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💬 President Vladimir Putin: There is no in-between, no intermediate state: either a country is #sovereign, or it is a #colony, no matter what the colonies are called. And a colony has no historical prospects.
If a country is not able to make sovereign decisions - it's a colony.
❌ 's attempt to create a sensation from nothing failed and looked ludicrous and helpless. We hope that the outlet will draw necessary conclusions and will from now on focus on facts, rather than flashy headlines aimed at attracting attention is.gd/jW48nT
Here's another history lesson for the West 👇
🇺🇸 US-led / sponsored wars have a similar pattern - humiliating defeat, hasty retreat, abandoned allies. The result: wasted taxpayers' money & human lives lost
Bay of Pigs - 1961
Saigon - 1975
Kabul - 2021
Kiev - coming soon
🇷🇺🇮🇳 President Putin sent his condolences to & over the deadly train collision in Odisha.
🙏 We share the grief of those who lost their loved ones in this tragic accident,& wish a speedy recovery for those injured.
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🇷🇺🇵🇰 On May 1, 1948, diplomatic relations between our country and Pakistan were established.
🤝 Today, Russia & Pakistan are major foreign policy partners.
💬 Sergey #Lavrov: Russian-Pakistani relations are constructive and mutually beneficial.
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⚡️ : Russian personnel acquired over 20,000 documents of the U.S. biological programmes.
The materials confirm that the Pentagon aimed at creating elements of a biological weapon, & testing it on the population of Ukraine❗️
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🇷🇺🇵🇰 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address to the citizens of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between our countries.
💬 Sergey #Lavrov: Pakistan-Roosi dosti zindabad!
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🇷🇺🇵🇰 On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin & PM of Pakistan to hold talks in Moscow.
The Leaders plan to discuss the main issues of bilateral cooperation, as well as topical regional affairs, incl. the developments in South Asia.
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🇮🇳 On August 15, India marks the 76th Anniversary of Independence gained in 1947 from the British colonisers.
🎉 Heartfelt congratulations to our Indian friends on their national holiday. We wish you peace, prosperity & new achievements.
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💬 #Putin: Today, Russia is waging a tough struggle for its future, repelling the aggression of neo-Nazis & their patrons.
❗️ Any internal revolt is a deadly threat to our statehood. Our actions to defend the Fatherland from this threat will be harsh.
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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov was received by Prime Minister during his official visit to #India
#RussiaIndia #DruzhbaDosti
📸 #PhotoOfTheDay
🇷🇺🇮🇳 Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar hold talks "on the sidelines" of the SCO Ministerial in Panaji (Goa), India
#DruzhbaDosti
💬 President #Putin: We are not at war with the people of Ukraine.
They've become hostages of the Kiev regime and its Western masters, who have occupied Ukraine.
🌟 Happy #VictoryDay!
Today marks the 78th Anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism.
#LestWeForget
#Victory78 #VDay78 #May9
💬 President Vladimir Putin: I have decided to implement a package of measures to transfer payments for natural gas supplied to “unfriendly countries” to Russian rubles.
❗ We will not accept any compromised currency to be used in these transactions.
Today marks 1️⃣ year since the city of #Mariupol has been liberated from the neoNazis of the Kiev regime, who used its citizens as a human shield.
🏙️ Today, it is a bustling, rapidly developing city with newly-built districts, hospitals, schools and kindergartens.
#See4Yourself
🎙 President Putin: The West lied to us about peace while preparing for aggression.
💬Today, they cynically use Ukraine and its people as a means to weaken and divide Russia.
☝️ We have never allowed anyone to do this and we will not allow it now.
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🇷🇺🇿🇦 South Africa warmly welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov.
#RussiaSouthAfrica
📹 Maria Zakharova
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⚡ Russia's Ministry of Defence:
A close-up view of a fraction of the destroyed Western hardware supplied to the Neo-Nazis of the Kiev regime 🔥
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💬 #Zakharova: We’re following the developments concerning the arrest of former Pakistani Prime Minister .
☝️ We call on all parties to resolve differences by peaceful means. We hope the protests will entail no serious clashes & Pakistan will soon return to normal.
💬 Russia's FM Sergey #Lavrov: A new reality is taking shape: the unipolar world is irretrievably receding into the past and a #multipolar world is being born.
❗ Nobody on Earth will be considered a second-rate player. All nations are equal and sovereign.
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🇷🇺 Russia stands for:
✅ truth & justice,
✅ family values & ♂️♀️ marriage,
✅ men & women as biological sexes,
✅ fathers & mothers,
Russia says NO ❌
to liberal globalist order cynically labeled as "rules-based" & promoted by current US Administration & its 🇨🇦🇪🇺 minions
🇷🇺🇮🇳 On June 30, President of Russia Vladimir #Putin and Prime Minister of India spoke over the phone.
