Russian Embassy, UK@RussianEmbassy
President Vladimir #Putin:
The aggression #Russia is facing today directly shows that back in 1945, Nazism was defeated, but not eliminated.
Russophobia, xenophobia, and nationalism have become weapons of revanchists in many European countries, in the Baltic states, and, unfortunately, in #Ukraine.
True history is an obstacle, not a benefit to them. This is what is behind their attempts to revise and distort the reasons, the process and the outcomes of #WarWorldII, to glorify murderers and discredit heroes.
They lie shamelessly and demolish monuments to those who liberated the planet from #Nazism in their impotent anger, thereby renouncing their own ancestors. And this too is a crime.
Read in full: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/preside
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News appeared on the Internet that Germany demanded that Niger end relations with Russia, threatening to sever relations and close its embassy in the country.
“If Germany wants to close its embassy, so be it, we will not beg anyone. Who wants to leave, let him leave. Who needs Germany? The Europeans have brought nothing to Africa except the exploitation of our resources, our wars, terrorists and our dictators,” said the head of Niger’s transitional Military Council, Abd al-Rahman Chiani, in an interview with local television.
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Douglas Macgregor@DougAMacgregor
When the USGOV illegally confiscates $300 Billion in Russian assets and turns them over to Ukraine’s corrupt government in Kiev, Saudi Arabia, India, China and a host of other countries will “fire sale” US Treasuries detonating the explosives that will demolish America’s global financial system and tank the U.S. Economy.
Congratulations Washington! You’ve destroyed in a few short years the prosperity and national power that it took Americans hundreds of years to build.
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One of the western medias favorite things to do is to paint countries they don’t like as dictatorships and by this action of course the mindless fools whom consume the media echo the same thing.
For example, they say Putin is a dictator, that he and he alone decided to launch the SMO in Ukraine, ignoring that the entire parliament voted for this. They also try to discredit Putin by saying his elections are rigged as they are in the US.
Yes Putin wins and will win by overwhelming numbers and that seems strange to the US and west. This seems odd to them because the US and west have awful, divisive leaders and a media who’s job is to magnify that. They are used to having such bad leaders that it is normal for them to only have 30, 40% approval.
Is it such a stretch of the imagination that not every leader is as awful, corrupt and owned as western leaders? That maybe, just maybe Putin is for his people and not for himself or a bank or Israel or warhawks or some other interest?
Maybe, just maybe the people honestly just support their leader because he isn’t shit… Now there is a strange idea the west will never understand.
#UkraineRussianWar #ukraine #russia #Zelensky #putin #nato #BRICS #china #india #africa #Trump #biden #EU #IsraeliCrimes #Palestine #Israel #PalestineUnderAttack #Palestina #Gazagenocide #gaza
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Ambassador Bridget A. Brink
@USAmbKyiv
Pleased to welcome back to Kyiv three Inspectors General from the Departments of Defense, State, and USAID: @DOD_IG, @StateOIGand @USAID_OII. Their meetings with implementers, partners, & the Ukrainian government support ov ersight & accountability for U.S. assistance to Ukraine.
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A day late and a dollar short.
Or, to be more precise, a hundred billion dollars short.
Because Ukraine is the most corrupt nation in the world.
And you helped make it so.
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We made a compromise proposal. In return, we were blackmailed by Brussels. The #Brussels blackmail manual was published in the @FT earlier this week. The cat is out of the bag. Forget about the rule of law, Hungary is blackmailed for having a it’s own opinion on #migration, the war in #Ukraine and #genderpropaganda. We will defend our interests. #Hungary cannot be blackmailed! Read my latest interview in @LePoint:
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The people of Crimea exercised their right of self determination following the illegal CIA-backed Maidan coup that ousted the Constitutionally elected President of Ukraine.
I was just in Crimea, where I had a detailed discussion of this very question with the Head of the Crimean Republic.
You’re in Austria, working off NAFO talking points.
I’ll let the audience decide who has more credibility.
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Zelenskyy has lost the power struggle. His exit is coming in the next few weeks. Victoria Nuland met with his successor on her visit to Ukraine.
Watch these players: Zaluzhny, Budanov, Poroshenko.
Those are the whispers.
