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2022-08-30 05:40:03 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Zvezda television channel for a documentary covering the Non-Aligned Movement:

With 120 votes at the UN, #NAM can exert direct influence on agreements developed by this international organisation.

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2022-08-29 16:59:35 International Day against Nuclear Tests, declared by the UN General Assembly in 2009, is observed on August 29.

The idea behind it was to intensify the efforts of the UN, of states, as well as intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations to stop nuclear testing, which is essential to maintaining international peace and security.

Over 2,000 nuclear explosions have been carried out throughout the history of humankind. More than half of these tests were performed by Western countries: 1,032 by the United States, 210 by France and 45 by the UK.

The main instrument for stopping nuclear testing is the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

The fact that one of the world’s largest nuclear powers, the United States, is among the countries still refusing to ratify this important document continues to cause deep concern.

The Russian Federation has consistently advocated that the #CTBT be transformed into a fully operational international legal mechanism. Open / Comment

2022-08-29 03:16:53 Defence Minister #Shoigu: Ukrainian military units deliberately shell and remotely mine populated areas with anti-personnel mines, with the purpose of causing as much damage to civilians and infrastructure as possible. Open / Comment

2022-08-29 03:10:21 Statement by Mr. Andrei Belousov, Deputy Head of the Russian Delegation at Closing Meeting of the 10th NPT Review Conference

The Conference has become a political hostage to those States that over the last four weeks have been poisoning discussions with their politicized, biased, groundless and false statements with regard to Ukraine.

Thus, they did everything they could to prevent a constructive, effective and result-oriented work of the Conference and as a whole of the NPT States Parties during the entire review process.

These States, namely Ukraine and the backers of the Kiev regime, bear full responsibility for the absence of a final positive result of this review.

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2022-08-27 06:02:49 ВНИМАНИЕ!

По техническим причинам с 26 августа с.г. временно прекращен прием заявлений о выдаче паспорта нового поколения сроком действия 10 лет.

Оформление паспортов старого образца (сроком действия 5 лет) продолжается без изменений в установленном порядке.

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2022-08-26 03:35:34 FM #Lavrov during a meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen:

Our Western colleagues have been spreading information of late that Russia has lost interest in achieving the settlement in #Syria

These statements have NOTHING to do with reality.

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2022-08-25 13:44:08 US Media Questions Russia Sanctions’ Efficacy Six Months In

An editorial published on Tuesday in the Washington Post recounts how soon after the US introduced the restrictions against Russia in response to its military offensive against Ukraine, President Joe Biden claimed that the country’s economy was already “crater[ing]” and “reel[ing].”

However, as the article points out, following the initial shock, Russia’s currency, the ruble, managed to bounce back thanks to Moscow imposing strict curbs on foreign-currency transactions and also due to falling imports.

Moreover, the unemployment rate in the country has not risen sharply and energy exports continue to bring billions of dollars into the Kremlin’s coffers every month, according to the Post.

The piece went on to cite the International Monetary Fund’s latest forecast that Russia’s economy will contract by 6% this year, a significant upgrade from the earlier 10% projection.

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2022-08-25 08:23:39 Zelensky Celebrates Soldier Wearing Nazi Insignia For Ukraine’s Independence Day

To celebrate August 24 Vladimir Zelensky took to Instagram to upload a series of portraits of commanders born in post-Soviet Ukraine.

Unsurprisingly one serviceman’s image, alongside his full name and credentials, was pictured wearing a Nazi insignia of the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division.

That unit of the SS recruited primarily Ukrainian collaborators, and has been accused of committing several massacres in Poland.

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2022-08-25 07:36:52 Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Gennady Gatilov:

UN responses to the atrocities committed by the Kiev regime have remained “selectively neutral” since the 2014 coup.

Whenever it is necessary to demonize Russia - it is done instantly with little to no extra thought.

Whenever a situation isn’t in Ukraine’s favor, international bodies try to hush up such facts and keep a “low profile”. Open / Comment

2022-08-25 07:21:08 #Nebenzia: The Ukrainian armed forces purposefully destroy civilian infrastructure, including kindergartens, schools and medical facilities, power lines and gas pipelines. They do not spare even those cities of #Donbas that until recently were under their control.

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