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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 Maria Zakharova: Blinken: Russia was isolated at G20, and Lavrov left prematurely.
This is the same Secretary of State Blinken who said that everyone who knows the president, ”knows that he speaks very clearly and very deliberately for himself”.
It is you, Mr Blinken, who drove yourself into self-isolation by failing to attend a number of G20 events, where few people even noticed your absence. Now you’re making up stories to justify your own failure.
As for us, we have been told how you personally have been asking everyone to isolate Russia. Everyone you have asked is laughing behind your back because they know that your Administration is doomed to an ignominious end.
💬 Maria Zakharova: Blinken: Russia was isolated at G20, and Lavrov left prematurely.
This is the same Secretary of State Blinken who said that everyone who knows the president, ”knows that he speaks very clearly and very deliberately for himself”.
It is you, Mr Blinken, who drove yourself into self-isolation by failing to attend a number of G20 events, where few people even noticed your absence. Now you’re making up stories to justify your own failure.
As for us, we have been told how you personally have been asking everyone to isolate Russia. Everyone you have asked is laughing behind your back because they know that your Administration is doomed to an ignominious end.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 The green agenda in the US and Europe has rung out in fresh colours.
“Environmentally friendly” Austria has launched a coal-fired power station in Mellach. The US has boosted its oil production to 12 million barrels per day. US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm boasted that this figure is higher than under the Bush, Obama or Trump administrations. So what about the energy transition and abandoning hydrocarbons?
Permission for Italian and Spanish energy companies to use Venezuelan oil is also among these steps.
At the same time, the US Supreme Court has rallied to defend the coal industry in West Virginia and ruled to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate the state’s coal mining industry.
What is happening? A green counter-revolution?
☝️ But it gets even more absurd. The green transition has turned into a transition to green camouflage given the amount of weapons supplied to Ukraine by those who only yesterday were environmental activists.
💬 The green agenda in the US and Europe has rung out in fresh colours.
“Environmentally friendly” Austria has launched a coal-fired power station in Mellach. The US has boosted its oil production to 12 million barrels per day. US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm boasted that this figure is higher than under the Bush, Obama or Trump administrations. So what about the energy transition and abandoning hydrocarbons?
Permission for Italian and Spanish energy companies to use Venezuelan oil is also among these steps.
At the same time, the US Supreme Court has rallied to defend the coal industry in West Virginia and ruled to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate the state’s coal mining industry.
What is happening? A green counter-revolution?
☝️ But it gets even more absurd. The green transition has turned into a transition to green camouflage given the amount of weapons supplied to Ukraine by those who only yesterday were environmental activists.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 I have already written about how revelations by John Bolton, the former US National Security Advisor, on planning coups in various countries warrant an international investigation.
Let’s go back in history to see where he has left his footprints.
Between 2001 and 2005, Bolton served as an Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security in the Administration of President George W. Bush.
This is also when, on April 12, 2002, a motley crew of opposition forces linked to big business and old elites attempted to depose the democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by isolating him on a Caribbean island. A popular uprising that followed and the support of the military that remained loyal to its oath helped Chavez make a triumphant return to Caracas two days later to secure his presidency.
As it usually happens with the Americans, the coup was accompanied by orchestrated violence. The coup leaders deliberately redirected the agreed route of the mass anti-government rally towards the Miraflores Presidential Palace, where crowds of Chavez’s supported had gathered. The collision between the two groups was accompanied by fire by unknown snipers (do you recognise the playbook here?) and left around 20 dead and 100 wounded.
That evening the Russian embassy in Caracas received a phone call. The diplomat on duty answered it and heard the pleas for help from an activist with the pro-Chavez Fifth Republic Movement. Armed thugs, elated by the US-backed success of the opposition, were trying to break into his apartment. The noise in the background was then pierced by two gunshots and the call broke up... We never learned the identity of the man who called us hoping our country could help Venezuela, our brotherly nation, in its hour of need.
Books and articles have been written about the United States’ direct involvement in staging bloody coups in Latin America. All of this information is freely available online: find it and read it.
But the question of bringing America’s boltons to justice for the numerous crimes they have committed in Latin America and elsewhere remains open.
💬 I have already written about how revelations by John Bolton, the former US National Security Advisor, on planning coups in various countries warrant an international investigation.
Let’s go back in history to see where he has left his footprints.
Between 2001 and 2005, Bolton served as an Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security in the Administration of President George W. Bush.
This is also when, on April 12, 2002, a motley crew of opposition forces linked to big business and old elites attempted to depose the democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by isolating him on a Caribbean island. A popular uprising that followed and the support of the military that remained loyal to its oath helped Chavez make a triumphant return to Caracas two days later to secure his presidency.
