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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 23, 2023
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 NATO and EU military supplies to Ukraine
🔹 Monks of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church evicted from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra
🔹 The recent decisions by the International Criminal Court and questions asked in this connection
🔹 The anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia
🔹 Hearings on MH17 plane crash
And much more.
📚Read in full: https://is.gd/Z7sLtU
Talking points:
#Ukraine
The decision to evict the monks of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, approved by Ukraine’s political leadership, is the peak of Kiev’s years-long anti-church policy.
These actions violate at least a dozen universally recognised international legal documents on the freedom of belief.
#ICC
The ICC discredited itself long ago. It carries out political orders of its sponsors. It is also clear who these sponsors are. They are the Western countries. This has nothing to do with justice.
Russia does not cooperate with the International Criminal Court, nor will it ever do so, despite calls we are hearing from them.
#DepletedUranium
The UK decision to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium munitions, show that neither Kiev nor its Western handlers are interested in resolving the conflict.
They do not care what their scorched-earth tactics are doing to Ukraine. They’re now turning it into a source of radiation pollution.
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 NATO and EU military supplies to Ukraine
🔹 Monks of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church evicted from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra
🔹 The recent decisions by the International Criminal Court and questions asked in this connection
🔹 The anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia
🔹 Hearings on MH17 plane crash
And much more.
📚Read in full: https://is.gd/Z7sLtU
Talking points:
#Ukraine
The decision to evict the monks of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, approved by Ukraine’s political leadership, is the peak of Kiev’s years-long anti-church policy.
These actions violate at least a dozen universally recognised international legal documents on the freedom of belief.
#ICC
The ICC discredited itself long ago. It carries out political orders of its sponsors. It is also clear who these sponsors are. They are the Western countries. This has nothing to do with justice.
Russia does not cooperate with the International Criminal Court, nor will it ever do so, despite calls we are hearing from them.
#DepletedUranium
The UK decision to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium munitions, show that neither Kiev nor its Western handlers are interested in resolving the conflict.
They do not care what their scorched-earth tactics are doing to Ukraine. They’re now turning it into a source of radiation pollution.
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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 30, 2023
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 Food exports to the EU
🔹 The trail of the International Criminal Court’s decisions
🔹 Parliamentary elections in the Republic of Cuba
🔹 Day of Unity between the Peoples of Russia and Belarus
🔹 Outcomes of the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board meeting
🔹 Russia set to assume presidency of the UN Security Council in April 2023
And much more.
📚 Read in full
Talking points:
#BlackSeaInitiative
According to the statistics of the Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul, as of March 22 of this year, more than 25 million tonnes of grain and related foodstuffs had been exported from Ukraine.
Who was the main recipient of these products? Needy countries? No, it’s not them. The biggest recipient of the goods is the European Union (41 percent of the total exports).
The Western countries and companies started with the high standards and lofty words about helping the needy and starving and have come all the way to downright stealing. This makes perfect sense for imperialists and the way they treat their colonies.
#ICC
It is clear that the ICC Prosecutor and judges obediently follow the line laid down by their Western sponsors.
This body will never investigate real crimes. We will wait in vain for an investigation into crimes committed in Iraq, where the death toll among peaceful civilians reached hundreds of thousands, and in Afghanistan, where a lot of civilians died as well.
#IOC
Unfortunately, the IOC and other international institutions where US satellites and other officials controlled by Washington have entrenched themselves have had no qualms hiding behind their would-be commitment to ensuring that the 2024 Olympics are held in peace, all while seeking to divide athletes in terms of their political loyalties.
The effort to harass Russian athletes, our teams and coaches for all these years can be lethal for the honest principles of the Olympic movement.
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 Food exports to the EU
🔹 The trail of the International Criminal Court’s decisions
🔹 Parliamentary elections in the Republic of Cuba
🔹 Day of Unity between the Peoples of Russia and Belarus
🔹 Outcomes of the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board meeting
🔹 Russia set to assume presidency of the UN Security Council in April 2023
And much more.
📚 Read in full
Talking points:
#BlackSeaInitiative
According to the statistics of the Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul, as of March 22 of this year, more than 25 million tonnes of grain and related foodstuffs had been exported from Ukraine.
Who was the main recipient of these products? Needy countries? No, it’s not them. The biggest recipient of the goods is the European Union (41 percent of the total exports).
The Western countries and companies started with the high standards and lofty words about helping the needy and starving and have come all the way to downright stealing. This makes perfect sense for imperialists and the way they treat their colonies.
#ICC
It is clear that the ICC Prosecutor and judges obediently follow the line laid down by their Western sponsors.
This body will never investigate real crimes. We will wait in vain for an investigation into crimes committed in Iraq, where the death toll among peaceful civilians reached hundreds of thousands, and in Afghanistan, where a lot of civilians died as well.