The two Leaders confirmed their mutual desire to strengthen the #RussiaIndia specially privileged strategic partnership.
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✉️ President of Russia Vladimir #Putin expressed his deep condolences to President of Italy Sergio Mattarella on the death of outstanding Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi.
🖋 For me, Silvio was a dear person, a true friend.
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💬 President #Putin: The ruling elite in the West is not thinking about how to improve the lives of their citizens in Western countries. They are obsessed with their own self-serving interests and super profits.
The entire planet is now paying for the West’s ambitions.
🇷🇺🇮🇳 On May 4, FM Sergey #Lavrov held talks with his Indian counterpart .
The Ministers praised the dynamics of cooperation in key areas of the specially privileged strategic partnership between our countries.
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#RussiaIndia #DruzhbaDosti
⚡️ Russia's Defence Ministry:
As a result of offensive actions by the Wagner assault units, supported by artillery and aviation of the Yug Group of Forces, the liberation of #Artyomovsk has been completed ✅
🇷🇺🇵🇰 During his working visit to Russia, Pakistani Prime Minister attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow.
#RussiaPakistan
🇷🇺🇵🇰 President Vladimir #Putin and Prime Minister held a meeting in Moscow.
They discussed the main aspects of bilateral cooperation and exchange views on current regional topics, including developments in South Asia.
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#RussiaPakistan
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Following phone talk between Presidents #Putin & #Russia sends largest cargo aircraft An-124 Ruslan ✈️ with 😷 medical supplies (masks + equipment) to #US to help fight #COVID19 pandemic, save lives of American citizens. 🤝 The plane is en route #RussiaHelps
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🇷🇺🇵🇰📞 President Vladimir #Putin and Prime Minister of Pakistan had a telephone conversation.
They discussed #RussiaPakistan ties in different areas, including trade, the economy, energy and the humanitarian sphere, as well as #COVID19.
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🇷🇺🤝🌍 The Second #RussiaAfrica Summit has concluded!
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To all our African friends and colleagues: till we meet again!
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❗️ We warn Western countries against undertaking attempts to use the domestic Russian situation to achieve their Russophobic goals.
Such attempts would be futile & will find no resonance either in Russia or among reasonable political forces abroad.
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⚡️ Last night, the Kiev regime attempted a drone strike against the residence of the President of the Russian Federation at the Kremlin.
We consider these actions a premeditated terrorist attack and an assassination attempt targeting the President
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🇷🇺🇲🇱📞 President Putin and Interim President of Mali spoke over the phone.
🤝 Assimi Goïta thanked Vladimir Putin for the assistance in ensuring security, neutralising the terrorist threat and stabilising the situation throughout Mali.
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🙈 No Nazis in Ukraine they say?
For those blind and deaf, here's yet another piece of evidence: On Valentine's day Zelensky officially named a Ukrainian division Edelweiss – after the infamous Nazi Wehrmacht unit, responsible for its war crimes.
MSM still keeping mum?
Readers added context
The presidential decree on the naming of this brigade does not indicate that the brigade has been named "after" anything but the edelweiss flower.
president.gov.ua/documents/8020…
The Russian National Guard has a special forces unit also named "Edelweiss"
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1…
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Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!
#FamilyPhoto
📸 Foreign Ministers of the expanded "Friends of BRICS" format at the Family Photo ceremony
📍 Cape Town, June 2, 2023
⚡️ Maryana Naumova's response to
💬 Please, find and reread the letters, that the children of #Donbass wrote to you back in 2015.
I invite you to see everything with your own eyes.
Don’t side with Skynet, Terminator!
👉 In full: bit.ly/3ue1L0F
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🇷🇺🇵🇰📞 August 25, Vladimir #Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of #Pakistan .
⚡ The Presidents agreed to coordinate approaches to the Afghan issue both in bilateral and multilateral formats.
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💬 FM Sergey #Lavrov: Berlin keeps saying that it is upholding European values in Ukraine.
☝️ If Germany believes that returning to Nazism that is now flourishing in Ukraine is a value, then it’s a very sad and dangerous turn of events.
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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov arrives in #India on a working visit.
📍 Panaji (Goa), May 4, 2023
#RussiaIndia
🇷🇺🇹🇷📞 President Vladimir #Putin & President spoke over the phone.
President Putin informed his counterpart on the situation in Russia. The Turkish President expressed support for the steps taken by the Russian leadership.
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#RussiaTurkiye
💬 President #Putin: I want ordinary Western people to hear me, too. You are being told that your current difficulties are the result of Russia’s hostile actions, that you have to pay from your own pockets.
❗️ All of that is a lie.
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🇷🇺🇧🇷📞 President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of #Brazil .
🤝 The Parties confirmed their mutual intention to consistently strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries.
