#Opinion by Maria #Zakharova:

💬 The US Department of State’s reaction to Darya Dugina’s assassination and the evidence of Ukraine’s involvement provided by Russia discredit the United States’ human rights protection efforts.

Washington has no moral right (or, needless to say, any legal grounds) to judge the human rights situation in remote parts of the world since the murder of a journalist does not even receive a comment from this perspective, apparently so important to US officials. They simply ignored the fact that the incident involved a public figure.

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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 Latvian Ambassador in Russia Maris Riekstins visited the village of Bobrovka in the Omsk Region. His visit would have gone unnoticed had he not decided to talk to the press for some reason.

This Latvian fascist ambassador made a stunning statement. He said Riga [contrary to all international standards and notions of conscience and kindness] is demolishing monuments to Soviet soldier liberators because the special military operation in Ukraine is a continuation… of Russia’s historical mission of countering fascism and Nazism: “This is a continuation of the war that took place in the middle of the last century – the struggle against fascism. We will not keep such symbols at home because we are against this war.”

It follows from this that the Latvian authorities are now officially advocating Nazism and fascism. Of course, we guessed this some time ago when watching the torch marches and the honouring of SS veterans, and based on the misanthropic statements by the Riga regime. However, this is the first time this kind of logic has been expressed so openly.

There is no doubt that the tens of thousands of soldiers who died during the Red Army Riga Offensive, including many Latvian heroes, will, in the next world, question these Latvian politicians for all this sacrilege they are perpetrating now.

I will just remind you that the Omsk Region, from which this man, gloomy in every sense of the word, made his statement, sent 300,000 people to the front to fight the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War. Over half of them perished and 172 Omsk frontline soldiers became Heroes of the Soviet Union and Full Cavaliers of the Order of Glory.

People of the Omsk Region, please open the window to air out the place after Riekstins’s visit. It reeks.

#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

💬 For many days now, I’ve been following a real-life drama unfolding in Germany with bated breath. Recently 25 people were arrested there on suspicion of plotting and supporting a coup d’etat.

Words cannot express how concerned we are about the German constitutional system, which nearly fell victim to a putsch. Just think about it: 25 historical re-enactors could have overthrown a democracy in the centre of Europe! But the Republic stood strong. The “dangerous terrorists” calling themselves Reichsburger (including Prince Reiss, for God’s sake) have been defeated.

But a little bit more and… I dread to imagine what could have happened. Neither the 200,000-strong Bundeswehr, nor the Ramstein air base with a 30,000-strong US contingent, nor the BND and BfV intelligence services could have prevented the revival of the Prussian monarchy and the German Empire.

But Berlin held back the 25 revolutionaries. It was an impeccable job, bravo. Our standing ovation. The constitutional system is safe once again.

But there is a small question. A tiny one.

When Joschka Fischer supported the allegedly “peaceful transition of power” following the 2005 “Orange revolution,” when Guido Westerwelle met with the leaders of Ukrainian opposition on Maidan in 2013, when Frank-Walter Steinmeier held “mediation talks” with the putschists and usurpers during Euromaidan, didn’t it amount to direct support of the same coup d’etat that was so dashingly and harshly suppressed by German authorities inside their own country? And this is not a case of change in the political paradigm of the Federal Republic of Germany, since the people at the top are the same. Yes, indeed the same Frank-Walter Steinmeier who now proudly boasts of the “German liberal democracy which defended itself” gave his full support to the putschists on Maidan. Unless he was replaced by a double along with Merkel.

The seizure of constitutional bodies of power including parliament, courts, territorial and national executive offices by ultra-right radicals – does that amount to an attempted coup or not? If so, then why at least three German foreign ministers directly and politically supported it in Ukraine? If not, then what sort of coup d'état attempt could it have been with those Reichsburger?

This is a direct question that Berlin has to answer.

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 It seems to be the end of the road for Guaidó. He's done.

You may still recall this would-be president of Venezuela guided by Washington who pretended to assume office all while Nicolas Maduro was the country’s sitting president, duly elected and legitimate. What Guaidó was in charge of remains unclear. Some say that there were some diplomats who took his orders, but now that this American “el presidente” has officially become a mister nobody, all these self-proclaimed ambassadors resigned all at once, as if they were ordered to do so.

