❗️ Foreign Ministry statement on the terrorist attack at Sevastopol

On June 23, the Kiev regime, with support from the US and its satellites, committed yet another heinous terrorist crime against civilians in Russia by firing missiles at Sevastopol. For their terrorist attack, they specially chose a day – Holy Trinity Sunday – one of the most important holidays celebrated by the Russian Orthodox Church.

◼️ Four people were killed, including a two-year-old boy, who was playing on the municipal beach, and a nine-year-old girl. 151 people applied for medical assistance; 82 – 55 adults and 27 children – were hospitalised, many of them in a grave condition. All patients are receiving skilled medical aid.

According to the Defence Ministry of Russia, the attackers used US ATACMS operational missiles with cluster warheads for greater kill ability. All flight data was entered by US military crews based on US reconnaissance satellite inputs. A Global Hawk US reconnaissance drone was on duty off Crimea.

The Investigative Committee of Russia has promptly started an investigation into this crime. All those implicated in this and other terrorist attacks in the territory of the Russian Federation will incur inevitable punishment.

There is no doubt that the United States is involved in this ominous crime. <...> A response to this crime will inevitably follow.

☝️ The Western capitals continue to criminally hush up the Zelensky regime’s barbarous actions. There are no denouncements from international organisations either. The Russian Federation is again urging them to give a proper assessment to yet another outrage perpetrated by the Kiev regime and the West.

Russia expresses its sincere gratitude for the condolences conveyed by officials from friendly states and by members of the European and US public. The words of commiseration continue to come in.

🕯 We commiserate with Sevastopol, where a day of mourning has been announced today. We express condolences to the families and friends of the victims and wish an early recovery to the wounded.

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Press conference of Maria Lvova-Belova, Presidential Ombudsperson for Children's Rights, on key areas of the international agenda of the Institute of Ombudspersons for Children's Rights, including humanitarian activities in Africa, CIS countries, the Republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as on the protection of the rights of children from shelled regions of Russia and the reunification of minors with their relatives during the special military operation.
Moscow, June 20, 2024.

✍️ President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the participants, organisers, and guests of the 12th St Petersburg International Legal Forum (June 26, 2024)

💬 The extensive agenda and impressive composition of the forum have made your meetings a major social event. In the course of substantive discussions, prominent legal scholars, experts, and practicing lawyers will exchange experience, discuss legislative innovations and initiatives and expand their professional contacts.

Russia invariably defends the principle of the rule of law both in its domestic life and in the international arena. I firmly believe that in present-day conditions, the generally accepted laws remain a solid foundation on which we should build to promote stability on the planet and protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states, as well as human and civil rights and freedoms. The key role of law is undeniable in solving global and regional problems, developing economic and humanitarian ties and, of course, combatting common threats.

🤝 Russia is the #BRICS chair country this year. Along with our partners, we are committed to developing effective legal regulation that can strengthen food and energy security and contribute to the protection of the environment and climate, as well as to the creation of fair rules for global trade and technological cooperation. We are ready to step up cooperation in these areas with other countries, above all from the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, and Latin America.

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Терроризм как метод ведения глобального противоборства давно взят украинскими спецслужбами на вооружение. C 2016 года киевский режим последовательно наращивал попытки совершения терактов и диверсий на территории России.

С началом СВО терактивность украинских спецслужб приобрела беспрецедентный характер и в настоящее время охватывает практически всю территорию России.

Совершаются нападения на железнодорожную сеть и инфраструктуру, атаки с использованием беспилотной авиации. Осуществляются диверсии в отношении стратегических военных и гражданских целей.

👉 ЧИТАЙТЕ ПОЛНОСТЬЮ

❗️Подрывная работа ведётся кадровым составом ГУР Минобороны Украины и СБУ. В качестве исполнителей ГУР и СБУ привлекают завербованных лиц и подготовленную агентуру.

Стратегическая задача – нанесение России военно-политического поражения, максимального экономического ущерба нашей стране.

⚠️ В этих же целях совершены варварские убийства российских журналистов Д.Дугиной и М.Фомина (В. Татарского), генпрокурора ЛНР С.Горенко, покушения на З.Прилепина, глав Запорожской и Херсонской областей В.Балицкого и В.Сальдо, главу МВД ЛНР И.Корнета, первого замглавы Херсонской области В.Булюка.