As it usually happens with the Americans, the coup was accompanied by orchestrated violence. The coup leaders deliberately redirected the agreed route of the mass anti-government rally towards the Miraflores Presidential Palace, where crowds of Chavez’s supported had gathered. The collision between the two groups was accompanied by fire by unknown snipers (do you recognise the playbook here?) and left around 20 dead and 100 wounded.
That evening the Russian embassy in Caracas received a phone call. The diplomat on duty answered it and heard the pleas for help from an activist with the pro-Chavez Fifth Republic Movement. Armed thugs, elated by the US-backed success of the opposition, were trying to break into his apartment. The noise in the background was then pierced by two gunshots and the call broke up... We never learned the identity of the man who called us hoping our country could help Venezuela, our brotherly nation, in its hour of need.
Books and articles have been written about the United States’ direct involvement in staging bloody coups in Latin America. All of this information is freely available online: find it and read it.
But the question of bringing America’s boltons to justice for the numerous crimes they have committed in Latin America and elsewhere remains open.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 European politicians continue to insist that under the so-called grain deal, the produce in question allegedly goes to the poorest countries that need it the most.
They are doing this because they are sure that no one will ever verify such statements, and the tame Western media, as usual, can’t be bothered with such trifles as facts.
Meanwhile, detailed statistics are publicly available: each ship’s information as of September 12 is available on the UN Black Sea Grain Initiative Joint Coordination Centre website. See the Country column.
You can draw your own conclusions about which countries are poorest and most in need of help.
And if this is not how it is, then the deniers of reality must publish a diagram and data, in the same simple, accessible way, showing the secondary redistribution of these goods.
We're waiting.
💬 European politicians continue to insist that under the so-called grain deal, the produce in question allegedly goes to the poorest countries that need it the most.
They are doing this because they are sure that no one will ever verify such statements, and the tame Western media, as usual, can’t be bothered with such trifles as facts.
Meanwhile, detailed statistics are publicly available: each ship’s information as of September 12 is available on the UN Black Sea Grain Initiative Joint Coordination Centre website. See the Country column.
You can draw your own conclusions about which countries are poorest and most in need of help.
And if this is not how it is, then the deniers of reality must publish a diagram and data, in the same simple, accessible way, showing the secondary redistribution of these goods.
We're waiting.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 I find the Western assertion that Russia has decided to redraw the map of Europe to be very entertaining.
It’s funny to hear this thesis from Germany, which has its current borders exclusively because they were redrawn in the late 1980s. Let me remind you the main political slogan of Chancellor Willy Brandt: Jetzt wächst zusammen, was zusammengehört (“Now what belongs together, is growing together”). In the 1980s, we understood the Germans’ aspirations and met them halfway. That was due to our goodwill, despite the fact that Nazism had destroyed half of our country and killed more than 25 million of our citizens. Berlin has no right to even mention the redrawing of borders: their own historical experience is horrifying to remember, though it must never be forgotten either.
It's funny to hear this thesis from Eastern European countries, many of which became sovereign states exclusively because borders were redrawn in the last few decades. While enjoying their newly gained privileges and having forgotten about morality and responsibility, these capitals didn’t wish to know how the people who sacrificed so much for Europe in the 20th century and were divided for it felt. They didn’t give a damn about it. But we do.
It's funny when this thesis is linked with the situation in Ukraine, which got its statehood for the first time in history because borders were redrawn. First in 1918, and then again 70 years later.
It’s funny to hear about the redrawing of borders from across the ocean, after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, after support for redrawing Serbia’s borders and the US affair with “Kosovo’s independence.”
☝️ They need to decide once and for all whether the redrawing of borders is good or bad. And if they say that it all depends on the context, it would be difficult to find a more suitable context than constant oppression of minorities because of their language and ethnicity which ended in eights year of terror.
💬 I find the Western assertion that Russia has decided to redraw the map of Europe to be very entertaining.
It’s funny to hear this thesis from Germany, which has its current borders exclusively because they were redrawn in the late 1980s. Let me remind you the main political slogan of Chancellor Willy Brandt: Jetzt wächst zusammen, was zusammengehört (“Now what belongs together, is growing together”). In the 1980s, we understood the Germans’ aspirations and met them halfway. That was due to our goodwill, despite the fact that Nazism had destroyed half of our country and killed more than 25 million of our citizens. Berlin has no right to even mention the redrawing of borders: their own historical experience is horrifying to remember, though it must never be forgotten either.
