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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions for the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin programme (Astana, November 9, 2023)
❓ Question: Will you comment on the recent report according to which the US President “believes that Ukraine can win back its territory?”
💬 Sergey Lavrov: Blessed is he who believes, as the saying goes.
❓ Question: President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky has promised to launch a new counteroffensive this winter or next spring. However, the White House has announced that US funds for Ukraine are over 90 percent depleted.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: It is very difficult to comment on what Zelensky says. He has also said that he would continue fighting alone even without any assistance.
There is nothing I can say on this issue. Everything is clear.
❓ Question: Will you comment on the recent report according to which the US President “believes that Ukraine can win back its territory?”
💬 Sergey Lavrov: Blessed is he who believes, as the saying goes.
❓ Question: President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky has promised to launch a new counteroffensive this winter or next spring. However, the White House has announced that US funds for Ukraine are over 90 percent depleted.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: It is very difficult to comment on what Zelensky says. He has also said that he would continue fighting alone even without any assistance.
There is nothing I can say on this issue. Everything is clear.
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🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on threats to international peace and security (the shelling of Donetsk on November 7, 2023)
💬 We called this urgent meeting in connection with yet another flagrant violation by the Kiev regime of the norms of international humanitarian law and further evidence of its purposeful actions to destroy the civilian population of Donbas. I refer to the massive shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces of densely populated areas of Donetsk on 7 November.
The Kiev regime attacked civilian targets in the city center three times during one day, firing rockets from HIMARS and Uragan systems. In addition to residential buildings, the building of the Department of Labor and Social Protection and a shuttle bus came under attack.
The terrorist practice of launching repeated strikes against the same location is part of the UAF playbook. Knowing full well that operational services and journalists would soon arrive at the sites of the shelling, the UAF launched more strikes while they were working, preventing evacuation of the wounded and dead, and also preventing emergency response personnel from fully engaging in the elimination of the consequences of the shelling.
❗️ Yesterday's attacks killed 6 and injured 55 people, including three children. Unfortunately, a doctor and an ambulance paramedic who had come to the rescue, as well as a traffic police officer, were killed, and 23 EMERCOM staff were wounded.
During the time of active combat action more than 20 cases of repeated shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces against emergency services rescuers and medics have been documented.
☝️ Given the fact that most of these strikes are carried out with long-range, high-precision Western weapons, the UAF command knew exactly where they were going to hit. And they knew that the targets of the attacks were not military but civil facilities and civilians.
These are conscious and cynical crimes that have no statute of limitation.
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💬 We called this urgent meeting in connection with yet another flagrant violation by the Kiev regime of the norms of international humanitarian law and further evidence of its purposeful actions to destroy the civilian population of Donbas. I refer to the massive shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces of densely populated areas of Donetsk on 7 November.
The Kiev regime attacked civilian targets in the city center three times during one day, firing rockets from HIMARS and Uragan systems. In addition to residential buildings, the building of the Department of Labor and Social Protection and a shuttle bus came under attack.
The terrorist practice of launching repeated strikes against the same location is part of the UAF playbook. Knowing full well that operational services and journalists would soon arrive at the sites of the shelling, the UAF launched more strikes while they were working, preventing evacuation of the wounded and dead, and also preventing emergency response personnel from fully engaging in the elimination of the consequences of the shelling.
❗️ Yesterday's attacks killed 6 and injured 55 people, including three children. Unfortunately, a doctor and an ambulance paramedic who had come to the rescue, as well as a traffic police officer, were killed, and 23 EMERCOM staff were wounded.
During the time of active combat action more than 20 cases of repeated shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces against emergency services rescuers and medics have been documented.
☝️ Given the fact that most of these strikes are carried out with long-range, high-precision Western weapons, the UAF command knew exactly where they were going to hit. And they knew that the targets of the attacks were not military but civil facilities and civilians.
These are conscious and cynical crimes that have no statute of limitation.
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NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, in collaboration with the RUSSIAN EMBASSY and SERGEI ANDRIYAKA ACADEMY, is delighted to announce a Watercolor Masterclass on November 14.
