Russia FM Lavrov in an interview with Al Arabiya.

⚡About sanctions
“Sanctions have been with us for decades, we never lived a day in the history of the Soviet Union or the history of the Russian Federation when there were no sanctions,” the foreign minister said.

“So to believe that this latest outrage and the wave of sanctions which eventually showed the real face of West which, as far as I now understand, has always been Russian-phobic, to believe that this latest wave of sanctions is going to make Russia cry Uncle and to beg for being pardoned, those planners are lousy and of course they don’t know anything about foreign policy of Russia and they don’t know anything about how to deal with Russia.”

Originally @ https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/04/29/Russia-FM-Lavrov-reacts-to-sanctions-West-has-always-been-Russia-phobic-

Russia FM Lavrov in an interview with Al Arabiya.

⚡About rising tensions between the West and Russia
Lavrov claimed that the West “blindly” supported Kyiv’s regime which is against Russia, claiming that “this was and still is the purpose of our Western friends.”

“We cannot rely on the West in anything especially in the areas of life, economy, technology, food as day-to-day requirements, with our strategic nation,” he said, clarifying that if the West admits to being “mistaken” and “wrong” about their actions towards Russia, then there is a chance of “some resumption of relations down the road.”

He added that for now, Russia has been working on remaining “self-sufficient” in key sectors to protect the country and its economy.

“I can assure you the fact that the Americans and the others are running all over the world, all over the world threatening people, telling them to join sanctions, to vote against Russia… I think it is not dignified for any self-respectful country,” the foreign minister said.

“What kind of democracies are they if they don’t give a damn about democracy and international relations? Just so that you must obey to us. They are not even autocrats, they are dictators and they threaten punishment to the people, to the countries who would not join their policies. It is a shame, it is a shame and it is a shame for the Western civilization if it takes the shape of such action.

Originally @ https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/04/29/Russia-FM-Lavrov-reacts-to-sanctions-West-has-always-been-Russia-phobic-

Russia FM Lavrov in an interview with Al Arabiya.

⚡About Russian red lines
Lavrov claimed that in January this year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was pushing “his Russia-phobic policies” when he said that “nobody is going to change the policy on the Russian language and media” and that “nobody will be prosecuting the Neo-Nazi battalions who were supported by the state and openly wearing Swastika and the symbols of Waffen SS division.”

The foreign minister added that Zelenskyy said, “Ukraine made a mistake when it refused to be a nuclear power” and said that the country might “think about having nuclear weapons again.”

He also added that the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Poland “would welcome” the US’ nuclear weapons being moved from Germany to Polish territory.

“We were never playing with such dangerous things. We all should insist on the statements made by the P5 [Permanent five countries in the security council], never ever there could be a nuclear war. But to make sure that this is the case, the West must discipline speakers like our Ukrainian and Polish colleagues, who see no danger in playing with such very, very risky words.”

The foreign minister was asked about an interview he did on Russian TV earlier this week, which stated: “If the US and its allies continue to arm the Ukraine, the risk of war escalating into a nuclear conflict should not be under-estimated.”

Lavrov said that his statement had been taken out of context and that he meant to say that Russia have been “champions of making aegis by all nuclear countries near to start a nuclear war,” when asked about the risk of such a conflict arising.

“It did not come across. We know how indecent those who set the tone for the western media policy, how indecent they are. So we are used to it.”

About "cancel culture" targeting Russia

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/video_languages/533

Jen Psaki blames Vladimir Putin for record US inflation

"We know that 61% of this is due to the prices, energy costs, Putin's invasion in Ukraine", the White House spokesperson said.

Mr. Putin, come on, stop pushing up prices for Americans!

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/netipichka/10722

There are protests in front of the military registration and enlistment office in the city of Khust, Transcarpathia region, Ukraine. The wives of the 101 territorial defense brigade that is being sent to the east are protesting. The Ukrainian government is sorely lacking manpower.

The place itself is significant. Khust is considered the unofficial "Ukrainian capital" of Transcarpathia (Uzhgorod is too much a Hungarian city). In 1939, Khust was the capital of the "Carpathian Ukraine". It was a small pro-Nazi state that existed for about one day (Hitler was more interested in friendship with Hungary than with the "Transcarpathian Ukrainians" who came from nowhere and whose very existence was unknown until March 1939. Russinians lived there).

