📌 The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) leaders have outlined the major topics discussed at their summit in Samarkand:

▪️Unilateral restrictive measures, including where food is concerned, worsen the global crisis;

▪️SCO countries call for a transparent international energy market and a lowering of barriers;

▪️Unilateral economic measures against the SCO financial systems have a devastating impact on the multilateral trading system;

▪️SCO leaders called for the formation of a fair global energy management system, assistance to countries in need;

▪️SCO leaders call for developing countries to be supported in trying to get access to capital, technology, capacity development and food security;

▪️SCO is ready to work with other countries to ensure food security at regional and global levels;

▪️SCO countries intend to expand cooperation in the development and implementation of Green technologies, and to establish a dialogue on carbon markets

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⚡India's Modi calls for finding solutions to issues with food & fuel security during talks with Putin

🇷🇺🇮🇳 Putin invites Modi to visit Russia during the bilateral talks

🇷🇺🇮🇳 Putin at a meeting with Modi:

▪Russia-India trade volume is increasing, fertilizer supplies have increased by more than 8 times

▪Russia is doing everything to end the Ukraine crisis as soon as possible, but Kiev refuses negotiations

▪Putin proposes to Modi to intensify process of visa-free travel between Russia and India

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Residents of Eastern Ukraine, who are connected with the Russians in one way or the other, could face the same fate as the people of Bucha, given the Kiev regime's new law forbidding Ukrainians to cooperate with Russians:

💬 “The best thing they can hope for from the new code is 15 years in prison for taking food from Russian humanitarian aid,” Mark Sleboda, international affairs and security analyst, says regarding the present situation in Ukraine.

🎧 Listen to more of Mark's prognosis in our podcast 'Political Misfits'

🇷🇺🇹🇷 Putin at a meeting with Erdogan:

▪️25% of Russian gas supplies to Turkey to be paid in rubles;

▪️Russia wishes that Akkuyu NPP’s first unit will be launched in 2023 as scheduled;

▪️Putin says Turkey became reliable route for Russian gas deliveries, Turkstream works well

▪️Putin on grain deal: Russian operators received signal that they can export products through Turkey

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⚡️Russia adds 41 Australians in its travel ban list - Foreign Ministry

🇱🇰Crisis-hit Sri Lanka's residents were seen waiting for their turn to participate in the walk-in job interview to the Qatar Airways on Friday. That seems to be one of the longest ever lines in the country's history!

LIVE | Russian President Putin Holds Press Conference After SCO Summit in Samarkand

⚡️⚡️ Putin: Western countries have cultivated idea of Russia's collapse for decades

📌 Key points from Russian President Putin's press conference in Samarkand:

▪️Russia has so far not fully responded to Ukrainian attacks on infrastructure and terrorist acts;

▪️West will not live to see the collapse of Russia;

▪️Economies of SCO countries are developing faster than the global economy;

▪️West tried to create an anti-Russian enclave in Ukraine for the collapse of Russia, and the special operation was launched to prevent this;

▪️Putin says there have been attempts at terrorist attacks in Russia, including at Russian nuclear facilities; the situation is under control;

▪️Putin says he is not familiar with Kiev’s proposals on security guarantees

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More statements by President Putin at the press conference in Samarkand:

▪️Kiev's position on every issue changes almost every day;

▪️Russia asked for security guarantees before the special operation, but this was ignored;

▪️Main goal of Russia’s special operation is the liberation of Donbass;

▪️Putin says special operation’s plan not being corrected, some operational decisions made on the ground;

▪️Gradually, the Russian army establish control over new territories;

▪️Russia's offensive in Donbass has not stopped, but Russia is in no hurry;

▪️For a meeting with Zelensky to take place, Kiev must agree to it, but they refuse to negotiate;

▪️ Putin calls Europe’s decision to limit Russian grain exports to developing countries “disgusting”;

▪️US is taking its own grain from Ukraine, it belongs to US companies;

▪️Russia-China trade will reach $200 bln very soon

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🗣 Putin has responded to Modi regarding his concerns about the situation in Ukraine: "Russia is doing everything to end the Ukraine crisis as soon as possible, but Kiev refuses negotiations"

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Putin on Russia’s restrained reaction to Ukraine's actions:

▪️A reaction will follow if they do not understand that such methods are unacceptable. They are essentially no different from the methods of terrorism;

▪️Recently, the Russian Armed Forces inflicted a couple of sensitive blows, they could be taken as a warning. If the situation continues to develop in this way, then the answer will be more serious

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🇷🇺🇦🇿Putin at his meeting with Aliev:

▪️Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict has been localized, including because of Russia’s influence, Putin says;

▪️Putin said that he informed Aliev about his conversation with Pashinyan;

▪️Putin is glad that the escalation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border has stopped, but the situation remains tense;

▪️Latest events show that neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan want full-scale escalation, Aliev says

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💭 Sputnik special correspondent Denis Bolotsky has shared his thoughts on what he saw inside the Samarkand SCO summit venue and while taking a tour of the city’s landmarks

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Vice President Kamala Harris evaded reporters for a second day in a row when a journalist asked her about Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who delivered 101 migrants to her official residence on Thursday.

Harris’ silence came days after she insisted in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press that “the border is secure” – a claim the White House backed up hours after the migrants arrived at her front door

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