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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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Mar 02 2025 
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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
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Feb 19 2025 
Maria Zakharova on the “return of prodigal brands”.
https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/9867
Western European brands left Russia not because they couldn’t withstand the competition or because someone was preventing them from making money here.
They left because their masters – the political regimes of the EU member states and the Brussels bureaucracy – ordered them to leave. And if so, then that is how they should now be… Continue reading
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Feb 19 2025 
The “New Yalta” is the new Outsourcing.
Beware of the “mainstream alternative media,” profiting off hopium, saying the US Empire is “finished” thanks to Trump, as he enacts a W. Bush-era foreign policy in the Middle East and abroad.
Fiorella Isabel on her substack comments on the “mainstream alternative media,” algorithmically pushed by Elon and other oligarchs comments: Those who gate-keep analysis and… Continue reading -
Feb 19 2025
Remarks and answers to media questions by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following negotiations with representatives of the US Administration
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1998294/) following talks with US administration officials (Riyadh, February 18, 2025)
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We wish to extend our gratitude to the Saudi Arabian leadership for facilitating a meeting between Russian and American representatives. This appreciation was conveyed personally to the Kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed… Continue reading
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Feb 19 2025 
Let the New Great Game begin
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen. On the Victory Day parade in Moscow next May 9, celebrating 80 years of the end of the Great Patriotic War and the… Continue reading
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Feb 15 2025 
Dmitry Medvedev
(At his sharp, sarcastic best: https://t.me/medvedev_telegramE/53)
The anti-Russian coven in Munich was particularly unsettled this time by the blatantly provocative speech of Vice President Vance. I must admit—surprisingly, he turned on the heat. Everyone expected the usual diplomatic courtesies toward Europe from its partner, along with comments on Donald Trump’s remarks about ending the Ukrainian conflict.… Continue reading
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Feb 14 2025 
Elena Panina : Munich Security Conference
Elena Panina – Russtrat
The main result of “Munich” is that the accents in the hierarchy of the West have been placed.
The most varied statements made today at the Munich Security Conference, in one way or another, speak of a radical transformation of what is called the “collective West”. From a “flock of like-minded people” it… Continue reading
