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⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA Spokeswoman
Ukrainian FM Kuleba: “Russian FM Lavrov spreads disinfo by falsely alleging Ukraine wants to restore its nuclear arsenal. Once again: This is a cynical, blatant lie by Russia who itself fires at nuclear facilities in Ukraine. Safe zones must be established around them to prevent disaster in Europe.”
💬 #Zakharova: Just look at what kind of turncoats they are! Simply read their statements, read what the Ukrainian leadership has been saying publicly. There was also more said, behind the scenes.
This is how it goes:
💬 Secretary of the National Security Council Alexander Turchinov, April 2018:
“With all these events behind us, we can draw a conclusion that few will like. Giving up nuclear weapons was our historical mistake. The security guarantees are not even worth the paper on which they were written.”
💬 Head of the Servant of the People parliamentary group Davyd Arakhamia, July 29, 2021:
“I think that Kravchuk made a fatal mistake by getting rid of nuclear weapons after signing a meaningless memorandum. Basically, this mistake has been haunting us ever since. It dwarfs all the other mistakes by all other presidents. Had we been a nuclear power, everyone would have talked to us and sought to reach agreements in a different manner.”
💬 President Vladimir Zelensky, February 19, 2022:
“Since 2014, Ukraine has made three attempts to convene consultations of guarantor countries under the Budapest Memorandum. All three failed. Today, Ukraine is making its fourth attempt, which is my first attempt as President. Make no mistake, this is the last try for me, and for Ukraine. I am seeking to initiate consultations under the Budapest Memorandum, and instructed the Foreign Minister to convene the them. If they do not take place yet again or do not result in security guarantees for our state, Ukraine will have the right to view the Budapest Memorandum as a dead letter, which calls into question the entire package of decisions adopted in 1994.”
Ukrainian FM Kuleba: “Russian FM Lavrov spreads disinfo by falsely alleging Ukraine wants to restore its nuclear arsenal. Once again: This is a cynical, blatant lie by Russia who itself fires at nuclear facilities in Ukraine. Safe zones must be established around them to prevent disaster in Europe.”
💬 #Zakharova: Just look at what kind of turncoats they are! Simply read their statements, read what the Ukrainian leadership has been saying publicly. There was also more said, behind the scenes.
This is how it goes:
💬 Secretary of the National Security Council Alexander Turchinov, April 2018:
“With all these events behind us, we can draw a conclusion that few will like. Giving up nuclear weapons was our historical mistake. The security guarantees are not even worth the paper on which they were written.”
💬 Head of the Servant of the People parliamentary group Davyd Arakhamia, July 29, 2021:
“I think that Kravchuk made a fatal mistake by getting rid of nuclear weapons after signing a meaningless memorandum. Basically, this mistake has been haunting us ever since. It dwarfs all the other mistakes by all other presidents. Had we been a nuclear power, everyone would have talked to us and sought to reach agreements in a different manner.”
💬 President Vladimir Zelensky, February 19, 2022:
“Since 2014, Ukraine has made three attempts to convene consultations of guarantor countries under the Budapest Memorandum. All three failed. Today, Ukraine is making its fourth attempt, which is my first attempt as President. Make no mistake, this is the last try for me, and for Ukraine. I am seeking to initiate consultations under the Budapest Memorandum, and instructed the Foreign Minister to convene the them. If they do not take place yet again or do not result in security guarantees for our state, Ukraine will have the right to view the Budapest Memorandum as a dead letter, which calls into question the entire package of decisions adopted in 1994.”
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#Opinion by Maria #Zakharova
A deep dive into the genesis of the Nazi comeback in Ukraine & how the West nurtured Nazi collaborators & their descendants.
💬 May 9, 1945. Berlin has surrendered, and the Nazi Reich has been condemned by the peoples liberated by Soviet soldiers and allied nations. Soon, the Nuremberg Trials will begin, condemning Nazism as a criminal and misanthropic ideology. Collaborators and Nazi accomplices in Ukraine are facing a difficult choice: should they continue fighting the Soviet regime on the liberated territory, or escape to the West?
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Ukrainian Nazis that fled from fair trial 75 years ago have returned to the place they were expelled from by Soviet soldiers via their children and with direct support from the West.
👉 https://vk.cc/cbW1Jp
A deep dive into the genesis of the Nazi comeback in Ukraine & how the West nurtured Nazi collaborators & their descendants.
💬 May 9, 1945. Berlin has surrendered, and the Nazi Reich has been condemned by the peoples liberated by Soviet soldiers and allied nations. Soon, the Nuremberg Trials will begin, condemning Nazism as a criminal and misanthropic ideology. Collaborators and Nazi accomplices in Ukraine are facing a difficult choice: should they continue fighting the Soviet regime on the liberated territory, or escape to the West?
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Ukrainian Nazis that fled from fair trial 75 years ago have returned to the place they were expelled from by Soviet soldiers via their children and with direct support from the West.
👉 https://vk.cc/cbW1Jp
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⚡️The Ukrainian crisis and Russophobia
#Opinion by Prof. Mark Neimark, Dr. Sc. History, Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry of Russia
💬 The US leadership should have taken heed of a far-sighted warning given 25 years ago by the authoritative diplomat and analyst George Kennan, known for his contribution to the development of the Moscow containment concept. He possessed unique knowledge of Russia’s capabilities and potential and, based on his awareness, warned that “expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era.”
❗️It is clear that the West’s centuries-old pulsating fears of Russia are here to stay, as are the never-ending phantom pains of Russophobia.
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#Opinion by Prof. Mark Neimark, Dr. Sc. History, Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry of Russia
💬 The US leadership should have taken heed of a far-sighted warning given 25 years ago by the authoritative diplomat and analyst George Kennan, known for his contribution to the development of the Moscow containment concept. He possessed unique knowledge of Russia’s capabilities and potential and, based on his awareness, warned that “expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era.”
❗️It is clear that the West’s centuries-old pulsating fears of Russia are here to stay, as are the never-ending phantom pains of Russophobia.
👉 Read in full
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⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
Hoping to make use of the surprise wave of Ukrainophilia in the countries of the “progressive” West, the Kiev regime is churning out numerous “mobilisation” initiatives.
It has flown off the handle, because aggressive pacifists in Washington, Brussels and other “peace-loving” NATO capitals have stopped reacting to their Ukrainian wards’ shenanigans, even despite public discontent in their own countries.
All is grist that comes to Kiev’s mill. Its embassies are using their information resources to recruit volunteers for a “foreign legion,” while the authorities back home issue weapons to anyone willing to take them. They have released and armed criminals. They are recruiting students and sending them to fight miliary professionals after a three-day intensive training course. And now they have launched a virtual mobilisation, probably because the fake news resources of their psychological operations centres have been frayed.
The other day, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Alexander Bornyakov announced the creation of an international IT Army of Ukraine.
The recruiting method is the same as in the case of the “legion” of foreign volunteers. This digital unit is ready to accept hackers, cybercriminals and other cyber-rabble from all over the world. Unlike the dogs of war in the material world, these “cyber warriors” don’t need to travel thousands of kilometres to risk their lives during the demilitarisation of Ukraine. Today they can sit in their warm chairs and do for money what they would have been sent to prison for yesterday.