#IOC
Unfortunately, the IOC and other international institutions where US satellites and other officials controlled by Washington have entrenched themselves have had no qualms hiding behind their would-be commitment to ensuring that the 2024 Olympics are held in peace, all while seeking to divide athletes in terms of their political loyalties.
The effort to harass Russian athletes, our teams and coaches for all these years can be lethal for the honest principles of the Olympic movement.
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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, April 12, 2023
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 The 240th anniversary of Crimea’s incorporation into Russia
🔹 An armed incident on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan
🔹 Saudi Arabia receives SCO dialogue partner status
🔹 World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day
And much more.
📚 Read in full
Talking points:
#Ukraine
There is no end to Western countries pumping weapons into Ukraine, demanding that Ukraine continue fighting, disregarding the victims. The Anglo-Saxons aren’t hiding the fact that a truce is unacceptable to them (while insisting and reiterating that they are not a party to the conflict). They are expecting Kiev to take decisive steps and be ready for a bloody massacre “to the last Ukrainian.”
The Ukrainian army and foreign mercenaries are using weapons supplied by the West to destroy the civilian populations of the DPR, LPR, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, including women and children. Ukrainian artillery carries out regular strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is being shelled with all the ensuing threats of a nuclear catastrophe.
#SCO
Saudi Arabia has completed the necessary procedures under a memorandum on granting SCO dialogue partner status to Riyadh. This has become yet another step to consolidate the entire potential for joint, mutually beneficial and safe development, for strengthening connectivity in a vast region where countries of the SCO Family are located.
In turn, Russia reaffirms its readiness to actively assist Saudi Arabia and other SCO dialogue partners in exploring the opportunities provided by the SCO for confident and stable national development.
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 The 240th anniversary of Crimea’s incorporation into Russia
🔹 An armed incident on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan
🔹 Saudi Arabia receives SCO dialogue partner status
🔹 World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day
And much more.
📚 Read in full
Talking points:
#Ukraine
There is no end to Western countries pumping weapons into Ukraine, demanding that Ukraine continue fighting, disregarding the victims. The Anglo-Saxons aren’t hiding the fact that a truce is unacceptable to them (while insisting and reiterating that they are not a party to the conflict). They are expecting Kiev to take decisive steps and be ready for a bloody massacre “to the last Ukrainian.”
The Ukrainian army and foreign mercenaries are using weapons supplied by the West to destroy the civilian populations of the DPR, LPR, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, including women and children. Ukrainian artillery carries out regular strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is being shelled with all the ensuing threats of a nuclear catastrophe.
#SCO
Saudi Arabia has completed the necessary procedures under a memorandum on granting SCO dialogue partner status to Riyadh. This has become yet another step to consolidate the entire potential for joint, mutually beneficial and safe development, for strengthening connectivity in a vast region where countries of the SCO Family are located.
In turn, Russia reaffirms its readiness to actively assist Saudi Arabia and other SCO dialogue partners in exploring the opportunities provided by the SCO for confident and stable national development.
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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, April 27, 2023)
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 #BlackSeaInitiative
🔹 On FM Sergey Lavrov tour to #LatinAmerica
🔹 On FM Sergey Lavrov visit to UN headquarters in New York
🔹 Russian MFA report on the human rights situation in Ukraine
🔹 Russian Embassy staff expelled from Sweden
🔹 Events scheduled for World Press Freedom Day
And much more...
📚 Read in full
Talking points:
#Ukraine
The West says openly that they will do everything possible to facilitate a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive, supposedly due to begin in the near future. They are not hiding the fact that they are behind all these plans. They have repeatedly noted their involvement in tactical target acquisition, and now they are creating a strategic disposition.
Representatives from the “collective West” are also demanding openly that Russia sustain the maximum possible losses. So, they are reaffirming their direct involvement in the conflict once again.
#BlackSeaInitiative
Russia extended it for only 60 days, arguing that it did not consider its implementation as satisfactory. We made our position clear. We received a package of proposals from the UN Secretary-General addressed to President of Russia Vladimir Putin on the development, implementation and further progress of the Black Sea initiative.
All of this will be thoroughly analysed. The decision will be made based on the results of interdepartmental study.
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 #BlackSeaInitiative
🔹 On FM Sergey Lavrov tour to #LatinAmerica
🔹 On FM Sergey Lavrov visit to UN headquarters in New York
🔹 Russian MFA report on the human rights situation in Ukraine
🔹 Russian Embassy staff expelled from Sweden
🔹 Events scheduled for World Press Freedom Day
And much more...
📚 Read in full
Talking points:
#Ukraine
The West says openly that they will do everything possible to facilitate a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive, supposedly due to begin in the near future. They are not hiding the fact that they are behind all these plans. They have repeatedly noted their involvement in tactical target acquisition, and now they are creating a strategic disposition.
