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🇷🇺🇧🇾 In #Dushanbe, FM Sergey #Lavrov held a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of #Belarus Vladimir Makei.
#RussiaBelarus
#RussiaBelarus
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✉️ President Vladimir Putin sent messages of condolence to Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Vice President, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, its Minister of Defence and Ruler of the Emirate of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on the death of United Arab Emirates President and Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
✍️ In his messages Vladimir Putin noted, in part, that the name of Sheikh Khalifa was associated with a very important period in the history of Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates as a whole, which was marked by impressive successes in economic, social, scientific and technological development.
🇷🇺🇦🇪 ”Sheikh Khalifa has done much to strengthen friendly relations and constructive cooperation between our countries”, the President stressed.
✍️ In his messages Vladimir Putin noted, in part, that the name of Sheikh Khalifa was associated with a very important period in the history of Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates as a whole, which was marked by impressive successes in economic, social, scientific and technological development.
🇷🇺🇦🇪 ”Sheikh Khalifa has done much to strengthen friendly relations and constructive cooperation between our countries”, the President stressed.
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🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov is taking part in the Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy (#SVOP)
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks at the 30th Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy (SVOP) in the Moscow region on Saturday, May 14.
The SVOP is a Russian non-governmental public organisation founded in 1992. Its task is to assist…
The SVOP is a Russian non-governmental public organisation founded in 1992. Its task is to assist…
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🚛 In the past weeks over 310 Russia's EMERCOM lorry convoys delivered nearly 20'000 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people of Donbass (DPR & LNR) and Ukraine: mainly food supplies and medicine.
📹 RIA Novosti
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Vladimir Putin congratulated Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on his election as President of the United Arab Emirates
“I am certain that you leadership will further strengthen the friendly Russian-Emirati relations and mutually beneficial cooperation. I look forward to continuing our constructive dialogue and joint work on important issues of the bilateral and international agenda,” the message of the President of Russia reads, in part.
See more on the official Kremlin site.
#Congratulations
“I am certain that you leadership will further strengthen the friendly Russian-Emirati relations and mutually beneficial cooperation. I look forward to continuing our constructive dialogue and joint work on important issues of the bilateral and international agenda,” the message of the President of Russia reads, in part.
See more on the official Kremlin site.
#Congratulations
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🇷🇺🇫🇮 Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Finland Sauli Niinisto
🔸The presidents had a sincere exchange of views over the announced decision by Finland’s leadership to apply for NATO membership.
🔸Vladimir Putin stressed that rejecting the traditional policy of military neutrality would be wrong since there are no threats to Finland’s security. Such a change in the country’s foreign policy course could have a negative effect on Russia-Finland relations, which have been built over the course of many years in the spirit of neighbourliness and partnership cooperation and have a mutually beneficial nature.
🔸The leaders also discussed the situation in Ukraine. In particular, Vladimir Putin shared his opinion of the state of the negotiating process between Russian and Ukrainian representatives. This process has been practically put on hold by Kiev, which does not show any interest in a serious and constructive dialogue.
The conversation took place at the initiative of the Finnish side.
🔸The presidents had a sincere exchange of views over the announced decision by Finland’s leadership to apply for NATO membership.
🔸Vladimir Putin stressed that rejecting the traditional policy of military neutrality would be wrong since there are no threats to Finland’s security. Such a change in the country’s foreign policy course could have a negative effect on Russia-Finland relations, which have been built over the course of many years in the spirit of neighbourliness and partnership cooperation and have a mutually beneficial nature.
🔸The leaders also discussed the situation in Ukraine. In particular, Vladimir Putin shared his opinion of the state of the negotiating process between Russian and Ukrainian representatives. This process has been practically put on hold by Kiev, which does not show any interest in a serious and constructive dialogue.
The conversation took place at the initiative of the Finnish side.
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📅 Four years ago, the Crimea Bridge was officially opened connecting the peninsula with mainland Russia across the Kerch Strait. This huge infrastructure project became a token of Crimea’s reunification with our country and gave a powerful boost to the socioeconomic progress of the peninsula.
