#DebunkingMyths

Certain politicians in the West attempt to score political points & avoid responsibility by putting the blame for soaring energy prices, food security issues and even inflation on Russia 🤷‍♂️

Fact: Western sanctions & poor economic policies are among the root causes for the crisis.

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📆 June 9 marks the 350th birth anniversary of a great statesman, Tsar, then Emperor Peter the Great. It would be no exaggeration to say that he was one of the most extraordinary rulers in Russian history. His tireless and never-ending energy, governance talents and dedicated service to the Motherland helped to radically transform the international, political, economic, social and cultural image of Russia.

📜 The reforms of Peter the Great made it possible to considerably reduce the lag between Russia and advanced Western European countries, and they drastically transformed the country’s public life. In 1721, Russia was proclaimed an empire, and Peter the Great became the first Russian Emperor.

Numerous commemorative events narrating various stages of Peter’s life and activities mark the 3️⃣5️⃣0️⃣th birth anniversary of the Russian Emperor.

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🎙 Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia gives interview to Stephen Sackur (BBC World's HARDtalk) on the situation regarding Ukraine.

💬 Russia's President Vladimir Putin on sovereignty in today's rapidly changing world:

We live in an era of change. Geopolitical, scientific and technological transformations are happening. The world is changing, and it is doing so rapidly.

In order to claim some kind of leadership – any country, any people, any ethnic group should ensure their sovereignty.

Because there is no in-between, no intermediate state: either a country is sovereign, or it is a colony, no matter what the colonies are called.

I am not going to give any examples so as not to offend anyone, but if a country or a group of countries is not able to make sovereign decisions, then it is already a colony to a certain extent. But a colony has no historical prospects, no chance for survival in this tough geopolitical struggle.

(excerpt from President Putin's meeting with young entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists ahead of the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum).

Looks like these sanctions were imposed by Trudeau’s cabinet not on 🇷🇺 but on 🇨🇦. They further deprive Canadian entrepreneurs of opportunity to earn money doing business in Russia or with Russia. Empty political gesture that hurts Canadian interests only.

#DebunkingMyths

The on-going attempts to blame Russia for "weaponising" grain and food supplies are completely without merit.

❗️ Faсts: Russia is a responsible member of the global food market. It is the Western illegitimate sanctions that are in fact damaging global food security.

We are deeply concerned about a possible food crisis and are well aware of the importance of supplies of socially important commodities, including food, to the socio-economic development of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East and the achievement of SDGs.

The illegitimate unilateral restrictions imposed by the EU, the US and their satellites remain the main obstacle to normal export relations between Russia (and Belarus) and buyers of grain and fertilizers.

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🇷🇺Поздравление Посла России О.В.Степанова с Днем России и восьмидесятой годовщиной дипломатических отношений между Россией и Канадой

🔗https://telegra.ph/Pozdravlenie-Posla-Rossii-OVStepanova-s-Dnem-Rossii-i-vosmidesyatoj-godovshchinoj-diplomaticheskih-otnoshenij-mezhdu-Rossiej-i-K-06-10

🇷🇺The National Day of Russia and 80th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations: Ambassador’s Congratulations

🔗https://telegra.ph/The-National-Day-of-Russia-and-80th-Anniversary-of-Diplomatic-Relations-Ambassadors-Congratulations-06-10

🇷🇺 #Russia is... so many things, all at once. A lifetime worth of amazing things to explore & discover.

Immerse in Russia's enigmatic & friendly atmosphere, enjoy its natural beauty and rich traditions of its peoples - #ExploreRussia!

Happy #RussiaDay! 🥳

#RussiaDay2022 #RussiaIs #Russia1Love

#Food4Thought

🔎 RIA Novosti have launched a new special project - a journalistic investigation “Joint. Drug War of Ukraine Against Russia".

The project presents hard evidence of the hybrid war launched by Kiev against our country 8 years ago with the main goal to “drown the Russians in drugs”.

📰 Just a small excerpt:

The Interior Ministry’s Centre for Information and Analysis has reported an annual increase in the trafficking of synthetic drugs in our country, from 5 percent of the market in 2014 to 60 percent in 2021.

Security services officers told RIA Novosti that Ukrainians set up laboratories in border regions to smuggle drugs into Russia or organise their manufacturing and sale in Russia.

In 2019, 62 kg of drugs were confiscated in the Belgorod Region. The figure increased nearly nine-fold, to 534 kg, in 2020. The figure doubled in 2021, when security services confiscated 1,066 kg.

👉 Read in full

#DebunkingMyths

❌ Myth: Russia is using energy supplies for political purposes.

✅ Faсts: It is the EU which, by imposing or planning to impose further unilateral sanctions against Russian energy supplies, is politicizing the energy sphere, attempting to use interdependences between energy consumers and suppliers as an instrument of political pressure, while damaging its own economy and the well-being of its citizens and aggravating what is already a precarious situation in the global energy markets.

Unfounded allegations that Moscow is using energy supplies for political aims are part and parcel of the fact-twisting information warfare unleashed by the EU and the US, the latter seeking to increase its LNG exports to the EU.

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