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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Yvan Gil (Caracas, February 20, 2024)
Key talking points:
🔸 Venezuela is one of the most reliable and close friends of Russia in Latin America and the world as a whole. We maintain close relations of strategic partnership. They are intrinsically valuable and do not depend on the political environment.
🔸 We agreed to accelerate and increase our levels of cooperation in all these spheres. We share the opinion that this will strengthen the stability of our national economies and the technological sovereignty of Russia and Venezuela.
🔸 In September 2023, a centre for open education, offering a number of courses in the Russian language, was established in Caracas. With the permission of our Venezuelan colleagues, we plan to open a similar centre on Margarita Island. We also intend to reopen the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Caracas.
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Key talking points:
🔸 Venezuela is one of the most reliable and close friends of Russia in Latin America and the world as a whole. We maintain close relations of strategic partnership. They are intrinsically valuable and do not depend on the political environment.
🔸 We agreed to accelerate and increase our levels of cooperation in all these spheres. We share the opinion that this will strengthen the stability of our national economies and the technological sovereignty of Russia and Venezuela.
🔸 In September 2023, a centre for open education, offering a number of courses in the Russian language, was established in Caracas. With the permission of our Venezuelan colleagues, we plan to open a similar centre on Margarita Island. We also intend to reopen the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Caracas.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro (Caracas, February 20, 2024)
💬 On February 17, three days ago, we marked the 167th anniversary of our interstate ties.
Since then, our friendship and the traditions accumulated over this period have been strengthening and contributing to the development of bilateral relations, and the mobilisation of supporters of a just world order to fight against the manifestations of diktat, blackmail, Nazism and colonialism.
Today we had useful meetings with Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and talks with Foreign Minister Yvan Gil. We confirmed good progress in all areas of bilateral cooperation, including in trade and the economy.
The latest meeting of the High-Level Intergovernmental Russian-Venezuelan Commission outlined a truly long-term, sustainable and mutually beneficial programme in energy, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, medicine, space, and high technology. <...>
🤝 We are aware of the interest of our Venezuelan friends in rapprochement with BRICS. Russia, as chair of the association this year, will contribute to this.
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💬 On February 17, three days ago, we marked the 167th anniversary of our interstate ties.
Since then, our friendship and the traditions accumulated over this period have been strengthening and contributing to the development of bilateral relations, and the mobilisation of supporters of a just world order to fight against the manifestations of diktat, blackmail, Nazism and colonialism.
Today we had useful meetings with Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and talks with Foreign Minister Yvan Gil. We confirmed good progress in all areas of bilateral cooperation, including in trade and the economy.
The latest meeting of the High-Level Intergovernmental Russian-Venezuelan Commission outlined a truly long-term, sustainable and mutually beneficial programme in energy, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, medicine, space, and high technology. <...>
🤝 We are aware of the interest of our Venezuelan friends in rapprochement with BRICS. Russia, as chair of the association this year, will contribute to this.
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🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin's speech at the opening ceremony for Games of the Future international tournament in Kazan.
💬 Vladimir Putin: I am glad to welcome to Russia the pioneers of phygital sports which is an innovative format that gave rise to the name to the competition. These are indeed the Games of the Future.
The blending of tradition and the modern age, the harmonising of physical fitness and high intellect, the integration of sports and technology, education and science – a person needs all that for well-rounded development and success in our era of rapid change, and the multifaceted, multipolar, free and competitive world that is taking shape before our eyes.
It makes perfect sense that the idea to merge conventional and e-sports was born in Russia.
☝️ Our country remains one of the leading sports powerhouses on the planet, the home of great athletes, victories and records. We have always championed sport and its lofty humanistic values.
#GamesOfTheFuture are our gift to the international sports family.
🎓 Russia is also a land of outstanding scientists, designers and engineers. Their achievements opened up new horizons of knowledge for humankind, and today our research teams and companies are scaling new heights in digital technologies and the use of artificial intelligence in areas that are at the leading edge of progress.
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✅ The Games of the Future is free from politics, as well as all discrimination and double standards. I am positive that the true spirit of sports will be on display at the Games venues.
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The international phygital tournament is a unique event in the modern history of international sports – which begins right here and now in Russia.
Godspeed!
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💬 Vladimir Putin: I am glad to welcome to Russia the pioneers of phygital sports which is an innovative format that gave rise to the name to the competition. These are indeed the Games of the Future.
The blending of tradition and the modern age, the harmonising of physical fitness and high intellect, the integration of sports and technology, education and science – a person needs all that for well-rounded development and success in our era of rapid change, and the multifaceted, multipolar, free and competitive world that is taking shape before our eyes.
It makes perfect sense that the idea to merge conventional and e-sports was born in Russia.
☝️ Our country remains one of the leading sports powerhouses on the planet, the home of great athletes, victories and records. We have always championed sport and its lofty humanistic values.
#GamesOfTheFuture are our gift to the international sports family.
🎓 Russia is also a land of outstanding scientists, designers and engineers. Their achievements opened up new horizons of knowledge for humankind, and today our research teams and companies are scaling new heights in digital technologies and the use of artificial intelligence in areas that are at the leading edge of progress.
