🇷🇺 The 28th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) concluded with more than 1,000 agreements signed worth $80 billion.
The event convened over 24,000 participants from 144 nations, reinforcing the Forum's reputation as a prominent platform for multilateral engagement and international dialogue amid a shifting geopolitical landscape.
The plenary session featured a keynote address from President Vladimir Putin, who outlined Russia's economic trajectory and emphasised the growing relevance of BRICS in a multipolar world.
Notably, this year's agenda was defined by a forward-looking tone, encompassing over 350 events that addressed pressing global issues. With an expanded youth presence from over 220 universities, SPIEF 2025 also reflected a conscious investment in the next generation of global leaders and economic thinkers.
Bahrain was honoured as the guest country this year, with Saudi Arabia set to take the mantle in 2026.
The event convened over 24,000 participants from 144 nations, reinforcing the Forum's reputation as a prominent platform for multilateral engagement and international dialogue amid a shifting geopolitical landscape.
The plenary session featured a keynote address from President Vladimir Putin, who outlined Russia's economic trajectory and emphasised the growing relevance of BRICS in a multipolar world.
Notably, this year's agenda was defined by a forward-looking tone, encompassing over 350 events that addressed pressing global issues. With an expanded youth presence from over 220 universities, SPIEF 2025 also reflected a conscious investment in the next generation of global leaders and economic thinkers.
Bahrain was honoured as the guest country this year, with Saudi Arabia set to take the mantle in 2026.
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📄 24 июня правительство Соединённого Королевства представило обновлённую Стратегию нацбезопасности страны. <...>
В центр стратегии вынесены мнимые риски, якобы исходящие от России. Это сопровождено откровенно оскорбительной риторикой в адрес нашей страны.
Вынуждены в этой связи повторить, что подобные обвинения пусты и лживы. Россия не угрожала и не угрожает Британии и её населению.
На протяжении долгой и разносторонней истории отношений наших стран именно Лондон не раз выступал зачинщиком конфликтов и генератором стратегических провокаций в отношении нашей страны. <...>
Правительство лейбористов, придя к власти летом 2024 года, имело шанс разорвать созданный предшественниками порочный круг истеричных запугиваний и приступить к восстановлению двусторонних отношений во благо собственной страны. Однако сделало выбор в пользу дальнейшей конфронтации и взвинчивания напряжённости. Продолжает упрямо его придерживаться.
🤦 Цель раскрыта в предисловии к стратегии — покрасоваться перед союзниками по НАТО и напустить им антироссийской пыли в глаза.
Так легче жонглировать статьями бюджета, который якобы позволит через 10 лет повысить военные расходы в условиях, когда денег нет и не будет. А ещё — обеспечить подобие «национального единства». Ведь иными способами — конструктивной повесткой и улучшением качества жизни населения — нынешний кабмин этого добиться явно не может.
Вот и вынужден с ещё большим, чем предшественники-консерваторы, цинизмом рисовать антироссийские «страшилки», ужас перед которыми должен сплотить британцев. Но это, как разъяснил бы лейбористам их знаменитый соотечественник Джордж Оруэлл, — путь в никуда.
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В центр стратегии вынесены мнимые риски, якобы исходящие от России. Это сопровождено откровенно оскорбительной риторикой в адрес нашей страны.
Вынуждены в этой связи повторить, что подобные обвинения пусты и лживы. Россия не угрожала и не угрожает Британии и её населению.
На протяжении долгой и разносторонней истории отношений наших стран именно Лондон не раз выступал зачинщиком конфликтов и генератором стратегических провокаций в отношении нашей страны. <...>
Правительство лейбористов, придя к власти летом 2024 года, имело шанс разорвать созданный предшественниками порочный круг истеричных запугиваний и приступить к восстановлению двусторонних отношений во благо собственной страны. Однако сделало выбор в пользу дальнейшей конфронтации и взвинчивания напряжённости. Продолжает упрямо его придерживаться.
🤦 Цель раскрыта в предисловии к стратегии — покрасоваться перед союзниками по НАТО и напустить им антироссийской пыли в глаза.
Так легче жонглировать статьями бюджета, который якобы позволит через 10 лет повысить военные расходы в условиях, когда денег нет и не будет. А ещё — обеспечить подобие «национального единства». Ведь иными способами — конструктивной повесткой и улучшением качества жизни населения — нынешний кабмин этого добиться явно не может.
Вот и вынужден с ещё большим, чем предшественники-консерваторы, цинизмом рисовать антироссийские «страшилки», ужас перед которыми должен сплотить британцев. Но это, как разъяснил бы лейбористам их знаменитый соотечественник Джордж Оруэлл, — путь в никуда.