What a facepalm story.

Juan Guaidó’s backers have been turning away from him throughout 2022, as I wrote earlier, so by the end of the year, even Spain restored its relations with Venezuela, and appointed an ambassador there. And now it is a done deal: Guaidó is no longer even a puppet. He is simply a nobody.

Of course, the Americans are trying to rely on the radical opposition in order to pretend that the fight goes on. However, no one seems willing to take on the role of a fake president. They somehow managed to scrap together a team of three female leaders, but even the media outlets and experts on their payroll do not really believe in them. It is clear why: they will lose their backers just as the latest failed project.

Tikhanovskaya will come next, and I would suggest that Vladimir Zelensky keep Guaidó’s biography on his desk, right under the mirror.

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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 Western regimes were frothing at the mouth as they listened to the opening remarks by the President of Russia and the President of the People's Republic of China during talks in Moscow.

It’s a combination of envy, anger and plain old jealousy.

They failed to notice the most important thing which is that both leaders mentioned the many years of constructive, rather than destructive, bilateral relations. Constructive relations are not only in the interests of the two countries, but also in the interests of the entire world.

Let me refresh your memory regarding the latest developments in Sinophobia as performed by the Western ideologues of their own exceptionalism.

Germany forbids its companies from having anything to do with the latest Chinese telecom innovations, and the Netherlands has imposed a ban on cooperation with Beijing on microchips.

Clearly, both decisions were made under pressure from Washington, which is afraid of China getting ever stronger more than anything else.

At the same time, our North American neighbours from Canada exhibited miracles of electoral impotence and discovered that Beijing had plans to interfere in that country’s elections. Terrance and Phillip need more time than their American counterparts to figure things out, so they only just started singing the same old song about the main interference in elections (a trend of past electoral seasons).

And, of course, the US itself cannot forgive the Chinese for the fact that China’s tech generates more interest and is more popular than US software. According to experts, the anti-China initiative that was drafted recently may eventually lead to imposing a complete ban on TikTok which is the most popular social media platform among young people.

Here’s a quote from today’s speech by the Russian President. During their genuinely friendly exchange, he said: “In recent years, China has made a colossal leap forward in its development. It has been the object of sincere interest around the entire world, and we are even a bit envious of you.”

And one more important example.

Not so long ago we faced the pandemic. Russia and China were tested in their own way, but Moscow and Beijing supported each other during this difficult period, unlike the Western regimes, which were torn between preventing the Russian vaccine from entering the global market and blaming China for allegedly spreading coronavirus.

The once beautiful western “garden” has withered so much, perhaps for lack of Russian fertilisers which the West itself had blocked. On the other hand, the “jungle” is full of strength, abundant resources and raw material and, perhaps most importantly, creativity and responsibility.

#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

💬 British media outlet Sky News called Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “the Jedi master of the dark arts of diplomacy.”

Apparently, this is a Freudian slip against the backdrop of the Western propagandists’ complete ignorance.

In Star Wars, the Jedi represent the Light side.

Here's a snippet on what the creators of Star Wars wrote about the Jedi:

they are Jedi Knights, guardians of peace and justice, the Jedi Order. They stand on the light side of the Force. They are protecting the Galactic Republic. They know how to use the Force, a supernatural power. Lightsabers are their weapons.

In principle, this is all true except that Lavrov... has not yet drawn his lightsaber.

#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.

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 Between two Nazi salutes to the Kiev regime, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas found a couple of minutes in her busy schedule to record a solemn video message in support of anonymous internet trolls from NAFO, the North Atlantic Fella Organization. Kallas waxed lyrical about the “humour, intelligence and enthusiasm” of the fighters against “Russian disinformation” and thanked them “for their service.”

Let us take a closer look at these intellectual comedians.

The community first announced itself on Twitter in May 2022. The “fellas” loudly proclaimed their goal of supporting Ukraine and “countering Russian propaganda with the help of memes.” In reality, the whole struggle came down to a pack (a usual tactic for rabid neo-Nazi activists) harassing all insufficiently pro-Ukrainian commentators on Twitter and everyone who doubted the line of Washington and Brussels in general, as well as, as they say, to shitposting. If these comedians come across tough nuts who would not give in to a tsunami of waste, then the “fellas” would bombard the social network’s administration with tons of complaints in order to get the victim’s account blocked.

