🚛 After flying on the Tu-160M, Putin decided to drive a Kamaz truck.

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📹 The Kremlin published footage of Putin in the cockpit of the Tu-160M

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The majority of countries at the G20 did not support the attempts of Western representatives to “Ukrainize” the agenda and divert the discussion away from problems in the economy, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said.

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🇷🇺🇿🇦 Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa Naledi Pandor hold talks on the sidelines of the G20 Ministerial Meeting in Rio de Janeiro.

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Vladimir Putin commented on Biden’s words addressed to him and called the statement boorish.

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🗣 Russian FM Sergey Lavrov called the situation around Julian Assange a disgrace to Western democracy.

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📹 Putin's full story about his impressions of the flight on the Tu-160M.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkiye Hakan Fidan hold talks on the sidelines of the G20 Ministerial Meeting in Rio de Janeiro.

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🗣 Putin on Biden’s statements about him

In an earlier interview, Putin said that Biden is preferable as US president to Trump for Russia since he is more experienced and predictable.

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Key statements from Russian FM Sergey Lavrov at the press conference after the meeting of G20 foreign ministers:

▪️Western countries categorically do not want serious dialogue on Ukraine;

▪️There were no serious proposals from the United States to begin contacts with the Russian Federation on strategic stability; trust cannot be restored now while Russia is declared an enemy;

▪️There were no contacts on the sidelines of the G20 with either Blinken or the British Foreign Secretary;

▪️ The Russian Federation will respond to new Western sanctions with practical actions that relate to the self-sufficient development of the Russian economy;

▪️If Europe tries to restore ties with the Russian Federation, making it dependent on their whims, then such contacts are not needed.

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Pentagon plan to increase satellite constellations poses threat to Russia

"They [the US] are greatly strengthening the power of their armed forces [by boosting their satellite capabilities – Sputnik]," Ivan Moiseev, the head of the Russian Institute of Space Policy, told Sputnik. "Since the US is a country 'unfriendly' to Russia, it is therefore a threat. In addition, there are opportunities that are not announced in any way, but they exist."

Soon after the US press published groundless claims of Russia's space-based nuclear program, the Pentagon sent a missile-tracking system into orbit – part of the Department of Defense's new plan, dubbed Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, that aims to fill the low-Earth orbit with myriads of small and cheap satellites. Kathleen H. Hicks, the deputy defense secretary, bragged at a US Space Command gathering on January 10 that the Pentagon will be able to launch those small cost-effective satellites "almost weekly."

"The composition of these [satellite] groups is growing, and literally within five years, [Elon] Musk alone is expected to increase the number of [Starlink] satellites to more than 10,000. Does this create any additional problems [for Russia]? Of course it does," Dr. Natan Eismont of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Space Research Institute told Sputnik. However, he resolutely rubbished the possibility of Russia using space-based nuclear weapons: "There will be no winners in this case, only losers."

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