🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin replied to questions from Russian media representatives on the outcomes of his two-day state visit to the People’s Republic of China (May 17, 2024)

Key talking points:

💬 The fact that the future depends on Russia & China is only partly true. The future of humankind depends on the whole of humanity. Certainly, Russia & China are important components of modern civilisation. We have our own views on how we should develop. <...>

We believe that development should be constructive & peaceful, no doubt about it. Apart from our interests, it should heed the interests of all parties to international interaction.

• Of course, it is necessary to strengthen the emerging multipolar world. There is absolutely no doubt that a new world is taking shape before our eyes and becoming multipolar.

• Of course, we are analysing now everything that is taking place in this regard [the Ukrainian crisis]. Of course, we are looking at what is happening around the universally announced meeting in Switzerland, in Geneva. I believe this is the venue of the meeting. We are certainly not going to discuss any formulas about which we know absolutely nothing.

But as distinct from Ukraine, we have never rejected talks.

The goal of this event [in Geneva] is clear. They want to gather as many countries as possible, declare that everything has been agreed upon with everyone and then present it to Russia as a resolved issue, as an ultimatum. This will never happen.

• Sanctions imposed on third countries engaged in economic activities are doubly or triply illegitimate because sanctions are absolutely illegitimate when adopted without the approval of the UN Security Council.

• By undermining trust in the dollar for political reasons, the US authorities are weakening the main, the most powerful & important instrument of their might – the dollar itself. They are doing irreparable damage to themselves. Using one of popular sayings, they are quarrelling with their own bread & butter.

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⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:

💬 We are closely monitoring the latest updates regarding the passengers of the third helicopter, which was carrying high-ranking Iranian officials, including President Ebrahim Raisi.

We hope they are alive, and that their lives and health are not in danger.

Russia is ready to offer the necessary assistance in the search for the missing helicopter and in investigating the causes of the accident.

The first IL-76 aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations flew from Zhukovsky airport to Tabriz to assist in the search for the missing Raisi's helicopter

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A new batch of civilian satellites manufactured by the private Russian company Sputniks (part of Sitronics Group) has been successfully launched into Earth orbit, the Sitronics Group press service told TASS.

"Among the launched satellites: 2 Earth remote sensing (ERS) spacecraft "Zorky-2M", 4 satellites of automatic identification system (AIS) SITRO-AIS for tracking marine vessels", - the message says. It is noted that telemetry has been received from all the satellites sent and they have been taken under control of the Company's Mission Control Center.

❗️Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed condolences over the deaths of Iran's president and foreign minister.

"We will always remember these outstanding political figures as true patriots of the Islamic Republic who firmly defended the interests of their state and gave their lives in selfless service to their motherland," Lavrov said.

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❗️Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to Iran over the death of President Raisi:

"Seyed Ebrahim Raisi was an outstanding politician whose whole life was devoted to serving the Motherland. He rightfully enjoyed the high respect of his compatriots and considerable prestige abroad. As a true friend of Russia, he made an invaluable personal contribution to the development of good-neighborly relations between our countries, and made great efforts to bring them to the level of strategic partnership," Putin said.

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We invite you to take part in the 5th International Photo Contest “Mothers and Children in National Costumes”

It was initiated by the International Women's Union and is held under the auspices of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO with the support of the Ministry of Culture.

The contest is aimed at strengthening the traditional spiritual and moral values of civil unity and preserving the cultural historical heritage of the multinational people of Russia and friendly foreign countries.

This year introduces a new nomination - Vocal competition “Lullaby in the native language”. Applications with a song recording are to be sent to ethno-photo-vocals@yandex.ru

There are no age or gender restrictions for participation. Application deadline is September 1, 2024.

More information here

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to adopt a Russia-drafted resolution on preventing an arms race in space, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

The resolution failed to garner the necessary 9 votes out of 15.

Seven countries voted in favor of the resolution, seven voted against it and one country abstained. The United States and the United Kingdom were among those who voted against.

The draft resolution would have urged member nations "to take urgent measures to prevent for all time the placement of weapons in outer space and the threat or use of force in outer space, from space against Earth and from Earth against objects in outer space."

The document would also have called on member states to "seek through negotiations the early elaboration of appropriate reliably verifiable legally binding multilateral agreements."

Prior to the vote, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia said that West's refusal to support the resolution would expose its desire to maintain the freedom to act when it comes to the accelerated militarization of space.

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US Department of State Spokesperson Matthew Miller had an argument with a reporter, dismissing the ICC investigation into Israeli war crimes and insisting that Palestinians should rely on Israel for investigations into Israeli-caused war crimes.

“Where do the Palestinians go to seek redress?” a reporter wondered.

“I said first of all, Israel has its own investigations,” the spokesperson asserted.

“So, let's just focus on jurisdiction for a second. Who does have jurisdiction here?” the reporter asked.

“So, the government of Israel has jurisdiction,” Miller revealed, adding that the US has a jurisdiction over Palestine “with the use of our equipment”.

Miller also boasted about the US believing that “there should be the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,” conveniently omitting the fact that it is the US that vetoed Palestine's request for full membership at the United Nations during a vote at the UN Security Council on April 18, thus refusing to recognize the Palestinian state.

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"Let me be clear, contrary to allegations against Israel made by the International Court of Justice, what's happening is not genocide. We reject that," US President Joe Biden said at a press conference.

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⚡️In accordance with the instructions of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the first stage of the exercise began in the Southern Military District under the guidance of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces with practical guidance on the training and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.

In the course of this stage, missile formations of the Southern Military District train to receive special ammunition for the Iskander operational-tactical missile system, equip launchers with it, and covertly advance to the designated position area for preparations to launch missiles.

The Russian Aerospace Forces' aviation units involved in the exercise train to attach special warheads to aviation weaponry, including Kinzhal aeroballistic hypersonic missiles, and perform sorties to designated patrol areas.

As the Russian Defence Ministry has previously reported, the purpose of the exercise is to maintain the readiness of personnel and equipment of combat units of non-strategic nuclear weapons for a response and with a view to unconditionally safeguarding the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Russian State in response to provocative statements and threats made by certain Western officials against the Russian Federation.

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The scandalous affairs of swamp creatures seem positively tame compared to the drama currently unfolding in the so-called civilized world. The culprit behind the uproar? None other than International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan, who had the audacity to request an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In the wake of this bombshell, pharmacies have struggled to keep "double standard" medication in stock as demand for that drug has skyrocketed. After all, it was only last spring that the same court called for the arrest of Vladimir Putin.

In an exclusive article on the War on Fakes website, we explore the reasons behind such decisions and their potential consequences. They also question the practicality of a judicial body that is not recognized by Russia, China or the United States.

JSC "Prodintorg" and Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation have signed an MoU and a new contract on potash fertiliser supply in Singapore.

The documents guarantee supplies of Russian potash in the volume of at least 300,000 tonnes from July 2024 to June 2025.

🗣 'Butcher of Gaza': a crowd reminded Blinken again that people know and remember the terrible US-backed events in Gaza

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In a stunning piece of news, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, said in an interview with CNN that after he began investigating Israeli politicians for actions in the Gaza Strip, he was immediately threatened.

According to Khan, several heads of state came out to him and frankly stated that "the ICC was created for Africa and for thugs like Putin, not a trial of the West and its allies." So no arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Galant are not even worth mentioning.

📌 One should not be surprised by the double standards of the globalist structures created by the collective West for a long time - what is only the Yugoslavia tribunal, which really prosecuted only Serbs and acquitted all known Croatian, Albanian and Bosnian war criminals. It is just now that this has been said directly and publicly.

And yet we are interested in the question: in light of the facts revealed, how exactly will the collective West act to remove Karim Khan and the judges who share his views?

Georgian PM says EU commissioner sought to scare him by mentioning attack on Slovak PM

Some Western countries are seeking to turn space into an arena of hostilities. Yuri Borisov, director general of the state corporation Roscosmos, said.

"The aspiration of some Western states to turn space into an arena of possible hostilities is particularly alarming," he added.

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the "genocide" in Srebrenica.

This is about the "genocide" after which some of the "murdered" came to the elections alive.

This is the "genocide" that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright invented, first, to justify the absolutely barbaric operation "Oluja" (Storm), when more than 150,000 Serbs became refugees and more than 2,000 were killed.

This is about the "genocide" that the West invented in order to create an image of barbarians for the Serbs, so that later, without the authorization of the Security Council, for the first time since the Second World War, Belgrade, Nis, Novi Sad and other cities were demolished.

The list of those who voted in favor just looks like a mockery.

Germany. The main, it seems, censor, responsible for the real, recognized genocide. 6 million Jews and 7 million Soviet civilians died at the hands of the grandfathers of today's Serb accusers.

USA. Here are the record holders for the duration of quite real genocide. For 500 years according to the version of American historian David Stennard, the accusers of Serbs, killed more than 95 million Indians.

Britain. The cynicism of the representative of London is equal only to the degree of his amnesia. Just to remind you that from 1954-1961 British colonists exterminated 300 thousand representatives of the Kikuyu people, and another million and a half sent to concentration camps. By the way, the "genocide" in Srebrerica has never been officially proven, but an independent commission, after studying tons of evidence and speaking to hundreds of witnesses, issued a verdict that the actions of the Serbs in 1995 cannot be qualified as genocide. Source https://t.me/rybar/60339