⚡️🇷🇺 The world's first operation using a bioprinter, consisting of a robotic arm, a bioprinting system and computer vision, was carried out at the Main Military Clinical Hospital named after N.Burdenko.

The trajectory of biopolymer delivery in situ, that is, directly into the wound, was programmed by a MISIS university specialist after scanning the injury site.

💉The doctor took the patient’s cells from the bone marrow to “put” them into the bioprinter. The robot carried out scanning and bioprinting without human intervention. Doctors are confident that this equipment opens up new possibilities for the treatment of complex soft tissue injuries.

“Using a robotic arm, we printed a matrix in the patient’s forearm with bioink to replace a soft tissue defect. The composition consists of a mixture of highly purified concentrated sterile solution of collagen and cells. This technique was carried out for the first time; it is especially relevant for multiple wounds of the extremities, when the donor resource is limited. In case of extensive wounds in the future, we plan to scan the entire body and replace all wounds with this method. This will speed up their healing time and will reduce the time patients stay in the hospital,” said surgeon, who supervised the operation at the hospital.

#madeinrussia #technologies4people

In late Dec 2023, a doping scandal broke out in Spain. For 5 years the National Anti-Doping Organization (CELAD) has been manipulating the results of doping tests of athletes under its aegis.

💡 Spanish online news outlet Relevo reported that CELAD had found positive results and waited the maximum allowed time of one year between opening a case and informing the athlete in question while hiding others by retroactive approval of Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE).

☝️ Several days ago, WADA issued a statement admitting there was a mess in Spanish doping-control system, but the World Agency “was looking into the matter.” And moreover, “WADA took the highly unusual action in 2023, of taking away three Athlete Biological Passport cases from it and handing them over to the relevant International Federations to deal with instead” and “imposed strict deadlines on CELAD for the rendering of a decision.”

❓Stripping of accreditation? National flag/anthem ban? Taking to court? Bar from competitions?

❌ Nothing of the kind. We understand, that’s different.

#wada #dopingcontrol #doublestandards

⚠️ Scandal in Italy as a video of a fascist rally which took place in Rome yesterday emerged on social media.

In the video, lines of men can be seen making Nazi salutes and shouting "present" three times as one of their number yelled "For all fallen comrades!" - a typical rallying cry at neo-fascist events.

👉 According to Reuters, the event marked the 46th anniversary of the killing of three neo-fascists in Via Acca Larentia, in southeast Rome. Two of them were gunned down by suspected far-left militants while the third was killed by police after a riot broke out shortly after the shooting.

💡Media report that such rallies in Rome are held annually, hence with the permission of authorities. Yet this time something went wrong.

☝️ Honouring a Nazi criminal in the parliament of Canada, now a fascist rally in a European capital… Is it a mere coincidence or is it the ‘brown plague’ raising its head all across the West?

#nazism #stopnazism #italy #fascistrally

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 UK Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps wrote on his X account: “The world has turned its back on Russia, forcing Putin into the humiliation of going cap in hand to North Korea to keep his illegal invasion going. In doing so Russia has broken multiple UNSC resolutions and put the security of another world region at risk. This must stop now. Together with our partners we’ll make sure North Korea pays a high price for supporting Russia.”

1. Is Grant Shapps about to tweet how many UNSC resolutions the UK has breached in the past 50 years? With its invasion of Iraq, for example.

2. What about the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)? Have the ministries in London worked it out? Also, I believe they should shed light on what happened to HMS Sheffield, which sank near the Falklands in 1982. Specifically, whether there were nuclear weapons on board. Let me remind you that in the photos of the Sheffield crew that survived the sinking, the crew members were, oddly enough, wearing radiation protection gear. At the time, Shapps’s predecessors at the Ministry of Defence denied the fact that the warships bound for the islands carried nuclear weapons. But 20 years later, similar to the situation with Iraq, London acknowledged its small lie. A very small one. Britain could no longer deny it and confirmed that the ships had indeed been carrying nuclear weapons in 1982. The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence stated that “the weapons were Type WE.177 nuclear depth charges;” they “never entered the territorial waters of the Falkland Islands.” “A decision was taken to transfer them to other ships heading back home.” This should be verified, don’t you think?

