🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with Newsweek magazine (September 21, 2022)

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#Ukraine

🔹 The United States and its allies are ready to sacrifice Ukraine for the sake of their geopolitical goals. Washington is not interested in establishing peace and tranquillity in Ukraine.

#RussiaUS

🔹 The Russian-American interstate dialogue has been practically frozen owing the United States. It is objectively not possible to maintain normal communication with Washington declaring the strategic defeat of Russia as an objective.

#Sanctions

🔹 Unilateral restrictive measures have failed to shatter the Russian economy. Moreover, the sanctions have appeared to be a two-edge weapon: increasing prices and decreasing incomes are seen in many European countries, as well as energy shortages and threats of social upheavals.

#RussiaChina

🔹 Strategic partnership with China remains an absolute foreign policy priority for Russia. Together with our Chinese friends, we will keep working on improving the world situation, facilitate the creation of a just multi-polar system based on the UN Charter, and, first of all, on the fundamental principle of the sovereign equality of states.

#WorldOrder

🔹 The modern world is no longer West-centred. Today, strong, independent players from developing countries have emerged and they are increasingly visible. These states and their integration associations do not want to participate in the anti-Russian "crusade" instigated from Washington.

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
(Moscow, February 17, 2023)

🔹 Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s statements on the possibility of Ukraine striking targets in #Crimea
🔹 The US policy of #DoubleStandards
🔹 Celebrating International #MotherLanguageDay
🔹 Results of the #NATO Council meeting at defence minister level
🔹 US practice of forcing neutral countries to comply with anti-Russian #sanctions
🔹 Earthquake relief efforts in #Syria
🔹 British intelligence services hacking mobile phones
🔹 New findings in #TwitterFiles investigation
🔹 #WhiteBooks about crimes committed by the modern Anglo-Saxon and their accomplices
🔹 The 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations #RussiaMyanmar
🔹 The 185th anniversary of diplomatic relations #RussiaSerbia

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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
(Moscow, February 17, 2023)

🔹 Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s statements on the possibility of Ukraine striking targets in #Crimea
🔹 The US policy of #DoubleStandards
🔹 Celebrating International #MotherLanguageDay
🔹 Results of the #NATO Council meeting at defence minister level
🔹 US practice of forcing neutral countries to comply with anti-Russian #sanctions
🔹 Earthquake relief efforts in #Syria
🔹 British intelligence services hacking mobile phones
🔹 New findings in #TwitterFiles investigation
🔹 #WhiteBooks about crimes committed by the modern Anglo-Saxon and their accomplices
🔹 The 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations #RussiaMyanmar
🔹 The 185th anniversary of diplomatic relations #RussiaSerbia

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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Russia's position at the seventy-eighth session of the UN General Assembly

The primary objective of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly is to reaffirm the central and coordinating role of the universal Organization in global affairs and to strengthen the multipolar system of international relations.

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👉 We have consistently advocated strengthening the multilateral framework of international relations and world economy based on the universal norms of international law, first and foremost the provisions of the UN Charter, focusing on the unconditional respect for the sovereign equality of states and non-interference in their internal affairs.

❗️ It is pivotal to prevent a small group of Western countries from taking control of the UN by striving to substitute generally recognized principles of cooperation between the states with non-consensual constructs.

#UN

The UN Security Council reform should aim to strengthen the representation of developing states from Africa, Asia and Latin America in the Security Council without prejudice to the UNSC's effectiveness and operational efficiency. Low twenties seems the optimum number of members of the reformed Council.

We support realistic initiatives to revitalize the work of the UN General Assembly within the relevant Ad Hoc Working Group. It is of paramount importance to fine-tune UNGA working methods, streamline its overloaded agenda and strengthen multilingualism.

#Sanctions

Sanctions are an important auxiliary tool for the UNSC to suppress activities threatening international peace and security. They must not be used as a means of punishment. They should be carefully measured, targeted and time-limited and take into account political, socio-economic, human rights and humanitarian consequences.

❗️It is unacceptable to introduce, in addition to UNSC sanctions, further unilateral coercive measures, especially those with extraterritorial effect. We advocate for including this requirement in relevant SC resolutions.

