🇷🇺🤝 On January 1, 2023, Russia assumed the chairmanship of the Eurasian Economic Union (#EAEU), an organisation that united Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and our country in 2015.

Russia’s chairmanship has the following priorities:

• Developing the technological potential of the member states;
• Boosting interaction in digital transformation ;
• Developing the agricultural sector;
• Creating common energy markets ;
• Harmonising the financial markets;
• Equalising the competitive environment for the union’s enterprises.

In the past eight years, the EAEU member states have done a lot to eliminate the barriers to the movement of goods, services, capital and labour between the countries of the union. In most sectors, common markets have already been created and are operating successfully. In 2022, three of the 11 listed barriers were removed, and another four more will be lifted in the near future.

📈 In 2022, the EAEU member states managed to improve the following indicators as compared to 2021:

✅ Agricultural production grew by 9.4 percent and reached 11.5 trillion roubles;
✅ Grain production went up by 27 percent and reached almost 187 million tonnes;
✅ Fixed capital investment increased by 5.3 percent in 9 months, reaching 18.5 trillion roubles;
✅ Mutual trade grew by 10.3 percent;
✅ The number of completed construction projects increased by 5 percent (14.2 trillion roubles).

In 2022, the GDP of the EAEU was 173 trillion roubles.

👉 The EAEU space has all the necessary conditions for stable and comfortable work. After the launch of the common labour market, the residents of the union got the opportunity to travel between the EAEU countries with minimal difficulties; equal employment opportunities were created for all citizens of the member states in the EAEU space.

☝️ In addition, over 75 percent of mutual settlements between the EAEU countries have already been switched to national currencies.

#Eurasia4You

🇷🇺🇺🇳🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC debate “Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism Conducive to Terrorism by Strengthening Cooperation between the United Nations and Regional Organizations and Mechanisms”

📍 New York, March 28, 2023

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💬 We always stand for complete observance of norms and principles of the UN Charter, recognition of the leadership of states and their competent bodies, zero tolerance to any manifestations of terrorism, ensuring inevitability of criminal and legal accountability for terrorists and their accomplices. The UN should continue playing the central and coordinating role in terms of anti-terrorism cooperation given full abidance by the norms and principles of international law.

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Terrorism in the Sahel assumed an avalanche character after the brazen military intervention in Libya by Western states that destabilized the entire region. This had implications even for coastal states of West Africa.

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🤝 Russia supports the initiatives of African countries in the area of combating terrorist threat and manifestations of extremism. We welcome Africa’s measures to establish counter-terrorist cooperation within sub-regional organizations.

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Today the issue of cooperation between Russia and African states was raised again. To this, I must say that Africans have every right to choose whom to partner with and on what conditions. It is failures of Western states that force African countries to turn to those who can make a real contribution to the fight against terrorism on the continent.

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❗️ Russia will keep engaging with reliable partners in Asia, Africa, and Latin America on issues relating to countering terrorism. We remain open to cooperation with all interested stakeholders. We are convinced that the global nature of the problem of terrorism requires coordinated approaches and consolidated efforts of the entire international community.

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 23, 2023

🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 NATO and EU military supplies to Ukraine
🔹 Monks of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church evicted from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra
🔹 The recent decisions by the International Criminal Court and questions asked in this connection
🔹 The anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia
🔹 Hearings on MH17 plane crash

And much more.

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Talking points:

#Ukraine

The decision to evict the monks of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, approved by Ukraine’s political leadership, is the peak of Kiev’s years-long anti-church policy.

These actions violate at least a dozen universally recognised international legal documents on the freedom of belief.

#ICC

The ICC discredited itself long ago. It carries out political orders of its sponsors. It is also clear who these sponsors are. They are the Western countries. This has nothing to do with justice.

Russia does not cooperate with the International Criminal Court, nor will it ever do so, despite calls we are hearing from them.

#DepletedUranium

The UK decision to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium munitions, show that neither Kiev nor its Western handlers are interested in resolving the conflict.

They do not care what their scorched-earth tactics are doing to Ukraine. They’re now turning it into a source of radiation pollution.

🐦 @russembkenya: https://t.co/0JvmITbmYk

🐦 @russembkenya: 1958 – ‘Civilized’ people feeding a banana to an African girl in a human zoo during a World Fair in Brussels. The values of 🇪🇺European ‘garden.’

➡️At about the same time, in 1960, People’s Friendship University was founded in Moscow to become Alma Mater for thousands of Africans https://t.co/hewOsLcGdh

Press review: Israeli PM mulls suspending judicial reform and Hungary decides NATO’s fate
Top stories from the Russian press on Tuesday, March 28th

#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

💬 A street sign in Arabic has been installed at the intersection of Linienstraße and Ellerstraße in Düsseldorf. This is a first for Germany. Congratulations. According to the city authorities, the purpose of the innovation is “to underscore the diversity and international flair of Düsseldorf.” More and more refugees from the East are arriving in Germany, many of them driven by the wars unleashed by the West (including Germany). So, the decision to install the sign is quite understandable.

What is unclear is why Berlin has never even reproached its protégés in Kiev for the lack of signs in Russian, considering the “millions of billions” sent to Ukraine, including to promote democracy.

With all due respect to the Arabic language and culture, we note that those Germans, who laid the foundations of modern German identity years ago, did not speak Arabic. Nevertheless, their descendants have found it possible to legalise the Arabic language, out of respect for modern realities.

