Article by the Ambassador of Russia to Ireland H.E. Yuriy Filatov "The Hard Facts about Ukraine and Donbass".

🗓 It is now more than a month since Russia has started special military operation in Ukraine aimed at the defense of Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. It has been dramatic and traumatic period for many Ukrainians. The sad truth is that the suffering of the predominantly Russian people of the South-East of Ukraine started much earlier – eight years ago, in 2014.

Perhaps this article will give our Irish readers a reason to give a chance to an idea that people of Donbass also deserve better and peaceful life now and in the future, while racism, neo-Nazism and hatred should be resolutely rejected.

👉https://telegra.ph/The-Hard-Facts-about-Ukraine-and-Donbass-03-31

💬 Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, New Delhi, April 1, 2022

Friendship is the key word to describe the history of our relations. Our relations were very sustainable during many difficult times in the past and I don’t have the slightest doubt that our mutual respect and the search for balance of interests will prevail in our relations in the future as well.

🤝 We have been developing a specially privileged strategic partnership with New Delhi and this is one of the key priorities of the Russian foreign policy. It’s equality and mutual trust that underlie our actions on the international arena, and in the context of a multipolar world, which is being objectively shaped, as you alluded to yesterday addressing a conference in New Delhi. We are certainly interested in having the world order balanced, which makes it sustainable.

#RussiaIndia #DruzhbaDosti

🎙 Remarks to the Press by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy regarding US biolabs in Ukraine.

💬 We have been seeking clarification from the US side on the true nature of its bioactivity in Ukraine and explanations with regard to the above-mentioned documents. In particular, we asked to clarify why the US Department of State keeps insisting that the US operates no laboratories in Ukraine, while there is documented proof of Pentagon directly managing these labs, with its sub-contractors implementing projects with deadly bio agents.

We have received no answers so far. The US as well as other Western delegations have been totally dismissive.

Military biological activities of the US on the territory of Ukraine are a violation of the Biological Weapons Convention. Such activities bring up biological threats of global scale, which respect no border and can lead up to a new pandemic which can surpass COVID-19 pandemic.

❗️Documents speak for themselves.

Read in full

🇷🇺🇧🇾 April 2 is the Day of Unity between the Peoples of Russia and Belarus.

📅 On that day in 1996, the two countries signed a Treaty on the Creation of the Community of Russia and Belarus.

🤝 Russia and Belarus are working within the framework of the Union State to implement joint programmes in industry, energy, construction. The legal framework of bilateral cooperation comprises some 200 interstate and intergovernmental treaties and agreements.

❗️ On November 4, 2021, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko co-chaired a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, during which a Decree of the Supreme State Council of the Union State was signed and 28 industry-based integration programmes were adopted.

🎊 We congratulate the people of Belarus on this day, which is a symbol of the unbreakable bonds of brotherly friendship between our states!

#UnityDay

You remember Marianna, right?

Here’s the part of her interview, in which she confirmes:

🔹 the Ukrainian military did occupy the Mariupol maternity hospital #3 (#humanshields)
🔹 they provided no help whatsoever, and even took their food
🔹 there were no airstrikes
🔹 A cameraman was on-site on March 9, at the time of the two explosions

✉️ On April 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on the Day of Unity between the Peoples of Russia and Belarus.

“Our countries have done a great deal to promote integration cooperation and constructive bilateral interaction in recent times. A number of important documents have been adopted, including Union sectoral programmes, an updated Military Doctrine and the Migration Policy Concept of the Union State,” the President of Russia noted in his message.

🇷🇺🇧🇾 Vladimir Putin expressed confidence that the implementation of the agreements will create conditions for boosting Russia’s and Belarus’ positions in the international arena and for further progress along the path of establishing a common socioeconomic and cultural space.

#RussiaBelarus

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 A few bloggers have reported today that official Chanel brand stores abroad are refusing to sell their products to Russian nationals.

Allegedly, Chanel customers must sign a form saying that they will not take the items sold by the brand to the Russian Federation, as per some internal document of the boutique chain.

Seems like those running the legacy of the “great Coco” have found a way to join the Russophobic “cancel Russia” campaign.

Weird, right? What’s the link between Russia’s anti-Nazi operation and the French fashion house?

But the link is there. We just opened a closet to find some well-preserved 80-year-old skeletons.

During World War II, Coco Chanel herself was a collaborator and a Third Reich agent. She is widely known to have had connections to the occupation authorities in France. Baron Hans Guenther Freiherr von Dincklage, an attaché of the German government in charge of the Nazi propaganda in Paris, was among her dearest friends.

Coco Chanel, also known as informer F-7124 as per Abwehr records, supported the German masters of Paris so much that she took part in the attempts to organise secret negotiations between the Reich and the United Kingdom. One should say that the Germans valued Coco and had her live in a luxurious apartment at the Ritz hotel, while ordinary Parisians struggled to make ends meet under the German occupation, while the country’s economy was under enormous strain.

Moreover, the fashion designer accepted the help of the Nazis to reach her business goals. Before the war, she sold her Chanel No. 5 production facility to Jewish manufacturers. Then, she engaged the Germans to try and reclaim the rights to the perfume sale profits.

After France was liberated, she was called to answer for all of that. The fashion house does not advertise it but Coco was arrested at the end of the war. She was later released as a favour to Churchill (and here is London again) and was banned from France after the occupation was over, for years, residing in the “neutral” Switzerland.

The brand’s management has always emphasised that the Chanel house traditions are as strong as ever. Well, no doubt about that now. Investigative reporter Hal Vaughan wrote about the founder of the fashion house: “The Nazis were in power, and Chanel gravitated to power.”

The brand was never bothered by such things as concentration camps, mass killings and war crimes perpetrated by the SS and Gestapo divisions.

We are a very patient and forgiving country. We have forgiven everyone for everything, turned the page and cleared the way for the future.

But if the way turns out to be a ring road, we will break the vicious circle.

And the Chanel house can get back to square one and support Nazism, just like its founder did. But now everyone will know.

#Chanel #NaziChanel #TruthAboutChanel

🇷🇺🇰🇿📞 On April 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

The Presidents discussed current issues on the bilateral agenda with a focus on practical aspects of developing mutually beneficial trade and economic cooperation. They considered the prospects for deeper interaction within integration associations in the Eurasian space. The Leaders reaffirmed their shared commitment to strengthening Russia-Kazakhstan relations of allied and strategic partnership.

☝️ Vladimir Putin informed his counterpart on the progress of the special military operation to protect Donbass as well as on the negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian representatives.

#RussiaKazakhstan