💬 Внимательно следим за подготовкой британских властей к реализации мошеннической схемы присвоения доходов от «замороженных» в ЕС российских государственных активов под предлогом погашения очередных кредитов киевскому режиму.
Британское правительство пытается придать афере облик законности, продвигая в парламенте соответствующий билль. Но никакие нормотворческие ухищрения не скроют неправомерной природы этой схемы, разработанной Лондоном вместе с подельниками по «Группе семи». По сути, это посягательство на суверенные активы России вполне подпадает под определение грабежа.
Очевидно, британские министры осознают предосудительность своих шагов. Именно поэтому закрепляют механизм с помощью парламента, пытаясь расширить ответственность до коллективной за свои мошеннические действия.
Платить за эти трюки истеблишмента в прямом смысле придётся простым британцам. Ведь кредит будет выдаваться из бюджета Соединённого Королевства – то есть из средств налогоплательщиков, которые могли бы быть использованы для решения острейших социально-экономических проблем Альбиона.
Что касается многослойных процедур возврата займа, предусмотренных авторами нынешней аферы, ясно, что, в конечном счёте, его возмещение ляжет на плечи будущих поколений украинцев.
Трагизм в том, что этот кредит даже формально не предназначается Лондоном для улучшения положения Украины. Стремясь нанести нашей стране максимальный ущерб, британские власти направляют заём на военные нужды. А значит на затягивание конфликта, которое обернётся лишь продлением страданий растущего числа украинцев, не желающих воевать за «просроченный» киевский режим, а также продолжением террористических атак против гражданского населения в России.
❗️ Властям в Лондоне следует помнить, что любые недружественные шаги против нашей страны и её законных интересов не останутся без ответа.
Британское правительство пытается придать афере облик законности, продвигая в парламенте соответствующий билль. Но никакие нормотворческие ухищрения не скроют неправомерной природы этой схемы, разработанной Лондоном вместе с подельниками по «Группе семи». По сути, это посягательство на суверенные активы России вполне подпадает под определение грабежа.
Очевидно, британские министры осознают предосудительность своих шагов. Именно поэтому закрепляют механизм с помощью парламента, пытаясь расширить ответственность до коллективной за свои мошеннические действия.
Платить за эти трюки истеблишмента в прямом смысле придётся простым британцам. Ведь кредит будет выдаваться из бюджета Соединённого Королевства – то есть из средств налогоплательщиков, которые могли бы быть использованы для решения острейших социально-экономических проблем Альбиона.
Что касается многослойных процедур возврата займа, предусмотренных авторами нынешней аферы, ясно, что, в конечном счёте, его возмещение ляжет на плечи будущих поколений украинцев.
Трагизм в том, что этот кредит даже формально не предназначается Лондоном для улучшения положения Украины. Стремясь нанести нашей стране максимальный ущерб, британские власти направляют заём на военные нужды. А значит на затягивание конфликта, которое обернётся лишь продлением страданий растущего числа украинцев, не желающих воевать за «просроченный» киевский режим, а также продолжением террористических атак против гражданского населения в России.
❗️ Властям в Лондоне следует помнить, что любые недружественные шаги против нашей страны и её законных интересов не останутся без ответа.
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🎙 Excerpt from President Vladimir Putin's remarks and answers to questions at the annual news conference and direct line with the people of Russia
❓ Keir Simmons, NBC News: Are you prepared to compromise in anyway over Ukraine? You say that Kiev should compromise, the Ukrainians should compromise, but what are you prepared to offer in the potential negotiations potentially led by President-elect Trump?
💬 Vladimir Putin: Politics is the art of compromise. We have always said that we are ready for both negotiations and compromises.
The problem is that the opposing side, both literally and figuratively, rejected negotiations. We, on the contrary, have always been willing to talk, and talking always leads to finding a compromise.
We did reach an agreement in Istanbul in late 2022. I repeat for the umpteenth time: the Ukrainian side initialled that document, which meant that generally, it agreed with what it contained.
Suddenly they wanted out. It is clear why. Because your ally, [UK former Prime Minister] Mr Johnson, the man with an iconic hairstyle, told them they were to fight to the last Ukrainian.
This is what they are doing. They will soon run out of Ukrainians who want to fight. I believe there will soon be no one left who wants to fight.
☝️ So, we are ready, but we need Ukraine to be ready for both negotiations and compromise.
❓ Keir Simmons, NBC News: Are you prepared to compromise in anyway over Ukraine? You say that Kiev should compromise, the Ukrainians should compromise, but what are you prepared to offer in the potential negotiations potentially led by President-elect Trump?
💬 Vladimir Putin: Politics is the art of compromise. We have always said that we are ready for both negotiations and compromises.
The problem is that the opposing side, both literally and figuratively, rejected negotiations. We, on the contrary, have always been willing to talk, and talking always leads to finding a compromise.
We did reach an agreement in Istanbul in late 2022. I repeat for the umpteenth time: the Ukrainian side initialled that document, which meant that generally, it agreed with what it contained.
Suddenly they wanted out. It is clear why. Because your ally, [UK former Prime Minister] Mr Johnson, the man with an iconic hairstyle, told them they were to fight to the last Ukrainian.
This is what they are doing. They will soon run out of Ukrainians who want to fight. I believe there will soon be no one left who wants to fight.