🚗 The 19-kilometre bridge, Europe’s longest, has two parallel parts – railway tracks and automobile lanes. Only the automobile part of the facility was commissioned in May 2018. Cargo traffic on the bridge was opened in the autumn of the same year whereas passenger trains were launched in December 2019. A regular commuter train traffic was launched in March 2020 between Kerch and Anapa thereby making the regions of the Federation popular with tourists as close as possible.
📈 In 2021, Crimea bridge was crossed by 5.3 million vehicles including 810,000 lorries and almost 50,000 busses. Overall, 18 million vehicles passed through the automobile part of the bridge since its launch.
🚗 The 19-kilometre bridge, Europe’s longest, has two parallel parts – railway tracks and automobile lanes. Only the automobile part of the facility was commissioned in May 2018. Cargo traffic on the bridge was opened in the autumn of the same year whereas passenger trains were launched in December 2019. A regular commuter train traffic was launched in March 2020 between Kerch and Anapa thereby making the regions of the Federation popular with tourists as close as possible.
📈 In 2021, Crimea bridge was crossed by 5.3 million vehicles including 810,000 lorries and almost 50,000 busses. Overall, 18 million vehicles passed through the automobile part of the bridge since its launch.
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Key takeaways from todays’ UN Security Council meeting on US biolabs in Ukraine:
1. The US refuses to explain its engagement in military bio activities in Ukraine. Keeps shrugging off several hundred pages of evidence. “These are all lies and Russia’s propaganda, and we are good guys because it can’t be otherwise”. Not a word on the point of discussion.
2. Western delegations are praising the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and calling on us to make use of its mechanisms. They fail to mention however that it is the US who is blocking the elaboration of BWC verification mechanism. Such a hypocricy!
3. The US refuses to explain why it doesn’t want an effective international verification mechanism for bio weapons. Why act like this unless you are trying to conceal something? Why does Washington position itself above the international law? American exceptionalism at its best.
Main conclusion: we have definitely hit their soft spot. It’s clear for any unbiased observer that they are obscuring the issue and trying to divert attention from this uncomfortable topic trying to discourage us to raise it by repeating mantras on “Russian aggression” etc.
So stay tuned, there’s more evidence on US military biological programs to follow!
1. The US refuses to explain its engagement in military bio activities in Ukraine. Keeps shrugging off several hundred pages of evidence. “These are all lies and Russia’s propaganda, and we are good guys because it can’t be otherwise”. Not a word on the point of discussion.
2. Western delegations are praising the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and calling on us to make use of its mechanisms. They fail to mention however that it is the US who is blocking the elaboration of BWC verification mechanism. Such a hypocricy!
3. The US refuses to explain why it doesn’t want an effective international verification mechanism for bio weapons. Why act like this unless you are trying to conceal something? Why does Washington position itself above the international law? American exceptionalism at its best.
Main conclusion: we have definitely hit their soft spot. It’s clear for any unbiased observer that they are obscuring the issue and trying to divert attention from this uncomfortable topic trying to discourage us to raise it by repeating mantras on “Russian aggression” etc.
So stay tuned, there’s more evidence on US military biological programs to follow!
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💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following the CIS Foreign Ministers Council meeting.
📍 Dushanbe, May 13, 2022
☝️ The CIS countries unanimously confirmed their commitment to cooperation in this format. All of them want the CIS to grow more influential. This will be facilitated by today’s decision to consider in practical terms the CIS’s request to the Collective Security Treaty Organisation to grant it observer status at the #CSTO.
🇦🇫 Obviously, #Afghanistan needs to be rebuilt. We must not let the situation collapse and destabilise again. It would be hard on the Afghan people who had been suffering under NATO’s presence for twenty years.
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📍 Dushanbe, May 13, 2022
☝️ The CIS countries unanimously confirmed their commitment to cooperation in this format. All of them want the CIS to grow more influential. This will be facilitated by today’s decision to consider in practical terms the CIS’s request to the Collective Security Treaty Organisation to grant it observer status at the #CSTO.
