❌ The UK authorities have announced the implementation of the so-called Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) in their jurisdiction from 1 July. This mechanism, in particular, compels anyone who intends to carry out any activity on British soil as part of an "arrangement" with Russia — regardless of their nationality — to register this activity under threat of imprisonment. <...>

The destructive potential of this action is already clear, especially for the future of the UK itself.

The UK has taken a significant step towards becoming a police state. <...>

In a distinctly Orwellian manner, under the pretext of defending democracy, British law enforcement and intelligence agencies are being handed unprecedented tools to undermine rights and freedoms, as well as to prosecute both their own citizens and foreign nationals.

❗️ Step by step, the country appears to be descending into a Cold War atmosphere, with all its attendant consequences — from instilling fear of an external, albeit fabricated, enemy to fostering a culture of pervasive suspicion reminiscent of McCarthyism, which once shattered lives and human relationships alike.

Out of the blue, another discriminatory barrier has been erected on the path towards restoring Russia-UK relations in the more distant future.

As recently as the summer of 2024, the current Cabinet had the opportunity to launch the process of normalisation with our country by abandoning the Conservatives' failed policy of confrontation. This would have been entirely in the interests of the British people. However London made a different choice, baselessly labelling Russia an "acute threat to UK national security".

☝️ Now, by effectively equating any form of engagement with Russia — including in science, education, charity and language training — with a potential offence, the UK authorities have further cemented Britain's status as one of the most unfriendly Western jurisdictions. The move leaves little doubt that the UK intends to further escalate its confrontation with Russia.

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◾️ On April 4, 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded — the Washington Treaty was signed by 12 nations from Europe and North America.

Since its inception, this so-called “defensive alliance” has continually expanded. Over time, NATO has absorbed 20 new member-states through ten rounds of enlargement (a euphemism for expansion), with seven of these occurring following the dissolution of the Soviet Union: in 1999, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2020, 2023, and 2024.

The alliance’s military interventions worldwide have always been a major source of instability and chaos in global affairs, undermining security worldwide, directly leading to mass civilian casualties and devastating consequences — as witnessed by the aggression against Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, the crisis and situation around Ukraine, and elsewhere.

❗️Back in 2007, during the Munich Security Conference, Russia's President Vladimir Putin explicitly highlighted NATO’s destabilizing role in following the Cold War:

I think it is obvious that NATO expansion does not have any relation with the modernisation of the Alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe. On the contrary, it represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. And we have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended?

Both the Soviet Union and Russia, at various times, sought rapprochement with NATO, even expressing frank interest in joining the alliance to create a an indivisible security system in Europe.

The fact of the matter is that the Soviet-lead Warsaw Pact, often used as a scarecrow by Western propaganda, was established only in 1955 — 6 years after NATO’s creation. Unlike NATO it never had any intentions of aggressive nature, while e.g. UK with its infamous Operation Unthinkable called for a massive assault on 1 July 1945 (not even 2 months after the Victory over Nazis) by British, American and... German (i.e. Nazi) forces against the Red Army.

Not only Russia and USSR never devised aggressive plans against NATO members, but NATO itself have acted in a threatening, aggressive and expansionist manner from the get-go.

Prior to this, Moscow aimed to normalize relations and even considered joining the North Atlantic alliance. In March 1954, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov proposed that the Soviet Union is willing explore the possibility of NATO membership to reduce tensions and prevent conflicts. However, Western powers rejected this proposal.

Following the dissolution of USSR, Russian leadership made further attempts to engage with the alliance. In June 1994, Russia became the first country to join NATO’s “Partnership for Peace” programme, aimed at developing bilateral cooperation between the alliance and partner-states.

💬 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the following in a recent interview:

The leadership focused on creating proper conditions for deepening partnership with the West. As it turned out later - in fact, it became clear fairly quickly, but almost all our politicians and citizens found it out later - our role in that “partnership” was that of the “little brother.” We were assigned this role. This, of course, was a huge mistake.

Many Western analysts now acknowledge in their memoirs that there was no sense in expanding NATO and keeping Russia “on the sidelines.”