☝️ So, we are ready, but we need Ukraine to be ready for both negotiations and compromise.
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💬 We are closely following UK authorities' efforts aimed at implementing a fraudulent scheme of expropriating incomes from Russian state assets "frozen" in the EU under the pretext of financing another loan to the Kiev regime.
The UK government intends for this enterprise to appear legitimate by pushing a relevant bill through Parliament. Yet the elaborate legislative choreography fails to conceal the illegitimate nature of this arrangement, concocted by London alongside its accomplices from the "G7". This blatant encroachment on Russia's sovereign assets is nothing short of an act of plunder.
Evidently, UK ministers are quite aware of the reprehensible nature of their actions. They are consequently anxious for Parliament to play its part in the charade in order to diffuse accountability.
Ordinary Brits will be the first to foot the bill for these establishment ploys. The loan, after all, is to be immediately drawn from the UK's budget. In other words, from taxpayers' money that might have otherwise been far better spent tackling the country's pressing socio-economic hardships.
As for the intricately layered reimbursement mechanism embedded within the scheme, the eventual burden of repayment will clearly fall on future generations of Ukrainians.
Tragically, this loan is not intended, even nominally, to ameliorate Ukraine's dire circumstances. In their pursuit to inflict harm upon our country, the British authorities have chosen to allocate the loan for military purposes. This will inevitably translate into the protraction of the conflict, exacerbating the suffering of a growing number of Ukrainians unwilling to fight for the unelected Kiev regime, as well as the continuation of terrorist attacks against civilian population in Russia.
❗️ The authorities in London should be in no doubt that hostile actions against our country and its rightful interests will be duly reciprocated.
The UK government intends for this enterprise to appear legitimate by pushing a relevant bill through Parliament. Yet the elaborate legislative choreography fails to conceal the illegitimate nature of this arrangement, concocted by London alongside its accomplices from the "G7". This blatant encroachment on Russia's sovereign assets is nothing short of an act of plunder.
Evidently, UK ministers are quite aware of the reprehensible nature of their actions. They are consequently anxious for Parliament to play its part in the charade in order to diffuse accountability.
Ordinary Brits will be the first to foot the bill for these establishment ploys. The loan, after all, is to be immediately drawn from the UK's budget. In other words, from taxpayers' money that might have otherwise been far better spent tackling the country's pressing socio-economic hardships.
As for the intricately layered reimbursement mechanism embedded within the scheme, the eventual burden of repayment will clearly fall on future generations of Ukrainians.
Tragically, this loan is not intended, even nominally, to ameliorate Ukraine's dire circumstances. In their pursuit to inflict harm upon our country, the British authorities have chosen to allocate the loan for military purposes. This will inevitably translate into the protraction of the conflict, exacerbating the suffering of a growing number of Ukrainians unwilling to fight for the unelected Kiev regime, as well as the continuation of terrorist attacks against civilian population in Russia.
❗️ The authorities in London should be in no doubt that hostile actions against our country and its rightful interests will be duly reciprocated.
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🎙 Highlights from President Vladimir Putin's remarks and answers to questions at the annual news conference and direct line with the people of Russia
• International financial and economic institutions ranked Russia as Europe’s biggest economy in terms of volume, in terms of purchasing power parity, and the world’s fourth largest economy.
• Sovereignty is a crucial concept; it must reside within, in one's heart. Who are the Europeans, after all? They are proud to be European, yet they are foremost French, German, Italian, Spanish, and then European. There is a tendency to smooth out things, to homogenise. Ultimately, this affects everything, including the economy.
• The situation is changing radically. The drive is on along the entire frontline every day. Our fighting men are regaining the territory by square kilometers. <...> We are advancing, as we said, towards achieving the priority goals that we outlined at the start of the special military operation.
• We speak about increasing the responsibility of non-nuclear states that may participate in an aggression against Russia alongside the countries that have nuclear weapons. If, like their allies, these countries also pose a threat to our sovereignty and Russia’s existence, then we imply that we have the right to use our nuclear weapons against them.
• Russia has become significantly stronger in the past two or three years. Why? Because we are becoming a truly sovereign country, and we barely depend on anybody. We are capable of firmly standing on our feet when it comes to the economy.
• The current situation in the Syrian Arab Republic remains challenging. We sincerely hope for peace and stability to be restored. We maintain dialogue with all groups controlling the situation there and with all regional countries. An overwhelming majority of them have expressed interest in retaining our military bases in Syria.
• BRICS is not a tool for countering the West. Our work is not aimed against anyone. We focus on our own interests and the interests of the group’s member countries. Giving BRICS any kind of a confrontational agenda is not what we are after.
• We are ready to engage in dialogue [with Ukraine] without any preconditions. However, based on the agreements that we reached during the negotiation process in Istanbul at the end of 2022 and proceeding from the current realities on the ground.
• If someone were to go through elections and gain legitimacy, we would talk with anyone, including Zelensky. If Ukraine truly wants a peaceful settlement, they have the ability to organise this process within their country as they see fit. We can only sign agreements with those who hold legitimate authority.
• YouTube and Google must comply with our laws and avoid dishonest online activities. In other words, they must not use online resources for promoting their governments’ political goals.
