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📖 The latest, 7th edition of the annual English-language #CrimeanMagazine is available now, offering an honest and in-depth look into the life in Crimea following its reunification with Russia in 2014.

In full: t.me/MFARussia/25838

#CrimeaIsRussia
🎙️ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova:

💬 The pledge made by U. von der Leyen to purchase US energy resources undermines the economic sovereignty of EU countries.

The European Commission has increased the EU’s dependence on US energy under the pretext of reducing reliance on Russian resources.
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🎙 Excerpt from Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's answers to questions at the XI #TerraScientia National Educational Youth Forum (Solnechnogorsk, July 28, 2025)

Question: Following the global shifts of the past, we are witnessing a crisis of global international security, communication and law and order infrastructure. They no longer inspire confidence. Many countries have withdrawn from these structures. It appears that we are taking a step back. What do you think on this score? Do we need new structures? If so, what should they be like?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: I have spoken on this issue in my statement. Of course, the UN has been put to test, primarily because of the West’s actions, which has actually taken over the governing elements of the UN Secretariat. The positions of the UN Secretary-General, the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief and the Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security are held by citizens of NATO countries.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has initiated a reform. He has published a UN80 Initiative. I will not cite from that document, but it essentially stipulates restricting the ability of UN member states to influence the activities of the Organisation and its Secretariat and expanding the powers of the Secretariat in the spheres that have always been matters of intergovernmental coordination.

This is being done under the pretext that coordination takes too long, whereas such matters call for immediate action. This is yet another example of how the West is using its “proteges” in the secretariats of international organisations to promote solutions that benefit the West.

The Council of Europe, from which we have withdrawn, is in a deep crisis. Instead of developing a universal legal framework for humanitarian cooperation, it has thrown its energy into illegal efforts to establish “tribunals” against Russia, and commissions to assess the damage inflicted on Ukraine. This is regrettable. It used to be a good organisation.

The OSCE is in a deep crisis as well. Its current secretary general, a citizen of Türkiye and a former diplomat, has been trying to act within his powers in strict compliance with the principles of neutrality and impartiality. His predecessors grossly violated their powers and neglected the requirements of the OSCE’s statutory documents. The countries that held the rotating OSCE Chairpersonship acted in the same manner. <...>

🌐 I have already mentioned organisations that are based on the principle of equality#BRICS, the SCO, the CIS, the CSTO and the EAEU, including in relations with African colleagues. Incidentally, we will hold a second Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum and the first Russia-Arab World summit this autumn. We and our partners are comfortable with these formats. <...>

Another place where we sit down at the same table with the West, apart from the UN, is the Group of Twenty #G20. <...> The West’s attempt to “Ukrainise” the G20 agenda fell through three years ago. Everyone supported our view that the G20 was not created to deal with political matters, which is the prerogative of the UN Security Council.

We still regard the UN as a crucial structure. If you look at the UN Charter, there is nothing that should be changed in it, including to suit the concept of multipolarity. The Charter includes the principle of sovereign equality of states, and the principle of equality and self-determination of nations. There is also the principle of territorial integrity. <...>

❗️ The requirements of the UN Charter must also be respected at the UN. Choosing to respect one principle today and another tomorrow is unacceptable. All principles must be respected in their entirety and as a whole. We will continue working towards this end, even though resistance is strong 👉 #UNCharterIsOurRules

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📆 On July 27, the first World Youth Festival Summer School for Public Managers concluded at the Senezh Management Workshop in Solnechnogorsk, the Moscow Region.

🌐 110 young public servants, government officials and parliamentarians from 42 countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Italy, Mali, Mexico, Montenegro, Nigeria, Serbia, South Africa, Venezuela successfully completed a unique educational program focused on the Russian model of state and municipal governance, its unique characteristics, and advanced approaches.

The maim themes included:

• public administration
• territorial development
• youth policy
• team management
• leadership
• international youth cooperation.


🎙 Lectures and workshops were conducted by representatives of federal and regional executive authorities, leading state-owned corporations and scientific centers of Russia, including Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

Special emphasis was placed on interactive formats and practical events, including masterclasses, reflective and foresight sessions, team projects and research.

The participants’ work resulted in a compilation of the best global practices of public administration and parliamentarism, grounded in Russian experience and adapted for use in different countries. The Summer School served as a platform for open dialogue and international cooperation, reinforcing professional and cultural ties despite geopolitical challenges.

