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On May 5, a motor rally was held by Russian compatriots who gathered in #London from all areas of the United Kingdom to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
#Victory #Victory79
#Victory #Victory79
🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, May 3, 2024)
🔹 The Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Ten years since May 2, 2014, tragedy in Odessa
🔹 Ukraine’s war on the Russian language
🔹 Freedom of speech the British way
🔹 The issue of whether arms supplies by the US and the West to Ukraine are legal
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Evolution of EU defence policy
🔹 Vrbetice case investigation concluded in the Czech Republic
🔹 80th anniversary of the liberation of Sevastopol
🔹 Events to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the Great Victory
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#Ukraine
The Crimean Bridge is again targeted today, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of Crimea’s liberation [from the Nazi invaders]. Preparations for attacking it are conducted openly, arrogantly and with a direct and shameless support of the collective West.
We would like to tell Washington, London and Brussels again that any aggressive actions against Crimea would not only fail but would provoke a destructive retaliation strike.
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Meanwhile, the Kiev regime seems to be working off the pain of its losses on the frontline by fighting its Soviet past and rewriting history. The Bandera followers have redoubled these efforts before the day they especially hate, Victory Day, a story of the fight between good and evil where the Bandera army fought on the side of evil.
#Moldova
The West is turning that nation into its speechless slave. We continue to follow the developments in Moldova. Its current leaders, who collectively regard themselves as Romanians and not Moldovans, are pursuing a home policy of repression modelled on the policies of Ukraine and the Baltic states and aimed at turning the republic into a powerless appendage to the EU and NATO. <...>
According to independent Moldovan political scientists, the incompetence of the Sandu team is turning it into a white elephant in the eyes of its Western sponsors, who have put so much money into it.
🔹 The Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Ten years since May 2, 2014, tragedy in Odessa
🔹 Ukraine’s war on the Russian language
🔹 Freedom of speech the British way
🔹 The issue of whether arms supplies by the US and the West to Ukraine are legal
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Evolution of EU defence policy
🔹 Vrbetice case investigation concluded in the Czech Republic
🔹 80th anniversary of the liberation of Sevastopol
🔹 Events to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the Great Victory
📰 Read
📺 Watch
***
#Ukraine
The Crimean Bridge is again targeted today, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of Crimea’s liberation [from the Nazi invaders]. Preparations for attacking it are conducted openly, arrogantly and with a direct and shameless support of the collective West.
We would like to tell Washington, London and Brussels again that any aggressive actions against Crimea would not only fail but would provoke a destructive retaliation strike.
<...>
Meanwhile, the Kiev regime seems to be working off the pain of its losses on the frontline by fighting its Soviet past and rewriting history. The Bandera followers have redoubled these efforts before the day they especially hate, Victory Day, a story of the fight between good and evil where the Bandera army fought on the side of evil.
#Moldova
The West is turning that nation into its speechless slave. We continue to follow the developments in Moldova. Its current leaders, who collectively regard themselves as Romanians and not Moldovans, are pursuing a home policy of repression modelled on the policies of Ukraine and the Baltic states and aimed at turning the republic into a powerless appendage to the EU and NATO. <...>
According to independent Moldovan political scientists, the incompetence of the Sandu team is turning it into a white elephant in the eyes of its Western sponsors, who have put so much money into it.
🔴 #LIVE: Russia's Acting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov remarks at the ceremony of laying flowers at memorial plaques in the Foreign Ministry
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🔴 #LIVE: Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
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📰 Article by Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the Russian Mission to the EU Kirill Logvinov for TASS News Agency, 6 May 2024
European Parliament elections - a step towards a “Big Reset” of the EU?
💬 The results of the upcoming EP elections are not as intriguing to voters as they are to those candidates who are lucky enough to “make it to the top”. Once in Strasbourg/Brussels, the people's elected representatives – regardless of their political views – not only automatically join the ranks of the European bureaucracy, but also, as they perceive it, become part of the intellectual elite of the world community.
🌎Every MEP who has found his place in the “EU sun” will have to, willingly or resisting, enter the ranks of globalists – those who are ready to entirely devote themselves to serving globalist (let's call things by their names – American) interests.
No group in the EP – be it from the extreme left or right – will become a game changer: like all the other groups, it will become part of the mechanism designed to stamp out globalist decisions.
❗️The appointment of the President of the EU Commission (EC) for the period 2024-2029 will be among the first such decisions – without exaggeration the most important one in terms of its significance for the future of the EU's neo-imperialist transformation and its ambitions in shaping a “rules-based world order”.
