🇷🇺🇧🇷🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 On March 22, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with the Moscow-accredited ambassadors from the #BRICS countries at a working breakfast.

🤝 The participants enthusiastically exchanged views on developing and strengthening their strategic partnership in the association. They reaffirmed their invariable interest in promoting the five-way dialogue at key international venues and other associations.

The participants reviewed current international issues with an emphasis on the situation in #Ukraine and around it. Sergey Lavrov presented a thorough analysis of the reasons for the Ukraine conflict and gave detailed explanations on the issues linked with ensuring security of civilians, including foreigners, organising humanitarian corridors and granting aid to refugees and other people who need it.

☝️ He stressed that the unprecedented economic war unleashed against #Russia through sanctions is a crude violation of key international legal standards.

🇷🇺🇫🇷📞 On March 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron at the latter’s initiative.

The Presidents continued a detailed exchange of views on the situation around #Ukraine, including the current talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives.

🚢Инвестиционные проекты, развитие предпринимательства и транспортной инфраструктуры, создание комфортной городской среды в АЗРФ — в центре внимания участников VII Международной конференции «Арктика: устойчивое развитие»

🎤За два дня на онлайн- и очной площадках выступили более 60 спикеров. Для участия в деловой программе зарегистрировались более 300 человек.

Два главных тезиса:
1️⃣Арктика и Дальний Восток — в приоритете государственной политики России и национальной безопасности,

2️⃣объединение мероприятий нацпроектов и государственных программ, инвестиционных планов инфраструктурных компаний, программ развития арктических регионов и городов даст мультипликативный эффект для экономики всей Арктики.

#ArcticON #ARCTIC4YOU #Russia4Arctic #Arcticcouncil #Arcticcouncil_Russia #AC_Russia #АрктическийСовет_Россия #АрктическийСовет #АС_Россия

⚱️В Арктике планируют создать единую онлайн-экспозицию местных музеев для знакомства с культурным наследием народов Севера.

🌎Эксперты оцифруют, систематизируют и разместят музейные коллекции на едином портале и создадут 3D-модели артефактов.

🎓Эта работа станет частью проекта «Цифровизация языкового и культурного наследия коренных народов Арктики», который с 2011 года реализует кафедра ЮНЕСКО Северо-Восточного федерального университета им. М.К. Аммосова.

✔️Инициативу обсудили на одной из площадок Международного семинара по сохранению и популяризации языков коренных малочисленных народов Арктики в Санкт-Петербурге.

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🎤Участники Международного семинара по сохранению и популяризации языков коренных малочисленных народов Арктики обсудили проект «Креативная Арктика».

🎬Представителей коренных народов обучат основам развития креативных индустрий в области:
• народных промыслов,
• кино,
• анимации,
• IT,
• национальной одежды,
• косторезного искусства.

🎨Авторы проекта предлагают развивать местную экономику на основе креативных индустрий и туризма, а также привлекать молодёжь к сохранению традиционных знаний коренных народов Арктики.

#ArcticON #ARCTIC4YOU #Russia4Arctic #Arcticcouncil #Arcticcouncil_Russia #AC_Russia #АрктическийСовет_Россия #АрктическийСовет #АС_Россия

🇷🇺🇩🇪📞 President Vladimir Putin had a phone conversation with Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz.

While discussing the situation around Ukraine, the leaders focused on the current talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives. Vladimir Putin set forth a number of considerations in the context of the Russian Federation’s principled positions at these talks.

🕯 Today marks 2️⃣3️⃣ years since NATO began bombing #Yugoslavia.

◼️ Some 2,000 civilians, including at least 89 children were killed during the 78-day NATO campaign, and many facilities in dozens of cities, including Belgrade, were destroyed or damaged.

◼️ The use of depleted-uranium munitions contaminated large territories and caused an unprecedented surge in cancer cases. People continue to suffer from malignant tumours to this day.

❗️ On that day the West began dismantling the international legal framework.

Conducted 23 years ago, NATO’s military operation against sovereign Yugoslavia became a tragedy whose long-term and diverse consequences are still being felt. One of its main lessons is that lawlessness and arbitrary rule are unable to solve even a single problem and merely aggravate the situation. This is confirmed by permanent delays in resolving the Kosovo problem.

🇷🇺🇺🇦☣️ Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

▫️The Russian Ministry of Defence continues to analyze documents revealing the military-biological activities of the Pentagon in Ukraine.

▫️The incoming materials allow us to trace the pattern of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian bio-objects. The involvement of entities close to the current US leadership, notably the Rosemont Seneca investment fund run by Hunter Biden, is noticeable in the funding of these activities. The Fund has significant financial resources of at least $2.4 billion. The foundation is closely linked to key contractors of the US military department, including Metabiota, which, along with Black and Veach, is a major supplier of equipment to the Pentagon's bio-labs around the world.

▫️The scale of the program is impressive. The US Agency for International Development, the George Soros Foundation and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are directly involved, in addition to the military department. Scientific supervision is provided by leading research organisations, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is developing nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.

▫️All these activities are carried out under the full control of the Pentagon.

▫️Please note - the registration card confirms that it was 30 Ukrainian laboratories, located in 14 settlements that were involved in full-scale military-biological activities in Ukraine.

▫️The document was signed by Viktor Polishchuk, Deputy State Secretary of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers. The legal basis for its signing was the Agreement on Cooperation to Prevent the Spread of Technologies, Pathogens and Information that could be used for the development of biological weapons.

▫️The registration card identifies the customer of the work, the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency, as well as a list of biobjects.

