🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during the meeting of Foreign Ministers of Caspian Littoral States (Moscow, December 5, 2023)

💬 Since the Caspian region was established in its present form, nine meetings between foreign ministers have already been held. We are united in our belief that this format is becoming increasingly popular and will continue to do so. This can be explained by the fact that the work in this format makes it possible to find key solutions to regional cooperation problems.

It is significant that the Caspian theme is a priority for all of us; it is regularly discussed by the presidents and heads of state of the five Caspian nations. <...>

Today’s meeting is special. We are launching a new regular ministerial dialogue that will work as part of the mandate agreed upon at the Ashgabat summit. It involves discussing the development of pentalateral cooperation, improvement of its formats, development of agreed measures to implement the decisions of the summits, and preparation of their agenda and final documents. <...>

I would like to note the enormous development potential of our region in the trade, economic, environmental, scientific, cultural, transport and transit spheres. It is of strategic importance considering the creation of the International North-South Transport Corridor.

🤝 Deepening practical cooperation between the Caspian states is also relevant in a broader sense: in the context of forming a multipolar world order and strengthening the positions of new centres of world development. The joint work of the Caspian countries makes a significant contribution to ensuring security, stability and sustainable development in the Eurasian continent.

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🎙 Russia-Iran Declaration on the Ways and Means to Counter, Mitigate and Redress the Adverse Impacts of Unilateral Coercive Measures

🇷🇺🇮🇷 The Russian Federation and The Islamic Republic of Iran <...> declare the following guidelines on the ways and means to counter, mitigate and redress the adverse impacts of unilateral coercive measures:

• Recourse of any State to unilateral coercive measures is unlawful, contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and international law and will entail international responsibility.

• Unilateral coercive measures, including those of extraterritorial nature, implemented by the third State, group or association of States in violation of the UN Charter and international law should not be recognized and implemented.

• Any foreign judgment arising from the application of national laws, orders and regulations imposing unilateral coercive measures on other States should not be recognized or enforced by national courts.

• State and private properties and assets, including bank accounts, bonds, real estate as well as consular and diplomatic premises and facilities, shall be immune from and not subject to freezing, forfeiture or any other form of confiscation or restriction.

• In the event of economic or financial loss incurred as a result of the adoption of unilateral coercive measures, the State that has inflicted such loss on an affected State, individuals and legal entities by its actions or extraterritorial application of its national laws, shall be primarily held liable for compensation and damages.

• A road map should be drawn up by States to reduce the dependency of international trade on national currencies that are prone to being used to implement unilateral coercive measures or to sustain a particular State's monetary hegemony over the global economy.

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🇷🇺 Russia's EMERCOM aircraft to deliver 27,5 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip

✅ Bedding & warm blankets;
✅ Personal care items;
✅ Food supplies and kids formula.

The EMERCOM's IL-76 aircraft flew to the airport of El-Arish. In Egypt, the humanitarian aid will be handed over to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society. They will redirect it to the to the people of the Gaza Strip.

📹 EMERCOM of Russia

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🇷🇺🇦🇪 President Vladimir Putin arrives in Abu Dhabi on a working visit to the UAE.

#RussiaUAE

In response to 🇨🇦 GAC's post:

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In response to 🇨🇦 GAC's post:

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2. Measures to limit global supply, esp. against such major producers as 🇷🇺 => skyrocketing prices
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🇷🇺🇦🇪 President Vladimir Putin held talks with President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi.

💬 Vladimir Putin: First of all, I would like to thank you for inviting us and for this colourful and friendly welcome.

Today, our relations – thanks to the position you have taken – have reached unprecedented heights. You and I are in constant contact, and our colleagues work together on a permanent basis.

The United Arab Emirates is Russia’s main trade partner in the Arab world.

✅ Last year, trade grew by 67.7 percent. This year, I think, the figures will be even higher. The same goes for investment activity.

✅ There is also progress in industrial cooperation. A number of major oil and gas projects are being implemented.

✅ Tourist exchanges are making headway.

🌐 We also cooperate internationally. As a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, the United Arab Emirates makes a huge contribution to stabilising the situation in the world.

I am quite pleased that the United Arab Emirates is beginning to work within #BRICS. In 2024, Russia will chair this organisation. We will continue contacts on this. We look forward to meeting you at the [BRICS] Summit in Kazan in October 2024.

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🇷🇺🇸🇦 A meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud took place in the Saudi King’s al-Yamamah Palace.

💬 Vladimir Putin: We expected to see you in Moscow. I know that the circumstances have affected these plans. But, as I said, nothing can prevent the development of our friendly relations. <...> The next meeting will hopefully take place in Moscow.

The Soviet Union was among the first to recognise the independent state of Saudi Arabia. This was almost a hundred years ago.

🤝 Much has happened in our relations during this time, but over the past seven years, they have certainly reached a truly unprecedented level.

We have stable, very good ties in political interaction, the economy and in humanitarian area.

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🇷🇺🇸🇦 Joint Statement at the Conclusion of the Visit of His Excellency the Russian Federation President to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (December 7, 2023)

The Sides:

✅ Commended the increase in the volume of trade <...> noted the extent of the common economic interests between the two countries.