🎨 Open Call for artists to join the Watercolour Masterclass led by Russian artists Andriyaka Elizaveta, Shchemelinskii Aleksei, Shchemelinskii Aleksandr, Vasileva Nataliia at the National Gallery of Modern Art (Jaipur House, India Gate Circle, New Delhi, 110003).
Send two images of your watercolor works to [email protected] by November 12, 2023. Selected participants will be notified via email with further details. 🖌️
🎨 Open Call for artists to join the Watercolour Masterclass led by Russian artists Andriyaka Elizaveta, Shchemelinskii Aleksei, Shchemelinskii Aleksandr, Vasileva Nataliia at the National Gallery of Modern Art (Jaipur House, India Gate Circle, New Delhi, 110003).
Send two images of your watercolor works to [email protected] by November 12, 2023. Selected participants will be notified via email with further details. 🖌️
🪔Happy #Diwali2023! दिवाली की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएँ!
Wishing everyone good health, prosperity and bright light ahead!🪔
Wishing everyone good health, prosperity and bright light ahead!🪔
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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s video address at the 5th International Municipal BRICS+ Forum, November 10, 2023
💬 We all are witnessing tectonic shifts on the international stage as a more just multi-polar world order is taking shape before our eyes. As one of its distinctive features, a growing number of countries in the Global South and East are striving to strengthen their sovereignty and identity, and to take an independent course in foreign policy while drawing upon inherent national interests.
A high surge in interest in BRICS came as a natural result of these approaches, leading to the historic decision to invite six new members to the organisation starting January 1, 2024. Quite a few countries wish to join BRICS in the future or intend to develop targeted cooperation with the organisation through dialogue.
🇷🇺 The Russian Federation is taking the #BRICS Chairmanship next year. We are committed to productive and active work to reinforce our strategic partnership across all fields.
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💬 We all are witnessing tectonic shifts on the international stage as a more just multi-polar world order is taking shape before our eyes. As one of its distinctive features, a growing number of countries in the Global South and East are striving to strengthen their sovereignty and identity, and to take an independent course in foreign policy while drawing upon inherent national interests.
A high surge in interest in BRICS came as a natural result of these approaches, leading to the historic decision to invite six new members to the organisation starting January 1, 2024. Quite a few countries wish to join BRICS in the future or intend to develop targeted cooperation with the organisation through dialogue.
🇷🇺 The Russian Federation is taking the #BRICS Chairmanship next year. We are committed to productive and active work to reinforce our strategic partnership across all fields.
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#Opinion
✍️ Article by Mikhail Rostovsky, MK media-group columnist under the Editor-In-Chief
Putin in the Labyrinth: how Moscow can avoid losing in the Middle East
🔹 Each new Middle East crisis is one of a kind, similar to the previous ones - both in the sense of its impact on the region itself and on outside world.
🔹 It is in Moscow's best interest to pursue a balanced line in the Middle East because any tilt in one direction or another will seriously jeopardize its national interests.
🔹 Big politics in the Middle East has consisted, and continues to consist, of such nuances hidden from prying eyes, secret layers. Ignoring this fact in an attempt to pursue a policy in the region based on binary logic, where there are those who are for us and those who are against us, dooms even a great power to the role of an object that is manipulated by everyone.
🔹 When choosing between the conflicting sides in the Middle East, Moscow must invariably choose itself, no matter how this might hurt the feelings of its partners in the region and beyond.
🔹 The view that what happened on October 7 was a colossal failure by Israel’s intelligence services is just a banality now. Lying behind this failure is an even bigger catastrophe - a failure of political strategy, erroneous long-term calculations by the top Israeli leadership.
🔹 Israel has no idea how to strategically solve the problem of the Gaza Strip. The military action it has taken is just a strategic improvisation.
🔹 Based on its status as an influential global and regional player, Russia must contribute to the establishment of peace in the Middle East, and at the same time prevent itself from becoming another "Middle East."