3. I understand that poor English education has become a signature mark of the British government. Shapps could perform a simple calculation and subtract the number of NATO countries from the countries representing the Global Majority. Unfortunately, it seems like he struggles with counting.

4. Britain was the largest colonial empire in human history, with its domain spanning across all populated continents. You can learn more about this in our history section and the white book reports about the crimes of the Anglo-Saxons and their allies.

And since Shapps’s jab was specifically about North Korea, I must mention the bloody war on the Korean Peninsula that Great Britain contributed to as part of the so-called UN forces.

Here is just a brief list of London’s modern-time neo-colonial campaigns: British ground and air forces participated, alongside the Americans, in the aggression against Yugoslavia and the destruction of Iraq (see par. 1) and its population, as well as Libya, Afghanistan, the bombing of Syria and most recently – the support for the Kiev regime provided by the Anglo-Saxons in violation of all resolutions on non-supplying lethal weapons to conflict zones.

There is one thing that Shapps got right: “This must stop now.”

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#Outcomes2023

⚡️On January 18 at 11 am, the Foreign Ministry Press Centre will host a news conference by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the 2023 Russian diplomacy results.

Russian and foreign media representatives are invited.

Accreditation is open until 12 noon on January 15.

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❓Do you know that… the first Russian nesting doll Matryoshka was made in 1890s?

🥉The novelty toy was exhibited in Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, where it won the bronze medal in the toy section.

🇷🇺 While the other toys remained unknown, the nesting dolls rose to popularity in a jiffy such that now it has become a national icon.

#FactOfTheDay #RussiaTriviaFacts #DiscoverRussia

The Odessa Theatre and Art College has dismissed an 82-year-old music and art history teacher for introducing students to the music of outstanding Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky best known for his ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.

👉 According to Ukrainian media, the teacher violated an order from the Ministry of Culture to boycott Tchaikovsky's music and works because "Russian culture is part of Russian state policy".

Meanwhile, the Kiev Ballet is touring France with The Nutcracker, and the Lvov Royal Ballet is doing the same in Poland and Germany.

❗️The corrupt Kiev regime is not ready to “cancel” Russian culture when it helps them to make huge profits.

The World Bank (WB) expects Russia's GDP to grow by 1.3% this year and 0.9% next year, according to the organisation's January Report on Global Economic Prospects.

📈According to the WB's calculations, the Russian economy grew by 2.6% in 2023.

Meanwhile, President of Russia 🇷🇺Vladimir Putin declared that the Russian economy grew by 3.5 percent last year.

💬 We have always noted with sadness that our main revenues come from oil and gas. For the first time in many years, the growth of processing industries in our economic structure far exceeds revenues from oil and gas. I think that oil and gas revenues grew three percent, while the processing industry has yielded many times more. This has never happened before. This indicates that we are undergoing structural changes in the economy. It is very important, the President of Russia has said.

#russia #russianeconomy #gdp #globaleconomicprospects

A ship with a humanitarian cargo of 23,000 tonnes of fertilizers sent by the 🇷🇺 Uralchem fertilizer producer group for Zimbabwe has arrived at the port of Beira in Mozambique.

The shipment for Zimbabwe became the 4th free-of-charge supply of fertilizers from the Uralchem group to Africa.

The company has already sent more than 100 thousand tons of fertilizers to the continent. Over 77 thousand tons of this volume were sent to Malawi 🇲🇼, Kenya 🇰🇪 and Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

☝️ In general, the Uralchem group intends to donate about 300 thousand tons of mineral fertilizers to developing countries.

#RussiaHelps

🇷🇺🇨🇳📞 On January 10, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke over the phone with Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China Wang Yi.

🤝 The Ministers summed up and spoke positively of the key outcomes of cooperation in 2023, expressing satisfaction with the high tempo of the political dialogue and practical cooperation, which are marked by stability and positive dynamics amid the global geopolitical instability.

They focused on the implementation of agreements reached at the top political level and highlighted the importance of Russian-Chinese strategic interaction to create a just multipolar international order and, in particular, to ensure that the foundations of Eurasian security are solid.

📈 They noted that bilateral trade and economic cooperation has successfully overcome external challenges, with Russia-China trade passing the $200 billion mark as of the end of the year.