✅ Stressed their keenness to continue working to enhance mutual and joint investments in the two countries <...>.

✅ Commended the close cooperation between them and the successful efforts of the OPEC+ countries in enhancing the stability of global oil markets

✅ Agreed on the importance of enhancing cooperation in the following areas:

• oil and gas;
• geoscientific field;
• environment, water, agriculture and food security;
• communications, technology and digital economy, innovation, space, transportation and logistics;
• judiciary and justice;
• sustainable tourism;
• sports;
• education;
• media;
• health;

✅ Expressed their desire to maximize the use of local content in energy sector projects.

✅ Agreed to enhance defence cooperation, in a way that supports and achieves common interests between the two countries.

✅ Regarding international affairs, the two sides renewed their determination to continue coordination and intensify efforts aimed at maintaining international peace and security

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✈️ Legendary Soviet fighter ace Yekaterina Budanova was born on December 7, 1916. She went down in history as the second top-scoring WWII female fighter pilot, with 266 combat missions and 11 enemy aircraft shot down.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, she volunteered for the Red Army in October 1941 and later trained in Saratov where Budanova completely mastered Yakovlev Yak-1 fighters.

Katya scored her first air victory in October 1942. At that time, she engaged eight Junkers Ju-88 bombers and downed one of them. Risking her life every day, she defended the skies over Stalingrad, fought near Rostov-on-Don and helped liberate Donbass.

In July 1943, while covering the withdrawal of the Soviet fighters, her plane was damaged in a dogfight, and she was mortally wounded. Nevertheless, the heroic pilot managed to land the fighter in a last-ditch effort.

🎖 In 1993, she was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

#FacesOfVictory

🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the Russia Calling! Forum (December 7, 2023)

💬 You know that the global system of economic relations is going through radical, irreversible changes, as we have just heard, which is due to the fact that a multipolar model is about to replace yesterday’s globalisation model. <...> This change in the global economic landscape and the rise of new leaders are an objective and to a large degree predictable process.

Western elites are trying to contain growth artificially in what they regard as the global periphery, which they have traditionally exploited and used as a resource, as a source of [economic] rent and simply as a colony. To attain this goal, they use sanctions, for example, exacerbating the political situation and provoking conflicts in whole macro-regions in an attempt to maintain their slipping domination.

☝️ Despite any external pressure, rebuffing, pounding on the table, whispering in the ear, there are people who are leaders of countries, and powerful countries at that, who do not succumb to this pressure and are guided primarily by their own national interests, and they fit into the model that we offer for development.

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🇷🇺 Russia is Europe’s largest economy and is now ahead of all the leading EU countries in terms of growth rates. Moreover, the so-called essential non-commodity industries are accounting for an increasing share in the structure of Russia’s economic growth.

We are interested in making our market open and competitive. This is the key to development, a stimulus for the qualitative growth of domestic businesses and the entire Russian economy.

You know, you can waste your breath as much as you want, making slogans and threats – let this be up to those Western politicians who intend to cancel Russia. But all this hype cannot cancel the immutable fact that it has always been profitable to work with Russia and in Russia; it is profitable today and will remain profitable.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷 The Kremlin hosted talks between President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi, who arrived in Russia on a working visit.

💬 President Putin: Our relations are developing very well. Please convey my best wishes to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Thanks to his support, we have gained good momentum over the past year.

📈 Last year, trade grew by 20 percent and achieved good results: somewhere over five billion – we reached five billion.

We have large infrastructure projects. We were discussing for a long time, and now we have come to the practical construction of the North-South railway.

We, of course, traditionally work in the energy sector and in education: we have a significant number of Iranian students studying here. In general, there are pretty active efforts in almost all areas.

🌐 And of course, it is very important for us to exchange views on the situation in the region, especially the situation in Palestine.

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⚡️ Address of the chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to the UN, international parliamentary organisations, and parliaments of the world in connection with the violation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child due to criminal actions by the Kiev regime

💬 The mass use by the Kiev-controlled armed formations of indiscriminate weapons, firearms, and light weapons, as well as the use of cluster and phosphorous munitions, and remote mining of residential communities are the main reasons minors are becoming victims.

The criminal actions of the Kiev regime have violated a whole range of provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child of November 20, 1989, including the provisions guaranteeing the right to life, healthy development, freedom of conscience, thought, views, opinions, and religious beliefs, education, and the use of the native language.

❌ Children living in Ukraine are subjected to harassment based on language, and are persecuted for pro-Russian views.

❌ Ukrainian armed formations force minors to undergo combat training in field camps, perform tasks as saboteurs, missile and artillery spotters, spread disinformation, and participate in terrorist attacks.

❌ There are numerous cases of child abuse with the connivance of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, as well as the exploitation of children in the porn industry, which thrives in Ukraine.

❌ In cooperation with Western non-governmental organisations linked to organised crime, Kiev covers up the abduction of children for further export abroad.

❗️ We consider it important to condemn the inaction of the specialised agencies and international organisations, whose scope of duties includes providing assistance in ensuring compliance with the fundamental rights and freedoms of minors.

Such a biased and unprofessional approach encourages the Kiev rulers to violate international humanitarian law and to condemn an even greater number of innocent children to death and suffering.

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