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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
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Dec 05 2024 
Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Tucker Carlson
Sergey Lavrov’s interview to Tucker Carlson
🎙 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to Tucker Carlson (https://t.me/TuckerCarlsonNetwork) (Moscow, December 6, 2024)
Read in full (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1985783/)
Watch on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6BpFdX_ymM)Key talking points
#RussiaUS
• We would like to have normal relations with all countries especially with the United States. We don’t see any reason why Russia and the United States cannot… Continue reading
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Dec 05 2024 
Selections from today’s briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova,
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1985339/
Selections: Republic of Korea, Worsening situation in Syria, Ukraine
The Republic of Korea update
We are watching with concern the tragic developments underway in the Republic of Korea. We hope that they will not affect the socio-political situation on the Korean Peninsula, which has been complicated by the incendiary activities of the United States and its… Continue reading
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Dec 05 2024 
Russia Calling! Investment Forum
Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the Russia Calling! forum.
The 15th VTB Russia Calling! Investment Forum is being held in Moscow on December 4–5, 2024.
Its main theme is The Future of Capital and the Capital of the Future.
Although this transcript is still not fully complete (update : now complete), already there… Continue reading
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Dec 01 2024
Dmitry Medvedev: Three developments in Europe at the onset of winter
On his Telegram Channel – British and Zelensky, European Council, Georgia
Three developments in Europe at the onset of winter
1. What do you know? The British have acknowledged at last that Mr. z’s popularity has nosedived and most Ukrainians want him gone. According to The Times, only 16% of them would vote for him, come… Continue reading
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Nov 30 2024 
BRICS Partner States
Russia is filling the expected void when Brazil takes over BRICS.
List of new BRICS partner states to be released before end of year — Russian MFA
No country that received an invitation to become a BRICS partner state has rejected it, Sergey Ryabkov saidMOSCOW, November 30. /TASS/. Moscow intends to release the complete list of the… Continue reading
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Nov 30 2024 
FM Lavrov’s remarks at Ambassadorial Round Table Discussion, “Ukraine crisis: Global information space”
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at Ambassadorial Round Table Discussion, “Ukraine crisis: Global information space,” Moscow, November 29, 2024
Ladies and gentlemen,
Colleagues, friends,
We believe it is crucially important to make sure that ambassadors working in the Russian Federation have a detailed understanding of our position regarding one of the most acute international crises, which broke out… Continue reading