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✍️ Article by Mikhail Rostovsky, MK media-group columnist under the Editor-In-Chief
Putin in the Labyrinth: how Moscow can avoid losing in the Middle East
🔹 Each new Middle East crisis is one of a kind, similar to the previous ones - both in the sense of its impact on the region itself and on outside world.
🔹 It is in Moscow's best interest to pursue a balanced line in the Middle East because any tilt in one direction or another will seriously jeopardize its national interests.
🔹 Big politics in the Middle East has consisted, and continues to consist, of such nuances hidden from prying eyes, secret layers. Ignoring this fact in an attempt to pursue a policy in the region based on binary logic, where there are those who are for us and those who are against us, dooms even a great power to the role of an object that is manipulated by everyone.
🔹 When choosing between the conflicting sides in the Middle East, Moscow must invariably choose itself, no matter how this might hurt the feelings of its partners in the region and beyond.
🔹 The view that what happened on October 7 was a colossal failure by Israel’s intelligence services is just a banality now. Lying behind this failure is an even bigger catastrophe - a failure of political strategy, erroneous long-term calculations by the top Israeli leadership.
🔹 Israel has no idea how to strategically solve the problem of the Gaza Strip. The military action it has taken is just a strategic improvisation.
🔹 Based on its status as an influential global and regional player, Russia must contribute to the establishment of peace in the Middle East, and at the same time prevent itself from becoming another "Middle East."
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⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to media question about improper storage of radioactive waste in Ukraine
❓ Question: There has been information that dangerous radioactive waste at the Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant is stored in breach of safety requirements and in an overall improper way. How can you comment on this?
💬 Maria Zakharova: The situation as regards storing dangerous radioactive waste in Ukraine is quite horrifying. The total volume of waste left after uranium ore processing at the Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant in Kamenskoye (former Dneprodzerzhinsk) is 42 million tonnes. There are several warehouses and shops that produce triuranium octoxide, covering an area of some 600 hectares at the plant and outside it.
This waste is a significant and dangerous source of environmental pollution. There is a high probability that some 12 million tonnes of radioactive waste may reach the Dnieper River and ground waters as a result of a possible washout of a dam at a storage facility located 800 metres from the river and its Konoplyanka tributary. Some 14 tonnes of radioactive dust are spread around annually, including over agricultural land.
According to our data, Kiev does not provide funding to ensure the environmental safety of the Pridneprovsky plant facilities, which might ultimately result in an environmental disaster not only in the territory controlled by the Kiev regime, but also beyond it.
❓ Question: There has been information that dangerous radioactive waste at the Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant is stored in breach of safety requirements and in an overall improper way. How can you comment on this?
💬 Maria Zakharova: The situation as regards storing dangerous radioactive waste in Ukraine is quite horrifying. The total volume of waste left after uranium ore processing at the Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant in Kamenskoye (former Dneprodzerzhinsk) is 42 million tonnes. There are several warehouses and shops that produce triuranium octoxide, covering an area of some 600 hectares at the plant and outside it.
This waste is a significant and dangerous source of environmental pollution. There is a high probability that some 12 million tonnes of radioactive waste may reach the Dnieper River and ground waters as a result of a possible washout of a dam at a storage facility located 800 metres from the river and its Konoplyanka tributary. Some 14 tonnes of radioactive dust are spread around annually, including over agricultural land.
According to our data, Kiev does not provide funding to ensure the environmental safety of the Pridneprovsky plant facilities, which might ultimately result in an environmental disaster not only in the territory controlled by the Kiev regime, but also beyond it.
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🎙 Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, November 9, 2023)
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Palestinian-Israeli conflict
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Rise of nationalism in the world
🔹 Antisemitism in the United States
🔹 Nord Stream terrorist attack
🔹 Treaties to which the US is not a party
🔹 Moldova
🔹 Russophobia in Latvia
🔹 Tokyo Trial
and more...