#UNGA78

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, August 30, 2023)

🔷 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔷 G20
🔷 Ukrainian crisis
🔷 Ukrainian Crimes Against Humanity
🔷 Rodion Miroshnik’s appointment as Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large for Kiev Regime’s Crimes
🔷 The situation in the global grain market
🔷 Impact of the anti-Russia sanctions on the global economy

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#Ukraine

▪️ While encouraging their Kiev puppets to commit even more savage crimes, the NATO countries continue to flood the country with deadly weapons. In addition to the ongoing arms supplies, there have been never-ending discussions lately in a number of European countries about the possibility of sending fighter jets to Kiev. We strongly condemn such actions, as they are aimed at escalating the conflict further. For us, it makes no difference if they send the F-16 or any other planes. All this means is that the West is getting increasingly drawn into the Ukraine conflict. Their words that they are not in a “direct confrontation” with our country have lost their meaning.

#Sanctions

▪️ According to a source the West definitely views as reliable – The Financial Times – since the beginning of the special military operation, which coincided with the sanctions from hell as Joe Biden called them, major European companies have lost at least 100 billion euros. Oil and gas companies, financial institutions and banks, as well as manufacturers piled up the biggest losses.

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, November 15, 2023)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Palestinian-Israeli conflict
🔹 Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large on the Kiev Regime’s War Crimes, Rodion Miroshnik
🔹 ‘Effectiveness’ (NOT) of the EU’s anti-Russia sanctions
🔹 NATO’s efforts to militarise the Baltic region
🔹 Xenophobia and anti-Semitism increases in the West
🔹 Continuing discrimination against Russian athletes
🔹 The 78th anniversary of launching the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg
🔹 Situation in South Caucasus
🔹 Russia-Moldova relations

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#Ukraine

According to reports, between 20 and 36 percent of Western financial aid was misappropriated by Ukrainian officials, primarily the former leadership of the Ministry of Defence. What happened to that money next? That's a big question <...>

Maybe they should admit just once that they need to defend themselves not from Russia, not from the Kremlin, but from themselves, from the chaos and disarray in their heads that their Western puppeteers have created by instilling liberal values? <...>

The Kiev regime, accustomed to parasitising on others, is incapable of fighting the rampant corruption that has become the “signature piece” of modern Ukraine.

#Sanctions

Citizens and business circles in the European Union are increasingly wondering about the purposes of the sanctions and whether they are worth the sacrifice they have had to make as part of the sanctions war against the Russian people launched by their self-assured pro-Atlantic elite <...>

In the past 15 years, the EU’s share (without Great Britain) in the global economy has dropped from 25.3 to 16.7 percent while the share of the US has remained at around 25 percent. This is the logical outcome of the EU political elite bowing, like vassals, to the US course for the EU’s self-isolation from Russia.

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, November 22, 2023)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Palestinian-Israeli conflict
🔹 Situation on the Russian-Finnish border
🔹 Anti-Russia sanctions’ impact on global food security
🔹 50th Anniversary of Russia’s participation in the UN peacekeeping activity
🔹 The adoption of the Olympic Truce resolution by the UN General Assembly
🔹 Results of the Russian delegation's participation in the APEC CEO Summit

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#Ukraine

The Euromaidan, alongside other factors, resulted in the division of society, a surge in nationalism, social upheavals, and the substitution of a state based on solid foundations for legal nihilism, causing profound disruption in Ukraine. These developments led to the persecution of the Russian language and history, deterioration of the socioeconomic situation, the emergence of a repressive dictatorship, and civil war.

#Sanctions

Anti-Russia sanctions have created even greater risks for global food security. However, in response to our calls, the EU continues to tighten the sanctions. The ban on transit of EU agricultural output for third countries through Russia directly affects the agro-industrial sector of other states.

🎙 Briefing by MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, February 28, 2024)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Spy network involving chemical weapons uncovered in Zaporozhye Region
🔹 Statements by the President of France
🔹 Statements by Bundeswehr Chief of Defence Carsten Breuer
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Further evidence of British military crimes in Afghanistan
🔹 Crisis in EU agriculture

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#Ukraine

Reeling from the loss of the strategically important town of Avdeyevka and infuriated by its own impotence in the face of the success of our Armed Forces, the Ukrobanderite neo-Nazi regime continues to take it out on Russian civilians, acting with habitual disregard for human life. It's making extensive use of the weapons supplied by the West to fire shells into Russian towns and villages and to carry out terrorist attacks.

