✍️ Russia's President Vladimir Putin approved the new Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence, signing the attendant Executive Order on November 19, 2024.

Key items:

• State policy on Nuclear Deterrence is defensive by nature, it is aimed at maintaining the nuclear forces potential at the level sufficient for nuclear deterrence, and guarantees protection of national sovereignty and territorial integrity of the State, and deterrence of a potential adversary from aggression against the Russian Federation and/or its allies.

• The Russian Federation considers nuclear weapons as a means of deterrence, their use being an extreme and compelled measure, and takes all necessary efforts to reduce nuclear threat and prevent aggravation of interstate relations, that could trigger military conflicts, including nuclear ones.

• The Russian Federation ensures nuclear deterrence toward a potential adversary, which is understood to mean any individual states or military coalitions (blocs, alliances) which see the Russian Federation as a potential adversary and possess nuclear arms and/or other weapons of mass destruction or conventional forces with a significant combat capability.

• Nuclear deterrence is also ensured toward any states which provide the territory, airspace, and/or maritime space under their control as well as resources for preparing and conducting an aggression against the Russian Federation.

• An aggression of any single state from a military coalition (bloc, alliance) against the Russian Federation and/or its allies will be regarded as an aggression of the coalition (bloc, alliance) as a whole.

• An aggression against the Russian Federation and/or its allies of any non-nuclear state with the participation or support of a nuclear state will be regarded as their joint attack.

• The decision to use nuclear weapons is taken by the President of the Russian Federation.

In an attempt to spite Russia, the West has used one of the most controversial tools – cancel culture. It has gone against all spheres of life: art, music, sports. The directive: Russian culture must disappear from public space.

This film is about how the so-called free West began to subordinate history and culture to political expediency. Russian people living abroad were forced to hide their origins. The cancellation reached every sport in which Russians compete, including the Paralympics. The opposite happened - the Olympics themselves lost their value for Russians.

"If I never go to international competitions, don't go to some European place to have fun, I won't be too upset. It's much more important to me that people in Donbass can live a normal life"©

Collective Europe needs to understand: Russian talents will always be successful. We will never lose our culture, it is the West that will lose Russian culture.

#Майорские_фильмы

⚡️Two Majors

❌ Ukraine’s foreign partners keen on celebrating symbolic milestones have marked 1000 days since the crisis spiraled into its hot phase.

This, above all, exposes their persistent unwillingness to address the true origins and genesis of the conflict, which began much earlier – in 2014, following the coup d’etat in Kiev orchestrated with the backing of the US and NATO’s leading countries.

However, the British politicians have promptly seized upon this pretext to promote themselves on the backs of their Ukrainian protégés.

Once again lofty rhetoric and pledges in support of the Kiev regime have been unleashed with renewed vigour. New military aid packages have been announced. Fresh sanctions are being rolled out. All this has long been cynically turned into routine.

Decision-makers in London and other Western capitals do not seem to bother contemplating the ultimate goals of these mechanical exercises. These gestures will clearly not deter us in any way from accomplishing all objectives of the Special Military Operation.

❗️ The responsibility for the prolongation of this conflict, its death toll and widespread destruction rests entirely with Western partners of Ukraine – the UK in particular.

It is these countries that have nurtured the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, complicit in waging war against its own people, and that have been arming it over many years while turning a blind eye to its atrocities. After the launch of the Special Military Operation they played a pivotal role in sabotaging Russia-Ukraine peace talks within the framework of the Istanbul Process in the spring of 2022.

Ever since they and their successors and followers have worked tirelessly to prevent the conflict from being resolved by ensuring the constant flow of ever more lethal weapons to the Kiev military. At the same time, the crimes of Zelensky and his entourage have been extensively whitewashed through dedicated diplomatic efforts and propaganda.

Today British hawks continue to pour fuel on the fire, clamoring for new vectors of escalation.

Judging by recent statements in international fora London clings to the fantasy of inflicting a "strategic defeat" on Russia. It is difficult to recognize what guides this approach: ideological fervour, lack of sound judgement, or gaps in historical literacy.

