👉 Duplicity of the Western MSM led by US outlets condensed in one picture: double standards, hypocrisy, cynicism and lack of principles.

⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry:

🇷🇺 #Avdeevka (~31,75 sq km) has been liberated from the Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis.

This will allow to move the frontline further away from Donetsk and decrease the number of terrorist attacks against its residents.

Full Russian MoD statement to be released shortly.

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 Every year at the UN General Assembly session, the US votes against the annual resolution "On combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and associated intolerance".

Their official reason against it is a violation of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

Here is an indicative example of how freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are exercised in the US: on February 17, a neo-Nazi group called Blood Tribe held a march in Nashville from the local Capitol to downtown. They held their rally right outside administrative buildings and then proceeded to walk through the central streets of the capital of Tennessee. They had "2218" written on their backs, which, apparently, is a code for the neo-Nazi chant, "Bring back Adolf Hitler."

Of course, this event will be met with silence. The White House and multiple public organisations will just let it slide. Israel will not comment either. In their view, it is something different from Nazism or racism.

These are simply free people in a free country, freely taking a stroll. All this can be explained through the prism of the new normality: according to the Supreme Court of Italy, a Hitler salute is now considered a Roman salute and no longer a crime. Similarly, the swastika, one of the symbols of the Third Reich, is now viewed as an ancient symbol of kindness.

The people for the most part remain silent. For some, this is merely entertainment that they can capture on their phones, akin to Halloween, pride parades or the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan. In these videos, only one courageous person dared to ask the Nazis to show their faces and told them that they were a disgrace to their grandfathers. What naivete. The Nazis can see that monuments dedicated to some grandfathers are being demolished while other grandfathers are being applauded in the Canadian parliament. This is why they are glorifying the grandfathers like Christya Freeland's or Annalena Baerbock's. This behaviour is echoed by all NATO bosses, led by the US.

Look carefully: nobody is calling the police. This is because everybody is free to act as they please. For some reason, this freedom seems to apply only to malevolent forces like neo-Nazism, gender experiments on children, drug legalisation, satanism and others.

All that was once taboo to humanity, pushed into a metaphorical lamp like an evil genie and cast into the sea, seemingly forever, has been unleashed by American freedom.

But resisting evil, according to this American freedom, is now seen as a violation of liberties.

🎙️Ambassador Andrei Kelin’s interview to Sky News:

After the coup d'état in Kiev in February 2014, the Kiev regime set out to resolve the Donbass issue by force, not by negotiations with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic, not by implementing the Minsk Agreements.

☝️We advocated for the peaceful resolution of this situation, although it was very difficult. Despite this, Kiev made the decision to use force against those living in the Donbass region.

➡️Watch the interview

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, February 14, 2024)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 MFA’s preparations for holding the Presidential election abroad
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Moldova
🔹 Attacks on Russian Orthodox Church congregations in Denmark
🔹 Promoting A.Hitler’s legacy in Germany
🔹 Recognising the genocide of the Soviet peoples during the Great Patriotic War
🔹 The collective West’s neo-colonial policy towards Bosnia and Herzegovina
🔹 Lack of reaction from the OSCE to discrimination against Russian and the Russian-speaking population in the Baltic States

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#Ukraine

The West continues to overlook the terrorist actions of the Kiev junta, turning a blind eye to all their criminal activities and the threats to commit them. Ukrainian Minister for Digital Transformation, Mikhail Fyodorov, attracted attention by making a brigandish statement that resembled the rhetoric of Al-Qaeda and ISIS (organisations that are banned and globally recognised as terrorist). He went as far as promising major explosions throughout Russia.

There should be no illusions that the Kiev regime will escape accountability for such statements and malevolent actions.

#BosniaAndHerzegovina

They [illegal actions by the Western parties’ multilateral efforts] are guided by a Less Dayton – More Brussels motto, and acting in gross violation of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional provisions, which guarantee equality for the three state-forming peoples and the country’s two entities. They are pressuring the country into accepting a Western neo-liberal pseudo-civilian social model while failing to take into account the historical, political, cultural, religious and administrative factors that have defined the way the state in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been developing.

❗️ They are open about imposing their priorities on sovereign Bosnia and Herzegovina, leaving it no option other than to follow the EU and NATO in their policies while sacrificing ties with third parties.

О выездной консульской сессии в г.Манчестер

🗓️17-18 февраля 2024 года сотрудники консульского отдела Посольства России находились в Манчестере, где провели очередное выездное обслуживание российских граждан.

▪︎На протяжении двух дней более сотни соотечественников смогли воспользоваться широким ассортиментом консульских услуг. Среди них – оформление паспортов, гражданства несовершеннолетним детям, доверенностей, виз для родственников-иностранцев и актов о личной явке. По традиции особое внимание наши сотрудники уделили пенсионерам и многодетным семьям.

▪︎Выездная сессия прошла в спокойной и деловой обстановке, с большим успехом. Отмечаем высокий спрос на подобные мероприятия со стороны наших соотечественников, многие из которых выражали нам благодарность за оказанное содействие.