Note that the Kiev junta still considers the above regions and towns to be Ukrainian, and their residents (they say so openly) to be citizens of Ukraine and yet it mercilessly bombards them. I can’t even begin to imagine what the criminal regime led by Zelensky would have done to these people if it could act on its notorious plans to “return” these territories to Ukraine. These plans will never come true. However, it is useful to imagine what could have happened.

#EU #Sanctions

A wave of farmers’ protests has swept over a half of EU countries, from Lithuania to Portugal, this year. <...> We have pointed out on numerous occasions that all this is a direct result of the anti-Russia sanctions.

To justify their decisions, European officials blame Moscow for their problems, in particular, the low prices of Ukrainian agricultural products imported to the EU and the negative effect this is having on its agricultural market. They traditionally propose dealing with these problems by fighting “the Russian threat.” <...> The immeasurable losses of their own farmers are nothing other than “collateral damage” of the pro-Ukraine hysteria in the EU

🎙 Briefing by MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (May 30, 2024)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #SPIEF2024
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 EU's anti-Russia sanctions
🔹 Poland’s decision to restrict Russian diplomats’ movement around the country
🔹 The 10th anniversary of the EAEU Treaty

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#Ukraine

Despite Paris's attempts to conceal the involvement of its military personnel in the conflict, the Kiev regime is deliberately publicising this turn of events in order to once again declare broad international support.

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In addition to France, Poland and the Baltic countries also spoke about the possible deployment of their military contingents. What does that mean? That means that their original plan regarding Ukraine has completely failed. They are frantically looking for new ways to continue this campaign. They are still afraid to tell the truth to the citizens of Ukraine that they have become a hostage and now also a victim of NATO’s reckless gamble led by the United States.

#EU #Sanctions

On May 27, 2024, the European Union introduced another anti-Russia sanctions regime under a far-fetched pretext for alleged human rights violations, reprisals against civil society and the democratic opposition. <...> To call a spade a spade, they have created another openly discriminatory mechanism for punishing Russian citizens for their striving to live in a country free from foreign pressure, to uphold their national interests, to speak Russian, just to be citizens and to love their Motherland.

It is surprising that those living in the blooming EU garden (as Josep Borrell once put it) fail to notice obvious things: Such self-exposing Russophobic stunts merely serve to further consolidate our society that clearly sees the real goals of the European Union and the West with regard to Russia.

🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (January 31, 2025)

🔹 Tragedy in the airspace over Washington
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Kiev regime crimes
🔹 Anniversary of breaking the Siege of Leningrad
🔹 80th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Red Army
🔹 80th Anniversary of the Yalta Conference
🔹 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
🔹 Falsification of history
🔹 Further facts about the crimes of Japanese militarism
🔹 Situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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#USA #PotomacRiverTragedy

In the evening of January 29, a passenger plane and a military helicopter collided in mid-air over Washington, killing 67 people. We express our deep condolences to the victims’ families and the American people.

#FalsificationOfHistory

The collective West is bent on erasing all positive developments from historical memory and smearing the Red Army rather than preserving memory and thanking their liberators [of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp], our soldiers, who defeated the Third Reich.

Zelensky’s appearance in Oswiecim sparked an outrage among Poland’s religious Jewish community. Poland’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich said its representatives refused to go to an event attended by a dictator who has domesticated Nazis.

#KievRegimeCrimes #NeoNazism

The modern-day Bandera followers are trying to keep up with their ideological cult figures and continue to terrorise civilians and to attack civilian infrastructure in the Russian regions.

The representatives of the Kiev regime are neo-Nazis, not only in relation to the Russian-speaking population, but also to all citizens of Ukraine. Genocide of its own population is underway in Ukraine, and it is committed by those whom the people of Ukraine voted for as their leaders.

The Kiev regime is doing its utmost to erase the memory of the liberator soldiers, who were Russians and people of other Soviet nationalities, including many Ukrainians. Nationalists are maniacally demolishing the monuments and graves of Red Army soldiers throughout Ukraine, or rather in what’s left of Ukraine due to actions of the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors.