Kiev has no scruples about disclosing the criminal goal of its mobbing campaign: to target the socially significant digital infrastructure associated with Russia, without any exceptions for the civilian sector or vital facilities. In other words, the targets are hospitals, maternity wards and nuclear power stations. Kiev also calls for hacking the accounts of major Russian companies. In plain English, Kiev has given its blessing to future cyber warriors for cyberterrorism.
Barely three days after Kiev’s plans for an IT army were announced, Rosneft subsidiaries in Germany suffered the largest hacking attack since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine. Pro-Ukrainian cyber warriors penetrated the corporate network, stole a large amount of data and destroyed 20GB of data to cover up their tracks.
This created major risks for Rosneft’s operations and the functioning of local oil refineries, including the one in Schwedt, which supplies fuel to the majority of filling stations in Eastern Germany. In light of the rising prices of gasoline and diesel fuel, the German authorities instructed the law enforcement bodies to investigate the attack despite the hackers’ “noble mission.”
This is quite revealing. The collective West keeps stepping on the same rake again and again. While using the “the end justifies the means” principle (or rather anti-principle) in their political games, the liberal democracies opted for recruiting the “forces of darkness,” such as Nazis in Ukraine or Islamic radicals in the Middle East, which have turned their weapons against their employers. By giving the Kiev regime a free hand to release more genies from the lamp, its patrons should remember that they will have to deal with the monsters themselves very soon. I doubt that the IT Army of 300,000 volunteer hackers (the figure was mentioned in Kiev) will dissolve itself and will stop its intrinsically, not to mention legally criminal activities. They will most likely turn their weapons against Western countries.
This is how a cyber-ISIS is being created.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2206
Hoping to make use of the surprise wave of Ukrainophilia in the countries of the “progressive” West, the Kiev regime is churning out numerous “mobilisation” initiatives.
It has flown off the handle, because aggressive pacifists in Washington, Brussels and other “peace-loving” NATO capitals have stopped reacting to their Ukrainian wards’ shenanigans, even despite public discontent in their own countries.
All is grist that comes to Kiev’s mill. Its embassies are using their information resources to recruit volunteers for a “foreign legion,” while the authorities back home issue weapons to anyone willing to take them. They have released and armed criminals. They are recruiting students and sending them to fight miliary professionals after a three-day intensive training course. And now they have launched a virtual mobilisation, probably because the fake news resources of their psychological operations centres have been frayed.
The other day, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Alexander Bornyakov announced the creation of an international IT Army of Ukraine.
The recruiting method is the same as in the case of the “legion” of foreign volunteers. This digital unit is ready to accept hackers, cybercriminals and other cyber-rabble from all over the world. Unlike the dogs of war in the material world, these “cyber warriors” don’t need to travel thousands of kilometres to risk their lives during the demilitarisation of Ukraine. Today they can sit in their warm chairs and do for money what they would have been sent to prison for yesterday.
Kiev has no scruples about disclosing the criminal goal of its mobbing campaign: to target the socially significant digital infrastructure associated with Russia, without any exceptions for the civilian sector or vital facilities. In other words, the targets are hospitals, maternity wards and nuclear power stations. Kiev also calls for hacking the accounts of major Russian companies. In plain English, Kiev has given its blessing to future cyber warriors for cyberterrorism.
Barely three days after Kiev’s plans for an IT army were announced, Rosneft subsidiaries in Germany suffered the largest hacking attack since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine. Pro-Ukrainian cyber warriors penetrated the corporate network, stole a large amount of data and destroyed 20GB of data to cover up their tracks.
This created major risks for Rosneft’s operations and the functioning of local oil refineries, including the one in Schwedt, which supplies fuel to the majority of filling stations in Eastern Germany. In light of the rising prices of gasoline and diesel fuel, the German authorities instructed the law enforcement bodies to investigate the attack despite the hackers’ “noble mission.”
This is quite revealing. The collective West keeps stepping on the same rake again and again. While using the “the end justifies the means” principle (or rather anti-principle) in their political games, the liberal democracies opted for recruiting the “forces of darkness,” such as Nazis in Ukraine or Islamic radicals in the Middle East, which have turned their weapons against their employers. By giving the Kiev regime a free hand to release more genies from the lamp, its patrons should remember that they will have to deal with the monsters themselves very soon. I doubt that the IT Army of 300,000 volunteer hackers (the figure was mentioned in Kiev) will dissolve itself and will stop its intrinsically, not to mention legally criminal activities. They will most likely turn their weapons against Western countries.
This is how a cyber-ISIS is being created.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2206
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#Opinion
✍️ Excerpts from the article by the Russian Foreign Ministry Diplomatic Academy’s Vice-Chancellors Oleg Karpovich and Mikhail Troyansky «Serbian scenario for Russia?»:
💬 For many people in Russia, the campaign to “cancel” our country, which resulted in an unprecedented rampage of banal Russophobia, came as an unexpected shock. Having introduced the principle of collective responsibility for all Russians in retaliation for Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, it may appear that the West has crossed the boundaries of ethics and common sense.
👉 In search of an analogy, one can go back to the early 1990s. Back then, Yugoslavia faced this kind of smear campaign for the first time. Its government “dared” to fight for the country’s territorial integrity.
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❗️ A cynical attempt to use psychological warfare, blackmail and banal intimidation to force the citizens of Russia to oppose their state and their people will most likely have the completely opposite effect.
✍️ Excerpts from the article by the Russian Foreign Ministry Diplomatic Academy’s Vice-Chancellors Oleg Karpovich and Mikhail Troyansky «Serbian scenario for Russia?»:
💬 For many people in Russia, the campaign to “cancel” our country, which resulted in an unprecedented rampage of banal Russophobia, came as an unexpected shock. Having introduced the principle of collective responsibility for all Russians in retaliation for Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, it may appear that the West has crossed the boundaries of ethics and common sense.
👉 In search of an analogy, one can go back to the early 1990s. Back then, Yugoslavia faced this kind of smear campaign for the first time. Its government “dared” to fight for the country’s territorial integrity.
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❗️ A cynical attempt to use psychological warfare, blackmail and banal intimidation to force the citizens of Russia to oppose their state and their people will most likely have the completely opposite effect.
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⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
What an amazing piece of American investigative reporting we have here.
It reveals that Kiev and its Western patrons have been manipulating the public opinion on a mind-blowing scale.
It turns out that the image cultivated by all Western media for a month now by casting Ukraine as a victim results from a sophisticated and systematic effort by very serious people, probably for a lot of money.
First, the jokes about the communication guidelines turned out to be true. They do exist with the best Western PR agencies drafting key messages and what words must be used and when. They make video compilations for broadcasts and issue recommendations on sources. There is a direct ban on using “unverified media,” i.e., those that were not approved in the West.
Yaroslav Turbil is described as a key figure of the Ukrainian propaganda machine. A native of Kiev, he is linked to US intelligence and is head of Ukraine.UA, a website operated by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry that often serves as a source of planted propaganda stories.
The investigative journalists analysed these propaganda materials and concluded that the Ukrainian propagandists seek to spin various topics like the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant or the no-fly zone in Ukraine and serve them to a network of Western PR services, including the British PR Network and the US lobby groups like SKDKnickerbocker, Yorktown Solutions and Your Global Strategy. Those, in turn, have the experience of working with the Western media to deliver the right message to the Western audiences.
Judging by this investigation, those who masterminded this approach have partners, including Novaya Gazeta, Meduza, Dozhd, Mediazona and Russian-language services of the Western media such as the BBC.
