Press review: US reporter caught for spying in Russia and Putin may christen Turkish NPP
Top stories from the Russian press on Friday, March 31st

Russia’s revised foreign policy doctrine: Key points https://www.rt.com/russia/573945-russia-foreign-policy-concept-key/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

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🎬 Operation Ukraine: America's Fingerprints. Who supports Ukrainian Nationalism? - an RT Doc Film.

Synopsis: As soon as World War II ended and the Nazis were defeated, US intelligence agencies built ties with former Hitler collaborators to work together against the Soviet Union and then Russia. The operation to form an armed underground movement in Western Ukraine was dubbed 'Aerodynamic'.

The CIA assembled war criminals and Bandera movement activists from filtration camps, and created an agent network. Their task was to sabotage nuclear plants and dams on Ukrainian territory in an effort to separate it from the Soviet Union. They terrorised civilians and were responsible for at least 35,000 casualties, according to CIA co-founder Frank Wisner.

In the early 1950s, Red Army units mostly wiped out the nationalist insurgency, however the CIA employed a new strategy. Since then Ukrainian nationalists have been engaged in an ideological anti-Russian war. The operation ‘Prolog’ gradually stoked nationalist sentiment in Ukraine and bred loyalty to Nazi ideas. What is the outcome of half-century-long American influence?

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“Russians! I now appeal to all Russians, residents of Ukraine and Belarus in the Balkans are considered Russians too. Look at us and remember - they will do the same to you if you disunite and give up. The West is a chain rabid dog that will cling to your throat. Brothers, remember the fate of Yugoslavia! Don't let them do the same to you!”

-Slobodan Milosevic

Bombshell Report Debunks ICC Warrant for Putin, and Mainstream Media Sidesteps It

The ICC prosecutor "appeared to have based his arrest warrant on research produced by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab," a State Department-funded entity whose executive director, Nathaniel Raymond, recently claimed on CNN that "thousands of children are in a hostage situation," per The Grayzone, an independent American investigative outlet.

But "according to the Yale Lab," Grayzone journalist Jeremy Loffredo explained in a new video report, the outrageous allegations of war crimes on the part of the Russian President were based on simple Google searches, involved "zero interviews with actual victims… [and] the researchers didn’t even attempt to see any of the camps in person."

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The countries of Central Europe began the fight against Ukrainian grain

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that farmers in the region need to be protected from the negative effect of Ukrainian grain dumping. "The interests of agricultural producers must be defended by joint efforts. It is important that grain produced in accordance with much greater control and quality expectations have a higher price. Due to the low level, Ukrainian grain is more competitive in price, but not in quality," Orban wrote.

It would seem, what else to expect from the "pro-Putin" Orban? However, the most anti-Russian Poland also joined the fight against the only direction of import left for Ukraine. As they say, tanks are tanks, but the money is apart. "We demand the use of all regulatory instruments - quotas, tariffs that will limit or block the import of Ukrainian grain to Poland," Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.

At a meeting with Poland's Agriculture Minister Henryk Kowalczyk, farmers' representatives said they needed at least PLN 6 billion ($1.39 billion) to cover the damage from Ukrainian grain - ten times more than the government had offered them.

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Zambia's Fred M'membe speaks against US Imperialism as Kamala Harris tours Africa:

"Those who killed Muammar Gaddafi, today are coming to teach us about democracy."

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❗️Medvedev responded to the scandalous remarks by the EU diplomatic chief: "Well, concerning the Fool's day, Josep Borrell is a great specialist. It is HIS day".

Earlier, Borrell had likened himself to the Ukrainian media, repeating hours later his scathing statement that the start of Russia's UN Security Council presidency was "fitting for April fool's day".

⚡️US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Lavrov and Blinken discussed the detention of the American Gershkovich by phone. Blinken demanded the immediate release of the arrested US journalist. Lavrov stressed that the detention of Gershkovich, who was trying to gather state secrets, was unacceptable. His fate will be determined by a court, Lavrov said.

⚡️ Moscow on Vladlen Tatarsky's death: international organizations ignore Kiev's threats to Russian journalists

Kiev continues to threaten Russian journalists with reprisals while international organizations turn a blind eye to the situation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated just hours after war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in an explosion in St. Petersburg.

Zakharova stressed that Russian journalists are being intimidated by Kiev and its Western sponsors, "literally marked with special labels" on US social media platforms, and subjected to a witch hunt in Western media.

According to the diplomat, the fact that relevant international organizations ignore this can easily be interpreted as tacit approval if not complicity.

