Press review: Munich Security Conference talks support for Kiev and Biden's Poland visit
Top stories from the Russian press on Monday, February 20th

❗️President Biden Swears Allegiance To Neo-Nazis To The Grave — Medvedev

Commenting on Biden’s trip to Kiev on his Telegram channel, former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said that the current US administration allows the “military-industrial complex of NATO countries to earn money and steal weapons for sale to terrorists around the world.”

Merkel Duped Into Re-Admitting Minsk Agreement Needed To Get Kiev Weapons

Merkel once again confirmed that the Minsk Agreements were needed so that Kiev would receive as many weapons and funds from the West as possible, believing she was talking to former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

The only problem was that the ex- chancellor’s "secret" confession was made to infamous pranksters Vovan & Lexus.

"The Minsk agreements gave Ukraine more time to develop between 2014 and 2021. And now Ukraine can not only receive answers but also get the necessary support."

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❗️Wagner PMC Fighters In Action — RT Exclusive

Russian forces continue to advance on the front lines, including an offensive for Artemovsk, also known as Bakhmut.

RT correspondent Igor Zhdanov reports from positions there, recently taken by Russia's Wagner PMC forces.

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How does Russia build relations with other countries and what is its main difference from the US? Jim Jatras, former US diplomat and senior foreign policy advisor, joins our podcast to answer those questions.

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⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the West’s reckless approach to the Middle East settlement process

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💬 The material published in France’s Le Figaro has come to our attention. It says that under the pretext of reinvigorating the role of Paris in the Middle East settlement process, the French leadership has instructed high-ranking officials of the country's diplomatic service and intelligence agencies to select a candidate to replace the current President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas.

Elysee Palace decided to go down the path of regime change in Palestine, seeing this manipulation almost as a panacea for achieving a Palestinian-Israeli settlement.

☝️ We are convinced that such mental constructions reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of regional realities.

Meanwhile, we are hearing more and more about the plans of France, a number of other European countries and EU officials to build a collective format, the functions of which will replace the only legitimate diplomatic support mechanism for the Middle East settlement process, which is the Middle East Quartet of international mediators (Russia, the United States, the EU and the UN) which was approved by the UN Security Council decisions.

❗️ These ploys show that Paris and other European capitals for that matter are reluctant to learn from their own mistakes and prefer to continue the destructive course towards further destabilisation of the Middle East.

🇷🇺🇵🇸 The Russian Federation will continue to interact with the President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, who is a staunch supporter of a negotiated settlement of the conflict with Israel.

❗️ No one can make decisions for the Palestinian people.

We will continue to help foster the necessary conditions for resetting the political dialogue between the Palestinians and Israelis on a range of final status issues in accordance with the internationally recognised legal framework for the Middle East settlement process, including the Arab Peace Initiative.

We thank all of our Bengali friends for promoting #MotherLanguageDay to the World. For Russia, this is not an empty phrase. Fact: 193 peoples living in Russia use approximately 277 languages. At the same time, 105 languages are used in the state education system, 24 of them-as the language of instruction, 81-as an academic subject.
This girl is singing in 19 languages of the indigenous peoples of Russia.

Congratulations on #InternationalMotherLanguageDay!

Evelina Ilyasova who studies at the Embassy's school was inspired by this date and drew a picture. It depicts children of different nationalities learning their native languages.

#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

The Americans claim they “had nothing to do” with the explosions of the Nord Stream pipelines even though the findings by renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh are widely available.

We know that they know that everyone knows that this is a lie.

The problem is not that “the US” is the only logical answer to the oldest question in legal practice, Cui bono (who benefits?) that makes any sense; the problem is that the Americans are simply lying. I could tell you again about US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s vial hoax, but if you are tired of this story, I have plenty of others.

🇭🇹 There is this small nation, Haiti, and it has had bad luck. It was a colony – first Spanish, then French, and then for decades, it remained under American occupation. Each of these countries drained the island and its residents’ resources as much as they could, repaying them with poverty and devastation.