Alongside new skills, competencies, and methodological tools, the participants of the Summer School left with positive impressions of Russia and a deeper understanding of its values and attitudes.
Посол по особому поручениям МИД России по преступлениям Киевского режима Р.В.Мирошник: Еженедельная лента преступлений Киевского режима. 21 -27 июля 2025 г.

💬 Жертвами действий украинских боевиков на минувшей неделе стали более 150 мирных жителей. Две трети из них пострадали от ударов БПЛА ВСУ по гражданскому населению и гражданским объектам. Прицельные преднамеренные удары были нанесены по местам массового скопления мирных жителей, жилым зданиям, бригадам экстренных служб, общественному транспорту, объектам энергетической и транспортной инфраструктуры.

По данным, собранным службой Посла по особым поручениям
МИД России по преступлениям киевского режима, за минувшую неделю от обстрелов нацистов пострадали 155 мирных жителей: ранены 131 человек, в том числе 4 несовершеннолетних, погибли 24 человека. Всего же по гражданским целям на российской территории за прошедшие семь дней украинские вооруженные формирования выпустили не менее 2742 боеприпасов, среди которых были РСЗО (122 мм), артиллерийские снаряды калибром 152 и 155 мм, в т.ч. с кассетной боевой частью, мины, гранаты, также противник активно применял ударные БПЛА, стрелковое оружие. Подавляющее большинство используемых ВФУ для ударов по гражданскому населению вооружений произведены и поставлены западными соучастниками преступлений киевского режима.

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Комментарий Посольства России в Швеции

❗️О фейковых обвинениях России и ситуации с украинскими детьми

Обратили внимание на очередную публикацию в шведских СМИ (газета «Дагенс Нюхетер»), где утверждается, что нашей страной якобы было депортировано с территории Донбасса примерно 35 тыс. детей, из которых «лишь нескольким сотням позволили вернуться» на Украину.

Эти цифры – откровенная ложь, которая была развенчана в том числе самой же украинской стороной, передавшей российским представителям в итоге список из 339 детей. В ходе тщательной проверки, как пояснил помощник Президента России В.Р.Мединский, выяснилось, что часть из них уже вернулась на Украину, некоторые никогда не были в России, а 50 человек и вовсе оказались взрослыми. Неоднократно якобы «похищенные» несовершеннолетние были в последствии обнаружены в европейских странах.

При этом украинские власти продолжают грубо нарушать международное гуманитарное право без оглядки на жертвы среди мирных жителей, в том числе детей. Только за 2024 г. от обстрелов и массированных налетов БПЛА на нашу территорию пострадало как минимум 347 несовершеннолетних, 51 ребенок погиб. За январь-март 2025 г. ранения различной степени тяжести получили еще 58 детей, четверо из них умерли.

Нашей страной, в том числе аппаратом Уполномоченного при Президенте Российской Федерации по правам ребенка М.А.Львовой-Беловой, ведется работа не только по спасению детей из-под украинских обстрелов, но и по возвращению детей в семьи, разлученные в ходе конфликта. Факты воссоединения детей с родными и близкими верифицируются сотрудниками Международного Комитета Красного Креста, Катаром и Ватиканом.

По последним данным 101 украинский ребенок из 81 семьи воссоединился с родственниками на Украине и в других странах, а в Россию с Украины вернулись 22 ребенка из 15 семей.

Чувствительная тема детей по-прежнему используется киевским режимом и его западными, в том числе шведскими пособниками в их попытках очернить Россию.
👉 Проверку фактами этот фейк не выдерживает.
⚡️ Kommentar av Rysslands Ambassad i Sverige

❗️Om falska anklagelser mot Ryssland och situationen med ukrainska barn

Vi har uppmärksammat ännu en artikel i svenska medier (tidningen ”Dagens Nyheter”), där det påstås att vårt land ska ha deporterat omkring 35 000 ukrainska barn från Donbass varav ”endast några hundra ska ha fått återvända” till Ukraina.

