Yet another package of anti-Russian sanctions has been adopted. This already is the fourteenth one, and the total number of sanctions is nearing 20.000. There is nothing new, or scary in it, but each time it’s getting more and more delirious.

So, for example, the EU Council has stated that Europe will go on buying liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia but will ban re-exporting it. Moreover, it will limit transshipment of our LNG through the terminals of European ports. The aim is “to reduce Russia's revenues from liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports”, that’s what it says.

The dumbhead eurodummies are keen on foiling any Russian commercial activity without losing anything themselves.
The European Commission has also prohibited investments, provision of services and technologies to such projects as Arctic LNG-2 and Murmansk LNG, so as to hinder exporting Russian gas from the Arctic on icebreaker tankers.

Once again there are bans in the financial sphere, limits on exporting certain goods to Russia, individual sanctions… it is boring even to list them. They work in a dull and uncreative manner, once again repeating themselves.
There are, however, some novelties; they have remembered about Artek, the international children’s center. It appears our children are also enemies to them. No other word to call them except bastards.

All in all, the EU has once again demonstrated that it is ready to sacrifice the sovereign interests of both its member states and common Europeans. Our country is harmed far less than the EU citizens and companies.

According to the late 2023 calculations, the total Europe’s loss caused by the anti-Russian sanctions reached about $1.5 trillion. Just for natural gas the people of the Old World paid extra €185 billion: switching to alternative suppliers had not paid off, and, what’s more, LNG turned out to be an insufficient substitute for pipeline deliveries.

American exporting companies came out as the only winners. Europe was forced to reduce the output of energy-intensive production, such as steelworks, and to move the load of paying for domestic needs on to common citizens. The consequence of the crisis in the energy sector was inflation growth, increase of the EU member states’ external debt, ruin of many companies and impoverishment of citizens.

Russia has restored the revenues it failed to receive from exporting energy resources by actively establishing its presence on Asian markets. We do not miss the Western companies: substitutes do exist. Our economy grows steadily, the state fulfills its social obligations. By way of comparison: today, the growth rate of our economy is 3.6 percent, while in Europe it is about 0.1 percent.

This is why in Europe they have to approve packages of new sanctions with one hand and go on buying Russian gas with the other: that is their only lifeline. Whatever the hostilities may be, your own shirt is closer to the body. Yet, the shirt is wearing off. Life has proven time and again that the so-called “sanctions from hell” adopted by the EU on order from the US, pave the way to the Inferno solely for their own makers. So the 14th package of sanctions will not reach the goal, but will be yet another act of hostility.

We will survive this. But we won’t just forgive and forget, we’ve got a good memory. We won’t leave without response the intent to harm our people– and sanctions of any kind always hit people and businesses, but not authorities. We will thoroughly note down this very case of assault on our interests, and in a very short time will present our demands – and not only economic – to the hostile countries. There will be hell to pay.

⚡️ Foreign Ministry’s statement on retaliatory measures following EU restrictions against Russian media outlets

💬 In response to the May 17 decision of the EU Council, banning broadcasting by three Russian media outlets, including RIA Novosti, Izvestia MIC and Rossiyskaya Gazeta, effective from today, June 25, countermeasures are being introduced that limit access to broadcasting resources in the Russian Federation for media outlets of the EU member states and EU media operators that systemically spread false information about the special military operation.

The Russian Side has repeatedly warned at various levels that politically motivated persecution of Russian journalists and unjustified bans on Russian media outlets in the EU will not go unanswered.

This notwithstanding, Brussels and the capitals of the bloc’s countries preferred to further escalate the situation. By imposing another illegitimate ban, they forced Moscow to introduce symmetrical and proportional countermeasures. Responsibility for these developments rests solely with the EU leadership and the countries of this association that have supported this decision.

The Russian Side will revise its decision concerning the above-mentioned media operators, if restrictions against Russian media outlets are lifted.

👉 A list of media outlets of the EU member states and EU media operators, covered by retaliatory measures and restrictions limiting broadcasts and internet access on the territory of the Russian Federation.

🎙️Embassy comment regarding the developments surrounding Julian Assange

▪︎We regard the release of Julian Assange from custody on June 24 in London as the rectification of one of the many injustices faced by the founder of WikiLeaks. Hopefully, this will enable the journalist to improve his severely compromised health due to his incarceration in a British prison and to resume a normal life.

▪︎Nevertheless, this event is evidently the result of agreements between Mr Assange and the US side, and it remains to be seen whether Washington DC will fulfill its part of the bargain. In any case British justice can claim no credit for this outcome. The authorities initially decided to deprive the journalist of his freedom and to extradite him, and subsequently missed the opportunity to take a principled stand against this unjust and illegitimate course of action.

▪︎Throughout these years, they have acted in the interests of the United States, undertaking the "dirty work" of isolating Mr Assange as part of a collective persecution that trampled on the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and human rights. Now, they have simply responded to a directive from across the Atlantic.

☝️The British government and judicial system will forever bear the responsibility for the more than five years that the founder of WikiLeaks spent in the harshest conditions of solitary confinement in a high-security prison, conditions more befitting terrorists, and the repercussions this has had for him personally and for his family, as well as for global journalism and independent media at large.

7️⃣9️⃣ years ago, on June 26, 1945, The United Nations Charter was signed, which became the main result of the San Francisco Conference.
 
This fundamental document was signed by 50 participating countries, including the USSR as well as its constituent entities: the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. On behalf of the USSR, the UN Charter was signed by Andrey Gromyko.

The establishing of the UN – a universal international organization, the main goals of which are defined as the maintenance and strengthening of peace and security – was a natural consequence of the Second World War, an expression of the desire of the world community to resolve conflicts without global military action.

📃 The UN Charter is a fundamental international document mandating the main principles and norms of states’ international behaviour and regulating relations between states as well as the activities of UN agencies and organisations within its system.
 
🇺🇳 Today, the UN comprises 1️⃣9️⃣3️⃣ Member States, with its activities embracing every sphere of the planet’s international, political, economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian life through its specialised agencies, committees and sub-committees.
 
🇷🇺 Russia invariably remains committed to multilateralism and the UN’s coordinating role in world affairs, and is actively involved in the effort to reform and adapt the UN to new international realities.

🎙 From Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks during the UN Security Council open debate on "Effective Multilateralism through the Protection of the Principles of the UN Charter" (New York, April 24, 2023):

💬 It is our shared responsibility to preserve the UN as the enduring model of multilateralism and coordination of world politics. The key to success is working together, refusing to claim exclusivity and - I repeat once again - respecting the sovereign equality of states. This is what we all signed up to when we ratified the UN Charter.

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