Representatives from the “collective West” are also demanding openly that Russia sustain the maximum possible losses. So, they are reaffirming their direct involvement in the conflict once again.
#BlackSeaInitiative
Russia extended it for only 60 days, arguing that it did not consider its implementation as satisfactory. We made our position clear. We received a package of proposals from the UN Secretary-General addressed to President of Russia Vladimir Putin on the development, implementation and further progress of the Black Sea initiative.
All of this will be thoroughly analysed. The decision will be made based on the results of interdepartmental study.
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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, May 3, 2023)
🔷 Meeting of the #SCO Foreign Ministers Council
🔷 #Sudan
🔷 #UkraineCrisis
🔷 #NordStream
🔷 Mass riots during Labour Day celebrations in France on May 1, 2023
🔷 Russian film festival in Laos
🔷 The Russian Language Centre in the Republic of Cameroon #RussiaCameroon
🔷 International sport cooperation
And much more...
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Talking points:
#Ukraine #Terrorism
Stripping people of their basic right - the right to life - the Kiev regime continues to shell peaceful Russian cities.
Donetsk, which suffered the most during nine years of Kiev's aggression against the Russian-speaking people of Donbass, is seriously affected by the bombing attacks. There are daily reports about the Armed Forces of Ukraine killing children, women, and elderly people. This in no way diminishes the value of the lives or detracts from the loss of lives of men who are defending Donbass.
The developments in Ukraine once again show the timeliness of the special military operation, which, as the Russian leadership has said, will continue and its goals and objectives will be fulfilled.
#France #PoliceBrutality
I have no intention of interfering in the domestic affairs of France. I will emphasise for the second time that this is not in the tradition of Russian diplomacy. I am just wondering how justified Paris’s regular lectures to various sovereign states are amid such an acute socio-political confrontation and an actual split in French society.
I am not talking about Russia alone although the Elysee Palace is constantly trying to teach us something in public, on social media or at the platforms of international agencies. Every state goes through its own path of development. This is a historical process. It overcomes crises proceeding from its own national interests, traditions and peculiarities. This must evoke respect. To have respect it is necessary to understand this.
🔷 Meeting of the #SCO Foreign Ministers Council
🔷 #Sudan
🔷 #UkraineCrisis
🔷 #NordStream
🔷 Mass riots during Labour Day celebrations in France on May 1, 2023
🔷 Russian film festival in Laos
🔷 The Russian Language Centre in the Republic of Cameroon #RussiaCameroon
🔷 International sport cooperation
And much more...
📚 Read in full
Talking points:
#Ukraine #Terrorism
Stripping people of their basic right - the right to life - the Kiev regime continues to shell peaceful Russian cities.
Donetsk, which suffered the most during nine years of Kiev's aggression against the Russian-speaking people of Donbass, is seriously affected by the bombing attacks. There are daily reports about the Armed Forces of Ukraine killing children, women, and elderly people. This in no way diminishes the value of the lives or detracts from the loss of lives of men who are defending Donbass.
The developments in Ukraine once again show the timeliness of the special military operation, which, as the Russian leadership has said, will continue and its goals and objectives will be fulfilled.
#France #PoliceBrutality
I have no intention of interfering in the domestic affairs of France. I will emphasise for the second time that this is not in the tradition of Russian diplomacy. I am just wondering how justified Paris’s regular lectures to various sovereign states are amid such an acute socio-political confrontation and an actual split in French society.
I am not talking about Russia alone although the Elysee Palace is constantly trying to teach us something in public, on social media or at the platforms of international agencies. Every state goes through its own path of development. This is a historical process. It overcomes crises proceeding from its own national interests, traditions and peculiarities. This must evoke respect. To have respect it is necessary to understand this.
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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, May 10, 2023)
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #SCO Foreign Ministers Council meeting
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 #VictoryDay #Victory78
🔹 Dismantling a monument of gratitude to the Red Army in Poland
🔹 The Baltic authorities’ attempts to prevent May 9 celebrations
🔹 Situation in Pakistan
And much more...
📚 Read in full
Talking points:
#Ukraine
Before May 9, Vladimir Zelensky cancelled Victory Day, which the majority of Ukrainian citizens hold sacred, and declared Europe Day instead. <...> By taking this decision, Vladimir Zelensky has cast a shadow over the feat accomplished by millions of Ukrainians and betrayed the memory of those who stood up to defend this land from a fascist Europe.
History develops in cycles. Eighty years after the rout of Nazism, we are again fighting this horror reborn in the West and Ukraine. This time, the enemy has tried to set against us a certain part of the population in the originally Russian areas by inculcating in them the idea of ethnic superiority. The memory of our fallen ancestors cannot allow us to let the neo-Nazis in Ukraine gain the upper hand. The declared goals are important as never before. As the Russian leadership said, they would be implemented.
