🗓 On May 25, the Swedish Ambassador to Russia Malena Mard was summoned to the Foreign Ministry and informed that, given Sweden’s conformational course towards the Russian Federation, it was decided to suspend the activity of the Russian Consulate General in Gothenburg.

At the same time, the head of the Swedish mission was informed that the Russian party was revoking its consent for the activity of the Swedish Consulate-General in St Petersburg from September 1, 2023.

Five employees of Russian diplomatic missions in Sweden were declared personae non grata on April 25, 2023 in what has been considered an openly hostile measure by Stockholm. These actions by the Swedish authorities have further aggravated bilateral relations, which have reached an unprecedently low level, including as a result of the ongoing Russophobic campaign in Sweden.

The Swedish Ambassador was told that the Russian party has decided to declare five Swedish diplomats personae non grata, including three employees under the military attaché at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow. They were instructed to leave the Russian Federation within the same time period that was given to Russia’s employees by the Swedish authorities.

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 11th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues

📍 Moscow, May 24, 2023

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🔹 International relations are going through truly crucial and tectonic shifts. The idea of one country or even a group of countries dominating the world has sunk into oblivion.

🔹 The countries from the Global South and the Global East are primarily guided by their core national priorities rather than the self-serving interests of former colonial powers and are consistently strengthening their positions right before our eyes. Multilateral diplomacy is part of the general trend as well. The democratisation of international life is facilitated by associations of a new type, such as the #SCO, #BRICS, and the #EAEU. In the long run, all of that should bring about a more balanced, sustainable, and inclusive international order.

🔹 In an attempt to achieve global domination, Washington and its satellites do not hesitate to use any means ranging from unilateral sanctions to media wars.

🔹 The Western elites seek to internationalise these “rules”, which no one has ever seen and which, by definition, cannot be legally binding. Their goal is clear and it is to destroy the existing international legal system and to hold back the development of new world centres in the hope of being able to stick to their colonial policies as they continue to deal with their issues at other countries’ expense.

🔹 Russia, the largest Eurasian and Euro-Pacific power and one of the world’s leading centres, has consistently advocated the consolidation of the international community in countering pressing security challenges.

📰 For several months, the leading Western media have been carrying crazy headlines and putting forward numerous versions – one more fantastic than the next – in a bid to steer away attention from Seymour Hersh's investigation & those truly responsible for the terrorist acts on the Nord Stream & Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines.

This open secret is boggling journalists for a reason – using their language, it is “highly likely” that the goal is to divert public discussion & completely confuse public opinion.

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❓ More & more people are starting to ask inconvenient questions. To the dismay of the mainstream media. That is why the Irish Times & Britain’s The Times tried to help the German, Scandinavian & American media save face & further confuse the matter. In the last resort attempt, they trotted out a canard by blaming this terror act on Russia. And the evidence? Surely enough - “suspicious” manoeuvres by Russian ships. Everything follows the “highly likely” pattern these days.

Biased journalists immediately accused the Russian Navy of conducting intelligence operations.

This, in fact, represents the “arguments” that were used to come up with the adamant conclusion that it was Russia who “highly/most/somewhat likely” blew up... its own Nord Stream pipelines 🤷‍♂️

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❗️ The acts of sabotage on the Nord Stream & Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines have become a kind of a litmus test that sets the propagandists following the guidelines from real journalists. Those who come up with ways to blame Russia for everything & continue to stubbornly ignore the findings of the investigation conducted by Seymour Hersh & avoid uncomfortable questions to the governments & agencies from the US, Denmark, Germany & Sweden about the terrorist attack are, by a strange coincidence, the same “professionals” who holler about freedom of speech & pretend that Julian Assange does not exist. These people have nothing to do with real journalism.

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

“The Russians are dying... it’s the best money we’ve ever spent,” US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said with a pleased smirk during his meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

💬 During the Nuremberg trials, Reichsminister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht claimed that the Third Reich was sponsored, among others, from abroad, naming two major American corporations – Ford and General Motors. An unspoken deal was made with Schacht: freedom in exchange for keeping silent. Despite Soviet representatives’ protests, he was released and lived to the age of 93.

