🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s video message to the participants in the 4th BRICS+ International Municipal Forum

📍 Moscow, November 24, 2022

💬 It is good to see that not only BRICS delegations but also representatives of our partners in Asia, Africa, Central and South America are taking part in the forum. We welcome their genuine interest in developing multi-dimensional cooperation with our group.

And it is not surprising. After all, the forum is based on the principles of equality, mutual respect and fair treatment.

🇷🇺🇧🇷🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 #BRICS encapsulates synergy of cultures and civilisations representing different regions of the planet. This international framework is an example of multilateral diplomacy that matches the realities of the 21st century.

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🔴 #LIVE: Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov's news conference in the run-up to the Ninth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

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🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on Ukraine (November 23, 2022)

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Key points:

☝️ In the course of our special military operation, we have to oppose not only the formations of the Kiev regime, but also countries of the North Atlantic Alliance that provide all sorts of military support to Kiev and thus wage a proxy war on Russia. In order to weaken and destroy the military potential of our opponents, we launch high-precision strikes against energy and other infrastructure that is used to supply Ukrainian armed formations with weapons, first of all Western, facilitate their logistics and liaison.

❗️We cannot remember anyone in the West express any concern back in 2015, when through the fault of Ukraine the people of Crimea were left without water and electricity. To say nothing of the people of Donbas, who suffered from economic suffocation for eight years on end.

⚡️ The residential buildings become damaged and civilians get killed on account of Ukrainian air defense systems that are deployed in centers of Ukrainian cities rather than on the outskirts. As a result, wreckage of the missiles or stray Ukrainian missiles hit the facilities that we never targeted.

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We launch strikes against the Ukrainian infrastructure in retaliation for the pumping-up of Ukraine with Western weapons and the reckless calls to Kiev to win a military victory over Russia. Undermining the combat capability of the Ukrainian army, which threatens the security and territorial integrity of Russia, is one of the goals of our special military operation. This task will be carried out by military means until the Kiev regime adopts a realistic position that would allow to negotiate and try to resolve the issues that forced us to start the SMO.

❗️ Western states seek to establish their geopolitical hegemony by proxy at the expense of Ukrainian lives.

👦🏻👧🏻 On November 22, the UN office in Geneva hosted the "UN Bazaar 2022 – United for Children". This annual charity event was made possible thanks to the efforts of the UN Women's Guild.

🇺🇳 At the event, opened by Director-General of UN Geneva Tatiana Valovaya, permanent missions sold souvenirs, food and beverages of their countries, treated guests to national cuisine and cultural performances. At the end of the day, all proceeds went to UN children's charity programs.

🪆 The Russian Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva also took an active part in the "Bazaar 2022". “Matryoshka” dolls, “Khokhloma” and “Gzhel” tableware, Yakut jewellery, souvenirs from various parts of our vast country (and much more) have found a "new home" for a noble cause.

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В связи с имевшими место в последние месяцы задержаниями и судебными процессами в отношении росграждан по обвинению якобы в противозаконном использовании беспилотных летательных аппаратов 28 ноября в МИД России был вызван Посол Королевства Норвегия Р.Квиле. Ему было заявлено о недопустимости подобной практики.
Отметили, что приговоры в отношении россиян политически мотивированы и не имеют ничего общего с принципами справедливого и непредвзятого правосудия.

Призвали норвежские власти отказаться от подобных русофобских акций и преследования российских граждан по признаку национальной принадлежности.

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Kongeriket Norges ambassadør Robert Kvile ble tilkalt til Russlands Utenriksministerium 28. november i forbindelse med de siste månedenes anholdelser og rettssaker mot russiske statsborgere anklaget for påstått ulovlig bruk av ubemannede luftfartøy. Det ble erklært til ambassadøren at en slik praksis er uakseptabel.
Det ble bemerket at dommene mot russiske folk er politisk motiverte og har ingenting å gjøre med prinsipper av rettferdig og upartisk rettsvesen.

Norske myndigheter anmodes om å slutte med slike russiskfiendlige aksjoner og forfølgelse av russiske statsborgere på grunn av nasjonal tilhørighet.
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The main objective of the XII International Forum «Arctic: Today and the Future» is to unite efforts to ensure a sustainable future in a period of global geopolitical and economic changes.
The development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation is a strategic priority of the state and a guarantee of the well-being of our country. In the new conditions, synchronizing efforts and strengthening dialogue among participants in Arctic activities, including within the framework of Russia's chairmanship of the Arctic Council, is of paramount importance for the solution of these objectives.
Traditionally, the Forum gathers over 2,000 participants. During the two-day business programme, government officials, heads of major Russian companies and banks, leading experts from the scientific community, media, and civil society will discuss comprehensive and strategic solutions for the socio-economic development of the Arctic zone and develop tactical steps for their implementation, present national projects in the Arctic, and assess the investment potential and opportunities of the northern regions.

https://www.forumarctic.com/eng/conf2022/about/report-arctica-2022/

🔴 #ПрямойЭфир: Пресс-конференция Министра иностранных дел России С.В.Лаврова по проблематике европейской безопасности

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🎙 Foreign Ministry statement on the German Parliament’s resolution on the 1932-1933 famine in the Soviet Union

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💬 On November 30, the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany adopted a resolution recognising the 1932-1933 famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic as the genocide of the Ukrainian people and putting responsibility for it on the Soviet leadership. At the same time, it omitted to mention the fact that not only Ukraine, but the entire territory of our country was affected by the famine, which claimed millions of lives.