Dessa siffror är en uppenbar lögn, vilket även bekräftats av den ukrainska sidan själv, som slutligen överlämnade en lista med 339 barn till ryska representanter. Vid en noggrann granskning, som förklarades av Rysslands Presidentsrådgivare Vladimir Medinskij, framkom det att en del av barnen hade redan återvänt till Ukraina, några aldrig befunnit sig i Ryssland, samt att 50 personer på listan i själva verket var vuxna. Vid upprepade tillfällen har de minderåriga som påstods ha blivit ”bortförda” återfunnits efteråt i europeiska länder.

Samtidigt fortsätter den ukrainska ledningen att begå grova brott mot den internationella humanitära rätten utan någon hänsyn till civila offer, däribland barn. Enbart under år 2024 skadades minst 347 minderåriga och dödades 51 barn i drönarattacker och beskjutningar mot vårt territorium. Under perioden januari–mars 2025 har ytterligare 58 barn skadats i olika grad, varav fyra avlidit.

Ryska Federationen, inklusive presidentens kommissionär för barnets rättigheter Maria Lvova-Belova, arbetar inte bara med att evakuera barn undan från ukrainska attacker utan också med att återförena barn med deras familjer som splittrats till följd av konflikten. Fakta av återförening mellan barn och deras nära och kära verifieras av Internationella rödakorskommittén, Qatar och Vatikanen.

Enligt de senaste uppgifterna har 101 ukrainska barn från 81 familjer återförenats med sina släktingar i Ukraina och andra länder, medan 22 barn från 15 familjer har återvänt från Ukraina till Ryssland.

Den känsliga frågan om barn utnyttjas fortfarande av Kievregimen och dess västerländska – däribland svenska – medhjälpare i deras försök att svartmåla Ryssland.
👉Men denna fejk tål helt enkelt inte en faktagranskning.
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📰 Article by Russia' Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ‘The Helsinki Act’s 50th anniversary: Expectations, reality, and future’

Published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on August 1, 2025

✍️ Marking the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and WWII in 2025 serves as an occasion for us to recall and reaffirm the importance of peace which came at such a high cost for our forefathers. We must also be mindful of how fragile this peace architecture is. In fact, its integrity hinges upon the ability of countries and their people to engage in coordinated collective action.

Back in 1945, the year of Victory, major powers realised the need to overcome their differences for the sake of the humankind as a whole. This paved the way for establishing the United Nations as one of the key derivatives of this vision. In fact, the purposes and principles set out in the UN Charter remain relevant to this day and are in step with the reality of an emerging multipolar world order.

But there is another international event which happened precisely 50 years ago and is worth commemorating. This is when the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was signed. It became a landmark event in consolidating the post-war architecture based on the framework resulting from the Yalta and Potsdam conferences.

☝️ Those camping on unfriendly positions towards Russia seek to diminish and sweep under the carpet the fact that our country, which was the USSR at that time, played a leading role in the Helsinki process, while also distorting the objectives the Soviet leaders were pursuing. We are facing groundless and unappealing accusations of undermining the European security framework, and politicians in the EU and NATO have made no secret of their intention to re-write the outcomes of WWII and do not shy away from concocting barbaric fakes for that purpose.

Key points:

Western countries have breached all the OSCE agreements on arms control and confidence-building measures. Russia has appealed to the conscience of Western elites more than once, inviting them to coordinate reliable security guarantees based on fundamental commitment adopted within the OSCE.

• Europe is deeply immersed in Russophobia, and its militarisation is essentially becoming uncontrollable. There are more than enough facts of this. <...> This brings historical events to mind: with their current leaders, modern Germany and the rest of Europe are transforming into a Fourth Reich.

• In recent years, the West has openly shown absolute contempt for the OSCE’s principles & embarked on the path of suppressing rivals through economic pressure, including unlawful unilateral measures against Russia, Belarus and any other country that strives to defend its legitimate national interests. The OSCE marked a decisive end to practical cooperation between the East and the West.

• The scale of accumulated OSCE problems is immense. Burdened by them, the Organisation has been side-lined in international affairs. The Vienna platform no longer offers space for cooperation or security. The architects of the Helsinki Final Act did not envisage such a future for the pan-European process. It is high time to consider whether such an Organisation has any reason to persist.

• Today, the ideas of sovereign equality of states and their mutually respectful dialogue – strangled in the OSCE – are being realised through multilateral cooperation projects within the CSTO, the CIS, #SCO, and other regional frameworks across Eurasia.

As a strategic objective, Russia envisions forming a flexible and resilient architecture of equal & indivisible security and cooperation in Eurasia, capable of addressing contemporary challenges.

