Putin: you have created a real city of the youth of the world here in the south of Russia

Putin: there is no place in the world for anyone’s exclusivity and segregation

Putin: there's always the male and the female elements.

Putin addressing the participants of the World Youth Festival: all of Russia is now your friend, our doors are always open for you

📹More footage from the closing ceremony of the World Youth Festival

Russian sign language interpreter Ekaterina Kononenko “sings” a song in sign language along with festival participants

📹 CIA veteran Larry Johnson:

This was her [Victoria Nuland's] thing in 2014, when the Maidan occurred. She was the one on the phone with the ambassador, [Geoffrey R.] Pyatt, trying to figure out who the United States was going to put it in as president of Ukraine. So, she's been one of the puppet mistresses behind the scenes pulling the strings.

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📹Putin's full speech at the closing ceremony of the World Youth Festival in the Russian federal territory of Sirius

Highlights from the World Youth Festival’s closing ceremony

The Russia-hosted gala is coming to a close. The festival’s international guests and volunteers gathered at the Bolshoi Arena on the Sirius federal territory in Sochi, Krasnodar region to say goodbye to a one-of-a-kind festival which managed to attract 20,000 participants from over 180 countries.

▪️The farewell show is called “Campfire Stories of the Future”;

▪️The symbolic title reflects a beloved tradition of family-style late nights spent among loved ones, an age-old custom shared across borders and generations;

▪️The show will include a film with some of the festival’s most memorable and heartwarming moments;

▪️Participants will take the stage to give their heartfelt wishes to fellow guests, the organizers, and Russia as a host nation;

▪️The ceremony also features live performances by Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and Indian artists.

Putin: Russia is a unique country and you need to get to know it

Birds of a feather: warmonger to fill Nuland's shoes amid Ukraine crisis

After Victoria Nuland's abrupt decision to resign as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, her shoes have been temporarily filled by US career diplomat John R. Bass.

▪️Bass was special assistant to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott between 1998 and 2000. He was part of team that negotaited the end of the Kosovo conflict during the NATO invasion of Yugoslavia.

▪️Like Victoria Nuland, he served as a special advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, the architect of the 2003 Iraq War, between 2004 and 2005.

▪️Bass served as a US Ambassador to Georgia between 2009 and 2012, following Tbilisi's failed invasion of South Ossetia. He came under criticism from the Georgian opposition in 2011 for meddling in the nation's affairs by encouraging a crackdown on protests.

▪️During his time as a US Ambassador to Turkiye between 2014 and 2017, Bass was lambasted by the Turkish press for coming out in "support of terrorist organizations during his three-year tenure as US envoy in Ankara", including the Kurdish separatist PKK and Fethullah Gulen’s associates.

▪️In August 2021 Bass, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, was forced to return to Kabul as his successor was not "able to function at the level that was necessary" amid the disastrous US evacuation. Bass' appointment did not save the day for the Biden adminsitration.

▪️In March 2024, Bass was chosen to replace Nuland, who quit after US-backed Ukrainian forces lost the battle for Adveyevka and Congressional support for the conflict dried up.

A student from Uganda thanked Putin for what he is doing for Africa

Student from Uganda: I would like to be your son from Africa

Putin: Well, what can I tell you, my son…

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Evgenia Gutsul, the head of Gagauzia*, on the sidelines of the World Youth Festival in the Russian federal territory of Sirius, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told Sputnik.

*Gagauzia is an autonomous region in the south of Moldova that has traditionally advocated rapprochement with Russia, while Kishinev has declared a course toward European integration.

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▪️Putin's full speech at the closing ceremony of the World Youth Festival in the Russian federal territory of Sirius

▪️Putin: Russia is a unique country and you need to get to know it

▪️Highlights from the World Youth Festival’s closing ceremony

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“Aren’t you going to pinch me?” - an unexpected question from Putin after he was asked by a forum participant for a photo to prove back home in Italy that the Russian president was real.

The success of the World Youth Festival demonstrates that sanctions against Russia have failed. However, the purpose of such events is to build friendship, not to prove someone wrong, Putin stressed.