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🇷🇺🇿🇦Today marks 3️⃣0️⃣ years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and South Africa!
Our interaction is distinguished by the strong bonds of friendship & cooperation established during the struggle against apartheid, which continue to develop today.
🇷🇺🇮🇳 President Vladimir #Putin congratulated President of India & PM on India’s Independence Day.
💬 We attach great importance to our relations and specially privileged strategic partnership with New Delhi.
t.me/MFARussia/17018
#RussiaIndia
💬 President Vladimir Putin: Our country stands ready to establish close interaction with all countries that have an interest in countering common threats and challenges that humanity is facing.
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🕯 Today marks 2️⃣3️⃣ years since began bombing #Yugoslavia.
◼️ ~ 2,000 civilians, incl. at least 89 children, were killed.
◼️ Depleted uranium was used causing cancer & other malignant diseases.
On that day the West began dismantling the international legal framework.
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💬 Maria #Zakharova: We are calling the West to finally silence its false propaganda, to stop blaming the incidents in Kosovo on the desperate Serbs who are peacefully, without weapons in their hands, trying to defend their legitimate rights & freedoms.
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💬 #Zakharova: We receive a huge number of letters from Italians expressing solidarity with Russia's actions.
🇷🇺 🤝🇮🇹 We value that Italian people do not let themselves be deceived by biased media & even in the most difficult times make efforts to maintain close ties with Russia
Is this the face of Europe circa 2023?
📍 Estonia, Tartu, February 2
📸 Sille Annuk
Ring any bell?
💬 President Putin: The calls to Ukraine to keep fighting and to abandon any further negotiations prove that the US and NATO do not care for the Ukrainian people's interests.
☝️ They use Ukraine to reinforce their role and positions in the world, to reaffirm their hegemonism.
Africans leaders have arrived in #SaintPetersburg.
As the 2nd #RussiaAfrica Summit is already underway we greet our guests 🇷🇺🤝🌍
Welcome!
🇸🇨 🇧🇯 🇦🇴 🇨🇩 🇳🇦 🇹🇿 🇧🇫 🇬🇲 🇬🇼 🇬🇳 🇩🇯 🇰🇲 🇧🇮 🇲🇬 🇸🇴 🇹🇩 🇬🇶 🇿🇼 🇪🇹 🇸🇩 🇸🇸 🇪🇬 🇲🇱 🇿🇦 🇪🇷 🇨🇬 🇳🇬 🇨🇫 🇺🇬 🇩🇿 🇸🇳 🇬🇭 🇿🇲 🇷🇼 🇲🇿 🇨🇲 🇹🇬 🇲🇷 🇹🇳 🇸🇿 🇱🇾 🇲🇼 🇨🇮 🇬🇦 🇲🇦
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🇷🇺🇵🇰 In #Islamabad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov held talks with Chief of Army Staff
#RussiaPakistan
⚡️ Read in full briefing by on US military-biological activity.
▪️ Evidence of the research of dangerous pathogens in Ukraine
▪️ Development of biological weapons by the US
▪️ Establishment of BSL-4 biolabs abroad by the US
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🇷🇺🤝🇩🇿 President Vladimir Putin held talks with President of Algeria , who is in Russia on a state visit.
💬 Vladimir Putin: #RussiaAlgeria interaction is truly multifaceted and has a tangible potential for further development.
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#FamilyPhoto
📸 Family Photo ceremony ahead of the #BRICS Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
📍 Cape Town, June 1, 2023
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova: ex Polish FM, now European MP has thanked the US for today's incident at the Russian gas pipeline (Nord Stream 2).
Is it an official statement on this being a terrorist attack? twitter.com/radeksikorski/
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✉️ President Vladimir #Putin is receiving numerous telegrams and messages of greetings on his 70th birthday from foreign heads of state and government, heads of international organisations, and public figures.
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#Putin70
💬#Putin: The US and NATO have been rapidly deploying their military bases, secret biolabs, preparing Ukraine for a large war near our borders.
☝️ Through centuries of colonialism, diktat and hegemony they got used to complete permissiveness. They care not for the entire world.
🇷🇺🇦🇪 President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with President of the UAE @MohamedBinZayedon the sidelines of #SPIEF2023.
💬 President Putin: #RussiaUAE relations are expanding very successfully. Most importantly, they benefit both Russia and the UAE.
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💬 #Zakharova We call on the team to stop trying to interfere in other countries’ domestic affairs not just in word but in deed. Without considering and respecting its partners’ interests, these noble causes will remain simple declarations
⚡️ The people of Ukraine are awakening to the reality, realizing that they've been duped and deceived into becoming cannon fodder used against Russia.
This process has already begun: Ukrainian POWs formed Bogdan Khmelnitsky volunteer battalion to fight Kiev's neo-Nazi regime.