Just to remind: the man who embodied the American dream, the legendary Henry Ford, was a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle. His plants operating in Germany not only produced up to 70,000 lorries per year for the Wehrmacht, but also used prison labour to this end, including in Auschwitz.

Opel, the icon of the German automotive industry, was owned by General Motors. Researcher Bradford Snell described the corporation’s role as follows: “General Motors was far more important to the Nazi war machine than Switzerland. Switzerland was just a repository of looted funds. GM was an integral part of the German war effort. The Nazis could have invaded Poland and Russia without Switzerland. They could not have done so without GM.”

At its Germany-based plant, the Kodak company manufactured fuses for aerial bombs, without shunning the use of POW labour.

The Coca-Cola plant in Cologne, even before it was nationalised by the German government, regularly supplied German soldiers with drinks, while the famous Fanta was invented by the Nazis.

The oil giant Standard Oil, through its subsidiaries, supplied Hitler with petroleum products amid shortages, and was involved in the development of synthetic rubber and synthetic fuels. IBM, a company popular with IT specialists across the globe, manufactured accounting and monitoring devices for the Nazis, including those for oil production. The company's equipment was used, among other things, to monitor schedules for trains destined to extermination camps.

And, of course, how can we not mention banks: JPMorgan Chase & Co – Chase National Bank back then – was also involved, performing multibillion dollar transactions, while Berlin had the opportunity to purchase dollars and carry out transactions overseas. Chase National Bank even cooperated with the German bank Allianz in providing insurance for facilities and workers at concentration camps during the time of the Third Reich.

So, Senator Graham has something to make comparisons with. One of the US investments led to World War II and the Holocaust.

Now, billions of US dollars are pouring down the insatiable throat of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime. In this regard, I would like to remind the senators and all US beneficiaries how the previous venture ended.

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🇦🇲🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇷🇺 С Днем ЕАЭС!

29 мая 2014 года в Казахстане был подписан Договор о ЕАЭС. С инициативой об учреждении праздника в 2022 году выступил Президент Кыргызстана Садыр Жапаров. Его единогласно поддержали главы государств «пятерки». Как отмечено в распоряжении ВЕЭС, установление такого дня поможет углубить сотрудничество между странами.

💬 «За 9 лет ЕАЭС превратился в ключевую площадку сотрудничества государств Большой Евразии. Мы готовы принимать важные стратегические решения. Сегодня перед нашим объединением стоят амбициозные цели, включая стимулирование инвестиционной активности, создание расчетной системы, по своим показателям превосходящей SWIFT, разработку автономной цифровой валютной среды. Уверен, в ближайшие годы страны ЕАЭС смогут сохранить и приумножить высокие темпы функционирования объединения на основе уважительного отношения к экономическим интересам как стран Союза, так и государств всего евразийского пространства», – подчеркнул Председатель Коллегии ЕЭК Михаил Мясникович.

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin programme (May 27, 2023)

❓ Question: We have become accustomed to outrageous and unprecedented remarks coming from Kiev. What we haven’t heard yet are direct threats to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to the effect that he is the number one target.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: The press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, and our ministry has already commented on that. It [the Kiev regime] is a terrorist state of its own making. I have no doubt that the puppet masters in Washington and London are beginning to wonder if these people are still in touch with reality.

I hope that sanctions against these “leaders” will follow. The statements to the effect that all Russians wherever they may be found should be killed (Adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak and Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Alexey Danilov said that), and now a similar statement with regard to the head of a sovereign state, the Russian Federation, are a matter of high importance.

⚡️ You know, the damage is done and there is no way to undo it. The West must answer for these words.

🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's answer to a media question about the situation around the Russian Consulate General in Gothenburg and the Swedish Consulate General in St Petersburg

❓ Question: Commenting on Russia's decision to close down the Russian Consulate General in Gothenburg while revoking Moscow's consent for the activity of the Swedish Consulate General in St Petersburg, Swedish FM Tobias Billström expressed his regret & described the Swedish consular mission as “a driving force in the bilateral people-to-people cooperation between Russia and Sweden.” Can you comment on this?

💬 On May 25, Swedish Ambassador to Russia Malena Mard was served with a note from the Russian Foreign Ministry stating that given Sweden’s confrontational course towards the Russia, the Russian side had decided to terminate the activity of the Russian Consulate General in Gothenburg with effect from September 1 of this year. At the same time, the Swedish side was informed Russia was revoking its consent for the activity of the Swedish Consulate General in St Petersburg from the same date.