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✅ The Games of the Future is free from politics, as well as all discrimination and double standards. I am positive that the true spirit of sports will be on display at the Games venues.
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The international phygital tournament is a unique event in the modern history of international sports – which begins right here and now in Russia.
Godspeed!
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🎙️ Embassy Comment on the UK Restrictive Measures against Russia, 21 February, 2024
▪︎Appealing to the principle of sovereignty at every turn and accusing our country of violating it by launching the Special military operation in Ukraine, the British authorities are themselves shamelessly interfering in our country’s internal matters.
▪︎Although no outcomes of the investigation or solid facts have been available as yet, London single-handedly identified those guilty and arbitrarily “sentenced” them to sanctions without a trial.
▪︎The choreography for this move by the UK looks distinctly cynical. The timing was chosen with Britain’s domestic policy in mind – just as Rishi Sunak was about to speak in the House of Commons and David Cameron was disembarking in Rio de Janeiro for the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting.
▪︎They are the ones supplying weapons and missiles from British stockpiles, that are used every day by Ukrainian militants to shell towns of Donbass and the Crimea.
▪︎We no longer have illusions about the true motives behind London’s false propaganda in support of “Russian democracy.” It is aimed exclusively at sowing discord among our compatriots and thereby weakening our country.
☝️No wonder the British establishment combines its “crocodile tears” over A.Navalny’s death so easily with calls to increase military aid to Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
We regard London's decision as futile and legally void.
❗Like all previous anti-Russian moves, it will not go unanswered.
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The decision of the UK Government to impose illegitimate unilateral restrictions against a number of Russian citizens on 21 February under a far-fetched pretext is striking in its dishonesty.
▪︎Appealing to the principle of sovereignty at every turn and accusing our country of violating it by launching the Special military operation in Ukraine, the British authorities are themselves shamelessly interfering in our country’s internal matters.
▪︎Although no outcomes of the investigation or solid facts have been available as yet, London single-handedly identified those guilty and arbitrarily “sentenced” them to sanctions without a trial.
▪︎The choreography for this move by the UK looks distinctly cynical. The timing was chosen with Britain’s domestic policy in mind – just as Rishi Sunak was about to speak in the House of Commons and David Cameron was disembarking in Rio de Janeiro for the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting.
Pompously pretending to care for the “welfare” and “freedoms” of ordinary Russians, British politicians seem to forget that they themselves are complicit in instigating the onslaught on Russian civilians by the criminal Kiev regime.
▪︎They are the ones supplying weapons and missiles from British stockpiles, that are used every day by Ukrainian militants to shell towns of Donbass and the Crimea.
▪︎We no longer have illusions about the true motives behind London’s false propaganda in support of “Russian democracy.” It is aimed exclusively at sowing discord among our compatriots and thereby weakening our country.
☝️No wonder the British establishment combines its “crocodile tears” over A.Navalny’s death so easily with calls to increase military aid to Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
We regard London's decision as futile and legally void.
❗Like all previous anti-Russian moves, it will not go unanswered.
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🗓 February 22 marks the 10th anniversary of the unconstitutional coup d'etat in Ukraine — an event, which led to an armed civil conflict, essentially a war waged by the Kiev regime against its own people, and a deepest crisis of international and European security since World War II.
10 years have passed since the tragic and horrible events of February 2014. The residing "authorities" in Kiev, aka the Kiev regime, and their Western sponsors are, as per their usual m.o., are attempting to distort the truth, conceal true facts, and turn the timeline of those events, their substance upside down.
❗️ But the truth is stubborn; it tends to get revealed sooner or later.
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On the origins of Ukrainian nationalism, the crimes of the OUN-UPA, and the support of the West
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The most horrific events unfolded on 20 February: the still unidentified snipers began shooting on the Institutskaya Street in the centre of Kiev at both law enforcement and protesters. Euromaidan supporters and Western politicians, seized "the opportunity", blamed the legitimate authorities of Ukraine. No evidence of Yanukovich's involvement was provided, and there is none to this day. Unlike, the Maidan activists & the opposition who benefited the most and was seen smuggling weapons into the area <...>
On 21 February, in an attempt to avoid further bloodshed, Yanukovych signed an Agreement on the Settlement of the Political Crisis in Ukraine with the opposition (from the opposition's side — Vitali Klitschko (UDAR party), Arseniy Yatsenyuk ("Fatherland"), and Oleg Tyagnybok ("Freedom")), which was supported and guaranteed by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland. This document envisaged the creation of a government of national trust, constitutional reform, and the organization of early presidential elections. None of the Agreement's provisions were implemented.
The next day, on February 22, the Supreme Council passed a resolution on Viktor Yanukovych's "self-removal" from performing the duties of the President of Ukraine, thereby usurping power (although he remained a legitimate president, remained in Ukraine and had made no statements regarding resignation). It was then announced that the "government of the victors (winner)" would be formed. The West turned a blind eye to all violations and hurried to declare a "change of power" in Ukraine, openly encouraging the putschists to pursue their anti-Russian policy. What ensued was basically a hunt for the remaining law enforcement officers and officials loyal to their oath and the country. <...> The very next day, the very first decision of the new "government" through the Verkhovnaya Rada was to revoke the law on the status of the Russian language, which according to data was back then the mother tongue of the majority (!) of the Ukrainian citizens.
