💬Из интервью Посла России А.В.Келина ИА ТАСС:

Посольство рассчитывает, что британские силовые структуры внимательно отнесутся к тому, чтобы обеспечить безопасность избирателей и членов избирательной комиссии в ходе проведения выборов Президента Российской Федерации в Посольстве России в Лондоне.

Соотвествующие заверения от МИД Великобритании получены.

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17 марта 2024 г. в период с 08:00 до 20:00 в Посольстве России будет открыт избирательный участок №8061.

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📌Адрес избирательного участка
📌Организация избирательного процесса
📌Ответы на часто задаваемые вопросы

Контактные данные Участковой избирательной комиссии в Лондоне:

📨e-mail: vybory2024@rusemb.org.uk
☎️телефон: +44 7464 000 848

☝️Часы работы телефонной связи: в будние дни (за исключением российских праздников) с 10:00 до 12:00 и с 14:00 до 17:00 по лондонскому времени.

#Выборы2024

🎙 Interview of Russia's President Vladimir Putin to TV host and Rossiya Segodnya Director General Dmitry Kiselev (March 13, 2024):

Key talking points

💬 Russia is not at the crossroads. It is on the strategic path of its development and will not deviate from its path.

#MultipolarWorld

• Many people in the world are looking at us, at what is happening in our country and in our struggle for our interests. <...> They associate our struggle for our independence and true sovereignty with their aspirations for their own sovereignty and independent development.

• This is aggravated by the fact that there is a very strong desire in Western elites to freeze the current unjust state of affairs in international affairs. They've spent centuries filling their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money. But they must realise that the vampire ball is ending.

#Ukraine

• Are we ready to negotiate? We are. But we are not ready for talks that are based on some kind of ”wishful thinking“, but we are ready for talks based on the realities that have developed on the ground.

• We are open to a serious discussion, and we are eager to resolve all conflicts by peaceful means. However, we must be sure that this is not just another pause that the enemy wants to use for rearmament, but rather a serious conversation with security guarantees for Russia.

#US #RussiaUS

• We know what it is to have American troops on Russian soil. They are interventionists. That is how we will treat them even if they appear in the territory of Ukraine.

• I have said many times that it [achieving the goals of the special military operation & resolving the conflict] is a matter of life and death for us, while for them it is a matter of improving their tactical position in the world on the whole as well as maintaining their status among their allies in Europe in particular.

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🎙 President Vladimir Putin's address to the citizens of Russia (March 14, 2024)

💬 Vladimir Putin: Tomorrow, March 15, the polling stations will open across our vast country, and the three-day voting in the presidential election will begin.

This is the eighth time a presidential election will be held in Russia, which shows the inviolability of the principle of holding regular elections which is one of the basic principles of a democratic state. The outcome will directly affect the development of the country in the coming years.

This is an important high-stakes event and, as the incumbent head of state, I believe it is necessary to address you today.

I would like to emphasise that the people are the only source of power in our country. This key legal provision is enshrined in the Constitution. It means that only you, the citizens of Russia, determine the future of the Motherland.

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Let me be frank with you: participating in the election today is a manifestation of patriotism. This is well understood by the residents of Donbass and Novorossiya who, under the most trying circumstances, voted during referendums on unity with Russia and will make their choice now as well.

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It is imperative to confirm our unity and our resolve to move forward together. Your every vote is valuable and important. So, I urge you to exercise your right to vote during the next three days. Polling stations will open everywhere, in every city, town, and village of our large country.

All of us, the multi-ethnic people of Russia, are one big family. We care and worry about our native country. We want it to flourish, to be strong, free, and prosperous. We want the standard of living and quality of life to improve. And so it will be. We will do everything exactly the way we want it.

So, please come to the polling stations and make your civic and patriotic position clear, vote for the candidate of your choice, and for the prosperous future of our beloved Russia.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address at a ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry of Russia (Moscow, March 14, 2024)

💬 I would like to extend my personal greetings to the management, professors, the faculty and students of the Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry of Russia on its anniversary.

The history of the Academy is inseparably connected to the illustrious chronicle of the Foreign Ministry of Russia. Established in a difficult pre-war period to strengthen the personnel of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, the Diplomatic Academy has trained several generations of graduates who have upheld the interests of Russia on the international stage with distinction.

🎓 The Diplomatic Academy, just like the ministry’s other university, MGIMO, is a pool of talents for Smolenskaya Square.

We highly appreciate the Academy’s contribution to analytical support for the Foreign Ministry’s performance, as well as the involvement of young people, including from the Council of Young Scientists and the Scientific Student Society, in preparing expert materials. We are grateful to the Academy’s veterans, rector Alexander Yakovenko and vice-rectors for their contribution to this work, for promoting their own research projects and for helping young scientists.

