💬 #Zakharova: #Latvia has long had a tarnished reputation as a country where attempts are being made at the highest level to glorify Nazism and falsify history.
☝️ With their vicious revanchist restrictions, the Latvian authorities insult the memory of the victims of #WWII. https://t.co/Ht3wiDDffW
☝️ With their vicious revanchist restrictions, the Latvian authorities insult the memory of the victims of #WWII. https://t.co/Ht3wiDDffW
💬#Zakharova: A monument to Soviet liberator soldiers in Chrzowice, Poland, has been dismantled.
❗️This is another manifestation of the shameful war against Soviet monuments Poland has been waging in violation of every existing bilateral agreement and all civilised norms. https://t.co/MtImkYq72R
❗️This is another manifestation of the shameful war against Soviet monuments Poland has been waging in violation of every existing bilateral agreement and all civilised norms. https://t.co/MtImkYq72R
💬#Zakharova: Shocking video footage of Ukrainian militants’ atrocities circled the world recently, showing them beating Russian POWs, shooting them in the legs, leaving them without medical care.
☝️ All these war crimes are recorded & the perpetrators will be held accountable. https://t.co/6AWgiM6j1Z
☝️ All these war crimes are recorded & the perpetrators will be held accountable. https://t.co/6AWgiM6j1Z
MFA Spokesperson Maria Zakharova on UK 🇬🇧 decision to extradite #JulianAssange: All #UK words on freedom and #HumanRights are a lie and a smokescreen for a mean and rigid mechanism that borders with misanthropy, a desire for revenge and a total disgrace. https://t.co/28LZrigtUp
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MFA spox #Zakharova on 🇬🇧decision to extradite #JulianAssange: All #UK words on freedom and #HumanRights are a lie and a smokescreen for a mean and rigid mechanism that borders with misanthropy, a desire for revenge and a total disgrace.
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❗️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on anniversary of the August events of 2008 in the South Caucasus
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💬 Today, on the 14th anniversary of the beginning of Georgia’s military aggression against the people of South Ossetia and the Russian peacekeepers of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces in the zone of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, we yet again pay the tribute to the memory of the victims of that treacherous attack and to the courage of those who sacrificed their lives to save the South Ossetian people from extirpation.
The criminal military adventure of Mikhail Saakashvili’s regime was not left unanswered: in the extreme circumstances, Russia successfully conducted a peace enforcement operation, and then recognised South Ossetia and also Abkhazia, which was facing the same fate, as sovereign and independent states and took them under its protection.
Another result of the Georgian aggression being repelled was the launch of a new negotiations track in Switzerland, the Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in the South Caucasus. Their main task is to provide stable and reliable security for Abkhazia and South Ossetia by maintaining a direct dialogue between the two republics and the Georgian side.
However, this important dialogue platform has recently been overpowered by the politically motivated approach of certain players, guided by their egoistic interests. As the result, the Geneva format has been essentially frozen. For the past eight months, it has not been possible to hold the next, 56th round of the Geneva Discussions.
The prospects for holding the postponed round of discussion are still dim. It is not our choice. All responsibility for the sabotage of the negotiation process and the repercussions of this lies with the initiators of these destructive actions and those pandering to them.
🔗 https://is.gd/oseQPw
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💬 Today, on the 14th anniversary of the beginning of Georgia’s military aggression against the people of South Ossetia and the Russian peacekeepers of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces in the zone of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, we yet again pay the tribute to the memory of the victims of that treacherous attack and to the courage of those who sacrificed their lives to save the South Ossetian people from extirpation.
The criminal military adventure of Mikhail Saakashvili’s regime was not left unanswered: in the extreme circumstances, Russia successfully conducted a peace enforcement operation, and then recognised South Ossetia and also Abkhazia, which was facing the same fate, as sovereign and independent states and took them under its protection.