▫️As we have previously reported, the funding for 2018-2020 alone was around $32 million. The text of the document states that the United States, its personnel and contractors are exempt from the obligation to pay taxes or other similar fees that are levied in Ukraine.

▫️The Ministry of Defence has disclosed and summarised the flow of biomaterials. Funding for military-biological activities has enabled the US and its allies to export at least 16,000 bioassays outside Ukraine.

▫️Thus, under the UP-8 project in Lvov, Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev, blood samples were taken from 4,000 servicemen for antibodies to Hantaviruses and from 400 for antibodies to the Congo-Crimean fever virus.

▫️This large-scale screening of the natural immunity of the population was probably carried out in order to select the biological agents most dangerous to the population of a particular region.

▫️Document review reveals that not only human tissue and serum samples, but also dangerous pathogens and their transporters were exported. Thus, more than 10,000 samples were sent to Lugar Centre in Georgia. Other recipients include: reference laboratories in the UK, the Loeffler Institute in Germany.

▫️All this creates risks for the transfer abroad of sensitive genetic information, as well as threats to biological security not only for Ukraine, but also for the regions where the samples were transferred.

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🎇 Briefing slides

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▫️One of the US customers' priorities is the anthrax pathogen, which is highly susceptible and persistent in the environment.

▫️The slide shows documents from the UP-2 project, one of the tasks of which was to identify dead animal burial sites, taking soil samples from anthrax animal burial sites. The interest of US military biologists in studying insect vectors in animal burial sites is also not accidental. Apparently, they analysed the results of an outbreak of anthrax disease in Yamal in 2016, during which cases of vector-borne transmission through flies and gadflies were recorded.

▫️Given that the situation with anthrax in Ukraine remains positive, it raises the question of the need for the Pentagon's research and its true purpose.

▫️We know of examples where the US military departments work with anthrax has ended in biosecurity emergencies.

▫️Between 2005 and 2015, viable anthrax spores were sent from the US Army's Dugway proving ground to 194 recipients in ten countries.
The current situation with the shipment of pathogenic biomaterials from Ukraine to European countries could result in loss of life and create a hotbed of epidemiological instability on a scale comparable to the COVID-19 pandemic.

▫️We continue to share information on research involving Ukrainian military personnel. We would like to point out that such work is prohibited within the US and is carried out by the military department outside the US.

▫️Earlier mention was made of the UP-8 research, which involved more than 4,000 people. According to figures published in the Bulgarian media, some 20 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in experiments in the Kharkov laboratory alone and another 200 were hospitalised.

▫️The documents received confirm the attempt to test previously untested medicines on them. This is the Deep Drug screening system for unlicensed pharmaceuticals in the United States and Canada.

▫️What makes the US sponsors particularly cynical is that the developer, Scymount, offered to purchase the system in question on a commercial basis, despite the fact that Ukrainian Ministry of Defence officials were engaged as volunteers.

▫️Such unacceptable approaches, with the tacit approval of the US administration, are the norm for big pharma companies. For example, the US Naval Medical Centre in Jakarta was shut down by Indonesian authorities in 2010 because of numerous irregularities.

▫️The Americans conducted work at the site outside the agreed research programme, collected biological samples and refused to inform the Indonesian government of their findings. The materials they obtained were used on behalf of the Pentagon-affiliated pharmaceutical company Gilead, which conducts trials of its drugs, including in Ukraine and Georgia.

▫️We would like to draw attention that the number of biological laboratories in the USA is not comparable with other countries. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, they control 336 laboratories in 30 states outside national jurisdiction.

▫️We believe that in the context of the incoming information, clarification should be sought from Washington regarding the true objectives of the US biolaboratories as part of the international investigation.

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🕯 24 марта 1999 года #США и их союзники по #НАТО начали вооруженную агрессию против Союзной Республики Югославии, которая продолжалась 78 дней и ночей.

▪️Силы альянса осуществили более 35 тысяч боевых вылетов, выпустили около 3 тысяч крылатых ракет, сбросили более 10 тысяч тонн взрывчатки. В тротиловом эквиваленте это в пять раз превышает мощность атомной бомбы, сброшенной американскими военными на Хиросиму в 1945 году.

▪️В результате бомбардировок погибли свыше 2 тысяч сербов, в том числе дети, женщины и люди преклонного возраста. Позже их цинично назовут «сопутствующим ущербом» (collateral damage).

▪️Оказались разрушены тысячи гражданских объектов в десятках городов. Автономный край #Косово был силой отторгнут от страны.

▪️Агрессия НАТО 1999 года против Югославии стала первым вооруженным нападением в Европе на суверенное государство после 1945 года. Такой вот трагический вклад в европейскую историю внёс «сугубо оборонительный» блок НАТО.

🕯 On March 24, 1999, the #US and its #NATO allies began a 78-day armed aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

▪️ NATO conducted over 35,000 air raids, dropping some 3,000 cruise missiles and over 10,000 tonnes of bombs on the country. In TNT equivalent, this is five times the yield of the nuclear bomb, which the Americans dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

▪️ Over 2,000 Serbs, including children, women and elderly people, were killed in the bombing raids. They were later cynically described as “collateral damage.”

▪️ NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999 was the first armed invasion of a sovereign state in Europe since 1945. That tragic contribution to European history was made by the “purely defensive” alliance.

❗Trudeau’s cabinet decision to blacklist members of the Russian Federation Council is a ridiculous gesture and a demonstration of impotence of Western sanctions policy.

☝️Ukraine will be de-nazified and demilitarized.

#SanctionsNeverWork