This is a rigorous and differentiated effort. There are memes for the younger audience and serious political analysis for experts.
The authors of the investigation did not hide the mind-blowing scale of this system, which includes over 150 entities and major figures for communicating the Ukrainian vision of the conflict to the entire world.
Who pays for all this? This is not an easy question, but at least part of the PR effort is paid for by government subsidies allocated by the UK, the US and the Czech Republic, as well as entities belonging to billionaire George Soros, incredible as this may sound.
This giant squid has penetrated with its tentacles every TV set, website of major Western media and every newspaper to cultivate a worldview that is simple and clear. The creators of this mechanism couldn’t care less that it is at odds with reality.
The world has not seen a disinformation campaign of this kind since the cult of the Caesars.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2229
What an amazing piece of American investigative reporting we have here.
It reveals that Kiev and its Western patrons have been manipulating the public opinion on a mind-blowing scale.
It turns out that the image cultivated by all Western media for a month now by casting Ukraine as a victim results from a sophisticated and systematic effort by very serious people, probably for a lot of money.
First, the jokes about the communication guidelines turned out to be true. They do exist with the best Western PR agencies drafting key messages and what words must be used and when. They make video compilations for broadcasts and issue recommendations on sources. There is a direct ban on using “unverified media,” i.e., those that were not approved in the West.
Yaroslav Turbil is described as a key figure of the Ukrainian propaganda machine. A native of Kiev, he is linked to US intelligence and is head of Ukraine.UA, a website operated by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry that often serves as a source of planted propaganda stories.
The investigative journalists analysed these propaganda materials and concluded that the Ukrainian propagandists seek to spin various topics like the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant or the no-fly zone in Ukraine and serve them to a network of Western PR services, including the British PR Network and the US lobby groups like SKDKnickerbocker, Yorktown Solutions and Your Global Strategy. Those, in turn, have the experience of working with the Western media to deliver the right message to the Western audiences.
Judging by this investigation, those who masterminded this approach have partners, including Novaya Gazeta, Meduza, Dozhd, Mediazona and Russian-language services of the Western media such as the BBC.
This is a rigorous and differentiated effort. There are memes for the younger audience and serious political analysis for experts.
The authors of the investigation did not hide the mind-blowing scale of this system, which includes over 150 entities and major figures for communicating the Ukrainian vision of the conflict to the entire world.
Who pays for all this? This is not an easy question, but at least part of the PR effort is paid for by government subsidies allocated by the UK, the US and the Czech Republic, as well as entities belonging to billionaire George Soros, incredible as this may sound.
This giant squid has penetrated with its tentacles every TV set, website of major Western media and every newspaper to cultivate a worldview that is simple and clear. The creators of this mechanism couldn’t care less that it is at odds with reality.
The world has not seen a disinformation campaign of this kind since the cult of the Caesars.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2229
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🎙 #Opinion by María Zakharova:
BioBiden
We can get a rough idea of the US political elites’ involvement in the military biological activity in Ukraine if we rely on open sources as well as leaked documents. Below is an attempt to reconstruct the chronology of this involvement, though not a comprehensive one. There are many gaps in this truly diabolical plan that are still to be filled.
1991 – the US launches the Nunn-Lugar programme for the former Soviet countries to control/eliminate Soviet weapons of mass destruction including bioweapons. The Pentagon's Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) was named as the programme’s main executor.
1993 – the Ukraine-US Agreement on the Prevention of Proliferation of WMD is signed.
2005 – an additional protocol is signed to the agreement between the Ukrainian Health Ministry and the DTRA on the prevention of the proliferation of technologies, pathogens and know-how that can be used to develop bioweapons. This is the start of the transfer of the Ukrainian military biological potential into US specialists' hands.
2000s – large US military-industrial companies are engaged in military biological activity in Ukraine.
2005-2014 – Black & Veatch Special Projects, a DTRA contractor, builds and upgrades 8 biolabs in Ukraine instead of eliminating military biological infrastructure, as was originally claimed. One of the facilities, a biolab in Odessa, has been financed since 2011 for the study of “pathogens that can be used in bioterrorism attacks.”
2007 – US DoD employee Nathan Wolfe founded Global Viral Forecasting Institute (subsequently - Global Viral), a biomedical company. The mission stated in the charter is non-commercial study of transborder infections, including in China.
2009 – Rosemont Seneca Partners is established by former US Secretary of State John Kerry’ stepson Christopher Heinz and incumbent US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
2014 – anti-constitutional coup d’etat in Ukraine.
2014 – Hunter Biden joins the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company.
2014 – Metabiota, a private commercial organisation specialising in the study of pandemic risks is detached from Global Viral. Neil Callahan and John DeLoche, employees of Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca Partners are appointed to the board of Metabiota. Global Viral and Metabiota begin to get funding from the US Department of Defence.
2014 - Metabiota shows interest in Ukraine and invites Hunter Biden to "assert Ukraine's cultural & economic independence from Russia".
2014 - Metabiota and Burisma Holdings begin cooperation on an unnamed "science project in Ukraine".
2014 - Metabiota, Global Viral and Black & Veatch Special Projects begin full-fledged cooperation within the US DoD programmes.
2014-2016 - Implementation of Metabiota and US DoD contracts, including a $300,000 project in Ukraine.
2016 – US citizen Ulana Nadia Suprun, a descendant of Ukrainian Nazis, is appointed Acting Health Minister of Ukraine. The US DoD and Ukraine’s Health Ministry cooperation programme is greatly expanded.
2016 – an outbreak of swine flu among Ukrainian Defence Ministry personnel guarding a biolab in Kharkov, Ukraine; 20 dead. The incident is hushed up.
2016 – former US Assistant Secretary for Defence Andrew Weber is appointed head of Metabiota’s global partnerships department.
2016 – EcoHealth Alliance, a Global Viral founder Nathan Wolfe’s structure, is engaged in the study of bat-transmitted coronaviruses at the research centre in a Wuhan laboratory, China.
2016 – the DTRA and Ukraine’s Health Ministry extend the contract after getting approval from the Ukrainian Defence Ministry.
2019 – the COVID-19 mutated bat coronavirus pandemic begins with an outbreak in Wuhan.
February 24, 2022 – launch of the Russian Army’s special operation in Ukraine.
February 24-25, 2022 – rapid elimination of strains in biolabs in Ukraine.
March 8, 2022 – US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland openly acknowledges the existence of cooperation between the US and Ukraine in pathogens.
BioBiden
We can get a rough idea of the US political elites’ involvement in the military biological activity in Ukraine if we rely on open sources as well as leaked documents. Below is an attempt to reconstruct the chronology of this involvement, though not a comprehensive one. There are many gaps in this truly diabolical plan that are still to be filled.
1991 – the US launches the Nunn-Lugar programme for the former Soviet countries to control/eliminate Soviet weapons of mass destruction including bioweapons. The Pentagon's Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) was named as the programme’s main executor.
1993 – the Ukraine-US Agreement on the Prevention of Proliferation of WMD is signed.
2005 – an additional protocol is signed to the agreement between the Ukrainian Health Ministry and the DTRA on the prevention of the proliferation of technologies, pathogens and know-how that can be used to develop bioweapons. This is the start of the transfer of the Ukrainian military biological potential into US specialists' hands.
2000s – large US military-industrial companies are engaged in military biological activity in Ukraine.
