🇨🇳🇷🇺 The number of Flightradar users who are tracking a Chinese plane believed to be the one flying to Moscow with the president of China on board has increased to over 80,000.

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🇨🇳🇷🇺 Sputnik correspondent has shared a video of the Chinese delegation’ plane landing at the Vnukovo airport

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🎬 Russia, Africa Bolster Parliamentary Ties as Moscow Hosts Key Conference Plenary Session

Sputnik comes to you live from the 'Russia-Africa in a Multipolar World' plenary session within the framework of the Second International Parliamentary Conference that kicked off in the heart of Moscow at the House of Unions.

A total of 200 African parliamentarians, as well as experts from Russia and Africa are taking part in the conference, which started on Sunday.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Journalists waiting for Xi Jinping’s arrival at Vnukovo airport

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Sputnik correspondent reports from the Vnukovo airport

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❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️The issue of the Ukraine crisis will be touched on by Putin and Xi during the meeting;

▪️Putin will explain to Xi Russia's position on the situation in Ukraine;

▪️On prospects of peace talks: West does not currently allow the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, this is being openly and officially discussed in the United States;

▪️Moscow considers the move by the ICC to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be hostile, but takes it easy,

▪️The Russia-Africa summit is being prepared, it is scheduled for July.

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❗️Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Moscow. Below is an agenda from the Kremlin of the forthcoming talks between the leaders of Russia and China:

▪️Presidents Xi and Putin will hold a face-to-face conversation over an informal lunch on 20 March, followed by negotiations on 21 March;

▪️This is Xi's first foreign trip since being re-elected;

▪️Moscow and Beijing are satisfied with the state of bilateral relations, this is a strategic interaction of partners;

▪️Personal contacts between Putin and Xi are of trusting nature – in total, the leaders have met about 40 times;

▪️Both parties will discuss the conflict in Ukraine, as well as will issues of military and technical cooperation.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Sputnik correspondent reports from the airport as Xi's plane has just landed

🇷🇺🇨🇳 President Xi descends from his plane at the Vnukovo airport, Sputnik correspondent reports

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 A military band orchestra greets Chinese President Xi Jinping, Sputnik correspondent reports

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#USInvasionofIraq20🇮🇶 The National Museum of Iraq is the main attraction in Baghdad, and Iraq as a whole. It is the largest and oldest museum in the country.

In 2003, during the US invasion of Iraq, the National Museum, one of the largest museums in the world, was looted. In April 2003, unknown bandits plundered the museum.

About 15,000 items were stolen, including 5,000 valuable cylinder seals.

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❗️Statements by Chinese President Xi Jinping after his arrival in Moscow on state visit:

▪️Relations between Russia and China will receive a new impetus after the visit;

▪️China is ready to stand with Russia to protect the UN-centric international system and the world order based on international law;

▪️China and Russia are reliable partners, and the development of bilateral relations contributes significantly to world progress.

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❗️Russia initiates criminal case against ICC prosecutor and judges, Investigative Committee of Russia says

On Friday, the ICC issued "warrants of arrest" against two senior Russian officials, including President Putin, over the purported "unlawful transfer" of Ukrainian children from the conflict zone over the past year.

The arrest warrants issued by the The Hague against Russia's president and children's rights commissioner are null and void and carry no legal weight, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

💬 "We do not recognize this court, we do not recognize the jurisdiction of this court. This is how we treat this," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier this week when asked by reporters about the ICC's imminent criminal cases.

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Russia and African countries are equal allies, relations have always been built on a disinterested basis, the head of Russia's State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said at the Russia-Africa parliamentary conference.

The West, he added, continues the colonial policy. And the Russian lower house speaker stressed that it is certainly not for Washington to "teach" Moscow how to build partnerships and be friends with other countries

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