Another result of the Georgian aggression being repelled was the launch of a new negotiations track in Switzerland, the Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in the South Caucasus. Their main task is to provide stable and reliable security for Abkhazia and South Ossetia by maintaining a direct dialogue between the two republics and the Georgian side.
However, this important dialogue platform has recently been overpowered by the politically motivated approach of certain players, guided by their egoistic interests. As the result, the Geneva format has been essentially frozen. For the past eight months, it has not been possible to hold the next, 56th round of the Geneva Discussions.
The prospects for holding the postponed round of discussion are still dim. It is not our choice. All responsibility for the sabotage of the negotiation process and the repercussions of this lies with the initiators of these destructive actions and those pandering to them.
🔗 https://is.gd/oseQPw
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⚡️ Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova:
Russia intends to convene an official UN Security Council Meeting regarding the incidents with the #NordStream & #NordStream2 gas pipelines.
Russia intends to convene an official UN Security Council Meeting regarding the incidents with the #NordStream & #NordStream2 gas pipelines.
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💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman #Zakharova:
This is how the proAmerican ghouls single-mindedly pursued their goal - to destroy the dam.
👉 Strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant: a detailed timeline and chronology.
It were these methodical attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the HPP that resulted in the destruction of its structures, which began on June 6, 2023, and the uncontrolled discharge of water from the Kakhovka reservoir downstream of the Dnieper.
This is how the proAmerican ghouls single-mindedly pursued their goal - to destroy the dam.
👉 Strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant: a detailed timeline and chronology.
It were these methodical attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the HPP that resulted in the destruction of its structures, which began on June 6, 2023, and the uncontrolled discharge of water from the Kakhovka reservoir downstream of the Dnieper.
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💬 Maria #Zakharova:
When the US State Department says again that Evan Gershkovich is a journalist and not a spy, think about The Summing Up, the literary memoir of British writer Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, and The Painted Veil). He was quite outspoken in it about his secret missions:
“I returned to America and shortly afterwards was sent on a mission to Petrograd. I was diffident of accepting the post, which seemed to demand capacities that I did not think I possessed; but there seemed to be no one more competent available at the moment and my being a writer was very good ‘cover’ for what I was asked to do... But I could not miss the opportunity of spending certainly a considerable time in the country of Tolstoi, Dostoievski and Chekov; I had a notion that in the intervals of the work I was being sent to do I could get something for myself that would be of value; so, I set my foot hard on the loud pedal of patriotism and persuaded the physician I consulted that under the tragic circumstances of the moment I was taking no undue risk. I set off in high spirits with unlimited money at my disposal and four devoted Czechs to act as liaison officers between me and Professor Masaryk who had under his control in various parts of Russia something like sixty thousand of his compatriots. I was exhilarated by the responsibility of my position. I went as a private agent, who could be disavowed if necessary, with instructions to get in touch with parties hostile to the government and devise a scheme that would keep Russia in the war and prevent the Bolsheviks, supported by the Central Powers, from seizing power. It is not necessary for me to inform the reader that in this I failed lamentably and I do not ask him to believe me when I state that it seems to me at least possible that if I had been sent six months before I might quite well have succeeded. Three months after my arrival in Petrograd the crash came and put an end to all my plans.
I returned to England. I had had some interesting experiences and had got to know fairly well one of the most extraordinary men I have ever met. This was Boris Savinkov, the terrorist who had assassinated Trepov and the Grand Duke Sergius...”
Maugham wrote openly that he was a British agent sent to Russia to interfere in its internal affairs and to influence the Russian government. It was in 1917, when Russia was amid revolutionary turmoil, and Maugham was sent there as a correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.
He is not the only Anglo-Saxon who worked for British secret services under the guise of a journalist or a writer. Here are some of the others:
- Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus) – and informer and a secret agent for Sir Francis Walsingham, who created Britain’s professional secret service.
- Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe) – a pro-Union spy in Scotland.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh) – a propaganda writer for MI7, an office of the Directorate of Military Intelligence with responsibilities for press liaison and propaganda, in 1916-1918.
- Graham Greene (The Quiet American) – from 1941 to 1944, he worked for MI6 as a member of the Foreign Office in Sierra Leone and Portugal. After WWII, he was a correspondent of the magazine The New Republic in Indochina.
- Ian Fleming (James Bond) – an officer in the Royal Navy’s Naval Intelligence Department during WWII.
- John le Carré (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) – in 1959, he was transferred to MI6 and spent the next five years working under diplomatic cover in West Germany, first as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Bonn and later as a political consul in Hamburg.
- Stella Rimington (Dead Line) – Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996.
The others who worked at or for Britain’s War Propaganda Bureau, commonly known as Wellington House, in 1914-1918 are H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), and Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), as well as many newspaper editors.
When the US State Department says again that Evan Gershkovich is a journalist and not a spy, think about The Summing Up, the literary memoir of British writer Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, and The Painted Veil). He was quite outspoken in it about his secret missions:
“I returned to America and shortly afterwards was sent on a mission to Petrograd. I was diffident of accepting the post, which seemed to demand capacities that I did not think I possessed; but there seemed to be no one more competent available at the moment and my being a writer was very good ‘cover’ for what I was asked to do... But I could not miss the opportunity of spending certainly a considerable time in the country of Tolstoi, Dostoievski and Chekov; I had a notion that in the intervals of the work I was being sent to do I could get something for myself that would be of value; so, I set my foot hard on the loud pedal of patriotism and persuaded the physician I consulted that under the tragic circumstances of the moment I was taking no undue risk. I set off in high spirits with unlimited money at my disposal and four devoted Czechs to act as liaison officers between me and Professor Masaryk who had under his control in various parts of Russia something like sixty thousand of his compatriots. I was exhilarated by the responsibility of my position. I went as a private agent, who could be disavowed if necessary, with instructions to get in touch with parties hostile to the government and devise a scheme that would keep Russia in the war and prevent the Bolsheviks, supported by the Central Powers, from seizing power. It is not necessary for me to inform the reader that in this I failed lamentably and I do not ask him to believe me when I state that it seems to me at least possible that if I had been sent six months before I might quite well have succeeded. Three months after my arrival in Petrograd the crash came and put an end to all my plans.
I returned to England. I had had some interesting experiences and had got to know fairly well one of the most extraordinary men I have ever met. This was Boris Savinkov, the terrorist who had assassinated Trepov and the Grand Duke Sergius...”
Maugham wrote openly that he was a British agent sent to Russia to interfere in its internal affairs and to influence the Russian government. It was in 1917, when Russia was amid revolutionary turmoil, and Maugham was sent there as a correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.
He is not the only Anglo-Saxon who worked for British secret services under the guise of a journalist or a writer. Here are some of the others:
- Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus) – and informer and a secret agent for Sir Francis Walsingham, who created Britain’s professional secret service.
- Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe) – a pro-Union spy in Scotland.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh) – a propaganda writer for MI7, an office of the Directorate of Military Intelligence with responsibilities for press liaison and propaganda, in 1916-1918.
- Graham Greene (The Quiet American) – from 1941 to 1944, he worked for MI6 as a member of the Foreign Office in Sierra Leone and Portugal. After WWII, he was a correspondent of the magazine The New Republic in Indochina.
- Ian Fleming (James Bond) – an officer in the Royal Navy’s Naval Intelligence Department during WWII.
- John le Carré (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) – in 1959, he was transferred to MI6 and spent the next five years working under diplomatic cover in West Germany, first as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Bonn and later as a political consul in Hamburg.
- Stella Rimington (Dead Line) – Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996.
The others who worked at or for Britain’s War Propaganda Bureau, commonly known as Wellington House, in 1914-1918 are H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), and Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), as well as many newspaper editors.