• There will be no future for the OSCE if NATO and EU countries do away with the consensus rule and continue using this platform with its headquarters in Vienna as their private mouthpiece for spreading shameless propaganda campaigns to demonise Russia & any other parties who break ranks, while backing their underlings in Kiev.

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🦅 On August 1, Russia commemorates the Day of Remembrance for Russian Soldiers Who Fell in World War I. On this day in 1914, Germany declared war on the Russian Empire, and by August 2, had already invaded its territory.

Thus, our country joined the then largest and bloodiest armed conflict in history.

At the beginning of the XX century, Europe was effectively divided into two opposing blocs — the Entente (the British Empire, France and Russia) and the Triple Alliance (the German Empire, Austro-Hungary, and Italy). Each side had mutual grievances, and their subsequent arms race marked the preparations for a large-scale war.

The immediate trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo. He was killed by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the nationalist organisation "Young Bosnia".

On July 23, Austro-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia, deliberately containing demands that were impossible to meet. The Serbian government responded with restraint, accepting many of the conditions, but rejected some key points, including allowing Austro-Hungarian police onto Serbian territory. As a result, on July 28, Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

🇷🇺 Russia, long regarded as the protector of Orthodox Slavic nations in the Balkans, could not remain uninvolved and on the night of July 31, declared a general mobilisation.

On August 1, the German Empire declared war on the Russian Empire; two days later — on France. On August 4, the British Empire declared war on Germany. On August 6, Austro-Hungary declared war on Russia. Thus, within the span of a single week, the leading European powers were drawn into the conflict.

The war that had begun among a few European countries gradually engulfed 38 nations. The conflict lasted just over four years but surpassed all previous wars in human history in both scale and consequences.

The total number of mobilized soldiers reached 73.5 million. During the hostilities, 10 million people were killed — as many as had died in all European wars over the previous thousand years — and 20 million were wounded, 3.5 million of whom were left permanently disabled.

🥈 The Russian Empire had to fulfill its obligations as an ally while also pursuing its own strategic objectives. The most important directions, from the country's perspective, were the Southwestern and Caucasus fronts, while the Northwestern and Western directions played a less central role. However, due to treaty obligations, the Russian command undertook a full-scale offensive in East Prussia in 1914.

Under these difficult conditions, our soldiers and officers demonstrated exceptional courage and bravery.

One of the symbols of Russian valour was the defence of the Osowiec Fortress. German troops used chemical weapons — a mixture of chlorine and bromine — killing most of the garrison. To the enemy's shock, the surviving defenders launched a bayonet charge and drove them into retreat. This event went down in history as the "Attack of the Dead Men."

One of the most significant and vivid episodes of World War I, according to many historians, was the famous Brusilov Offensive by the Russian Imperial Army on the Southwestern Front. It pushed Austro-Hungary to the brink of collapse and forced the German Empire to divert substantial forces from Verdun in France to the “Russian theatre of war.”

🕯 The self-sacrifice of Russian soldiers and officers is hard to overestimate. Over the course of the war, over 2 million of them perished.

Our country honours the memory of the heroes of those days: in 2004, the Memorial Park Complex to the Heroes of World War I was opened in Moscow, and in 2014, a monument to the heroes of World War I was unveiled on Poklonnaya Hill. In total, 20 monuments and memorials have been erected across Russia and abroad.

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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a media question

Question: On July 31, in an interview with Fox Radio, Marco Rubio talked about continuing to work with Russia. He mentioned recent contacts and conversations held in the hope of arriving at an understanding on ways to achieve peace. However, he said that so far, the United States does not see any progress along this track. What could you say in this regard?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: It is true that we have regular contacts with our American colleagues at various levels, including telephone conversations between our Presidents (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), interactions between myself and Marco Rubio (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), and through United States Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.

The fact that the current US administration has revived direct dialogue is totally consistent with normal diplomatic practice, while Joe Biden’s refusal to abide by it defied common sense. Moscow and Washington have been engaged in a meaningful discussion on the Ukraine topic, which has been quite useful and effective. It is thanks to President Donald Trump’s insistence, the Kiev regime accepted our proposal to resume the Istanbul talks.