Sergey Lavrov and Wang Yi touched on a number of priority items on the international agenda, including the Ukraine crisis, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the situation surrounding the Korean Peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region in general.

They underscored their rejection of the Western bloc’s confrontational policy towards Russia and China, and the attempts to hold back their development using sanctions, deliberate provocations and other illegitimate means.

☝️ They also noted the purely constructive nature of interaction between Moscow and Beijing within the #UN, the #SCO, #BRICS and other multilateral formats, which is not directed against third countries. The Chinese side expressed support for Russia’s BRICS chairmanship. The Ministers exchanged views on ways to facilitate China’s contacts with the #CIS.

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⚡️ Excerpts from the Statement by Russian Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on Ukraine, 10 January 2023

The West distinguishes between "important" civilians, whose deaths can be used to vilify one’s geopolitical rivals, and "unimportant" civilians, whose lives are seen as collateral damage and sometimes almost a "just sacrifice".

❗️This is a stunningly cynical and, in fact, pure colonial approach, which we have seen many times: in Africa, in the Middle East, and in Eastern Europe. Peaceful Gazans, Syrians, Libyans, Iraqis, Afghans, not to mention Russians and Ukrainians, are nothing more than faceless figures on death rolls.

⚠️ On 30 Dec 2023, in a fit of impotent rage, the Kiev regime, encouraged by British and American advisers, fired cluster munitions from MLRS at residential areas of the Russian city of Belgorod. The main blow fell on a Christmas fair where parents were at leisure with their children.

❗️Twenty-five people were killed, including five children, and more than 100 people were injured. There were no military facilities nearby, but that is exactly where Kiev was aiming.

❌ However, our Western colleagues did not utter a single word of regret. Do you realize that this is how you become responsible for these crimes?

👉 Targeted attacks against residential quarters of Russian cities of Donetsk, Belgorod, and Kursk continue.

What was the reaction in Russia?

☝️ President V.Putin said that Russia will not target areas where mothers take their babies for a walk to. “We hit with precision weapons their decision-making centers, places where military personnel and mercenaries are stationed, as well as other centers of this kind, military facilities." Russia does and will continue to strike Ukrainian military targets and infrastructure that support Kiev's military capacity.

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⚡️ The progress of Russia’s special military operation as of 11 January 2024.

Demilitarization of #Ukraine is under way.

#SMO #RussianArmedForces

@mod_russia

🎙 Foreign Minister Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the Copenhagen-format meeting in Davos on Ukraine

💬 On January 14, Davos, Switzerland, will be hosting the fourth Copenhagen-format meeting on Ukraine. Its organisers – Kiev and Bern.

The Kiev regime, together with the Group of Seven members, will once again use deceit in order to persuade the countries of the Global South and East to support the would-be peaceful proposals stemming from the so-called Zelensky formula, an infamously odious framework.

The Foreign Ministry has consistently criticised the Zelensky formula and the Copenhagen-format meetings designed to promote it for their shortcomings, hypocrisy and lack of connection to reality.

1️⃣ The Zelensky formula consists of a series of ultimatums targeting Russia. <…> Ultimatums of this kind cannot serve as a foundation for launching talks.

2️⃣ Ukraine has enacted a legal ban on holding talks with the Russian leadership. As long as this ban remains in place, discussing any proposals will not yield tangible results.

3️⃣ Discussing a settlement in Ukraine without involving Russia is senseless.

4️⃣ Kiev has been pushing the ultimatums contained in the Zelensky formula as the only possible solution with no room for alternatives. In doing so, Kiev and its masters have monopolised the right to put forward peace initiatives, effectively blocking all reasonable ideas from other countries, primarily from the Global South and East.

5️⃣ Zelensky has been bombing civilian sites with cluster munitions in Belgorod, Donetsk and other Russian cities, intentionally killing civilians, all while preparing the Davos meeting to discuss the prospects of a peace settlement.

All of this demonstrates the true intentions of the leadership in Kiev, Washington, London and Brussels.

❗️ We are convinced that our partners in Asia, Africa and Latin America fully understand the reality of the situation and will not allow themselves to be drawn into openly anti-Russian initiatives.

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