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Scott Ritter talks about his trio to Russia during the Christmas…
Scott Ritter talks about his trio to Russia during the Christmas season#scottritter #russia #peace
Bideoa: https://youtu.be/1gpzJ3Pa3Ac
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Scott Ritter: Russia and the Middle East.
Scott Ritter: Russia and the Middle East.
Bideoa: https://youtu.be/w3IAwqSIxXM
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Shared post – Scott Ritter Show Ep. 59
Bideoa: https://ustourofduty.locals.com/post/5204922/scott-ritter-show-ep-59
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WARRIOR UPDATE WITH SCOTT RITTER EPISODE 55 – WAR WITH IRAN? UKRAINE…
WARRIOR UPDATE WITH SCOTT RITTER EPISODE 55 – WAR WITH IRAN? UKRAINE COLLAPSE IMMINENT?https://www.rokfin.com/garlandnixonhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/garlan…
Bideoa: https://youtu.be/31U6Wf4ZoYU
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The Story Of Redemption – Scott Ritter’s Journey Through New Russian…
Part of our January 31st LIVE STREAM with Scott Ritter. Scott describes his recent journey trough Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Lugansk.#russia
Bideoa: https://youtu.be/zOyReCFvQ78
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Russian Embassy, UK@RussianEmbassy
#Zakharova: EU’s current internal & external policy shows that 
institutions are completely divorced from genuine interests of the Europeans. When farmers are calling for help, their political leaders shut the windows and decide to send another 50 billion
to Ukraine. 1/2
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#Zakharova: EU’s current internal & external policy shows that institutions are completely divorced from genuine interests of the Europeans. When farmers are calling for help, their political leaders shut the windows and decide to send another 50 billionto Ukraine. 1/2
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#Zakharova: It’s clear where these funds will land, considering the unprecedented corruption that has turned Ukraine into Europe’s black hole. These Nazi timeservers do not care that the burden of paying back European funds will have to be shouldered by future generations of Ukrainians. 2/2
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The cruelty of Ukraine is increasingly leaking into the world. MASS MEDIA.
The Guardian published an article in which it showed Ukrainian prisoners – pro-Russian citizens – who were labeled as “collaborators”.
– The arrested man had an “Orc” tattoo tattooed on his forehead. Torture by the Zelensky regime.
– A 30-year-old resident of Chasov Yar was thrown into prison for 15 years along with her 2-year-old daughter and is terrified that she will be taken away when her daughter reaches 3 years of age.
– A 34-year-old teacher from Slavyansk is serving time for trying to escape to his friends in Crimea. There are those arrested for participating in organizing a referendum in Kherson.
– 57-year-old resident of Artemovsk Yuri Tsybulsky explained to the British: “ My parents raised me to fight fascism, and here is fascism .”
Source: UkraineHumanRightsAbuses
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Russia, the stone in the shoe of the globalist West. (Essay)
Since the beginning of the SMO in Ukraine, talking heads in the west have given the same regurgitated reasons for why Russia is the greatest threat Europe or even the world has ever known. About how Russia will leap-frog it’s way from nation to nation if they are not stopped and Putin removed from power.
They however will not tell you of warnings in the late 90s by Russia, that a military alliance such as NATO is fine so long as it does not encroach it’s way onto Russian borders. One only need to look at a map of NATO in it’s infancy compared to now to understand the weed that is NATO and how it has not only expanded but done the very thing it promised Russia it would not do, expand upon Russian borders.
Russia had worked with Zelensky and Ukraine on a peace deal that was settled and ready to implement but in April of 2022 Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev at the behest of America and convinced Zelensky to tear up the peace agreement with Russia.
Russia knew NATO would not stop when it promised Ukraine a path to membership. Russia also knew that the people of the Donbass who cried out to Russia for help because Ukraine was killing them no hope if not for Russian intervention. It was then that not Putin alone but the entire Federation of Russian Assembly voted to begin the SMO in Ukraine and thus you have the actual truth for why Russia is in Ukraine.
But this alone is not the only reason western leaders hate Russia. You see Russia used to be accepted by the west. Durring the times after the fall of the Soviet Union and what the Russians remember as, “the terrible 90s,” Russia was very much liked by the west. Of course this is when Russian oligarchs completely sold out Russia. The land was being picked dry and drained of wealth and resources. The economy a skeleton and the people and culture in decline.
