🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Yvan Gil (Caracas, February 20, 2024)
Key talking points:
🔸 Venezuela is one of the most reliable and close friends of Russia in Latin America and the world as a whole. We maintain close relations of strategic partnership. They are intrinsically valuable and do not depend on the political environment.
🔸 We agreed to accelerate and increase our levels of cooperation in all these spheres. We share the opinion that this will strengthen the stability of our national economies and the technological sovereignty of Russia and Venezuela.
🔸 In September 2023, a centre for open education, offering a number of courses in the Russian language, was established in Caracas. With the permission of our Venezuelan colleagues, we plan to open a similar centre on Margarita Island. We also intend to reopen the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Caracas.
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Key talking points:
🔸 Venezuela is one of the most reliable and close friends of Russia in Latin America and the world as a whole. We maintain close relations of strategic partnership. They are intrinsically valuable and do not depend on the political environment.
🔸 We agreed to accelerate and increase our levels of cooperation in all these spheres. We share the opinion that this will strengthen the stability of our national economies and the technological sovereignty of Russia and Venezuela.
🔸 In September 2023, a centre for open education, offering a number of courses in the Russian language, was established in Caracas. With the permission of our Venezuelan colleagues, we plan to open a similar centre on Margarita Island. We also intend to reopen the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Caracas.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro (Caracas, February 20, 2024)
💬 On February 17, three days ago, we marked the 167th anniversary of our interstate ties.
Since then, our friendship and the traditions accumulated over this period have been strengthening and contributing to the development of bilateral relations, and the mobilisation of supporters of a just world order to fight against the manifestations of diktat, blackmail, Nazism and colonialism.
Today we had useful meetings with Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and talks with Foreign Minister Yvan Gil. We confirmed good progress in all areas of bilateral cooperation, including in trade and the economy.
The latest meeting of the High-Level Intergovernmental Russian-Venezuelan Commission outlined a truly long-term, sustainable and mutually beneficial programme in energy, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, medicine, space, and high technology. <...>
🤝 We are aware of the interest of our Venezuelan friends in rapprochement with BRICS. Russia, as chair of the association this year, will contribute to this.
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💬 On February 17, three days ago, we marked the 167th anniversary of our interstate ties.
Since then, our friendship and the traditions accumulated over this period have been strengthening and contributing to the development of bilateral relations, and the mobilisation of supporters of a just world order to fight against the manifestations of diktat, blackmail, Nazism and colonialism.
Today we had useful meetings with Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and talks with Foreign Minister Yvan Gil. We confirmed good progress in all areas of bilateral cooperation, including in trade and the economy.
The latest meeting of the High-Level Intergovernmental Russian-Venezuelan Commission outlined a truly long-term, sustainable and mutually beneficial programme in energy, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, medicine, space, and high technology. <...>
🤝 We are aware of the interest of our Venezuelan friends in rapprochement with BRICS. Russia, as chair of the association this year, will contribute to this.
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Forwarded from Russian Delegation to UNESCO
2️⃣1️⃣February the Russian 🇷🇺 Delegation participated in the International Mother Language Day celebration at UNESCO headquarters.
📍The Russian side shared best practices in providing multilingual education, preserving the culture of indigenous peoples and digitalization of languages. Russian pianist Nikolay Soloviev took part in the concert.
📍International Mother Language Day was proclaimed by UNESCO General Conference in 1999. It is celebrated annually to promote cultural diversity and multilingualism. This year it is dedicated to multilingual education as the basis for learning and knowledge sharing between generations.
📍The Russian side shared best practices in providing multilingual education, preserving the culture of indigenous peoples and digitalization of languages. Russian pianist Nikolay Soloviev took part in the concert.
📍International Mother Language Day was proclaimed by UNESCO General Conference in 1999. It is celebrated annually to promote cultural diversity and multilingualism. This year it is dedicated to multilingual education as the basis for learning and knowledge sharing between generations.
🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin's speech at the opening ceremony for Games of the Future international tournament in Kazan.
💬 Vladimir Putin: I am glad to welcome to Russia the pioneers of phygital sports which is an innovative format that gave rise to the name to the competition. These are indeed the Games of the Future.
The blending of tradition and the modern age, the harmonising of physical fitness and high intellect, the integration of sports and technology, education and science – a person needs all that for well-rounded development and success in our era of rapid change, and the multifaceted, multipolar, free and competitive world that is taking shape before our eyes.
It makes perfect sense that the idea to merge conventional and e-sports was born in Russia.
☝️ Our country remains one of the leading sports powerhouses on the planet, the home of great athletes, victories and records. We have always championed sport and its lofty humanistic values.
#GamesOfTheFuture are our gift to the international sports family.
🎓 Russia is also a land of outstanding scientists, designers and engineers. Their achievements opened up new horizons of knowledge for humankind, and today our research teams and companies are scaling new heights in digital technologies and the use of artificial intelligence in areas that are at the leading edge of progress.
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✅ The Games of the Future is free from politics, as well as all discrimination and double standards. I am positive that the true spirit of sports will be on display at the Games venues.
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The international phygital tournament is a unique event in the modern history of international sports – which begins right here and now in Russia.
Godspeed!
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💬 Vladimir Putin: I am glad to welcome to Russia the pioneers of phygital sports which is an innovative format that gave rise to the name to the competition. These are indeed the Games of the Future.
The blending of tradition and the modern age, the harmonising of physical fitness and high intellect, the integration of sports and technology, education and science – a person needs all that for well-rounded development and success in our era of rapid change, and the multifaceted, multipolar, free and competitive world that is taking shape before our eyes.
It makes perfect sense that the idea to merge conventional and e-sports was born in Russia.
☝️ Our country remains one of the leading sports powerhouses on the planet, the home of great athletes, victories and records. We have always championed sport and its lofty humanistic values.
#GamesOfTheFuture are our gift to the international sports family.
🎓 Russia is also a land of outstanding scientists, designers and engineers. Their achievements opened up new horizons of knowledge for humankind, and today our research teams and companies are scaling new heights in digital technologies and the use of artificial intelligence in areas that are at the leading edge of progress.
<...>
✅ The Games of the Future is free from politics, as well as all discrimination and double standards. I am positive that the true spirit of sports will be on display at the Games venues.
<...>
The international phygital tournament is a unique event in the modern history of international sports – which begins right here and now in Russia.
Godspeed!
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Forwarded from Russian Embassy to the UK
🎙️ Embassy Comment on the UK Restrictive Measures against Russia, 21 February, 2024
▪︎Appealing to the principle of sovereignty at every turn and accusing our country of violating it by launching the Special military operation in Ukraine, the British authorities are themselves shamelessly interfering in our country’s internal matters.
▪︎Although no outcomes of the investigation or solid facts have been available as yet, London single-handedly identified those guilty and arbitrarily “sentenced” them to sanctions without a trial.
▪︎The choreography for this move by the UK looks distinctly cynical. The timing was chosen with Britain’s domestic policy in mind – just as Rishi Sunak was about to speak in the House of Commons and David Cameron was disembarking in Rio de Janeiro for the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting.
▪︎They are the ones supplying weapons and missiles from British stockpiles, that are used every day by Ukrainian militants to shell towns of Donbass and the Crimea.
▪︎We no longer have illusions about the true motives behind London’s false propaganda in support of “Russian democracy.” It is aimed exclusively at sowing discord among our compatriots and thereby weakening our country.
☝️No wonder the British establishment combines its “crocodile tears” over A.Navalny’s death so easily with calls to increase military aid to Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
We regard London's decision as futile and legally void.
❗Like all previous anti-Russian moves, it will not go unanswered.
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The decision of the UK Government to impose illegitimate unilateral restrictions against a number of Russian citizens on 21 February under a far-fetched pretext is striking in its dishonesty.
