Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: All of us are well aware of how the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was created. It was not just an initiative suggested by Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew. It was directly dictated by the United States.
Read full interview https://is.gd/NChwFO
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Министр иностранных дел С.В.Лавров: Мы все прекрасно знаем, как создавалась Православная церковь Украины (ПЦУ). Это не просто инициатива Константинопольского Патриарха Варфоломея. Она прямо продиктована США. Они по большому счету этого не скрывают.
Полное интервью https://is.gd/CD7AVj
#Russia #Lavrov #Ukraine #USA #RussianOrthodoxChurch

On August 2, the United States completed the withdrawal from the INF Treaty. Accordingly, this instrument ceased to have effect. The cause is however clear: the United States wanted to free itself from the existing restrictions.

This was not the first time Washington had acted this way. This misguided attitude can be traced back to the late 1990s and the decision by the United States to dismantle the ABM Treaty despite insistent calls by the international community not to do so.

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2 августа завершилась процедура выхода США из Договора о РСМД, в результате чего данное соглашение прекратило своё действие. Причина понятна: в США захотели избавиться от установленных им ограничений.

Вашингтон поступает так не в первый раз. Столь неадекватное поведение США уходит корнями в конец 1990-х годов, когда принималось решение о сломе Договора по ПРО, на который американская сторона пошла вопреки настойчивым призывам со стороны мирового сообщества.

#Russia #USA #NATO #armscontrol #globalsecurity #inftreaty

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: We consider the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty, that entailed its termination, as a serious mistake, which increases the risks of triggering a missile arms race, rise of confrontational potential and sliding into an uncontrolled escalation.

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Президент России Владимир Путин: Считаем выход США из Договора о РСМД, в результате чего он прекратил свое действие, серьезной ошибкой, которая усиливает риски развязывания гонки ракетных вооружений, роста конфронтационного потенциала и скатывания к неконтролируемой эскалации.

#Russia #USA #NATO #armscontrol #globalsecurity #nonproliferation #armsrace #armedforces #inftreaty

A.Bikantov of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the alleged Russia’s responsibility for the ‘Havana syndrome’ affecting US diplomats:

The invented stories on psy-rays are beyond common sense. Clearly, the Western tabloids’ love of conspiracy theories is ineradicable. We would recommend that quality media outlets avoid this shaky ground, otherwise they will soon begin accusing Russia of controlling solar eclipses and snowfall.

Read more https://is.gd/BEw9U4

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Заместитель директора ДИП МИД России А.Бикантов о якобы причастности России к появлению "гаванского синдрома" у американских дипломатов:

Выдумки про какие-то «пси-лучи» – это за гранью здравого смысла. Понятно, что любовь западной бульварной прессы к конспирологии неискоренима. Советовали бы качественным медиа избегать этого зыбкого поля. Иначе в следующий раз русских придется обвинять в солнечных затмениях или снегопадах.

Подробнее https://is.gd/xIDog6

#Russia #USA #HavanaSyndrome

Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia on the situation in Afghanistan: We believe that there is no point in panicking. Most importantly, a widespread bloodbath among civilians has been avoided. We call on all Afghan parties to refrain from hostilities and foster a settlement by peaceful means.

https://is.gd/vZqVq8

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Постоянный представитель России при ООН Василий Небензя о ситуации в Афганистане: Полагаем, что поддаваться паническим настроениям не стоит. Важно, что удалось избежать массового кровопролития среди гражданского населения. Призываем все вовлеченные афганские стороны воздерживаться от вооруженных действий и содействовать урегулированию мирным путем.

https://is.gd/itAcuq

#Russia #Afghanistan #Kabul #Taliban #USA

⚡️ The US has announced a new $175 million military aid package for the Nazi Kiev regime.

‼️ And later, Ukrainian neo-Nazis will shell civilians in Donbass and other Russian regions using the Western weaponry.

#kievregimecrimes #weaponry #usa #neonazism

🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the 21st Doha Forum

📍10 December 2023:

💬 On the basis of five hundred years, the US and its allies built the model of globalization, which they believed would serve them well to continue to be number one in economy, in military exercises, in culture, politics, and so on and so forth.

And they thought that they would be using this globalization scheme to continue their domination.

#lavrov #west #usa #globalization

⚠️ NATO member states continue to intensively arm Ukraine.

There are now plans to provide the Armed Forces of Ukraine with F-16 tactical fighter aircraft. They have been discussing these deliveries for a long time, and a “coalition” of countries, due to transfer the aircraft to the Kiev regime and train Ukrainian pilots, has been established.

☝️ Considering the fact that a substantial part of Ukraine’s airfield infrastructure has been destroyed, these US fighters might be deployed outside the country, that is, in Poland, Slovakia or Romania.

👉 Consequently, NATO is becoming mired in the Ukraine conflict. It is conducting a hybrid war against Russia under the slogan of “saving” Ukraine.