2005-2014 – Black & Veatch Special Projects, a DTRA contractor, builds and upgrades 8 biolabs in Ukraine instead of eliminating military biological infrastructure, as was originally claimed. One of the facilities, a biolab in Odessa, has been financed since 2011 for the study of “pathogens that can be used in bioterrorism attacks.”
2007 – US DoD employee Nathan Wolfe founded Global Viral Forecasting Institute (subsequently - Global Viral), a biomedical company. The mission stated in the charter is non-commercial study of transborder infections, including in China.
2009 – Rosemont Seneca Partners is established by former US Secretary of State John Kerry’ stepson Christopher Heinz and incumbent US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
2014 – anti-constitutional coup d’etat in Ukraine.
2014 – Hunter Biden joins the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company.
2014 – Metabiota, a private commercial organisation specialising in the study of pandemic risks is detached from Global Viral. Neil Callahan and John DeLoche, employees of Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca Partners are appointed to the board of Metabiota. Global Viral and Metabiota begin to get funding from the US Department of Defence.
2014 - Metabiota shows interest in Ukraine and invites Hunter Biden to "assert Ukraine's cultural & economic independence from Russia".
2014 - Metabiota and Burisma Holdings begin cooperation on an unnamed "science project in Ukraine".
2014 - Metabiota, Global Viral and Black & Veatch Special Projects begin full-fledged cooperation within the US DoD programmes.
2014-2016 - Implementation of Metabiota and US DoD contracts, including a $300,000 project in Ukraine.
2016 – US citizen Ulana Nadia Suprun, a descendant of Ukrainian Nazis, is appointed Acting Health Minister of Ukraine. The US DoD and Ukraine’s Health Ministry cooperation programme is greatly expanded.
2016 – an outbreak of swine flu among Ukrainian Defence Ministry personnel guarding a biolab in Kharkov, Ukraine; 20 dead. The incident is hushed up.
2016 – former US Assistant Secretary for Defence Andrew Weber is appointed head of Metabiota’s global partnerships department.
2016 – EcoHealth Alliance, a Global Viral founder Nathan Wolfe’s structure, is engaged in the study of bat-transmitted coronaviruses at the research centre in a Wuhan laboratory, China.
2016 – the DTRA and Ukraine’s Health Ministry extend the contract after getting approval from the Ukrainian Defence Ministry.
2019 – the COVID-19 mutated bat coronavirus pandemic begins with an outbreak in Wuhan.
February 24, 2022 – launch of the Russian Army’s special operation in Ukraine.
February 24-25, 2022 – rapid elimination of strains in biolabs in Ukraine.
March 8, 2022 – US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland openly acknowledges the existence of cooperation between the US and Ukraine in pathogens.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 There is another way the Americans are trying to exploit the ongoing crisis in Europe incited by the West and Ukraine (beyond the evident).
For decades, European communities and later the EU have been purely economic unions. They have coordinated their general political dossiers (including their common foreign policy), but Brussels has never put military issues and national defence up for discussion.
At the latest EU summit in Brussels, US President Joe Biden openly urged NATO and the EU to agree on a deeper partnership. Of course, the idea was presented as necessary for defence purposes: united Europe needs protection. Who can provide it but NATO? The Alliance will provide troops and may conduct a cyberoperation, if need be. NATO will shield Europe, the message was.
However, the Washington strategists have a different plan in mind. Since the United States has dominated NATO since its founding, they want to keep an eye on everything that happens under the EU umbrella. Washington does not want a developed, strong, united and independent Europe, as indicated by the fact that the United States supported Brexit, and by the very nature of the anti-Russian sanctions that are mainly hitting Europe.
👉 Washington wants the EU integration project to become NATO’s makeweight, a “regional economic department,” and rule the entire Western world from Capitol Hill in this new configuration.
💬 There is another way the Americans are trying to exploit the ongoing crisis in Europe incited by the West and Ukraine (beyond the evident).
For decades, European communities and later the EU have been purely economic unions. They have coordinated their general political dossiers (including their common foreign policy), but Brussels has never put military issues and national defence up for discussion.
At the latest EU summit in Brussels, US President Joe Biden openly urged NATO and the EU to agree on a deeper partnership. Of course, the idea was presented as necessary for defence purposes: united Europe needs protection. Who can provide it but NATO? The Alliance will provide troops and may conduct a cyberoperation, if need be. NATO will shield Europe, the message was.
However, the Washington strategists have a different plan in mind. Since the United States has dominated NATO since its founding, they want to keep an eye on everything that happens under the EU umbrella. Washington does not want a developed, strong, united and independent Europe, as indicated by the fact that the United States supported Brexit, and by the very nature of the anti-Russian sanctions that are mainly hitting Europe.
👉 Washington wants the EU integration project to become NATO’s makeweight, a “regional economic department,” and rule the entire Western world from Capitol Hill in this new configuration.
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💬⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Boris Johnson has urged the Russian government to treat the Briton detained in Mariupol while fighting on the side of the Ukrainian government forces “humanely and compassionately.”
Here is what we have to say in this respect.
Boris, we know that you personally and your Government have disavowed the British subjects who have fallen victim to British propaganda and went to Ukraine as mercenaries to kill people there.
Don’t pretend to be worried. You are utterly unconcerned about the fate of Britons in trouble. They didn’t drink champagne with you at Downing Street, and so they can wait for your protection till kingdom come.
I would like to tell the following to those Britons who are concerned about their compatriots: Don’t worry, Russia is taking care of them. They are given food and drink, as well as any other assistance they may need, just as the other foreigners who have surrendered or have been detained.
Unlike the Ukrainian fighters who brutally kill prisoners and torture civilians, the Russian Armed Forces are committed to humanitarian law. If there were no media censorship in Britain, everyone there would know this.
At the same time, we urge the British authorities to treat the citizens of Ukraine “humanely and compassionately,” as Boris Johnson said, by stopping the delivery of weapons to Ukraine. The more weapons London is sending to Ukraine, the more citizens of Ukraine die as a result. But the BBC will never tell Britons about that.
💬 Boris Johnson has urged the Russian government to treat the Briton detained in Mariupol while fighting on the side of the Ukrainian government forces “humanely and compassionately.”
Here is what we have to say in this respect.
Boris, we know that you personally and your Government have disavowed the British subjects who have fallen victim to British propaganda and went to Ukraine as mercenaries to kill people there.
Don’t pretend to be worried. You are utterly unconcerned about the fate of Britons in trouble. They didn’t drink champagne with you at Downing Street, and so they can wait for your protection till kingdom come.
I would like to tell the following to those Britons who are concerned about their compatriots: Don’t worry, Russia is taking care of them. They are given food and drink, as well as any other assistance they may need, just as the other foreigners who have surrendered or have been detained.
Unlike the Ukrainian fighters who brutally kill prisoners and torture civilians, the Russian Armed Forces are committed to humanitarian law. If there were no media censorship in Britain, everyone there would know this.
At the same time, we urge the British authorities to treat the citizens of Ukraine “humanely and compassionately,” as Boris Johnson said, by stopping the delivery of weapons to Ukraine. The more weapons London is sending to Ukraine, the more citizens of Ukraine die as a result. But the BBC will never tell Britons about that.
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#Opinion
💬 Russia's Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna Ambassador Mikhail Ulyanov:
The Russian Ministry of Defence is right when it points at high probability of provocations in Ukraine involving chemical substances.
🔸 Such provocations and staged incidents have been tested in Syria many times and proved to be very successful.