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• International financial and economic institutions ranked Russia as Europe’s biggest economy in terms of volume, in terms of purchasing power parity, and the world’s fourth largest economy.
• Sovereignty is a crucial concept; it must reside within, in one's heart. Who are the Europeans, after all? They are proud to be European, yet they are foremost French, German, Italian, Spanish, and then European. There is a tendency to smooth out things, to homogenise. Ultimately, this affects everything, including the economy.
• The situation is changing radically. The drive is on along the entire frontline every day. Our fighting men are regaining the territory by square kilometers. <...> We are advancing, as we said, towards achieving the priority goals that we outlined at the start of the special military operation.
• We speak about increasing the responsibility of non-nuclear states that may participate in an aggression against Russia alongside the countries that have nuclear weapons. If, like their allies, these countries also pose a threat to our sovereignty and Russia’s existence, then we imply that we have the right to use our nuclear weapons against them.
• Russia has become significantly stronger in the past two or three years. Why? Because we are becoming a truly sovereign country, and we barely depend on anybody. We are capable of firmly standing on our feet when it comes to the economy.
• The current situation in the Syrian Arab Republic remains challenging. We sincerely hope for peace and stability to be restored. We maintain dialogue with all groups controlling the situation there and with all regional countries. An overwhelming majority of them have expressed interest in retaining our military bases in Syria.
• BRICS is not a tool for countering the West. Our work is not aimed against anyone. We focus on our own interests and the interests of the group’s member countries. Giving BRICS any kind of a confrontational agenda is not what we are after.
• We are ready to engage in dialogue [with Ukraine] without any preconditions. However, based on the agreements that we reached during the negotiation process in Istanbul at the end of 2022 and proceeding from the current realities on the ground.
• If someone were to go through elections and gain legitimacy, we would talk with anyone, including Zelensky. If Ukraine truly wants a peaceful settlement, they have the ability to organise this process within their country as they see fit. We can only sign agreements with those who hold legitimate authority.
• YouTube and Google must comply with our laws and avoid dishonest online activities. In other words, they must not use online resources for promoting their governments’ political goals.
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⚡️ Human Rights Violations and Killings of Civilians by Ukraine's Troops and Nationalist Organisations in July-August 2024 report was prepared and published recently for public.
It includes facts of crimes committed by the Kiev regime in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Bryansk regions recorded between July 1 and August 31, 2024:
• The armed forces and nationalist formations of Ukraine continued to destroy civilian infrastructure in settlements of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and commit war crimes against civilians. Peaceful inhabitants died under strikes of heavy NATO-supplied weapons. Many of civilians sustained serious injuries and were maimed. Targeted drone attacks on peaceful people and civilian objects have become the new normal for the Ukrainian military.
• In Kherson region Ukraine’s army mounted more than 25 massive attacks, firing over 1,500 artillery shells at civilian infrastructure facilities. As a result, 50 people sustained varying degrees of injuries.
• The Ukrainian nationalists mounted 69 targeted attacks against civilian infrastructure and peaceful inhabitants of the Bryansk region. Unlike to previous months, their attacks have become systematic. As a result, significant damage was inflicted to the housing stock, vehicles and peaceful energy facilities of the region. The most egregious crimes were onslaughts against populated areas, which injured and maimed local residents.
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☝️ The situation regarding the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate was emphasized separately: in August, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) adopted a law banning the canonical church in the country, after which the Presidential Council appealed to the world leaders of traditional religious denominations to protect the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, its clergy and flock from persecution.
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👉 Read the report in full to learn about human rights violations and killings of civilians by Ukraine's troops and nationalist organisations in July-August 2024.
⚡️ Human Rights Violations and Killings of Civilians by Ukraine's Troops and Nationalist Organisations in July-August 2024 report was prepared and published recently for public.
It includes facts of crimes committed by the Kiev regime in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Bryansk regions recorded between July 1 and August 31, 2024:
• The armed forces and nationalist formations of Ukraine continued to destroy civilian infrastructure in settlements of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and commit war crimes against civilians. Peaceful inhabitants died under strikes of heavy NATO-supplied weapons. Many of civilians sustained serious injuries and were maimed. Targeted drone attacks on peaceful people and civilian objects have become the new normal for the Ukrainian military.
• In Kherson region Ukraine’s army mounted more than 25 massive attacks, firing over 1,500 artillery shells at civilian infrastructure facilities. As a result, 50 people sustained varying degrees of injuries.
• The Ukrainian nationalists mounted 69 targeted attacks against civilian infrastructure and peaceful inhabitants of the Bryansk region. Unlike to previous months, their attacks have become systematic. As a result, significant damage was inflicted to the housing stock, vehicles and peaceful energy facilities of the region. The most egregious crimes were onslaughts against populated areas, which injured and maimed local residents.
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☝️ The situation regarding the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate was emphasized separately: in August, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) adopted a law banning the canonical church in the country, after which the Presidential Council appealed to the world leaders of traditional religious denominations to protect the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, its clergy and flock from persecution.
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👉 Read the report in full to learn about human rights violations and killings of civilians by Ukraine's troops and nationalist organisations in July-August 2024.
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🎙 Excerpt from President Vladimir Putin's remarks and answers to questions at the annual news conference and direct line with the people of Russia
💬 We will never forget the sacrifices our people made in the fight against Nazism.