#Pakistan
We are closely monitoring the situation in Pakistan following the May 9 arrest of Imran Khan, former prime minister and chairman of Pakistan’s largest opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice), on corruption charges. We are seriously concerned about media reports of violent attacks by protesters on police and miliary facilities in the country.
We call on the sides to settle their differences peacefully. We hope that the large-scale protests will be held without major clashes and that the situation will normalise soon.
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #SCO Foreign Ministers Council meeting
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 #VictoryDay #Victory78
🔹 Dismantling a monument of gratitude to the Red Army in Poland
🔹 The Baltic authorities’ attempts to prevent May 9 celebrations
🔹 Situation in Pakistan
And much more...
📚 Read in full
Talking points:
#Ukraine
Before May 9, Vladimir Zelensky cancelled Victory Day, which the majority of Ukrainian citizens hold sacred, and declared Europe Day instead. <...> By taking this decision, Vladimir Zelensky has cast a shadow over the feat accomplished by millions of Ukrainians and betrayed the memory of those who stood up to defend this land from a fascist Europe.
History develops in cycles. Eighty years after the rout of Nazism, we are again fighting this horror reborn in the West and Ukraine. This time, the enemy has tried to set against us a certain part of the population in the originally Russian areas by inculcating in them the idea of ethnic superiority. The memory of our fallen ancestors cannot allow us to let the neo-Nazis in Ukraine gain the upper hand. The declared goals are important as never before. As the Russian leadership said, they would be implemented.
#Pakistan
We are closely monitoring the situation in Pakistan following the May 9 arrest of Imran Khan, former prime minister and chairman of Pakistan’s largest opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice), on corruption charges. We are seriously concerned about media reports of violent attacks by protesters on police and miliary facilities in the country.
We call on the sides to settle their differences peacefully. We hope that the large-scale protests will be held without major clashes and that the situation will normalise soon.
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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, May 17, 2023)
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 #Gagauzia #Moldova
🔹 #Azerbaijan #Armenia
🔹 Armed attack on humanitarian relief convoy in #Myanmar
🔹 #RussiaFinland
🔹 #UNESCO
🔹 Report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the events in #Mali
🔹 Ongoing discrimination against Russian athletes
🔹 Desecration of monuments to Soviet soldiers in #Bulgaria
And much more...
📚 Read in full
Talking points:
#Ukraine
The West has made its role in the conflict abundantly clear: Ukraine serves merely as a tool and Ukrainians as pawns it is ready to sacrifice in its standoff with Russia. The West has sacrificed literally everything on the altar of its morbid geopolitical ambitions. They are “exceptional”. Only they can govern everyone. Nobody has the right to take independent decisions, be it domestic affairs or foreign policy. The previous times of colonialism and imperialism have not receded into the past but rather are being converted to a modern format.
#UNESCO
In its commitment to confrontation, the collective West continues intentionally undermining mechanisms underpinning interstate relations and ignoring the diplomatic norms by using all kinds of dirty tricks. Paris followed in the footsteps of Washington by adopting bad visa practices. As a country hosting the UNESCO Headquarters, France failed to issue visas on time to several Russian representatives, preventing them from attending the 216th Session of the UNESCO Executive Board. Visa-related incidents of this kind with their obvious political bias are becoming a regular occurrence. By doing this, Paris has intentionally failed to honour its obligations as a host country.
🔹 FM Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 #Gagauzia #Moldova
🔹 #Azerbaijan #Armenia
🔹 Armed attack on humanitarian relief convoy in #Myanmar
🔹 #RussiaFinland
🔹 #UNESCO
🔹 Report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the events in #Mali
🔹 Ongoing discrimination against Russian athletes
🔹 Desecration of monuments to Soviet soldiers in #Bulgaria
And much more...
📚 Read in full
Talking points:
#Ukraine
The West has made its role in the conflict abundantly clear: Ukraine serves merely as a tool and Ukrainians as pawns it is ready to sacrifice in its standoff with Russia. The West has sacrificed literally everything on the altar of its morbid geopolitical ambitions. They are “exceptional”. Only they can govern everyone. Nobody has the right to take independent decisions, be it domestic affairs or foreign policy. The previous times of colonialism and imperialism have not receded into the past but rather are being converted to a modern format.
#UNESCO
In its commitment to confrontation, the collective West continues intentionally undermining mechanisms underpinning interstate relations and ignoring the diplomatic norms by using all kinds of dirty tricks. Paris followed in the footsteps of Washington by adopting bad visa practices. As a country hosting the UNESCO Headquarters, France failed to issue visas on time to several Russian representatives, preventing them from attending the 216th Session of the UNESCO Executive Board. Visa-related incidents of this kind with their obvious political bias are becoming a regular occurrence. By doing this, Paris has intentionally failed to honour its obligations as a host country.