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📣 World renowned filmmaker and actor, Academy award winner Nikita Mikhalkov expands on the issue of the Ukrainian crisis (watch the genesis ep.), once again bringing to light facts and archival footage, in another episode of his author's programme BesogonTV titled "Snow shall melt and then we'll see who did what".

🇷🇺🇮🇷 Opening remarks by FM Lavrov during talks with President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi

💬 It is a busy time for us right now: both in terms of domestic politics and the international agenda. The President of Russia is holding several meetings every day concerning the adaptation of the economic, social, banking and financial sphere to the realities that are now emerging as a result of the West’s aggressive and egotistical policy.

At the same time, all countries experiencing the negative influence of the egotistical policies of the United States and its satellites have an objective need to "reconfigure" their economic ties in such a way as not to depend on the whims and vagaries of our Western partners.

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🎙 From FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the National State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus

💬 What surprises me more are not the lies that we hear daily and hourly from Kiev, but the fact that Kiev's sponsors have joined in this game of lies.

They are covering for Kiev, whether they need to or not and have been doing so for quite a while now. You mentioned the eight-year period that followed the anti-constitutional coup. This coup was the result of the opposition spitting in the face of the European Union as represented by France, Germany and Poland, which signed the agreement between Viktor Yanukovych and the three opposition leaders as guarantors. The next morning it was torn to shreds. Instead they prioritised cancelling the regional status of the Russian language and sent armed thugs to Crimea. This is how it all began.

🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian hold a joint news conference following talks in Tehran 🇷🇺🇮🇷

🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202206230800-LIVE11214-Lavrov-and-Iran-s-FM-Abdollahian-give-joint-press-conference-in-Tehran

🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/

🇷🇺🇦🇿 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov arrived in Baku.

⚡️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on the US complicity in the recruitment of US citizens to fight in Ukraine

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💬 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has noted recent reports on US citizens being recruited and transferred to Ukraine, the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic to participate in hostilities, with the complicity of the White House and American intelligence services.

We are referring to the activity of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, which runs counter to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and involves overt recruitment of fighters to the so-called Foreign Legion of Territorial Defence Forces of Ukraine.

❗️ We regard the US authorities’ complicity in such activities as further proof of Washington not being interested in resolving the Ukrainian crisis.

🇷🇺🇦🇿 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a bilateral meeting with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

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🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in the 14th BRICS Summit, held via videoconference and chaired by China.

💬 President Putin: The BRICS format has been consistently increasing its prestige and international influence. This is an objective process, since the five BRICS countries, as we all know, have immense political, economic, scientific, technical and human potential. We have everything we need to work together and achieve results for ensuring global stability and security, sustained growth and prosperity, and better well-being for our people.

I believe that the topic of today’s meeting, Foster High-Quality BRICS Partnership, Usher in a New Era for Global Development, is very relevant. Considering the complexity of the challenges and threats the international community is facing, and the fact that they transcend borders, we need to come up with collective solutions.

👉 The Beijing Declaration of the 14th BRICS Summit formalises the key agreements of the meeting.

📆 June 23 marks International Olympic Day, the day when the International Olympic Committee was established in 1894 after the first Olympic Congress in Paris supported the idea of resuming the tradition of Olympic Games.

🇷🇺 Russia stood at the origins of the modern Olympic Movement. Russian general and military teacher Andrey Butovsky was one of the 13 members of the first International Olympic Committee in 1894. Russian athletes preformed at Olympic Games starting in 1900, winning top positions in the country team medal count.

💬 President Vladimir Putin: Russia has been and remains committed to the traditional Olympic values. We oppose the attempts to politicise sport or use it as a tool of coercion, unfair competition and discrimination. We reject the practice of “collective punishment” for acts perpetrated by individual people, which has recently become a frequent occurrence.

🔗 https://is.gd/FF8lzT

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💬 #Opinion by Maria #Zakharova:

News about Berlin's ongoing pressure on the Telegram messenger app has been leaked to Der Spiegel. According to the information obtained by the magazine, the German criminal police forced the company to hand over users’ personal data under various vague pretexts, as well as to block channels at the request of law enforcement agencies.

I must say that the Germans have been putting up pressure on Telegram for a long time.

👉 https://telegra.ph/Opinion-by-Maria-Zakharova-06-23

And now this “no pressure” has forced the company's management to enter into a nexus dialogue with the German police. Regular consultations are held, and, according to Der Spiegel, the head of Telegram attends them “wearing a hoodie.” As a result, the Germans have forced the messenger app to leak user data to them.

What hypocrites! If you read the coalition agreement between the German parties on forming the government – the main document defining Germany’s internal politics for the next five years – the protection of personal data is high on the government agenda. It says, we promote anonymisation methods, establish legal stability through formalised standards and introduce criminal liability for illegal deanonymisation. The Germans have voted for this believing their government would uphold their rights to privacy and freedom. In reality though, the German justice and law enforcement agencies are giving their citizens less and less freedom online, reinstating the worst traditions of the “police state” (Polizeistaat).

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the National State Television and Radio Company of Belarus

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Key points:

🔸The West fears honest competition. Hence, a desire to cancel the culture of any country that stands on its own, nationally-oriented positions.

🔸 When at last the Ukrainians have the grace to suggest resuming the diplomatic process, we will see what situation has emerged on the ground.

🔸 Ukraine tried to build its sovereignty by cancelling its own history. The West encouraged that approach and that conceptual vision of the Ukrainian state just to harm Russia.

🔸 Everyone understands the hypocrisy of the demagogic groaning about the absence of sanctions on food and fertiliser. Yes, food is not under sanctions, but all the necessary steps for delivering it to consumers fall under sanctions.