☝️ We call on the UK leadership to reflect on the consequences of their actions and to refrain from pushing the world closer to a dangerous threshold in pursuit of illusory geopolitical ambitions.

Right now, there is a premiere of the movie “Parental Pain”.

It is based on real human tragedies. The movie also includes findings from a recent parliamentary investigation led by Anna Yuryevna Kuznetsova.

It is for sure that the killers of our children will still be tried on these findings and without any statute of limitations.

We specially subtitled the movie in English so that the world would know

From Soros to USAID: How US organized 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine

On November 21, Ukraine marks the so-called Dignity and Freedom Day, commemorating the US-backed 2004 Orange Revolution and 2014 Euromaidan, including the US-orchestrated "third round" election that overturned Viktor Yanukovich's victory to install Viktor Yushchenko.

"The campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in Western branding and mass marketing," The Guardian's Ian Traynor wrote of the 2004 upheaval in November that year, comparing it to "the US government-funded and organized" Velvet Revolution, Revolution of Roses and an attempted coup in Belarus.

How much did the Orange Revolution cost?

The US and its allies reportedly spent $65–$100 million over two years to support Viktor Yushchenko-led opposition, with much of the funding allegedly covert and funneled through NGOs.

🔻The US State Department:

▪️in FY2003 and FY2004 officially allocated $188.5 million and $143.47 million, respectively, for "assistance programs" in Ukraine

▪️$54.7 million (FY2003) and $34.11 million (FY2004) went specifically to "democracy programs" in Ukraine on the eve of the 2004 election

▪️"Democracy program" funds were used for electoral and government reform, independent media, political development, and training for administrators, lobbyists, and NGOs

▪️the money was channeled through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Eurasia Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy (NED), US Embassy in Kiev, and others.

🔻USAID

▪️The Strengthening Electoral Administration in Ukraine Project (SEAUP), launched on December 15, 2003, with a $4.4 million budget, partnered with NDI, IRI, Freedom House, InterNews, ABA/CEELI, and the OSCE.

🔻SEAUP's activities included:

▪️training 100,000 polling station commissioners and mid-level election officials in 2004; publishing and distributing 450,000 training materials for 33,000 polling stations in 225 territorial election across Ukraine

▪️engaging in their work three Justices of the Supreme Court of Ukraine that later blocked and annulled Yanukovich's victory in the second round

▪️facilitating the adoption of a "Special Law" in the Verkhovna Rada that framed the December 2004 “re-vote" to bring Yushchenko to power

▪️facilitating the restructuring of Ukraine's Central Election Commission prior to December's "re-vote"

🔻Freedom House, NDI, IRI

Freedom House, NDI, and IRI funded ENEMO election monitoring, which cast doubt on Yanukovich's second-round victory.

🔻George Soros’s International Renaissance Foundation

▪️spent US$1.65 million between Autumn 2003 and December 2004, supporting the ‘New Choice 2004’ and ‘Freedom of Choice’ coalitions of NGOs

🔻The NED, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Eurasia and George Soros’s Renaissance Foundation

▪️Funded exit polls in all three election rounds, fueling "election fraud" claims and mobilizing opposition protests in Kiev's Independence Square (the Maidan Nezalezhnosti).

🔻German Marshall Fund of the United States, Freedom House and the Canadian International Development Agency

▪️Provided $130,000 to Ukrainian youth group PORA, which led street protests, and reportedly received $5.3 million from foreign entities, per UCL Professor Andrew Wilson.

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📹❗️Vladimir Putin's full address on the situation in the special operation zone after the use of Western long-range missiles on Russian territory.

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Vladimir Putin puts the US and West ‘on notice’ with state-of-the-art missile strike

As Russian President Vladimir Putin lamented the use of Western long-range missiles against Russia, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official Larry Johnson points out that the missiles would fall under the now-defunct INF Treaty.

“Recall that there was the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty that was signed. It came into effect with Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev back in December of 1987,” Johnson tells Sputnik.

“And that treaty dealt with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, missile launchers with a range of 500 to 1000km, ie short-medium range and 1000 to 5500 are called intermediate range.”