It's funny to hear this thesis from Eastern European countries, many of which became sovereign states exclusively because borders were redrawn in the last few decades. While enjoying their newly gained privileges and having forgotten about morality and responsibility, these capitals didn’t wish to know how the people who sacrificed so much for Europe in the 20th century and were divided for it felt. They didn’t give a damn about it. But we do.
It's funny when this thesis is linked with the situation in Ukraine, which got its statehood for the first time in history because borders were redrawn. First in 1918, and then again 70 years later.
It’s funny to hear about the redrawing of borders from across the ocean, after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, after support for redrawing Serbia’s borders and the US affair with “Kosovo’s independence.”
☝️ They need to decide once and for all whether the redrawing of borders is good or bad. And if they say that it all depends on the context, it would be difficult to find a more suitable context than constant oppression of minorities because of their language and ethnicity which ended in eights year of terror.
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#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
💬 Poland, as represented by former Foreign Minister Sikorski, thanked the United States for blowing up a gas pipeline.
Estonian Foreign Minister Reinsalu congratulated the Ukrainian special forces on the Crimean bridge attack.
❗️ Murders, diversions, destructions, provocations and frame-ups – this criminal logic has bound NATO regimes with mutual collective villainesque responsibility.
💬 Poland, as represented by former Foreign Minister Sikorski, thanked the United States for blowing up a gas pipeline.
Estonian Foreign Minister Reinsalu congratulated the Ukrainian special forces on the Crimean bridge attack.
❗️ Murders, diversions, destructions, provocations and frame-ups – this criminal logic has bound NATO regimes with mutual collective villainesque responsibility.
#Opinion by Prof. Eugenia Vanina, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences ➡️ READ HERE
#Vanina: India follows its own interests and remembers the past, too
🤔 Interestingly, having posted this piece on its website, the Indian Express for some reason decided not to print it in a newspaper. While it did publish there outrageous remarks and far-fetched speculations of some Ukrainians who suddenly came to a conclusion that India is the best place to seed Russophobia. Feels like a ball tampering, as they call it in cricket.
#Vanina: India follows its own interests and remembers the past, too
🤔 Interestingly, having posted this piece on its website, the Indian Express for some reason decided not to print it in a newspaper. While it did publish there outrageous remarks and far-fetched speculations of some Ukrainians who suddenly came to a conclusion that India is the best place to seed Russophobia. Feels like a ball tampering, as they call it in cricket.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Keystone Pipeline 2 oil spill
Latest ecology news:
- Greenpeace applauds the introduction of a Cryptocurrency Transparency Bill.
- Over 3,500 took to the streets to join the Great March for Life, which began at 13:00 at the statue of Mont Royal despite severe frost.
- Surveys show 88 percent of respondents believe that the whole of society should work together to focus on biodiversity issues.
- St Louis region has the potential to become a world hub of no-soil farming innovation thanks to the collaborative efforts of dozens of experts over the past two years.
- Farmers Business Network and Environmental Defence Fund announce major expansion of regenerative ag operating lines.
Toto, where is the news about our beloved Kansas and the Keystone Pipeline oil spill?
💬 Keystone Pipeline 2 oil spill
Latest ecology news:
- Greenpeace applauds the introduction of a Cryptocurrency Transparency Bill.
- Over 3,500 took to the streets to join the Great March for Life, which began at 13:00 at the statue of Mont Royal despite severe frost.
- Surveys show 88 percent of respondents believe that the whole of society should work together to focus on biodiversity issues.
- St Louis region has the potential to become a world hub of no-soil farming innovation thanks to the collaborative efforts of dozens of experts over the past two years.
- Farmers Business Network and Environmental Defence Fund announce major expansion of regenerative ag operating lines.
Toto, where is the news about our beloved Kansas and the Keystone Pipeline oil spill?
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#Opinion
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev
Points of no return
🔸 The tragedy that is unfolding in Ukraine dates back to the late 20th century, to wit, the collapse of the Soviet Union.
🔸 Two dates can be considered points of no return. The first one can be traced back to the autumn of 2008, when the Western world supported Georgia's aggression against the Ossetian people. The second point of no return can be dated back to the spring of 2014, when the people of Crimea expressed their will during a legally held referendum and permanently rejoined their historical homeland.
🔸 If the issue of Russia’s existence is raised in earnest, it will not be decided on the Ukrainian front. Not by any means. It will be a question of the future existence of human civilisation. And there should be no ambiguity here. We don't need a world without Russia.
🔸 One can continue to flood the neo-Nazi Kiev regime with weapons and to thwart every opportunity to resume talks. Our enemies are doing just that and are unwilling to realise that their goals clearly lead to a total fiasco where everyone stands to lose.