Three rounds of talks have already taken place (1, 2, 3). Apart from important humanitarian agreements, we came forward with a proposal to establish working groups on political and military matters. This could be a major step towards a lasting agreement, just as the President of Russia said on August 1 during his meeting with Alexander Lukashenko in Valaam.

We are waiting for Kiev to provide a meaningful response. So far, all we have are Zelensky’s conflicting statements ranging from an immediate truce without any preconditions while calling on the West to use this truce to deliver more weapons to Ukraine, to replacing the Istanbul format with a face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin. He goes as far as demanding that the West delivers on the promise of changing the Russian leadership. He can switch from one position to the without 24 hours or every other day. Therefore, I suggest that anyone interested in advancing the settlement process should take these obvious contradictions into account.

So far, the progress boils down to the fact that our American colleagues have come to realise the existing reality and try taking into account the root causes of the crisis, which sets them apart from the aggressive Russia-hating attitude of the Europeans. Vladimir Putin has set forth these causes in great detail many times, including the need to respect the vote by the people of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya following the 2014 government coup. Its leaders designated these people as inhuman and terrorists.

Europeans have been screaming about dragging Ukraine into NATO and preparing for war with Russia, while Marco Rubio has recently reaffirmed his commitment to a responsible attitude by making it clear that a direct military confrontation between the United States and Russia should never happen. We fully agree with this position.

In order to claim progress in addressing the root causes of the crisis, there is a need to get the record straight regarding the positions of all the Kiev regime’s patrons regarding what the Ukrainian regime does to cancel and do away with everything Russian, be it the Russian language, education, culture, history, memory, or the ban on the canonical Orthodox faith.

❗️ Apart from Ukraine, you will not find any other country in the entire world to enact an official ban on any language.

We are certain that the US has a sincere interest in ensuring that human rights and the rights of ethnic minorities are respected, which is not the case for many hypocrites in the EU. In doing so, the US could deliver an unbiased assessment of this situation. This would be a major step forward.

The fact that our colleagues in Washington are open to continuing an honest and mutually respectful conversation is also encouraging. <...> President Putin reaffirmed that Russia is ready to launch this conversation.

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🚀 3 августа в 9 часов 27 минут (по московскому времени) состоялась успешная стыковка с Международной космической станцией космического корабля Crew Dragon компании SpaceX (США) с экипажем миссии #Crew11 на борту.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 В соответствии с соглашением о перекрёстных полётах между Роскосмосом и НАСА в состав миссии Crew-11 вошёл Олег Платонов, ставший 27-м российским космонавтом, совершившим полёт на американском космическом корабле, в том числе седьмым — на Crew Dragon. В полёте также приняли участие астронавты НАСА Зина Кардман, Майкл Финк и Японского агентства аэрокосмических исследований (ЯААИ) Кимия Юи.

На МКС экипаж миссии Crew-11 тепло встретили члены 73-й длительной экспедиции — космонавты Роскосмоса Сергей Рыжиков, Алексей Зубрицкий и Кирилл Песков, астронавты НАСА и ЯААИ Энн МакКлейн, Джонатан Ким, Николь Эйрс Такуя Ониши.

👨‍🚀 Олег Платонов по прибытии на МКС:

💬 Дорогие друзья,

Находясь на космическом корабле и пролетая нашу родную Планету, я испытываю неописуемое счастье и восторг.

Хочу выразить слова благодарности нашей стране, Роскосмосу и Соединённым Штатам Америки за эту уникальную возможность. Хочу выразить слова благодарности <...> [всем], кто искренне верил и болел за идею отправить меня в космос.

Обещаю выполнить все поставленные передо мной задачи на отлично. Ура!


Накануне полёта с экипажем миссии Crew-11 перед её отправкой на МКС встретился Генеральный директор Роскосмоса Дмитрий Баканов, находившийся с визитом в США.

В рамках визита глава российского космического агентства провёл переговоры со своим американским коллегой — и.о. руководителя НАСА Шоном Даффи. Стороны обсудили сотрудничество по проекту Международной космической станции и новые потенциальные возможности партнёрства двух стран.

Среди затронутых тем было продолжение программы перекрёстных полетов, продление эксплуатации Международной космической станции, а также деятельность российско-американской рабочей группы по вопросам будущего безопасного сведения МКС с орбиты и затопления станции. Были затронуты вопросы освоения дальнего космоса, в том числе Луны.