The Cold War was terrible in “warm” Haiti. François Duvalier, a former physician with the American Sanitary Mission, born a Haitian, was a dictator who established the most repressive government in Haiti and ordered arrests and massive human rights abuses. The details make one’s blood run cold: the detainees had their heads chopped off and were tortured by submerging them in baths of acid. Why didn't the Americans stand up for human rights then? Because they needed Duvalier as an anti-communist, to balance Fidel Castro's Cuba, as simple as that. Washington even provided the deranged dictator with money, while paying lip service to democracy.

In the 1990s, the Americans finally stopped respecting the sovereignty of the island republic altogether. In 1994, they pushed for Security Council authorisation for a special military operation in Haiti to restore President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power because they wanted him there. They returned him to power. Later though, when they got tired of him, they just kidnapped him like a puppet and carted him off to Africa. This is how the George W. Bush administration helped build democracy in Haiti.

In 2021, Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated; his wife, Martine, was also shot in the attack.

And what was found? Suspicions that the Americans were responsible again emerged in the Western information landscape immediately.

Also that week, the US Department of Justice issued a short press release declaring that several Americans associated with American PMC CTU Security had been arrested. Official Caracas reported that CTU had earlier been involved in the failed assassination attempt on Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. And at the same time, at the Security Council meetings on Haiti, the US representative continued to declare their intention to contribute to the development of democracy, organising fair elections and supporting NGOs.

Only the Americans occupy a country on a whim, remove or imprison presidents, or dispose them through murder. Consider these statistics: Haiti is ranked 170th in terms of per capita GDP (of 199); every second HIV-infected resident of the Caribbean islands is Haitian.

This is a very thought-provoking story for Zelensky, who so affectionately embraced Joe Biden in the centre of Kiev. How much must one hate their own people to consider a prospect similar to that of long-suffering Haiti for themselves?

❓ So, to what extent is the US “not responsible” for sabotaging Nord Stream – as much as for the assassination of Haiti's president? Or for the vial hoax of the invasion of Iraq?

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❗What's gonna happen in coming months in light of Putin's speech at the Federal Assembly?
_ As we predicted there is no change in the format of the SMO so it will continue, just with a larger number of troops and drones, its expansion is a certainty.
_ Withdrawal from the START treaty means that from today Russia can increase its nuclear arsenal after having cut it for decades, in light of NATO aggression it was a mistake that is going to be repaired, though it's unlikely there will be a shift towards quantity instead of continuing the modernization of the triad that was started a decade ago.
_ the divorce from the West is going to be permanent, when the president listed the most important trade routes for Russia in the next decade, the West was not mentioned of course, the president mentioned instead Central Asia, China, India, Pakistan, Iran.
_ the Russian military industry is going to be more important than ever in current international tensions and ongoing NATO aggression against Russia, it will return to the level of the peak of the Soviet era in terms of production per year of weapons and ammunitions.
_ Russia to consolidate its role as only defender of traditional values in the European continent, the president referred to Western degeneracy as an abomination, conservatives who don't want to give up to their values will increasingly look towards Russia for help against Satanists' oppression at home.

🇷🇺🇺🇸Russia has suspended its participation in the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty with the United States (START-3).
This document was the latest in a series of agreements between Moscow and Washington that ensured global security.
"This is not a threat, but an important signal to the United States and the West. Putin's decision concerns an area of exceptional importance for the security of the United States.
We warn you: the course of the West towards the strategic defeat of Russia is incompatible with the preservation of the current system of global nuclear security, the most important part of which is the START-3 treaty," Senator Alexei Pushkov said.
"If the United States and NATO take part in hostilities against Russia and talk about the need to defeat us on the battlefield, then there can be no question of allowing Americans to our nuclear facilities," agrees military–political publicist Mikhail Onufrienko.
He does not rule out that in response, Washington will start spreading rumors about Russia's plans to resort to "extremely aggressive measures." "For a long time, the West imposed the rules of the game on us. The situation needed to be reversed: let them now react to our actions and get out of it. Moscow has set its own conditions – and this is logical," the interlocutor believes.