🇷🇺🇲🇾 President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim met on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.

💬 President Putin: Mr. Prime Minister, I would like to begin by thanking you for accepting our invitation to come here and attend the Eastern Economic Forum. Tomorrow, we will take part in its plenary session, and I am certain that this will be a useful event for discussing our objectives in bringing the regional economies closer together. In fact, we have many guests here from dozens of countries, which means that you will be able to engage in useful contacts not only with your Russian colleagues, but also with colleagues from other countries.

Of course, I do hope that we will have an opportunity to explore ways to expand our cooperation as part of these efforts. Today, trade between our countries amounts to about $3.5 billion, which can hardly be considered a satisfactory result for us considering the potential we have. In fact, there are many opportunities on both sides.

As you know, Russia pays considerable attention to developing its relations with Southeast Asia and ASEAN. Malaysia plays a prominent role in this association, and will be assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN next year. We sincerely hope that during your chairmanship, we will be able to explore new opportunities for cooperation with this rapidly growing and promising region.

🎊 To conclude my opening remarks, I would like to congratulate you and the Malaysian leadership, as well as the entire nation on Independence Day, the national holiday you have celebrated recently. As far as I know, it is observed on August 31. I would like to use this opportunity to wish the people of Malaysia all the best, prosperity and wellbeing.

#RussiaMalaysia

🇷🇺🇨🇳 President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with Vice President of the People's Republic of China Han Zheng at the Far Eastern Federal University.

💬 President Putin: In October 2024, we will mark 75 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries. That event had a profound impact on our bilateral relations and on development of modern China and our interstate ties.

As per our agreement, we hope to see President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping at the upcoming BRICS summit. I propose holding a bilateral meeting during that event.

Thanks to our joint efforts, relations between China and Russia have reached an unprecedented level. We attach great importance to interregional cooperation. I hope that during our meeting today and our work at the Eastern Economic Forum tomorrow, we will have the opportunity to explore and identify new areas for cooperation.

We are grateful to the President of the People’s Republic of China for sending such a substantial delegation to this forum. I would like to thank you for leading this delegation and for taking part in our joint work.

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We are establishing subsidiaries of Russia’s leading world-class museums, theatres and musical venues here. I know that some performers who are popular with Chinese audiences have visited China many times, and have recently been on another tour. I hope that Vladivostok will also become a prominent hub for cultural exchanges and attract tourists from Russia, from all over the world and especially from China, which is our friend.

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🎙 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question about the latest US restrictions against Russian media groups

❓ Question: The US Department of the Treasury has announced the adoption of another package of sanctions against the Rossiya Segodnya media group and some of its subsidiaries, including RT, Ruptly and Sputnik. These sanctions will affect many of its executives. What will be Russia’s response to this aggressive US move?

💬 Maria Zakharova: To begin with, these and other US attacks against Russian media outlets, including through the largest US mainstream publications, are the result of operations carefully orchestrated by intelligence services to purge the national and ultimately the global information space of any forms of “dissent.” These preplanned actions are obviously designed to create the media background for the implementation of relevant election decisions.

The latest round of this witch-hunting campaign is rooted in a desire to push society into permanent stress, infect it with artificial phobias, create an image of a hidden enemy, assigning this role to Russia. We know that the United States has the technologies for this and has used them many times before, with disturbing side effects and consequences.

The main goal of the current administration is to scare [or distract?] the Americans with a “Russian threat” and to create an imitation of active work ahead of the elections.

When the authorities resort to such primitive methods of influencing voters, it is evidence of the decline of “liberal values.”

As for the US restrictions on our media outlets, Washington has previously imposed numerous stringent restrictions on them, which is further evidence of the irreversible degradation of the democratic state in the United States and its transformation into a totalitarian neoliberal dictatorship. This is our diagnosis for the American administration, which has reduced media outlets to pawns in its interparty squabbles and is deliberately deceiving the pubic with allegations about somebody’s imaginary interference in “democratic processes.” Nevertheless, there is high demand for truthful information about global developments provided by RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian media resources.

Meanwhile, the United States continues to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, infringing on the freedom of information, imposing its views on others, engaging in electoral engineering worldwide, and thereby provoking crises and conflicts with catastrophic humanitarian consequences.

The actions of the US authorities, which directly contradict their commitments to the freedom of information and media plurality, will not remain unanswered.

❗️ We warn once again that any attempt to expel Russian journalists from the United States, create unacceptable conditions for their work or hinder their professional operation in any other way, including through visa restrictions, will be regarded as grounds for a symmetric and/or asymmetric action against American media outlets.

Today, September 5, marks the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Minsk Protocol

⚠️ This document contained specific agreements between Kiev, Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic for the peaceful settlement of the #Ukrainian conflict, which arose as a result of the coup d'état on Maidan and Kiev's military operation against Donbass that followed.

Later, in February 2015, the “Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements” was adopted. This package was approved by the #UN Security Council. According to its provisions, peace was supposed to prevail in Donbass by the end of 2015, and efforts towards the socio-economic recovery of the region were to begin.

❗️ Faithful and consistent implementation of the Minsk agreements by Kiev was the only chance to bring peace back to Ukraine.

❌ Unfortunately, these agreements were never implemented. The Ukrainian government did not seize the opportunity for peace and instead sought to resolve the conflict by force. Both the former German Chancellor and the former President of France, who were guarantor countries of the Agreement, have admitted and publicly stated that they never intended to honour the agreements. Those who acted as guarantors of the Minsk Agreements cynically used the respite to arm the Ukrainian military and prepare it for a war with Russia.