The most important thing is that we remember. If other countries are trying to forget, it reflects the priorities of today’s leaders, who are focused on undermining Russia as a whole, on forgetting, erasing, and shifting the focus. But that is their own business.
We will be happy to welcome anyone who wishes to join us in celebrating this significant anniversary [80 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War]. We are open to all who wish to be with us in Moscow on those days [in 2025] and mark this important anniversary.
We will be happy to welcome everyone, including the participants of the Anti-Hitler Coalition, who made a significant contribution to the victory over Nazism, such as the United States and Great Britain with its Arctic Convoys.
There were many heroes among them too, and we honour and respect them. Moreover, I believe there are still veterans among them. The British sailors showed true heroism, and the Americans fought during the landing in Northern France.
Indeed, their participation and losses are not comparable to those of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. We lost 27 million, while the US lost around 500,000, and Britain lost even less: around 400,000, if I am not mistaken. <...>
☝️ So, the scale of their contribution to Victory is different, but their involvement was still significant, especially since they were with us.
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💬 We will never forget the sacrifices our people made in the fight against Nazism.
The most important thing is that we remember. If other countries are trying to forget, it reflects the priorities of today’s leaders, who are focused on undermining Russia as a whole, on forgetting, erasing, and shifting the focus. But that is their own business.
We will be happy to welcome anyone who wishes to join us in celebrating this significant anniversary [80 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War]. We are open to all who wish to be with us in Moscow on those days [in 2025] and mark this important anniversary.
We will be happy to welcome everyone, including the participants of the Anti-Hitler Coalition, who made a significant contribution to the victory over Nazism, such as the United States and Great Britain with its Arctic Convoys.
There were many heroes among them too, and we honour and respect them. Moreover, I believe there are still veterans among them. The British sailors showed true heroism, and the Americans fought during the landing in Northern France.
Indeed, their participation and losses are not comparable to those of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. We lost 27 million, while the US lost around 500,000, and Britain lost even less: around 400,000, if I am not mistaken. <...>
☝️ So, the scale of their contribution to Victory is different, but their involvement was still significant, especially since they were with us.
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Из Доклада МИД России о нарушениях прав российских граждан и соотечественников в зарубежных странах (2024 год)
❗️О нарушениях прав в Британии
С февраля 2022 года после начала специальной военной операции:
🔻 Начали повсеместно фиксироваться инциденты, связанные с травлей русских и русскоязычных граждан.
🔻 Наблюдался рост случаев целенаправленного полицейского давления на активистов-соотечественников и ведущих деятелей диаспоральных структур.
🔻 Оставались сложными условия, в которых вынуждены работать представители российских СМИ в Британии.
🔻 Широкое распространение получило использование владельцами общественных мест листовок с лозунгом «Хороший русский – мёртвый русский».
🔻 Нападениям подвергалось здание консульского отдела Посольства России в Лондоне, были ограничены права российских дипломатов на личную безопасность и защиту со стороны государства пребывания.
🔻 Все местные муниципалитеты приостановили сотрудничество с российскими городами по линии побратимских связей.
🔻 На территории Британии российским командам и гонщикам было запрещено участвовать в любых автомобильных соревнованиях.
📰 3 марта 2023 года были обнародованы результаты журналистского расследования «Скай Ньюз», констатировавшего увеличение количества случаев дискриминации российских соотечественников с февраля 2022 года. Среди наиболее вопиющих задокументированных британскими правоохранителями уголовно-наказуемых деяний:
• нанесение побоев,
• угрозы убийством и причинением тяжкого вреда здоровью,
• вандализм и повреждение имущества,
• рассылка «белого порошка»,
• «телефонный терроризм».
❗️ Шокирует, что жертвами дискриминации и нападок по национально-этническому признаку, как следует из публикации, нередко становились дети младшего школьного возраста.
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❗️О нарушениях прав в Британии
С февраля 2022 года после начала специальной военной операции:
🔻 Начали повсеместно фиксироваться инциденты, связанные с травлей русских и русскоязычных граждан.
🔻 Наблюдался рост случаев целенаправленного полицейского давления на активистов-соотечественников и ведущих деятелей диаспоральных структур.
🔻 Оставались сложными условия, в которых вынуждены работать представители российских СМИ в Британии.
🔻 Широкое распространение получило использование владельцами общественных мест листовок с лозунгом «Хороший русский – мёртвый русский».
🔻 Нападениям подвергалось здание консульского отдела Посольства России в Лондоне, были ограничены права российских дипломатов на личную безопасность и защиту со стороны государства пребывания.
🔻 Все местные муниципалитеты приостановили сотрудничество с российскими городами по линии побратимских связей.
🔻 На территории Британии российским командам и гонщикам было запрещено участвовать в любых автомобильных соревнованиях.
📰 3 марта 2023 года были обнародованы результаты журналистского расследования «Скай Ньюз», констатировавшего увеличение количества случаев дискриминации российских соотечественников с февраля 2022 года. Среди наиболее вопиющих задокументированных британскими правоохранителями уголовно-наказуемых деяний:
• нанесение побоев,
• угрозы убийством и причинением тяжкого вреда здоровью,
• вандализм и повреждение имущества,
• рассылка «белого порошка»,
• «телефонный терроризм».