▪︎Appealing to the principle of sovereignty at every turn and accusing our country of violating it by launching the Special military operation in Ukraine, the British authorities are themselves shamelessly interfering in our country’s internal matters.
▪︎Although no outcomes of the investigation or solid facts have been available as yet, London single-handedly identified those guilty and arbitrarily “sentenced” them to sanctions without a trial.
▪︎The choreography for this move by the UK looks distinctly cynical. The timing was chosen with Britain’s domestic policy in mind – just as Rishi Sunak was about to speak in the House of Commons and David Cameron was disembarking in Rio de Janeiro for the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting.
Pompously pretending to care for the “welfare” and “freedoms” of ordinary Russians, British politicians seem to forget that they themselves are complicit in instigating the onslaught on Russian civilians by the criminal Kiev regime.
▪︎They are the ones supplying weapons and missiles from British stockpiles, that are used every day by Ukrainian militants to shell towns of Donbass and the Crimea.
▪︎We no longer have illusions about the true motives behind London’s false propaganda in support of “Russian democracy.” It is aimed exclusively at sowing discord among our compatriots and thereby weakening our country.
☝️No wonder the British establishment combines its “crocodile tears” over A.Navalny’s death so easily with calls to increase military aid to Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
We regard London's decision as futile and legally void.
❗Like all previous anti-Russian moves, it will not go unanswered.
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🗓 February 22 marks the 10th anniversary of the unconstitutional coup d'etat in Ukraine — an event, which led to an armed civil conflict, essentially a war waged by the Kiev regime against its own people, and a deepest crisis of international and European security since World War II.
10 years have passed since the tragic and horrible events of February 2014. The residing "authorities" in Kiev, aka the Kiev regime, and their Western sponsors are, as per their usual m.o., are attempting to distort the truth, conceal true facts, and turn the timeline of those events, their substance upside down.
❗️ But the truth is stubborn; it tends to get revealed sooner or later.
***
On the origins of Ukrainian nationalism, the crimes of the OUN-UPA, and the support of the West
***
The most horrific events unfolded on 20 February: the still unidentified snipers began shooting on the Institutskaya Street in the centre of Kiev at both law enforcement and protesters. Euromaidan supporters and Western politicians, seized "the opportunity", blamed the legitimate authorities of Ukraine. No evidence of Yanukovich's involvement was provided, and there is none to this day. Unlike, the Maidan activists & the opposition who benefited the most and was seen smuggling weapons into the area <...>
On 21 February, in an attempt to avoid further bloodshed, Yanukovych signed an Agreement on the Settlement of the Political Crisis in Ukraine with the opposition (from the opposition's side — Vitali Klitschko (UDAR party), Arseniy Yatsenyuk ("Fatherland"), and Oleg Tyagnybok ("Freedom")), which was supported and guaranteed by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland. This document envisaged the creation of a government of national trust, constitutional reform, and the organization of early presidential elections. None of the Agreement's provisions were implemented.
The next day, on February 22, the Supreme Council passed a resolution on Viktor Yanukovych's "self-removal" from performing the duties of the President of Ukraine, thereby usurping power (although he remained a legitimate president, remained in Ukraine and had made no statements regarding resignation). It was then announced that the "government of the victors (winner)" would be formed. The West turned a blind eye to all violations and hurried to declare a "change of power" in Ukraine, openly encouraging the putschists to pursue their anti-Russian policy. What ensued was basically a hunt for the remaining law enforcement officers and officials loyal to their oath and the country. <...> The very next day, the very first decision of the new "government" through the Verkhovnaya Rada was to revoke the law on the status of the Russian language, which according to data was back then the mother tongue of the majority (!) of the Ukrainian citizens.