In 1997, the then Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov proposed establishing contacts between Russia & NATO, leading to the signing of the Russia-NATO Founding Act and the creation of the Russia-NATO Council. Positive development, but nevertheless, NATO’s expansion continued.

President Vladimir Putin even mentioned that he had proposed the idea of Russia joining NATO, which was arrogantly rejected.

Today, the North Atlantic bloc remains a tool for forcefully advancing the interests of the so-called “golden billion”, i.e. the 'collective West'. The catastrophic & utterly destructive consequences of the alliance’s geopolitical maneuvering and capacity-building are evident to any rational observer.

🤦 По местной прессе вновь прокатилась волна наспех состряпанных фантастических историй о «российской угрозе», якобы устремившейся к британским берегам из морских пучин.

В одну неправдоподобную кучу смешаны басни о российских научных судах и «яхтах олигархов», будто бы отрабатывающих военные задачи, бесконечные истории о киберпреступниках, которые пытаются навредить британской армии, а также домыслы о загадочных роботизированных щупальцах, с помощью которых из Москвы пытаются дотянуться до британских глубоководных коммуникаций.

Всю эту низкопробную пародию на романы Жюль Верна венчает исходящий со страниц «Дейли Мэйл» призыв к британцам запасаться батарейками, продуктами и швейцарскими ножами, дабы пережить надвигающийся в результате российских диверсий энергоколлапс в Англии.

В этом бездонном вымысле правда сгинула без остатка.

❗️ Россия никогда не угрожала безопасности Соединённого Королевства и его жителей.

Если им что-то и угрожает, то исключительно последовательная линия британского истеблишмента по нагнетанию конфронтации с Россией, созданию очагов напряжённости на наших границах, а также обострению военно-политической обстановки в Европе. Для этих неблаговидных и опасных целей здесь уже давно не жалеют ни тающих бюджетных ресурсов, ни репутации страны.

Вот и сейчас своими бездоказательными наветами в Лондоне из последних сил препятствуют мирным подвижкам на треке урегулирования украинского конфликта, а также наметившимся признакам оздоровления российско-американских отношений. Упрямо отвлекают внимание от усугубляющихся в стране социально-экономических проблем. Пытаются оправдать рост военных расходов в условиях ужесточающейся бюджетной экономии.

Скажем честно – все эти заказные припадки медийного алармизма, навеянные импульсами от местных спецслужб, уже порядком наскучили.

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Embassy comment on anti-Russian allegations by the British media

🤦 A tidal wave of hastily concocted fantasy stories about the so-called "Russian threat" has been sweeping the pages of the UK press.

This time the threat allegedly lurks in the sea depths off the British shores. The narrative blends a surreal medley of fables about Russian research vessels and "oligarchs’ superyachts" executing military tasks, endless tales of cybercriminals targeting the British Army, as well as speculations about mysterious robotic tentacles with which Moscow allegedly seeks to tamper with UK's underwater infrastructure.

This low-grade Jules Verne cosplay is crowned by the Daily Mail's call for Britons to start packing batteries, foodstuffs and Swiss Army knives to survive the imminent mass blackouts in the UK caused by Russian deep sea sabotage.

In this abyss of fabrication, the truth has gone under without a trace.

❗️ Russia has never posed a threat to the security of the UK or its people.

If they are imperiled by anything, it is by the British establishment's consistent policy of fostering confrontation with Russia, creating hotspots of tensions along Russian borders and exacerbating the military and political situation across Europe. Neither the dwindling public funds nor the nation's reputation have been spared for the sake of these ignoble and dangerous aims.

Yet again, with new baseless allegations London is making last-ditch effort to obstruct progress towards a negotiated resolution of the Ukraine conflict and suppress emerging positive signs in Russia-US relations.

☝️ The UK establishment persists in distracting attention from mounting socio-economic issues within the country. It is attempting to justify the increase in military spending amidst budgetary austerity.

Frankly, these orchestrated bursts of media alarmism, instigated by local intelligence services, have become quite repetitive.

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