❗️ Шокирует, что жертвами дискриминации и нападок по национально-этническому признаку, как следует из публикации, нередко становились дети младшего школьного возраста.
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This is a special time to gather with loved ones, reflect on the year gone by, and look ahead with hope and optimism.
We wish you and your families a happy holiday filled with joy and harmony!
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🌐 The Leningrad Region hosted an informal meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) leaders (December 25, 2024).
💬 President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Before we start working, unfortunately, I have to say a few words about a tragedy that happened in Aktau today. People have been killed in an air crash, and many more have been injured. As we have just noted, I would like, on your behalf, to offer condolences to the families of the deceased and to all the injured. We will hope that they recover.
By agreement with the President of Kazakhstan, an aircraft of the Russian Ministry for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief will deliver medical personnel and the required additional equipment to Aktau.
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Over the past year, Russia focused its efforts as part of its #CIS chairmanship on promoting Eurasian integration, consolidating the international standing of the CIS, as well as enabling its executive bodies to be effective in their work. We made forging deeper economic ties our priority, while also seeking to ensure the free movement of goods, services, as well as remove trade barriers and streamline customs clearance procedures.
📈 In this context, let me note that Russia’s trade with CIS member nations increased by 10.6 percent in the first ten months and slightly exceeded $93 billion. Our countries have greatly improved their macroeconomic performance. The aggregate GDP for the CIS is expected to increase by 4.7 percent in 2024, which places the CIS above the global average. <…>
CIS countries have expanded their cooperation in the foreign exchange and financial sectors by becoming increasingly proactive in using their own independent foreign exchange transaction frameworks, payment systems and settlement tools. In fact, national currencies accounted for over 85 percent of commercial transactions within the CIS.
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☝️It is notable that the CIS countries have the same or close views on the key global and regional issues. At the same time, all CIS countries stand for creating a just world order based on the universally recognised principles of international law and the central role of the #UN.
#Victory80 Of course, the CIS countries also remember and hold sacred the immortal heroism of our peoples, the peoples of the Soviet Union who fought side by side to bring our victory in the Great Patriotic War. Next year, we will celebrate a landmark date, the 80th anniversary of Victory, and so the year 2025 has been declared the Year of Peace and Unity in the Fight Against Nazism in the CIS. <...>
Friends, we look forward to seeing you at the celebrations in Moscow on May 9. We also hope that military units from the CIS countries will take part in the parade on Red Square.
On January 1, 2025, Russia will hand over the CIS chairmanship to Tajikistan. I would like to wish success to Mr Emomali Rahmon and all our Tajik friends. We are ready to provide all the necessary assistance to them. Overall, I am confident that the deepening of partnership in various spheres within the CIS meets the fundamental interests of our nations. I have no doubt that we will continue to work together to fulfil our socioeconomic development tasks and to strengthen stability and security.
I would like to use this occasion to extend my most cordial greetings on the upcoming New Year and to wish health, happiness, well-being and prosperity to the citizens of your countries.
💬 President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Before we start working, unfortunately, I have to say a few words about a tragedy that happened in Aktau today. People have been killed in an air crash, and many more have been injured. As we have just noted, I would like, on your behalf, to offer condolences to the families of the deceased and to all the injured. We will hope that they recover.
By agreement with the President of Kazakhstan, an aircraft of the Russian Ministry for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief will deliver medical personnel and the required additional equipment to Aktau.
***
Over the past year, Russia focused its efforts as part of its #CIS chairmanship on promoting Eurasian integration, consolidating the international standing of the CIS, as well as enabling its executive bodies to be effective in their work. We made forging deeper economic ties our priority, while also seeking to ensure the free movement of goods, services, as well as remove trade barriers and streamline customs clearance procedures.
📈 In this context, let me note that Russia’s trade with CIS member nations increased by 10.6 percent in the first ten months and slightly exceeded $93 billion. Our countries have greatly improved their macroeconomic performance. The aggregate GDP for the CIS is expected to increase by 4.7 percent in 2024, which places the CIS above the global average. <…>
CIS countries have expanded their cooperation in the foreign exchange and financial sectors by becoming increasingly proactive in using their own independent foreign exchange transaction frameworks, payment systems and settlement tools. In fact, national currencies accounted for over 85 percent of commercial transactions within the CIS.
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☝️It is notable that the CIS countries have the same or close views on the key global and regional issues. At the same time, all CIS countries stand for creating a just world order based on the universally recognised principles of international law and the central role of the #UN.
#Victory80 Of course, the CIS countries also remember and hold sacred the immortal heroism of our peoples, the peoples of the Soviet Union who fought side by side to bring our victory in the Great Patriotic War. Next year, we will celebrate a landmark date, the 80th anniversary of Victory, and so the year 2025 has been declared the Year of Peace and Unity in the Fight Against Nazism in the CIS. <...>
Friends, we look forward to seeing you at the celebrations in Moscow on May 9. We also hope that military units from the CIS countries will take part in the parade on Red Square.
On January 1, 2025, Russia will hand over the CIS chairmanship to Tajikistan. I would like to wish success to Mr Emomali Rahmon and all our Tajik friends. We are ready to provide all the necessary assistance to them. Overall, I am confident that the deepening of partnership in various spheres within the CIS meets the fundamental interests of our nations. I have no doubt that we will continue to work together to fulfil our socioeconomic development tasks and to strengthen stability and security.