🔸 Western countries and their satellites represent only 15 percent of the world population. There are many more of us, and we are much stronger. The peaceful might of our great country and the high standing of its partners are the key to preserving the world’s future.
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Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev
Points of no return
🔸 The tragedy that is unfolding in Ukraine dates back to the late 20th century, to wit, the collapse of the Soviet Union.
🔸 Two dates can be considered points of no return. The first one can be traced back to the autumn of 2008, when the Western world supported Georgia's aggression against the Ossetian people. The second point of no return can be dated back to the spring of 2014, when the people of Crimea expressed their will during a legally held referendum and permanently rejoined their historical homeland.
🔸 If the issue of Russia’s existence is raised in earnest, it will not be decided on the Ukrainian front. Not by any means. It will be a question of the future existence of human civilisation. And there should be no ambiguity here. We don't need a world without Russia.
🔸 One can continue to flood the neo-Nazi Kiev regime with weapons and to thwart every opportunity to resume talks. Our enemies are doing just that and are unwilling to realise that their goals clearly lead to a total fiasco where everyone stands to lose.
🔸 Western countries and their satellites represent only 15 percent of the world population. There are many more of us, and we are much stronger. The peaceful might of our great country and the high standing of its partners are the key to preserving the world’s future.
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Referring to the munitions that the Brits are going to send to Ukraine, the UK Ministry of Defence announced "…that any impact to personal health and the environment from the use of depleted uranium munitions is likely (oh, how they love this word) to be low."
Apparently, they tested these munitions on the Skripals’ cat and ducks in Salisbury ponds.
Now, allow me to describe what depleted uranium in munitions really means, and without using the phrase, “highly likely,” that is their favourite expression.
First, a little history. It is most indicative that the Nazis were the first to use these types of munitions in armour-piercing rounds. Reich Minister of Armaments and Military Production in Nazi Germany Albert Speer recalled that in summer 1943, the import of wolframites from Portugal was suspended, which created a critical situation for munitions with a solid armour-piercing core. This is why he ordered the use of uranium cores for this type of munitions.
In the latter half of the 20th century, NATO used Nazi developments in arms and began to produce and use depleted uranium munitions in its operations on a large scale. The aggression against Yugoslavia was the most tragic example of this.
At this point, we will turn to modern factology.
As I have said more than once, Italian army service personnel in a NATO contingent were largely involved in operations that used depleted uranium munitions. We have accessible statistics:
Italian soldiers in Yugoslavia were in charge of the territory where more than half of all depleted uranium munitions (17,237 rounds or 56.47 percent) were expended. NATO staged an experiment on real people and not just Serbs but Italians as well. Serbs were to play the role of direct victims and Italians the role of secondary victims. This made it possible to study how depleted uranium affected those who used it. It is likely that no one planned to assess the results of this experiment, but the relatives of the Italian military personnel that died of cancer compelled the parliament to do so.
Here is the link to the relevant report.
This 252-page document is one of many studies of the consequences of how depleted uranium and radioactive thorium affected the military personnel of the Italian Armed Forces. In brief, according to the research ordered by the parliamentary commission, the cancer rate increased by several times in the areas where depleted uranium munitions were used. Precise information on the Italian military personnel that used these munitions was published. Of 7,500 people exposed to toxic substances and radiation, 372 died (a 5 percent death rate – every 20th person). Moreover, they died of painful oncological complications – kidney dysfunction, lung cancer, bone cancer, esophagus cancer, degenerative skin development, Hodgkin's lymphoma and leukemia.
We even know the names of those who died: Corporal Antonio Attianese, Private Leopoldo Di Vico and many others. They all died of terminal cancer.
The number of suits filed by Italians against their Defence Ministry is steadily growing. The reason is the same – the cancer they developed after using depleted uranium munitions.
By supplying Ukraine with these munitions, Britain wants to turn its territory into a scorched and desolate land. Nobody will speak Russian or Ukrainian there. There will be silence there, like in Pripyat and Chernobyl.
https://t.iss.one/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/5185
Referring to the munitions that the Brits are going to send to Ukraine, the UK Ministry of Defence announced "…that any impact to personal health and the environment from the use of depleted uranium munitions is likely (oh, how they love this word) to be low."
Apparently, they tested these munitions on the Skripals’ cat and ducks in Salisbury ponds.
Now, allow me to describe what depleted uranium in munitions really means, and without using the phrase, “highly likely,” that is their favourite expression.
