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Mar 14 2025 
Putin peels off the Masks of the Ceasefire Kabuki
Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The “ceasefire” announced with trademark bombast by Team Trump 2.0 should be seen as a tawdry kabuki inside a cheap matryoshka.
As we peel off the successive masks,… Continue reading
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Mar 12 2025 
A ceasefire only benefits those who are retreating
From RT : By Georgiy Berezovsky, Vladikavkaz-based journalist
‘A ceasefire only benefits those who are retreating’
Russia’s top foreign relations experts and actors react to US-Ukraine talks
Politicians, journalists, and analysts react to the news of a proposed 30-day ceasefire
Following the high-level talks between US and Ukrainian delegations in Saudi Arabia, two major developments have dominated the media… Continue reading -
Mar 12 2025 
FM Lavrov’s interview to US bloggers Mario Nawfal, Larry C.Johnson and Andrew Napolitano
(Note that Russian Bloggers are not being invited to the US to have friendly discussions. That should tell you clearly who the crusaders are.)
Question: Mr.Minister, it’s a pleasure to speak to you Sir. The first question I have, as I speak to people here in Moscow – there’s a perception that the US has changed,… Continue reading
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Mar 10 2025 
FM Sergey Lavrov: Interview with the New Regions of Russia magazine, March 10, 2025
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2002214/
Question: Which general international and foreign political conclusions – both positive and negative – can Russia draw after three years of the special military operation? Did we get the very “experience, the son of difficult errors,” in the words of the classic?
Sergey Lavrov: The last three years became the “moment of truth” of a kind.… Continue reading
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Mar 07 2025 
Key statements of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov + notes
Key statements of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:
[Notes: Last night Russia carried out major Ukraine strikes, described as the biggest this year.
Last night, the Russian Armed Forces launched a group strike by high-precision long-range air-, sea-, and ground-based weapons as well as unmanned aerial vehicles at the gas and power infrastructure that supported the Ukrainian defence… Continue reading -
Mar 05 2025 
Key statements of Russia’s Security Council Deputy Chair Dmitry Medvedev
Key statements of Russia’s Security Council Deputy Chair Dmitry Medvedev:
🔹US President Donald Trump’s temporary suspension of military aid to Ukraine is a symbolic gesture;
🔹Supply of US weapons to Ukraine is likely to resume immediately after the conclusion of a resource agreement between the US and Ukraine;
🔹Stopping the war in Ukraine will mean an inevitable end… Continue reading
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Mar 04 2025 
FM Lavrov’s interview with Krasnaya Zvezda media holding
Excerpts from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Krasnaya Zvezda media holding, March 2, 2025
[Note: All content bolding is mine.]Sergey Lavrov: We were not blind. As far back as 2007, at the Munich Security Conference, President of Russia Vladimir Putin warned that while we were working with NATO, the European Union, and the G7 (as… Continue reading
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Feb 28 2025 
Elena Panini: Conservative values of Trump-Vance America & the attempted killing of Crimean Metropolitan Tikhon
https://russtrat.ru/
[Background: Russian law enforcement operatives have thwarted a terrorist attack against Crimean Metropolitan Tikhon of the Russian Orthodox Church which was ordered by Ukrainian military intelligence, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has said. One of the suspects was Tikhon’s aide, who received threats that his family would be killed if he refused to cooperate.
In… Continue reading
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Feb 24 2025 
FM Sergey Lavrov following bilateral talks with FM of Türkiye Hakan Fidan
🔴 #LIVE: Remarks and answers to media questions by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following bilateral talks with Foreign Minister of Türkiye Hakan Fidan https://t.co/F8uTAGzmC3— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) February 24, 2025
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Feb 21 2025
FM Lavrov at the G20 Foreign Minister’s Council + comments
You may remember the previous leaders’ summit of the G20 in Brazil during November last year where it was clear that the G20 is now partially a BRICS meeting. The trend continued for this G20 Foreign Minister’s Council. G20 leaders’ declaration and Lula da Silva’s BRICS style opening speech. While Mr. Trump cannot find… Continue reading
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Feb 20 2025 
Dmitry Trenin: Russia’s long-term play Is much bigger than Ukraine
Trump could reshape the global order, and Moscow will be hoping he succeeds
Dmitry Trenin:
Dmitry Trenin is a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). He served in the Armed… Continue reading -
Feb 20 2025 
Sergei Lavrov and Wang Yi: sidelines of G20 ministerial in Johanneburg
Russian MFA
On February 20, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi met (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1998789/) on the sidelines of the #G20 Ministerial in Johannesburg.
The Parties praised the development of political dialogue and practical cooperation between Russia and China as a stabilising factor in the context of continuing turbulence… Continue reading
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Feb 20 2025 
In the Heart of Donbass: A Spiritual Travelogue
Please see earlier segments of this Saga of Love: [Transcending Avdeevka] [A Travelogue] [Trilogy of Hope]
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
AVDEYEVKA – It’s a snowy noon in Avdeyevka this past Saturday – exactly one year and two days after the liberation of the now completely destroyed city, and I am talking to two survivors of the… Continue reading