☝️ In this situation, Russia had no right to step aside. Once we realized that all possible measures of political and diplomatic settlement had been exhausted and there was no other way to protect the people in the LPR and DPR from extermination, Russia recognised the independence of Donbass Republics and launched the special military operation.

#CrisisInUkraine #MinskAgreements

​🇷🇺💬 Déclarations du Président russe Vladimir Poutine lors de la session plénière du Forum économique oriental sur la situation autour de l'Ukraine, le 5 septembre 2024:

🔹La Russie protégera toujours les intérêts des gens en Ukraine qui défendent la langue et les traditions russes;

🔹La Russie n'a jamais refusé de négocier sur l'Ukraine, mais pas sur la base de demandes éphémères, mais sur la base des documents convenus à Istanbul;

🔹L'Ukraine était satisfaite des accords d'Istanbul, elle n'a abandonné сe projet qu'à cause de l'Occident;

🔹La Russie se rend compte qu'à Kiev et en Occident, elle a affaire à des personnes qui ne respectent pas les intérêts des autres pays et violent les engagements qu'elles ont pris, et elle cherchera des formes et des garanties qui vont fonctionner au moins d'une certaine manière;

🔹J'ai parfois l'impression que ceux qui dirigent l'Ukraine sont soit des extraterrestres, soit des étrangers … Ils ne pensent tout simplement pas à leur propre peuple;

🔹L'attaque des forces armées ukrainiennes dans la région de Koursk n'a fait que consolider la société russe, alors que l'ennemi voulait semer la panique et déstabiliser la situation en Russie;

🔹En attaquant la région de Koursk et d'autres régions frontalières, le régime de Kiev voulait détourner les forces armées russes de l'offensive dans le Donbass, mais il n'y est pas parvenu;

🔹Sur les attaques ukrainiennes contre les centrale nucléaires de Koursk et de Zaporojié : Il s'agit d'attaques terroristes très dangereuses.

​🇷🇺💬 Déclarations du Président russe Vladimir Poutine lors de la session plénière du Forum économique oriental, le 5 septembre 2024 (2e partie):

🔹L'économie russe se développe progressivement, la croissance du PIB à la fin de l'année pourrait dépasser les résultats de 2023. L'inflation en Russie a commencé à diminuer;

🔹L'économie russe est déjà la quatrième du monde, et l'écart entre la Chine et les États-Unis (première et deuxième place) se creuse;

🔹Les pays du Sud Global représentent plus de la moitié du PIB mondial et les pays du BRICS représentent un tiers;

🔹Plus de 30 pays dans le monde ont aujourd'hui manifesté leur volonté de coopérer et certains d'entre eux de rejoindre les BRICS;

🔹La Russie ne poursuit pas une politique de dédollarisation, ce n'est pas elle qui a refusé de régler les comptes en dollars, c'est le contraire qui s'est produit;

🔹L'Occident se rend déjà compte qu'il a commis une erreur par ses actions insensées qui ont poussé des pays à abandonner le dollar;

🔹L'économie mondiale ne résistera pas au «blocage» de l'énergie russe.

🇷🇺🇫🇷 La Russe Maria Pavlova (25 ans) a remporté aujourd'hui le 100 m brasse chez les athlètes handicapés moteurs, aux Jeux paralympiques, en établissant un record du monde dans la dernière série - 1 minute 26,09 secondes.

Le précédent record du monde lui appartenait également (1 minute 26,86) et avait été établi le 8 juin 2024. Elle est double championne paralympique. À Tokyo, elle a remporté l'or dans la même discipline. L'athlète est également médaillée de bronze au 200 mètres quatre nages aux Jeux de Tokyo.

La compétition se déroule à Paris.

#paranatation #Russie #or

🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in the 9th Eastern Economic Forum plenary session (September 5, 2024)

Full text of the statement and answers to media questions

💬 President Putin: We have designated the development of the Far East as a national priority for the XXI century. The significance and correctness of that decision have been confirmed by life itself, the challenges we have recently encountered and, most importantly, the objective trends that are gaining momentum in the global economy, when the main business ties, trade routes and the overall development are increasingly shifting towards the East and the Global South.

Our Far Eastern regions offer direct access to these growing emerging markets, helping us overcome the barriers which some Western elites are trying to create worldwide. The most important thing, as I have already mentioned, is that the Far East is a huge area for implementing business initiatives, launching complex projects and creating whole new industries.

❗️ The Far East has become a crucial factor for strengthening Russia’s standing in the world and our flagship in the new global economic reality. The further development of the Far East will largely determine the future of our country as a whole.

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Overall, representatives of more than 75 countries and territories are taking part in the forum’s events. It is extremely important that such discussions are complemented with substantive business dialogues and result in the adoption of investment decisions and trade agreements. I would like to say that over a thousand agreements worth in total more than 10.5 trillion rubles were signed during the previous three forums.

☝️The Eastern Economic Forum has rightfully become a respected venue for establishing reliable business contacts and discussing the strategic development of the Russian Far East and the Asia-Pacific region as a whole.

Other key talking points

• Russia's economy ranks fourth in the world in terms of GDP by purchasing power parity;

• We and our BRICS partners use national currencies in 65% of trade settlements with each other;

• We did not refuse to settle in dollars, we were denied settlements, and we were simply forced to look for other options;

• More than 30 countries are willing to cooperate with BRICS, and some of them are ready to join the group;

• The new members who joined BRICS this year are self-sufficient, have rapidly growing economies and will make their contribution to the development of the grouping;

• [Kiev regime's Kursk incursion] goal of trying to make us nervous, to relocate our forces, to halt our military adavance in Donbass was not achieved. Our Armed Forces stabilised the situation and stepped up their offensive.

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