❗️Key statements by Russian intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin:

▪️The West is pushing Georgia into entering a military conflict with Russia;

▪️Moscow has ascertained the West’s ploy of convincing Georgia that now the time is right to retake Abkhazia and South Ossetia;

▪️Kiev and the West not only want to prohibit, but to physically destroy canonical Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine;

▪️Complete trust has been established between the special services of Belarus and Russia;

▪️The West’s bid to globally isolate Russia has utterly failed.

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❗️ Latest statements by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu:

▪️NATO is intensifying its activity near the borders of Russia and Belarus;

▪️NATO is strengthening its anti-Russian stance, leading to an escalation of the conflict;

▪️ 200 contracts have been signed for the construction and modernization of aviation equipment;

▪️The electronic format has helped ensure the efficiency of conscription for military service in Russia;

▪️The actions of the US and NATO create risks of expanding the conflict in Ukraine;

▪️Belarus has received the Iskander missile system, which is capable of using nuclear missiles;

▪️Since the beginning of the year, 59 M-777 howitzers, 13 Paladin self-propelled guns, and 14 HIMARS have been destroyed in Ukraine;

▪️The Russian armed forces have disrupted the production of a number of Ukrainian weapons, as well as the transfer of ammunition and fuel to the front, with high-precision strikes.

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Russia Sounds Alarm Over Grain Deal Process

The part of the UN- and Türkiye-brokered grain deal with Ukraine regarding Russian agricultural exports is still not working as it is supposed to, Moscow’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said.

At a press conference, Nebenzia stated, “we have not had a single grain exported according to the memorandum of Russia and UN, the second part of the deal.”

The agreement, concluded in July 2022 amid the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, allows Ukraine to transport agricultural products via the Black Sea through a humanitarian corridor in exchange for Russian grain and fertilizers gaining unimpeded access to global markets.

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Russia's Foreign Policy Concept:

Russia intends to make it a priority to eliminate the vestiges of domination by the US and other unfriendly states in global affairs, create conditions to enable any state to renounce neo-colonial ambitions.

⚡️ Foreign Ministry Statement on Finland 🇫🇮 completing the process to join NATO

💬 On April 4, 2023, it was officially declared that all the legal procedures related to Finland becoming a NATO member were completed.

As we have warned on multiple occasions, the Russian Federation will have to respond with military-technical, as well as other measures in order to address national security threats arising from Finland joining NATO.

Specific decisions regarding the build-up of defence capabilities along Russia’s northwestern borders will depend on the specific terms on which Finland joins NATO, including the deployment of NATO’s military infrastructure and offensive weapons on its territory.

☝️ The line of contact between NATO and the Russian Federation’s border has more than doubled. This constitutes a major shift for Northern Europe, which used to be one of the most stable regions in the world. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has made another step to move closer to the territory of Russia.

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By joining NATO, Finland has given up on its unique identity and lost its independence, which for decades gave it a special status in international affairs. Helsinki’s policy of military non-alignment has long served its national interests and was a major confidence-building factor in the Baltic region and across the European continent. But now all this has become a thing of the past.

Finland became a minor NATO member without the possibility to influence any decisions. It has lost its ability to have a say in international affairs.

History will tell whether Finland needed to take this ill-conceived step, undertaken by the country’s government without taking into consideration what the people think about it by holding a referendum and carefully examining the consequences of NATO membership. We strongly believe that this is the case.

❗️ Finland’s accession to NATO will have a negative effect on the bilateral relations between Russia and Finland.

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☝in the sphere of Climate, under the new Foreign Policy Concept, the Russian Federation intends to give priority to:

🔹️promoting the scientifically sound, non-politicized international efforts to limit the negative impacts on the environment (including greenhouse gas emission reduction), maintaining and enhancing the absorbent capabilities of ecosystems;

🔹️expanding cooperation with the allies and partners with a view to counteracting the politicization of the international nature-oriented and climate activity, primarily its implementation with a goal of unfair competition, interference in the internal affairs of states and limitation of the states' sovereignty in connection with their natural resources;

🔹️maintaining the right of every state to choose for itself the best suitable mechanisms and methods of environmental protection and adaptation to climate change;

🔹️facilitating the elaboration of uniform, understandable and global rules of environmental climate regulation taking into account the Paris Climate Agreement of 12 December 2015, adopted within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change dated 9 May 1992;

🔹️increasing the efficiency of the international cooperation in the area of development and introduction of the state-of-the-art technologies that would enable the preservation of favourable environment and its improved quality as well as adaptation of the states to the climate change;

🔹️preventing the transborder damaging of the environment of the Russian Federation, primarily the transmission to its territory across its border of the contaminating agents (including radioactive substances), quarantine, highly hazardous and dangerous crop pests, anti-crop agents, undesirable plants and micro-agents.