The chances that the current EC head will be reappointed for another five-year term are high. Her election campaign is rather based on the “Vote for Ursula or lose” slogan. The main advantage of the current EPP candidate is her absolute commitment to the ideals of globalism and Atlanticism.
A better person to promote the overseas lobbyists' interests is hard to find. And given the current geopolitical situation there is no need to look for one: the world largely owes it to Ursula von der Leyen that all the resources available to the EU have been thrown today into supporting the global confrontation with Russia provoked and led by Washington.
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European Parliament elections - a step towards a “Big Reset” of the EU?
💬 The results of the upcoming EP elections are not as intriguing to voters as they are to those candidates who are lucky enough to “make it to the top”. Once in Strasbourg/Brussels, the people's elected representatives – regardless of their political views – not only automatically join the ranks of the European bureaucracy, but also, as they perceive it, become part of the intellectual elite of the world community.
🌎Every MEP who has found his place in the “EU sun” will have to, willingly or resisting, enter the ranks of globalists – those who are ready to entirely devote themselves to serving globalist (let's call things by their names – American) interests.
No group in the EP – be it from the extreme left or right – will become a game changer: like all the other groups, it will become part of the mechanism designed to stamp out globalist decisions.
❗️The appointment of the President of the EU Commission (EC) for the period 2024-2029 will be among the first such decisions – without exaggeration the most important one in terms of its significance for the future of the EU's neo-imperialist transformation and its ambitions in shaping a “rules-based world order”.
The chances that the current EC head will be reappointed for another five-year term are high. Her election campaign is rather based on the “Vote for Ursula or lose” slogan. The main advantage of the current EPP candidate is her absolute commitment to the ideals of globalism and Atlanticism.
A better person to promote the overseas lobbyists' interests is hard to find. And given the current geopolitical situation there is no need to look for one: the world largely owes it to Ursula von der Leyen that all the resources available to the EU have been thrown today into supporting the global confrontation with Russia provoked and led by Washington.
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Forwarded from Russian Embassy in India
As part of the event, flowers were laid at the memorial stele and the “St George’s Ribbon” campaign was held.
#Victory79
#VictoryDay
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🎙 Acting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial plaques at the Foreign Ministry (Moscow, May 8, 2024)
💬 Today, according to tradition, we celebrate Great Victory Day, May 9, a day that will never be gone from our memory, a day when we commemorate those who protected Russia, Europe and the world from Nazism and pay tribute to their heroism.
We are proud that diplomats were among the heroes who resisted the enemy, weapon in hand, or worked to support their Motherland on the home front, addressing economic tasks. After the war, they spared no effort to create a just international system, in which the USSR – our state, our nation – would take its rightful place, which was due to us according to historical justice. This is how the United Nations was created.
🏅 I would like to repeat that employees of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and our colleagues from the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade contributed to that victory on all fronts. Many of them became victims of political repression. We will always remember this. <...>
☝️ The descendants of Napoleon and Hitler have joined the Anglo-Saxons, again seeking to inflict a “strategic defeat” on our country, destroy it and subordinate it to their narrow selfish hegemonic interests. <...> Our soldiers on the front line, the people who provide them with weapons and equipment, as well as others, who are fostering the correct perception of our just struggle in the international arena, are definitely continuing the cause of our fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers.
🌐 The countries of the global majority know that Russia is fighting for everyone who wants to make their own choices and follow their own traditions, who do not want to see any manifestations of Nazism, racial or religious discrimination. The West is constantly pushing its satellites and puppets to this.
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💬 Today, according to tradition, we celebrate Great Victory Day, May 9, a day that will never be gone from our memory, a day when we commemorate those who protected Russia, Europe and the world from Nazism and pay tribute to their heroism.
We are proud that diplomats were among the heroes who resisted the enemy, weapon in hand, or worked to support their Motherland on the home front, addressing economic tasks. After the war, they spared no effort to create a just international system, in which the USSR – our state, our nation – would take its rightful place, which was due to us according to historical justice. This is how the United Nations was created.
☝️ The descendants of Napoleon and Hitler have joined the Anglo-Saxons, again seeking to inflict a “strategic defeat” on our country, destroy it and subordinate it to their narrow selfish hegemonic interests. <...> Our soldiers on the front line, the people who provide them with weapons and equipment, as well as others, who are fostering the correct perception of our just struggle in the international arena, are definitely continuing the cause of our fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers.