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The "mediation" meddling of the West led to a sharp polarisation of Ukrainian society, which created the preconditions for an armed civil conflict. The first legislative steps of the "Maidan victors" — the abovementioned cancellation of the language law — were received with alarm in South-Eastern Ukraine, where spontaneous formation of popular militia forces began. Kiev immediately accused all the inhabitants of the region of "state treason" and "terrorism", threw the army and neo-Nazi punitive battalions to violently suppress the protests.
<...>
‼️ "Euromaidan" created a deep rift in Ukrainian society, lead to persecution, fight against dissent, spread of nationalism and neo-Nazism, legal lawlessness and nihilism, fighting the Russian language and own history, complete degradation of the socio-economic situation in the country.
The terror and horror brought by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and nationalists in 2014 must be brought to an end. Denazification and demilitarisation will be achieved.
📖 Read more about these tragic events of 2014 in our article.
📄 Foreign Ministry Spox Maria Zakharova's comment on the crisis in Ukraine
10 years have passed since the tragic and horrible events of February 2014. The residing "authorities" in Kiev, aka the Kiev regime, and their Western sponsors are, as per their usual m.o., are attempting to distort the truth, conceal true facts, and turn the timeline of those events, their substance upside down.
❗️ But the truth is stubborn; it tends to get revealed sooner or later.
***
On the origins of Ukrainian nationalism, the crimes of the OUN-UPA, and the support of the West
***
The most horrific events unfolded on 20 February: the still unidentified snipers began shooting on the Institutskaya Street in the centre of Kiev at both law enforcement and protesters. Euromaidan supporters and Western politicians, seized "the opportunity", blamed the legitimate authorities of Ukraine. No evidence of Yanukovich's involvement was provided, and there is none to this day. Unlike, the Maidan activists & the opposition who benefited the most and was seen smuggling weapons into the area <...>
On 21 February, in an attempt to avoid further bloodshed, Yanukovych signed an Agreement on the Settlement of the Political Crisis in Ukraine with the opposition (from the opposition's side — Vitali Klitschko (UDAR party), Arseniy Yatsenyuk ("Fatherland"), and Oleg Tyagnybok ("Freedom")), which was supported and guaranteed by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland. This document envisaged the creation of a government of national trust, constitutional reform, and the organization of early presidential elections. None of the Agreement's provisions were implemented.
The next day, on February 22, the Supreme Council passed a resolution on Viktor Yanukovych's "self-removal" from performing the duties of the President of Ukraine, thereby usurping power (although he remained a legitimate president, remained in Ukraine and had made no statements regarding resignation). It was then announced that the "government of the victors (winner)" would be formed. The West turned a blind eye to all violations and hurried to declare a "change of power" in Ukraine, openly encouraging the putschists to pursue their anti-Russian policy. What ensued was basically a hunt for the remaining law enforcement officers and officials loyal to their oath and the country. <...> The very next day, the very first decision of the new "government" through the Verkhovnaya Rada was to revoke the law on the status of the Russian language, which according to data was back then the mother tongue of the majority (!) of the Ukrainian citizens.
<...>
The "mediation" meddling of the West led to a sharp polarisation of Ukrainian society, which created the preconditions for an armed civil conflict. The first legislative steps of the "Maidan victors" — the abovementioned cancellation of the language law — were received with alarm in South-Eastern Ukraine, where spontaneous formation of popular militia forces began. Kiev immediately accused all the inhabitants of the region of "state treason" and "terrorism", threw the army and neo-Nazi punitive battalions to violently suppress the protests.
<...>
‼️ "Euromaidan" created a deep rift in Ukrainian society, lead to persecution, fight against dissent, spread of nationalism and neo-Nazism, legal lawlessness and nihilism, fighting the Russian language and own history, complete degradation of the socio-economic situation in the country.
The terror and horror brought by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and nationalists in 2014 must be brought to an end. Denazification and demilitarisation will be achieved.
📖 Read more about these tragic events of 2014 in our article.