🔸 There is the need to be vigilant.
💬 Russia's Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna Ambassador Mikhail Ulyanov:
The Russian Ministry of Defence is right when it points at high probability of provocations in Ukraine involving chemical substances.
🔸 Such provocations and staged incidents have been tested in Syria many times and proved to be very successful.
🔸 There is the need to be vigilant.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
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🔹 The report published by the Russian Ministry of Defence today clearly proves that Washington, in close coordination with its NATO partners, has reached the final stage of setting up provocations in Ukraine aimed at convincing the international community that “Russia has been using weapons-grade poisonous substances and biological agents.”
🔹 Their rationale is obvious: the shocking details of the illegal cooperation between the United States and the Ukrainian administration which still remains in power in making bacteriological weapons have been revealed to the world. The realisation that their criminal activities would inevitably be exposed was so patently clear that Washington began to prepare in advance:
👉 Shaped public opinion
👉 Picked the contractors
👉 Worked to influence international organisations
🔹 The Americans and their partners in Europe take no notice of the fact that Russia has had no chemical weapons at all for five years – since September 27, 2017, and this has been verified by the OPCW. The Ukrainians, aided by NATO specialists, are to remedy this flaw in the American plans crudely enough: just as corrupt police officers plant a weapon with prints on an innocent suspect, Washington and Kiev are going to plant chemical weapons at the Russian Armed Forces’ positions in Ukraine.
👉 This is more than serious. Clearly, the original US plan was to step up economic pressure on Russia to make it reconsider its legitimate security interests. That didn’t work. Now the US is going to use WMD; in fact, this is a game that crosses the red line. If this happens, the number of victims will be incalculable. Each of them will be on the conscience of the American strategists sitting in the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon, and on the conscience of their puppets in Kiev, if they still have any left.
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Key points
🔹 The report published by the Russian Ministry of Defence today clearly proves that Washington, in close coordination with its NATO partners, has reached the final stage of setting up provocations in Ukraine aimed at convincing the international community that “Russia has been using weapons-grade poisonous substances and biological agents.”
🔹 Their rationale is obvious: the shocking details of the illegal cooperation between the United States and the Ukrainian administration which still remains in power in making bacteriological weapons have been revealed to the world. The realisation that their criminal activities would inevitably be exposed was so patently clear that Washington began to prepare in advance:
👉 Shaped public opinion
👉 Picked the contractors
👉 Worked to influence international organisations
🔹 The Americans and their partners in Europe take no notice of the fact that Russia has had no chemical weapons at all for five years – since September 27, 2017, and this has been verified by the OPCW. The Ukrainians, aided by NATO specialists, are to remedy this flaw in the American plans crudely enough: just as corrupt police officers plant a weapon with prints on an innocent suspect, Washington and Kiev are going to plant chemical weapons at the Russian Armed Forces’ positions in Ukraine.
👉 This is more than serious. Clearly, the original US plan was to step up economic pressure on Russia to make it reconsider its legitimate security interests. That didn’t work. Now the US is going to use WMD; in fact, this is a game that crosses the red line. If this happens, the number of victims will be incalculable. Each of them will be on the conscience of the American strategists sitting in the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon, and on the conscience of their puppets in Kiev, if they still have any left.
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💬 « Ils s’attendaient … à ce que la Russie s’effondre dans la seconde qui suit, et qu’elle vienne demander pardon. Et il ne s’est rien passé. Et le rouble est revenu où il était avant la crise ».
🎙 Charles Gave, président de l’Institut des Libertés, explique sur #SudRadio pourquoi les sanctions économiques de l’Occident contre la #Russie se révèlent contre-productives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5msN6_y3Oz0
💬 « Ils s’attendaient … à ce que la Russie s’effondre dans la seconde qui suit, et qu’elle vienne demander pardon. Et il ne s’est rien passé. Et le rouble est revenu où il était avant la crise ».
🎙 Charles Gave, président de l’Institut des Libertés, explique sur #SudRadio pourquoi les sanctions économiques de l’Occident contre la #Russie se révèlent contre-productives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5msN6_y3Oz0
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"Nos monnaies vont s'effondrer du fait de l'imbécilité" - Charles Gave
Charles Gave, président de l’Institut des Libertés, économiste est l'invité d'André Bercoff.
Retrouvez Bercoff dans tous ses états avec André Bercoff et Augustin Moriaux du lundi au vendredi de 12h à 14h sur #SudRadio.
Abonnez-vous pour plus de contenus…
Retrouvez Bercoff dans tous ses états avec André Bercoff et Augustin Moriaux du lundi au vendredi de 12h à 14h sur #SudRadio.
Abonnez-vous pour plus de contenus…
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 The United States urged all African states to respect each other’s territorial integrity. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made this statement at a news conference in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He did not add though that only the Western countries are not required to respect territorial integrity. They isolated Kosovo from Serbia and called this territory a state contrary to the opinion of Belgrade and the Serbian people.
He did not add, either, that local self-rule was introduced in the Comoros in 1968 and a referendum on independence held in 1974. On July 6, 1975, the Chamber of Deputies of the Comoros Parliament proclaimed the country’s independence. Sayyid Ahmed Abdallah was elected President. In the same year, the Comoros joined the United Nations.
After the Comoros received independence, its former coloniser, France, refused to recognise Comorian sovereignty over the Island of Mayotte, referring to the 1974 referendum at which 63 percent of its population voted for preserving its French colony status. In 1976, Mayotte was granted the status of a territorial unit of the French Republic. Since 2011, Mayotte has been part of France as its overseas department.
In 1976, the Comorian government addressed the UN with a request to take measures to preserve the territorial integrity of the state. On December 12, 1979, the UN General Assembly recognised the rights of the Comoros to Mayotte by Resolution 34/69. Subsequently, the UN General Assembly passed several resolutions on the need to return this island to the Comoros. However, the status of Mayotte is still outstanding.
Meanwhile, the Comoros are part of Africa.
Therefore, it is not the West that should urge Africa to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other states.
💬 The United States urged all African states to respect each other’s territorial integrity. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made this statement at a news conference in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He did not add though that only the Western countries are not required to respect territorial integrity. They isolated Kosovo from Serbia and called this territory a state contrary to the opinion of Belgrade and the Serbian people.
He did not add, either, that local self-rule was introduced in the Comoros in 1968 and a referendum on independence held in 1974. On July 6, 1975, the Chamber of Deputies of the Comoros Parliament proclaimed the country’s independence. Sayyid Ahmed Abdallah was elected President. In the same year, the Comoros joined the United Nations.
After the Comoros received independence, its former coloniser, France, refused to recognise Comorian sovereignty over the Island of Mayotte, referring to the 1974 referendum at which 63 percent of its population voted for preserving its French colony status. In 1976, Mayotte was granted the status of a territorial unit of the French Republic. Since 2011, Mayotte has been part of France as its overseas department.
In 1976, the Comorian government addressed the UN with a request to take measures to preserve the territorial integrity of the state. On December 12, 1979, the UN General Assembly recognised the rights of the Comoros to Mayotte by Resolution 34/69. Subsequently, the UN General Assembly passed several resolutions on the need to return this island to the Comoros. However, the status of Mayotte is still outstanding.
Meanwhile, the Comoros are part of Africa.
Therefore, it is not the West that should urge Africa to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other states.
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#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
💬 On Thursday, January 26, 2023, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Countering Russian Aggression,
"Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to
say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea".
