⚡️ The Ukrainian neo-Nazis continue their barbaric, indiscriminate shelling of civilians in the Russian regions.

Yesterday, they have again shelled Donetsk's busiest street in the Voroshylovsky district. The windows of the library building have been blown out. There are shards of glass, dust and scattered books everywhere. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

💬 We heard a big noise, a rumble, everyone flew out, and there was smoke. We have visitors, thank God the bullet did not hit anyone, said an employee of the library.

☝️ According to an official of the Russian Investigative Committee, the shelling was carried out by HIMARS MLRS. A check is being carried out at the scene, and shell fragments have been sent for examination.

❗️ Since the beginning of 2024,
58 people have been killed, 204 injured, and 390 houses have been destroyed in the DPR along.

Sevastopol has been developing at an advanced rate after 30 years of stagnation while in Ukraine:

✅ For the last few years, several facilities have been built in the city, incl a large modern outpatient clinic (the city has not seen such clinics since Soviet times), 4 kindergartens, 3 sports &. fitness centres.

✅The project to connect households to the gas distribution network is underway, although there are difficulties because the region has many nature reserves and protected areas.

✅ The Taurida motorway is almost complete.

✅ 52 cell towers have been built, leading to a substantial improvement in citywide communications.

✅ Education facilities, such as the Investigative Committee’s cadet school, are under development.

✅ Healthcare facilities are also undergoing renovation; 3,000 pieces of equipment worth 562 mln rubles (6,1 mln dollars) were purchased under national project.

#CrimeaIsRussia

Scott Ritter on the Navalny’s role in Russian politics: American democracy, when we promote democracy, it’s never about democracy, it’s about control.

💬 "And one of the ways they controlled was to look at the media and talk about how we have accuracy, how we fight disinformation, how we promote quality journalism and things of that nature.

But then, also anti-corruption is a big one, because anti-corruption allows you to create US vs THEM mentality that then can be exploited by media control and the whole idea is to shape the minds of the targeted audience and Navalny became a tool of this.

These anti-corruption campaigns were publicized by non-governmental organizations who were paid by the CIA and British intelligence to generate storylines that were anti-Russian."

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🗓 On February 21, the world marks International Mother Language Day, first proclaimed by the General Conference of UNESCO on November 17, 1999 & formally recognized by the UNGA Resolution 56/262 in 2002.

Russia is home to more than 190 ethnic groups, speaking more than 270 languages & dialects. In the State Ethnic Policy Strategy of the Russian Federation until 2025, state support & protection of the culture and languages of the peoples of our country is considered one of the main principles of the state ethnic policy:

🔹 Through legislation, Russia guarantees all its peoples equal rights to preserve & comprehensively develop their mother language & freedom to choose & use their language of communication. It recognises that all languages spoken in Russia have an equal right to preservation & development;

🔹 It is compulsory to study a mother language at primary & secondary schools;

🔹 The Law On Nomadic Schools was adopted, which made it possible to expand educational opportunities in an environment familiar to children of small indigenous peoples;

🔹 Centres for studying mother languages are being created in various regions of the country.

International Mother Language Day is intended to remind that language-based discrimination is unacceptable. Multilingualism is one of the main values of the UN & an important area of UNESCO’s activities.

❗️ Today, the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine & the Baltic states is being oppressed. Actions taken by the authorities of these states are aimed at eradicating the Russian language from all spheres of life despite the fact that it is the native language of many citizens. The Russian language is being systematically erased from the education & information space.

On December 10, the Ukrainian legislation adopted a law, which established total & indefinite discrimination against the Russian language in Ukraine. The Baltic States are pursuing a policy to completely expel the Russian language from their education systems in violation of international obligations.

🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin's speech at the opening ceremony for Games of the Future international tournament in Kazan.

💬 Vladimir Putin: I am glad to welcome to Russia the pioneers of phygital sports which is an innovative format that gave rise to the name to the competition. These are indeed the Games of the Future.

The blending of tradition and the modern age, the harmonising of physical fitness and high intellect, the integration of sports and technology, education and science – a person needs all that for well-rounded development and success in our era of rapid change, and the multifaceted, multipolar, free and competitive world that is taking shape before our eyes.

It makes perfect sense that the idea to merge conventional and e-sports was born in Russia.

☝️ Our country remains one of the leading sports powerhouses on the planet, the home of great athletes, victories and records. We have always championed sport and its lofty humanistic values.

#GamesOfTheFuture are our gift to the international sports family.

🎓 Russia is also a land of outstanding scientists, designers and engineers. Their achievements opened up new horizons of knowledge for humankind, and today our research teams and companies are scaling new heights in digital technologies and the use of artificial intelligence in areas that are at the leading edge of progress.

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✅ The Games of the Future is free from politics, as well as all discrimination and double standards. I am positive that the true spirit of sports will be on display at the Games venues.

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The international phygital tournament is a unique event in the modern history of international sports – which begins right here and now in Russia.

Godspeed!

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🗓 February 22 marks the 10th anniversary of the unconstitutional coup d'etat in Ukraine — an event, which led to an armed civil conflict, essentially a war waged by the Kiev regime against its own people, and a deepest crisis of international and European security since World War II.

10 years have passed since the tragic and horrible events of February 2014. The residing "authorities" in Kiev, aka the Kiev regime, and their Western sponsors are, as per their usual m.o., are attempting to distort the truth, conceal true facts, and turn the timeline of those events, their substance upside down.

❗️ But the truth is stubborn; it tends to get revealed sooner or later.