This is until someone stepped from the shadows of obscurity and said enough. That someone was Vladimir Putin. Many, many years of hard work and scraping themselves up from near ruin now sees Russia thriving on every front but this also is STILL not the truth as to why Russia is hated by western leaders.
You see, the western globalists controlled by the World Economic Forum and World Health Organization types have a plan, a vision for the world and stubborn Russia refuses to bend the knee as America, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Australia the UK and others have. Putin realized that in order to be apart of the club would mean to sacrifice Russia on the alter of globalism. After seeing exactly what that agenda was Putin said no, and walked away to stand with his people.
There are some requirements in order to be apart of the globalist club of countries. You must sacrifice health-care, national identity, sovereignty, open your borders, remove religion, free speech, self defense, gender and family. You must embrace degeneracy, LGBTQ ideology, climate change agenda and place total control of all things into the government run out of Davos Switzerland.
Putin and Russia said no, we will remain Russia, we will keep our pride, our culture, protect our kids, our families our borders and reject the insanity we increasingly see from the west and globalists. The truth is that the west cannot force Russia to bend the knee because Russia has the strongest military on earth. Add to this the rise of BRICS which seeks to replace western hegemony economically across the world and we now see a much clearer picture as to the true motives of the west when they paint Russia as the great evil.
Words, politics and noise aside, this is the truth of it all. The only thing Russia is guilty of is being a wall in-between the western globalists and their agenda for world domination. #UkraineRussianWar #ukraine #russia #Zelensky #putin #nato #BRICS #china #india #africa #Trump #biden #EU #IsraeliCrimes #Palestine #Israel #PalestineUnderAttack #Palestina #Gazagenocide #gaza
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#Lavrov: We are removing a historical injustice and countering the attempts not just to rewrite the history of the peoples of our country but to forget it forever and turn the current territories on which Russians and other people of Russia lived for centuries into a bridgehead that US-led NATO would use to threaten the security of the Russian Federation. I will repeat that nothing has changed. Napoleon, Hitler and now the United States have each found their way of attacking Russia.
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Seymour Hersh, award winning US journalist, confirms whispers from Ukraine that Washington hatched a plan to bring about the downfall of Zelenskyy. The next few weeks will be interesting. Ending the Zelenskyy nonsense and peace talks with Russia would be the best for all parties.
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Bombing is not diplomacy. Bombing is neither a strategy nor a simple exercise in virtue signaling.
Bombing is an act of war. Bombing does not contain conflict, nor does bombing deter an opponent from future action.
If anything, bombing escalates tension and leads to all-out war. A Great Power’s descent into a hell of its own making is never swift.
As C.S. Lewis taught, the descent is gradual, plodding, even measured until, suddenly, a Great Power like the United States discovers it has grossly underestimated its opponent.
Bullying, bribing, bombing and sanctioning opponents has not worked well.
Thanks to a string of strategic military failures in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, and Ukraine Washington is rapidly reaching hell in its relations with the rest of the world.
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As predicted, the same old familiar dance came to the same old end yesterday with the
inevitable deal with Hungary’s Orban to unlock another few billion for EU “strategic interests” in Ukraine. In the hands of this “geopolitical Commission” the rule of law is just another weapon.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1753504466228174966
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An interesting decision awaits Putin. Given 
s continued deep strikes / sabotage, he must choose between securing critical infrastructure or resourcing frontlines.
Russia again faces its historic challenge… an undefendable vastness.
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erabiltzaileari erantzuten
I’m fairly certain history shows that Russia can chew gum and walk at the same time.
Putin seems to possess the same skill set.
Ukraine is going down for the count.
So, too, are their western allies.
But thanks for sharing your Banderist fantasies.
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“I’d like to make the famous gesture, but I won’t: there are a lot of women here.”
Putin noted that the Russian economy, which was predicted to decline and collapse under the pressure of sanctions, is growing and is now the first in Europe and the fifth in the world.
“Nothing will work for them [Russia’s opponents],” the Russian president stressed.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1753448909161079045
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Russian Embassy, UK@RussianEmbassy
#Zakharova: EU’s current internal & external policy shows that institutions are completely divorced from genuine interests of the Europeans. When farmers are calling for help, their political leaders shut the windows and decide to send another 50 billionto Ukraine. 1/2
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Russia, the stone in the shoe of the globalist West. (Essay)
Since the beginning of the SMO in Ukraine, talking heads in the west have given the same regurgitated reasons for why Russia is the greatest threat Europe or even the world has ever known. About how Russia will leap-frog it’s way from nation to nation if they are not stopped and Putin removed from power.