🎙 Дмитрий Баканов в ходе пресс-конференции по итогам встречи:
💬 «Мы обсуждали стратегическую возможность продолжать сотрудничество, несмотря на всю напряжённость. И самое главное, что он [Ш.Даффи] выразил желание, чтобы наше сотрудничество не прекратилось.

Мы понимаем, что санкционное давление сильное, но сотрудничество в сфере пилотируемого космоса у нас
выведено из-под санкций
и из-под рестрикций, и мы предлагаем максимально расширять данное взаимодействие в рамках тех проектов, которые под санкции не попали
.

<...>

Сотрудничество российской космической отрасли и НАСА длится 50 лет с миссии
«Союз – Аполлон».
Сегодня мы продолжаем партнёрство по программе МКС, обсуждаем новые проекты.

Я приложу усилия, чтобы сохранить этот канал сотрудничества между Россией и США, и жду того же от НАСА»
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#РоссияСША: с 2022 года между Роскосмосом и НАСА действует соглашение о перекрёстных полётах российских космонавтов на американских кораблях Crew Dragon и американских астронавтов на российских кораблях «Союз МС».

🛰 Данное соглашение позволяет при отмене или существенной задержке запуска российского или американского корабля обеспечить присутствие на борту МКС как минимум одного космонавта Роскосмоса и одного астронавта НАСА для обслуживания, соответственно, российского и американского сегментов станции.

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Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
⚡️ Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation:

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service has been receiving reports indicating that the UK intelligence agencies are planning to involve NATO allies to launch a massive raid on the so-called shadow fleet.

London intends to use a resonating incident with one or several tankers for launching this campaign. 👉 This plan provides for a major act of sabotage so that the resulting damage can be used as the pretext for Russia’s oil shipments to be dubbed a threat to international maritime navigation. This would, in turn, give the West a free hand in taking countermeasures. They can go as far as detaining any vessels deemed suspicious in international waters and escorting them to ports in NATO countries.

The Britons are considering the two options as possible casus belli.

• First — staging an accident with an undesirable tanker in a narrow spot along maritime navigation routes, such as in a strait. London believes that an oil spill or the fact that the accident results in blocking the waterway would give NATO countries 'sufficient grounds' for creating a precedent to carry out special and extraordinary inspections of vessels in a pretended move to check them for compliance with navigation safety rules and environmental standards.

• Second — setting a tanker on fire while it unloads its cargo at a port of a country friendly to Russia. In this case, the fire is expected to cause serious damage to port infrastructure and to spread to other ships, which would require an international investigation.

❗️London intends to task Ukrainian security services with carrying out these terrorist attacks.

In fact, the UK expects the perpetrators to do the dirty work and to fail at covering up their tracks, which would serve as a safety guarantee for the British. The international investigation would hold Russia responsible for the disaster, while in the worst-case scenario Ukraine will bear the blame, as it happened with the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines.

The UK plans to choose the right moment for the attack so that it creates a ripple effect in the media for pressuring Donald Trump administration to compromise its national interests and forcing Washington to go all out in imposing harsh secondary sanctions on the buyers of Russian energy resources by casting them as having indirectly contributed to this tragedy.

The UK’s intelligence community has totally lost the remnants of any good sense because of the reminiscence for the time when Britain ruled the seas, with the British crown approving pirate lawlessness at sea.

It is high time that our UK colleagues understood that their increasingly brazen attempts not only to 'spite' their rivals, but to undermine global energy security and environment can make even their closest allies run out of patience.
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🎙 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s response to a media question regarding the tightening of tariffs by the US Administration towards the countries of the Global South (August 4, 2025)

Question: How does Russia view Washington’s policy of increasing tariff barriers against our key foreign policy partners in the Global South?

💬 Maria Zakharova: Sanctions and restrictions have unfortunately become a defining feature of the current historical period, impacting countries across the globe. Unable to accept the erosion of its dominance in an emerging multipolar international order, Washington continues to pursue a neocolonial agenda, employing politically motivated economic pressure against those who choose an independent course on the international stage.

This approach runs counter to the very principles of free trade once championed by Western nations. Instead, we now witness politically driven protectionism and the arbitrary imposition of tariff barriers. Brazil, our strategic partner in Latin America and the Caribbean, is one of the main victims of this policy.

