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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland has stated publicly that Russia’s defeat “would be a huge boost to the global economy.”
Freeland, whose grandfather was a member of Andrei Melnik’s OUN-UPA nationalist group, hit the limelight several times over the past few years by speaking in support of Ukraine’s Nazis and by making Russophobic statements . On January 18, 2023, she said during the World Economic Forum in Davos: “It is not doing Ukraine favours. Supplying Ukraine with weapons, and as President Zelensky very crucially pointed out, supplying Ukraine with the money it needs to win the war is ultimately in our own self-interest. So, I am a finance minister. If you were to say to me, what is the one thing that G7 finance ministers, G7 governments could do this year that is actually in our power – we do not control COVID. We do not control global supply chains. We do not control whether there will be immaculate disinflation or not. One thing where we have real, practical levers is we can help Ukraine win clearly, definitively. If we do that, if that happens this year – you know this as well as I do, Fareed [Fareed Zakaria, panel moderator], that would be a huge boost to the global economy. I do think Ukraine is going to win.”
This is a 21st century war for resources, plain and simple.
Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland has stated publicly that Russia’s defeat “would be a huge boost to the global economy.”
Freeland, whose grandfather was a member of Andrei Melnik’s OUN-UPA nationalist group, hit the limelight several times over the past few years by speaking in support of Ukraine’s Nazis and by making Russophobic statements . On January 18, 2023, she said during the World Economic Forum in Davos: “It is not doing Ukraine favours. Supplying Ukraine with weapons, and as President Zelensky very crucially pointed out, supplying Ukraine with the money it needs to win the war is ultimately in our own self-interest. So, I am a finance minister. If you were to say to me, what is the one thing that G7 finance ministers, G7 governments could do this year that is actually in our power – we do not control COVID. We do not control global supply chains. We do not control whether there will be immaculate disinflation or not. One thing where we have real, practical levers is we can help Ukraine win clearly, definitively. If we do that, if that happens this year – you know this as well as I do, Fareed [Fareed Zakaria, panel moderator], that would be a huge boost to the global economy. I do think Ukraine is going to win.”
This is a 21st century war for resources, plain and simple.
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📅 On January 22, 1945, Insterburg, one of East Prussia’s major cities and an important road and rail junction, was taken in the East Prussian Offensive. It had been turned into a powerful strongpoint, with additional fortifications in view of the coming offensive by the Soviet troops.
The Red Army had carefully prepared for the assault. Prisoners had been captured to obtain information, but they did not provide a complete picture. The only thing that helped was a map, which was found on the dead body of a German colonel of the 26th Army Corps stationed in Horstenau. This gave details of the operational situation at the front, with units and defensive lines marked on it. The information obtained led to the conclusion that the city had to be stormed immediately before its garrison was reinforced by other military units.
The assault was further complicated by the fact that the city was protected from the north not only by the erected defences, but also by the natural barriers of the Angerapp and Inster rivers. The Germans had blown up the dam on purpose, so that the water would submerge the floodplains of these rivers and hamper the further advance of the Soviet soldiers.
🎖 The storming and capture of Insterburg became a milestone in the Red Army’s chain of victories during the final stage of the Great Patriotic War. The operation, cleverly thought-out by commanders and bravely carried out by soldiers of the 18th Guards Infantry Division, made it possible to defeat a massive enemy defensive group, thus opening the way to Königsberg for the Soviet troops.
📖 Read more about the assault on Insterburg
The Red Army had carefully prepared for the assault. Prisoners had been captured to obtain information, but they did not provide a complete picture. The only thing that helped was a map, which was found on the dead body of a German colonel of the 26th Army Corps stationed in Horstenau. This gave details of the operational situation at the front, with units and defensive lines marked on it. The information obtained led to the conclusion that the city had to be stormed immediately before its garrison was reinforced by other military units.
The assault was further complicated by the fact that the city was protected from the north not only by the erected defences, but also by the natural barriers of the Angerapp and Inster rivers. The Germans had blown up the dam on purpose, so that the water would submerge the floodplains of these rivers and hamper the further advance of the Soviet soldiers.
🎖 The storming and capture of Insterburg became a milestone in the Red Army’s chain of victories during the final stage of the Great Patriotic War. The operation, cleverly thought-out by commanders and bravely carried out by soldiers of the 18th Guards Infantry Division, made it possible to defeat a massive enemy defensive group, thus opening the way to Königsberg for the Soviet troops.
