🎙 Briefing by MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (June 13, 2024)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Another terrorist attack by the Kiev regime militants targeting Russian media personnel
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 NATO’s destructive activities
🔹 France’s latest initiatives to support the Kiev regime
🔹 Anniversary marking the conclusion of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia
🔹 Day of memory of victims of the Budyonnovsk Attack
🔹 Russia-Armenia relations
🔹 #SPIEF2024 outcomes

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#Ukraine

The Biden administration has lifted the restrictions [from the notorious Azov nationalist battalion] on the use of US weapons imposed earlier. Apparently, “after thorough review,” the US officials resolved that the Azov fighters never “espoused racist, xenophobic and ultranationalist views” or committed “humanitarian violations” after all.

Whatever the next bastard they bet on is capable of, if it suits their interests, they’ll be ready to put up with it.

#NATO

Ahead of the NATO summit in Washington, the alliance continues to ratchet up its propaganda rhetoric with regard to Russia. The bloc’s officials and the leadership of member countries are constantly talking about the threat of a Russian attack on the Baltic states and Poland.

Russia has not harboured any aggressive plans with regard to NATO and its member countries; nor does it have such plans today. At the same time, we realise that the alliance does have such plans. Washington does not need a peaceful Europe.

Dear friends!
📚 The Russian House in New Delhi invites you to a screening of the film “The Flying Ship” as part of a children’s film festival held in the Russian center of science and culture.
📆 We are waiting for you at the film screening on June 21 at 12:00 p.m.
🏢 Venue: Russian House in New Delhi.
📎 The film will be shown in Russian with English subtitles.
✅ Admission for film visitors is free.
💎 Don't miss the opportunity to become part of an important event!
Waiting for you!

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⚡️ Human Rights Situation in Certain Countries (The Joint Report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus)

The document aims to draw attention to the challenges and threats faced by the contemporary international community in the field of human rights.

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📄 With regard to the human rights issues raised in the Report, our countries firmly believe that applying the so-called double-standards while assessing certain situations and phenomena remains a major challenge in this field. In this regard, it is very symptomatic that such an approach is increasingly being used by the countries of the collective West to fuel confrontation and exert pressure on sovereign States. <...>

We have repeatedly pointed out in international human rights forums and in thematic reports on human rights that a number of countries are openly promoting racist ideas and values, provoking the upsurge of radical nationalism. And this is happening despite the fact that there are legal mechanisms in place within the United Nations, the OSCE and a number of other international organizations aimed at countering the glorification of Nazism, racism, xenophobia and related intolerance.

❗️ However, such connivance is nothing new, especially since Western "model democracies" are no strangers to racist and neo-colonial views – examples abound in our time, and even more so in the history of the twentieth century, and particularly of World War II. Such duplicity of the West was demonstrated by the events of 2022 and its declared "crusade" against the "Russian world".

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In the emerging new world, which should be based on a fairer system of international relations, the full realization of the principle of the sovereign equality of States and the historical, cultural, religious and national particularities of each country is essential. Only on that basis would the negative effects of colonialism, neo-colonial thinking, racism, racial discrimination and related intolerance be fully eradicated. This would prevent unlawful attempts by certain countries to "bring to heel" the international law system and use its universal human rights mechanisms to suit their own parochial and vested interests.

☝️ The negative examples from both the present and the recent past cited in the Report, which, for the most part, we are all well aware of, are a very strong evidence of the need to mobilize the entire constructive-minded international community to successfully confront these challenges.

Dear friends!
📚 The Russian House in New Delhi invites you to a screening of the film “The Flying Ship” as part of a children’s film festival held in the Russian center of science and culture.
📆 We are waiting for you at the film screening on June 21 at 12:00 p.m.
🏢 Venue: Russian House in New Delhi.
📎 The film will be shown in Russian with English subtitles.
✅ Admission for film visitors is free.
💎 Don't miss the opportunity to become part of an important event!
Waiting for you!

#RussianHouse #film #TheFlyingShip #Rossotrudnichestvo

We are pleased to share the highlights of the celebration of the X International Yoga Day, which took place in the Orenburg region on June 15.

This event is a joint initiative of JNCC, Indian Embassy in Moscow and the Administration of the Orenburg Region.

Orenburg residents enthusiastically participated in yoga and meditation classes from city instructors.

The Indian Embassy in Moscow thanks the Administration of the Orenburg Region for its comprehensive support in organizing the event. We also express our heartfelt thanks to all participants.

👥 Representatives of India, as part of the New Generation program, took part in St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024.

📝 Youth representative of the UN Department after the UN Priyanka Chahal, entrepreneur from Agra, Uttar Pradesh Rahul Chaudhry and entrepreneur from Bahadurgarh Rohit Dalal shared their vision for the development of Russian-Indian relations in the economic sphere. They noted that the participation of governments in decision-making processes gives a positive impetus to the development of relationships between different options.

📚 Outside the economic bloc, new opportunities for cultural and constitutional exchange between states were discussed.

📎 The presence of the young Indian delegation not only led to promising future cooperation between India and the countries, but also played the role of SPIEF as a catalyst for global economic dialogue.