🇦🇫 Obviously, #Afghanistan needs to be rebuilt. We must not let the situation collapse and destabilise again. It would be hard on the Afghan people who had been suffering under NATO’s presence for twenty years.
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.
📑 The Collective Security Treaty was signed on May 15, 1992 in Tashkent. On May 14, 2002, at its session in Moscow, the Collective Security Council decided to transform the mechanisms and cooperation structures of the CST member states into an international regional organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization with the appropriate status. The CSTO Charter entered into force on September 18, 2003.
🇦🇲🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇷🇺🇹🇯The Collective Security Treaty Organization includes: Republic of Armenia, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russian Federation and Republic of Tajikistan.
#CSTO
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📑 The Collective Security Treaty was signed on May 15, 1992 in Tashkent. On May 14, 2002, at its session in Moscow, the Collective Security Council decided to transform the mechanisms and cooperation structures of the CST member states into an international regional organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization with the appropriate status. The CSTO Charter entered into force on September 18, 2003.
🇦🇲🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇷🇺🇹🇯The Collective Security Treaty Organization includes: Republic of Armenia, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russian Federation and Republic of Tajikistan.
#CSTO
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🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 30th Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy
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💬 Sergey Lavrov: I would like to congratulate you on the 3️⃣0️⃣th anniversary of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy. Its activities are a fine example of Russian expert involvement in the foreign policy process.
▫️ We did everything in our power to avoid a direct conflict. But they issued a challenge and we have accepted it.
▫️ We do not remember anything like the current massive and synchronised expulsion of diplomats happening even in the grimmest Cold War years.
▫️ There are no traitors among our diplomats, although such attempts have been made from abroad and within the country.
▫️ The Americans started preparing the current crisis long ago, right after the end of the Cold War, having decided that the way to global hegemony was then open. NATO's eastward expansion has been one of the key components of such a course.
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💬 Sergey Lavrov: I would like to congratulate you on the 3️⃣0️⃣th anniversary of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy. Its activities are a fine example of Russian expert involvement in the foreign policy process.
▫️ We did everything in our power to avoid a direct conflict. But they issued a challenge and we have accepted it.
▫️ We do not remember anything like the current massive and synchronised expulsion of diplomats happening even in the grimmest Cold War years.
▫️ There are no traitors among our diplomats, although such attempts have been made from abroad and within the country.
▫️ The Americans started preparing the current crisis long ago, right after the end of the Cold War, having decided that the way to global hegemony was then open. NATO's eastward expansion has been one of the key components of such a course.
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🇸🇪 On May 16, the Government of Sweden made the decision to apply for NATO membership.
Russia has repeatedly stated that the choice of ways to ensure national security is an internal affair of any country.
Stockholm’s foreign policy has been based on neutrality for over 200 years and for decades remained an important factor in ensuring stability and trust in the Baltic Sea region.
❗️Sweden’s accession to NATO will inflict considerable damage to the security of Northern Europe and Europe as a whole. The Russian Federation will have to take response measures, both military-technical and others, to curb the threats to its national security which arise in this context. In this respect, much will depend on the specific conditions of Sweden’s integration into the North Atlantic Alliance, including the potential deployment of strike systems of this military bloc on its territory.
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Russia has repeatedly stated that the choice of ways to ensure national security is an internal affair of any country.
Stockholm’s foreign policy has been based on neutrality for over 200 years and for decades remained an important factor in ensuring stability and trust in the Baltic Sea region.
❗️Sweden’s accession to NATO will inflict considerable damage to the security of Northern Europe and Europe as a whole. The Russian Federation will have to take response measures, both military-technical and others, to curb the threats to its national security which arise in this context. In this respect, much will depend on the specific conditions of Sweden’s integration into the North Atlantic Alliance, including the potential deployment of strike systems of this military bloc on its territory.