🌐 The countries of the global majority know that Russia is fighting for everyone who wants to make their own choices and follow their own traditions, who do not want to see any manifestations of Nazism, racial or religious discrimination. The West is constantly pushing its satellites and puppets to this.
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🇷🇺🇬🇶📞 On May 8, Acting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke over the phone with Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Francophone Affairs of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea Simeon Oyono Esono Angue.
🤝 During their conversation, the Ministers exchanged opinions on the entire range of issues pertaining to the diverse Russia-Equatorial Guinea ties. They reaffirmed their mutual commitment to further deepening political dialogue, implementing mutually beneficial economic and investment projects and closely coordinating the actions of Moscow and Malabo on the international stage.
The Ministers dwelt separately on facilitating the full-fledged operation of the Russian Embassy, which is resuming its work in the capital of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
#RussiaAfrica
🤝 During their conversation, the Ministers exchanged opinions on the entire range of issues pertaining to the diverse Russia-Equatorial Guinea ties. They reaffirmed their mutual commitment to further deepening political dialogue, implementing mutually beneficial economic and investment projects and closely coordinating the actions of Moscow and Malabo on the international stage.
The Ministers dwelt separately on facilitating the full-fledged operation of the Russian Embassy, which is resuming its work in the capital of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
#RussiaAfrica
🎙 Acting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions during a joint news conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Sierra Leone Timothy Musa Kabba following talks (Moscow, May 7, 2024)
💬 We conducted substantive Russia-Sierra Leone talks. We share the view that today’s meeting was timely and confirms our mutual striving to continue strengthening the traditionally friendly bilateral relations on the principles of equality and mutual respect.
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We are interested in the implementation of the African Solutions − for African Problems principle.
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☝️ We maintain good cooperation on implementing the agreements reached during the two Russia-Africa summits. In accordance with a decision of the St Petersburg Summit in July 2023, the Russia-African Union foreign ministers will hold their first meeting next November. We hope that our friends will be represented at the proper level.
We confirmed our gratitude for Sierra Leone’s position of principle on the issues related to the situation around Ukraine. It developed because of the hybrid war that the West was preparing for a long time with a view to weakening our country, creating threats to its security and depriving millions of Russian speakers in Crimea and Donbass of their lawful rights.
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🤝 We are grateful to our African friends, in part Sierra Leone, for their well-balanced position and understanding of the reasons that had brought about the current situation. I am pleased about today’s negotiations.
❓ Question: Does the Foreign Ministry plan to open new diplomatic missions in African countries in 2024, including the Russian Embassy in Sierra Leone?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We are going to open new diplomatic offices in Africa, including Freetown before the end of 2024. We have adopted all required decisions and it remains to fulfil them. We are working on this in practical terms.
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💬 We conducted substantive Russia-Sierra Leone talks. We share the view that today’s meeting was timely and confirms our mutual striving to continue strengthening the traditionally friendly bilateral relations on the principles of equality and mutual respect.
<...>
We are interested in the implementation of the African Solutions − for African Problems principle.
<...>
☝️ We maintain good cooperation on implementing the agreements reached during the two Russia-Africa summits. In accordance with a decision of the St Petersburg Summit in July 2023, the Russia-African Union foreign ministers will hold their first meeting next November. We hope that our friends will be represented at the proper level.
We confirmed our gratitude for Sierra Leone’s position of principle on the issues related to the situation around Ukraine. It developed because of the hybrid war that the West was preparing for a long time with a view to weakening our country, creating threats to its security and depriving millions of Russian speakers in Crimea and Donbass of their lawful rights.
<...>
🤝 We are grateful to our African friends, in part Sierra Leone, for their well-balanced position and understanding of the reasons that had brought about the current situation. I am pleased about today’s negotiations.
❓ Question: Does the Foreign Ministry plan to open new diplomatic missions in African countries in 2024, including the Russian Embassy in Sierra Leone?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We are going to open new diplomatic offices in Africa, including Freetown before the end of 2024. We have adopted all required decisions and it remains to fulfil them. We are working on this in practical terms.