❗️ The responsibility for this decision lies entirely on the Swedish party. It was Sweden’s initiative to terminate contacts with Russia, & disrupt all cooperation, even at the level of regions & city governments, including in science, education, culture, sports & economic cooperation.

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The work of our diplomatic missions in Sweden continues to be complicated. Provocations threatening the safety of Russian employees & demonstrations held with the tacit consent of the Swedish law enforcement have become the norm. Offences are regularly committed against the Consulate General, its staff & visitors, but none of them have been solved by the Swedish police.

☝️ Given Sweden's policy towards Russia, the Swedish consular mission in St Petersburg can hardly be described as a “driving force” of the ruined Russian-Swedish relations. Our decision was a direct consequence of the Swedish leaders’ hostile policy.

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Det har inte ens gått en månad sedan nordeuropeiska journalister frågades när de skulle börja betrakta fåglar eller fiskar som spioner. Media kallade då den här retoriska frågan för «ryska ilskan mot Sverige».

Och hör och häpna, «en rysk spionval som rymt från ett uppdrag» hittas utanför svenska kusten. Här är det ju så att en kommentar bara gör det värre.

⚡️ Президент России В.В.Путин прокомментировал налёт беспилотников на Москву и Московскую область

💬 В.В.Путин: Мы уже говорили о возможности нанесения ударов по штабам принятия решений, по центрам принятия решений. Разумеется, к этой категории относится и штаб военной разведки Украины, по которому был нанесён удар два-три дня назад.

В ответ, как известно, киевский режим выбрал другой путь – путь попыток запугивания России, запугивания граждан России и ударов по жилым зданиям. Это, конечно, явный признак террористической деятельности.

Они провоцируют нас на зеркальные действия. Посмотрим, что с этим делать.

Но граждане Украины, которые, конечно, сейчас слова не имеют, поскольку на Украине развязан тотальный террор против гражданского населения, всё-таки должны знать, к чему подталкивает нынешнее руководство этой страны, и просто понимать, что есть ещё другие угрозы, связанные, например, с попытками дезорганизовать работу на Запорожской атомной электростанции или использовать какие-то «грязные» устройства подобного рода, связанные с атомной промышленностью. Мы уже об этом говорили неоднократно: мы знаем, что у них на уме.

☝️ Понятно, что, что бы мы ни говорили, всегда будут искать виноватых именно в России, но это не так: не мы развязали эту войну, повторю, в 2014 году – киевский режим развязал войну в Донбассе – и не мы используем те средства, которые используют украинские воротилы.

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⚡️ МИД России решительно осуждает попытки террористических атак ВСУ, имевшие место рано утром 30 мая на территории Москвы и Московской области.

По информации Минобороны России, атаки были совершены с задействованием восьми БПЛА самолётного типа. Все они были поражены российскими средствами ПВО и РЭБ. Пять дронов были сбиты зенитно-ракетными пушечными комплексами «Панцирь-С», ещё три беспилотника были подавлены средствами радиоэлектронной борьбы, в результате чего они потеряли управление и отклонились от намеченных целей.

К сожалению, потерявшие управление дроны упали на многоэтажные жилые дома в районе совхоза «Московский», на Ленинском проспекте и Профсоюзной улице. По данным профильных служб, серьёзно пострадавших от их падения нет

Следственный комитет России возбудил по данному факту уголовное дело. Уверены, что все причастные к нему лица обязательно будут найдены и понесут суровое наказание.

❌ Эти атаки были спланированы и совершены неонацистским киевским режимом, для которого использование методов актов террора стало зловещей практикой. Его представители давно и открыто призывали нанести по Москве «удары возмездия». Подобные атаки, не имея никакого смысла с военной точки зрения, судя по всему, направлены исключительно против гражданского населения с целью посеять панику среди мирных жителей.

Поддержка Западом киевского режима подталкивает украинское руководство к всё более безрассудным преступным деяниям, включая акты терроризма, нарушение международного гуманитарного права и военные преступления.

Заверения официальных лиц стран НАТО в том, что киевский режим не будет наносить удары вглубь российской территории, оказываются абсолютно лицемерными.