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The "mediation" meddling of the West led to a sharp polarisation of Ukrainian society, which created the preconditions for an armed civil conflict. The first legislative steps of the "Maidan victors" — the abovementioned cancellation of the language law — were received with alarm in South-Eastern Ukraine, where spontaneous formation of popular militia forces began. Kiev immediately accused all the inhabitants of the region of "state treason" and "terrorism", threw the army and neo-Nazi punitive battalions to violently suppress the protests.
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‼️ "Euromaidan" created a deep rift in Ukrainian society, lead to persecution, fight against dissent, spread of nationalism and neo-Nazism, legal lawlessness and nihilism, fighting the Russian language and own history, complete degradation of the socio-economic situation in the country.
The terror and horror brought by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and nationalists in 2014 must be brought to an end. Denazification and demilitarisation will be achieved.
📖 Read more about these tragic events of 2014 in our article.
📄 Foreign Ministry Spox Maria Zakharova's comment on the crisis in Ukraine
10 years have passed since the tragic and horrible events of February 2014. The residing "authorities" in Kiev, aka the Kiev regime, and their Western sponsors are, as per their usual m.o., are attempting to distort the truth, conceal true facts, and turn the timeline of those events, their substance upside down.
❗️ But the truth is stubborn; it tends to get revealed sooner or later.
***
On the origins of Ukrainian nationalism, the crimes of the OUN-UPA, and the support of the West
***
The most horrific events unfolded on 20 February: the still unidentified snipers began shooting on the Institutskaya Street in the centre of Kiev at both law enforcement and protesters. Euromaidan supporters and Western politicians, seized "the opportunity", blamed the legitimate authorities of Ukraine. No evidence of Yanukovich's involvement was provided, and there is none to this day. Unlike, the Maidan activists & the opposition who benefited the most and was seen smuggling weapons into the area <...>
On 21 February, in an attempt to avoid further bloodshed, Yanukovych signed an Agreement on the Settlement of the Political Crisis in Ukraine with the opposition (from the opposition's side — Vitali Klitschko (UDAR party), Arseniy Yatsenyuk ("Fatherland"), and Oleg Tyagnybok ("Freedom")), which was supported and guaranteed by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland. This document envisaged the creation of a government of national trust, constitutional reform, and the organization of early presidential elections. None of the Agreement's provisions were implemented.
The next day, on February 22, the Supreme Council passed a resolution on Viktor Yanukovych's "self-removal" from performing the duties of the President of Ukraine, thereby usurping power (although he remained a legitimate president, remained in Ukraine and had made no statements regarding resignation). It was then announced that the "government of the victors (winner)" would be formed. The West turned a blind eye to all violations and hurried to declare a "change of power" in Ukraine, openly encouraging the putschists to pursue their anti-Russian policy. What ensued was basically a hunt for the remaining law enforcement officers and officials loyal to their oath and the country. <...> The very next day, the very first decision of the new "government" through the Verkhovnaya Rada was to revoke the law on the status of the Russian language, which according to data was back then the mother tongue of the majority (!) of the Ukrainian citizens.
<...>
The "mediation" meddling of the West led to a sharp polarisation of Ukrainian society, which created the preconditions for an armed civil conflict. The first legislative steps of the "Maidan victors" — the abovementioned cancellation of the language law — were received with alarm in South-Eastern Ukraine, where spontaneous formation of popular militia forces began. Kiev immediately accused all the inhabitants of the region of "state treason" and "terrorism", threw the army and neo-Nazi punitive battalions to violently suppress the protests.
<...>
‼️ "Euromaidan" created a deep rift in Ukrainian society, lead to persecution, fight against dissent, spread of nationalism and neo-Nazism, legal lawlessness and nihilism, fighting the Russian language and own history, complete degradation of the socio-economic situation in the country.
The terror and horror brought by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and nationalists in 2014 must be brought to an end. Denazification and demilitarisation will be achieved.
📖 Read more about these tragic events of 2014 in our article.
📄 Foreign Ministry Spox Maria Zakharova's comment on the crisis in Ukraine
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10 years since the unconstitutional coup d'etat in Ukraine
February 22 marks the anniversary of the unconstitutional coup d'etat in Ukraine — an event, which led to an armed civil conflict, essentially a war waged by the Kiev regime against its own people, and a deepest crisis of international and European security…
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▪️ On this very day, 10 years ago, Kiev became ground zero for an unconstitutional coup, that triggered all the events around Ukraine and its now former regions ever since. It marked the culmination of the Euromaidan demonstrations, a series of public protests held between November 2013 and February 2014, organised with the involvement and support of Western countries.
Here are facts that the Western mainstream media does not want to you to remember or know at all 👇
🔻 On February 21, 2014, a day before the coup, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition, mediated by Germany, Poland, and France, reached an agreement intended to stop the bloodshed and pave the way for a political resolution to the crisis. However, as soon as Yanukovych ordered the withdrawal of law enforcement troops from the centre of Kiev, militants began storming government buildings.
🔻 The Euromaidan protesters openly expressed neo-Nazi views. Images of Third Reich intelligence agent Stepan Bandera adorned captured buildings and were raised at rallies.
