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.

#EEF2024

🎙Read excerpts from the statement of Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE A.Volgarev «On religious "war" unleashed by Kiev regime against the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church» (meeting of the OSCE PC, 05.09.2024)

🇷🇺 Russia has consistently drawn the attention of the OSCE to the worsening situation in the religious sphere in Ukraine, where representatives of the Kiev regime have for many years sought the total eradication of canonical Orthodoxy
 
☦️ Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) is being carried out there through a smear campaign launched by the Ukrainian media. The mass seizures of churches by radical nationalists with the complicity of local authorities, special services and law enforcement agencies are shamelessly justified
 
⚠️ As a rule, they are accompanied by violence, mass beatings of clergy and believers. Numerous attempts to seize the largest monasteries of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are constantly being made, and their inhabitants are being forcibly evicted
 
▪️Ukrainian security services are exerting direct pressure on the UOC, its episcopate and clergy, including threats, blackmail and the opening of dozens of trumped-up criminal cases on political grounds. Many of its priests are under arrest, imprisoned or have received unjust sentences
 
❌ Local authorities in a number of regions and localities of Ukraine have simply banned the activities of the UOC, forcibly closing its churches, preventing worship services, illegally seizing land plots under its monasteries, churches and shrines
 
▪️At the end of August, V.Zelensky signed the law "On the protection of the constitutional order in the sphere of activity of religious organizations". Representatives of the Kiev regime took a step that may surpass all previous historical repressions against the UOC in its scale
 
▪️The proponents of this treacherous act don't hide that the law is aimed directly against the canonical UOC. Hundreds of monasteries, thousands of communities, millions of Orthodox Christians will find themselves outside the legal framework, losing their property and a place to pray
 
▪️The supporters of the bill ignored the opinion of millions of believers, the position of the UOC itself, the legal community and even the timid criticism of the foreign patrons of Zelensky's regime. Its representatives once again demonstrated their disregard for their own citizens, aggravating the already serious split in society
 
☝️For the first time we have witnessed the banning of an entire religious denomination in the pan-European area, the open violation of the rights of millions of believers, and the brazen and shameless violation of well-known international commitments in the area of freedom of religion, including within the OSCE
 
❗️The blatant silence and complete inaction of R. Polak, Personal Representative of the Maltese OSCE CiO for Combating Intolerance and Discrimination, including against Christians, throughout the entire repressive campaign against the UOC raises questions about her professional competence and suitability for her position
 
📣 We call on representatives of the relevant OSCE executive structures first and foremost the ODIHR, to finally respond publicly to the intensification of repression against the believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It is necessary to give a principled assessment of the religious "war" unleashed by the Kiev regime against the canonical Orthodox Church of Ukraine and its followers