📖 Read more about the assault on Insterburg
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⚡️ Remarks by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at an Arria-formula meeting of UNSC Member States "The systematic war of Ukraine against the residents of Donbass: 2014 and onwards"
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💬 Ukrainian propaganda is doing "its best" to prevent spread of the true information that residents of Ukrainian cities and villages most often die from the bullets of those who, it would seem, should protect them - nationalist battalions and units of the UAF. However, the evidence of this fact is so abundant that this truth simply cannot be concealed.
This is when provocations and false-flag maneuvers come to the stage, like the ones in Bucha and Izum that faked a “massacre of civilians” allegedly performed by Russian troops. In their toolkit, they also have provocations of the Kramatorsk type, when the armed forces of Ukraine launched a rocket against evacuees. As you remember, this provocation was so uncouth and it disclosed so much evidence confirming the responsibility of Ukraine that Kiev and its Western sponsors had to stop proliferating this story.
❗️ Ukrainian strikes against the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk republics promise no military advantage. There are no military facilities there, and the contact line is rather far away. Unfortunately, there are such types of Western weapons at Kiev’s disposal that they can only use after they have coordinated the time and the goal of the attack with the states that delivered this hardware. This gives us reason to believe that the US and NATO knowingly and deliberately become accomplices in Kiev’s crimes against the people of Donbas.
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💬 Ukrainian propaganda is doing "its best" to prevent spread of the true information that residents of Ukrainian cities and villages most often die from the bullets of those who, it would seem, should protect them - nationalist battalions and units of the UAF. However, the evidence of this fact is so abundant that this truth simply cannot be concealed.
This is when provocations and false-flag maneuvers come to the stage, like the ones in Bucha and Izum that faked a “massacre of civilians” allegedly performed by Russian troops. In their toolkit, they also have provocations of the Kramatorsk type, when the armed forces of Ukraine launched a rocket against evacuees. As you remember, this provocation was so uncouth and it disclosed so much evidence confirming the responsibility of Ukraine that Kiev and its Western sponsors had to stop proliferating this story.
❗️ Ukrainian strikes against the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk republics promise no military advantage. There are no military facilities there, and the contact line is rather far away. Unfortunately, there are such types of Western weapons at Kiev’s disposal that they can only use after they have coordinated the time and the goal of the attack with the states that delivered this hardware. This gives us reason to believe that the US and NATO knowingly and deliberately become accomplices in Kiev’s crimes against the people of Donbas.
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🇷🇺🇿🇦 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds talks with Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of #SouthAfrica Dr.Naledi Pandor
📍 Pretoria, January 23
#RussiaRSA #RussiaAfrica
📍 Pretoria, January 23
#RussiaRSA #RussiaAfrica
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🇷🇺 Statement of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service:
⚡️ Sergey Naryshkin, Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, said that his agency getting reliable reports that the Ukrainian armed forces have been using nuclear power stations to store arms and ammunition supplied by the West. This includes the most expensive and rare systems the Ukraine Armed Forces are receiving for the HIMARS MRLs and foreign air defence systems, as well as large-calibre artillery shells. Several train cars carrying the deadly cargo from abroad transited through Rafalovka station to the Rovno NPP in the last week of December 2022 alone.
The plan of the Kiev regime is clear. The Ukrainian Armed Forces command hides the ammunition in the rear, using nuclear reactors as their shields, just like when the Banderites shell cities in Donbass and other borderline Russian regions from behind the backs of innocent Ukrainian civilians. The idea is that the Russian Armed Forces would not target NPPs with their strikes, fearing a nuclear disaster. If the warehouses detonate or a nuclear power station is destroyed by yet another Ukrainian air defence missile after it veers off course, they can always blame Moscow for the tragedy. Kiev is confident that this would be the case, considering the tacit approval by the West of the Ukrainian artillery strikes against the Zaporozhye NPP.
❗️ International terrorists often use methods of this kind. However, instead of taking just a few civilians hostage, the Kiev regime uses tens or even hundreds of thousands of civilians in its own and neighbouring countries as hostages. It is our hope that it does not occur to anyone in Kiev to deliberately set off explosions at these warehouses with the expectation that this would enable them to get even more weapons and ammunition from the United States and its allies.