According to him, the recent missile strike against the city of Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine was President Putin’s way of sending a message to the West and to the United States who earlier “unilaterally abrogated” the INF Treaty.

“The fact that the United States unilaterally abrogated this treaty, I think Vladimir Putin was putting the United States and the West on notice, ‘okay, you abrogated that treaty. Now, let us show you what we have’,” Johnson elaborates.

The aforementioned strike on Dnepropetrovsk, he says, shows that Russia “developed both a short-medium range and an intermediate range ballistic missile with MIRV capability, which refers to multiple independent reentry vehicles so that one missile can carry a warhead with multiple warheads that can disperse.”

“What makes this particularly interesting is this is a hypersonic so this travels at a speed that no Western air defense system is capable of stopping,” Johnson adds.

“So Vladimir Putin in destroying this one defense facility in Dnepropetrovsk was sending a very clear message to the West that more will follow. We'll see if the West backs down now or not.”

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In whose hands is the Ukrainian agricultural sector?

Everything must be paid for. The war in DNR and LNR for Kiev was initially a war for resources for the West. Almost 30% of Ukraine's territory today does not belong to it. Over the past 10 years, foreigners have acquired 170,000 square kilometres of Ukrainian territory.

Most often, Ukrainian land is bought up by firms based in the USA or financed by American structures. Three American giants Cargill, Dupont and Monsanto have already bought up 40% of arable land in Ukraine. As a rule, almost for next to nothing.

According to the University of Auckland, another 28% of such land is now owned by Ukrainian oligarchs and agroholdings, which are in fact owned by the US-based NCH Capital, France's AgroGeneration, Germany's ADM Germany, KWS, Bayer and BASF, and Saudi Arabia's PIF and SALIC.

In 2013, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (China) acquired land the size of Belgium on a 99-year lease with an option to buy.

On November 24, Ms Ekaterina Semenova, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. of Russia in Bangladesh, paid a call on Bangladesh Food Adviser Mr Ali Imam Majumder.

They discussed bilateral cooperation in the field of food security, including grain supplies.

25th International Theatre Festival "Melikhovo Spring" will be held from May 23 to June 1, 2025, in the Anton Chekhov's estate-museum in the Moscow Region

We invite professional theatres and creative groups from Bangladesh to present performances based on the works of Anton Chekhov or related to the author. The festival will feature a special program, "Chekhov+," highlighting productions based on the works of William Shakespeare.

Applications can be submitted until December 1. To complete registration it is necessary to attach a video recording of the performance.

You can find out more about the festival and apply here

24-25 ноября в столичных районах Демра и Джатрабари произошли столкновения между учащимися средних и высших учебных заведений, в результате которых пострадали свыше ста человек. В стране продолжаются массовые митинги рабочих, политические протесты, нередки случаи вандализма.

В связи с этим просим соотечественников, проживающих в крупных городах Бангладеш, избегать мест традиционного проведения демонстраций, таких как кампусы университетов и колледжей, офисы газет, телеканалов и политических партий.

Заранее планируйте свой маршрут и проверяйте обстановку при передвижении между городами, при выходе из дома. Проявляйте повышенную бдительность в оживленных районах, не оставляйте надолго личные автомобили без присмотра.

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⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry Statement on personal sanctions against representatives of the United Kingdom’s political establishment, military and defence-related entities, as well as journalists

Once again, the Foreign Ministry has to raise its voice against the unrelenting aggressive anti-Russian rhetoric coming from the United Kingdom’s authorities, as well as London’s persistent efforts to impose illegitimate unilateral restrictions on our country, coupled with its reckless policy to support the neo-Nazi Kiev regime in pursuit of its vested geopolitical interests, which further delays the resolution of the Ukraine conflict without any reason.

This Russia-hating policy includes efforts to discredit Russia’s actions and isolate it on the international stage, while also spreading misinformation about our country, including in the context of the special military operation, coupled with offering military support to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which borders on UK’s direct involvement in the conflict. This can lead to further escalation and demonstrates London’s commitment to carrying on with its system-wide confrontation with Russia.

Once again, Moscow stresses that this policy has no future and calls on London to renounce it in favour of mutually respectful and constructive ties for greater security and stability around the world.

