"One for all, we will not stand for the price!" — the legendary song of Bulat Okudzhava was performed in the "Luzhniki" under the chorus of the singing hall

The Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A.V. Alexandrov together with the audience sang the song "Our Tenth Amphibious Battalion".

Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector discussing the New START suspension, talks about the reasons for and the meaning of the New START suspension:

💬“We withdrew from Open skies, and now we're cheating on the last remaining treaty, new START. We're not allowing Russian inspectors to come and inspect us while demanding that we go inspect Russia. And so the Russians have suspended this. This is all a power play by the United States to further what we believe to be our strategic advantage over Russia. The problem is Russia is no longer a defeated, compliant state. The Russians have nuclear superiority over us today. Their missiles are better than anything we have. We don't have a missile defense system worthy of the name. And so if there was a nuclear conflict, we would be annihilated.”

🎧Listen to more of Ritter’s analysis in our podcast The Critical Hour: Russia Suspends START Cooperation; Anti-War Rally in DC; China's Push for Peace

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with member of the CPC Politburo, Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi

📍 Moscow, February 22, 2023

💬 We are glad to welcome you in Moscow and personally congratulate you on your appointment to the high post of director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Our relations are developing steadily and dynamically. Despite the high turbulence on the world stage, we demonstrate solidarity and readiness to defend each other’s interests based on respect for international law and the central role of the United Nations.

🤝 The Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China continue to closely coordinate their foreign policy efforts and advocate the formation of a more open, democratic and fair system of international relations.

I am sure that we will continue to move along this path, which is objective and conditioned by nothing less than history.

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Previously, US media claimed that Biden’s trip to Ukraine was a “surprise visit” that took "months of planning." However, the White House confirmed that it had informed Russia of Biden’s plans to visit Kiev in advance for “deconfliction purposes.”

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⚡️ According to the information available, the Kiev regime is plotting an armed provocation against the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the near future, which will be carried out by units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including those involving the Azov nationalist formation.

◽️ A staged attack by allegedly Russian forces from Transnistrian territory will be used as the pretext for the invasion.

◽️ For this purpose, the Ukrainian saboteurs involved in the staged invasion will be disguised as military personnel of the Russian Federation.

◽️ The Russian Defence Ministry is closely monitoring the situation on Ukraine's border with the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and is ready to respond to any changes in the situation.

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The first-year students of MGIMO University who study Bengali sing Ekusher Gaan at the cultural program organised by the Russian State Library on the occasion of Mother Language Day

🇷🇺Russia, in July-January of the 2022/23 season, according to the calculations of the Rusagrotrans Control Center, took key positions in a number of countries, such as:
🇪🇬Egypt, where the share of Russian wheat has increased from 45% in the 2021/22 season to almost 70%
🇵🇰Pakistan - from 10% also - up to 70%,
🇸🇩 Sudan - from 30% to 85%,
🇱🇾 Libya - from 47% to 86%,
🇴🇲 Oman started buying wheat this season and Russia's share in the country's imports immediately soared to 77%.
🇹🇷 Turkey imported about 72% of imports from Russia.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia has increased its share in purchases to 64%.
🇩🇿 Algeria, after the start of deliveries from Russia last season, reached a level of 30% in the country's imports as a whole.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh brought the share of purchases to 42% against 8% last season.

🌍 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 Western Donors Can Lavish Billions on Ukraine, Israel But Poorer Nations Left Behind, Say Experts

🗣 “First, they view the world in a geopolitical context and NATO and EU members come first in the global order of importance,” an expert believes. “Hence billions can be spent on just one country such as Ukraine or Israel, but little on the poorer nations of the world.”

The expert argues that the West's assessment of which countries were important was revealed during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the Western nations ignored poorer nations and practiced a so-called “vaccine nationalism”.

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Press review: Russia puts brakes on New START and chances of UN Nord Stream probe remote
Top stories from the Russian press on Wednesday, February 22nd

❗️Statements by Russia's permanent representative to the UN:

• The relationship between Russia and the EU is essentially non-existent;

• The EU is discussing how best to dismember and destroy Russia;

• The US and EU are bringing the world closer to a suicidal conflict by stepping up arms supplies to Kiev;

• EU "swallows" the undermining of the Nord Streams, tries to cover its tracks.

Dedicated to the anniversary of the special military operation in Ukraine. "Ordinary fascism."
The 2015 music video for the song of the Ukrainian band from Kiev "Myelophone is with me".

I hope that this music video will be seen by those who doubt the launch of the special operation one year ago.



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February 24 is the anniversary of the beginning of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Its goals were proclaimed denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine. The nurturing of the nationalist principle in Ukrainians took place consciously, and we understand why the West preferred and prefer not to notice it. The global goals of this conflict are the struggle for the resources of our country and its transformation into a raw material appendage, as it was in the 90s.

Even the first persons of Ukraine were chosen for a long time and not by chance, because it is difficult to find someone who will so cynically lead his own country, his own people to die, knowing that it could have been avoided. Ukraine is just a tool to get to our greatest natural resources.

Listen to quotes from European leaders about Russia.
Watch a fragment from our issue 🔗 "Are you a hunter or a faggot?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix_Vkyq8zJ0 ) from 15.07.2022.

Russia’s Ukraine offensive in suspended animation https://www.indianpunchline.com/russias-ukraine-offensive-in-suspended-animation/