First, a little history. It is most indicative that the Nazis were the first to use these types of munitions in armour-piercing rounds. Reich Minister of Armaments and Military Production in Nazi Germany Albert Speer recalled that in summer 1943, the import of wolframites from Portugal was suspended, which created a critical situation for munitions with a solid armour-piercing core. This is why he ordered the use of uranium cores for this type of munitions.
In the latter half of the 20th century, NATO used Nazi developments in arms and began to produce and use depleted uranium munitions in its operations on a large scale. The aggression against Yugoslavia was the most tragic example of this.
At this point, we will turn to modern factology.
As I have said more than once, Italian army service personnel in a NATO contingent were largely involved in operations that used depleted uranium munitions. We have accessible statistics:
Italian soldiers in Yugoslavia were in charge of the territory where more than half of all depleted uranium munitions (17,237 rounds or 56.47 percent) were expended. NATO staged an experiment on real people and not just Serbs but Italians as well. Serbs were to play the role of direct victims and Italians the role of secondary victims. This made it possible to study how depleted uranium affected those who used it. It is likely that no one planned to assess the results of this experiment, but the relatives of the Italian military personnel that died of cancer compelled the parliament to do so.
Here is the link to the relevant report.
This 252-page document is one of many studies of the consequences of how depleted uranium and radioactive thorium affected the military personnel of the Italian Armed Forces. In brief, according to the research ordered by the parliamentary commission, the cancer rate increased by several times in the areas where depleted uranium munitions were used. Precise information on the Italian military personnel that used these munitions was published. Of 7,500 people exposed to toxic substances and radiation, 372 died (a 5 percent death rate – every 20th person). Moreover, they died of painful oncological complications – kidney dysfunction, lung cancer, bone cancer, esophagus cancer, degenerative skin development, Hodgkin's lymphoma and leukemia.
We even know the names of those who died: Corporal Antonio Attianese, Private Leopoldo Di Vico and many others. They all died of terminal cancer.
The number of suits filed by Italians against their Defence Ministry is steadily growing. The reason is the same – the cancer they developed after using depleted uranium munitions.
By supplying Ukraine with these munitions, Britain wants to turn its territory into a scorched and desolate land. Nobody will speak Russian or Ukrainian there. There will be silence there, like in Pripyat and Chernobyl.
https://t.iss.one/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/5185
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 The Kiev regime's attempt to attack an area where civilian infrastructure is located, including an airport, which, incidentally, also serves international flights, is yet another act of terrorism.
Considering that Zelensky carries out these attacks with weapons supplied by the West or purchased with Western funds, this is international terrorism.
The international community must understand that the United States, the UK and France, all permanent members of the UN Security Council, are financing a terrorist regime.
💬 The Kiev regime's attempt to attack an area where civilian infrastructure is located, including an airport, which, incidentally, also serves international flights, is yet another act of terrorism.
Considering that Zelensky carries out these attacks with weapons supplied by the West or purchased with Western funds, this is international terrorism.
The international community must understand that the United States, the UK and France, all permanent members of the UN Security Council, are financing a terrorist regime.
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#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
💬 The Kiev regime has decorated the Motherland Monument (iconic Soviet monument, unveiled in 1981, marking the Victory over Nazism in #WWII) in the colours of the US flag on July 4.
Apparently, this is a visualization of a concept by a local "historian" Alexander Dubina that Christopher Columbus was... Ukrainian 🤡
💬 The Kiev regime has decorated the Motherland Monument (iconic Soviet monument, unveiled in 1981, marking the Victory over Nazism in #WWII) in the colours of the US flag on July 4.
Apparently, this is a visualization of a concept by a local "historian" Alexander Dubina that Christopher Columbus was... Ukrainian 🤡
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 On February 28, 2022, Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki said that the use of cluster bombs would be a war crime.
Over a year later, Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to US President Joe Biden, said at a briefing that the White House would provide cluster munitions to Ukraine.
We are looking forward to what Biden’s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will say 🎪
UPD. They decided to give the floor to the boss: President Biden said that it was a “difficult decision” to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, but Ukrainians “need them.”
He forgot to add that dead Ukrainians need them especially badly.
💬 On February 28, 2022, Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki said that the use of cluster bombs would be a war crime.
Over a year later, Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to US President Joe Biden, said at a briefing that the White House would provide cluster munitions to Ukraine.
We are looking forward to what Biden’s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will say 🎪
UPD. They decided to give the floor to the boss: President Biden said that it was a “difficult decision” to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, but Ukrainians “need them.”
He forgot to add that dead Ukrainians need them especially badly.
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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 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
💬 During the briefing today I spoke about the absence of an appropriate response from the relevant international organisations to the Kiev regime’s crimes and its tactic of terror against Russian journalists and other media representatives.