⚡️ We strongly condemn the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant by the Ukrainian armed forces.
This is a terrorist act.
We shall initiate a discussion for considering this crime by the Kiev regime in the UN Security Council.
🔗 In full: is.gd/GZL6Yi
#RussiaAfrica
🇷🇺🇧🇫 President #Putin at a meeting with Interim President of #BurkinaFaso Ibrahim Traore:
💬 We pay great attention to developing relations with Burkina Faso. We have decided to reopen the Russian Embassy, which was closed back in 1992.
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🌐 Russia's Foreign Policy Concept:
Russia intends to make it a priority to eliminate the vestiges of domination by the US and other unfriendly states in global affairs, create conditions to enable any state to renounce neo-colonial ambitions.
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💬 President #Putin: Banderites and neo-Nazis are putting up heavy weapons, including MLRS, right in the central districts of large cities, including Kiev and Kharkov. In effect, they are acting in the same way that terrorists act all over the world – using people as shields
Readers added context
Ukraine is a sovereign country that is defending its land with its own military. reuters.com/business/aeros…
🗨 Quote. President of France said: No country can deploy nuclear weapons on foreign territory “under any circumstances.”
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: Am I correct in understanding that Paris’s tough demand is addressed to Washington? 😘
❗ Classified documents (order by the Commander National Guard of Ukraine) acquired by confirm without a shadow of a doubt: the Kiev regime was covertly preparing an offensive operation against #Donbass, scheduled for March 2022.
In detail: bit.ly/3pKBYMf
💬 President Vladimir #Putin to Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed:
We highly appreciate the long-standing friendly ties between Russia and Ethiopia, based on the principles of mutual respect and consideration for each other’s interests.
#RussiaEthiopia 🇷🇺🤝🇪🇹
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In #Islamabad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov held talks with Foreign Minister of #Pakistan 🇷🇺🇵🇰
#RussiaPakistan
📞 🇷🇺🇧🇾🇰🇿🇺🇿 President Vladimir #Putin had phone conversations with the Presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
The Russian leader informed his counterparts on the situation in the country.
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That #OOPS moment when the truth comes out... even on the MSM. On air.
The unexpected reveal of "innocent patients" with assault rifles showcased how the Ukrainian military uses ambulances. That same modus operandi involves exploiting civilians and using them as human shields.
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⚡️ Russia reserves the right to take any necessary measure to neutralise the threats that may be created through the use of British cruise missiles by Ukraine.
Read in full: is.gd/ED7SIP
🇷🇺🇰🇪 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov arrives in #Kenya.
📍 Nairobi, May 29, 2023
#RussiaKenya
💬 President Vladimir Putin: The model of total domination by the Western countries is unfair. It divides the world into first and second-class people and is therefore racist and neo-colonial.
☝️ The West mainly got to where it is by robbing other peoples in Asia and Africa.
💬 FM Sergey #Lavrov: We know the manners and the tricks which are being used by the Western countries to manipulate media. We understood long ago that there was no such thing as an independent Western media.
☝️ The censorship continues there in a very big way.
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💬 President Vladimir #Putin: Russia, no matter how much our enemies dislike this, is an integral player in the global economy, where a deep, radical transformation is underway. Trade & production chains as well as global financial system are changing.
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✍️ President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to Russia's Muslims on Eid al-Fitr.
💬 It is deeply gratifying that the followers of Islam in our country have a deep respect for the country’s centuries-old historical, religious & cultural traditions.
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#FamilyPhoto
📸 Heads of delegations of the #BRICS member states 🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦
📍 Johannesburg, August 22, 2023
🇷🇺 President Putin received letters of credence from 17 foreign ambassadors.
🤝🇩🇰🇵🇾🇳🇴🇬🇶🇴🇲🇸🇾🇲🇰🇧🇳🇲🇽🇭🇳🇿🇼🇺🇸🇮🇶🇰🇭🇬🇳🇪🇺
💬 #Putin: Russia is open to constructive partnership with all countries without exception.
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💬 President #Putin:
Russia cherishes the memory of Africa’s outstanding sons. We must never forget them.
✊ Patrice Lumumba, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Ben Bella, Omar al-Mukhtar, Kwame Nkrumah, Samora Machel, Leopold Senghor, Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyerere...
⚡ : Polish mass media & officials commit deliberate provocation to escalate situation with their statement on alleged impact of "Russian" rockets at Przewodów.
◽️ Russian hardware has launched NO strikes at the area.
In full detail 👉 t.me/MFARussia/14140
💬 President #Putin: In many Western countries, people are subjected to persecution just because they are originally from Russia.
In its attempts to “cancel” Russia, the West tore off its mask of decency and began to act crudely showing its true colours.
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