🌐 The Diplomatic Academy is keeping up the tradition of training foreign students and offering advanced training to diplomats from post-Soviet countries and many states of the Global South, that is, Asian, African, Middle Eastern and Latin American states. This helps strengthen interstate relations and debunk the anti-Russia myths, which are being promoted increasingly actively by our ill-wishers.

👉 I am sure that the Diplomatic Academy will continue to keep pace with the times, introduce modern training methods and contribute to our common efforts to implement the foreign policy set out by the President of Russia and aimed at strengthening our country’s positions in the world.

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🎙 Briefing by MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, March 13, 2024)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Russian Presidential Election 2024
🔹 10th Anniversary of Crimea’s reunification with Russia
🔹 On dismantling the monument to Waffen-SS Galicia Division in Oakville, Canada
🔹 Regarding the return Russian minors from combat zones and their social adaptation
🔹 Slobodan Milosevic’s death anniversary

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#Election2024

The Russian MFA Commission on Elections has done a lot of extensive work, with 288 polling stations established in 144 countries.

As the voting period approaches, we are recording an increasing number of attempts to interfere with the organisation and conduct of elections abroad and from abroad.

☝️ The full-fledged voting of Russian citizens abroad will be guaranteed despite any attempts to interfere in the domestic affairs of the Russian Federation.

#Ukraine #France

President Macron continues to talk about sending European military personnel to Ukraine. On March 7, at a meeting with parliamentarians, he did not rule out the option of sending a French contingent if the Russian army, as was said during that meeting, advances towards Kiev or Odessa.

Statements made by Macron and other NATO politicians about sending in contingents, troops or paramilitary units to Ukraine are related to dividing (from their point of view) what remains of Ukraine.

#Syria

A special flight operated by the Russian Aerospace Forces arrived in Moscow on March 10, 2024, carrying another group of 32 children on board. They came from camps for internally displaced persons in the northeast of the Syrian Arab Republic.

The MFA and the Russian Embassy in Damascus persist in their efforts to repatriate as quickly as possible all Russian children who found themselves in Syria due to their parents’ involvement in international terrorist activities.

According to Ms Lvova-Belova, as many as 414 Russian minors have already been successfully returned to Russia.

🎙 Excerpt from an interview with FM Sergey Lavrov for the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov programme on Rossiya 1 TV channel (March 14, 2024)

Key points:

💬Russia's President Vladimir Putin's Munich Speech included his analysis of the developments in relations between Moscow and the West, and the policy that the Westerners had initially opted for with regard to the new Russia. Some people [on the West] took it seriously. They were a minority. The majority ignored it, shrugged it off, or was outraged.

• After August 2008 [events] and before the Crimean Spring, our relations with the West had become increasingly open and, therefore, tense. Neither the EU, nor NATO wasn't willing to draw conclusions.

• In early 2022 the Ukrainian authorities got the green light to carry out an operation to mop up Donbass. Since the beginning of February 2022, the bombing attacks have intensified 10- to 12-fold.

• Even when there were still false hopes that the Minsk agreements would be implemented, when the Kiev regime was violating them by shelling Donbass, about 2 mln people left there for Russia. And even more did so after the special military operation was launched.

• It is impossible to fake, teach or learn using Stanislavsky’s system, the joy displayed by the people welcoming our soldiers. They have finally seen us come.

• The Russian MFA has representative offices in Lugansk and Donetsk. They will be established in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions later. I want to go there and talk to the staff at our offices, to see what they need.

• What is happening now with the West is a frenzy. The worse the situation at the front, the more furious the West is talking – we don’t have the right to allow Ukraine to lose and Russia to win.

• We are saying that if you are ready to conduct honest talks taking into account our real concerns, Russia’s lawful interests about which we talked to you for many years but you won’t listen. If you return to what we had called for, let’s talk. But so far we don’t see any evidence

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While the Hollywood bohemia applauded the carefully engineered fabrication of a "documentary" at the Oscars, the general public in the US and other Western countries remain largely unaware of what is Mariupol, what really happened there, about the role of the neo-Nazis from the Azov battalion and their barbaric human shield tactics.

To be informed #See4Yourself & #Think4Yourself 👇

🎬 Azov’s Last Stand: Driving out the Ukrainian nationalists from the Azovstal plant - an RT Doc Film.

Synopsis: For almost two months, fierce fighting raged around the Azovstal plant after Russian troops and Donetsk People's Republic militia forced the Ukrainian military to leave Mariupol and retreat to the plant. Two and a half thousand fighters were cornered in workshops and impregnable bunkers. They retaliated by bombarding the city and its residents with an array of weapons.

Though the Azov fighters were very well stocked with food and water, they had problems with medicine. Many of the wounded who came out of Azovstal were extremely tired. Many of them had gangrene. It was another reason that forced their surrender. They left 11 square kilometres stuffed with explosives, booby traps, mines, and unexploded shells.