❗️ Nuland’s words are proof of the Biden Administration’s approval of a terrorist attack to destroy civilian infrastructure as well as evidence of Washington’s motive to undermine global energy security.
💬 On Thursday, January 26, 2023, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Countering Russian Aggression,
"Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to
say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea".
❗️ Nuland’s words are proof of the Biden Administration’s approval of a terrorist attack to destroy civilian infrastructure as well as evidence of Washington’s motive to undermine global energy security.
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#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
MSM quotes Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, from an interview with Yahoo News when asked about about Kiev's possible involvement in the murder of Darya Dugina:
“All I will comment on is that we’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: This is a direct blow to the White House. The Kiev regime has basically announced that the Biden administration is sponsoring terrorism.
MSM quotes Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, from an interview with Yahoo News when asked about about Kiev's possible involvement in the murder of Darya Dugina:
“All I will comment on is that we’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: This is a direct blow to the White House. The Kiev regime has basically announced that the Biden administration is sponsoring terrorism.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Destructive minorities
PACE continues to favour illegitimate resolutions, this time demanding a total ban on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Olympic Games. Obviously, they are violating:
- the Olympic Charter (the IOC Charter);
- the 2013 UNESCO Berlin Declaration;
- several UN General Assembly resolutions;
- and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
At the same time, the absolute global majority continues adhering to Olympic principles. Thus, the Non-Aligned Movement (120 states and another 20 observers) adopted a Special Declaration at the initiative of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in Baku at the Ministerial Meeting of the NAM Coordinating Bureau urging all members to ensure the participation of all national teams at the Olympic Games in Paris.
IOC President Thomas Bach has already made an official statement: “The IOC warmly welcomes the support by the 120 member states of the Non-Aligned Movement. We are greatly encouraged by this strong commitment to the unifying mission of the Olympic Games. Thank you to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, for taking the initiative for this important resolution.”
If the West stands for democracy, it should accept the will of the majority based on international law.
💬 Destructive minorities
PACE continues to favour illegitimate resolutions, this time demanding a total ban on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Olympic Games. Obviously, they are violating:
- the Olympic Charter (the IOC Charter);
- the 2013 UNESCO Berlin Declaration;
- several UN General Assembly resolutions;
- and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
At the same time, the absolute global majority continues adhering to Olympic principles. Thus, the Non-Aligned Movement (120 states and another 20 observers) adopted a Special Declaration at the initiative of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in Baku at the Ministerial Meeting of the NAM Coordinating Bureau urging all members to ensure the participation of all national teams at the Olympic Games in Paris.
IOC President Thomas Bach has already made an official statement: “The IOC warmly welcomes the support by the 120 member states of the Non-Aligned Movement. We are greatly encouraged by this strong commitment to the unifying mission of the Olympic Games. Thank you to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, for taking the initiative for this important resolution.”
If the West stands for democracy, it should accept the will of the majority based on international law.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 All hell seemed to break loose the instant Russia withdrew from the Black Sea Grain Initiative, or the Grain Deal as the journalists labelled it.
Josep Borrell predicted a “major global food supply crisis”, while President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen described Russia’s refusal to extend the deal a “cynical step”. As for Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, she went as far as to refer to Russia’s withdrawal as an “act of cruelty”.
How ludicrous of them to talk about cruelty when they are the main arms suppliers to the conflict zone and when they engineered the government coup in Ukraine.
The International Monetary Fund’s chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said he expected grain prices to rise 15 percent, while his very organisation, the IMF, has been pouring its financial resources into the dying Ukrainian economy for nine years to keep the ugly parasites alive.
But what is the true situation?
In fact, the immediate response from the wheat market when Russia announced its decision to withdraw from this so-called deal on July 17 was a minor uptick in prices. However, the wheat futures price returned to its pre-announcement level in a matter of days, and even went down 1.13 percent to $261 per tonne.
As of August 21, 2023, the price of wheat stands at $253 per tonne, or $6.10 per bushel.
Global corn prices have followed a similar pattern. On July 17, 2023, its price dropped 1.51 percent to $199 per tonne, and this commodity currently trades at $188 per tonne or $4.83 per bushel.
True analysts, not politically biased IMF analysts, have been saying in their forecasts that there may be some minor volatility in grain prices in the mid-term due to several factors. However, the International Grains Council believes that grain production and trade are not currently affected by any global crises with global prices rapidly falling compared to the previous season. In fact, the price of wheat is down 35 percent, corn is 26 percent cheaper, and barley is down 41 percent.
By the way, Russia is expected to become one of the main wheat suppliers in the 2022/2023 agricultural year with exports of 45.5 million tonnes, while Ukraine could total just 14.5 million tonnes, falling behind Australia.
Analysts from the UK’s Economist Intelligence Unit confirmed this, saying that wheat production in Ukraine would amount to 22.5 million tonnes in the current agricultural year, down 32 percent compared to 2021/2022. In 2023/2024, this indicator will be equal to 19 million tonnes, while exports will fall to 10 million tonnes.
When it comes to agricultural exports, fertilisers, energy resources and other essential goods, our country continues to perform its obligations under international contracts responsibly and in good faith. We understand all too well that this has a major bearing on the social and economic development of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as for the health, lives and wellbeing of their people.
President Vladimir Putin drove this message home with his initiatives to deliver tens of thousands of tonnes of Russian fertiliser that has been seized in European ports, and also grain to the countries that need them, by promising Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, the Central African Republic and Eritrea between 25,000 and 50,000 tonnes of grain each.
💬 All hell seemed to break loose the instant Russia withdrew from the Black Sea Grain Initiative, or the Grain Deal as the journalists labelled it.
Josep Borrell predicted a “major global food supply crisis”, while President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen described Russia’s refusal to extend the deal a “cynical step”. As for Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, she went as far as to refer to Russia’s withdrawal as an “act of cruelty”.
How ludicrous of them to talk about cruelty when they are the main arms suppliers to the conflict zone and when they engineered the government coup in Ukraine.
The International Monetary Fund’s chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said he expected grain prices to rise 15 percent, while his very organisation, the IMF, has been pouring its financial resources into the dying Ukrainian economy for nine years to keep the ugly parasites alive.
But what is the true situation?
In fact, the immediate response from the wheat market when Russia announced its decision to withdraw from this so-called deal on July 17 was a minor uptick in prices. However, the wheat futures price returned to its pre-announcement level in a matter of days, and even went down 1.13 percent to $261 per tonne.
As of August 21, 2023, the price of wheat stands at $253 per tonne, or $6.10 per bushel.
Global corn prices have followed a similar pattern. On July 17, 2023, its price dropped 1.51 percent to $199 per tonne, and this commodity currently trades at $188 per tonne or $4.83 per bushel.
True analysts, not politically biased IMF analysts, have been saying in their forecasts that there may be some minor volatility in grain prices in the mid-term due to several factors. However, the International Grains Council believes that grain production and trade are not currently affected by any global crises with global prices rapidly falling compared to the previous season. In fact, the price of wheat is down 35 percent, corn is 26 percent cheaper, and barley is down 41 percent.
By the way, Russia is expected to become one of the main wheat suppliers in the 2022/2023 agricultural year with exports of 45.5 million tonnes, while Ukraine could total just 14.5 million tonnes, falling behind Australia.
