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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...
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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...
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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.