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🗓 May 8, the eve of the Great Victory, marks the 57th Anniversary (unveiled in 1967) of the official ceremony of lighting the sacred Eternal Flame at the unveiled Tomb of the Unknown Soldier memorial architectural ensemble in Alexander Garden near the Moscow Kremlin Wall.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier serves as a symbolic monument to honour frontline soldiers killed in action during the Great Patriotic War. It was proposed by officials in 1966, on the 25th anniversary of defeating Nazi forces near Moscow. On December 3, 1966, the remains of a Soviet soldier killed near Zelenograd were laid to rest in Alexander Garden.
⭐️ The Eternal Flame of Glory burns in front of the tombstone, at the centre of a five-pointed star, and illuminates a bronze inscription that reads: “Your Name is Unknown, Your Feat is Immortal.”
In 1997, the President of Russia issued an executive order to establish a guard of honour post near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In 2009, another presidential executive order granted the status of a nationwide military glory memorial to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of the Russian Federation. The memorial was included in the State List of Particularly Valuable Cultural Heritage Landmarks and Sites of Russia’s Peoples. On December 3, 2014, the day when the defender of Moscow was buried in Alexander Garden in 1966, was proclaimed the Day of the Unknown Soldier.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier serves as a symbolic monument to honour frontline soldiers killed in action during the Great Patriotic War. It was proposed by officials in 1966, on the 25th anniversary of defeating Nazi forces near Moscow. On December 3, 1966, the remains of a Soviet soldier killed near Zelenograd were laid to rest in Alexander Garden.
⭐️ The Eternal Flame of Glory burns in front of the tombstone, at the centre of a five-pointed star, and illuminates a bronze inscription that reads: “Your Name is Unknown, Your Feat is Immortal.”
In 1997, the President of Russia issued an executive order to establish a guard of honour post near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In 2009, another presidential executive order granted the status of a nationwide military glory memorial to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of the Russian Federation. The memorial was included in the State List of Particularly Valuable Cultural Heritage Landmarks and Sites of Russia’s Peoples. On December 3, 2014, the day when the defender of Moscow was buried in Alexander Garden in 1966, was proclaimed the Day of the Unknown Soldier.
🎙 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin's remarks at the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting in restricted format (Moscow, May 8, 2024):
💬 We note with satisfaction that over the past decade our association has established itself as an independent and self-sufficient centre of the emerging multipolar world.
Today, the Eurasian Union is an effective and dynamic integration structure whose activities contribute to the growth of trade and investment exchanges, intensification of business contacts, and expansion of cooperation ties, which ultimately brings real benefits to each association member.
Just now, before entering this room, my colleagues and I talked about it and stated that our economic development indicators are very good.
In actual practice, it helps ensure stable and sustainable development both of the five member countries and the Eurasian region as a whole, and results in improving the quality of life and well-being of our people.
📈 The economic indicators speak for themselves:
• according to available estimates, over the ten years the total GDP of the Eurasian Union countries went from US$1.6 to US$2.5 trillion,
• trade with third countries increased by 60 percent, from US$579 to US$923 billion,
• the volume of mutual trade almost doubled: from US$45 to US$89 billion, with over 90 percent of settlements already made in national currencies.
It is noteworthy that positive macroeconomic dynamics continue this year.
Let me stress that Russia highly values mutually beneficial multifaceted ties with its EAEU partners, and sincerely aims to further work towards comprehensive development and strengthening of our integration association. I am confident that all the colleagues present here share this commitment.
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💬 We note with satisfaction that over the past decade our association has established itself as an independent and self-sufficient centre of the emerging multipolar world.
Today, the Eurasian Union is an effective and dynamic integration structure whose activities contribute to the growth of trade and investment exchanges, intensification of business contacts, and expansion of cooperation ties, which ultimately brings real benefits to each association member.
Just now, before entering this room, my colleagues and I talked about it and stated that our economic development indicators are very good.
In actual practice, it helps ensure stable and sustainable development both of the five member countries and the Eurasian region as a whole, and results in improving the quality of life and well-being of our people.
📈 The economic indicators speak for themselves:
• according to available estimates, over the ten years the total GDP of the Eurasian Union countries went from US$1.6 to US$2.5 trillion,
• trade with third countries increased by 60 percent, from US$579 to US$923 billion,
• the volume of mutual trade almost doubled: from US$45 to US$89 billion, with over 90 percent of settlements already made in national currencies.
It is noteworthy that positive macroeconomic dynamics continue this year.
Let me stress that Russia highly values mutually beneficial multifaceted ties with its EAEU partners, and sincerely aims to further work towards comprehensive development and strengthening of our integration association. I am confident that all the colleagues present here share this commitment.
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