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#Ukraine
Not only have the people across the ocean opted to ignore the cruelty with which the Kiev regime has been using American weapons against civilians, but they even view this as something rather normal. We used to say that they probably failed to notice these developments. But no, they believe them to be the norm. This is the new normal for them, together with the fact that supplying more and more weapons to Ukrainian neo-Nazis causes hostilities to escalate and increasingly draws the United States into the conflict in and around Ukraine.
#MiddleEast
The Gaza Strip is under a ruthless blockade, which primarily affects the civilians. Gaza is experiencing a critical lack of fuel, food, and medications. The clean water shortage is fraught with a sharp deterioration in the sanitary and epidemiological situation.
We appreciate the initiation of the process for evacuating foreign nationals from the Gaza Strip to Egypt through the Rafah Border Crossing.
Along with addressing immediate de-escalation tasks, we consider it important to take steps to lay the foundation for relaunching a full-fledged political process in order to provide a comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue on a recognised international legal basis.
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Palestinian-Israeli conflict
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Rise of nationalism in the world
🔹 Antisemitism in the United States
🔹 Nord Stream terrorist attack
🔹 Treaties to which the US is not a party
🔹 Moldova
🔹 Russophobia in Latvia
🔹 Tokyo Trial
and more...
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#Ukraine
Not only have the people across the ocean opted to ignore the cruelty with which the Kiev regime has been using American weapons against civilians, but they even view this as something rather normal. We used to say that they probably failed to notice these developments. But no, they believe them to be the norm. This is the new normal for them, together with the fact that supplying more and more weapons to Ukrainian neo-Nazis causes hostilities to escalate and increasingly draws the United States into the conflict in and around Ukraine.
#MiddleEast
The Gaza Strip is under a ruthless blockade, which primarily affects the civilians. Gaza is experiencing a critical lack of fuel, food, and medications. The clean water shortage is fraught with a sharp deterioration in the sanitary and epidemiological situation.
We appreciate the initiation of the process for evacuating foreign nationals from the Gaza Strip to Egypt through the Rafah Border Crossing.
Along with addressing immediate de-escalation tasks, we consider it important to take steps to lay the foundation for relaunching a full-fledged political process in order to provide a comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue on a recognised international legal basis.
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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions from the "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" TV programme (November 12, 2023)
❓ Question: Regarding the acceleration [of Ukraine's progress towards EU membership], our source has told us that Kiev will be required to eliminate discrimination of minorities, but that the EU did not care about the Russian language.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: When Ukraine adopted its “anti-minorities” legislation, it caused an uproar in the European Union. Ukraine amended it and said this would not affect EU languages. Judge for yourself.
At that time, we talked with Hungary and other EU members who had compatriots living in Ukraine and said we hoped they would not just fight for exemptions for their own cultures, but will defend all the principles of international law concerning national minorities. So far, we have not seen that happening.
❓ Question: European leaders have stepped up their rhetoric insisting Ukraine should be admitted to the European Union as a matter of urgency. What does this indicate?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I have no clue. Most of these statements have been made by Head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. They are preparing some recommendations, but they also admit that Ukraine has not fulfilled a significant part of the criteria. Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba says the EU should forget all about those criteria and admit Ukraine without conditions.
I have difficulty wrapping my head around this. It looks like some game, or an extension of the EU’s old policy. When the Soviet Union collapsed, they suddenly dropped all criteria and took the decisions to admit the Baltic States into the European Union for purely political reasons. They never fully met the conditions, but political expediency prevailed.
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❓ Question: Regarding the acceleration [of Ukraine's progress towards EU membership], our source has told us that Kiev will be required to eliminate discrimination of minorities, but that the EU did not care about the Russian language.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: When Ukraine adopted its “anti-minorities” legislation, it caused an uproar in the European Union. Ukraine amended it and said this would not affect EU languages. Judge for yourself.
At that time, we talked with Hungary and other EU members who had compatriots living in Ukraine and said we hoped they would not just fight for exemptions for their own cultures, but will defend all the principles of international law concerning national minorities. So far, we have not seen that happening.