Anthony Burgess explored ultraviolence in his novel A Clockwork Orange, which was then brought to the screen under the same title by Stanley Kubrick. Watch it: it is just about the inner world of such bandits.

The group has become known for its truly cannibalistic antics like those at yesterday’s “NAFO Summit in Vilnius” (apparently, warming up for their senior comrades from NATO, who will gather there for their summit in a couple of days). A plush toy shark was brought onto the stage amid hooting and idiotic laughter to once again make fun of the recent tragedy involving a Russian in Hurghada. This disgusting meeting, by the way, was noted by Foreign Minister of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis, who, of course, also appreciated the “humour and intelligence” of NATO protégés. At the same time, progressive Europeans are very proud that “fellas” is a gender-neutral word. In the context of this orgy, the name “cannibals” would be more appropriate.

NAFO personifies exactly what the EU has seemed to be fighting until recently: hate speech, intolerance, trolling, spam, bullying, and all possible forms of xenophobia.

Now the Estonian prime minister is openly showering this internet scum with gratitude, although it seems that until recently the “advanced” Western democracies were hysterical over mythical “pro-Kremlin trolls” who, in their morbid fantasies, allegedly interfered literally in all processes of state administration abroad.

This is the essence of the West’s innate hypocrisy, which they now prefer to call a rules-based order. And the rule “this is a son of a bitch, but this is our son of a bitch” has been updated. The new version is: “we ourselves will become sons of bitches, if only to spite Russia.”

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💬 Less than a quarter of a century ago, London fought a bloody civil war against its own people, killing thousands. I mean the conflict in Northern Ireland, marked by unprecedented brutality on the part of British armed forces.

London decided that enough time had passed, and now, with the world community’s attention focused on Russia and the Middle East, it had an excellent opportunity to clear away their war criminals. And now, at Christmas, they passed the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill.

Reconciliation and settlement of problematic issues seems to be a good idea, but the goal of the law lies elsewhere.

Through this bill, British parliamentarians grant immunity from prosecution to their own military and police officers who shot at civilians during the conflict.

Now these issues will have to be considered not by a court, but by some Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery. No legal consequences, no deadlines, no arrests. And, of course, the authorities will control the activities of the commission, unlike the more or less independent judiciary.

This is how London will rehabilitate its punishers.

These are not my words. The Republic of Ireland is filing a claim against Britain to the European Court of Human Rights. Relatives of many of the victims of the British military during the armed conflict live there. The government in Dublin is outraged by London’s decision. The victims will not be avenged, and their killers will remain free simply so as not to attract unnecessary attention to the affairs of the not-so-distant past.

The next time you hear London moralists lecturing others on human rights and freedoms, remember the atrocities they carried out against their own people in recent history.

#Opinion by Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova

💬 Today, the High Court in London handed down an interim ruling to delay the extradition of the founder of the WikiLeaks portal, Australian investigative journalist Julian Assange, to the United States. <...>

It took the British justice system 161 months - almost 5,000 days - more than 13 years to decide ... TO WAIT SOME MORE!
Even counting from the arrest, 60 months, five years, have passed.

However, counting it that way begs the question: what have the British been busy with all that time as the Australian was sitting one street away in the Ecuadorian embassy? As a result of London’s pressure, he was in conditions of torture, confined to a small room with no access to the outside world and under round-the-clock surveillance by Scotland Yard.

The entire UK justice system has become a farce and a laughing stock for the whole world. All this is a mockery of human dignity committed by the woefully inefficient and punitive British pseudo-justice system.

It took London that many years to hand down a criminal procedural decision against the journalist.

🤷 On the other hand, London "knew everything" about who ordered the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk just a few hours after it took place.

The dome of Old Bailey - the central criminal court in London - features a statue of Themis. With her eyes wide open, she looks west to America.

Julian Assange, who has devoted his life to exposing the secrets of the British and American intelligence conglomerate, is becoming a victim of the corrupt British pseudo-Themis.

Once again, we draw the attention of the international community to the ongoing persecution of an investigative journalist at Washington’s behest.

❗️ This case has for many years now been causing serious damage to the institution of journalism and independent media, and violates the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and human rights.

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