Embassy’s full comment on recent CBC news piece

"Ambassador Stepanov will continue to fulfill his functions in order to serve a direct high-level channel of communications between Russia and Canada while one of the sides or both of them deem such level of communications useful. The Ambassador’s responsibility, among other things, is to convey his opinion and the position of Russia to the Canadian public. He disagrees with H.E. Joly in classification of that public outreach. Russia prefers conducting intergovernmental relations - be it public or private - in civilized manner. Labelling serves nothing and often just demonstrates certain deficiencies of professionalism in diplomacy. Despite political tensions, Moscow stands open to communicate directly with Ottawa. Canadian political representatives who have demonstrated investments in Ukraine until now were too shy to make a call to Moscow - in contrast to the majority of their allies in the US and Europe. It either means the absence of substantial argument or the desire to play Ukrainian issue solely for the goals to score in internal political debate in Canada."

🇷🇺🇴🇲 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers in the Sultanate of Oman Fahd bin Mahmoud Al-Said.

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Владимир Путин поздравил главу ДНР Дениса Пушилина с Днём Донецкой Народной Республики

«Восемь лет назад народ ДНР сделал выбор в пользу государственной независимости. Сегодня мы ведём совместную борьбу за то, чтобы граждане республики могли реализовать своё законное право на свободную и мирную жизнь в соответствии со своими вековыми культурными и духовными традициями, в дружбе с братской Россией. Уверен, что общими усилиями мы сможем преодолеть все трудности и одержать победу», – говорится, в частности, в поздравительной телеграмме.

Подробнее – на сайте Кремля.

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Vladimir Putin congratulated Head of DPR Denis Pushilin on the Donetsk People’s Republic Day

“Eight years ago, the people of the Donetsk People’s Republic made a choice to become an independent state. Today, we are fighting together for the people in the republic to be able to enjoy their legitimate right to a free and peaceful life in keeping with their centuries-old cultural and spiritual traditions, and in friendship with brotherly Russia. I am certain that together, we will overcome all the challenges and win,” the message of greetings says, in part.

See more on the official Kremlin site.

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🇺🇦🇺🇸Briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine

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​​🇺🇦Ideologues of US military-biological activities in Ukraine are the leaders of the Democratic Party.

▫️Thus, through the US executive branch, a legislative framework for funding military biomedical research directly from the federal budget was formed. Funds were raised under state guarantees from NGOs controlled by the Democratic Party leadership, including the investment funds of the Clintons, Rockefellers, Soros and Biden.

▫️The scheme involves major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Moderna, Merck and the US military-affiliated company Gilead. U.S. experts are working to test new medicines that circumvent international safety standards. As a result, Western companies are seriously reducing the cost of research programmes and gaining a significant competitive advantage.

▫️The involvement of controlled nongovernmental and biotechnological organisations, and the increase in their revenues, allows the leaders of the Democratic Party to generate additional campaign finance and hide its distribution.

▫️In addition to US pharmaceutical companies and Pentagon contractors, Ukrainian state agencies are involved in military bioweapons activities, whose main tasks are to conceal illegal activities, conduct field and clinical trials and provide the necessary biomaterial.

▫️Thus, the US Department of Defence, using a virtually internationally uncontrolled test site and the high-tech facilities of multinational companies, has greatly expanded its research capabilities, not only in the field of biological weapons, but also in gaining knowledge about antibiotic resistance and the antibodies to specific diseases in populations in specific regions.

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​​🇺🇦🇺🇸 Not only the US, but also a number of its NATO allies are implementing their military-biological projects in Ukraine.

▫️The German government has decided to launch a national biosafety programme independent of Washington, D.C., starting in 2013. Twelve countries, including Ukraine, are involved in the Programme.

▫️On the German side, the programme involves the Institute for Armed Forces Microbiology (Munich), the Robert Koch Institute (Berlin), the Loeffler Institute (Greifswald) and the Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (Hamburg).

▫️New documents reveal that between 2016 and 2019 alone, three and a half thousand blood serum samples of citizens living in 25 regions of Ukraine were taken by military epidemiologists from the Bundeswehr Microbiology Institute.

▫️The involvement of institutions subordinate to the Bundeswehr confirms the military orientation of biological research carried out in Ukrainian laboratories and raises questions about the goals pursued by the German armed forces in collecting biomaterials of Ukrainian citizens.

▫️The documents obtained also show the involvement of Poland in Ukrainian biolaboratories. The participation of the Polish Institute of Veterinary Medicine in research aimed at assessing the epidemiological threats and spread of the rabies virus in Ukraine has been confirmed. Characteristically, the research in question was carried out jointly with the US-based Battelle Institute, a key contractor for the Pentagon.

▫️In addition, Polish funding for the Lvov Medical University, which includes a member of US military biology projects, the Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene, has been documented. The organisation has been running a retraining programme for specialists with experience of working with dual-use materials and technologies since 2002.

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