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On the origins of Ukrainian nationalism, the crimes of the OUN-UPA, and the support of the West

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The most horrific events unfolded on 20 February: the still unidentified snipers began shooting on the Institutskaya Street in the centre of Kiev at both law enforcement and protesters. Euromaidan supporters and Western politicians, seized "the opportunity", blamed the legitimate authorities of Ukraine. No evidence of Yanukovich's involvement was provided, and there is none to this day. Unlike, the Maidan activists & the opposition who benefited the most and was seen smuggling weapons into the area <...>

On 21 February, in an attempt to avoid further bloodshed, Yanukovych signed an Agreement on the Settlement of the Political Crisis in Ukraine with the opposition (from the opposition's side — Vitali Klitschko (UDAR party), Arseniy Yatsenyuk ("Fatherland"), and Oleg Tyagnybok ("Freedom")), which was supported and guaranteed by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland. This document envisaged the creation of a government of national trust, constitutional reform, and the organization of early presidential elections. None of the Agreement's provisions were implemented.

The next day, on February 22, the Supreme Council passed a resolution on Viktor Yanukovych's "self-removal" from performing the duties of the President of Ukraine, thereby usurping power (although he remained a legitimate president, remained in Ukraine and had made no statements regarding resignation). It was then announced that the "government of the victors (winner)" would be formed. The West turned a blind eye to all violations and hurried to declare a "change of power" in Ukraine, openly encouraging the putschists to pursue their anti-Russian policy. What ensued was basically a hunt for the remaining law enforcement officers and officials loyal to their oath and the country. <...> The very next day, the very first decision of the new "government" through the Verkhovnaya Rada was to revoke the law on the status of the Russian language, which according to data was back then the mother tongue of the majority (!) of the Ukrainian citizens.

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The "mediation" meddling of the West led to a sharp polarisation of Ukrainian society, which created the preconditions for an armed civil conflict. The first legislative steps of the "Maidan victors" — the abovementioned cancellation of the language law — were received with alarm in South-Eastern Ukraine, where spontaneous formation of popular militia forces began. Kiev immediately accused all the inhabitants of the region of "state treason" and "terrorism", threw the army and neo-Nazi punitive battalions to violently suppress the protests.

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‼️ "Euromaidan" created a deep rift in Ukrainian society, lead to persecution, fight against dissent, spread of nationalism and neo-Nazism, legal lawlessness and nihilism, fighting the Russian language and own history, complete degradation of the socio-economic situation in the country.

The terror and horror brought by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and nationalists in 2014 must be brought to an end. Denazification and demilitarisation will be achieved.

📖 Read more about these tragic events of 2014 in our article.

📄 Foreign Ministry Spox Maria Zakharova's comment on the crisis in Ukraine

Russia 🇷🇺 holds a leading position in gas production on the global market, being one of the largest countries in gas exports, and ranks first in the world in gas reserves.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said this at a plenary session of the Energy Day at the #RussiaExpo.

👉 Other important points by Alexander Novak:

🔹 Currently, there are 108 gas fields being developed in Russia.

🔹 About 180,000 km of gas pipelines are used for gas transportation.

🔹 A unique gas supply system has been established.

🔹 Gas production has increased by 30% in the last 20 years.

#MadeInRussia

#See4Yourself & #Think4Yourself

On the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Kiev, we recall the West's role in fuelling the conflict in Ukraine, its support for Ukrainian nationalists and their terrorist activities.

🎬 Operation Ukraine: America's Fingerprints. Who supports Ukrainian Nationalism? - an RT Doc Film.

Synopsis: Immediately after the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazis, American intelligence agencies established contacts with former Hitler collaborators to work together against the Soviet Union and later Russia. The operation to form an armed underground movement in Western Ukraine was dubbed "Aerodynamic".

The CIA assembled war criminals and Bandera movement activists from filtration camps, and created an agent network. Their task was to sabotage nuclear plants and dams on Ukrainian territory in an effort to separate it from the Soviet Union. According to CIA co-founder Frank Wisner, they terrorised civilians and were responsible for at least 35,000 casualties

In the early 1950s, Red Army units mostly wiped out the nationalist insurgency, however the CIA employed a new strategy. Since then Ukrainian nationalists have been engaged in an ideological anti-Russian war. The operation "Prolog" gradually stoked nationalist sentiment in Ukraine and bred loyalty to Nazi ideas.

What is the outcome of half-century-long American influence❓

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#LeastWeForget

✍ 📰 Article by Ambassador of Russia to South Africa Ilya Rogachev ‘February 2014 in Ukraine: Point of No Return’ (22 February 2024)

👉 Key points:

🔹The violent unconstitutional coup in Kiev on 22 February 2014 became the culmination of the so-called ‘Euromaidan’ supported from outside of Ukraine.

🔹Western masterminds of the coup applied ‘colour revolution’ technologies to escalate the violence, including the ‘unknown shooters’ who shoot the participants of the rallies on both sides, leaving over 50 dead.

🔹The opposition breached the agreements on the settlement signed with the President of Ukraine while European ‘guarantors’ of its implementation did nothing to put down the protesters.
☝Thus, hopes for political settlement of the crisis were ruined.

🔹Ukraine’s legitimate authorities were unconstitutionally toppled, the constitution itself was changed and new government appointed by acts contradicting then Ukraine’s legislation which is why the coup d’etat is qualified as such.

🔹Far-right organizations were incorporated into the newly formed governmental bodies of Ukraine.
❗The notorious neo-Nazi ‘Azov’ battalion became part of the National Guard of Ukraine.

🔹The new authorities kicked off an ‘anti-terrorist operation’ (ATO) against Donbass which did not recognize the new authorities. In light of the recent ruling of the International Court of Justice, the ATO comes across as none else but a war by the Kiev regime against Ukrainians.

👉 In February 2022, Russia came to stop this war.

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🇷🇺🇿🇦 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa Naledi Pandor hold talks on the sidelines of the G20 Ministerial

📍 Rio de Janeiro, February 22, 2024

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