❗️ For its part, the Russian Armed Forces will see any fighter aircraft involved in the conflict on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as legitimate targets for destruction, no matter where the planes take off.

#F16 #NATO #Ukraine #USA

🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the 21st Doha Forum (10 December 2023):

💬 I mentioned the phenomenon of "cancel culture".

☝️ It's not a war of choice. It's the operation which we could not avoid given the years of Ukraine being prepared by the United States and NATO as an instrument to undermine Russia's security.

#russia #lavrov #ukraine #usa #nato

🇷🇺 President of Russia Vladimir Putin on the US role in undermining international stability and security:

💬 The United States has destroyed the fundamental documents that underpinned international stability and security.

☝️ We did not withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which was a cornerstone, or the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
Many elements in the foundation of international stability have been destroyed in recent years. Nothing of this was done by us. All of this was done by the US.

❓What were we supposed to do? Only to take note and respond to those actions.

👉 And so we did. We successfully invented systems to overcome antimissile defences, such as intercontinental Avangards, hypersonic gliding blocks, or intercontinental-range ballistic missile technology to break through missile defense systems, and some other things, too. We were forced to do this.

☝️ However, the issue of creating a legal framework for international security and strategic stability is still on our to-do list.

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#InternationalStability #USA #Russia

Question: Which country is the worst enemy for Ukraine: Russia or the USA?

American professor Jeffrey Sachs: USA!

💬 Because America, with sweet speeches, led Ukraine to disaster.

We told the Ukrainian leaders lots of the fairy tales about how they would going to join NATO and then live happily ever after. This was a great illusion that we sold to Ukraine not for the sake of Ukraine, but for the sake of US aggressive foreign policy.

#TheyAboutUs #USA #Ukraine

🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin on the Washington’s efforts to escalate tensions with Russia:

Today, we are paying increasing attention to Washington’s efforts to escalate tensions in connection with the flights by Russian strategic aircraft.

☝️ Just to remind you, Russian strategic missile carriers have not performed any air patrols far from our borders since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia thought this was no longer needed, with the world having changed and the Cold War becoming a thing of the past.

However, the United States chose to ignore this unilateral gesture of goodwill and continued patrolling the space in the proximity of our borders.

❗️ So, since 2007, we have resumed such flights as a response to the increased activity from US strategic and reconnaissance aircraft in the regions that we believe are sensitive for us. The move has aimed, among other things, to ensure security in the Asia-Pacific region.

#NationalSecurity #Russia #USA

A Japanese boy brought his younger brother's body to be cremated after the nuclear bombing: A photo that has come to symbolize the inhumanity of the US atomic strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

#USA #NuclearStrikes #Hiroshima #Nagasaki

🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview to the newspaper "Arguments and Facts" (October 21, 2024)

Key Points:

#BRICS

• BRICS epitomises the shifts that have long been underway in the global economy. New centres of economic growth are emerging, and alongside them comes financial influence, which in turn brings political influence.

• BRICS is a consortium where no single nation leads or is led, devoid of the bureaucratic machinery akin to that observed in Brussels, where EU officials impose decisions that contravene the will and interests of several member states, failing to align with the aspirations of voters across many countries.

• BRICS does not stand in opposition to any entity, nor does it orchestrate operations or initiate projects. BRICS is committed to enhancing the combined potential of its nations and devising collaborative strategies for harnessing these potentials for mutual benefit.

• What makes BRICS and other World Majority or Global East associations that do not include Western countries stand out, is that they are not created for the purpose of struggling or fighting with anyone. They are established to collectively benefit from their competitive advantages such as geographical location, shared history, cultural and humanitarian proximity <...>.

#USA

• The US is unwilling to relinquish the reins of power that they have held since World War II through the Bretton Woods institutions and through the role assigned to the US dollar in the international monetary system, even after free exchange of US dollars for gold had been cancelled.

• The key goal of the US ruling class is to make sure no one can undermine their dominance. This goal is illusory. The historical process is objectively heading in a different direction, and this has to be reckoned with.

• We are ready to interact with any administration voted in by the American people, but only if such a dialogue is mutually respectful, and both parties listen and hear what the other party has to say.

#Ukraine

• On multiple occasions, European leaders from Brussels have repeatedly made it clear that they must support Ukraine for as long as it takes, because Ukraine is fighting for the European values.

• It turns out that European leaders are still willing to uphold Nazi values, which is why denazification is not just a motto, but an objective of utmost importance.

#UN

• The United Nations is not a valiant knight expected to “charge in and extinguish the fire” upon witnessing injustice. The UN is an assembly of its member states, each with established rules, including the Security Council's veto rights. The United States has effectively exercised this right five times over the past year, blocking a resolution proposed by several countries, including Russia, demanding an immediate ceasefire. <...> Presently, the United States is taking every measure to avoid antagonising Israel.

