov talks trade in Baghdad
Top stories from the Russian press on Tuesday, February 7th

🇷🇺🚜Rostselmash will return the experience of industrialization to Russia. In Rostov-on-Don, the company will build the first tractor plant "from scratch" after the collapse of the USSR.

The capacity of the enterprise will be 5 thousand cars per year. In addition to tractors, Rostselmash intends to produce construction and utility equipment.
The business plans include the export of cars from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

⚡️🗣 EU Chief Borrell does not know how to hide the RACIST essence of his vision of the world - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

Racist Borrell called Mali and Eritrea "easy countries" for Russia and accused Moscow of spreading lies on the African continent.

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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 In response to Josep "Not a Jungle" Borrell’s words that banning the Russian media amounted to protecting the freedom of speech, I would like to recall that Europe has already preached this logic before.

About 300 authors were banned under the Third Reich, including Erich Maria Remarque, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Henri Barbusse, Jack London, Maxim Gorky and many others.

Just as today, it all started with bans and book burning, and ended with people perishing in the flames. Books are thoughts printed on paper, while people are the living thoughts.

Let me tell you how it happened.

To justify the bans, Hitler’s supporters set the Reichstag on fire, which gave them a pretext to launch repressions against their political opponents. This is when they started burning books by undesirable authors. It was followed by a directive that every journalist in the Reich must be a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party – NSDAP – in order to be able to work in their profession. After that, all government bodies had to take out subscriptions to Nazi press titles. It was only later that they started burning the bodies of those who suffered at the hands of concentration camp executioners and monsters. While it is hard to tell when the first reports on black smoke rising from the chimneys of torture chambers surfaced, but the sight of it became so commonplace that it turned into the hallmark of the Nazi regime.

Incidentally, Josep Borrell would probably be interested to learn that it was after setting the Reichstag on fire that the Nazis started justifying bans by talking about protection. Adopted immediately after the fire, the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and the State paved the way to outlawing freedom in Germany’s political life. The Third Reich went on to use the same rhetoric with its legal ramifications as Borrell does today on multiple occasions. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour banned interracial marriage, and the Law for the Protection of National Symbols banned the free use of Nazi symbols.

Decades have gone by.
Germany has long cancelled these laws, while not only reinstating the banned books, but even instituting a special day to perpetuate the memory of book burning in 1933.

It was our soldier who restored Europe’s human face. History repeats itself. Today, our people are once again fighting this human-hating logic.

Completing his mission in Jakarta Russian 🇷🇺 Ambassador to #ASEAN H.E. Mr. Alexander Ivanov sums up the work being done during his tenure in the article "ASEAN does matter to Russia. A lot".

💬Indeed, for the last several years Russia became an indispensable actor in the Asia Pacific. Our #ASEAN friends understand and appreciate a constructive stabilizing role of Russia 🇷🇺 with no hidden agenda in the region. Our philosophies of international relations, based on the principle of sovereign equality of nations, are similar.

❗️Our practical cooperation reached a status of strategic partnership in 2018, fixed during the Summit of our leaders in Singapore. During these years in addition to existing areas of cooperation, we have managed to launch and actively promote new ones, including Consultations of the High Representatives for Security Issues, Dialogue on ICT Security-related issues, meetings of Tourism ministers and others. In the end of 2021 we successfully held the first ASEAN-Russia Naval Exercises (#ARNEX) in the Indonesian territorial waters. In 2022 we organized a number of events within the framework of ASEAN-Russia Year of Scientific and Technical Cooperation. Dozens of joint projects were implemented and financed by Russia 🇷🇺 in various spheres ranging from agriculture to training of ASEAN health experts and specialists of law-enforcement agencies. We continued to develop practical cooperation between ASEAN and Eurasian Economic Union as well as with Shanghai Cooperation Organization, thus moving the processes of integration of integrations across the huge Eurasian continent.

🔻We firmly believe that #ASEAN-centered mechanisms of cooperation, created in the last 55 years and based on the principles of equality, mutual respect and constructive engagement, including the #EAS, #ARF and #ADMM-Plus, played the pivotal role in stabilizing the region, balancing the interests of all big players and promoting mutual trust, which are prerequisites of the Asia Pacific phenomenon of becoming the main engine of the global economic growth. For many decades there were no hot military conflicts in the region. Largely it is the merit of #ASEAN wisdom and its leading role in shaping multilateral cooperation here. That is why Russia strongly supports #ASEAN centrality in the region not only in words but in deeds. 🤝

🔻There are many internal and external challenges for #ASEAN in the turbulent situation of strategic ambiguity. I am sure that the current Indonesian 🇮🇩 Chair will be able to navigate the “ASEAN ship” through the troubled waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.

🔗https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2023/02/06/asean-does-matter-to-russia-a-lot.html

"Let there be storms… OOps, I mean stability in the South China Sea." This is how, according to the Global Times, Vice President Kamala Harris "solves" problems in the South China Sea.

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❗️Russia’s Ministry Of Emergency Services To Send Firefighting Airplane To Türkiye

The agency plans to use the Be-200 amphibious aircraft to help extinguish the fire burning in the port of Iskenderun.

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Russia’s Nuclear Agency Ready To Expand Hungarian NPP

Rosatom expects to expand the existing Paks nuclear plant in Hungary in 2024.

Previously, Moscow and Budapest planned to construct two new nuclear reactors in Hungary.

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11 URA cooling tower at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant is completed

12,500 m3 of concrete, 540 days of work, 175 m of hight... and now it's the highest building in Bangladesh!

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