Частью развёрнутого Украиной террора стали ежедневные массированные обстрелы Донецка и Белгорода, унёсшие жизни десятков людей.

👉 С учётом используемых методов в настоящее время киевский режим и деятельность украинских спецслужб обладают признаками террористической структуры на государственном уровне, находящейся за пределами любых гуманистических представлений о государстве и обществе. Фактически речь идет о создании, при непосредственном участии США и стаи его сателлитов и под его управлением, в центре Европы агрессивного террористического режима, аналогичного ИГИЛ.

📂 ПОДРОБНЕЕ О СОВЕРШЁННЫХ [2022, 2023 (1, 2), 2024] И ПРЕДОТВРАЩЁННЫХ [2022, 2023 (1, 2, 3), 2024] ТЕРАКТАХ

🇷🇺🇮🇷📞 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with Acting Head of the Executive Branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Mokhber.

The Leaders discussed further mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation in all key areas. In particular, they expressed special satisfaction with the countries’ successfully progressing cooperation in the energy sector and the implementation of large infrastructure projects.

The President of Russia wished the people of Iran success in the upcoming presidential election, emphasising his confidence that Russian-Iranian friendly relations will continue to develop progressively.

#RussiaIran

В интервью программе «Пятая студия» телеканала “Россия 24” Посол России в Ливане Александр Рудаков рекомендовал гражданам Российской Федерации воздержаться от поездок в Ливан в связи с развитием обстановки на юге страны.

⚡️The Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (Report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation)

❗️ This report continues the Ministry's efforts to draw the attention of the international community to the grave human rights situation in Ukraine. Right from the outset it should be noted that the human rights situation in Ukraine has been steadily deteriorating over recent years.

It is quite clear by now that Ukraine is ruled by an openly Nazi regime committing countless gross and systematic violations of human rights in all spheres of public life.

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Kiev's Nazi approaches are being fully realized with regard to Ukraine's Russian-speaking population. Ukraine has banned everything Russian (language, culture, education, printed matter and media).

In the sphere of education, the process of derussification has reached its climax:

👎 Teaching in and study of Russian at schools is prohibited;
👎 All literature pieces of Russian and Soviet (except for Ukrainian) authors have been removed from the school literature programme;
👎 Books in Russian are withdrawn from libraries.;
👎 Schoolchildren and teachers are forbidden even to speak Russian not only in class, but also during personal communication at break;
👎 The government in Kiev not only supports but also authorizes attacks on churches of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

❌ However, all these blatant human rights violations committed by Kiev are brushed under the rug or covered up by most Western NGOs and international human rights mechanisms.

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☝️ As regards the situation in Ukraine, at this point we can say that by its actions Kiev only confirms a total lack of independence and shows itself to be a "puppet regime", carrying out the instructions of external handlers to create a Russophobic project entitled "Anti-Russia" out of its own country.

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🇷🇺🇨🇬 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou-Nguesso met in Moscow.

🎖 Vladimir Putin presented Denis Sassou Nguesso with the Order of Honour for his great contribution to developing and strengthening the relations between the two countries.

#RussiaAfrica

⚡️ Issue #3 of the Bulletin on our activities of the Russian Federation Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova to protect children during a special military operation (SMO) is available now in English on the official website of the Russian Federation Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Right.

The document contains information about activities of the Russian Federation Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the realization of the rights and interests of minors affected by the military actions.

The activities of the Commissioner are aimed at guaranteeing state protection of the rights and legitimate interests of children, the realization and observance of the rights and legitimate interests of children by state bodies, local government bodies, and officials.

✅ The Commissioner promotes:

• restoration of violated rights and legitimate interests of children;
• improving legislation in the Russian Federation concerning the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of children;
• international cooperation in protecting the rights and legitimate interests of children;
• improving the forms and methods of protecting the rights and legitimate interests of children.

Another important area we are leading on the order of Russia's President Vladimir Putin is the reunification of children with their relatives in Ukraine, Russia and other countries. In total, we have already succeeded in reuniting 70 children with 52 families in Ukraine, not counting those children whose parents from Kherson, Zaporozhye, Kharkov regions and other territories in the fall of 2022 were sent by their own decision to the health camps in the Russian south and were unable to pick them up in time. Also, nine children were reunited with five families in Russia.

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It doesn’t matter where or in what status a child is in Russia, in an orphanage, in a foster family, whether he or she has Russian citizenship or not. If he has a parent with full parental rights, the family has every opportunity to be reunited.