❗️ Российская сторона оставляет за собой право принять самые жёсткие меры в ответ на террористические атаки киевского режима.

❗ Объявленное 29 мая Правительством Дании решение о выделении в 2023 году дополнительно 7,5 млрд датских крон и 10,4 млрд датских крон в 2024 году на закупки новых вооружений для Украины – это путь не к достижению мира, а к дальнейшей эскалации конфликта. Это инвестиция не в обеспечение безопасности, а, напротив, – в рост конфликтного потенциала в Европе и усиление противостояния России и стран-членов НАТО, последствия которого могут быть губительными.

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❗ Beslutningen af Danmarks regering om at afsætte yderligere 7,5 milliarder kroner i 2023 og 10,4 milliarder kroner i 2024 til indkøb af nye våben til Ukraine er ikke en måde at opnå fred, men at eskalere konflikten yderligere. Dette er ikke en investering i at sikre sikkerhed, men tværtimod i væksten i konfliktpotentialet i Europa og styrkelsen af konfrontationen mellem Rusland og NATO's medlemslande. Konsekvenserne kan være katastrofale.

⚡️The Foreign Ministry strongly condemns the Ukraine forces’ attempted terrorist attacks that took place in the early morning of May 30 in Moscow and the Moscow Region.

According to the Defence Ministry, the attacks were carried out with the use of eight fixed-wing UAVs. All of them were downed by the Russian air defence and electronic warfare systems. Five drones were shot down by Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile systems, and three other drones were suppressed by electronic warfare means, after which they lost control and went astray. Unfortunately, the drones that lost control fell on high-rise residential blocks of flats near the Moskovsky State Farm, Leninsky Prospekt and Profsoyuznaya Street. According to the responders, no serious injuries have been reported.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in this regard. We are confident that every person involved in it will be found and suffer severe punishment.

❌ These attacks were plotted and carried out by the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, for which acts of terror have become an evil routine practice. Its representatives have long and openly called for “retaliation strikes” against Moscow. While making no sense from a military point of view, these attacks appear to be directed exclusively against civilians in order to sow panic among them.

Western support for the Kiev regime is emboldening the Ukrainian leadership towards committing increasingly reckless criminal acts, including acts of terrorism, violations of international humanitarian law and war crimes.
Assurances by NATO officials to the effect that the Kiev regime will not strike deep into Russian territory have turned out to be completely disingenuous.

❗️ The Russian side reserves the right to take tough measures in response to the terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime.

▪️ On #ChildrensDay our thoughts are with the kids of #Donbass: for 9 long years they've been shelled - thousands wounded and killed by the Kiev regime neo-Nazis

All the while politicians and MSM in the West turned a blind eye to their suffering.

#See4Yourself & #Think4Yourself

🎙 Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Gruskho’s answer to a media question on the situation with the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant

❓ Question: On May 30, 2023, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi briefed the UN Security Council on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). Ukraine refused to support his proposals designed to avert Kiev’s attacks against the ZNPP. What would be your comment regarding this situation? What is Russia’s position on the five principles Rafael Grossi put forward to help ensure nuclear safety and security at ZNPP?

💬 Alexander Gruskho: As for Ukraine’s response, we must note that it did not come as a surprise for us. Kiev has blocked all IAEA Director General’s initiatives to reinforce ZNPP’s safety.

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Kiev has so far excelled at creating safety risks for the ZNPP, and its zeal could be put to better use. There is an explanation why this is happening. In fact, just like with many other matters, Ukraine does not have the legal standing to deal with this issue.

The country’s leadership strictly follows the instructions it receives from Washington and London, which do not have any problems sacrificing people’s lives and nuclear safety on the European continent for the sake of their political interests. Unfortunately, governments in many other Western countries have been playing along.

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☝️ In these conditions, we will take all necessary action to improve ZNPP’s safety as per Russia’s national laws and the commitments we have under the corresponding international legal instruments to which our country is a party.

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⚡️ On new facts of global surveillance by the United States

The Russian authorities have uncovered a new fact of the US special services using American IT companies for global surveillance of US and other countries’ citizens. In this instance, they used the software vulnerabilities of US-made smartphones.