📄 Foreign Ministry Spox Maria Zakharova's comment on the crisis in Ukraine
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10 years since the unconstitutional coup d'etat in Ukraine
February 22 marks the anniversary of the unconstitutional coup d'etat in Ukraine — an event, which led to an armed civil conflict, essentially a war waged by the Kiev regime against its own people, and a deepest crisis of international and European security…
▪️ On this very day, 10 years ago, Kiev became ground zero for an unconstitutional coup, that triggered all the events around Ukraine and its now former regions ever since. It marked the culmination of the Euromaidan demonstrations, a series of public protests held between November 2013 and February 2014, organised with the involvement and support of Western countries.
Here are facts that the Western mainstream media does not want to you to remember or know at all 👇
🔻 On February 21, 2014, a day before the coup, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition, mediated by Germany, Poland, and France, reached an agreement intended to stop the bloodshed and pave the way for a political resolution to the crisis. However, as soon as Yanukovych ordered the withdrawal of law enforcement troops from the centre of Kiev, militants began storming government buildings.
🔻 The Euromaidan protesters openly expressed neo-Nazi views. Images of Third Reich intelligence agent Stepan Bandera adorned captured buildings and were raised at rallies.
🔻 The Maidan Square protests received overt support and funding from Western countries. The US Embassy alone reportedly provided material support to protester groups amounting to $1 million per day.
🔻 Euromaidan activists resorted to the use of force and terrorist tactics, as evidenced by numerous cases of beatings and torture inflicted upon politicians and public figures who spoke out against the coup.
🔻Following the Euromaidan victory, the Kiev regime’s campaign of terror against dissidents became a hallmark. For over a decade, the people of Donbass endured terrorist attacks and indiscriminate strikes from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and neo-Nazi groups.
❗️Following the coup in Ukraine, its participants chose confrontation and civil war instead of pursuing peaceful development for the country.
📖 Find further details in the reference material, prepared under the auspices of the Foundation for Democracy Studies and the International Public Tribunal for Ukraine.
Here are facts that the Western mainstream media does not want to you to remember or know at all 👇
🔻 On February 21, 2014, a day before the coup, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition, mediated by Germany, Poland, and France, reached an agreement intended to stop the bloodshed and pave the way for a political resolution to the crisis. However, as soon as Yanukovych ordered the withdrawal of law enforcement troops from the centre of Kiev, militants began storming government buildings.
🔻 The Euromaidan protesters openly expressed neo-Nazi views. Images of Third Reich intelligence agent Stepan Bandera adorned captured buildings and were raised at rallies.
🔻 The Maidan Square protests received overt support and funding from Western countries. The US Embassy alone reportedly provided material support to protester groups amounting to $1 million per day.
🔻 Euromaidan activists resorted to the use of force and terrorist tactics, as evidenced by numerous cases of beatings and torture inflicted upon politicians and public figures who spoke out against the coup.
🔻Following the Euromaidan victory, the Kiev regime’s campaign of terror against dissidents became a hallmark. For over a decade, the people of Donbass endured terrorist attacks and indiscriminate strikes from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and neo-Nazi groups.
❗️Following the coup in Ukraine, its participants chose confrontation and civil war instead of pursuing peaceful development for the country.
📖 Find further details in the reference material, prepared under the auspices of the Foundation for Democracy Studies and the International Public Tribunal for Ukraine.
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Today marks 10 years since the events of the so-called Euromaidan that led to the unconstitutional coup d'etat in Ukraine.
Since 2014, under the supervision and with the direct guidance by the advisors from NATO & Western powers, Ukraine was transformed into an anti-Russian country at an accelerating pace.
The de-Russification and Ukrainization of the nations' cultural code was forced upon living in Ukraine, they were brainwashed, in effect re-educated in the spirit of hatred and hostility towards Russia and Russians, the memory of the common past awas all but erased, replaced by neo-Nazi sentiments.
Even the relatively recent 2014 events have been rewritten and retold by those in power in Kiev and their puppet masters in the West, facts were tossed away, truth twisted or omitted, the entire sequence of events turned upside down.