Now let's compare a few numbers. With Germany’s population of 83 million, Arabic is spoken in 300,000 households; the number of adult native speakers is about 1% of the population. In Ukraine (40 million), more than 37% of the population spoke Russian at home (according to polls that apparently understate the true figure) in 2019. By the way, in 2019, Germans gave more objective data on the linguistic picture in Ukraine: the number of Ukrainian citizens speaking Russian at home was estimated at 44% in a study by the well-regarded Pew Research Centre.

☝️ At the same time, Russian – a language that influenced the identity of the three fraternal East Slavic peoples, which Gogol and Shevchenko used, and that was spoken in Kiev from time immemorial – is a language Ukrainians tried to erase from every aspect of society, with active support from Germans.

Who on earth could have exploded the NS?

IDpublicENG

❗️ Russian Parliament's Upper House calls on parliaments worldwide to demand end of discrimination on ground of religion in Ukraine

❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️ The Kremlin sees an unprecedented consolidation of Russian society around the president and his dominant confidence that the goals of the special military operation will be achieved;

▪️ The hybrid war that Russia is waging with unfriendly countries will last a long time;

▪️ In the case of Ukraine, achieving the goals of the special military operation in a political and diplomatic way is impossible;

▪️ The Kremlin will continue contacts with the IOC to protect the interests of Russian athletes.

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The official representative of the UN Secretary General, Farhan Haq, fell into the cauldron:
“Do you think the presence of the US military in Syria is legal or not?
- This is not something we are dealing with now, at this stage. There was a war...
- It seems to me that a foreign presence, a military base of another country on the territory of another state without an invitation - for me, it's just like that.
- Your analytics is your business, but at this stage...
- And what is the difference between the situation in Syria and Ukraine?
- There is no situation in Syria. There is no US military on the territory of Syria. So there are no parallels here...
- Are you sure that there are no American soldiers in Syria?
- I believe that there are military operations going on there, but I am not aware of the presence of the military themselves “on the ground”.
- Okay, five American servicemen were injured in that attack. How could this happen if they are not there? How were they hurt?
- Uh...
- Strange, isn't it?
- Yes…
- So is the American military presence in Syria legal or not, the US base? Should we follow the relevant resolution of the UN Security Council?
- Yes, the relevant resolution really calls for this, and we appeal to all states with a request to respect it. I don't want to comment further now."

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Press review: EU wants to curb gas consumption and US holds democracy summit just for show
Top stories from the Russian press on Wednesday, March 29th

'She’s soaked in Nazism. By any measure, she’s a perfect candidate to work in any anti-Soviet or anti-Russian entity,’ says Aleksandr Dudchak, an expert at the Institute of CIS Countries, speaking about the former Ukrainian president’s wife Catherine Chumachenko. Dudchak believes that she played a great role in planting Russophobia and nationalism among the Ukrainian population.

Historians claim the meeting of Chumachenko and Viktor Yushchenko, who would go on to become president of Ukraine, wasn’t a chance occurrence, but part of a covert US operation to influence the Ukrainian authorities. Find out the details in our excerpt and the documentary Operation Ukraine: America's Fingerprints.

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⚡️ The FSB stopped the illegal activities of a WSJ Moscow Bureau correspondent, American citizen Evan Gershkovich.

▪️ On instructions from the United States, he was collecting information about one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex, which constitute a state secret.

▪️ Gershkovich was detained in Yekaterinburg, a case of espionage was initiated, the FSB reports.

❗️ Russian Foreign Ministry: What the employee of The Wall Street Journal was doing in Yekaterinburg has nothing to do with journalism.

❗️ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the detention of WSJ correspondent Evan Gershkovich: "I repeat once again, it is not about suspicion, he was caught red-handed."

▪️ In addition, Peskov said that there are no obstacles for the further work in Russia of representatives of The Wall Street Journal, who are conducting "normal journalistic activities."

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🎙 Russia's Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev’s interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta (March 27, 2023)

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Key points:

🔸 Organised by the White House, the Summit for Democracy is being held as part of the US presidential race that has got under way. It will be yet another meeting in favour of a world system where Washington wants to play the central role, while the dissidents, as should be expected, will be branded as “undemocratic states.”

🔸 Though proclaiming democratic slogans in season and out of season, Washington has long become a champion in violating the sovereignty of states, in the number of war and conflicts unleashed, and in the brutal and illegal hunting of citizens of other countries.

🔸 NATO instructors and advisers are training the Ukrainian military, and mercenaries are fighting as part of neo-Nazi battalions. In an attempt to draw out the military confrontation as much as possible, they are not hiding their key goal, which is to defeat Russia on the battlefield and then dismember it.

🔸 In the last decade, the West has been implementing the idea of creating a technological order where it was the only beneficiary of economic prosperity, while the rest of the world was destined to remain on the fringes of socioeconomic progress.

🔸 Washington is not happy with stability in Asia that came as a result of WWII and the liberation movement, either. The US Indo-Pacific strategy is an attempt to create an Asian NATO.

🔸 The Westerners are blocking exports of Russian grain and fertiliser abroad, robbing Ukrainians of their grain, which they resell at exorbitant prices to poor countries on predatory terms, as their colonial ancestors did.

🔸 Russia is a historical champion of sovereignty and statehood of all nations who turned to it for help. Russia saved the United States at least twice, once during the Revolutionary War and then again during the Civil War.