🔻 The Maidan Square protests received overt support and funding from Western countries. The US Embassy alone reportedly provided material support to protester groups amounting to $1 million per day.
🔻 Euromaidan activists resorted to the use of force and terrorist tactics, as evidenced by numerous cases of beatings and torture inflicted upon politicians and public figures who spoke out against the coup.
🔻Following the Euromaidan victory, the Kiev regime’s campaign of terror against dissidents became a hallmark. For over a decade, the people of Donbass endured terrorist attacks and indiscriminate strikes from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and neo-Nazi groups.
❗️Following the coup in Ukraine, its participants chose confrontation and civil war instead of pursuing peaceful development for the country.
📖 Find further details in the reference material, prepared under the auspices of the Foundation for Democracy Studies and the International Public Tribunal for Ukraine.
Here are facts that the Western mainstream media does not want to you to remember or know at all 👇
🔻 On February 21, 2014, a day before the coup, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition, mediated by Germany, Poland, and France, reached an agreement intended to stop the bloodshed and pave the way for a political resolution to the crisis. However, as soon as Yanukovych ordered the withdrawal of law enforcement troops from the centre of Kiev, militants began storming government buildings.
🔻 The Euromaidan protesters openly expressed neo-Nazi views. Images of Third Reich intelligence agent Stepan Bandera adorned captured buildings and were raised at rallies.
🔻 The Maidan Square protests received overt support and funding from Western countries. The US Embassy alone reportedly provided material support to protester groups amounting to $1 million per day.
🔻 Euromaidan activists resorted to the use of force and terrorist tactics, as evidenced by numerous cases of beatings and torture inflicted upon politicians and public figures who spoke out against the coup.
🔻Following the Euromaidan victory, the Kiev regime’s campaign of terror against dissidents became a hallmark. For over a decade, the people of Donbass endured terrorist attacks and indiscriminate strikes from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and neo-Nazi groups.
❗️Following the coup in Ukraine, its participants chose confrontation and civil war instead of pursuing peaceful development for the country.
📖 Find further details in the reference material, prepared under the auspices of the Foundation for Democracy Studies and the International Public Tribunal for Ukraine.
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Today marks 10 years since the events of the so-called Euromaidan that led to the unconstitutional coup d'etat in Ukraine.
Since 2014, under the supervision and with the direct guidance by the advisors from NATO & Western powers, Ukraine was transformed into an anti-Russian country at an accelerating pace.
The de-Russification and Ukrainization of the nations' cultural code was forced upon living in Ukraine, they were brainwashed, in effect re-educated in the spirit of hatred and hostility towards Russia and Russians, the memory of the common past awas all but erased, replaced by neo-Nazi sentiments.
Even the relatively recent 2014 events have been rewritten and retold by those in power in Kiev and their puppet masters in the West, facts were tossed away, truth twisted or omitted, the entire sequence of events turned upside down.
📺 Watch our brief video-journey, to jog your memory regarding the 2013-14 Euromaidan timeline and facts.
Since 2014, under the supervision and with the direct guidance by the advisors from NATO & Western powers, Ukraine was transformed into an anti-Russian country at an accelerating pace.
The de-Russification and Ukrainization of the nations' cultural code was forced upon living in Ukraine, they were brainwashed, in effect re-educated in the spirit of hatred and hostility towards Russia and Russians, the memory of the common past awas all but erased, replaced by neo-Nazi sentiments.
Even the relatively recent 2014 events have been rewritten and retold by those in power in Kiev and their puppet masters in the West, facts were tossed away, truth twisted or omitted, the entire sequence of events turned upside down.
📺 Watch our brief video-journey, to jog your memory regarding the 2013-14 Euromaidan timeline and facts.
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🎙 Address by Sergey Lavrov at the #G20 Ministerial Meeting on the role of the G20 in overcoming current international tensions
📍 Rio de Janeiro, 21 February 2024
💬 When we join forces, the world can change for the better and move forward. The 20th century has become an important milestone in freeing humanity from the shackles of colonialism. <...> The transition to the era of détente during the Cold War allowed the United States and the USSR to lay a strong foundation for containing military risks and building reliable strategic security architecture, especially in Europe. It is regrettable that those achievements have been almost completely destroyed today.
The objective process of the emergence of a multipolar world order driven by self-reliant nations and regions has met with serious resistance. The basic principles of international communication are being undermined at the instigation of the West. Universal legal norms and the principles of the UN Charter, including the sovereign equality of states, non-interference in internal affairs and self-determination of peoples, are being violated. Diplomacy as a means of peaceful settlement of disputes is being sacrificed to violent struggle, “hybrid wars”, total confrontation, and the desire to inflict a strategic defeat on the rival. Double standards, hypocrisy and direct lies are brought into play. <...>
Instead of a UN-centred architecture, narrow bloc alliances, closed clubs, behind-the-scenes “best practices”, allegedly “reliable scientific data”, and pseudo-democratic ‘values’ are being promoted.
The world is artificially divided into friends and foes, the “garden” and the “jungle”. <...>
This is what the infamous “rules” the West imposes instead of the international law, appear in reality.