Julia Chicherina - “Farewell of Slavianka”

Legally, Artemovsk (Bakhmut) was taken by Russian forces, the enemy remained in the western quarters, said the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The Russian flag is raised over the administration of Artemovsk, he said.

⚡️ Regarding the pressure put by the Kiev regime on the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra leaders amid the Great Lent

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❗️ In the last days of March and early April, the campaign to seize the pearl of Orthodoxy – the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra – waged by the current Kiev regime and the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine, a schismatic and non-canonical church controlled by current regime authorities, reached a decisive stage.

This move was long in the making.

On April 1 of this year, the abbot of the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Paul, was put under house arrest, while neo-Nazi activists began to arrive at the monastery, mocking the divine services and attempts by the brethren and other people praying at the monastery to preserve the Lavra in the bosom of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

⚠️ It speaks volumes that Zelensky and his regime would choose this exact moment to put pressure on the Lavra – the time of the Great Lent.

The Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is no ordinary monastery. It is the centre of canonical Orthodoxy, as well as one of the oldest Lavras of the ancient Russian state.

The Kiev regime has turned its religious policy into a tool for promoting its neo-Nazi practices.

It is an open secret that the Zelensky regime is in no way independent when it comes to its anti-ecclesiastic policies. Creating a schism within Orthodoxy and delivering a blow against this sphere of life has long been Washington’s stated goal.

◾️ Even for the current Kiev authorities seizing the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is illegitimate in terms of law and immoral from a spiritual perspective. It demonstrates better than many other steps the regime has taken or its rhetoric its criminal nature and readiness to turn a blind eye to the feelings and, even more importantly, the rights of people, including Ukrainian citizens.

"Ukraine is the best place for religious freedom" -Zelensky

As Bishop Pavel is electronically tagged.

The US “doesn’t actually want allies, just loyal vassals”

German lawmaker Sevim Dağdelen has called for US soldiers to leave her country, adding that an investigation must take place into the terror attacks against the Nordsream Pipelines.

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❗️Key statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Sunday’s explosion at a St. Petersburg cafe:

▪️Vladimir Putin was immediately informed about the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg;

▪️The active phase of the investigation is underway;

▪️The Kiev regime supports terrorist activities and is likely behind the murder of Vladlen Tatarsky, as well as other people since 2014, which is why Russia is carrying out the special military operation.

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❗️For the first time in nearly 60 years, China has changed its position on the ownership of the southern Kuril Islands to neutrality, bringing Beijing and Moscow even closer together, Kyodo News Agency reported, citing sources close to the Chinese side.

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 30, 2023

🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 Food exports to the EU
🔹 The trail of the International Criminal Court’s decisions
🔹 Parliamentary elections in the Republic of Cuba
🔹 Day of Unity between the Peoples of Russia and Belarus
🔹 Outcomes of the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board meeting
🔹 Russia set to assume presidency of the UN Security Council in April 2023

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Talking points:

#BlackSeaInitiative

According to the statistics of the Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul, as of March 22 of this year, more than 25 million tonnes of grain and related foodstuffs had been exported from Ukraine.

Who was the main recipient of these products? Needy countries? No, it’s not them. The biggest recipient of the goods is the European Union (41 percent of the total exports).

The Western countries and companies started with the high standards and lofty words about helping the needy and starving and have come all the way to downright stealing. This makes perfect sense for imperialists and the way they treat their colonies.

#ICC

It is clear that the ICC Prosecutor and judges obediently follow the line laid down by their Western sponsors.

This body will never investigate real crimes. We will wait in vain for an investigation into crimes committed in Iraq, where the death toll among peaceful civilians reached hundreds of thousands, and in Afghanistan, where a lot of civilians died as well.

#IOC

Unfortunately, the IOC and other international institutions where US satellites and other officials controlled by Washington have entrenched themselves have had no qualms hiding behind their would-be commitment to ensuring that the 2024 Olympics are held in peace, all while seeking to divide athletes in terms of their political loyalties.

The effort to harass Russian athletes, our teams and coaches for all these years can be lethal for the honest principles of the Olympic movement.

⚡️ Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee

Comment on the explosion at a St Petersburg café

💬 It has been established that the terrorist attack that occurred on April 2 in St Petersburg targeting prominent journalist Maxim Fomin aka Vladlen Tatarsky was plotted by the Ukrainian intelligence services and involved agents who cooperate with Navalny’s so-called Anti-Corruption Foundation. The detainee, Darya Trepova, was an active supporter of the organisation.

The investigation of the incident is ongoing.

Press review: US seeks to keep New START and Yerevan not to arrest Putin on ICC warrant
Top stories from the Russian press on Monday, April 3rd