▪︎Пользуясь случаем, пригласили российских граждан принять участие в предстоящем 17 марта с.г. в Лондоне голосовании в рамках выборов Президента Российской Федерации. В зале, где проходил прием посетителей, был установлен соответствующий предвыборный стенд.

▪︎В нынешние непростые времена считаем важным обеспечивать максимально широкий доступ наших соотечественников к консульским услугам.

☝️Будем и впредь развивать практику выездов в более отдаленные города Соединенного Королевства, где проживают наши граждане.

🇷🇺🇨🇺 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla hold talks.

📍 Havana, February 19, 2024

#RussiaCuba

🇷🇺🇻🇪 🛬 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives in #Venezuela as part of his Latin American tour

📍 Сaracas, February 20, 2024

#RussiaVenezuela

🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:

🎙 Statement by Deputy Permanent Representative Anna Evstigneeva at UNSC briefing on the situation in Somalia (February 19, 2024)

💬 We closely follow the development in the Federal Republic of Somalia. We note the generally positive dynamics of how Somalis pursue their national priorities. This applies both to strengthening internal political stability and to issues of national reconciliation and state-building.

This being said, the Islamists have been able to take advantage of the “vacuum” in a number of areas from where African peacekeepers had withdrawn. Of serious concern is the persisting potential of the militants, who have no problems with funding, recruiting young people and enjoying the support of the local population.

☝️ In the political area, the tasks of strengthening the foundations of Somalia's federal structure, establishing dialogue between the federal center and the regions, reforming the economy, the judicial system, combating corruption and amending the national constitution remain vital.

Helping to improve the effectiveness of the federal security institutions so they can effectively and independently control the whole country must remain the priority task of the international community with regard to Somalia.

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🇷🇺🤝🇸🇴 In order to overcome the severe consequences caused by natural disasters, Russia provided humanitarian assistance to our friendly East African country by donating 50,000 tonnes of grain.

We closely follow the developments in the region, where protracted conflicts are taking place and contradictions keep growing. We call on all countries in the region to search for common mutually beneficial solutions, engage in dialogue, uphold the principle "African problems - African solutions", and resolve the differences that have arisen through negotiations in accordance with international law and without external interference.

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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:

🎙 Remarks to the press by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia with regard to the attack by Ukrainian forces against Belgorod, Russia (February 19, 2024)

💬 Vassily Nebenzia: Facing massive failures in the battlefield (namely the recent loss of a strategic town of Avdeevka), the Kiev regime is trying to make up by intensifying its terrorist attacks against civilians.

During the day on February 15, they launched another massive attack on peaceful areas of Belgorod. Seven people died, including a newborn. 19 local residents, four of whom were children, were injured.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, on the same day, air defense systems destroyed 14 Ukrainian Vampire Missile System shells over the territory of the Belgorod region.

❗️ This strike makes no sense from the military point of view. The military infrastructure was not located in the immediate vicinity of the shelling. Instead, rockets were launched on innocent people in a premeditated act of terror.

We call on the UN Secretariat and the agencies to condemn these heinous crimes against civilians and civilian infrastructure carried out by the Kiev regime in violation of the international humanitarian law.

Yet another terrorist attack by the Ukrainian armed forces against the city of Belgorod has once again highlighted the criminal role of the West led by the US, which continues to send the deadly weapons to the Kiev regime and thus is an accomplice in all its crimes. These weapons are used in a mass and indiscriminate killing of civilians.

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❌ Hypocrisy and cynicism of Western states become even more evident since they directly violate all the international agreements and commitments regarding the transfer of weapons and military equipment they are a party to.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez (Havana, February 19, 2024)

💬 Sergey Lavrov: I would like to begin by thanking you for your traditional hospitality, as is customary between our countries. <...>

In September 2023, you and I met in New York on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly. As always, we had a trust-based exchange concerning the unprecedented processes unfolding in the international arena, when the realities of the multi-polar world, objectively shaped and reflecting the unstoppable course of history, are not just being tested, but are eliciting an aggressive response from the US and other Global Minority countries. These countries are using every available avenue to preserve their dominance, hegemony and control. The means used by the American and other Western policymakers to get there include blackmail, ultimatums, threats, heavy-handed military force, and sanctions rather than diplomacy.

Cuba has firsthand experience of the unlawful pressure and total embargo that the US continues to enforce as a supposed legitimate course of action. Although the rest of the international community finds it intolerable, Washington persists in its actions.

We have global tasks at hand, including the mobilisation of the Global Majority to uphold their legitimate rights. We are working on it actively within the Group of Friends in Defence of the UN Charter established in 2021. The interest in this Group is steadily increasing. We will work to safeguard the fundamental principles of the UN Charter against attempts to rewrite international law and replace it with obscure rules.

☝️ The Charter explicitly states that the UN is based on the sovereign equality of states. It is imperative that we hold our Western colleagues accountable, as they have long ago disregarded that principle and continue to go about their affairs the way they did in colonial times.

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🇷🇺🇨🇺 #RussiaCuba