They however will not tell you of warnings in the late 90s by Russia, that a military alliance such as NATO is fine so long as it does not encroach it’s way onto Russian borders. One only need to look at a map of NATO in it’s infancy compared to now to understand the weed that is NATO and how it has not only expanded but done the very thing it promised Russia it would not do, expand upon Russian borders.
Russia had worked with Zelensky and Ukraine on a peace deal that was settled and ready to implement but in April of 2022 Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev at the behest of America and convinced Zelensky to tear up the peace agreement with Russia. Russia knew NATO would not stop when it promised Ukraine a path to membership. Russia also knew that the people of the Donbass who cried out to Russia for help because Ukraine was killing them no hope if not for Russian intervention. It was then that not Putin alone but the entire Federation of Russian Assembly voted to begin the SMO in Ukraine and thus you have the actual truth for why Russia is in Ukraine.
But this alone is not the only reason western leaders hate Russia. You see Russia used to be accepted by the west. Durring the times after the fall of the Soviet Union and what the Russians remember as, “the terrible 90s,” Russia was very much liked by the west. Of course this is when Russian oligarchs completely sold out Russia. The land was being picked dry and drained of wealth and resources. The economy a skeleton and the people and culture in decline.
This is until someone stepped from the shadows of obscurity and said enough. That someone was Vladimir Putin. Many, many years of hard work and scraping themselves up from near ruin now sees Russia thriving on every front but this also is STILL not the truth as to why Russia is hated by western leaders.
You see, the western globalists controlled by the World Economic Forum and World Health Organization types have a plan, a vision for the world and stubborn Russia refuses to bend the knee as America, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Australia the UK and others have. Putin realized that in order to be apart of the club would mean to sacrifice Russia on the alter of globalism. After seeing exactly what that agenda was Putin said no, and walked away to stand with his people.
There are some requirements in order to be apart of the globalist club of countries. You must sacrifice health-care, national identity, sovereignty, open your borders, remove religion, free speech, self defense, gender and family. You must embrace degeneracy, LGBTQ ideology, climate change agenda and place total control of all things into the government run out of Davos Switzerland.
Putin and Russia said no, we will remain Russia, we will keep our pride, our culture, protect our kids, our families our borders and reject the insanity we increasingly see from the west and globalists. The truth is that the west cannot force Russia to bend the knee because Russia has the strongest military on earth. Add to this the rise of BRICS which seeks to replace western hegemony economically across the world and we now see a much clearer picture as to the true motives of the west when they paint Russia as the great evil. Words, politics and noise aside, this is the truth of it all. The only thing Russia is guilty of is being a wall in-between the western globalists and their agenda for world domination.
#UkraineRussianWar #ukraine #russia #Zelensky #putin #nato #BRICS #china #india #africa #Trump #biden #EU #IsraeliCrimes #Palestine #Israel #PalestineUnderAttack #Palestina #Gazagenocide #gaza
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We are removing a historical injustice and countering the attempts not just to rewrite the history of the peoples of our country but to forget it forever and turn the current territories on which Russians and other people of Russia lived for centuries into a bridgehead that US-led NATO would use to threaten the security of the Russian Federation. I will repeat that nothing has changed. Napoleon, Hitler and now the United States have each found their way of attacking Russia.
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Nothingness wrapped in empty neoliberal slogans.
Aipamena
Rachel Reeves@RachelReevesMP
urt. 31
To grow our economy and raise living standards, we need a vibrant financial services sector. That’s what I’ll deliver as Chancellor.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1752796954554138986
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The West is still hugely reliant on Russian Oil,
The West is completely reliant on Russian Uranium,
The Wests sanctions have utterly failed.
The US second biggest debtor is China, The Russian economy is growing.
The Russian Army is advancing.
The West – “We’re Winning”
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Illia Ponomarenko @IAPonomarenko
You know, I love people like @DavidSackswho have an understanding of the war of a 5-year-old — and don’t even see how primitive it is to crawl out of the woods and say things like ‘Russia has more artillery and more ammo, so supporting Ukraine is futile, just give up already pleeeeeeeeaaaaase.’