Analysts from the UK’s Economist Intelligence Unit confirmed this, saying that wheat production in Ukraine would amount to 22.5 million tonnes in the current agricultural year, down 32 percent compared to 2021/2022. In 2023/2024, this indicator will be equal to 19 million tonnes, while exports will fall to 10 million tonnes.
When it comes to agricultural exports, fertilisers, energy resources and other essential goods, our country continues to perform its obligations under international contracts responsibly and in good faith. We understand all too well that this has a major bearing on the social and economic development of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as for the health, lives and wellbeing of their people.
President Vladimir Putin drove this message home with his initiatives to deliver tens of thousands of tonnes of Russian fertiliser that has been seized in European ports, and also grain to the countries that need them, by promising Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, the Central African Republic and Eritrea between 25,000 and 50,000 tonnes of grain each.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Antony Blinken’s lies on the anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy
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Antony Blinken had the audacity to lie about one of the most appalling tragedies of World War II: the massacre of civilians in Soviet Kiev on September 29-30, 1941, in the Babi Yar ravine. Right after occupying the city, the Nazis began their cleansing operations. Within a few days, tens of thousands of Jews, Roma, and Soviet prisoners of war were executed. On September 29-30 alone, the Nazis brutally butchered 34,000 people: this was what Blinken was referring to as he cynically lied (more on this below) about the memory of this tragedy in the USSR, “forgetting” that the executions continued right up to the liberation of Kiev by the Red Army in November 1943.
But we remember everyone: tens of thousands of people of non-Aryan race, partisans and prisoners: all those whom the Nazis sentenced to die and whose remains were left in the Babi Yar ravine. Everyone who lost their lives. Everyone who fell victim to the German idea of superiority. Those who did not live to see the liberation of the Ukrainian SSR capital by the Soviet soldiers.
The US Secretary of State wrote in his post: “Soviets buried this history” by which he meant that they hushed it up. This is a blatant lie, monstrous in its ignorance and cynicism.
No other country in the world so consistently held Nazism accountable for the crimes of the Holocaust as the Soviet Union.
Perhaps there are still decent people left in the State Department who can convey the following information to Mr Blinken.
Already in March 1945, even before the Victory, Resolution No 378 of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR and the Ukrainian Communist Party Central Committee, On the Construction of a Memorial at Babi Yar, was adopted, in accordance with which work began to create a park and install a monument on the burial site of the victims of the Nazi occupiers. It was unveiled on July 2, 1976, on the territory that was later named the Babi Yar National Historical Memorial Reserve in Kiev. <...>
Yet Blinken had the audacity to write that we don’t or didn’t remember the past, and he did that on the anniversary of the tragedy. On the other hand, what is left to be desired from the US Secretary of State who was declared one of the most influential Jews in the world last year by an Israeli magazine but who found no words to condemn the honouring of a Nazi in the Canadian parliament? What do we want from the US Secretary of State who issues orders to finance the Nazi regime in Kiev, a regime that glorifies the collaborators Bandera and Shukhevich? What do we want from the US Secretary of State who issues an order to vote against the UN General Assembly resolution condemning neo-Nazism, racism and xenophobia? <...>
P.S. Blinken’s stepfather, Samuel Pisar, was a Holocaust survivor who was in several death camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau. He recalled with gratitude the role of the USSR and Soviet soldiers’ contribution to the Victory over Nazism until the end of his life. Here is an almost prophetic quote of his from an interview with RIA Novosti in 2010: “We, Holocaust survivors who went through Auschwitz, are disappearing one after another. Very soon there will be no eyewitnesses of this catastrophe. And history will speak in the impersonal voice of novelists, researchers and historians at best. Remember Yevtushenko’s poem ‘There Are No Monuments Over Babi Yar’? Shostakovich wrote his 13th symphony called “Babi Yar.” At worst, these will be the voices of demagogues, falsifiers, those who say the Holocaust never happened.”
I wonder what he would say today about his stepson’s lies...
💬 Antony Blinken’s lies on the anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy
Read in full
Antony Blinken had the audacity to lie about one of the most appalling tragedies of World War II: the massacre of civilians in Soviet Kiev on September 29-30, 1941, in the Babi Yar ravine. Right after occupying the city, the Nazis began their cleansing operations. Within a few days, tens of thousands of Jews, Roma, and Soviet prisoners of war were executed. On September 29-30 alone, the Nazis brutally butchered 34,000 people: this was what Blinken was referring to as he cynically lied (more on this below) about the memory of this tragedy in the USSR, “forgetting” that the executions continued right up to the liberation of Kiev by the Red Army in November 1943.
But we remember everyone: tens of thousands of people of non-Aryan race, partisans and prisoners: all those whom the Nazis sentenced to die and whose remains were left in the Babi Yar ravine. Everyone who lost their lives. Everyone who fell victim to the German idea of superiority. Those who did not live to see the liberation of the Ukrainian SSR capital by the Soviet soldiers.
The US Secretary of State wrote in his post: “Soviets buried this history” by which he meant that they hushed it up. This is a blatant lie, monstrous in its ignorance and cynicism.
No other country in the world so consistently held Nazism accountable for the crimes of the Holocaust as the Soviet Union.
Perhaps there are still decent people left in the State Department who can convey the following information to Mr Blinken.
Already in March 1945, even before the Victory, Resolution No 378 of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR and the Ukrainian Communist Party Central Committee, On the Construction of a Memorial at Babi Yar, was adopted, in accordance with which work began to create a park and install a monument on the burial site of the victims of the Nazi occupiers. It was unveiled on July 2, 1976, on the territory that was later named the Babi Yar National Historical Memorial Reserve in Kiev. <...>
Yet Blinken had the audacity to write that we don’t or didn’t remember the past, and he did that on the anniversary of the tragedy. On the other hand, what is left to be desired from the US Secretary of State who was declared one of the most influential Jews in the world last year by an Israeli magazine but who found no words to condemn the honouring of a Nazi in the Canadian parliament? What do we want from the US Secretary of State who issues orders to finance the Nazi regime in Kiev, a regime that glorifies the collaborators Bandera and Shukhevich? What do we want from the US Secretary of State who issues an order to vote against the UN General Assembly resolution condemning neo-Nazism, racism and xenophobia? <...>
P.S. Blinken’s stepfather, Samuel Pisar, was a Holocaust survivor who was in several death camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau. He recalled with gratitude the role of the USSR and Soviet soldiers’ contribution to the Victory over Nazism until the end of his life. Here is an almost prophetic quote of his from an interview with RIA Novosti in 2010: “We, Holocaust survivors who went through Auschwitz, are disappearing one after another. Very soon there will be no eyewitnesses of this catastrophe. And history will speak in the impersonal voice of novelists, researchers and historians at best. Remember Yevtushenko’s poem ‘There Are No Monuments Over Babi Yar’? Shostakovich wrote his 13th symphony called “Babi Yar.” At worst, these will be the voices of demagogues, falsifiers, those who say the Holocaust never happened.”
I wonder what he would say today about his stepson’s lies...
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#Opinion de Maria Zakharova:
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💬 Joe Biden a qualifié l'aide à l'Ukraine d'"investissement intelligent" qui rapportera des dividendes à la sécurité américaine "pendant des générations".
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Ils avaient l'habitude d'appeler cela se battre "pour la liberté et la démocratie" - mais il s'avère maintenant que ce n'était qu'une commodité pragmatique. En fait, il en a toujours été ainsi, mais Washington a trompé le monde en défendant des valeurs inexistantes.