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/golosmordora/18116

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/video_languages/548

🇱🇻News of an unexpected "democracy".

Russian Gazprom-Media TV channels have been unblocked in Latvia.

The blocking of THT-Comedy, THT4 International, FRIDAY International, KHL TV and TNT Music channels has been lifted in the country.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/sputnik/2601

🪧The French are protesting against gas price hike

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/smotri_media/13450

"Western sanctions are not directed against ordinary people," they said.

Due to Western illegal restrictions, thousands of elderly people in Latvia may be left without means of livelihood - it has become impossible for them to transfer a Russian pension.

This is reported by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Riga.

Local banks refuse to service the accounts of recipients of Russian pensions and social benefits residing in Latvia.

"Thousands of elderly people are at risk of losing their only source of livelihood. Many will actually be put on the brink of survival".

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/sputnik/2585

Russia to invite Nuland to commission probing US bio lab activity in Ukraine - diplomat

MOSCOW, April 30. /TASS/. Russia will send an invitation to some American officials, including Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, to a session of the parliamentary commission investigating the activity of US biological laboratories in Ukraine, Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Vladimir Yermakov told TASS on Saturday.

"An invitation to American officials and representatives of companies who have relation to military biological activity being conducted in bio labs in Ukraine with the US assistance is being prepared to be dispatched. In particular, there are plans to call Senior Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland as one of the witnesses to a session of the parliamentary commission of the Russian Federal Assembly investigating such activity," the high-ranking Russian diplomat said.

Originally @ https://tass.com/politics/1445857

🇵🇱 # Poland The leader in the imposed anti-Russian sanctions left about a dozen cities without gas supply.

📍Outages of gas supply concern a dozen or so cities in Poland. The gas infrastructure there is managed by companies with Russian capital that now cannot work.

📍Sanctions and gas shutdown were so sudden that the population was left without heat, hot water and possibility to cook.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/buyanTime/7852

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/video_languages/559

The West has openly chosen the strategy of conducting proxy wars against Russia and this policy is fraught with very serious consequences, Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Department Vladimir Yermakov said

MOSCOW, April 30. /TASS/. Russia calls on other states to abide by the logic sealed in documents for preventing a nuclear war and strictly follows the principle that such a conflict is inadmissible, Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Vladimir Yermakov told TASS on Saturday.

❗"All states should consistently abide by the logic laid out in joint documents of the Nuclear Quintet with our most active participation, including the January statement by the leaders of the five states on preventing a nuclear war," the high-ranking Russian diplomat said.

"Speaking about dangers emerging in current conditions, I would like to note that it would be useful for US-led Western countries gripped by unprecedented Russophobia to remain clearly aware that the irresponsible escalation of their anti-Russian actions is totally unacceptable," he said, responding to a question about the existing dangers of the use of nuclear weapons in the world."

"At present, the Western nuclear troika made up of the United States, France and Great Britain is increasingly departing from the principles of the inadmissibility of a conflict between nuclear countries "alongside the whole of NATO, which is positioning itself as a nuclear alliance," the senior Russian diplomat said.

❗"The United Sates does not conceal its intention to complete as soon as possible a whole number of other projects for creating land-based intermediate-and shorter-range missiles for their subsequent deployment in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The deployment of these armaments in the above-mentioned regions will further escalate the situation and whip up an arms race," the high-ranking Russian diplomat said."

Rebelión, Spain/
US pressure and extortion to break Latin America's ties with Russia and China
by Jorge Elbaum

"My only doubt is to know if the United States will end the world, or if the world is going to end the United States" - the novelist Henry Miller

In the last two weeks, the US State Department has deployed an ambitious extortive persuasion program on countries located in the so-called “Western Hemisphere”, with the aim of limiting their trade and cooperation ties with Moscow and Beijing.

The proximity models deployed in Latin America and the Caribbean offer a wide menu of alternatives that range from threats and sanctions to the offer of better conditions for exports, guarantees for the continuity of remittances or for the extended authorization of visas.


The model promoted by the Biden administration is that of a permanent fragmentation of the world economy, with two alternative circuits of trade and international cooperation based on geopolitical blocs. To achieve this goal, it must strive to sever solid ties and prevent – simultaneously – Eurasia from failing to escape imposed apartheid .

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/inosmichannel/7793

A man from New York with some sound ideas