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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following the 20th Session of the Valdai International Discussion Club (Sochi, October 2, 2023)
#MultipolarWorld
Today we talked about changes taking place in the international arena. The world is becoming multipolar. The expansion of BRICS is the main evidence of this. BRICS is seen as a reliable partner and as a structure that will not disappoint and will help each member feel more confident.
#UN
UN reform must reflect the reality of a multipolar world where the West can no longer claim the role that it is seeking to maintain either fairly or otherwise. The process is underway. We are taking an active part in it.
#Russophobia
What strikes me most is the speed with which the outward civility has fallen away from practically all Europeans, the front they have been hiding behind in recent years, retaining not only the remnants of diplomacy but also traces of elementary ethics. This is a manifestation of what is usually called Nazism – just in relation of Russians.
#SouthCaucasus
We are working with our Azerbaijani colleagues and neighbours to stabilise the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, to strengthen trust, and create conditions for the Armenians and Azerbaijanis to resume their normal life together. I hope that Yerevan should also have a stake in that and will undertake efforts to this end.
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#MultipolarWorld
Today we talked about changes taking place in the international arena. The world is becoming multipolar. The expansion of BRICS is the main evidence of this. BRICS is seen as a reliable partner and as a structure that will not disappoint and will help each member feel more confident.
#UN
UN reform must reflect the reality of a multipolar world where the West can no longer claim the role that it is seeking to maintain either fairly or otherwise. The process is underway. We are taking an active part in it.
#Russophobia
What strikes me most is the speed with which the outward civility has fallen away from practically all Europeans, the front they have been hiding behind in recent years, retaining not only the remnants of diplomacy but also traces of elementary ethics. This is a manifestation of what is usually called Nazism – just in relation of Russians.
#SouthCaucasus
We are working with our Azerbaijani colleagues and neighbours to stabilise the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, to strengthen trust, and create conditions for the Armenians and Azerbaijanis to resume their normal life together. I hope that Yerevan should also have a stake in that and will undertake efforts to this end.
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🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, April 17, 2025)
🔹 Ukraine crisis
🔹 Kiev regime crimes
🔹 Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime’s “anti-terrorist operation” against Donbass (2014)
🔹 Situation in and around Gagauzia
🔹 On Estonia’s plans to sink civilian ships in the Baltic
🔹 Violations of the rights of Russian citizens in Estonia and Finland
🔹 UNESCO
🔹 United Action and Remembrance Day on the genocide against the Soviet nation by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War
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#KievRegimeCrimes
We once again underscore the Kiev regime’s failure to adhere to the 30-day moratorium on strikes against the fuel and energy complex facilities.
AFU have conducted nearly daily UAV attacks targeting Russian fuel and energy infrastructure. Since the declared “energy truce,” over 80 such attacks have been recorded.
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For several days now the collective West has been raging about the high-precision strike the Russian Armed Forces carried out with a high-explosive missile at the building where commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Western instructors were gathering in Sumy on April 13. The Westerners began to push a hastily concocted propaganda fake about the Russian missile that allegedly killed women and children.
Does the UN Secretary-General António Guterres know about what is happening in Ukraine now with these resignations, with the obituaries for Ukrainian military personnel, with the use of civilian population as a human shield in a military gathering?
#NATO #Militarism #Russophobia
Paris and London still fail to achieve consensus on their delusional proposal to deploy a “multinational peacekeeping contingent” comprising NATO member-state units to Ukraine.
Media reports suggest that aside from France and Britain, only the rabidly Russophobic Baltic regimes (note: not their populations, often kept ignorant by those in power) are prepared to join this reckless venture, which risks direct military confrontation between the Alliance and Russia.
Most coalition members doubt the feasibility of such an intervention without US backing. Washington continues to avoid entanglement in these Allied escapades, likely recognising the real consequences they would entail.
#Estonia #Baltic #Piracy
Starting from April 14, 2025, legal amendments came into effect in Estonia, enabling its Navy to use force against foreign ships.