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☝️ NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte need not worry about London "switching to Russian". Much of London already has, as we can happily attest. For many in the UK capital and beyond, including Ukrainians living here, Russian is the language of choice.
In fact, around 70 Russian speaking schools are active in the UK. And the number of British school graduates choosing Russian for their GCSE exams has increased by 45% over the past 2 years, for A-level applicants — by 51% over 5 years.
For NATO, intent on helping the Kiev regime stifle the Russian language in Ukraine, this may be an aberration. In fact this is completely normal.
In fact, around 70 Russian speaking schools are active in the UK. And the number of British school graduates choosing Russian for their GCSE exams has increased by 45% over the past 2 years, for A-level applicants — by 51% over 5 years.
For NATO, intent on helping the Kiev regime stifle the Russian language in Ukraine, this may be an aberration. In fact this is completely normal.
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🎙 Highlights from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks and answers to questions at the 11th Primakov Readings International Forum (Moscow, 24 June)
• The West is not limited to containing Russia and behaves aggressively towards any manifestation of independent behaviour. <...> The fact that NATO is going beyond its traditional scope of responsibility and is trying to entrench itself in the Middle East, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Arctic is clearly fraught with risks.
• The European Union is undergoing a radical transformation, morphing into an aggressive military-political bloc and essentially becoming a branch of NATO.
• Due to its marginalisation in international affairs, Europe, which is fomenting yet another big war, has little to offer [concerning the Ukraine crisis].
• The military action taken by Israel and the United States against Iran, including its peaceful nuclear programme facilities, constitutes a gross violation of the UN and IAEA charters and resolutions which state that such facilities are not to be targeted.
• The continued destabilisation of the Middle East, coupled with the use of political assassinations to eliminate military leaders and researchers, poses a major threat to global security and the global economy, particularly with regard to the non-proliferation regime.
• The West is using illegal unilateral sanctions, which are becoming a precursor to military action, as was the case in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya, and is currently happening in Iran. It is also employing the instruments of unfair competition, such as tariff wars and the seizure of other nations' sovereign assets.. In fact, the West has buried the globalisation model it developed after the Cold War.
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• The West is not limited to containing Russia and behaves aggressively towards any manifestation of independent behaviour. <...> The fact that NATO is going beyond its traditional scope of responsibility and is trying to entrench itself in the Middle East, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Arctic is clearly fraught with risks.
• The European Union is undergoing a radical transformation, morphing into an aggressive military-political bloc and essentially becoming a branch of NATO.
• Due to its marginalisation in international affairs, Europe, which is fomenting yet another big war, has little to offer [concerning the Ukraine crisis].
• The military action taken by Israel and the United States against Iran, including its peaceful nuclear programme facilities, constitutes a gross violation of the UN and IAEA charters and resolutions which state that such facilities are not to be targeted.
• The continued destabilisation of the Middle East, coupled with the use of political assassinations to eliminate military leaders and researchers, poses a major threat to global security and the global economy, particularly with regard to the non-proliferation regime.
• The West is using illegal unilateral sanctions, which are becoming a precursor to military action, as was the case in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya, and is currently happening in Iran. It is also employing the instruments of unfair competition, such as tariff wars and the seizure of other nations' sovereign assets.. In fact, the West has buried the globalisation model it developed after the Cold War.
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📄 On 24 June, the Government of the United Kingdom unveiled an updated version of the country’s National Security Strategy. <...>
The Strategy is dominated by supposed threats emanating from Russia. This serves as pretext for directing highly offensive rhetoric against our country.
We are compelled to underscore once again: these accusations are hollow and futile. Russia poses no threat to the United Kingdom or its people.
Throughout the long and multifaceted history of our bilateral relations it is London that has repeatedly instigated conflict and masterminded grand provocations against Russia. <...>
The Labour government, after coming to power in the summer of 2024, had a chance to break the vicious circle of hysterical scaremongering enabled by its predecessors, and to begin restoring bilateral relations for the UK's own benefit. Instead, they chose to deepen confrontation and fuel tension — and have continued down this path with remarkable perseverance.
🤦 The goal is laid bare in the Strategy's foreword: to impress NATO allies and dazzle them with anti-Russian bluster.
This makes it easier to manipulate the budget, supposedly allowing for increased military spending over the next decade — at a time when there is and will be no money. It also serves to create a semblance of "national unity" — something the current cabinet ministers clearly fail to achieve via constructive policy or tangible improvements in living standards.
Hence, even more cynically than their Conservative predecessors, they resort to concocting anti-Russian "horror stories", hoping that fear will rally the nation. But as their renowned compatriot George Orwell might have explained to Labour, this is a dead end.
