🇷🇺📞🇦🇹 President Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with Federal Chancellor of Austria Karl Nehammer.

🔸 At the request of the Federal Chancellor of Austria, the President of Russia gave an assessment of the situation in the context of the ongoing special military operation to protect Donbass. The Russian leader also spoke about the efforts to ensure safe navigation in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.

🔸 The two leaders exchanged views on issues related to global food security. Vladimir Putin emphasised that attempts to blame Russia for the disrupted supply of agricultural produce to world markets were groundless. He explained in detail the real reasons behind these problems, which emerged, in part, due to the anti-Russia sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union.

🔸 Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia’s commitment to its contractual obligations with regard to natural gas supplies to Austria.

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Three events of the Russian chairmanship in the Arctic Council will be held at once at the thematic stand at SPIEF-2022:

✅International seminar on shipbuilding and ship repair in the Arctic;
✅Conference on the development of Telecommunications and digitalization in the Arctic;
✅ "Creative industries of the North" discussion.

Meanwhile, the first year of Russia's chairmanship in the Arctic Council has ended. And on May 20, a briefing was held on the interim results of work and plans for the near future. Here are a number of activities worth waiting for:

🔹Conference on saving human health in the Arctic;
🔹Conference "Arctic — National megaproject: staffing and scientific support";
🔹Conference on providing a comfortable urban environment "Arctic – the territory of development";
🔹Conference on waste and microplastics in the Arctic;
🔹International forum on specially protected natural areas (Protected areas) in the Arctic, etc.

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Arkhangelsk to Host Conference on Health Initiatives for Arctic Inhabitants on 1–3 June as part of the main events of Russia’s chairmanship in the Arctic Council in 2021–2023, which are organized by the Roscongress Foundation.

Developing human capital and improving the well-being and quality of life of the Arctic population, including improvements to the healthcare system and medical infrastructure in the region, are among the top priorities of Russia’s chairmanship in the Arctic Council in 2021–2023. Russia has submitted the ‘Biosafety in the Arctic’ project to the Arctic Council’s Sustainable Development Working Group for consideration. The project, among other things, aims to significantly improve the health of the Arctic population.

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⚠️ According to information received from captured Ukrainian servicemen, militants of nationalist battalions are preparing another provocation with the use of toxic substances in Sumy.

▫️The neo-Nazis plan to shell Russian border territory from a residential area in the city and provoke Russian units to retaliate, after which they will blow up chemical tanks.

📹Foreign journalists are in Sumy to take photographs and video.

▫️This cynical action will soon be used by the Kiev authorities to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly using chemical weapons and indiscriminate strikes on civilians.

▫️Moreover, while previously in preparation for such provocations the civilian population was withdrawn from the area of planned contamination, now, in order to maximise the resonance, no warning was given to the population.

❗️We warn the "civilized West" as well as the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in advance that the above and other similar provocations about alleged "Russian atrocities" are soon to be widely spread by the Ukrainian authorities through the Western media and in various Internet resources.

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🇷🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪 Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron and Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz

🔸To follow up on the previous contacts in this format, the leaders exchanged views on the most recent developments in Ukraine. The President of Russia informed the other parties at length about the latest events in the context of the ongoing special military operation, noting that the Russian Armed Forces are strictly observing the norms of international humanitarian law, and spoke about the systematic work being carried out to establish peaceful life in Mariupol and other liberated cities in Donbass.

🔸Special attention was paid to the progress on the negotiation track, which has been stalling through Kiev’s fault. Vladimir Putin reaffirmed the Russian side’s openness to the resumption of dialogue.

🔸The President of Russia was critical of the continued dangerous practice of pumping Ukraine with Western weapons, cautioning against the risks of the country’s further destabilisation and aggravation of the humanitarian crisis.

🔸The parties reviewed in detail the global food security concerns. Vladimir Putin explained the real reasons for the unstable food supplies, saying that the disruptions were due to Western countries’ erroneous economic and financial policies, as well as their anti-Russia sanctions. He substantiated his statements with evidence and specific data. Russia, on the other hand, is ready to help find options for unhindered grain exports, including the export of Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea ports. Increasing the supplies of Russian fertilisers and agricultural produce will also help reduce tensions in the global food market, but that will definitely require the lifting of the relevant sanctions.