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💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova: To learn how the West churns out fakes, take a look at our in-depth dissection of their latest one regarding the "Russian threat to food security".
We use only hard facts and statistics - that's our motto ✅
👉 https://telegra.ph/Man-Made-Famine-2022-05-17
We use only hard facts and statistics - that's our motto ✅
👉 https://telegra.ph/Man-Made-Famine-2022-05-17
Telegraph
Man-Made Famine 2022
Representatives of the collective West members are tripping over each other as they scramble to accuse Russia of undermining global food security. The G7 has issued a special statement in this regard. To be sure, we responded. Those most deeply concerned…
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The Kremlin hosted a CSTO summit
The meeting was attended by the heads of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Vladimir Putin noted the strengthening of the CSTO as an effective regional defence agency that ensures security and stability in the Eurasian space.
“The CSTO's successful peacekeeping operation, held in Kazakhstan in January 2022, showed the maturity of our Organisation and its real ability to adequately withstand acute challenges and threats,” the Russian President noted.
The President also emphasised:
“During the special operation in Ukraine, documentary evidence was obtained that components of biological weapons were developed in close proximity to our borders, which violates the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, and possible methods and mechanisms were worked out to destabilise the epidemic situation in the post-Soviet space."
See more on the official Kremlin site.
The meeting was attended by the heads of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Vladimir Putin noted the strengthening of the CSTO as an effective regional defence agency that ensures security and stability in the Eurasian space.
“The CSTO's successful peacekeeping operation, held in Kazakhstan in January 2022, showed the maturity of our Organisation and its real ability to adequately withstand acute challenges and threats,” the Russian President noted.
The President also emphasised:
“During the special operation in Ukraine, documentary evidence was obtained that components of biological weapons were developed in close proximity to our borders, which violates the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, and possible methods and mechanisms were worked out to destabilise the epidemic situation in the post-Soviet space."
See more on the official Kremlin site.
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Press release on global food security in the context of a statement by the G7 foreign ministers
We noted the final statement by the foreign ministers of the G7 countries, whereby they accused Russia of unilateral steps to undermine the agricultural potential of Ukraine and worsen the status of global food security.
☝️ In this context, we would like to remind others about the primary causes of the unfavourable situation that is taking shape in the world food markets.
👉 The crisis phenomena of the past few years are primarily linked to the miscalculations and accumulated system-wide mistakes in the macroeconomic (including finances and trade), energy (including climate) and food policy of the collective West.
👉 The COVID-19 pandemic made a bad situation worse. Its consequences, including the disruption of production and marketing chains, and higher freight and insurance costs, have caused even more turbulence in the world food and other markets.
Importantly, the unilateral actions by the Western states, primarily the G7 countries, have aggravated the disruption of logistics and financial chains for food supplies to the world markets.
We noted the final statement by the foreign ministers of the G7 countries, whereby they accused Russia of unilateral steps to undermine the agricultural potential of Ukraine and worsen the status of global food security.
☝️ In this context, we would like to remind others about the primary causes of the unfavourable situation that is taking shape in the world food markets.
👉 The crisis phenomena of the past few years are primarily linked to the miscalculations and accumulated system-wide mistakes in the macroeconomic (including finances and trade), energy (including climate) and food policy of the collective West.
👉 The COVID-19 pandemic made a bad situation worse. Its consequences, including the disruption of production and marketing chains, and higher freight and insurance costs, have caused even more turbulence in the world food and other markets.
Importantly, the unilateral actions by the Western states, primarily the G7 countries, have aggravated the disruption of logistics and financial chains for food supplies to the world markets.
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⚡️ Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianResponse #HumanitarianAid
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#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianResponse #HumanitarianAid
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Telegraph
Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (May 17, 2022)
The Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, in co-operation with the authorised federal executive authorities, continues to carefully record the continuing egregious facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians by Kiev…
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⚠️ Nationalist battalion fighters and AFU units, using civilians as human shields, continue to use civilian infrastructure to equip strongholds and deploy heavy weaponry.