Closing their eyes to this fact, German MPs from the ruling coalition and the CDU/CSU opposition block have decided to vociferously support the political and ideological myth promoted by the Ukrainian authorities at the prompting of the far-right, Nazi and Russophobic forces. This is yet another attempt to provide justification and whip up the Western-sponsored campaign aimed at demonising Russia and setting Ukrainians against Russians and other ethnic groups in Russia and the former Soviet Union.

There is an obvious reason for the inflammatory Bundestag resolution, which is trying to take advantage of the terrible famine of 1932-1933. The Germans are trying to rewrite their history and to stop doing penance for the atrocities they committed during the Second World War. They seem to have regard for the ideological followers of the Ukrainian war criminals who hold annual torchlight marches under the banners of the SS Galicia Division.

The German political elite is making use of the alleged genocide of Ukrainians, which radical Ukrainian nationalists are blaming on the Soviet Union, in order to downplay Germany’s responsibility. They are trying to erode the memory of the unprecedented crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany during WWII <...>.

⚠️ It is a shame that the Bundestag has taken such an immoral decision, which is reviving the Nazi ideology of racial hatred and discrimination and is an attempt to deny responsibility for war crimes.

📹 How the Kiev regime has been killing Donbass
(a comprehensive timeline and factual evidence compilation)

The Western mainstream media and political elites have created a metauniverse of their own as regards the sequence of events in Ukraine and Donbass - one that has nothing to do with reality.

Yet #WeRemember and with this video remind of the hard facts: the Kiev regime, installed following a West-backed coup d'état, has been shelling and attacking the residents of Donbass as well as restricting and persecuting the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine itself.

It is ever more relevant to recall these facts, considering the destructive stance of the Western nations, willing to sacrifice decades of the OSCE accomplishments and achievements towards their murky political goals. Against the backdrop of the scandalous OSCE Ministerial in Łódź happening right now - Poland as the current OSCE chair barred FM Sergey Lavrov from participation - we simply speak the truth.

👉 To get the full picture make sure to read the Russian MFA Statement and watch today's FM Lavrov's news conference on the matter.

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🗓 On December 15, Russia marks the Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty.

The day was established by the Union of Journalists of Russia in 1991

On that day, we commemorate talented and selfless reporters, photojournalists and television cameramen who died while doing their dangerous jobs.

💬 Maria Zakharova: Every year, new names are added to the grim list of media professionals who have died prematurely and undeservedly. Regrettably, the outgoing year 2022 was no exception. Darya Dugina died in a barbaric and cruel terrorist attack staged by Ukrainian subversives. Oleg Klokov was killed during a deliberate Ukrainian missile attack at a peaceful evacuation convoy in Kherson. Igor Kornelyuk, Anton Voloshin, Andrey Stenin, Anatoly Klyan and many other journalists were killed before them.

We will never forget them, and we will not stop until those guilty of their death get the punishment they deserve.

Responsibility for their deaths, just as the deaths of many other journalists who lost their lives in the line of duty, does not lie only with those who killed them. The blame also lies with those, including highly placed persons at respected international organisations, who must act objectively and work hard to ensure the safety of journalists and to demand this from the Kiev regime, which is drunk with impunity, those who are self-consciously keeping silent, pretending that nothing happened.

❗️ But we will not allow them to draw the curtain over these crimes.

🔴 #LIVE: Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues

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🔴 The Kiev regime continues to purposefully target critical civilian infrastructure in Donbass.

Shelling and missile attacks continue for 8 years unabated.

The latest in the long list of horrific war crimes is the attack on the largest medical facility in the region - the Kalinin Hospital, specifically a ward full of patients...

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya (December 29, 2022)

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#Ukraine

It is obvious that Kiev is not ready for dialogue. Vladimir Zelensky churns out all kinds of ideas and peace formulas, with the illusion of succeeding, with the Western assistance, in achieving the withdrawal of our troops from the Russian territories in Donbass, Crimea, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, making Russia pay reparations, voluntarily surrender to international tribunals, etc.

👉 Of course, we will not discuss conditions of this kind with anyone.

#OSCE

Let me tell you right away that the situation within the OSCE has been quite challenging. Created as a platform for promoting equitable dialogue and cooperation, this organisation has been going through a deep crisis these past few years.

We are now reaping the fruits of this selfish, short-sighted policy of our former partners. Our trust in them has suffered a major blow. One of the lessons is that if and when we ever start working together again, we will have to build new foundations because the past approaches are no longer working.

#JCPOA

The model we suggested was straightforward and clear: the United States and Iran move to meet each other halfway at the same time by gradually returning to compliance with the JCPOA. All details were worked out. This is a realistic scenario as long as there is political will to carry it out.

The fact that with the finishing line in sight, the United States and Europeans ran out of gas and focused on efforts to destabilise the internal political situation in Iran is another story.

☝️ Meanwhile, it is a fact of life that there is no reasonable alternative to the JCPOA.

🔴 #LIVE: Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues

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