📺 Watch our brief video-journey, to jog your memory regarding the 2013-14 Euromaidan timeline and facts.
Since 2014, under the supervision and with the direct guidance by the advisors from NATO & Western powers, Ukraine was transformed into an anti-Russian country at an accelerating pace.
The de-Russification and Ukrainization of the nations' cultural code was forced upon living in Ukraine, they were brainwashed, in effect re-educated in the spirit of hatred and hostility towards Russia and Russians, the memory of the common past awas all but erased, replaced by neo-Nazi sentiments.
Even the relatively recent 2014 events have been rewritten and retold by those in power in Kiev and their puppet masters in the West, facts were tossed away, truth twisted or omitted, the entire sequence of events turned upside down.
📺 Watch our brief video-journey, to jog your memory regarding the 2013-14 Euromaidan timeline and facts.
🎙 Address by Sergey Lavrov at the #G20 Ministerial Meeting on the role of the G20 in overcoming current international tensions
📍 Rio de Janeiro, 21 February 2024
💬 When we join forces, the world can change for the better and move forward. The 20th century has become an important milestone in freeing humanity from the shackles of colonialism. <...> The transition to the era of détente during the Cold War allowed the United States and the USSR to lay a strong foundation for containing military risks and building reliable strategic security architecture, especially in Europe. It is regrettable that those achievements have been almost completely destroyed today.
The objective process of the emergence of a multipolar world order driven by self-reliant nations and regions has met with serious resistance. The basic principles of international communication are being undermined at the instigation of the West. Universal legal norms and the principles of the UN Charter, including the sovereign equality of states, non-interference in internal affairs and self-determination of peoples, are being violated. Diplomacy as a means of peaceful settlement of disputes is being sacrificed to violent struggle, “hybrid wars”, total confrontation, and the desire to inflict a strategic defeat on the rival. Double standards, hypocrisy and direct lies are brought into play. <...>
Instead of a UN-centred architecture, narrow bloc alliances, closed clubs, behind-the-scenes “best practices”, allegedly “reliable scientific data”, and pseudo-democratic ‘values’ are being promoted.
The world is artificially divided into friends and foes, the “garden” and the “jungle”. <...>
This is what the infamous “rules” the West imposes instead of the international law, appear in reality.
<...>
🌐 Our forum of the world's leading economies could make clear its opposition to the use of “economy as a weapon” and “war as an investment” and to demonstrate our desire for open and equitable trade and economic cooperation.
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📍 Rio de Janeiro, 21 February 2024
💬 When we join forces, the world can change for the better and move forward. The 20th century has become an important milestone in freeing humanity from the shackles of colonialism. <...> The transition to the era of détente during the Cold War allowed the United States and the USSR to lay a strong foundation for containing military risks and building reliable strategic security architecture, especially in Europe. It is regrettable that those achievements have been almost completely destroyed today.
The objective process of the emergence of a multipolar world order driven by self-reliant nations and regions has met with serious resistance. The basic principles of international communication are being undermined at the instigation of the West. Universal legal norms and the principles of the UN Charter, including the sovereign equality of states, non-interference in internal affairs and self-determination of peoples, are being violated. Diplomacy as a means of peaceful settlement of disputes is being sacrificed to violent struggle, “hybrid wars”, total confrontation, and the desire to inflict a strategic defeat on the rival. Double standards, hypocrisy and direct lies are brought into play. <...>
Instead of a UN-centred architecture, narrow bloc alliances, closed clubs, behind-the-scenes “best practices”, allegedly “reliable scientific data”, and pseudo-democratic ‘values’ are being promoted.
The world is artificially divided into friends and foes, the “garden” and the “jungle”. <...>
This is what the infamous “rules” the West imposes instead of the international law, appear in reality.
<...>
🌐 Our forum of the world's leading economies could make clear its opposition to the use of “economy as a weapon” and “war as an investment” and to demonstrate our desire for open and equitable trade and economic cooperation.