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The Strategy is dominated by supposed threats emanating from Russia. This serves as pretext for directing highly offensive rhetoric against our country.
We are compelled to underscore once again: these accusations are hollow and futile. Russia poses no threat to the United Kingdom or its people.
Throughout the long and multifaceted history of our bilateral relations it is London that has repeatedly instigated conflict and masterminded grand provocations against Russia. <...>
The Labour government, after coming to power in the summer of 2024, had a chance to break the vicious circle of hysterical scaremongering enabled by its predecessors, and to begin restoring bilateral relations for the UK's own benefit. Instead, they chose to deepen confrontation and fuel tension — and have continued down this path with remarkable perseverance.
🤦 The goal is laid bare in the Strategy's foreword: to impress NATO allies and dazzle them with anti-Russian bluster.
This makes it easier to manipulate the budget, supposedly allowing for increased military spending over the next decade — at a time when there is and will be no money. It also serves to create a semblance of "national unity" — something the current cabinet ministers clearly fail to achieve via constructive policy or tangible improvements in living standards.
Hence, even more cynically than their Conservative predecessors, they resort to concocting anti-Russian "horror stories", hoping that fear will rally the nation. But as their renowned compatriot George Orwell might have explained to Labour, this is a dead end.
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❌ В ходе саммита НАТО в Гааге руководство Британии предсказуемо отметилось продвижением конфронтационной повестки, нацеленной на усиление противостояния с Россией.
Предпринимаемые британским правительством шаги и сопутствующая им возгонка антироссийской истерии прямо противоречат целям обеспечения национальной безопасности, о которой якобы печётся официальный Лондон.
Главным инструментом натовского сдерживания нашей страны остаётся развязанный Западом «конфликт по доверенности» на Украине. Анонсированные в последние дни решения по военному содействию Киеву подтверждают, что британское руководство маниакально стремится отдалить капитуляцию режима Зеленского. Бросает на эти цели не только общественные, но и незаконно присвоенные российские средства.
На этом фоне любые разговоры о мнимой готовности Киева и его западных кураторов к прекращению огня и мирному урегулированию – «в пользу бедных».
Платить по счетам за оборонные авантюры британских политиков придётся местным налогоплательщикам. <...>
❗️ Россия не несёт никакой угрозы странам Североатлантического альянса. Это планировщики НАТО форсируют продвижение военной инфраструктуры альянса к нашим границам, а также заняты ускоренным перевооружением стран-членов в целях закрепления их подавляющего конвенционального превосходства над Россией.
Тем самым, окончательно нивелируя постбиполярный «мирный дивиденд», ввергают европейский континент в наиболее опасный период после Второй мировой войны.
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Предпринимаемые британским правительством шаги и сопутствующая им возгонка антироссийской истерии прямо противоречат целям обеспечения национальной безопасности, о которой якобы печётся официальный Лондон.
Главным инструментом натовского сдерживания нашей страны остаётся развязанный Западом «конфликт по доверенности» на Украине. Анонсированные в последние дни решения по военному содействию Киеву подтверждают, что британское руководство маниакально стремится отдалить капитуляцию режима Зеленского. Бросает на эти цели не только общественные, но и незаконно присвоенные российские средства.
На этом фоне любые разговоры о мнимой готовности Киева и его западных кураторов к прекращению огня и мирному урегулированию – «в пользу бедных».
Платить по счетам за оборонные авантюры британских политиков придётся местным налогоплательщикам. <...>
❗️ Россия не несёт никакой угрозы странам Североатлантического альянса. Это планировщики НАТО форсируют продвижение военной инфраструктуры альянса к нашим границам, а также заняты ускоренным перевооружением стран-членов в целях закрепления их подавляющего конвенционального превосходства над Россией.
Тем самым, окончательно нивелируя постбиполярный «мирный дивиденд», ввергают европейский континент в наиболее опасный период после Второй мировой войны.
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❌ At the NATO summit in The Hague the UK leadership predictably distinguished itself by promoting a confrontational agenda aimed at heightening tensions with Russia.
The measures undertaken by the British government, coupled with its stoking of anti-Russian hysteria, run counter to the professed goals of ensuring national security, which official London claims to uphold.
The prime tool of NATO's containment strategy towards Russia remains the "proxy conflict" in Ukraine, instigated by the West. Recent announcements regarding military support to Kiev serve only to confirm the British leadership's obsessive drive to postpone the collapse of the Zelensky regime.
To this end, it is expending not only public finances but also unlawfully seized Russian assets. Against such a backdrop any talk of Kiev and its Western sponsors allegedly being ready for a ceasefire and peaceful settlement rings hollow.