This fact has conclusively proven what Moscow has been speaking about for a long time, namely, that the US intelligence services have been using IT giants for decades to collect internet users’ personal data without their knowledge. More evidence of this illegal activity comes to light every year.

Time and again, we addressed the concerned international platforms on the need to restore order and formulate the universal rules of conduct in the digital environment based on respect for the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals and the sovereign equality of states. In January 2021, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation adopted a Statement on the violation of the freedom of speech principle by US global IT companies and on drafting an international convention to regulate their operations. Practice has shown that Washington is not ready to consider our proposals.

❗️ The United States has placed itself above the law. We have provided the UN with ample evidence of the double standards that country and its special services and companies have been using in the sphere of international information security (IIS).

We once again call on all the concerned parties to formulate clear and fair regulations in the digital sphere that would be binding for all states and especially ICT designers. This is the goal of the initiatives Russia has advanced within the framework of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on IIS. <...>

☝️ No state has a right to abuse its technological capabilities in a sensitive sphere such as access to the personal data of smartphone users.

🎙Deputy FM Sergey Vershinin’s reply to a media question on expanding the Black Sea Initiative

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❓Reuters & a number of other media outlets have reported that the UN offered Russia, Ukraine & Türkiye a plan to start preparations for the transit of Russian ammonia via Ukraine. According to the reports, the UN plan provides for talks on expanding the Black Sea Initiative. The participants in the talks will ostensibly discuss the inclusion of more Ukrainian ports & other cargo in the agreements. Officials from the UN Secretariat have made similar statements. Can you comment on these?

💬Russian fertiliser exports <..> were fixed in both agreements signed in Istanbul on July 22, 2022. <..> A little less than a year has passed since the signing of the Istanbul package, but Russian ammonia exports have not resumed. The problems with bank transactions, transport logistics, insurance, & frozen assets, triggered by the anti-Russia sanctions, persist & are even getting worse.

☝️At the same time, Ukrainian grain exports continue uninterrupted. The amount of transported grain has already exceeded 30 million tonnes. We have repeatedly noted the lack of progress in the implementation of the Russia-UN Memorandum, without which it makes no sense to extend the Black Sea Initiative. We identified 5 system-wide problems that must be resolved:

• the reconnecting of Rosselkhozbank to SWIFT;
• the supply of spare parts;
• the unblocking of transport logistics & insurance;
• the resumption of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline operation;
• the de-freezing of Russian corporate assets.

UN officials chose the ammonia pipeline from this list of requirements. There is no real progress in the other areas. <...> Kiev continues to burden the export of Russian ammonia with various conditions.

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❗️Without resolving this problem & the 4 others I mentioned, there is no way to continue the Black Sea Initiative after July 17, not to mention any discussion of additional ports or the expansion of the range of Ukrainian exports.

🎙 Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin’s reply to a TASS question on reports of Ukraine’s intention not to extend the gas transit agreement with Russia beyond 2024

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❓ Question: We would like to ask you to comment on a statement by former head of the OMV Austrian oil-and-gas company Gerhard Reuss on Ukraine’s intention not to extend the agreement on the transit of Russian gas beyond 2024. Do Russian officials know about this? What actions will Moscow take in this case?

💬 Mikhail Galuzin: We have not received any notification from Ukraine about this through official channels.

However, if this happens, it will be no surprise. As we know, the Kiev regime looks at absolutely all aspects of its foreign, domestic and economic policy through an anti-Russia prism. It is ready to take any step to harm Russia even at the expense of its own interests or those of other countries.

Today, Gazprom supplies Europe with natural gas via Ukrainian territory under the December 30, 2019 agreement with Naftogaz. This agreement provides for the use of Ukraine’s gas transport system for gas transit until 2024 inclusive. The document was signed in accordance with EU legal regulations and provides for guaranteed pumping volumes with the possibility of increases.

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👉 If Ukraine does not extend the gas transit agreement after 2024, it will deal a blow at the EU countries that are buying Russian gas and at the same time will shoot itself in the foot by losing the dividends from transit.

☝️ This will adversely affect Europe’s energy sufficiency but is bound to make Washington happy given that it wants Europe to depend on it economically and politically and is doing all it can to derive maximum profit from the crisis in Ukraine.