We saw a perfect example of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis’ reaction even to feeble criticism after UNESCO Secretary-General Audrey Azoulay posted an absolutely toothless comment on the murder of Russian military reporter Rostislav Zhuravlev by the Banderites and the wounding of his colleagues in an attack launched with the use of US-supplied cluster munitions. She said that she “deplored” the death of the Russian journalist, as if it was just another obituary, whereas she was supposed to provide an appropriate assessment of a crime.
The Ukrainian delegation reacted to her comment immediately and in its traditional extremist manner. They circulated a note on behalf of the “Ukrainian media community,” which not simply justified the murder of Rostislav Zhuravlev but also included a new package (!) of open threats to our correspondents and media outlets. It said that Russian media organisations and their personnel must receive the punishment they deserve for their actions.
❗️ Responsibility for the birth of that satanic monster called the Kiev regime lies with those who have disregarded its crimes over the years, even though it is their primary duty to call such culprits to account. Crafty non-committal replies won’t be accepted any more. You are responsible, through your action or inaction, for creating a terrorist monster.
💬 During the briefing today I spoke about the absence of an appropriate response from the relevant international organisations to the Kiev regime’s crimes and its tactic of terror against Russian journalists and other media representatives.
We saw a perfect example of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis’ reaction even to feeble criticism after UNESCO Secretary-General Audrey Azoulay posted an absolutely toothless comment on the murder of Russian military reporter Rostislav Zhuravlev by the Banderites and the wounding of his colleagues in an attack launched with the use of US-supplied cluster munitions. She said that she “deplored” the death of the Russian journalist, as if it was just another obituary, whereas she was supposed to provide an appropriate assessment of a crime.
The Ukrainian delegation reacted to her comment immediately and in its traditional extremist manner. They circulated a note on behalf of the “Ukrainian media community,” which not simply justified the murder of Rostislav Zhuravlev but also included a new package (!) of open threats to our correspondents and media outlets. It said that Russian media organisations and their personnel must receive the punishment they deserve for their actions.
❗️ Responsibility for the birth of that satanic monster called the Kiev regime lies with those who have disregarded its crimes over the years, even though it is their primary duty to call such culprits to account. Crafty non-committal replies won’t be accepted any more. You are responsible, through your action or inaction, for creating a terrorist monster.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 The Kiev regime is a neo-Nazi malignant growth on the body of Eastern Europe. It gives the Hitler salute, stages torchlight processions, harasses the Jewish population and, of course, espouses total Russophobia.
But now new documents have come to light concerning yet another oppressed group of people, Muslim Tatars.
Journalists from the Turkish Aydinlik newspaper received access to the correspondence of Deputy Chief of the 3rd Sector of the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) State Security Department for the Kherson Region Lt-Col D. Dosenko, including classified documents.
In them SBU employees report to their superiors that the Tatar (Crimean Tatar) population of Ukraine “continues to pose a threat to the territorial integrity and the constitutional system of the country”. We don’t know when this report was submitted but most likely it was in 2020-2021, according to experts.
The document is full of derogatory language about Ukraine’s Tatar population (I will recall that this is an official SBU report). This is from the background file on activist Gulnara Bekirova, a candidate of Zelensky’s party Servant of the People – “Holds nationalist views”.
The document also raised other issues, for instance, financial ones: “The financing of Lenur Islyamov’s initiatives and projects will be substantially reduced because he failed to fulfil his commitments and did PR events instead of real work”. More broadly, this shows once again the extent of the theft in Ukraine in all areas – from allocations for arms supplies to funds for national policy. It’s corruption from top to bottom.
While in Russian Crimea and the new territories, all ethnic groups live in peace and are able to move forward, speak their language and maintain their identity, neo-Nazi militants from Kiev continue their attempts to build a mono-ethnic state. They do not care who is crushed under the wheels of repression, be it Russians, Trans-Carpathian Hungarians, Jews, Roma or Tatars.
💬 The Kiev regime is a neo-Nazi malignant growth on the body of Eastern Europe. It gives the Hitler salute, stages torchlight processions, harasses the Jewish population and, of course, espouses total Russophobia.
But now new documents have come to light concerning yet another oppressed group of people, Muslim Tatars.
Journalists from the Turkish Aydinlik newspaper received access to the correspondence of Deputy Chief of the 3rd Sector of the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) State Security Department for the Kherson Region Lt-Col D. Dosenko, including classified documents.
In them SBU employees report to their superiors that the Tatar (Crimean Tatar) population of Ukraine “continues to pose a threat to the territorial integrity and the constitutional system of the country”. We don’t know when this report was submitted but most likely it was in 2020-2021, according to experts.