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🌐 Our forum of the world's leading economies could make clear its opposition to the use of “economy as a weapon” and “war as an investment” and to demonstrate our desire for open and equitable trade and economic cooperation.
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📍 Rio de Janeiro, 21 February 2024
💬 When we join forces, the world can change for the better and move forward. The 20th century has become an important milestone in freeing humanity from the shackles of colonialism. <...> The transition to the era of détente during the Cold War allowed the United States and the USSR to lay a strong foundation for containing military risks and building reliable strategic security architecture, especially in Europe. It is regrettable that those achievements have been almost completely destroyed today.
The objective process of the emergence of a multipolar world order driven by self-reliant nations and regions has met with serious resistance. The basic principles of international communication are being undermined at the instigation of the West. Universal legal norms and the principles of the UN Charter, including the sovereign equality of states, non-interference in internal affairs and self-determination of peoples, are being violated. Diplomacy as a means of peaceful settlement of disputes is being sacrificed to violent struggle, “hybrid wars”, total confrontation, and the desire to inflict a strategic defeat on the rival. Double standards, hypocrisy and direct lies are brought into play. <...>
Instead of a UN-centred architecture, narrow bloc alliances, closed clubs, behind-the-scenes “best practices”, allegedly “reliable scientific data”, and pseudo-democratic ‘values’ are being promoted.
The world is artificially divided into friends and foes, the “garden” and the “jungle”. <...>
This is what the infamous “rules” the West imposes instead of the international law, appear in reality.
<...>
🌐 Our forum of the world's leading economies could make clear its opposition to the use of “economy as a weapon” and “war as an investment” and to demonstrate our desire for open and equitable trade and economic cooperation.
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#See4Yourself & #Think4Yourself
On the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Kiev, we recall the West's role in fuelling the conflict in Ukraine, its support for Ukrainian nationalists and their terrorist activities.
🎬 Operation Ukraine: America's Fingerprints. Who supports Ukrainian Nationalism? - an RT Doc Film.
Synopsis: Immediately after the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazis, American intelligence agencies established contacts with former Hitler collaborators to work together against the Soviet Union and later Russia. The operation to form an armed underground movement in Western Ukraine was dubbed "Aerodynamic".
The CIA assembled war criminals and Bandera movement activists from filtration camps, and created an agent network. Their task was to sabotage nuclear plants and dams on Ukrainian territory in an effort to separate it from the Soviet Union. According to CIA co-founder Frank Wisner, they terrorised civilians and were responsible for at least 35,000 casualties
In the early 1950s, Red Army units mostly wiped out the nationalist insurgency, however the CIA employed a new strategy. Since then Ukrainian nationalists have been engaged in an ideological anti-Russian war. The operation "Prolog" gradually stoked nationalist sentiment in Ukraine and bred loyalty to Nazi ideas.
What is the outcome of half-century-long American influence❓
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
#LeastWeForget
On the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Kiev, we recall the West's role in fuelling the conflict in Ukraine, its support for Ukrainian nationalists and their terrorist activities.
🎬 Operation Ukraine: America's Fingerprints. Who supports Ukrainian Nationalism? - an RT Doc Film.
Synopsis: Immediately after the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazis, American intelligence agencies established contacts with former Hitler collaborators to work together against the Soviet Union and later Russia. The operation to form an armed underground movement in Western Ukraine was dubbed "Aerodynamic".
The CIA assembled war criminals and Bandera movement activists from filtration camps, and created an agent network. Their task was to sabotage nuclear plants and dams on Ukrainian territory in an effort to separate it from the Soviet Union. According to CIA co-founder Frank Wisner, they terrorised civilians and were responsible for at least 35,000 casualties
In the early 1950s, Red Army units mostly wiped out the nationalist insurgency, however the CIA employed a new strategy. Since then Ukrainian nationalists have been engaged in an ideological anti-Russian war. The operation "Prolog" gradually stoked nationalist sentiment in Ukraine and bred loyalty to Nazi ideas.
What is the outcome of half-century-long American influence❓
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
#LeastWeForget
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🎙️Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin's comments on the origins of the crisis in Ukraine
Key points:
▪︎ Significance of Ukraine for Russia
▪︎ Ultimate causes of the Ukrainian conflict
▪︎ Consequences of the Maidan uprising
▪︎ Ukrainian separatism
▪︎ Western interference into Ukrainian internal issues
▪︎ Failure of the Minsk Agreements
▪︎ Expansion of NATO / Russia-NATO relations
▪︎ Prospects of the Ukrainian settlement
▪︎ Russian security concerns
▪︎ Peace talks in Istanbul / UK interference into the negotiations
▪︎ US / UK proxy war against Russia
▪︎ Outcome of the conflict in Ukraine
▪︎ European security system
▪︎ Prospects of the multipolar world order
▪︎ UK-Russia relations
📌Watch the interview
📌Reference material
🔎Learn more
#Kelin #Ukraine #Maidan #UK #US #NATO
We have extremely many ties with Ukraine - cultural, spiritual, economic. We have hundreds years of common history. After brake up of the Soviet Union more than half the Ukrainian population spoke Russian.
Ukraine quickly became anti-Russian after the first Maidan uprising in 2004, and the West reinforced this trend.