Mr. Medvedev:

Terrorism is back on our streets, in our cities. But now terror is used by those forces in whom, not so long ago, our sworn Western friends saw the "honor and conscience of the era". Opponents of the "authoritarian regime". Fearless knights of justice and anti-corruption. The masks are off. Here they are, the "flower" of our non-systemic opposition — they are at war with their own people, they are blowing up and killing. These scoundrels not only openly wish defeat for Russia and the destruction of our homeland, they now execute their own compatriots. They killed an unarmed journalist and wounded dozens of innocent visitors of his art meeting. They shot up a car carrying children who were on their way to the village school. A car carrying a female journalist and scientist was blown up. The circle of history has closed.
This scum has found its final place in the annals of our country.

The dumb-headed perpetrators of terrorist attacks today whine: "I was used". That's probably true. The half-wit expendable material used by our non-systemic opposition is lucky to have survived. But this, of course, will not spare the material from a fair punishment. And what is worse, the main scum who fed and financed the assassins, who dictated their plans, remain without retribution yet. Do you see them? Yes, yes, that's our so-called intransigent opposition, which has been fighting against its own country for years with the active support of the West, where they make pathos-filled films about it, which win engaging awards. All those stinking ACF and MBH media, navalnys, volkovs, ponomariovs, and other khodorkovskys have become mere terrorists and murderers. They delight in the sight of the blood of Russian citizens. They flare their nostrils in excitement at the sight of wounded and maimed bodies. They have devotedly sworn an oath to darkness and terror along with the murderers of their native Kiev nazi regime.

There is no negotiating with terrorists. They are exterminated like rabid dogs with poisonous saliva flowing from their mouths. Without much fanfare. As soon as possible. Even if it sometimes takes years. There can be no forgiveness and compassion to them. This is the ultimate justice.

❗️Finland Joining NATO Creates A Threat To Russia — Kremlin

Key points from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s daily briefing:

▪Finland’s accession to NATO does not strengthen stability in Europe

▪The heads of the four new regions of Russia will personally attend the meeting of the Security Council with President Putin at the Kremlin

▪Moscow will not comment on the situation with Donald Trump — Russia does not interfere in the internal affairs of the US

▪Communication between Presidents Putin and Lukashenko on Wednesday will be devoted to bilateral issues and security concerns

▪Putin may hold a separate meeting with the heads of the new Russian regions after the April 5 Security Council meeting

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The video's creators give a comprehensive explanation why the North Atlantic Alliance is a terrorist organization.

The so-called "defensive" Western bloc  never protected anyone, it only attacked.

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Press review: Finland officially enters NATO and Belarus ready to host Russian nukes
Top stories from the Russian press on Wednesday, April 5th

Russia — Islamic World: Over 140 discussions planed within KazanForum

Islamic finances and halal industry will become the basic themes of the International Economic Forum “Russia – the Islamic World: KazanForum”.

Other main themes of the Forum’s tracks are as follows:
▪international cooperation;
▪technology;
▪investment;
▪industry;
▪sustainable development;
▪the women’s view;
▪logistics.

Also, the Russia–Turkey, Russia–Indonesia, Russia–Egypt, Russia–Azerbaijan, Russia–Uzbekistan, Russia–Malaysia, and Russia–Iran conferences are shceduled at the Forum.

The full program is available on the official website of the KazanForum.

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Regrettable that the #UK is abusing its #UN privilege to stifle a fact-driven discussion on #children in the #Ukraine conflict.

This act of #censorship makes a mockery of London’s supposed commitment to freedom of speech.

Only pathological liars are afraid of the truth.

⚡️🗣 Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says Russia is at direct war with US as it supplies Ukrainian NAZIS with weapons to strike Russia.

Lavrov adds that despite such aggression, Moscow seeks to keep an open dialogue with Washington hoping they would one day come to their senses.

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⚡️The terrorist attack in St Petersburg and the murder of Vladlen Tatarsky will be one of the topics of discussion at the UN Security Council during Russia's presidency, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

❗️ Key statements made by Russia’s FM Lavrov during the meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu:

▪️Talks on the Ukrainian crisis can only be held by taking into account Russia's interests;

▪️Russia's part of the Black Sea grain deal is not fulfilled at all, which requires the West to ease restrictions on Russian agricultural and fertilizer exports. Obstacles remain and are even tightened;

▪️Russia will reevaluate the necessity of the grain deal if there is no progress on fulfillment of the Russian part;

▪️The settlement process between Palestine and Israel has been pushed far back, Moscow stands for direct dialogue between the parties.

▪️Both parties discussed the construction of a gas hub in Turkey and the work of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant.

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⚡️The US resumed construction of bio-laboratories in Ukraine and is training Ukrainian biologists, the Russian Defense Ministry said