⚡️ Sergey Naryshkin, Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, said that his agency getting reliable reports that the Ukrainian armed forces have been using nuclear power stations to store arms and ammunition supplied by the West. This includes the most expensive and rare systems the Ukraine Armed Forces are receiving for the HIMARS MRLs and foreign air defence systems, as well as large-calibre artillery shells. Several train cars carrying the deadly cargo from abroad transited through Rafalovka station to the Rovno NPP in the last week of December 2022 alone.
The plan of the Kiev regime is clear. The Ukrainian Armed Forces command hides the ammunition in the rear, using nuclear reactors as their shields, just like when the Banderites shell cities in Donbass and other borderline Russian regions from behind the backs of innocent Ukrainian civilians. The idea is that the Russian Armed Forces would not target NPPs with their strikes, fearing a nuclear disaster. If the warehouses detonate or a nuclear power station is destroyed by yet another Ukrainian air defence missile after it veers off course, they can always blame Moscow for the tragedy. Kiev is confident that this would be the case, considering the tacit approval by the West of the Ukrainian artillery strikes against the Zaporozhye NPP.
❗️ International terrorists often use methods of this kind. However, instead of taking just a few civilians hostage, the Kiev regime uses tens or even hundreds of thousands of civilians in its own and neighbouring countries as hostages. It is our hope that it does not occur to anyone in Kiev to deliberately set off explosions at these warehouses with the expectation that this would enable them to get even more weapons and ammunition from the United States and its allies.
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🎙 Address by President of Russia Vladimir Putin to heads of Eurasian Economic Union Member States (January 23, 2023)
💬 On January 1, 2023, Russia took over the chairmanship of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council and the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
It is obvious that the Union has every opportunity to become one of the strong, independent, self-sufficient poles in the emerging multipolar world.
Developing the technological potential of EAEU member states, attaining genuine independence and self-sufficiency in this sphere should become one of the most important strategic priorities of our joint work.
🌐 I would like to specifically stress the importance of building mutually beneficial and equal cooperation between the union and external partners and international associations.
Expanding the geography of the EAEU’s international links and contacts with countries in the Asia-Pacific Region, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America would help boost exports of the union’s products and build new logistics chains.
☝️ We count on close cooperation and support from the EAEU member states in the practical implementation of the priorities of Russia’s presidency in 2023.
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💬 On January 1, 2023, Russia took over the chairmanship of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council and the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
It is obvious that the Union has every opportunity to become one of the strong, independent, self-sufficient poles in the emerging multipolar world.
Developing the technological potential of EAEU member states, attaining genuine independence and self-sufficiency in this sphere should become one of the most important strategic priorities of our joint work.
🌐 I would like to specifically stress the importance of building mutually beneficial and equal cooperation between the union and external partners and international associations.
Expanding the geography of the EAEU’s international links and contacts with countries in the Asia-Pacific Region, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America would help boost exports of the union’s products and build new logistics chains.
☝️ We count on close cooperation and support from the EAEU member states in the practical implementation of the priorities of Russia’s presidency in 2023.
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#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
💬 The American mainstream media has once again provided a platform for the “Russian opposition.” This role has traditionally been played by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Garry Kasparov. This time, the “collective Garry Khodor” published an article in Foreign Affairs on their plans for “rebuilding Russia.” These marginal figures’ decline is so obvious that the stupidity of Western propaganda is actually embarrassing. Khodorkovsky and Kasparov shared with the world how they would change Russia, after they betrayed Russia.
However, their article is basically plagiarism as it lacks any reference to their source of inspiration or the original creators of the concept.
Compare for yourself.
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Khodorkovsky and Kasparov: “Pro-democracy Russians who reject the totalitarian Putin regime—a group to which the authors belong—are doing what they can to help Ukraine <…>”
A quote from their role model: “There is a growing awareness in the leading circles of the army and the general public of the futility and pointlessness of further warfare, which only leads to millions of deaths and the destruction of material values.”
Khodorkovsky and Kasparov: “Putin’s military defeat would help catalyze a political transformation in Russia, making it possible for those seeking a brighter future to dismantle the old regime and forge a new political reality. The Russian Action Committee has laid out a blueprint for this transformation, aiming to reestablish the Russian state.”
Their inspirer: “To unite the Russian people and lead their struggle against the hated regime, to cooperate with Germany in the fight against Bolshevism for the construction of a New Europe, we, the sons of our people and patriots of our Fatherland, have created the Russian Committee."