🔹Azov Neo-Nazis battalion:
▫️in Mirnograd, Donetsk People's Republic, kindergarten No 19 in the Vostochnyi Microdistrict and a boarding school on L. Chaikina Street have been equipped with strongholds and barracks, and armoured vehicles and artillery have been placed in close proximity to residential areas;
▫️in Borovaya, Kharkov Region, barracks have been equipped in the school building and the Beryozka kindergarten, and heavy military equipment, artillery and MLRS have been placed on the territories. At the same time, civilians with children are forcibly detained in basements.
🔹Fighters of Aidar battalion:
▫️on the territory of the Church of the Praise of the Mother of God in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk Region, firing positions, artillery and MLRS have been placed in close proximity to densely populated residential areas;
▫️in Zaporozhye, they equipped firing positions and ammunition depots on the lower floors of hospitals on Sobornyi Prospect and Pobedy Street. At the same time, hospital staff and patients are held back as human shield.
🔹Armed formations of the Donbass battalion have equipped a stronghold in residential building No 10 on General Lozanovich Street in Slavyansk in Donetsk People's Republic and deployed heavy weapons and an ammunition depot. However, no civilians were evacuated from the building.
🔹In Sumy, AFU units have mined a road bridge on Kharkovskaya Street over the railway tracks of the Southern Railway branch, which they plan to blow up, blaming it on allegedly "advancing units of Russian troops".
❗️Such actions of the Kiev regime once again demonstrate an inhuman attitude to the fate of Ukrainian citizens and indicate a gross violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, but despite our repeated statements, they still remain without the attention of the international community and international organizations.
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#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianResponse #HumanitarianAid
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🔹Azov Neo-Nazis battalion:
▫️in Mirnograd, Donetsk People's Republic, kindergarten No 19 in the Vostochnyi Microdistrict and a boarding school on L. Chaikina Street have been equipped with strongholds and barracks, and armoured vehicles and artillery have been placed in close proximity to residential areas;
▫️in Borovaya, Kharkov Region, barracks have been equipped in the school building and the Beryozka kindergarten, and heavy military equipment, artillery and MLRS have been placed on the territories. At the same time, civilians with children are forcibly detained in basements.
🔹Fighters of Aidar battalion:
▫️on the territory of the Church of the Praise of the Mother of God in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk Region, firing positions, artillery and MLRS have been placed in close proximity to densely populated residential areas;
▫️in Zaporozhye, they equipped firing positions and ammunition depots on the lower floors of hospitals on Sobornyi Prospect and Pobedy Street. At the same time, hospital staff and patients are held back as human shield.
🔹Armed formations of the Donbass battalion have equipped a stronghold in residential building No 10 on General Lozanovich Street in Slavyansk in Donetsk People's Republic and deployed heavy weapons and an ammunition depot. However, no civilians were evacuated from the building.
🔹In Sumy, AFU units have mined a road bridge on Kharkovskaya Street over the railway tracks of the Southern Railway branch, which they plan to blow up, blaming it on allegedly "advancing units of Russian troops".
❗️Such actions of the Kiev regime once again demonstrate an inhuman attitude to the fate of Ukrainian citizens and indicate a gross violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, but despite our repeated statements, they still remain without the attention of the international community and international organizations.
➡️ More
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianResponse #HumanitarianAid
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🇷🇺🇦🇪📞 President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the UAE Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
During the conversation, Vladimir Putin warmly congratulated Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on taking office as Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and being elected President of the UAE.
The existing level of strategic partnership between the two countries was noted, while satisfaction and mutual commitment to continued development of friendly Russian-Emirati relations was expressed. Particular attention was paid to interaction in trade, the economy and investment.
#RussiaUAE
During the conversation, Vladimir Putin warmly congratulated Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on taking office as Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and being elected President of the UAE.
The existing level of strategic partnership between the two countries was noted, while satisfaction and mutual commitment to continued development of friendly Russian-Emirati relations was expressed. Particular attention was paid to interaction in trade, the economy and investment.
#RussiaUAE