🔸The leaders agreed to continue contacts.

🇷🇺 💬 « Notre opération militaire était inévitable», a dit le ministre russe des Affaires étrangères Sergueï Lavrov lors d’un entretien exclusif accordé à TF1 et LCI dimanche 29 mai.

❓Quel bilan trois mois après le début de l’opération militaire spéciale russe en Ukraine ?

❓Quand l’opération militaire spéciale, va-t-elle s’arrêter ?

❓Où en est-on dans les négociations russo-ukrainiennes ?

❓Qu’attend la Russie de la France et du président Macron?

❗Ne ratez pas cette opportunité inédite d’entendre la vraie position de la Russie dans le contexte de la crise ukrainienne.

💬 FM #Lavrov in an interview to 🇫🇷TF1 channel: Dragging Ukraine into NATO meant creating a direct threat right on the border of the Russian Federation.

Read the full interview.

⚠️In Kharkov Region, militants of the nationalist Kraken unit, formed mainly from radicals and released from prison rapists and murderers, conduct punitive raids in which so-called "death squads" at night break into the homes of local residents suspected by the SSU of pro-Russian sentiment, physically abuse them and take them away to an unknown destination.

▫️Dozens of the detainees never returned home, and their fate is still unknown.

▫️Such criminal actions and provocations on the part of the Kiev regime once again demonstrate Kiev's inhuman attitude towards the fate of its citizens and show complete disregard for the norms and principles of international humanitarian law.

❗️By applying a policy of "double standards", the collective West has absolutely no interest in conducting an impartial investigation and finding those responsible for the current disastrous humanitarian situation in Ukraine, and in fact "turns a blind eye" to numerous violations of international conventions by the Ukrainian side, shifting the blame onto the Russian Federation without evidence.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the French TV channel TF1

📍 Moscow, May 29, 2022

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Key points:

🔹 Unlike our Western colleagues, we are not chasing after the external effects. Nor do we regard the international actions we take as aimed at winning someone’s approval or achieving success, as you said. We are doing what we are forced to do. We are defending people and the Russian language, which has been exposed to direct discrimination and aggression by the Poroshenko and Zelensky regimes in Ukraine.

🔹 Dragging Ukraine into NATO meant creating a direct threat right on the border of the Russian Federation.

⁉️ How would France react if Belgium, for example, banned French? Or what would England do if Ireland banned English? Just imagine for a moment that Finland banned Swedish. The European mind is unable to imagine this. But the whole of Europe did not care a dime about how they were treating Russian.

🔹 You said diplomats are being expelled by both sides. We have not expelled anyone. These sanctions, which are more like hysterics (or even agony, I’d say), were initiated by the West. The speed with which they were introduced and the number of them show that they were not compiled overnight. They were being drafted for some time, and they will not likely be lifted.

📅 On 15–18 June 2022, St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (#SPIEF2022) to be held – a unique event in the world of business and economics.

Over the last 24 years, the Forum has become a leading global platform for members of the business community to meet and discuss the key economic issues facing Russia, emerging markets, and the world as a whole.

The business programme of the Forum regularly encompasses more than 150 events.

Key topics:

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🔸 Energy
🔸 Drug security
🔸 Food security
🔸 Support for small and medium-sized enterprises
🔸 Regional cooperation
🔸 The environment
🔸 Education
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🔸 Priority objectives in the Arctic

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Liberal cabinet continues formalistically printing empty anti-Russian sanctions. Boring. 🥱 💤

🇷🇺🇦🇪 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a meeting with Foreign Minister of UAE Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

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🇷🇺🇰🇼 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a meeting with Foreign Minister of Kuwait Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah

📍Riyadh

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🇷🇺🇦🇲📞 Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

The President of Russia extended warm birthday greetings to the Prime Minister of Armenia.

While discussing the implementation of the fundamental trilateral agreements between the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, it was noted that it was important to step up joint work to ensure regional stability as well as the development of transport and logistics infrastructure in the South Caucasus.

Nikol Pashinyan talked about his contacts with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of the European Council Charles Michel held in Brussels on May 22.

In light of the outcome of the Prime Minister’s official visit to Russia in April, certain topical issues on the bilateral agenda were also discussed.

Earlier, Vladimir Putin sent birthday greetings to Nikol Pashinyan.

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⚡️ Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

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