BRICS developing platform for transactions in national currencies

Member states are seeking to improve the international monetary and financial system, the Russian foreign minister says.

Speaking at a meeting of the economic bloc’s foreign ministers in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Lavrov said BRICS was “actively working to implement the decisions of the Johannesburg summit last year, particularly when it comes to improving the international monetary and financial system, developing a platform for settlements in national currencies in mutual trade.”

He added that the bloc, which recently underwent a process of unprecedented expansion, is also looking to harmonize the framework of interaction between BRICS partners.

“Our agenda is extensive. It includes issues that will directly affect the future world order based on fair grounds,” Lavrov said.

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Russian instructors to train African military personnel

Vice President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue has met with Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.

The agreement was reached during the meeting between Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and the African vice president.

“Equatorial Guinea and Russia have signed a military training agreement. This agreement will enable Russian instructors to travel to the country to train soldiers from various corps of the national army,” Obiang said in a message on X (formerly Twitter).

In a statement released on the government website, the vice president mentioned that Yevkurov’s visit to Malabo had elevated relations between the two countries to “a higher level,” particularly in multi-sectoral cooperation with a focus on defense and security.

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Russian troops liberate Staromayorskoye community in DPR over past day

Russian troops gained better ground and inflicted casualties on eight Ukrainian army brigades in the Kupyansk area over the past day, the ministry reported.

Russian troops liberated the settlement of Staromayorskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

"Battlegroup East units kept advancing deep into the enemy’s defenses and liberated the settlement of Staromayorskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said in a statement.

Staromayorskoye was one of the two villages Ukraine managed to take in the South during their catastrophic offensive.

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BRICS not seeking global dominance — Lavrov

Unlike the West, practicing racist approaches, BRICS is not seeking global dominance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference following the meeting of BRICS foreign ministers.

"Multipolarity is not something that depends on the wishes of a certain state or a group of nations. Multipolarity or polycentrism as we also call it, is an objectively developing historical process which cannot be stopped," Lavrov said. "Although the West is trying to stall it by crook or by hook in order to prolong its hegemony that was proclaimed as the main goal of the US and its allies. They openly say that the world order in which the leading role belongs to the Americans, NATO and the EU, cannot be allowed to change," he went on to say.

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After taking a direct hit by fpv, the machine was still saved. Driver has been awarded for taking the risk to bring it back.

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Ukraine stepping up efforts to commit terrorist attacks in Russia — FSB chief

Alexander Bortnikov, Federal Security Service (FSB) chief and National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) chairman, stated that Ukraine, with the support of NATO countries, is stepping up its efforts to commit terrorist attacks and sabotage on the Russian territory, the information center of NAC reported.

"In his speech (at a meeting of NAC - TASS), the chairman of the NAC noted that the enemy, with the support of the United States and other NATO countries, is stepping up efforts to commit terrorist attacks and sabotage on the Russian territory, trying to weaken the resource support of the Russian army and provoke panic among the population. Attempts of neo-Nazi armed formations and sabotage and reconnaissance groups to penetrate into the regions bordering Ukraine continue. They search for and recruit perpetrators of high-profile crimes, including among labor migrants," the NAC reported.

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Zelensky bitterly disappointed with Сhina

The Ukrainian leader is reportedly upset that Beijing has refused to take part in his “peace conference” in Switzerland.

The Kiev-sponsored conference is set to take place over the upcoming weekend at the Burgenstock Resort in Switzerland and will be dedicated to discussions surrounding Zelensky’s ten-step “peace formula” for Ukraine, which, among other things, demands the complete withdrawal of Russian forces from territories Kiev claims as its own, reparations, and an international tribunal for the Russian leadership.

More than 160 delegations, including those from the G7, G20 and BRICS have been invited to the Swiss-hosted event. Moscow, however, received no such invitation and has indicated that it would not have attended the conference even if it did, calling Zelensky’s plan “unacceptable” and describing the “absurd” conference as “completely without prospects.”

China doesn't waste time with clowns.

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Georgia began to prepare for the resumption of diplomatic relations with Russia. Embassies will open after a break of 16 years.

The Georgian Dream party has begun preparations to restore diplomatic relations with Russia after 16 years. This was reported on June 11 by Mtavari TV channel.

Georgia broke diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation on September 3, 2008, after Moscow recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia .

Sources of the TV channel confirmed that the governments of the two countries are actively working on this issue, and the selection of employees for the Georgian Embassy in Moscow has already begun.

The material notes that representatives of diasporas and business circles were the first to talk about opening an embassy. Georgian Dream has not officially confirmed reports of the opening of an embassy in Russia.

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"We refuse to listen to the speaker in camouflage."

Members of the Bundestag, chairmen of the Alternative for Germany parliamentary group Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, issued a special statement in which they refused to consider Zelensky as president.

“Zelensky’s term of office has expired. Now he is in office only as a belligerent and pleading president. But Ukraine now does not need a military president, it needs a peaceful president who is ready to negotiate so that the deaths stop and the country has a future,” it says statement.

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The US Treasury will quadruple the list of Russian companies that will be subject to secondary sanctions for working with them. — The Financial Times

According to the publication, the number of sanctioned companies will grow from 1,200 to more than 4,500, including the largest banks, for example, VTB and Sberbank. Any operation with an organization from the list will be equated to cooperation with the Russian military-industrial complex. According to Emily Kilcrease, an expert at the Center for a New American Security, this is how the United States wants to impose restrictions on organizations and people who do not work in the States. Chinese companies working with the Russian Federation will also be under the threat of restrictions.

Bloomberg also reports that part of the new sanctions concerns the export of semiconductor chips to Russia, which are used for the military industry. It is alleged that the US will expand the categories of prohibited goods to include products that are not manufactured in the US. As an example, the source names companies from Hong Kong that supplied chips bypassing sanctions. New sanctions are expected to be introduced within a week.

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Russia Day to be celebrated as continuity symbol of its millennia-old history

"This is the holiday in honor of our Motherland," the President said. "We celebrate it with respect to our country, with reverence for its centuries-long history, commandments of our ancestors, their achievements and victories," Putin said.

All the stages of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union are the integral whole with modern Russia, the head of state noted. "I therefore consider necessary, historically proper to celebrate the Russia Day as the symbol of continuity of the millennia-old way of our Fatherland," Putin added.

Happy Russia day to everyone in Russia and to all our friends abroad!

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Some countries back out of plans to attend Swiss-hosted Ukraine conference

Some countries backed out of plans to attend the "peace conference" on Ukraine in Switzerland, prompting the number of participating nations to drop from 93 to 78, according to the Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty (designated in Russia as a foreign media agent and included in the register of undesirable organizations).

The report, which cites unidentified EU diplomats, didn’t name the countries that pulled out of the conference. One diplomat said the number of withdrawals could rise.

Sergey Nikiforov, a spokesman for Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, declined to give the number of participating countries.

"We would not like to state the final number," he said on Rada television on Tuesday.

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