If Russian ships are affected by any of these actions, our country will respond to the risks and threats posed by Estonia, a NATO member state, accordingly.
Russia firmly condemns these pirate-like aspirations because the mandate of the Estonian Navy transcends and violates international law.
#UNESCO #Journalists #DoubleStandards
The subject of protecting journalists’ safety was once again resonantly raised during the 221st session of the UNESCO Executive Board, where participants highlighted the UNESCO leadership’s recent action – or rather inaction – in this field.
We have repeatedly indicated our resolve to compel UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay to fulfil her mandate in good faith before it ends.
The heated debates on this issue at the Executive Board meeting clearly demonstrated that the disagreements over the UNESCO Secretariat’s policy on the track of (not) protecting the safety of journalists are becoming fundamental.
This trend became especially pronounced after Audrey Azoulay’s notorious report she delivered last year, which failed to mention Russian frontline reporters and other media workers who died at the hands of Kiev regime militants in 2022 and 2023.
🔹 Ukraine crisis
🔹 Kiev regime crimes
🔹 Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime’s “anti-terrorist operation” against Donbass (2014)
🔹 Situation in and around Gagauzia
🔹 On Estonia’s plans to sink civilian ships in the Baltic
🔹 Violations of the rights of Russian citizens in Estonia and Finland
🔹 UNESCO
🔹 United Action and Remembrance Day on the genocide against the Soviet nation by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War
📰 Read
📺 Watch
***
#KievRegimeCrimes
We once again underscore the Kiev regime’s failure to adhere to the 30-day moratorium on strikes against the fuel and energy complex facilities.
AFU have conducted nearly daily UAV attacks targeting Russian fuel and energy infrastructure. Since the declared “energy truce,” over 80 such attacks have been recorded.
***
For several days now the collective West has been raging about the high-precision strike the Russian Armed Forces carried out with a high-explosive missile at the building where commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Western instructors were gathering in Sumy on April 13. The Westerners began to push a hastily concocted propaganda fake about the Russian missile that allegedly killed women and children.
Does the UN Secretary-General António Guterres know about what is happening in Ukraine now with these resignations, with the obituaries for Ukrainian military personnel, with the use of civilian population as a human shield in a military gathering?
#NATO #Militarism #Russophobia
Paris and London still fail to achieve consensus on their delusional proposal to deploy a “multinational peacekeeping contingent” comprising NATO member-state units to Ukraine.
Media reports suggest that aside from France and Britain, only the rabidly Russophobic Baltic regimes (note: not their populations, often kept ignorant by those in power) are prepared to join this reckless venture, which risks direct military confrontation between the Alliance and Russia.
Most coalition members doubt the feasibility of such an intervention without US backing. Washington continues to avoid entanglement in these Allied escapades, likely recognising the real consequences they would entail.
#Estonia #Baltic #Piracy
Starting from April 14, 2025, legal amendments came into effect in Estonia, enabling its Navy to use force against foreign ships.
If Russian ships are affected by any of these actions, our country will respond to the risks and threats posed by Estonia, a NATO member state, accordingly.
Russia firmly condemns these pirate-like aspirations because the mandate of the Estonian Navy transcends and violates international law.
#UNESCO #Journalists #DoubleStandards
The subject of protecting journalists’ safety was once again resonantly raised during the 221st session of the UNESCO Executive Board, where participants highlighted the UNESCO leadership’s recent action – or rather inaction – in this field.
We have repeatedly indicated our resolve to compel UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay to fulfil her mandate in good faith before it ends.
The heated debates on this issue at the Executive Board meeting clearly demonstrated that the disagreements over the UNESCO Secretariat’s policy on the track of (not) protecting the safety of journalists are becoming fundamental.
This trend became especially pronounced after Audrey Azoulay’s notorious report she delivered last year, which failed to mention Russian frontline reporters and other media workers who died at the hands of Kiev regime militants in 2022 and 2023.