I would like to use this occasion to extend my most cordial greetings on the upcoming New Year and to wish health, happiness, well-being and prosperity to the citizens of your countries.
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🎙 Excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with 60 Minutes television programme (Moscow, 25 December 2024)
💬 We have not had any illusions about the prospects. Resolving the Ukraine crisis doesn't have any prospects, either. It has long been clear to everyone holding unbiased positions that it can be settled only in the context of agreements on lasting security and stability in Europe, which would take into account Russia's interests and the legitimate interests of all other countries.
Everyone thinks the arrival of the Trump Administration will change things. There is much speculation about this going on.
There is a fairly robust bipartisan consensus in Washington on supporting the Kiev regime. US doctrinal documents describe our country as an adversary that needs to be "strategically defeated". In free speeches, the Biden administration officials have even called us an enemy.
We have never claimed that with the Trump Administration in the White House the negotiating process on global security and Ukraine will begin no matter what. This will not be, as many are now hoping, an inevitable outcome. <...>
The prevailing discourse we are hearing both in the West and in Ukraine today is about a truce and only truce. It is about buying time to allow the Kiev regime to regain strength, with the help of the West, and resume its attempts to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, acting on their Western bosses' instructions.
❗️ We will not be satisfied with a truce. We need reliable and legally binding agreements aimed at eliminating the root causes of the conflict, addressing problems such as common security in Europe, NATO expansion, the European Union's recent decision to become an appendage of the North Atlantic bloc, in fact, erasing all differences between these organisations, and above all, upholding the rights of the people living in these territories who have supported reunification with Russia.
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💬 We have not had any illusions about the prospects. Resolving the Ukraine crisis doesn't have any prospects, either. It has long been clear to everyone holding unbiased positions that it can be settled only in the context of agreements on lasting security and stability in Europe, which would take into account Russia's interests and the legitimate interests of all other countries.
Everyone thinks the arrival of the Trump Administration will change things. There is much speculation about this going on.
There is a fairly robust bipartisan consensus in Washington on supporting the Kiev regime. US doctrinal documents describe our country as an adversary that needs to be "strategically defeated". In free speeches, the Biden administration officials have even called us an enemy.
We have never claimed that with the Trump Administration in the White House the negotiating process on global security and Ukraine will begin no matter what. This will not be, as many are now hoping, an inevitable outcome. <...>
The prevailing discourse we are hearing both in the West and in Ukraine today is about a truce and only truce. It is about buying time to allow the Kiev regime to regain strength, with the help of the West, and resume its attempts to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, acting on their Western bosses' instructions.
❗️ We will not be satisfied with a truce. We need reliable and legally binding agreements aimed at eliminating the root causes of the conflict, addressing problems such as common security in Europe, NATO expansion, the European Union's recent decision to become an appendage of the North Atlantic bloc, in fact, erasing all differences between these organisations, and above all, upholding the rights of the people living in these territories who have supported reunification with Russia.
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💬 This year marks the tenth anniversary of signing the Treaty on Establishing the Eurasian Economic Union. In May, Moscow hosted a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, dedicated to this anniversary date.
Our association has asserted itself as an independent and self-sufficient centre of an emerging multipolar world, and it continues to develop dynamically.
The Eurasian Economic Union's activities help expand trade and investment exchanges, boost business contacts and deepen cooperation ties. Most importantly, integration collaboration brings real benefits to every member of our association.
It helps facilitate stable and sustained economic growth in the five member states and in the entire Eurasian region. This improves living standards of our countries’ citizens and their well-being.
🤝 Russia values mutually beneficial multi-faceted cooperation with EAEU partners, and we are sincerely interested in invigorating joint work to comprehensively strengthen our integration association.
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🎙 Highlights from Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Russian and international news media (Moscow, 26 December 2024)
🔹 Empty talk is not an option for us. Everything we have heard so far was rhetoric about the need to come up with some kind of a ceasefire [in Ukraine]. <...> Ceasefire [temporary measures] is a road leading nowhere. We need binding legal agreements that will lay out the conditions for ensuring Russia’s security and the legitimate security interests of our neighbours.
🔹 The principle of self-determination of peoples is no less important. If it were not for it, there would likely be issues with decolonising African and other peoples. This principle laid the international legal groundwork for decolonisation which echoed the African peoples’ unwillingness and impossibility to live under the colonisers’ rule. By the same token, the residents of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya are unwilling and unable to live under the Nazi rule in Kiev.
🔹 Western nations have made a political decision to isolate Russia in every sense. In addition, they have been making insane demands on other countries: they are to avoid any Russian representatives, to stop visiting them or receiving visits from them, and to sever trade ties with Russia while buying more expensive energy resources at a loss. These are the new methods of Western diplomacy, which has been reduced to threats, sanctions, punishments and blackmail.
🔹 BRICS has become extremely popular. There were delegations representing 35 countries at the Kazan Summit, as well as heads of six multilateral organisations, including the United Nations. This high level of attendance demonstrates how important this structure has become and that there is a growing interest for forging closer ties with BRICS on the part of other organisations of the Global South and East which have been seeking to assert their independence in international affairs.