Accompanied by Russian soldiers, the film crew walked through the territory of the Azovstal, visited underground rooms and tunnels where the Azov fighters were sheltering. You will learn how the battle went on, what the inhabitants of the factory dormitories and the neighbouring village had to endure, and will see the footage of the Azov prisoners. They themselves will tell you under what circumstances and on whose orders they were brought to the plant.

👉 Watch the full film by RT Documentary

🇷🇺 #OnThisDay, 🔟 years ago, day to day, the all-Crimean Referendum was held.

On March 16, 2014, the people of the peninsula made an independent and conscious choice, voting in favour of forever being with Russia. To this day it remains one of the most striking and sincere examples of a true triumph of the will of the people and democracy.

🗳 At the referendum, 96.77% of Crimeans voted for reunification with Russia, the turnout was 83.1%. In Sevastopol, the relevant figures were 95.6% and 89.5%, respectively.

The voting was monitored by 135 international observers from 23 countries and 1,240 representatives of local organisations. All noted that the referendum was held without violations and in full conformity with international standards and democratic procedure.

Based on the results of the free expression of will by Crimeans, a treaty was signed on the incorporation of the two new regions into the Russian Federation – the Republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Significance, Sevastopol.

💬 President Putin: In people’s hearts and minds, Crimea has always been an inseparable part of Russia. This firm conviction is based on truth and justice and was passed from generation to generation (from the Address by the President of the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014).

Since the reunification, Crimea has undergone fundamental changes, becoming one of the most dynamically developing regions in the country and the entire continent. The atmosphere of interreligious accord has been maintained on the peninsula, and the rights of all of its ethnic groups are observed without exception.

✅ The processes that have occurred during the last ten years, steady socio-economic development and enduring peace in the multi-ethnic Crimea confirm that the people of this region were correct when making the historic choice in favour of reunification with Russia.

#CrimeaIsRussia #TogetherForever

🎙 Foreign Ministry statement regarding the Kiev regime’s terrorist actions during the presidential election in the Russian Federation

❌ The neo-Nazi Kiev regime continues to display its criminal and terrorist identity for the whole world to see.

Over the past two days, the intense shelling of the Belgorod Region has resulted in the deaths of two people and injuries to 19 others.

On March 16, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used a UAV to drop a bomb on a polling station in Blagoveshchenka, Zaporozhye Region.

Over the last week, the neo-Nazis in Kiev have systematically subjected residential neighbourhoods in Donetsk to artillery shelling and drone attacks, targeting kindergartens, schools, and healthcare facilities. Attacks were also carried out on border districts of the Kursk Region and in Rozhdestvenka, Belgorod Region.

Sabotage and reconnaissance units staffed by Ukrainian fighters have stepped up their attempts to penetrate the Russian territory, but the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have effectively repelled these attacks.

☝️ It is obvious that it was the presidential election currently underway in Russia which prompted the corrupt Kiev regime to step up its terrorist activity in order to show its Western patrons its proactive position and ask for more financial aid and lethal weapons.

Through the unrelenting shelling of civilian infrastructure in our country, the Ukrainian Armed Forces seek to disrupt the election and prevent civilians from expressing their will, intimidate people and deny them the opportunity to cast their ballots.

❗️ The Foreign Ministry firmly condemns the brutal crimes committed by the Kiev regime, which deliberately targets civilians and civilian infrastructure.

We will make sure that all attempts to use terrorist tactics to influence the election are documented, thoroughly investigated, and that their perpetrators face severe and inevitable punishment.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address on the 10th anniversary of the Crimean Spring (Moscow, March 16, 2024)

🔟 years ago – on March 16, 2014 – the people of Crimea participated in a referendum, making an independent and informed choice to determine their own future by reuniting with Russia, thus exercising their right to self-determination in full compliance with the UN Charter and the Declaration on Principles of International Law.

The ensuing developments showed this was the only way to go, which made it possible to defend the lives, honour and dignity of the Crimean people from the encroachments of the Russophobic Kiev regime.

We well remember that troubling and terrible spring, when the bloody coup brought neo-Nazis to power in Kiev. We also remember the notorious “friendship trains” that were packed off by the ideological followers of the Banderites to quell the protests of Crimean residents, who chose not to betray the values, culture, history and centuries-old traditions of their ancestors. The ensuing anti-Crimea sanctions, bombings of power lines, and the transport, energy and water blockades reinforced Crimean residents’ belief in the fact that they had made the right choice.

🇷🇺 The question of who Crimea and Sevastopol belong to is closed. The peninsula is an integral part of the Russian Federation.

Over the past ten years, we have managed to overcome numerous problems that were the legacy of Ukraine. Large projects which contribute to reviving and renewing Crimea. <...>

☝️ Notably, the rights of all citizens without exception, regardless of their ethnic background or language preferences, are strictly respected in Crimea. Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar are state languages in the republic, and their status is protected by law.

With a clear outlook for what lies ahead, the people of Crimea can look to the future with confidence and optimism.

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