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Les guerres ont toujours été un "investissement intelligent" pour les États-Unis. Tant qu'elles ne se déroulaient pas sur le territoire américain, ils ne se sont jamais souciés des conséquences de ces guerres sur les autres.
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Rien de personnel, c'est juste du business, comme on dit.
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Maintenant, revenons aux "dividendes".
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Comme l'a fait remarquer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., juge à la Cour suprême des États-Unis, il y a un siècle, "Le savoir d'un homme meurt avec lui; même ses vertus s'effacent des mémoires, mais les dividendes des actions qu'il lègue à ses enfants vivent et gardent sa mémoire verte."
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Tout semble mort et fané pour ceux qui pensent ainsi aux dividendes du sang.
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💬 Joe Biden a qualifié l'aide à l'Ukraine d'"investissement intelligent" qui rapportera des dividendes à la sécurité américaine "pendant des générations".
⠀
Ils avaient l'habitude d'appeler cela se battre "pour la liberté et la démocratie" - mais il s'avère maintenant que ce n'était qu'une commodité pragmatique. En fait, il en a toujours été ainsi, mais Washington a trompé le monde en défendant des valeurs inexistantes.
⠀
Les guerres ont toujours été un "investissement intelligent" pour les États-Unis. Tant qu'elles ne se déroulaient pas sur le territoire américain, ils ne se sont jamais souciés des conséquences de ces guerres sur les autres.
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Rien de personnel, c'est juste du business, comme on dit.
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Maintenant, revenons aux "dividendes".
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Comme l'a fait remarquer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., juge à la Cour suprême des États-Unis, il y a un siècle, "Le savoir d'un homme meurt avec lui; même ses vertus s'effacent des mémoires, mais les dividendes des actions qu'il lègue à ses enfants vivent et gardent sa mémoire verte."
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Tout semble mort et fané pour ceux qui pensent ainsi aux dividendes du sang.
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#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
💬 The old colonialist ideologies persist; moreover, in the 21st century, indigenous peoples continue to endure increasing hardships under the dominance of European and overseas colonial powers.
Take Greenland, for instance. It’s officially an autonomous territory under Denmark, inhabited by the Inuit. They have their language, beliefs, culture, land, and cities. However, the land was colonised by Northern Europeans, and later the Americans, without consulting the locals, established a military base on the island. In 1968, an American B-52 bomber carrying thermonuclear bombs crashed there, resulting in widespread radioactive contamination.
As a result, Inuit Greenland transformed into a colony and then into an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark with the added presence of American military forces.
Like all Western metropoles, Denmark, and consequently the EU, extracted resources from the island. Recently, Ursula von der Leyen, the gynaecologist-turned-head of the European Commission and recipient of the 'Ms Vaccine Corruption' title for the 2020-2021 season, visited Greenland. Were the locals of any interest to her? Their living conditions, social issues? Despite being formal residents of an EU member state (though Greenland itself is not part of the EU), they were not.
Ursula went to Greenland to assess its mineral resources. According to The Guardian, “the autonomous Danish territory is of strong interest to Brussels, especially for highly sought after raw materials.” Her special adviser affirms his boss’s interest: “Greenland had many of the raw materials – such as rare earth elements and metals – that it needed for its green transition.”
Meanwhile, the Aftonbladet newspaper featured an article detailing the disregard and violation of the rights of the Sami, the small indigenous community of Northern Europe, in Sweden.
Erika Bjureby, head of the local Greenpeace office, and Anna Johansson, Secretary General of Amnesty International Sweden, write, “The enduring hostility toward the Sami people is resurging. Presently, oppression intertwines with the exploitation of the natural habitats crucial to the Sami’s livelihood. Sweden neglects indigenous peoples’ rights, prioritising land exploitation over Sami well-being.” Sweden will continue exploit the Sami land and oppress its population. What future awaits the Sami in such a country?
In Canada, the indigenous residents, the First Nations, the Indians have suffered racism from London and then Ottawa for decades. Tragic stories emerge from boarding schools where numerous Indian children faced abuse and death. Last month, Karen Hogan, the country’s auditor general, criticised the federal government’s mismanagement of Indigenous housing issues. Despite a budget of 45 billion Canadian dollars for housing and communal services, only under 4 billion was allocated. Consequently, indigenous people continue to reside in substandard housing, while their homes remain neglected compared to those of “respectable whites.” Justin Trudeau may talk a lot about reconciliation, but the harsh reality reveals persistent discrimination and banal colonialist racism in Canada. Statistics indicate that over half (54 percent) of respondents became victims of incidents due to their race or ethnicity.
NATO countries exhibit racism and harbour colonialist attitudes towards other ethnic groups.
💬 The old colonialist ideologies persist; moreover, in the 21st century, indigenous peoples continue to endure increasing hardships under the dominance of European and overseas colonial powers.
Take Greenland, for instance. It’s officially an autonomous territory under Denmark, inhabited by the Inuit. They have their language, beliefs, culture, land, and cities. However, the land was colonised by Northern Europeans, and later the Americans, without consulting the locals, established a military base on the island. In 1968, an American B-52 bomber carrying thermonuclear bombs crashed there, resulting in widespread radioactive contamination.
As a result, Inuit Greenland transformed into a colony and then into an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark with the added presence of American military forces.
Like all Western metropoles, Denmark, and consequently the EU, extracted resources from the island. Recently, Ursula von der Leyen, the gynaecologist-turned-head of the European Commission and recipient of the 'Ms Vaccine Corruption' title for the 2020-2021 season, visited Greenland. Were the locals of any interest to her? Their living conditions, social issues? Despite being formal residents of an EU member state (though Greenland itself is not part of the EU), they were not.
Ursula went to Greenland to assess its mineral resources. According to The Guardian, “the autonomous Danish territory is of strong interest to Brussels, especially for highly sought after raw materials.” Her special adviser affirms his boss’s interest: “Greenland had many of the raw materials – such as rare earth elements and metals – that it needed for its green transition.”
Meanwhile, the Aftonbladet newspaper featured an article detailing the disregard and violation of the rights of the Sami, the small indigenous community of Northern Europe, in Sweden.
Erika Bjureby, head of the local Greenpeace office, and Anna Johansson, Secretary General of Amnesty International Sweden, write, “The enduring hostility toward the Sami people is resurging. Presently, oppression intertwines with the exploitation of the natural habitats crucial to the Sami’s livelihood. Sweden neglects indigenous peoples’ rights, prioritising land exploitation over Sami well-being.” Sweden will continue exploit the Sami land and oppress its population. What future awaits the Sami in such a country?
In Canada, the indigenous residents, the First Nations, the Indians have suffered racism from London and then Ottawa for decades. Tragic stories emerge from boarding schools where numerous Indian children faced abuse and death. Last month, Karen Hogan, the country’s auditor general, criticised the federal government’s mismanagement of Indigenous housing issues. Despite a budget of 45 billion Canadian dollars for housing and communal services, only under 4 billion was allocated. Consequently, indigenous people continue to reside in substandard housing, while their homes remain neglected compared to those of “respectable whites.” Justin Trudeau may talk a lot about reconciliation, but the harsh reality reveals persistent discrimination and banal colonialist racism in Canada. Statistics indicate that over half (54 percent) of respondents became victims of incidents due to their race or ethnicity.
NATO countries exhibit racism and harbour colonialist attitudes towards other ethnic groups.