The Ukrainian government idealistically believed that as quick as it will cut off ties with Russia, join the EU and NATO, it will get billions of profit and benefits.
Multinational Ukraine was turned into mono-ethnic state by Zelensky. Russians and Russian speaking people were supposed to be aliens in Ukraine, many laws have been taken that prohibited using of Russian language and education in Russian.
Humiliation of Russian people in Ukraine, the offensive against Donbass, and failed Minsk agreements are the origins of the Ukrainian conflict.
Key points:
▪︎ Significance of Ukraine for Russia
▪︎ Ultimate causes of the Ukrainian conflict
▪︎ Consequences of the Maidan uprising
▪︎ Ukrainian separatism
▪︎ Western interference into Ukrainian internal issues
▪︎ Failure of the Minsk Agreements
▪︎ Expansion of NATO / Russia-NATO relations
▪︎ Prospects of the Ukrainian settlement
▪︎ Russian security concerns
▪︎ Peace talks in Istanbul / UK interference into the negotiations
▪︎ US / UK proxy war against Russia
▪︎ Outcome of the conflict in Ukraine
▪︎ European security system
▪︎ Prospects of the multipolar world order
▪︎ UK-Russia relations
📌Watch the interview
📌Reference material
🔎Learn more
#Kelin #Ukraine #Maidan #UK #US #NATO
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#Think4Yourself
⚡️ Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War the USA and its NATO allies began actively working with former Soviet republics in order to shape them for their own neocolonial purposes.
Ukraine has always received special attention from the Western states in the post-Soviet space as it was the most developed republic, one with strong industrial, agricultural and scientific potential and extremely close ties with Russia. The goal was to seize its market, reshape the economy, making it ever-dependent on the West.
To this end, the USA and the EU, by hand of obedient Ukrainian elites, were methodically destroying the country's basis, severing the economic, trade and cultural ties with Russia.
❗️ In the early 2000s, the so-called 'collective West' inspired the Orange Revolution of 2004 that aimed at distancing Ukraine from Russia and integrating it into the Euro-Atlantic institutions came to power in Kiev.
The blatant interference of the West in the internal affairs triggered a deep political crisis in Ukraine that became irreversible and led to the unconstitutional coup d'etat in 2014.
This event led to a sharp polarization of the Ukrainian society, which predetermined an armed civil conflict. The new 'authorities' launched the so called "anti-terrorist operation" to suppress protests in Donbass by force.
☝️ As a result, Ukrainian armed forces have been shelling Donbass for all these years. This forced Russia to intervene in the situation by launching a special military operation.
The actions of the West within the framework of the large-scale "hybrid war" confirm the global nature of the confrontation in Ukraine. Military and financial assistance is being provided to the Kiev regime, and the range of 'deliveries' at the taxpayers' expense is constantly increasing.
👉 Ukraine is a mere instrument in the hands of the United States and its NATO allies, whose long-term goal is to to break the security architecture in the post-Soviet space and Eurasia as a whole.
⚡️ Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War the USA and its NATO allies began actively working with former Soviet republics in order to shape them for their own neocolonial purposes.
Ukraine has always received special attention from the Western states in the post-Soviet space as it was the most developed republic, one with strong industrial, agricultural and scientific potential and extremely close ties with Russia. The goal was to seize its market, reshape the economy, making it ever-dependent on the West.
To this end, the USA and the EU, by hand of obedient Ukrainian elites, were methodically destroying the country's basis, severing the economic, trade and cultural ties with Russia.
❗️ In the early 2000s, the so-called 'collective West' inspired the Orange Revolution of 2004 that aimed at distancing Ukraine from Russia and integrating it into the Euro-Atlantic institutions came to power in Kiev.
The blatant interference of the West in the internal affairs triggered a deep political crisis in Ukraine that became irreversible and led to the unconstitutional coup d'etat in 2014.
This event led to a sharp polarization of the Ukrainian society, which predetermined an armed civil conflict. The new 'authorities' launched the so called "anti-terrorist operation" to suppress protests in Donbass by force.
☝️ As a result, Ukrainian armed forces have been shelling Donbass for all these years. This forced Russia to intervene in the situation by launching a special military operation.
The actions of the West within the framework of the large-scale "hybrid war" confirm the global nature of the confrontation in Ukraine. Military and financial assistance is being provided to the Kiev regime, and the range of 'deliveries' at the taxpayers' expense is constantly increasing.
👉 Ukraine is a mere instrument in the hands of the United States and its NATO allies, whose long-term goal is to to break the security architecture in the post-Soviet space and Eurasia as a whole.
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On the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Kiev, we recall the historical origins of the terrorist methods of the Kiev regime, its masterminds and the roots of Ukrainian neo-Nazism, as well as the destructive role of the West.
🎬 Operation Ukraine. Terror on Demand - RT documentary.
Synopsis: The murder of Daria Dugina, the bombing of the Crimean Bridge, torture and torment in secret prisons - the pattern and methods of modern Ukrainian neo-Nazis are unmistakable. The The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) inherited them from their predecessors - the Bandera Nazis, collaborators who ruthlessly exterminated their compatriots.