I also love people like @squatsons who seem to have never ever read a book in their lives yet somehow lecture the entire Twitter on how Ukraine sinking Russian warships does not mean anything and Russia is winning anyway.
Well, let’s see some numbers.
By early 2022, Russia’s Black Fleet had up to 80 vessels, including up to 35 major warships.
As of now, we know of up to 30 Russian vessels destroyed or damaged by Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
At least 11 of them are major warships.
That includes the very fleet flagship (!!!), the missile cruiser Moskva, as well as five large landing ships and a fucking submarine destroyed in a land war by a cruise missile for the first time in human history.
And what do we have now?
Russia, a major regional naval power, does not have control over a large swath of the northwestern Black Sea.
It lost control of Snake Island as far back as summer 2022.
It had its HQ in Sevastopol destroyed. Ukrainian missile attacks on key Russian-controlled airfields and air defense facilities in occupied Crimea take place almost daily.
It recently had to move at least 10 major warships from occupied Sevastopol to Novorossiysk due to painful Ukrainian missile attacks.
Due to Ukraine’s increasingly successful naval drone program, Russia now loses a major warship every month.
The ongoing loss of landing ships renders the slightest hint of a landing operation in the Ukrainian-controlled seaside near Odesa or Mykolaiv impossible.
Moreover, it appeared at some point that we don’t need Russia’s ‘permission’ to reinstate maritime traffic between Ukrainian ports and the rest of the world.
Over the last 6 months, 661 vessels transported over 20 million tons of freight from the Odesa port area to 32 nations.
That includes 14.3 million tons of Ukrainian agriculture products, a vital source of the national wartime budget.
In January, Odesa exported 6.3 million tons, which is roughly equivalent to pre-2022 output, says @OlKubrakov.
104 more vessels are expected to transport an additional 3 million tons.
Russia withdrew from the ‘grain deal’ in July ’23 — and we don’t need one anymore, we have the Ukrainian armed forces keeping the sea clear.
I repeat: Russia, a major regional naval power with all of its bravado and all the chest-beating, after two years of an all-out war, finds itself in this position in the Black Sea against “a country that has no navy.”
I actually want to withdraw my early opinion — it’s not the worst humiliation of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet since the end of the Crimean War of 1853-56.
It’s simply the biggest humiliation the Russian Black Sea Fleet has ever faced throughout 240 years of its history.
There’s always a way to go.
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You left out one important thing:
Everything you wrote underscores why Odessa will be a Russian city, and Ukraine will lose access to the Black Sea forever.
Enjoy your moment.
It’s already over.
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The US regime is terrified that Americans will hear President Putin speak. If they heard what Putin has to say, they would realize the US government and its media mouthpieces have conned and abused the American public for decades. Previously, Tucker Carlson “tried to interview the Russian leader, but the US government stopped him.”
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Donbass and Palestine…. two victims of western-backed fascist regimes.
Aipamena
Steve Sweeney@SweeneySteve
ots. 3
From Donetsk to Palestine 
Solidarity with the people of Gaza 
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Something went wrong at the Big NATO Exercises 
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Navigation does not work on NATO’s eastern flank due to Russia – Sputnik Near Abroad
The commander of the defense forces of the Baltic republic, Herem, said in an interview with the Telegraph that navigation does not work on NATO’s eastern flank.
The failure occurred “in the area from Finland through the Baltic countries and Poland.”
The publication claims that the Russian electronic warfare system is allegedly interfering with the operation of GPS.
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Russian Embassy, UK@RussianEmbassy
FM Sergey #Lavrov:
#BRICS is a global organisational principle for the Global South and East.
It is based on mutual respect, a sovereign choice of development path and the equality of states.
Read in full: https://mid.ru/en/foreign_pol
31 January 2024 12:12
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a BRICS sherpa and sous-sherpa meeting, Moscow, January 31, 2024
142-31-01-2024
(https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1928663/)
Colleagues,
Friends,
We are delighted to welcome you to this year’s first meetings of BRICS sherpa and sous-sherpas, which is one of numerous events scheduled to be held this year under Russia’s chairmanship. You have been informed about these plans. The new year has begun, and we must get down to work. Our meeting is taking place in truly wintry conditions, but I am sure that you have experienced Russian cordiality and hospitality. Welcome!