☝️ Such actions by the United States represent a direct infringement on the sovereignty of other nations and an attempt to interfere in their internal affairs. Beyond these concerns, this policy risks slowing global economic growth, disrupting supply chains, and deepening the fragmentation of the international economic system.

Nonetheless, we firmly believe that no tariff wars or sanctions can halt the natural course of history. We are supported by a vast number of partners, like-minded states, and allies, particularly among the countries of the Global South and, above all, within #BRICS, who share this perspective.

❗️ We stand ready to deepen cooperation with them to resist unlawful unilateral sanctions and to help shape a genuinely multipolar, just, and equitable international order.
🎙 Ответ официального представителя МИД России М.В.Захаровой на вопрос СМИ об итогах юбилейной конференции ОБСЕ (4 августа 2025 года)

Вопрос: В Хельсинки состоялось юбилейное мероприятие, посвященное 50-летию с момента подписания 1 августа 1975 года хельсинкского Заключительного акта Совещания по безопасности и сотрудничеству в Европе. Как в Москве оценивают эту конференцию с учетом кризисного состояния дел в ОБСЕ?

💬 М.В.Захарова: 31 июля - 1 августа финское Действующее председательство ОБСЕ (ДП) провело у себя в столице мероприятие по случаю 50-летия подписания хельсинкского Заключительного акта. Соответствующую идею ещё в 2021 году выдвинул тогдашний президент Финляндии С.Ниинистё. В то время мы поддержали инициативу. Речь, правда, шла о торжественной встрече высоких представителей 57 государств-­участников Организации, которая должна была способствовать возвращению «духа Хельсинки» в международные отношения.

Однако в конечном итоге всё свелось к политическому шоу антироссийского характера, приправленному попытками «приватизировать» историческое наследие Хельсинкского процесса и продвинуть идею о непогрешимости западной доктрины – «порядка, основанного на правилах».

Напомню, что правил этих никто не видел.

Линия конференции стала понятна еще в марте, когда финское ДП распространило концептуальную записку, содержащую в том числе «традиционные» обвинения в адрес нашей страны в украинском контексте. Позже были подобраны и темы обсуждений «на полях», среди которых – «привлечение России к ответственности», «оккупация Крыма», «преследование правозащитников в Белоруссии».

Также показательно, что в число спикеров, приглашённых финнами на основные сессии по условно нейтральной проблематике, вошли, в частности, Зеленский (выступил по видеосвязи), украинский мининдел Сибига и руководители ряда нежелательных в России НПО, популяризирующих проукраинскую повестку дня.

Устроители намеренно ушли от широкой концептуальной дискуссии о будущем Организации, лишив национальные делегации возможности высказать свою точку зрения: на главной части мероприятия солировали докладчики, затем обсуждения развели по «малым группам». Государствам-участникам было предоставлено ограниченное время для выступлений только «под занавес» форума. Понятно, что результаты мероприятия имеют нулевую практическую ценность и не могут служить основанием для принятия каких-либо конструктивных решений.

☝️ Считаем такой подход к серьёзной дате в кризисное для ОБСЕ время неприемлемым.

Финское руководство не постеснялось отработать через юбилей ОБСЕ свою национальную, замешанную на откровенной русофобии, повестку. Налицо продолжение полугодовых упражнений финского ДП, которое всеми силами поддерживало на плаву украинский сюжет в трёх «измерениях» в ущерб нормальной тематической работе, активно стимулировало неподконтрольную государствам-участникам внебюджетную деятельность, в том числе на территории Украины, не оставляло попыток подорвать ключевое для Организации правило консенсуса, предприняло немало несогласованных шагов, прямо нарушающих мандат председательства и Правила процедуры ОБСЕ.

В таких условиях участие в хельсинкской конференции на высоком политическом уровне не имело смысла.

Использовали этот формат, чтобы напомнить об истинных причинах и виновниках сегодняшнего крайне плачевного положения дел в Организации, а также о российских реформенных предложениях, которые много лет отвергались западниками.

❗️ Особо акцентировали, что Россия не отказывается и никогда не отказывалась от соблюдения основополагающих хельсинкских принципов. Но мы не позволим подчинить Хельсинкский процесс западной конъюнктуре, продолжим противодействовать избирательному применению положений Заключительного акта, будем и дальше добиваться возобновления равноправного диалога 57-ми государств-участников ОБСЕ и использовать возможности Организации для донесения правды.