The Ukrainian Nazis were actively supported by the US: it conducted covert operations on the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, funded certain groups and, after the collapse of the USSR, systematically revived the ideology of Nazism in Ukraine.
The West intended to plunge Ukraine into bloody terror in order to separate the republic from the Soviet Union and weaken the USSR's influence on the world stage. It was a covert operation - "Aerodynamic".
👉 Learn more about the operation and other facts in our article on the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Ukraine.
🎬 Operation Ukraine. Terror on Demand - RT documentary.
Synopsis: The murder of Daria Dugina, the bombing of the Crimean Bridge, torture and torment in secret prisons - the pattern and methods of modern Ukrainian neo-Nazis are unmistakable. The The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) inherited them from their predecessors - the Bandera Nazis, collaborators who ruthlessly exterminated their compatriots.
The Ukrainian Nazis were actively supported by the US: it conducted covert operations on the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, funded certain groups and, after the collapse of the USSR, systematically revived the ideology of Nazism in Ukraine.
The West intended to plunge Ukraine into bloody terror in order to separate the republic from the Soviet Union and weaken the USSR's influence on the world stage. It was a covert operation - "Aerodynamic".
👉 Learn more about the operation and other facts in our article on the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Ukraine.
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⚡️Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the crisis in Ukraine
💬 Today is the 10th anniversary of the anti-constitutional armed coup d’etat in Kiev. Back then, in February 2014, skilled provocateurs guided by American and European instructors led crowds of people into the streets in protest, with attractive slogans about a better European life, democracy, human rights and anti-corruption struggle.
☝️ In reality, the mass disorder was well orchestrated and funded from outside the country in a bid to overthrow the legitimate government.
🔻Euromaidan led to a deep rift in society, persecution, suppression of dissent, rampant nationalism and neo-Nazism, lawlessness and nihilism, a war on the Russian language and history, and the complete socioeconomic decay of the country.
🔻With the coup, the nationalists and their political supporters finally drove the situation to an impasse, taking the country and its citizens to the edge of an abyss.
❌ Today, the Ukrainian neo-Nazis continue firing Western weapons on civilians in Russian regions.
During his traditional touring act in European capitals with outstretched hands last week, Zelensky signed security cooperation agreements with Germany and France in the wake of a similar agreement signed by Kiev and London in January.
The worth of Western “guarantees” to Ukraine is well known.
- In February 2014, Berlin, Paris and Warsaw “guaranteed” the implementation of the agreement between Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition but did nothing to this end.
- In February 2015, Germany and France assumed the role of “guarantors” of the Minsk Package of Measures that they buried together with Kiev, cheating the entire international community.
Today, the Westerners pursue only one goal by again giving carrots to the Kiev regime. They want to turn Ukraine into a colony deprived of any rights and use it as a tool against Russia. Their “guarantees” are worth nothing.
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❗️ The aforementioned facts confirm the urgency of the goals of the special military operation to denazify and demilitarise Ukraine and remove the threats emanating from its territory. These goals will be achieved without fail.
💬 Today is the 10th anniversary of the anti-constitutional armed coup d’etat in Kiev. Back then, in February 2014, skilled provocateurs guided by American and European instructors led crowds of people into the streets in protest, with attractive slogans about a better European life, democracy, human rights and anti-corruption struggle.
☝️ In reality, the mass disorder was well orchestrated and funded from outside the country in a bid to overthrow the legitimate government.
🔻Euromaidan led to a deep rift in society, persecution, suppression of dissent, rampant nationalism and neo-Nazism, lawlessness and nihilism, a war on the Russian language and history, and the complete socioeconomic decay of the country.
🔻With the coup, the nationalists and their political supporters finally drove the situation to an impasse, taking the country and its citizens to the edge of an abyss.
❌ Today, the Ukrainian neo-Nazis continue firing Western weapons on civilians in Russian regions.
During his traditional touring act in European capitals with outstretched hands last week, Zelensky signed security cooperation agreements with Germany and France in the wake of a similar agreement signed by Kiev and London in January.
The worth of Western “guarantees” to Ukraine is well known.
- In February 2014, Berlin, Paris and Warsaw “guaranteed” the implementation of the agreement between Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition but did nothing to this end.
- In February 2015, Germany and France assumed the role of “guarantors” of the Minsk Package of Measures that they buried together with Kiev, cheating the entire international community.
Today, the Westerners pursue only one goal by again giving carrots to the Kiev regime. They want to turn Ukraine into a colony deprived of any rights and use it as a tool against Russia. Their “guarantees” are worth nothing.
Read in full
❗️ The aforementioned facts confirm the urgency of the goals of the special military operation to denazify and demilitarise Ukraine and remove the threats emanating from its territory. These goals will be achieved without fail.
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On the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Kiev, we recall the West's role in fuelling the conflict in Ukraine, its support for Ukrainian nationalists and their terrorist activities.
🎬 Red Alert: Hybrid Warfare — an RT Doc film.
In recent decades, in an attempt to maintain its hegemony and impose a neo-colonial unipolar world order, the United States has been actively opposing states that defend their sovereignty and the right to determine their own foreign and domestic policy. It has been trying to weaken new centers of power emerging in the world.