Khodorkovsky and Kasparov: “The Russian Action Committee, a coalition of opposition groups in exile that we co-founded in May 2022, aims to ensure that Ukraine is justly compensated for the damage caused by Putin’s aggression, that all war criminals are held accountable, and that Russia is transformed.”
Original author yet to be named: “Taking into account the internal situation of the Soviet Union, the growing opposition against the existing regime, as well as the international situation <...> the Russian army will give legitimacy to the opposition movement and with one blow, will eliminate most doubts and hesitations that exist in the occupied and non-occupied areas and hinder the creation of a new order.” “Therefore, the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia supports all revolutionary and opposition forces.”
Kasparov and Khodorkovsky: “Immediately after assuming power, the state council would conclude a peace agreement with Ukraine”
The founder of this philosophy: “The Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia aims to end the war and conclude an honourable peace.”
Khodorkovsky and Kasparov: “And deeper integration with Europe, coupled with the conditional easing of Western sanctions, could help Russia do the same [overcome a fascist heritage].”
The founder of the idea: “The place of the Russian people in the family of European peoples, its place in New Europe will depend on the degree of its involvement in the struggle <...> The Russian Committee aims to create a New Russia in commonwealth with Germany and other peoples of Europe.”
So, Garry Khodor's inspiration came from none other than Lieutenant General Andrei Vlasov – one of the most eminent traitors to the Russian people and our country.
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❗️ Khodorkovsky and Kasparov with their minions are Vlasov's heirs and propagators of his ideas. They are petty plagiarists as well.
💬 The American mainstream media has once again provided a platform for the “Russian opposition.” This role has traditionally been played by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Garry Kasparov. This time, the “collective Garry Khodor” published an article in Foreign Affairs on their plans for “rebuilding Russia.” These marginal figures’ decline is so obvious that the stupidity of Western propaganda is actually embarrassing. Khodorkovsky and Kasparov shared with the world how they would change Russia, after they betrayed Russia.
However, their article is basically plagiarism as it lacks any reference to their source of inspiration or the original creators of the concept.
Compare for yourself.
👇👇👇
Khodorkovsky and Kasparov: “Pro-democracy Russians who reject the totalitarian Putin regime—a group to which the authors belong—are doing what they can to help Ukraine <…>”
A quote from their role model: “There is a growing awareness in the leading circles of the army and the general public of the futility and pointlessness of further warfare, which only leads to millions of deaths and the destruction of material values.”
Khodorkovsky and Kasparov: “Putin’s military defeat would help catalyze a political transformation in Russia, making it possible for those seeking a brighter future to dismantle the old regime and forge a new political reality. The Russian Action Committee has laid out a blueprint for this transformation, aiming to reestablish the Russian state.”
Their inspirer: “To unite the Russian people and lead their struggle against the hated regime, to cooperate with Germany in the fight against Bolshevism for the construction of a New Europe, we, the sons of our people and patriots of our Fatherland, have created the Russian Committee."
Khodorkovsky and Kasparov: “The Russian Action Committee, a coalition of opposition groups in exile that we co-founded in May 2022, aims to ensure that Ukraine is justly compensated for the damage caused by Putin’s aggression, that all war criminals are held accountable, and that Russia is transformed.”
Original author yet to be named: “Taking into account the internal situation of the Soviet Union, the growing opposition against the existing regime, as well as the international situation <...> the Russian army will give legitimacy to the opposition movement and with one blow, will eliminate most doubts and hesitations that exist in the occupied and non-occupied areas and hinder the creation of a new order.” “Therefore, the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia supports all revolutionary and opposition forces.”
Kasparov and Khodorkovsky: “Immediately after assuming power, the state council would conclude a peace agreement with Ukraine”
The founder of this philosophy: “The Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia aims to end the war and conclude an honourable peace.”
Khodorkovsky and Kasparov: “And deeper integration with Europe, coupled with the conditional easing of Western sanctions, could help Russia do the same [overcome a fascist heritage].”
The founder of the idea: “The place of the Russian people in the family of European peoples, its place in New Europe will depend on the degree of its involvement in the struggle <...> The Russian Committee aims to create a New Russia in commonwealth with Germany and other peoples of Europe.”
So, Garry Khodor's inspiration came from none other than Lieutenant General Andrei Vlasov – one of the most eminent traitors to the Russian people and our country.
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❗️ Khodorkovsky and Kasparov with their minions are Vlasov's heirs and propagators of his ideas. They are petty plagiarists as well.