The document is full of derogatory language about Ukraine’s Tatar population (I will recall that this is an official SBU report). This is from the background file on activist Gulnara Bekirova, a candidate of Zelensky’s party Servant of the People – “Holds nationalist views”.
The document also raised other issues, for instance, financial ones: “The financing of Lenur Islyamov’s initiatives and projects will be substantially reduced because he failed to fulfil his commitments and did PR events instead of real work”. More broadly, this shows once again the extent of the theft in Ukraine in all areas – from allocations for arms supplies to funds for national policy. It’s corruption from top to bottom.
While in Russian Crimea and the new territories, all ethnic groups live in peace and are able to move forward, speak their language and maintain their identity, neo-Nazi militants from Kiev continue their attempts to build a mono-ethnic state. They do not care who is crushed under the wheels of repression, be it Russians, Trans-Carpathian Hungarians, Jews, Roma or Tatars.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 The Foreign Ministry has released a statement regarding the food deal and the supply of grain and fertiliser.
Let's, for the umpteenth time, use facts and figures to take a look at the situation concerning food security after the Black Sea Initiative was discontinued.
1. The grain deal did not help the poorest countries address hunger. Out of 32.8 million tonnes of food, just a trifle - less than 3 percent - were sent to the countries in need.
2. After the deal came to an end, grain prices continued to fall. In August, they fell by 4-5 percent.
3. The grain exported as part of the deal mainly went toward enriching Ukrainian animal feed producers. It was primarily intended for livestock and was shipped to Europe rather than Africa.
4. Ukraine is no longer the world's breadbasket. The country's share of global grain exports is only 5 percent and continues to shrink.
5. Ukraine's arable land is shrinking as well, partly due to contamination with radiation and toxins from depleted uranium munitions that Kiev has been using since the spring.
6. Europe is not helping Ukraine export grain. Since May, there has been a ban on grain shipments to EU countries bordering on Ukraine. This situation is likely to continue into the winter.
Now, let's discuss the UN Secretariat and the West being unwilling to act on their obligations to Russia under the deal.
1. To make the deal work, it is necessary to reconnect Rosselkhozbank to SWIFT. Instead, what we are witnessing are endless discussions about creating intermediary mechanisms through subsidiary enterprises and partner banks (without implementation guarantees). Rosselkhozbank accounts are being closed altogether.
2. There has been no progress on insuring Russian ships. We’ve seen nothing but promises to take care of things “later.” A special insurance platform mechanism has not been created.
3. The unlocking of assets is only to be discussed after the humiliating process of companies acknowledging their “sanctioned status.” Again, without any guarantees.
4. The UN remains silent with regard to resuming the Toglatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline’s operation, which could provide fertiliser to tens of millions of customers.
5. We invited the UN to join in a discussion, but Rebeca Grynspan who is in charge of the deal on behalf of the UN, is unwilling to come to Moscow or even send reports about her activities.
Finally, let's talk about how Russia is actually addressing the issue of hunger in the world, without any “deals.”
1. Russia has already sent or will soon send:
• 20,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Malawi;
• 34,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Kenya;
• 23,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Zimbabwe;
• 34,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Nigeria;
• 55,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Sri Lanka;
• 200,000 tonnes of wheat to Somalia, the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, and Eritrea.
2. A project is being developed jointly with Ankara and Doha to deliver 1 million tonnes of grain (!) to Türkiye where it will be processed and shipped free of charge (!) to the poorest countries.
It turns out that while Europe was exporting animal feed grain from Ukraine across the Black Sea as part of the deal, efforts were made to block and to create loss-making circumstances for Russian agriculture. The UN failed to resolve the situation.
💬 The Foreign Ministry has released a statement regarding the food deal and the supply of grain and fertiliser.
Let's, for the umpteenth time, use facts and figures to take a look at the situation concerning food security after the Black Sea Initiative was discontinued.
1. The grain deal did not help the poorest countries address hunger. Out of 32.8 million tonnes of food, just a trifle - less than 3 percent - were sent to the countries in need.
2. After the deal came to an end, grain prices continued to fall. In August, they fell by 4-5 percent.
3. The grain exported as part of the deal mainly went toward enriching Ukrainian animal feed producers. It was primarily intended for livestock and was shipped to Europe rather than Africa.
4. Ukraine is no longer the world's breadbasket. The country's share of global grain exports is only 5 percent and continues to shrink.
5. Ukraine's arable land is shrinking as well, partly due to contamination with radiation and toxins from depleted uranium munitions that Kiev has been using since the spring.