Ukraine was used as a tool in the "hybrid war" unleashed by the "collective West" led by Washington against our country as one of the pillars of the emerging multipolar world order. So as to break the fraternal people of Ukraine away from Russia, to weaken and destroy its economic and industrial potential, in 2014, a coup d'état in Kiev was carried out under the supervision of Western powers. What followed was a punitive campaign by their neo-Nazi stooges against the residents of the southeast of Ukraine.
The countries of the "collective West" openly sponsor the crimes of the Kiev regime, providing it with enormous military and financial aid, taking part in the planning of military operations and passing on intelligence that is used, among other things, to attack civilian objects and peaceful residents on Russian territory.
📹 Watch the documentary "Red Alert: Hybrid War" to find out more about the West's neocolonial approaches and its role in the conflict in Ukraine.
On the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Kiev, we recall the West's role in fuelling the conflict in Ukraine, its support for Ukrainian nationalists and their terrorist activities.
🎬 Red Alert: Hybrid Warfare — an RT Doc film.
In recent decades, in an attempt to maintain its hegemony and impose a neo-colonial unipolar world order, the United States has been actively opposing states that defend their sovereignty and the right to determine their own foreign and domestic policy. It has been trying to weaken new centers of power emerging in the world.
Ukraine was used as a tool in the "hybrid war" unleashed by the "collective West" led by Washington against our country as one of the pillars of the emerging multipolar world order. So as to break the fraternal people of Ukraine away from Russia, to weaken and destroy its economic and industrial potential, in 2014, a coup d'état in Kiev was carried out under the supervision of Western powers. What followed was a punitive campaign by their neo-Nazi stooges against the residents of the southeast of Ukraine.
The countries of the "collective West" openly sponsor the crimes of the Kiev regime, providing it with enormous military and financial aid, taking part in the planning of military operations and passing on intelligence that is used, among other things, to attack civilian objects and peaceful residents on Russian territory.
📹 Watch the documentary "Red Alert: Hybrid War" to find out more about the West's neocolonial approaches and its role in the conflict in Ukraine.
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#Opinion
✍️ Eduard Popov, Director of the Independent Non-Profit Organisation "Center for Public and Information Cooperation "Europe"
Ukrainian Nazism today: origin and ideological and political typology
Key points:
💬 The current-day Ukrainian nationalism / Nazism partly dates back to the early 1990s. Its rise can be traced to the Nazi proponents and social engineering technologies being "exported" to Ukraine [from the West], which became an independent state following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• The world does not understand the nature of modern Ukrainian (neo)Nazism. The West prefers not to notice it and to stigmatize any considerations concerning this problem as a "Russian propaganda".
☝️ After the coup d'état on February 21, 2014, carried out by the US, UK and a number of EU countries, the state OF Ukraine as such does not exist. It is more correct to speak about the state IN Ukraine. Ukraine as a state has been abolished and is under external administration.
State institutions responsible for ideology and education have adopted the slogans and ideologemes of the Ukrainian Nazis. For example, the Nazi slogan "Glory to Ukraine!" adopted by the so-called Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Nazi cronies and war criminals, who later sponsored by the West waged terrorist attacks against civilians in Soviet Ukraine – is now officially used in the Ukrainian armed forces. Nazi collaborators Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych are officially included in the list of heroes. The state authorities in Ukraine are pursuing a policy of Nazification, many provisions of which are borrowed from the programs of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
❗️ The rise of Nazism in Ukraine and the already accomplished transformation of this country into the epicenter of world Nazism/neo-Nazism is no longer a factor of internal Ukrainian politics or even Russian-Ukrainian relations. This is an important aspect of pan-European, and perhaps even world, politics.
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✍️ Eduard Popov, Director of the Independent Non-Profit Organisation "Center for Public and Information Cooperation "Europe"
Ukrainian Nazism today: origin and ideological and political typology
Key points:
💬 The current-day Ukrainian nationalism / Nazism partly dates back to the early 1990s. Its rise can be traced to the Nazi proponents and social engineering technologies being "exported" to Ukraine [from the West], which became an independent state following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• The world does not understand the nature of modern Ukrainian (neo)Nazism. The West prefers not to notice it and to stigmatize any considerations concerning this problem as a "Russian propaganda".
☝️ After the coup d'état on February 21, 2014, carried out by the US, UK and a number of EU countries, the state OF Ukraine as such does not exist. It is more correct to speak about the state IN Ukraine. Ukraine as a state has been abolished and is under external administration.
State institutions responsible for ideology and education have adopted the slogans and ideologemes of the Ukrainian Nazis. For example, the Nazi slogan "Glory to Ukraine!" adopted by the so-called Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Nazi cronies and war criminals, who later sponsored by the West waged terrorist attacks against civilians in Soviet Ukraine – is now officially used in the Ukrainian armed forces. Nazi collaborators Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych are officially included in the list of heroes. The state authorities in Ukraine are pursuing a policy of Nazification, many provisions of which are borrowed from the programs of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
❗️ The rise of Nazism in Ukraine and the already accomplished transformation of this country into the epicenter of world Nazism/neo-Nazism is no longer a factor of internal Ukrainian politics or even Russian-Ukrainian relations. This is an important aspect of pan-European, and perhaps even world, politics.
Read in full
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