❌ In response to the hostile actions by the UK, Russia decided to include several members of the UK’s political establishment, the military, high-technology sector, as well as journalists in the Russia's stop list.

👉 The list of UK subjects who are now banned from entering the Russian Federation.

The Foreign Ministry will further expand the stop list in response to the United Kingdom’s hostile actions.

ЕАЭС: технологический суверенитет для устойчивого развития

Прошел VI Евразийский деловой форум «Интеграция». Тема пленарного заседания – «Технологический суверенитет и промышленная кооперация ЕАЭС: механизмы реализации».

💬 «Технологический суверенитет становится важным фактором обеспечения устойчивого развития. При этом энергетика и транспорт - факторы, которые обеспечивают не только физическую инфраструктуру для развития отраслей экономики, но и способствуют независимости от внешних рисков. Евразийская интеграционная связность становится определенным конкурентным преимуществом наших стран», - заявил член Коллегии по энергетике и инфраструктуре ЕЭК Арзыбек Кожошев.

⚡Особую актуальность приобретает проведение странами «пятерки» согласованной энергетической политики и их совместная деятельность по формированию общих рынков энергоресурсов.

🚂 Важную роль также играет развитие международного транспортного коридора «Север-Юг» и наращивание международного сотрудничества.

📷: Яндекс

#ЕАЭС
#энергетика
#транспорт

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at Ambassadorial Round Table Discussion, “Ukraine crisis: Global information space” (Moscow, November 29, 2024)

💬 The collective West has long been using information warfare techniques to distort information in order to get ahead with its dirty geopolitical plots.

I’d like to share a historical anecdote with you. <...> In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a special Bible for the British colonies, Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the Use of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands, was published, also known in the world biblical studies as The Slave Bible. They took 90 percent of the Old Testament and 50 percent of the New Testament out of it. In order to enslave the souls and minds of millions of slaves, the forefathers of today’s Western liberals censored the Holy Scriptures, and removed sections of it that could instill in the slave labourers’ minds the idea that all people are equal before God. The Slave Bibles had been published in London since the early 19th century.

Little has changed since then.

🔻 The Kiev regime operates under direct control of the Anglo-Saxons and their NATO satellites, and acts in line with British colonial practices. It uses many modern-day ultra-liberal Western ideology techniques. Cancel culture is one such technique. The systematic rewriting and falsifying by Ukrainian propagandists of their own past, including blotting out entire chapters from history textbooks, is part of that approach. <...>

🔻 The countries of the collective West, which like to speak about the freedom of speech, pluralism and democracy, actually demonstrate a fierce intolerance of any alternative views. In this context, they have predictably focused their attacks on Russian media outlets such as RT and Sputnik. <...>

👉 Germany has recently banned the broadcasting of Russia’s Channel One and expelled its journalists. We provided a symmetrical response. Similar things happen every day. <...>

The media still serves as one of the main frontlines in the aggressive campaign the collective West has launched against Russia, as well as against other countries within the Global Majority which pursue an independent domestic and foreign policy. Ukraine has turned into yet another testing ground for deploying and testing sophisticated methods for manipulating public opinion. <...>

Washington, London, and EU capitals are all trying to sweep under the carpet the crimes perpetrated by their underlings in Ukraine and justify them. In doing so, they have been relying on their media as a powerful tool while blocking any sources of unwanted news. They have gone to great lengths to paralyse international human rights bodies. Moreover, the fact that Russian journalists have been dying at the hands of Ukrainian Nazis, as I have already mentioned, is a non-topic in the West. <...>

❗️ Entities like UNESCO, OSCE and the Council of Europe have a mandate under their statutory documents to promote human rights, including ensuring safety for journalists. In recent years, they have demonstrated their extreme opportunism and inability to live up to their mission by remaining silent and failing to act.

***

But information wars, lies or fake news will not help the neo-Nazi Kiev regime. The special military operation’s goals and objectives will be achieved.