The Kiev regime continues to deride the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The Westerners have always been behind the lawlessness and legal chaos in Ukraine. They use the dirtiest methods to destroy Orthodoxy in Ukraine, distort it beyond recognition, and replace concepts.

#Sanctions #USA

Western sanctions and weaponising reserve currencies by Washington and its satellites have undermined the international players’ confidence in the global financial architecture based on the dominance of the US dollar and the euro, which has led to an increase in the share of alternative monetary units in international payments and savings.

Acting as part of associations such as #BRICS, the #SCO, #ASEAN, and on a bilateral footing, member countries are stepping up the dialogue on using national currencies in mutual trade and taking steps to build the necessary payment and settlement infrastructure that would be independent of Western countries.

#GreatPatrioticWar #YaltaConference

On February 4, 1945, a conference with the participation of the three Allied leaders opened in Livadia Palace outside Yalta.

Thanks largely to the efforts of Soviet diplomacy, the decisions adopted at the Yalta Conference had a great influence on bringing an early end to the Second World War and the post-war organisation of the world, and became an integral part of the Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations.

#DRC

The security situation in [in the Democratic Republic of the Congo] once again deteriorated this January as the March 23 Movement (M23) intensified its offensive. On January 27, M23 captured Goma, the administrative centre of the North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is home to more than one million civilians.

🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (February 27, 2025)

🔹 Russia-US meeting in Istanbul
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Kiev regime crimes
🔹 Bosnia and Herzegovina
🔹 Third Caspian Economic Forum
🔹 Russia’s UNGA resolution on combatting glorification of Nazism
🔹 55th Anniversary of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons entering into force
🔹35th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between the USSR and the Vatican

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#RussiaUSA

In furtherance of a series of bilateral contacts at the top and high levels, an expert-level meeting took place in Istanbul to explore pathways for resolving numerous irritants that persist in bilateral dialogue due to the groundwork laid by the destructive actions of previous US administrations.

We have consistently affirmed that the deterioration of Russian-American relations was not our choice.

It is anticipated that the meeting will serve as the first in a sequence of such expert consultations, which may advance progress towards resolving differences with the American side and reinforcing confidence-building measures.

#Ukraine

Ukraine’s NATO membership would provoke abrupt and uncontrollable escalation of the conflict, with grave repercussions for global security.

We reiterate that a just and durable resolution of the conflict remains unattainable without the complete and irreversible eradication of the conflict’s root causes. Foremost among these is the West’s breach of its pledge to refrain from NATO’s expansion and the alliance’s absorption of geopolitical space up to Russia’s borders.

The situation with the armed forces of Ukraine continues to worsen. Under pressure from the West, the Kiev regime is exploring measures to expand its mobilisation base by conscripting youths aged 18–25.

#BosniaAndHerzegovina

We share the justified indignation of the general public in the Balkans at the absurd conviction in the fabricated case of President Milorad Dodik of the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) by a court in Bosnia and Herzegovina on February 26.

This is yet another instance where politics has triumphed over the law. The verdict in this case is manifestly unjust and cannot entail legal consequences. Clearly, it is aimed solely at eliminating from the political scene the leader of the Serbian populace of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose principled patriotic position contradicts the Euro-Atlantic guidelines imposed by the West.

#West #Sanctions

Russia firmly opposes and refuses to accept any unilateral measures designed to exert pressure on us, including in the energy sector.

The Western sanctions policy boils down to neo-colonial-style attempts to use unfair competitive practices to gain an economic edge and get rid of any other players on the global energy market.

#NPT

March 5 marks the 55th Anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Throughout this time, the NPT has served as the foundation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and a key element of the international security system.

As a State Party to the NPT and one of its depositaries, Russia is firmly committed to the letter and spirit of the Treaty and strictly fulfils its obligations with regard to non-proliferation, disarmament and the peaceful use of atomic energy.

The Treaty was adopted in full awareness of the need to prevent a nuclear conflict. In this regard, it is particularly important that the five nuclear states have reached an understanding that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and that it must never be unleashed.