🔹 The security risks posed by the United States, which maintains several hundred military bases in over 100 countries, yet forbids any relations with Russia. This is an unproductive approach. I hope the new administration in Washington will come to realise this.
🔹 The US relies on a bipartisan consensus with regard to Russia. This is not a friendly, but, to put it bluntly, Russophobic consensus. Regardless of party affiliation, the ruling elite will leave no stone unturned in order to weaken Russia as a competitor. The US seeks to weaken any competitor, be it Russia, China, or Europe. They have long proclaimed the principle that no country around the world may be stronger than the US.
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🔹 Empty talk is not an option for us. Everything we have heard so far was rhetoric about the need to come up with some kind of a ceasefire [in Ukraine]. <...> Ceasefire [temporary measures] is a road leading nowhere. We need binding legal agreements that will lay out the conditions for ensuring Russia’s security and the legitimate security interests of our neighbours.
🔹 The principle of self-determination of peoples is no less important. If it were not for it, there would likely be issues with decolonising African and other peoples. This principle laid the international legal groundwork for decolonisation which echoed the African peoples’ unwillingness and impossibility to live under the colonisers’ rule. By the same token, the residents of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya are unwilling and unable to live under the Nazi rule in Kiev.
🔹 Western nations have made a political decision to isolate Russia in every sense. In addition, they have been making insane demands on other countries: they are to avoid any Russian representatives, to stop visiting them or receiving visits from them, and to sever trade ties with Russia while buying more expensive energy resources at a loss. These are the new methods of Western diplomacy, which has been reduced to threats, sanctions, punishments and blackmail.
🔹 BRICS has become extremely popular. There were delegations representing 35 countries at the Kazan Summit, as well as heads of six multilateral organisations, including the United Nations. This high level of attendance demonstrates how important this structure has become and that there is a growing interest for forging closer ties with BRICS on the part of other organisations of the Global South and East which have been seeking to assert their independence in international affairs.
🔹 The security risks posed by the United States, which maintains several hundred military bases in over 100 countries, yet forbids any relations with Russia. This is an unproductive approach. I hope the new administration in Washington will come to realise this.
🔹 The US relies on a bipartisan consensus with regard to Russia. This is not a friendly, but, to put it bluntly, Russophobic consensus. Regardless of party affiliation, the ruling elite will leave no stone unturned in order to weaken Russia as a competitor. The US seeks to weaken any competitor, be it Russia, China, or Europe. They have long proclaimed the principle that no country around the world may be stronger than the US.
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🇷🇺🇦🇿📞 President Vladimir Putin had a phone conversation with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
The Presidents had a detailed discussion of issues regarding the December 25 crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.
Vladimir Putin apologised for the fact that the incident happened in Russian airspace, once again offered deep and sincere condolences to the victims' families and wished a speedy recovery to the injured.
It was noted during the conversation that the Azerbaijani passenger airliner was flying according to schedule and repeatedly tried to land at Grozny Airport. At that time, Ukrainian unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) attacked Grozny, Mozdok and Vladikavkaz, and Russian air defence systems were repelling these attacks.
The Russian Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case under Article 263 of the Criminal Code (violation of the rules for traffic safety and operation of the air transportation systems). Initial investigation is underway, with authorities questioning civilian and military specialists.
Two officials from the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan are currently in Grozny, working together with representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Relevant services of Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan are working closely at the crash site near the city of Aktau.
The Presidents had a detailed discussion of issues regarding the December 25 crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.
Vladimir Putin apologised for the fact that the incident happened in Russian airspace, once again offered deep and sincere condolences to the victims' families and wished a speedy recovery to the injured.
It was noted during the conversation that the Azerbaijani passenger airliner was flying according to schedule and repeatedly tried to land at Grozny Airport. At that time, Ukrainian unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) attacked Grozny, Mozdok and Vladikavkaz, and Russian air defence systems were repelling these attacks.
The Russian Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case under Article 263 of the Criminal Code (violation of the rules for traffic safety and operation of the air transportation systems). Initial investigation is underway, with authorities questioning civilian and military specialists.
Two officials from the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan are currently in Grozny, working together with representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Relevant services of Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan are working closely at the crash site near the city of Aktau.
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💬 Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova: We consider all planted media reports and allegations on sending European military forces to Ukraine as provocations.
This time the aim was to escalate an already tense situation around the Ukraine crisis. Why would they do that? Because more and more voices are being heard, including in NATO countries, calling for peace, for a political and diplomatic solution, for talks.
This seems to force the Western war party to offer an alternative to these discussions and proposals. That is why they are trying to hype up the public by planting stories of this kind in the information space.
May I remind you that peacekeeping forces can only be deployed in a conflict zone with the consent of all parties involved, as well as the adoption of a UNSC resolution to this effect. At this stage, there have been no discussions, let alone specific actions, in this direction.
We have not seen any initiatives from the Kiev regime to find ways to resolve this situation. On the contrary. <...>
❗️ The Kiev regime has done nothing to bring about a settlement in this situation. Zelensky and his gang have focused on getting more weapons, money, and military hardware from the United States and its allies. Their goal is to continue the hostilities, and they have been open about it.
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This time the aim was to escalate an already tense situation around the Ukraine crisis. Why would they do that? Because more and more voices are being heard, including in NATO countries, calling for peace, for a political and diplomatic solution, for talks.