The British taxpayers will ultimately foot the bill for the military adventurism of their political class. <...>
❗️ Russia poses no threat to the member states of the North Atlantic Alliance. It is NATO's own planners who are pushing the alliance's military infrastructure closer to our borders, while rapidly rearming member states in order to cement their overwhelming conventional superiority over Russia.
In doing so, they have effectively squandered the post-Cold War "peace dividend" and are plunging the European continent into its most perilous era since the end of the Second World War.
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The measures undertaken by the British government, coupled with its stoking of anti-Russian hysteria, run counter to the professed goals of ensuring national security, which official London claims to uphold.
The prime tool of NATO's containment strategy towards Russia remains the "proxy conflict" in Ukraine, instigated by the West. Recent announcements regarding military support to Kiev serve only to confirm the British leadership's obsessive drive to postpone the collapse of the Zelensky regime.
To this end, it is expending not only public finances but also unlawfully seized Russian assets. Against such a backdrop any talk of Kiev and its Western sponsors allegedly being ready for a ceasefire and peaceful settlement rings hollow.
The British taxpayers will ultimately foot the bill for the military adventurism of their political class. <...>
❗️ Russia poses no threat to the member states of the North Atlantic Alliance. It is NATO's own planners who are pushing the alliance's military infrastructure closer to our borders, while rapidly rearming member states in order to cement their overwhelming conventional superiority over Russia.
In doing so, they have effectively squandered the post-Cold War "peace dividend" and are plunging the European continent into its most perilous era since the end of the Second World War.
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🎙 Highlights from President Vladimir Putin's remarks at the news conference following the EAEU summit in Minsk (27 June 2025)
• We agreed [with Ukraine] that after completing these exchanges and the humanitarian operation which we proposed – specifically, the transfer of the servicemen’s bodies – we would press ahead with more contacts.
• [Western politicians] are constantly talking about our problems and how Russia will be defeated very soon. This rhetoric still continues unabated. At the same time, they keep saying that we are going to attack NATO countries. Where is the logic in that? If we have everything on the brink of collapse, then why would we attack NATO? They are talking rubbish.
• We are planning to cut the defence expenses next year and the year after, as well during the next three years. And Europe is thinking about raising its defence expenses. So, who is getting ready for any aggressive actions, us or them?
• The more sanctions are imposed, the greater the damage to those imposing them.
• Russia-US relations are demonstrating initial stabilisation, at least to some extent. Not all issues in diplomatic relations have been resolved, but the first steps have been taken, and we are moving forward.
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• We agreed [with Ukraine] that after completing these exchanges and the humanitarian operation which we proposed – specifically, the transfer of the servicemen’s bodies – we would press ahead with more contacts.
• [Western politicians] are constantly talking about our problems and how Russia will be defeated very soon. This rhetoric still continues unabated. At the same time, they keep saying that we are going to attack NATO countries. Where is the logic in that? If we have everything on the brink of collapse, then why would we attack NATO? They are talking rubbish.
• We are planning to cut the defence expenses next year and the year after, as well during the next three years. And Europe is thinking about raising its defence expenses. So, who is getting ready for any aggressive actions, us or them?
• The more sanctions are imposed, the greater the damage to those imposing them.
• Russia-US relations are demonstrating initial stabilisation, at least to some extent. Not all issues in diplomatic relations have been resolved, but the first steps have been taken, and we are moving forward.
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🇷🇺 This weekend, St. Petersburg once again dazzled with its legendary Scarlet Sails celebration — a breathtaking spectacle marking the end of the school year for thousands of Russian students.
Held on 28 June, this unique tradition transformed the city's historic heart into a dreamscape of fireworks, music and wonder, drawing millions of spectators to the banks of the Neva River.
At the centre of it all was the majestic brig Russia, gliding through the water under glowing scarlet sails — a nod to the romantic novel that inspired the festival's name.
Launched in 1968, the tradition was briefly paused during the 1990s, only to return stronger in 2005. Since then, the Neva River has become an annual canvas for a high-tech multimedia performance, heralding one of Europe's most unforgettable nights.
Held on 28 June, this unique tradition transformed the city's historic heart into a dreamscape of fireworks, music and wonder, drawing millions of spectators to the banks of the Neva River.
At the centre of it all was the majestic brig Russia, gliding through the water under glowing scarlet sails — a nod to the romantic novel that inspired the festival's name.
Launched in 1968, the tradition was briefly paused during the 1990s, only to return stronger in 2005. Since then, the Neva River has become an annual canvas for a high-tech multimedia performance, heralding one of Europe's most unforgettable nights.
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