However, achieving a lasting and sustainable settlement in the Ukraine conflict would be impossible unless we remove its root causes. These primarily include:

▪️creating lasting security threats for Russia along its western borders resulting from NATO’s expansion,

▪️ NATO’s efforts to absorb Ukraine,

▪️ the system-wide effort by the Kiev regime to strip Russians and Russian speakers in its own country of their rights.

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🎙 Выступление С.В.Лаврова на посольском «круглом столе» на тему «Украинский кризис. Глобальное информационное пространство» (Москва, 29 ноября 2024 года)

💬 «Коллективный Запад» давно применяет методы информационных войн, искажения информации для реализации своих «грязных» геополитических задач.

Приведу исторический пример. <...> В конце XVIII – начале XIX века была издана специальная Библия для колоний Британии <...>. В мировой библеистике она получила название – «Библия рабов». Было вырезано 90 процентов Ветхого Завета и 50 процентов Нового Завета. Во имя порабощения душ миллионов рабов предшественники сегодняшних западных либералов подвергли цензуре Священное Писание, исключив разделы, которые могут вселить в невольников опасную для рабовладельцев мысль о равенстве всех перед Богом. «Библии рабов» выпускались с начала XIX века в Лондоне.

С тех пор мало что поменялось.

🔻 Сегодня киевский режим, находящийся под непосредственным контролем англосаксов и их натовских сателлитов, действует в русле британских колониальных практик, используя многие приёмы из современной ультралиберальной идеологии Запада. Такие, как «культура отмены». В этом же ряду – системное переписывание, фальсификация украинскими пропагандистами собственного прошлого, включая вымарывание целых глав из учебников истории. <...>

🔻 Государства «коллективного Запада», много разглагольствующие о свободе слова, плюрализме, демократии, на практике демонстрируют вопиющую нетерпимость к любой альтернативной точке зрения. В этой связи основным объектом их нападок предсказуемо служат российские издания, такие как RT и Sputnik. <...>

👉 Совсем недавно в Германии запретили вещание Первого канала, по сути выгнав группу журналистов. Мы отреагировали соответствующим образом. Такие вещи случаются каждый день. <...>

Медийный фронт остаётся одним из основных в рамках агрессивной кампании, которую проводит «коллективный Запад» как против России, так и против других государств Мирового большинства, придерживающихся самостоятельной линии во внутренних и внешних делах. Украина превратилась в очередной «полигон» как для использования, так и для «обкатки» изощрённых приемов манипулирования общественным сознанием. <...>

И Вашингтон, и Лондон, и столицы Евросоюза продолжают линию на замалчивание и оправдание преступлений своих подопечных на Украине. Подключают мощный ресурс – свои СМИ, блокируют источники «неугодных» новостей. Делают максимум возможного, чтобы парализовать активность многосторонних правозащитных структур. О погибших от рук укронацистов российских журналистах на Западе не говорят вообще. <...>

❗️Такие структуры, как ЮНЕСКО, ОБСЕ, Совет Европы обязаны в соответствии со своими уставными документами обеспечивать порядок в сфере защиты как прав человека в целом, так и безопасности журналистов. За последние годы они доказали свою полную беспринципность и недееспособность.

***

Никакие информационные войны, ложь и «фейки» не помогут неонацистскому киевскому режиму. Цели и задачи специальной военной операции будут реализованы.

Но любое урегулирование украинского конфликта не будет прочным и долговременным, если не удастся устранить его первопричины. К ним, прежде всего, относятся:

▪️ создание долговременных угроз безопасности России на западном направлении путем расширения НАТО,

▪️ попытки поглотить Украину Североатлантическим альянсом,

▪️ систематические действия киевского режима по истреблению прав русских и русскоязычных граждан <...>.

Говоря о первопричинах, хотел бы привлечь внимание к инициативе Председателя КНР Си Цзиньпина о глобальной безопасности. <...> Один из главных принципов этой глобальной инициативы в области безопасности заключается в том, что в любом конфликте усилия должны быть направлены на выявление и устранение его первопричин.

☝️ Когда продвигаются инициативы, связанные с добрыми намерениями, со стремлением положить конец военной конфронтации вокруг Украины, просьба учитывать в полной мере это мудрое требование инициативы.

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