Regarding the agenda that is important to our group today, it consists of issues that are related to the objective processes underway now. We can see a deep transformation of international relations, which reflects the development of a more democratic and fairer multipolar world based on the cultural and civilisational diversity of the modern world and the right of every nation to determine its future.
It is a historically objective process. New powerful centres of economic growth and financial and political influence are rising. This is not happening because the US-led collective West is doing everything in its power to preserve its domination, or whatever is left of it, which they have enjoyed for 500 years of human history. That domination rests on colonial wars, the exploitation of nations, and many other elements. It can be described as the privileged position of the “golden minority.” It is also known as the golden billion, yet it is a minority. The West is trying to preserve this status and to force all others, which we describe as the Global Majority now, to recognise its “privileges.”
They are doing this by promoting their own “rules” as the basis of the world order, something which has become a byword. It means that the West will make decisions and all the others must implement them in a way that suits the West at the given moment. It concerns finance, technology, ideology and international politics.
You are familiar with the notion of multilateralism and the slogan of inclusiveness. Western politicians are using them to camouflage the lop-sided measures which cannot promote a lasting and fair solution to the problems that have piled up in global politics, security and the economy. It is obvious to everyone that the dollar is being used or could potentially be used as a weapon to achieve political objectives. Dollar-denominated grants issued by international financial institutions are being actively used as an instrument of coercion. Unilateral sanctions are eroding the long-established, convenient and effective production logistics chains and undermining the development prospects of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Instead of encouraging cultural cooperation, they are promoting “cancel culture.”
The reliance of the Western minority on force and the suppression of dissent is leading to serious crises in international relations and increasing the number of conflicts. These unhealthy trends are evident not only in the Euro-Atlantic region but also in the Asia-Pacific region, where Washington and NATO are trying to introduce the logic of bloc confrontation.
The United States has spent years seeking to mobilise mediation efforts in the Middle East settlement process only to bring about a sharp escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and cause a humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. Over 25,000 civilians died there and the number of wounded is three times that number. Tel Aviv’s refusal to abide by the UN Security Council decision to establish the State of Palestine is being ignored, which can be viewed as a direct challenge regarding the multiple resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council and General Assembly. Creating a viable Palestinian state, living side by side with Israel and other countries in the region as good neighbours and in security, as well as eradicating extremism and terrorism are key to achieving lasting stability in the Middle East. Today, there is a real danger that instability can well spill over across a wider space in this important region.
The Western policy affects us and we can feel the impact. Everyone knows that a hybrid war has been unleashed against Russia. The United States and its allies want to impose the infamous Zelensky Formula on the international community. I know for a fact that they have been proactive in inviting the countries of the Global South, including those represented here today, to these events by trying to present this would-be formula as the only option for achieving a settlement. However, it is obvious to anyone that this is nothing more than an ultimatum presented to the Russian Federation. It cannot be fulfilled, while discrediting those who are trying to pose as foreign policy leaders and effective managers.
The Copenhagen format held yet another meeting in Davos recently on the Zelensky Formula. Some of the countries represented in this room attended it. After the meeting, I talked to my colleagues from several friendly countries, including on the role assigned to the Global South at these meetings. The only purpose of these gatherings is to establish the peace formula as the only possible solution without any alternative.
I reminded my colleagues that our Chinese friends drafted their own document on this issue. What sets it apart from other initiatives is that it prioritises the need to eliminate the causes of the ongoing developments in Europe. This is an essential point. I said that our South African colleagues also presented an initiative. We discussed this in July 2023 in St Petersburg on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Summit and adopted a document dealing with the humanitarian dimension of the crisis. President of Brazil Luiz Lula da Silva discussed his proposals with President Vladimir Putin.
I asked those who attended the Peace Formula meeting in Davos whether the initiatives presented by the Global Majority got any traction, only to be told that no one paid any attention to them. They are not there to offer initiatives. In fact, they are not expected to contribute in any meaningful way. All they have to do is go there so that they can be counted among the participants for producing a new record for the whole world to see. All this would be credited to Vladimir Zelensky’s Peace Formula.