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On the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Kiev, we recall the West's role in fuelling the conflict in Ukraine, its support for Ukrainian nationalists and their terrorist activities.
🎬 Operation Ukraine: America's Fingerprints. Who supports Ukrainian Nationalism? - an RT Doc Film.
Synopsis: Immediately after the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazis, American intelligence agencies established contacts with former Hitler collaborators to work together against the Soviet Union and later Russia. The operation to form an armed underground movement in Western Ukraine was dubbed "Aerodynamic".
The CIA assembled war criminals and Bandera movement activists from filtration camps, and created an agent network. Their task was to sabotage nuclear plants and dams on Ukrainian territory in an effort to separate it from the Soviet Union. According to CIA co-founder Frank Wisner, they terrorised civilians and were responsible for at least 35,000 casualties
In the early 1950s, Red Army units mostly wiped out the nationalist insurgency, however the CIA employed a new strategy. Since then Ukrainian nationalists have been engaged in an ideological anti-Russian war. The operation "Prolog" gradually stoked nationalist sentiment in Ukraine and bred loyalty to Nazi ideas.
What is the outcome of half-century-long American influence❓
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
#LeastWeForget
On the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Kiev, we recall the West's role in fuelling the conflict in Ukraine, its support for Ukrainian nationalists and their terrorist activities.
🎬 Operation Ukraine: America's Fingerprints. Who supports Ukrainian Nationalism? - an RT Doc Film.
Synopsis: Immediately after the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazis, American intelligence agencies established contacts with former Hitler collaborators to work together against the Soviet Union and later Russia. The operation to form an armed underground movement in Western Ukraine was dubbed "Aerodynamic".
The CIA assembled war criminals and Bandera movement activists from filtration camps, and created an agent network. Their task was to sabotage nuclear plants and dams on Ukrainian territory in an effort to separate it from the Soviet Union. According to CIA co-founder Frank Wisner, they terrorised civilians and were responsible for at least 35,000 casualties
In the early 1950s, Red Army units mostly wiped out the nationalist insurgency, however the CIA employed a new strategy. Since then Ukrainian nationalists have been engaged in an ideological anti-Russian war. The operation "Prolog" gradually stoked nationalist sentiment in Ukraine and bred loyalty to Nazi ideas.
What is the outcome of half-century-long American influence❓
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
#LeastWeForget
🇷🇺🇰🇬 President Vladimir Putin met with President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov in Kazan.
💬 Vladimir Putin: Thank you for accepting our invitation and joining us at the opening of the Games of the Future. I think it will surely be an exciting event. <...>
🤝 Our bilateral relations, rooted in the fundamental treaty, are making advances across all areas of cooperation.
Russia remains one of Kyrgyzstan’s main trade and economic partners with 35 percent of direct investment in the Kyrgyz economy coming from Russia. We will continue to work on these matters.
Things are making steady progress in the humanitarian sphere. We are thankful to you for your focus on promoting the Russian language. You and I opened schools not long ago. I remember very well my visit to your country in late 2023, I believe it was October. Thank you very much for your hospitality.
We are delighted to welcome you to Russia.
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#RussiaKyrgyzstan
💬 Vladimir Putin: Thank you for accepting our invitation and joining us at the opening of the Games of the Future. I think it will surely be an exciting event. <...>
🤝 Our bilateral relations, rooted in the fundamental treaty, are making advances across all areas of cooperation.
Russia remains one of Kyrgyzstan’s main trade and economic partners with 35 percent of direct investment in the Kyrgyz economy coming from Russia. We will continue to work on these matters.
Things are making steady progress in the humanitarian sphere. We are thankful to you for your focus on promoting the Russian language. You and I opened schools not long ago. I remember very well my visit to your country in late 2023, I believe it was October. Thank you very much for your hospitality.
We are delighted to welcome you to Russia.
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#RussiaKyrgyzstan