The Commissioner’s Office promptly assists all legal representatives of children. Such work has been done since the beginning of the SMO and is of an individual nature.

☝️ Since the beginning of the SMO, representatives of Ukrainian authorities have not officially contacted the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights. It should be noted that Maria Lvova-Belova is open to interaction with the Ukrainian side, and if official requests were received, they would be considered.

Over time, a working channel of communication has developed between the Commissioner’s Office and Ukraine for the exchange of information, verification of data, and coordination of the reunification process. Work through this channel is regular and constructive.

📘 Read more about humanitarian projects and children's stories in the bulletin.

* The first Bulletin was presented on April 4, 2023.
* The second one — on October 13, 2023.

❗️Reminder❗️

Russia’s MFA publishes a report on the human rights situation in Ukraine 🇺🇦
 
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published its annual report outlining the human rights landscape in Ukraine.
 
The Ministry claims that rule of law in Ukraine witnesses regular violations of the right to freedom and personal integrity, and records numerous cases of illegal arrests and subsequent detention, torture, intimidation, inhuman and cruel treatment, aimed primarily at forcing detainees to confess guilt. The use of torture and violence by law enforcement agencies and the Security Service of Ukraine against detainees seems to be structural, and impunity – widespread.
 
The report also suggests that while the relevant international organizations, such as the Council of Europe, the OSCE, a number of United Nations bodies and others pretend that nothing of the sort is happening, they are still occasionally forced to acknowledge the human rights violations committed in Ukraine.
 
The entire report is available on the Ministry’s official website.

🎙 Briefing by MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (June 26, 2024)

🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Seoul and Bucharest reach an agreement on the supply of South Korean howitzers to Romania
🔹 Ukraine’s attempts to manipulate the contents of the UN Secretary-General’s Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict
🔹 President Putin’s initiative to create new continent-wide security architecture in Eurasia
🔹 Dynamics of G20 countries’ economic growth
🔹 Negative consequences of anti-Russia sanctions for the socioeconomic situation in the countries that imposed these restrictions
🔹 The Republic of Korea’s response to Russia signing the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with the DPRK
🔹 UN Security Council’s restrictive regime regarding the DPRK
🔹 US sanctions against Kaspersky Lab
🔹 135th anniversary of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the International Day of Parliamentarism

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#Ukraine

Today’s Ukraine has long become a toxic state, rotten from the inside, which infects other countries with its corruption plague. This is something to be discussed on specialised platforms.

Mutually beneficial cooperation with the Kiev regime (it is important for the Global Majority countries to realise this, too) will only do harm, because no one will ever be able to estimate the true scale of corrupt schemes implemented by Bankovaya street.

They have clearly learned the trick by now. Their promises have brought huge gains to crime rings and arms barons around the world. In this sense, they feel like masters of the world right now.

#Ukraine #TheRepublicOfKorea

Given Seoul’s announced plans to reconsider its stance on supplying lethal weapons to the Kiev regime, we urge the Republic of Korea to avoid hasty actions that could irreversibly damage Russian-South Korean relations.

Russia cannot tolerate South Korean weaponry and military equipment being provided to the Ukrainian neo-Nazis to attack Russian territory and kill civilians.

#Sanctions

Despite the apparently exorbitant cost of the sanctions for those who have adopted them, the West continues with its suicidal anti-Russia policy. I do not mean the West as an association of people but as the regimes that have joined hands to line their pockets while pushing their people towards the abyss.

Leaders of the so-called "free world" are ruling in a world that is free from conscience and, now, money. While prioritising political considerations to the detriment of common logic and economic expedience, not to mention liberalism and economic freedoms, they are eroding the foundations of their own socioeconomic stability and the prosperity of their citizens.

🇷🇺🇮🇷 📞 On June 28, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Acting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Bagheri Kani.

The conversation focused on the developments in the Middle East. The parties raised serious concern about the dangerous escalation of tensions in the region that arose as a result of numerous unresolved crises, primarily in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The ministers emphasised the priority of addressing existing problems via political and diplomatic means with the assistance from constructively minded international players.

🤝 Sergey Lavrov wished his Iranian friends a successful presidential election. In his turn, Ali Bagheri Kani reaffirmed Iran’s constant readiness to continue an in-depth discussion of all issues of mutual interest.

Both sides agreed to closely cooperate to consistently resolve practical issues on the bilateral agenda.