This demonstrates a total failure to respect the opinions of others and the desire to ignore them, which amounts to a purely colonial, imperialist attitude, no matter how you put it. We have experienced these historical stages in the development of human society. There is no doubt that all this Copenhagen Process simply builds on the well-known policy declared by the West to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia in order to maintain its global dominance before moving on to the next stage in international politics. This will consist of containing China as posing the biggest challenge for the global minority.
What is happening in Ukraine is a tragedy. The West couldn’t care less about the lives of Ukrainians. They are collateral damage, as they say in the US army. They look right past the massive violations by the criminal Kiev regime of all human rights and freedoms, including those of ethnic minorities. Ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers have been stripped of these rights by law. The above are the current net results of the activities of Western geopolitical architects.
Washington and its European satellites are spending vast amounts of money to contain Russia, in stark contrast to the Western capitals’ approach to the Global South, especially the African countries. Kiev is receiving more and more fabulous amounts of money. Aid to the Kiev regime exceeded $200 billion in less than two years, while humanitarian supplies and technology transfers to developing countries are a fraction of those figures, and are subject to numerous conditions. There are cases where support for Ukraine is financed by suspending projects in Africa and the Middle East. We are well aware of this.
Nevertheless, we know the course of history cannot be reversed. We are witnessing the Global Majority – the states of Eurasia, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean – gain a stronger foothold in the world system. Most of these countries are increasingly asserting their national interests and identities and striving for genuine strategic independence – not in isolation, but in cooperation with other free and independent states that respect international law. In other words, their national interests are now at the forefront, as opposed to the whims of former metropolises.
Our strategic partners, including those in BRICS, are pursuing pragmatic and independent foreign policies – unlike the West, which tends to impose on others the development models that suit it. The new world centres’ natural aspirations to play a more active role in significant decision-making is supported by the growing economic potential of the states represented here. It is no coincidence that not only political activity, but also trade and investment is shifting from the Euro-Atlantic region to Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region. Especially at a time when the West is destroying globalisation tools, international markets are becoming regionalised, and most supply and logistics chains are being rebuilt so as not to depend on Western tools. The roles of other currencies are growing compared to the dollar, the euro and other Western currencies.
In principle, not a single really serious issue can be effectively decided today by a single power, no matter how large or confident it is, especially through infringement on the interests of other countries. A collective approach, which the BRICS countries and a vast number of their supporters are promoting, is not an option or a whim but a current imperative. This is why the motto we have chosen for Russia’s BRICS chairmanship this year is Strengthening Multilateralism for Equitable Global Development and Security. We regard BRICS as a bulwark and a prototype for a multipolar world, the development of which all of us are trying to contribute to in the name of a brighter and more harmonious future for our people.
BRICS is a global organisational principle for the Global South and East. However, it is not based on the bloc principle, which I want to emphasise, but on the principles of mutual respect, a sovereign choice of development path and the implementation of the fundamental principle of the UN Charter, that is, the sovereign equality of states.
You may notice that since its establishment, the UN and its activities have clearly demonstrated that the United States and its allies have never respected the principle of the sovereign equality of states during any crisis situation or conflict. They have always wanted to be more equal than others.
The accession of new countries – Egypt, Iran, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia, which I wholeheartedly welcome once again – is strengthening our strategic partnership and the international standing of our group. You know how many countries are interested in developing partner relations with BRICS and have officially declared an interest. We will pay particular attention to this during our chairmanship.
The figures are self-evident. The aggregate GDP of the BRICS countries in terms of purchasing power parity has reached about one third of the global value and has exceeded that of the G7 countries. The BRICS countries account for 30 percent of dry land and 45 percent of the world’s population, a substantial part of the global production of oil and other resources, and about 25 percent of global exports. With this huge potential, we cannot be a passive observer or follow in the wake of historical processes, especially in light of the hopes the countries of the Global South and East are pinning on BRICS. Our group has the ability to form a global agenda by consistently upholding the interests of the Global Majority and offering our views on the contours of the future world order based on objective events rather than artificial schemes designed to hinder humankind’s development.
