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

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🇷🇺🇦🇿 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.

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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.

🇷🇺🇮🇷 From FM Sergey Lavrov's statement following talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian

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💬 The Presidents are unanimous that relations between Russia and Iran have reached the highest point in their history.

At the same time, there is significant untapped potential for further advancement in our partnership. To this end, work is now underway on a new and comprehensive “big interstate treaty,” initiated by the President of Iran.

#JCPOA

💬 We will push for the JCPOA to be restored in its original configuration, the way it was approved in 2015 by a UN Security Council resolution, without exceptions or additions, to make sure that the illegal sanctions on Iran that are inconsistent with the JCPOA are lifted.

🇷🇺🇦🇿 In Baku, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov paid respects, laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame Memorial on Martyrs' Lane.

📸 Maria #Zakharova

🔴#LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov hold a joint news conference following talks in Baku.

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💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova: Speaking about food security, I would like to recall that prices on food products and energy soared since early 2020 due to:

- coronavirus pandemic,
- bad climate conditions
- and, importantly, systemic miscalculations in the financial and economic policy of the Western countries.

This created difficulties in the world markets (higher freight and insurance rates and transport breakdowns). Transport logistics and insurance collapsed due to the pandemic. Unilateral sanctions were imposed on top of all that.

These sanctions introduced by Washington and the EU under its pressure exacerbated the situation to the utmost.

I would even call them not just unilateral sanctions but sanction harassment of our country.

The goal is obvious – to isolate and inflict maximum damage on the Russian economy and Europe.

In turn, we confirm our willingness to continue fulfilling our commitments regarding the export of grain, fertilizer, energy and other critical products.

A Russian representative in a dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression at the UN HRC:

🔹The topic of Ms. Khan's report appears to be quite relevant. This is confirmed, among other things, by the massive anti-Russian disinformation campaign unleashed by the Western countries and the "digital giants", as well as their adoption of unilateral restrictive measures.

🔹 The purpose of this Western sanctions policy is exclusion of the Russian media from the information field, the silencing of "undesirable" opinions that do not fit into the "mainstream narrative".

🔹 We regret that Ms. Khan is defiantly trying to ignore the information war declared in the West on everything Russian, as well as the “fake-spewing conveyor belt” created to vilify our country, the Russian people and culture. Moreover, the Special Rapporteur assumes the function of determining which information is true and which is false.

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🚩 On June 24, 1945, 77 years ago, the historical parade marking the USSR’s victory in the GreatPatrioticWar over Nazi Germany was held on Moscow’s Red Square.

Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief Georgy Zhukov, dubbed by the people ‘Victory Marshal’, was tasked with inspecting the parade, and Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky commanded the parade.

The parade comprised 10 mixed regiments representing all the fronts that fought in the later stages of the Great Patriotic War. There were, in total, 24 marshals, 249 generals, 2,536 officers, 31,116 sergeants and soldiers, who distinguished themselves in combat and received orders and medals for their service.

The parade culminated when a column of soldiers carrying 200 trophy banners and standards of the defeated German army marched through Red Square and threw them at the foot of the Lenin Mausoleum.

Holding Victory Day Parades has become an annually-repeated tradition since 1995.

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