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🇷🇺🇸🇿 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was received by Prime Minister of #Eswatini H.E. Cleopas Sipho Dlamini
📍Mbabane, January 24
#RussiaEswatini #RussiaAfrica
📍Mbabane, January 24
#RussiaEswatini #RussiaAfrica
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🇷🇺🇺🇳 On January 20, the fourth session of the UN Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes (hereinafter “the Ad Hoc Committee”), which was set up at Russia’s initiative, concluded its session in Vienna.
During the session, several UN member countries submitted proposals relating to the provisions of the first three chapters of the future document, which are Criminalisation, General Provisions and Procedural Measures and Law Enforcement. <...> An international agreement like this is much needed because of the high penetration levels of information and communications technologies around the world and how quickly it is developing.
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❗️ The Russian Federation, jointly with like-minded [nations] and developing countries, is seeking to secure that the document being drafted can be applied on a broad scale and that it contains the commitment of countries to safeguard their national sovereignty and counter the use of information and communications technologies for terrorist or extremist purposes, or to justify Nazism, or distribute drugs or weapons.
The United States and its satellites oppose this approach as they seek to entrench the West’s technological superiority in cyberspace, untie the hands of their own intelligence services and IT giants, so they feel free to engage in blackmail, sabotage and the uncontrolled collection of user data around the world, and also to scale down international cooperation as much as possible by pushing through purely Western-style human rights standards.
☝️ Russia, in close coordination with like-minded [nations], will continue working to draft an effective and comprehensive document with an eye to national law and the UN Charter principles during the next session in Vienna, which is scheduled for April 11-21, 2023.
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During the session, several UN member countries submitted proposals relating to the provisions of the first three chapters of the future document, which are Criminalisation, General Provisions and Procedural Measures and Law Enforcement. <...> An international agreement like this is much needed because of the high penetration levels of information and communications technologies around the world and how quickly it is developing.
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❗️ The Russian Federation, jointly with like-minded [nations] and developing countries, is seeking to secure that the document being drafted can be applied on a broad scale and that it contains the commitment of countries to safeguard their national sovereignty and counter the use of information and communications technologies for terrorist or extremist purposes, or to justify Nazism, or distribute drugs or weapons.
The United States and its satellites oppose this approach as they seek to entrench the West’s technological superiority in cyberspace, untie the hands of their own intelligence services and IT giants, so they feel free to engage in blackmail, sabotage and the uncontrolled collection of user data around the world, and also to scale down international cooperation as much as possible by pushing through purely Western-style human rights standards.
☝️ Russia, in close coordination with like-minded [nations], will continue working to draft an effective and comprehensive document with an eye to national law and the UN Charter principles during the next session in Vienna, which is scheduled for April 11-21, 2023.
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🇷🇺🇿🇦 On Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to the Republic of South Africa
On January 23, President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa received Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his visit to Pretoria. Sergey Lavrov also held talks with South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor.
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🤝 Moscow and Pretoria voiced their commitment to deepening political dialogue and more actively coordinating their efforts on topical international issues, including interaction at the UN and its specialised agencies, as well as at the G20.
❗️ While speaking with the South African leaders, Sergey Lavrov shared his principled assessments and considerations regarding the current geopolitical environment, including the situation in and around Ukraine, as well as about attempts by the United States and the collective West to draw African states into their anti-Russia policy.
🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 In August 2023, South Africa will host the #BRICS summit. In this context, the sides expressed confidence that Pretoria’s upcoming chairmanship of this group opened up new opportunities for its future development, including in the context of expanding the partnerships between the five BRICS countries and African states.
The discussion also focused on preparations for the second Russia-Africa Summit to be held in July 2023 in St Petersburg. The upcoming summit is called upon to determine the future direction of comprehensive sustainable development of diverse interaction between Russia and African states and to ensure its all-round and long-term nature.
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On January 23, President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa received Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his visit to Pretoria. Sergey Lavrov also held talks with South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor.
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🤝 Moscow and Pretoria voiced their commitment to deepening political dialogue and more actively coordinating their efforts on topical international issues, including interaction at the UN and its specialised agencies, as well as at the G20.
❗️ While speaking with the South African leaders, Sergey Lavrov shared his principled assessments and considerations regarding the current geopolitical environment, including the situation in and around Ukraine, as well as about attempts by the United States and the collective West to draw African states into their anti-Russia policy.
🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 In August 2023, South Africa will host the #BRICS summit. In this context, the sides expressed confidence that Pretoria’s upcoming chairmanship of this group opened up new opportunities for its future development, including in the context of expanding the partnerships between the five BRICS countries and African states.
The discussion also focused on preparations for the second Russia-Africa Summit to be held in July 2023 in St Petersburg. The upcoming summit is called upon to determine the future direction of comprehensive sustainable development of diverse interaction between Russia and African states and to ensure its all-round and long-term nature.
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#ArchivesSpeak
In the run-up to the 80th Anniversary of liberating Voronezh, the Russian Defence Ministry launched a historical section using archive documents from the files of the Defence Ministry’s Central Archive.
🗂 Voronezh: An Undefeated City-Front (in Russian)
On January 25, 1943, elements of the Red Army’s Voronezh Front launched an offensive and completely liberated Voronezh. In all, the battle for the city lasted 212 days. Red Army soldiers displayed bravery and heroism and held back up to 30 Axis divisions, including German, Romanian, Italian and Hungarian units, thus thwarting the enemy’s operational plans.
⚡️ Declassified documents include numerous reports highlighting the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the occupied areas of the Voronezh Region, as well as photo materials.
People in the occupied areas of Voronezh and the Voronezh Region experienced the horrors of hostilities and something even more terrifying: the German Nazis, Hungarian and Romanian fascists started enslaving the population of the occupied territories.
❌ They robbed, killed, enslaved and deported Soviet people with impunity and set up death camps. Numerous documents described the Nazis’ bloody atrocities.
📑 “On July 6, 1942, German Nazi thugs overran our village. A difficult, tortuous life full of privations and nightmarish mistreatment ensued for the local people… All residents of Rossosh were severely punished and beaten… The entire regime was based on beatings, mistreatment and torture... They burned down 25 homes, destroyed a secondary school and three primary schools, a village shop, a hospital and a maternity ward, a general shop, a post office, the village Soviet (Council) and a bathhouse.”
📄 “Teacher Komagorova was brutally raped by officers who later turned her over to their soldiers. The naked and battered woman was shot in the abdomen and left at the home of Moshonkina, who was not allowed to treat her. Later, Komagorova was sent to a camp in Karpenkovo, where she died after much suffering.”
In the run-up to the 80th Anniversary of liberating Voronezh, the Russian Defence Ministry launched a historical section using archive documents from the files of the Defence Ministry’s Central Archive.
🗂 Voronezh: An Undefeated City-Front (in Russian)
On January 25, 1943, elements of the Red Army’s Voronezh Front launched an offensive and completely liberated Voronezh. In all, the battle for the city lasted 212 days. Red Army soldiers displayed bravery and heroism and held back up to 30 Axis divisions, including German, Romanian, Italian and Hungarian units, thus thwarting the enemy’s operational plans.
⚡️ Declassified documents include numerous reports highlighting the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the occupied areas of the Voronezh Region, as well as photo materials.
People in the occupied areas of Voronezh and the Voronezh Region experienced the horrors of hostilities and something even more terrifying: the German Nazis, Hungarian and Romanian fascists started enslaving the population of the occupied territories.
❌ They robbed, killed, enslaved and deported Soviet people with impunity and set up death camps. Numerous documents described the Nazis’ bloody atrocities.
📑 “On July 6, 1942, German Nazi thugs overran our village. A difficult, tortuous life full of privations and nightmarish mistreatment ensued for the local people… All residents of Rossosh were severely punished and beaten… The entire regime was based on beatings, mistreatment and torture... They burned down 25 homes, destroyed a secondary school and three primary schools, a village shop, a hospital and a maternity ward, a general shop, a post office, the village Soviet (Council) and a bathhouse.”
📄 “Teacher Komagorova was brutally raped by officers who later turned her over to their soldiers. The naked and battered woman was shot in the abdomen and left at the home of Moshonkina, who was not allowed to treat her. Later, Komagorova was sent to a camp in Karpenkovo, where she died after much suffering.”
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🇷🇺🇦🇴 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was received by President of #Angola João Lourenço.
📍 Luanda, Angola, 25 January
#RussiaAngola #RussiaAfrica
📍 Luanda, Angola, 25 January
#RussiaAngola #RussiaAfrica
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comment for the media following a meeting with President of the Republic of Angola Joao Lourenco
📍 Luanda, January 25, 2023
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💬 We discussed at length the international situation in the context of the West's course on using Ukraine to promote Nazism in theory and in practice and to wage a hybrid war against our country.
