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Dec 29 2024 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya, December 29, 2024
Question: Will Russia withdraw from the New START before it expires considering the aggressive Western policy? Or maybe Moscow will be willing to comply with the quantitative limits as set forth in the New START even after the February 2026 deadline?
Sergey Lavrov: There is an objective reality in which the destructive policy by the United… Continue reading
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Dec 20 2024 
Putin’s Q&A and the Forever Wars Riddle
Putin’s answers connect to the fog of the Forever Wars.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
He spoke for four and a half hours, virtually non-stop, reviewing the results of 2024, mastering all the facts.
His Direct Line received over 2 million questions, from Russia and around the world. And he had to crown the performance with a flourish,… Continue reading -
Dec 20 2024 
Banks find opportunity to work under sanctions — Central Bank chief
The Russian Central Bank has unexpectedly kept the key rate unchanged at 21% per annum.
It does not mean there will be no such risks in the future but it is very important in this regard for the financial stable to remain stable, Elvira Nabiullina said
Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina Peter Kovalev/TASSMOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/.… Continue reading
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Dec 19 2024 
President Putin: Live
#LIVE: 2024 Annual News Conference and Direct Line with the people of Russia by President Vladimir Putin
🔴 #LIVE: 2024 Annual News Conference and Direct Line with the people of Russia by President Vladimir Putin https://t.co/AErwdVc2Lz— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) December 19, 2024
Further links to listen:
🔴 Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/100069392071612/videos/603822132064249)
🔴 Ruptly (https://www.ruptly.tv/event_route?link_id=c9e0c148-713e-4c5f-bcbf-d93e10632615&provider_id=13&direction=video)
🔴 Kremlin. News (https://t.me/news_kremlin_eng?livestream)
🔴 Rumble… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2024 
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation – First Deputy Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Valery Gerasimov
Briefing for military attachés of foreign states.
Current military political situation in the world
The military political situation in the world is characterised by increase of armed conflicts in the various regions. This fact further undermined the regional and international security.The main reason of escalation is the desire of the Collective West led by the USA to… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2024 
Russia’s therapeutic mRNA vaccine against cancer and it will be distributed to patients free of charge.
BREAKING:🇷🇺 Russia says it developed a therapeutic mRNA "vaccine" against CANCER and it will be distributed to patients "free of charge." pic.twitter.com/iC8wpXjAdW— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) December 17, 2024
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Dec 17 2024 
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Russian bioweapons expert, killed via IED in Moscow
❗️ This is a shock! Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces, was killed along with his aide, in an ied bomb blast in southeastern Moscow early on Tuesday.
So many times we posted links to his immaculately referenced work as he exposed the bioweapons labs in Ukraine and spoke… Continue reading
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Dec 16 2024 
President Vladimir Putin: speech at the extended meeting with the collegium of the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD).
Update: Formal transcript added
Comments from Sputnik:
President Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian Defense Ministry board, summing up the year’s developments in the military operation in Ukraine. He also discussed the global situation and outlined other measures to ensure the country’s security.
Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined key objectives for strengthening the country’s defense capabilities and advancing the… Continue reading
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Dec 14 2024 
National identity and political choice on the example of Russia and China
Article by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russian Federation (December 13, 2024) December 14, 2024
If you are hoping to turn a Russian pharmacy into a Ukrainian one, it’s not enough just to clip the letter “я” off the end of the word “гомеопатическая” on its signboard.
Mikhail Bulgakov [1]AKA “Divide and rule”:… Continue reading
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Dec 10 2024 
Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin: interview to ‘Razvedchik’ (‘Intelligence Officer’) news magazine
❓ Question: Late last year, the Razvedchik (Intelligence Officer) magazine published your article about international development trends in the outgoing year 2024. To what extent have your forecasts come true, and what are the nascent new trends? What can Russia and the international community fear and hope for next year?
💬 Sergey Naryshkin: The main forecast… Continue reading -
Dec 10 2024 
Navigating the Fog
An Interview with Professor Sergey A. Karaganov
By Nora Hoppe and Tariq Marzbaan at Al Mayadeen.
As we transition from a dying world to a new one in its turbulent birth pangs – we find ourselves in a foggy interregnum that urgently needs more clarity for us to move on…
We thus turn once again to political scientist… Continue reading -
Dec 10 2024 
Lessons from Syria: Assad and Putin
Why do the Brutalists Lose?
by Marat Khairullin on Substack.
Syria is important. No matter how bitter it is to realize this. But there is such a maxim, “no matter how hard the failure is, if you have learned from it, then it is no longer a failure, but the next step up the mountain.” In other… Continue reading
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Dec 08 2024 
Russia: MFA Statement on Syria
We are monitoring the dramatic developments in Syria with extreme concern.
Following his talks with a number of participants in the armed conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, Bashar al-Assad decided to step down as the Syrian President and leave the country, instructing the government to transfer power peacefully.
Russia was not involved in those negotiations.
However, we… Continue reading
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Dec 06 2024 
Reflections on the Path to Victory
Sergey Karaganov at the Magazine, Russia in Global Affairs
Sergey Karaganov: Doctor of Historical Sciences, Distinguished Professor, Academic Director of the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy.
Russia has begun to win… Continue reading