• Nations such as India, Brazil, and African representatives should have long held permanent seats on the Security Council. This is essential to ensure representation of the World Majority.

#Finland #Sweden #NATO

• The zeal that the Finns and Swedes are showing in NATO, advocating for defeating Russia, is not only rooted in their historical instincts. They are also eager to show their Big Brothers in the North Atlantic Alliance that they have brought added value <...>.

• I am confident that reasonable people in Europe, who have learned the lessons taught by history, see this too, including in Finland and Sweden.

#Europe

• To reiterate, the so-called right-wing conservatives are loyal to their countries and their people. We will engage with anyone who approaches us with a proposal to talk, to seek common ground, and to think about how we can jointly make the lives of our citizens better.

#EurasianSecurity

• We suggest discussing the Eurasian continent-wide security architecture, emphasising the fact that its doors will be open to everyone, including countries from the West of the Eurasian continent.

Read in full (Telegraph)

🇺🇸❗️According to several experts, Native American peoples face socio-economic inequality and a marked income gap. Only 15 per cent of them have a bachelor's degree or higher. Such indicators lead to the following negative social consequences: crime, alcoholism, high unemployment (11.1 per cent as of January 2022) and suicides (50.9 cases per 100,000 people, which is four times the national average (or 700 per cent higher)).

☝️ The current US law contains a number of requirements that in practice discriminate against members of Native American communities. Among such examples is the lack of residence addresses of Indians living on reservations, due to which they face denial of registration as voters. In addition, the long distance between polling stations and their places of residence affects the exercise of indigenous peoples' voting rights. Hence, many members of indigenous communities refuse to take part in elections.

📖 Read the REPORT on the indigenous peoples rights situation in certain countries by the Russian Foreign Ministry

#USA #indigenous

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Marina Kim for the New World project (Moscow, November 14, 2024)

Key talking points:

#InternationalAffairs

• Our main task now is to achieve all the goals formulated by President Vladimir Putin. You are aware of the West’s expectations. They are speculating about stopping the hostilities at a certain line and coordinating a truce, so that 10 years from now they will decide who Crimea and Donbass belong to. This is coffee cup reading. I won’t engage in it. We have our tasks, and we will fulfil them.

• Our job is to assert and promote Russia’s interests in keeping with its Constitution as well as the objectives defined by President Vladimir Putin. This goes beyond Ukraine and applies to Russia’s Foreign Policy Concept in general.

#USA

• Washington can’t allow Russia to prove that it is a strong player and undermine the West’s reputation. They don’t care about Ukraine. They only care about their reputation. They decided that Ukraine should have a government they like and didn’t expect anyone to protest. Russia? It’s a big country but it must be brought down a peg. That is what this is about rather than the future of the Ukrainian people. They don’t care about people.

• Sanctions have been imposed on over half of the world’s countries, even if they are not as drastic as those that have been adopted against Russia, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran and Venezuela. The real reason behind the West’s current rage is that China is rapidly and confidently surging ahead of the United States.

• We can see through what the Americans want. Sitting somewhere overseas, they believe that they are beyond the reach, while leaving it to Europe to overcome the challenges they face in terms of encouraging and arming Ukraine to fight Russia, as well as footing the bill for the Middle East tragedy.

#Eurasia4You

• God gave us one continent, and we share it. This continent possesses immense and, in fact, the biggest natural resources, while several millennia-old civilisations inhabit it. Failing to benefit from these competitive advantages would be a mistake. This is what the idea of building a Greater Eurasian Partnership is all about, and the EAEU, SCO and ASEAN have already taken the first steps in this direction. We are establishing ties and promoting dialogue. If we succeed in fulfilling the plans we have, the Greater Eurasian Partnership will offer a solid foundation and serve as an economic and transport backbone for what President Vladimir Putin called a new Eurasian security architecture.

• There is a clear understanding that the Eurasian security architecture, just like the Greater Eurasian Partnership, must be open to all countries and continents, including Eurasia’s western part, even if so far the latter has been trying, as if by inertia, to ensure its interests within a Euro-Atlantic security concept instead of opting for the Eurasian framework, which would be natural and reasonable, considering the geography factor. This is their way of saying that they do not intend to do anything without the United States.

#BRICS

🌐 BRICS is about the new world order that is based on the main principle of the UN Charter – the sovereign equality of states.

• BRICS has no intention of dividing the world. It wants to bring together countries that desire closer relations so that they can live on the land they got from God and their ancestors just as they used to, as great civilisations.

#Africa

🌍 Decolonisation has taken place, in a broad sense. But being able to actually manage one’s freedom and resources is a different story. This is where neo-colonialism comes to the fore.

• The First Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in Sochi, and the Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg in 2023 clearly put into perspective the trends that could be called Africa’s second awakening.