At the same time, we all agree that this activity and initiative do not amount to attempts to force something on somebody. We are always open to an equal dialogue aimed at looking for a balance of interests. A recent example of this dialogue and its effectiveness is the G20 summit held in 2023 in New Delhi, which the majority of states present here attended. Ultimately, a balanced document was adopted. It objectively reflects the current state of global politics, especially in terms if geopolitics. The West failed to impose its one-sided view of current foreign policy issues through the omission of the crises which they themselves are whipping up and which cannot be put out after American and British interference. Our group is competent and knows what it wants and how to achieve these goals without – I would like to stress this again – forcing solutions on anyone.
We have a long track record of effectively promoting cooperation among countries representing various civilisations, religions and macro regions in all spheres, from politics and security to economics and humanitarian contacts. Regional integration processes have been enjoying a lot of momentum in their development lately, as we can see in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in Eurasia. There are interesting projects there involving the SCO, the EAEU, ASEAN, including in the context of working with China’s Belt and Road Initiative. All these subregional and regional processes will move forward at an even faster pace and gain substance while the West keeps pushing its age-old global instruments. It has been trying to persuade everyone that these are universal tools or that the dollar does not belong to the United States and can operate as a universal asset so that anyone can use it to their benefit and in their own interests. The same treatment was given to other tools and principles governing free trade and globalisation, including the sacred nature of private property, the presumption of innocence and many other tenets.
It turns out, however, that all these sacrosanct free trade principles can be instantly reversed and turned upside down to become tools of coercion against those whom Washington does not find to its liking. Any country could find itself in a situation like this. The regional fragmentation of the global economy and logistics is a natural reflection of the way people live in various corners of the world. There is another factor which can accelerate these processes since Washington and those who control present-day finances, monetary policies, trade and global affairs have demonstrated their inability to strike deals and that they are unreliable. What we are witnessing is a positive process to remove the risks for countries in the Global South and East of being manipulated by their former colonial powers.
As for our association, it follows the same trends but on a global scale. BRICS represents a cooperation network for regional and subregional processes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This cooperation network is expected to promote harmony and deepen integration within the Global Majority around the world. Our presidents and prime ministers discussed these topics during their meetings. Once again, these efforts are not designed in any way to create a new mechanism enabling the Global Majority to impose its will on others. On the contrary, in everything we do or say, in all our declarations and our actions, all of our countries emphasise that we are open to starting an honest and equal dialogue at any time. But this must be an honest and equal dialogue – it has been long time since we have seen this approach from many Western leaders. It is something rare these days, a scarce commodity for the global minority. We will carry on with our plan of events as presented to you.
We will focus on ensuring the smooth inclusion of our new colleagues and new BRICS members in everyday activities. We will continue prioritising cooperation with countries (nearly 30 of them) that have shown an interest in a rapprochement with BRICS and are prepared to participate in our practical projects. I am referring to the outreach/BRICS+ formats and an agreement to form a new category of partner countries, which was reached by our leaders at the latest summit. The sherpas will have much responsibility in this regard. From the point of view of attaining common positions, you do the main work in terms of volume and substance at your level. We highly appreciate this.
During its chairmanship at BRICS this year, Russia will do its best to make your work comfortable and will seek to help find solutions to issues, where it is necessary to strengthen common consensus and approaches.
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Before I conclude my remarks, let me transition from the discourse on the special role of the sherpas and carry out an important mission on instructions from President of Russia Vladimir Putin. I would like to award the Order of Friendship to Ambassador Anil Sooklal, Deputy Director-General responsible for Asia and the Middle East at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa and South Africa’s BRICS Sherpa.
We know the Ambassador as a principled and skilled diplomat, who firmly and sincerely believes in the need for collective development and prosperity of the entire humankind. He staunchly adheres to the sacred BRICS principles of openness, equality and consensus. Mr Anil Sooklal played an important role in many important BRICS initiatives, including the launch of outreach-format meetings between the Five and leaders of like-minded nations, and the creation of the New Development Bank and the BRICS Vaccine Research and Development Centre.
It is no secret that Mr Anil Sooklal is a great friend of all countries represented here. He has visited Russia multiple times, and is familiar with every aspect of our national traditions. To a large extent, this is due to the BRICS events held during Russia’s Chairmanship years. He is a real veteran, endowed with youthful enthusiasm and energy, which, I am sure, will help promote many BRICS initiatives. We appreciate his disposition and his contribution to strengthening the strategic partnership between South Africa and Russia.
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