#RussiaIran

🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question following EU’s anti-Russia moves in the sphere of trade and economy

❓Question: On May 30, the Council of the European Union approved a proposal put forward by the European Commission to raise duties on grains, oilseeds and oilseed products, as well as animal feed imported from Russia and Belarus which, in fact, means banning these imports. What can you say about this?

💬 Maria Zakharova: We consider these decisions as another volley of illegitimate unilateral restrictive measures imposed on our country by the EU. The form has no bearing on the content. The issue is about trying out a mechanism for imposing a wider set of anti-Russia agricultural sanctions under the guise of trade and political measures and, moreover, doing so in an expedited manner that does not need the unanimous approval by all EU members. In doing so, Brussels is shamelessly trying to pass this move as a way of responding to the aspirations of European farmers.

As a reminder, ordinary Europeans were asking to put an end to unchecked imports of cheap low-grade agricultural products from Ukraine to the EU, which had created insupportable environment of competition for the EU agrarians and unbalanced the intra-European market putting farmers in peril of going bankrupt.

What did they get from Brussels in the end?

What they got first was prohibitive agricultural import duties, but they applied to Russia and Belarus rather than Ukraine, with the decision makers behind this step recognising that Russia “supplies relatively small amounts of grains and oilseeds to the EU.”

To justify this measure, they used a far-fetched pretext of protecting the EU economies from theoretical damage and serious shocks in case Russia abruptly decides to redirect significant amounts of its exports that are now going to the EU, thereby weakening it economically and politically, and creating social tensions and discord inside the EU.

Next thing the EC came up with to make its farmers “happy” was to extend duty-free imports of the Ukrainian products to the EU for one more year, which will reinforce the Ukrainian agricultural products’ position on the EU domestic market. In other words, the problem that gave rise to actual social tensions and posed risks for the economic activity, well-being and welfare of European residents, has not been resolved. Clearly, this is Ursula von der Leyen and Co.’s idea of addressing farmers’ requests.

❗️ We believe the way Brussels responded to an imaginary rather than actual irritant that bothers European agrarians will not find understanding with EU’s rural dwellers and will keep the protest sentiment with regard to the policies pursued by the EU leadership lingering. It will also remain a factor underlying economic and political instability in the EU countries where agrarians constitute a significant portion of the electorate, and contribute to the mounting disappointment in the “European project” among a certain number of the Europeans.

Also remarkable is the fact that Brussels considers re-directing the freed up Russian food to the developing countries as the “added value” that stems from raising tariffs on Russian agricultural products.

Considering that Brussels set itself the goal of feeding the entire world with Ukrainian grain, and agricultural exports from Ukraine to countries other than the EU remain inexistent two years into that project, this turn of events is nothing short of Brussels sneering not only at European agrarians, but also at the third countries, whose interests the EU has traditionally used as a front.

☝️ We will figure out on our own ways to ensure food security of our partners from Africa and Asia. Most importantly, Brussels should stay out of our way.

Our response won’t be long in coming.

🇷🇺🇺🇳 On July 1, Russia assumed the UN Security Council Presidency, which, pursuant to the UN Charter, bears the primary responsibility for finding effective responses to threats to international peace and security.

Three central events have been planned during the Russian presidency:

🗓 July 16 – open ministerial-level debate on multilateral cooperation for a more just, democratic and sustainable world order.

🗓 July 17 – open ministerial-level debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue.

🗓 July 19 – debate in the Security Council on UN cooperation with the #CSTO, the #CIS and the #SCO.

The first two events will be chaired by Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov.

In general, the Council has a very busy agenda. The mandate-reporting cycle will include meetings on the situation in Haiti, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, West Africa and the Sahel region, Yemen, Cyprus, Colombia, Lebanon and Syria, as well as on the activities of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia.

The mandates of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti, the UN Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement and the Security Council sanctions regime against the Central African Republic are scheduled for renewal.

The agenda also includes discussions on implementing UN Security Council Resolution 2720 on the humanitarian mechanism for the Gaza Strip to be attended by the UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza Sigrid Kaag.

🇷🇺 The Russian Federation as a permanent member of the Security Council and a responsible participant in the international community, will traditionally make every effort to ensure a coherent and expeditious work of this agency. In this connection, Russia will urge its colleagues in the Security Council to seek common denominators, given due account of the interests of all the parties concerned.