❓ Question: European leaders have stepped up their rhetoric insisting Ukraine should be admitted to the European Union as a matter of urgency. What does this indicate?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I have no clue. Most of these statements have been made by Head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. They are preparing some recommendations, but they also admit that Ukraine has not fulfilled a significant part of the criteria. Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba says the EU should forget all about those criteria and admit Ukraine without conditions.
I have difficulty wrapping my head around this. It looks like some game, or an extension of the EU’s old policy. When the Soviet Union collapsed, they suddenly dropped all criteria and took the decisions to admit the Baltic States into the European Union for purely political reasons. They never fully met the conditions, but political expediency prevailed.
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🔴 #LIVE: Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
🔗 https://twitter.com/MID_RF/status/1724770725322441180
🔗 https://www.ruptly.video/ru/events/202311151200-LIVE16224-pryamaya-translyatsiya-ofitsialnii-predstavitel-mid-rossii-zakharova-provodit-yezhenedelnii-brifing
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
🔗 https://www.facebook.com/MIDRussia/videos/880136567065025
🔗 https://twitter.com/MID_RF/status/1724770725322441180
🔗 https://www.ruptly.video/ru/events/202311151200-LIVE16224-pryamaya-translyatsiya-ofitsialnii-predstavitel-mid-rossii-zakharova-provodit-yezhenedelnii-brifing
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video
🔗 https://www.facebook.com/MIDRussia/videos/880136567065025
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🎙 Excerpts from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the RT channel (Moscow, November 15, 2023)
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💬 We have never, during the last 30 years, tried to underestimate the importance of good relations with Israel and the importance of good relations with Israel’s Arab neighbors. And we played a role promoting peace on the basis of the final solution of this Middle East issue in accordance with the United Nations’ resolutions and decisions.
We have been a member of the Quartet of International Mediators from the very beginning of the functioning of this structure. The only structure recognized officially by the Security Council as having the mandate to mediate.
There were so many opportunities missed. There were so many attempts when a deal seemed to be close, so many attempts to replay the game.
☝️ But we keep our relations with both parties. <...> And we will continue to push for the immediate goal – the cessation of hostilities for humanitarian purposes.
👉 After that we all must take a deep breath and think how we restore Gaza, how we make sure that no one is expelled from Gaza. That there is no movement into Egypt and into Jordan of all those who used to live in Gaza, because this is what worries our Egyptian and Jordanian friends. And this would of course ruin all the resolutions of the Security Council that Gaza is Palestine, together with the West Bank.
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💬 We have never, during the last 30 years, tried to underestimate the importance of good relations with Israel and the importance of good relations with Israel’s Arab neighbors. And we played a role promoting peace on the basis of the final solution of this Middle East issue in accordance with the United Nations’ resolutions and decisions.
We have been a member of the Quartet of International Mediators from the very beginning of the functioning of this structure. The only structure recognized officially by the Security Council as having the mandate to mediate.
There were so many opportunities missed. There were so many attempts when a deal seemed to be close, so many attempts to replay the game.
☝️ But we keep our relations with both parties. <...> And we will continue to push for the immediate goal – the cessation of hostilities for humanitarian purposes.
👉 After that we all must take a deep breath and think how we restore Gaza, how we make sure that no one is expelled from Gaza. That there is no movement into Egypt and into Jordan of all those who used to live in Gaza, because this is what worries our Egyptian and Jordanian friends. And this would of course ruin all the resolutions of the Security Council that Gaza is Palestine, together with the West Bank.
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🇷🇺 Russia's Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief (EMERCOM):
Russia's EMERCOM delivered 21 tonnes of humanitarian aid – food and medical supplies as well as generators – to the people of Gaza via Egypt, assisted by the Egyptian Red Crescent Society.
📸 Russian Embassy in Egypt / Russian MFA
#RussiaHelps
Russia's EMERCOM delivered 21 tonnes of humanitarian aid – food and medical supplies as well as generators – to the people of Gaza via Egypt, assisted by the Egyptian Red Crescent Society.
📸 Russian Embassy in Egypt / Russian MFA
#RussiaHelps