We shared our assessments that are based on our contacts with other countries and they confirmed the unprecedented pressure exerted by the Western countries on the developing economies of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly pointed out that the West is using the same colonial methods it used before to exploit the developing continents and continues to use them in order to plunder other countries and to use resources of global importance for its own gain.
The West’s actions prove that it can trample over the values and the globalisation mechanisms that it created and promoted, including inviolability of property, fair competition, or the presumption of innocence at any time, and can betray its allies at any time as well. This can be seen in the practice of the fairly recent events in Afghanistan, Iraq and the 2011 Arab Spring.
📍 Luanda, January 25, 2023
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💬 We discussed at length the international situation in the context of the West's course on using Ukraine to promote Nazism in theory and in practice and to wage a hybrid war against our country.
We shared our assessments that are based on our contacts with other countries and they confirmed the unprecedented pressure exerted by the Western countries on the developing economies of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly pointed out that the West is using the same colonial methods it used before to exploit the developing continents and continues to use them in order to plunder other countries and to use resources of global importance for its own gain.
The West’s actions prove that it can trample over the values and the globalisation mechanisms that it created and promoted, including inviolability of property, fair competition, or the presumption of innocence at any time, and can betray its allies at any time as well. This can be seen in the practice of the fairly recent events in Afghanistan, Iraq and the 2011 Arab Spring.
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⚡️ On January 24-25, the 18th extraordinary session of the World Heritage Committee, which is responsible for the implementation of the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, took place at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
A group of countries of the “collective West,” using direct support from the no longer objective UNESCO Secretariat, have pushed through a politically biased and scientifically unsubstantiated decision to inscribe the Historic Centre of the Port City of Odessa on the World Heritage List “in the face of threats of destruction.” The decision was prepared hastily and in violation of UNESCO’s high standards.
☝️ Thereby, the Western countries have again demonstrated their disregard for the rules of procedure at the World Heritage Committee and readiness to sacrifice the once high prestige of UNESCO and its basic 1972 Convention.
It is notable that two thirds of the Committee member states did not support the questionable move initiated by the Kiev regime’s handlers: the decision was taken by six out of 21 votes.
We do not question the cultural heritage and the glorious past of Odessa in the Russian state, and it is logical that it has been inscribed as a heritage site in the face of destruction. However, it should be clarified that the only threat to that city with a rich history comes from Ukraine’s nationalist regime, which has been systematically destroying monuments to the great founders and defenders of Odessa, namely, Empress Catherine II and her associates: Iosif Deribas, Platon Zubov, Francois-Paul Sainte de Wollant, Prince Alexander Potyomkin and Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov, who are integral to the centuries-old historical and architectural heritage of the city.
❗️ UNESCO should have separately condemned the deployment and use of military facilities and weapons in the Port City of Odessa. But nobody has uttered as much as a word about that, for some reason.
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A group of countries of the “collective West,” using direct support from the no longer objective UNESCO Secretariat, have pushed through a politically biased and scientifically unsubstantiated decision to inscribe the Historic Centre of the Port City of Odessa on the World Heritage List “in the face of threats of destruction.” The decision was prepared hastily and in violation of UNESCO’s high standards.
☝️ Thereby, the Western countries have again demonstrated their disregard for the rules of procedure at the World Heritage Committee and readiness to sacrifice the once high prestige of UNESCO and its basic 1972 Convention.
It is notable that two thirds of the Committee member states did not support the questionable move initiated by the Kiev regime’s handlers: the decision was taken by six out of 21 votes.
We do not question the cultural heritage and the glorious past of Odessa in the Russian state, and it is logical that it has been inscribed as a heritage site in the face of destruction. However, it should be clarified that the only threat to that city with a rich history comes from Ukraine’s nationalist regime, which has been systematically destroying monuments to the great founders and defenders of Odessa, namely, Empress Catherine II and her associates: Iosif Deribas, Platon Zubov, Francois-Paul Sainte de Wollant, Prince Alexander Potyomkin and Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov, who are integral to the centuries-old historical and architectural heritage of the city.
❗️ UNESCO should have separately condemned the deployment and use of military facilities and weapons in the Port City of Odessa. But nobody has uttered as much as a word about that, for some reason.
Read in full