This seems to force the Western war party to offer an alternative to these discussions and proposals. That is why they are trying to hype up the public by planting stories of this kind in the information space.
May I remind you that peacekeeping forces can only be deployed in a conflict zone with the consent of all parties involved, as well as the adoption of a UNSC resolution to this effect. At this stage, there have been no discussions, let alone specific actions, in this direction.
We have not seen any initiatives from the Kiev regime to find ways to resolve this situation. On the contrary. <...>
❗️ The Kiev regime has done nothing to bring about a settlement in this situation. Zelensky and his gang have focused on getting more weapons, money, and military hardware from the United States and its allies. Their goal is to continue the hostilities, and they have been open about it.
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🎄 Новогоднее поздравление Посла России в Великобритании А.В.Келина
💬 Уважаемые друзья, дорогие соотечественники!
Совсем скоро завершится 2024 год. Он выдался трудным. На долю нашей страны выпало немало испытаний.
Наши оппоненты не оставляли попыток ослабить суверенитет и независимость нашей Родины, сдержать её развитие. Но эти усилия были и всегда будут тщетны. Даже среди самых непримиримых русофобов растёт понимание того, что сломить волю нашего народа невозможно. Лучше и полезнее выстраивать с нами конструктивные отношения, основанные на равенстве и взаимном уважении.
В уходящем году Россия продолжала укреплять свои позиции. Вместе с единомышленниками из стран Глобального Юга мы вели борьбу за формирование многополярного мира, в котором нет места неоколониальному диктату и шантажу. Ярким успехом стал результативный саммит БРИКС в Казани.
2024 год вновь подтвердил важность единства и сплочённости среди наших соотечественников за рубежом. Отрадно, что даже в нынешних непростых условиях российская диаспора в Великобритании продолжает бережно хранить традиции, продвигает русскую культуру и язык. Успешно проходят творческие вечера, образовательные конференции, кинопоказы и другие важные мероприятия. Они неизменно находят широкий отклик и поддержку, в том числе со стороны неравнодушных британцев.
☝️ Мы видим, что, вопреки создаваемому здесь враждебному и токсичному образу России, всё больше жителей Британии выступают за восстановление связей между нашими странами и народами и против тупикового конфронтационного курса британских властей.
Дорогие друзья,
Отдельно отмечу, что в наступающем году нас ждёт важное событие – 80-летие Победы в Великой Отечественной войне. Эта дата напоминает о героизме наших предков, отдавших жизни за спасение нашей Родины и всего человечества от угрозы фашизма. Наш долг сегодня – свято беречь историческую правду об их подвиге.
Уверен, что торжественные мероприятия и памятные акции будут способствовать сплочению российской диаспоры. Посольство, со своей стороны, продолжит делать всё необходимое для поддержки соотечественников, разделяющих любовь к нашей великой Родине.
Пусть 2025 год принесёт новые возможности для каждого из вас. Желаю вам и вашим близким крепкого здоровья, благополучия и успехов во всех начинаниях.
С праздником! С Новым годом!
💬 Уважаемые друзья, дорогие соотечественники!
Совсем скоро завершится 2024 год. Он выдался трудным. На долю нашей страны выпало немало испытаний.
Наши оппоненты не оставляли попыток ослабить суверенитет и независимость нашей Родины, сдержать её развитие. Но эти усилия были и всегда будут тщетны. Даже среди самых непримиримых русофобов растёт понимание того, что сломить волю нашего народа невозможно. Лучше и полезнее выстраивать с нами конструктивные отношения, основанные на равенстве и взаимном уважении.
В уходящем году Россия продолжала укреплять свои позиции. Вместе с единомышленниками из стран Глобального Юга мы вели борьбу за формирование многополярного мира, в котором нет места неоколониальному диктату и шантажу. Ярким успехом стал результативный саммит БРИКС в Казани.
2024 год вновь подтвердил важность единства и сплочённости среди наших соотечественников за рубежом. Отрадно, что даже в нынешних непростых условиях российская диаспора в Великобритании продолжает бережно хранить традиции, продвигает русскую культуру и язык. Успешно проходят творческие вечера, образовательные конференции, кинопоказы и другие важные мероприятия. Они неизменно находят широкий отклик и поддержку, в том числе со стороны неравнодушных британцев.
☝️ Мы видим, что, вопреки создаваемому здесь враждебному и токсичному образу России, всё больше жителей Британии выступают за восстановление связей между нашими странами и народами и против тупикового конфронтационного курса британских властей.
Дорогие друзья,
Отдельно отмечу, что в наступающем году нас ждёт важное событие – 80-летие Победы в Великой Отечественной войне. Эта дата напоминает о героизме наших предков, отдавших жизни за спасение нашей Родины и всего человечества от угрозы фашизма. Наш долг сегодня – свято беречь историческую правду об их подвиге.
Уверен, что торжественные мероприятия и памятные акции будут способствовать сплочению российской диаспоры. Посольство, со своей стороны, продолжит делать всё необходимое для поддержки соотечественников, разделяющих любовь к нашей великой Родине.
Пусть 2025 год принесёт новые возможности для каждого из вас. Желаю вам и вашим близким крепкого здоровья, благополучия и успехов во всех начинаниях.
С праздником! С Новым годом!
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