6. Europe is not helping Ukraine export grain. Since May, there has been a ban on grain shipments to EU countries bordering on Ukraine. This situation is likely to continue into the winter.
Now, let's discuss the UN Secretariat and the West being unwilling to act on their obligations to Russia under the deal.
1. To make the deal work, it is necessary to reconnect Rosselkhozbank to SWIFT. Instead, what we are witnessing are endless discussions about creating intermediary mechanisms through subsidiary enterprises and partner banks (without implementation guarantees). Rosselkhozbank accounts are being closed altogether.
2. There has been no progress on insuring Russian ships. We’ve seen nothing but promises to take care of things “later.” A special insurance platform mechanism has not been created.
3. The unlocking of assets is only to be discussed after the humiliating process of companies acknowledging their “sanctioned status.” Again, without any guarantees.
4. The UN remains silent with regard to resuming the Toglatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline’s operation, which could provide fertiliser to tens of millions of customers.
5. We invited the UN to join in a discussion, but Rebeca Grynspan who is in charge of the deal on behalf of the UN, is unwilling to come to Moscow or even send reports about her activities.
Finally, let's talk about how Russia is actually addressing the issue of hunger in the world, without any “deals.”
1. Russia has already sent or will soon send:
• 20,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Malawi;
• 34,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Kenya;
• 23,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Zimbabwe;
• 34,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Nigeria;
• 55,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Sri Lanka;
• 200,000 tonnes of wheat to Somalia, the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, and Eritrea.
2. A project is being developed jointly with Ankara and Doha to deliver 1 million tonnes of grain (!) to Türkiye where it will be processed and shipped free of charge (!) to the poorest countries.
It turns out that while Europe was exporting animal feed grain from Ukraine across the Black Sea as part of the deal, efforts were made to block and to create loss-making circumstances for Russian agriculture. The UN failed to resolve the situation.
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⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on the grain deal
Concluded in Istanbul on July 22, 2022, the Black Sea Initiative to export Ukrainian food products (suspended on July 17) has been receiving a lot of attention. Against this backdrop, the Foreign Ministry considers…
Concluded in Istanbul on July 22, 2022, the Black Sea Initiative to export Ukrainian food products (suspended on July 17) has been receiving a lot of attention. Against this backdrop, the Foreign Ministry considers…
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
According to the media, the White House claims that depleted uranium munitions to be sent to Kiev do not present a radioactive threat.
Is this a lie or ineptitude?
I wrote many times about the toxicity of depleted uranium, the special danger of radioactive dust for human health and soil contamination with radionuclides, I would like to remind everyone that the number of cancer cases spiked in the areas where depleted uranium munitions have been used. NATO military personnel can testify to that, especially Italian servicemen, who did not know about this during the bloc’s aggression against Yugoslavia. Years later, the Italian parliament published a 252-page report citing the results of such research.
Out of the 7,500 people subjected to the effects of toxic agents and radiation, 372 have died (that is a 5 percent mortality rate, or every 20th person). Moreover, they died of painful cancer complications such as renal dysfunction, lung cancer, bone cancer, oesophagus cancer, degenerative skin disorder, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and leukaemia.
Serbs, the direct victims of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia, were also affected by depleted uranium munitions. According to the Serbian Health Ministry, the rate of various diseases increased considerably in the regions bombed by NATO, including cancer, male infertility, a broad range of autoimmune diseases, pathological pregnancies, and children’s mental disorders.
According to the media, the White House claims that depleted uranium munitions to be sent to Kiev do not present a radioactive threat.
Is this a lie or ineptitude?
I wrote many times about the toxicity of depleted uranium, the special danger of radioactive dust for human health and soil contamination with radionuclides, I would like to remind everyone that the number of cancer cases spiked in the areas where depleted uranium munitions have been used. NATO military personnel can testify to that, especially Italian servicemen, who did not know about this during the bloc’s aggression against Yugoslavia. Years later, the Italian parliament published a 252-page report citing the results of such research.
Out of the 7,500 people subjected to the effects of toxic agents and radiation, 372 have died (that is a 5 percent mortality rate, or every 20th person). Moreover, they died of painful cancer complications such as renal dysfunction, lung cancer, bone cancer, oesophagus cancer, degenerative skin disorder, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and leukaemia.
Serbs, the direct victims of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia, were also affected by depleted uranium munitions. According to the Serbian Health Ministry, the rate of various diseases increased considerably in the regions bombed by NATO, including cancer, male infertility, a broad range of autoimmune diseases, pathological pregnancies, and children’s mental disorders.