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Nov 07 2024 
Highlights from Putin’s speech at the plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club
Here is a set of highlights but we need to post up the transcript as soon as it is available. The most interesting part is the answers that Putin is still busy giving to the Valdai audience.
Putin names six key principles for the world’s sustainable development
Addressing the Valdai Forum on November… Continue reading
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Nov 06 2024 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the International Symposium Inventing the Future, Moscow, November 4, 2024
https://www.mid.ru/en/press_service/minister_speeches/1979085/
Colleagues and friends,
It is a privilege to be part of this new initiative, which seeks to unite people, identify shared values, and develop recommendations that will enable humanity to live in accordance with the legacies bestowed by the ancestors of each nation and nationality.
In this context, the platform of the Russia National Centre, established under… Continue reading
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Nov 05 2024 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya, Moscow, November 5, 2024
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1979380/
Question: What’s your take on the outcomes of the BRICS summit and Russia’s BRICS chairmanship which is about to conclude? Which countries are active BRICS partners, and what does this status mean in real life?
Sergey Lavrov: Without exaggeration, the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan came as a landmark international event not only of the year,… Continue reading
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Oct 31 2024 
Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC Briefing on Ukraine
Madam President,
When we learned about the request for today’s UNSC briefing, we were, frankly speaking, taken aback by the cynicism and brazenness of our Western colleagues and their egregious double standards. We understand perfectly well that the situation on the frontline is catastrophic for the Zelensky regime, especially after his inglorious Kursk adventure, which triggered… Continue reading
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Oct 20 2024 
FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview: Argumenty i Fakty newspaper, Moscow, October 20, 2024
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1976783/
(Ed: Bolding is mine.)
Question: Let me commence with BRICS. A significant number of countries, approximately 30 or perhaps more, have voiced their intention to join this group. Notably, Türkiye, a NATO member, which was rather surprising to me. Conversely, it has been reported that Kazakhstan, through the statement of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s Press Secretary, has… Continue reading
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Oct 14 2024 
Maria Zakharova on the escalation of tension in the Korean Peninsula (Updated with a Brian Berletic comment)
Comment (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1975982/) by Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the escalation of tension in the #KoreanPeninsula
💬 In recent days, tensions on the Korean Peninsula has markedly escalated. According to official statements from Pyongyang, the territory of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), including its capital, has experienced unprecedented incursions by unmanned aerial vehicles… Continue reading
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Oct 11 2024 
FM’s Sergey Lavrov’s remarks to media questions following the 19th East Asia Summit, Vientiane
This presser of Mr Lavrov is another example of how the empire will not give up and will have to be removed in one way or another. In this video posted earlier, Laith Marouf from Free Palestine TV considers that zionism (and we can add the other ‘isms) is well titled is a theocracy. Although… Continue reading
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Oct 02 2024
Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC Briefing on the Situation in the Middle East
Madam President,
We would like to congratulate Slovenia on completing its presidency of the Council in September, which is not an easy month for any presidency; we also congratulate Switzerland on assuming the presidency of the Council in October.
We thank the Secretary-General for his assessment of the situation in the Middle East, which has drastically deteriorated… Continue reading
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Oct 01 2024
Russia concludes its participation at high level week, UNGA
Russian MFA
The Russian delegation, led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, has concluded its participation in the High-Level Week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly:
35 meetings, including 28 bilaterals “on the margins” of the UNGA.
A recap of what you might have…or might not have missed 👆
#ICYMI
👉 DAY 1 (https://t.me/MFARussia/22032)
👉 DAY 2 (https://t.me/MFARussia/22062)
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Sep 25 2024 
Dmitry Medvedev: The event we’ve all been waiting for…
By Dmitry Medvedev on his Telegram channel
Russia’s president has outlined approaches to updating our country’s nuclear doctrine. The main changes are as follows:
1. Aggression against Russia by a non-nuclear State, but with the support or participation of a nuclear-armed country, will be considered a joint attack. It is clear to everyone which countries we are… Continue reading
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Sep 23 2024 
Brief Report from the Russian front: By Marat Khairullin with illustrations by Mikhail Popov.
Russian Armed Forces cover Selidovo and Ugledar.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces advanced to the settlement of Kruglyakovka, dislodging the enemy from a large stronghold and taking it under their control, and apparently, we will soon see the cutting of the Oskol group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.In the area of the settlement… Continue reading
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Sep 23 2024 
The Hegemon’s Last War
A wilderness of mirrors: “NATO is incapable of fighting a real war of the 21st century.”
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Andrei Martyanov has carved for himself a unique, haloed place when it comes to deep critical thinking of all matters of war and peace.
In his previous books, in his blog Reminiscence of the Future and in… Continue reading
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Sep 22 2024 
Russian diplomat slams Pact for the Future as serious blow on UN
(Please see the background https://sovereignista.com/2024/09/22/un-first-result-pact-for-the-future/ )
UNITED NATIONS, September 22. /TASS/. Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky has slammed the Pact for the Future that has been adopted by a summit at the United Nations headquarters as a blow on the world organization.
“Regrettably, there is nothing good that today (on September… Continue reading
