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📸 Moscow, Russia

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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 9, 2023

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• Hypocrisy and duplicity have become an intrinsic part of Western diplomacy.

• Figures graphically prove that the West is striving to make as much money as possible from the conflict in Ukraine. Last year, its national debt increased by $13 billion to $111 billion. Even the most advanced country with a prosperous economy and industry and rapid growth rates would not be able to pay off $111 billion. For today’s Ukraine this amount is an excuse to take everything that remains of the Zelensky rule.

• The Ukrainian authorities have once again confirmed that they fraudulently deceived the world community and were not really going to fulfil their obligations under the Minsk Package of Measures as endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2202.

• The Ukrainian heirs to Nazi organisations have once again demonstrated their desire to continue the cause of their “heroes,” who are knee deep in the blood of thousands of Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Poles and people of other ethnicities.

• By imposing new unilateral restrictions that undermine the international legal prerogatives of the UN Security Council, the European Union has once again demonstrated double standards, ignored the presumption of innocence principle and presented no evidence, while hypocritically hushing up the obvious offences committed by Ukrainian militants in Donbass and in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions of the Russian Federation.

• Despite the continuous scheming against Russian culture and our outstanding performers in some Western countries, including the cancellation of exhibitions and concerts, arbitrary declaration of world-renowned Russian artists and poets Ukrainians, passion for Russian culture in its modern and historical dimension does not subside in the world.

• The United States has once again defiantly denied visas to several members of the Russian interdepartmental delegation without any reason. Creating obstacles to the participation of our delegation in the session of the UN OEWG amounts to undermining the principle of the sovereign equality of states, which is a fundamental provision of the UN Charter.

• When we began hearing statements about Europe “needing” to abandon Russian hydrocarbons, it was clear that the United States was behind this. They didn’t make a secret of it.

• A possible military operation in Haiti planned by the United States and its allies are aimed not so much at stabilising – as declared – the security situation in Haiti as at mopping up the political landscape in the interests of certain leaders who have received a “wholesale indulgence” and a “right to power” from their western patrons.

• We are building our relations with Serbia on an age-old foundation of friendship and spiritual affinity between the peoples of the two countries and with account taken of the economic benefit. Cooperation with our Serbian partners is not directed against third countries. It strengthens security and serves the goals of development.

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📸 Saint Petersburg, Russia

🇮🇳🇷🇺 Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin on Tuesday made a courtesy visit to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) office, where he met with IOA President PT Usha.

🗯 "Despite attempts to isolate the Russian Federation from the world sports movement, I am sure that Russia and India will remain reliable partners," Matytsin told Russian media.

🥊 The interaction comes ahead of the International Boxing Association (IBA) Women's World Championships in New Delhi.

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#Lavrov: There can be no return to the old order. The West also says that business as usual is out of the question. There is no need to persuade us of that. We drew all the conclusions quite a while ago.

💬 NATO is going all-out to penetrate this part of the world via the AUKUS bloc. They now want to expand it by attaching Japan and South Korea to three Anglo-Saxon countries. They are also trying to split ASEAN.

Learn more from the Russian Foreign Minister's interview to the Channel One ➡ here

🇷🇺🤝🇮🇳 Today, one of the key events in the food industry - the AAHAR International Food & Hospitality Fair 2023 - witnessed a momentous occasion as the Russian Pavilion was unveiled on its grounds to commemorate 70 years of trade and economic relations between Russia and India.

Russian Trade Representative in India, Alexander Rybas, addressed the participants of the event with a welcoming remarks, highlighting the prospects for the Russian agricultural products on the Indian market.

The ceremony was followed-up by the business negotiations between the Russian and Indian agro companies.

Organized by the Russian Ministry of Agriculture and the FGBI "Agroexport", the Russian exposition will be open to visitors until March 18. This pavilion presents an excellent opportunity to explore the wide range of products and services offered by the Russian food industry.

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📸 Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia