✍🏼 مقال سفير روسيا لدى لبنان ألكسندر روداكوف
"يتذكر الأوكرانيون استقلال بلادهم"

- على مر القرون، كانت أراضي هذا البلد جزءاً لا يتجزأ من الدولة الروسية. يكفي أن نقول أن عاصمة روس القديمة كانت كييف لفترة طويلة.

- تدين أوكرانيا بوجودها بالكامل إلى الاتحاد السوفياتي.

- وفي عام 1991، أعلنت حكومة أوكرانيا المستقلة التزامها بالمبادئ السامية للسيادة، والشرعية الدولية، وسيادة القانون، واحترام حقوق الإنسان، بما في ذلك حقوق الأقليات القومية. كما تم إعلان وضع أوكرانيا المحايد، الخالي من الأسلحة النووية وعدم الانحياز الى أي حلف .ولكن للأسف، مع مرور الوقت لم تتحقق كل هذه التعهدات الجيدة، فقد تم نسيان هذه المُثُل المُعلنة والدوس عليها.

- في عام 2014، وتحت سيطرة خارجية غير مشروطة، وقع انقلاب مستوحى من وكالات الاستخبارات الغربية في كييف، حيث استولى القوميون الراديكاليون المتطرفون على السلطة. <…> ومن ثم أعلنت كييف استعدادها لاستخدام أسلحة الناتو النووية.

- إن حكومة بانديرا، الغارقة في الفساد، والتي تتبع بشكل أعمى أوامر الرعاة الغربيين، أوصلت أوكرانيا إلى دولة من أفقر الدول الأوروبية. الاقتصاد الوطني مدمر، والشركات الأمريكية والأوروبية متعددة الجنسيات استولت على أكثر القطاعات ربحاً.

- واليوم، وفي حين تحتفل أوكرانيا بما يسمى "الاستقلال"، هي فعلياً في حالة خضوع للغرب الاستعماري الجديد.

⚡️ Комментарий официального представителя МИД России М.В.Захаровой в связи с обострением обстановки на Ближнем Востоке

💬 Рано утром 25 августа ливанская «Хизбалла» нанесла массированные удары по военным объектам в Израиле с использованием реактивных снарядов и беспилотных летательных аппаратов. Руководство организации объявило, что таким образом была осуществлена акция возмездия в ответ на убийство 30 июля в Бейруте её видного командира Ф.Шукра.

Ранее тем же утром израильская авиация атаковала позиции «Хизбаллы» на юге Ливана. Власти Израиля сообщили, что после получения данных о готовящемся нападении был нанесён упреждающий удар с целью уничтожения принадлежащих ливанскому движению пусковых установок и ракет.

❗️ Выражаем глубокую обеспокоенность в связи с опасным ростом напряжённости в ливано-израильском приграничье. Настоятельно призываем все вовлечённые стороны к максимальной сдержанности и отказу от шагов, угрожающих дестабилизацией региона и его втягиванием в полномасштабную вооружённую конфронтацию с самыми тяжёлыми последствиями.

Исходим из того, что коренные причины очередного витка военно-политической эскалации связаны с общей неурегулированностью палестино-израильского конфликта. Подтверждаем готовность в тесной координации с партнёрами и единомышленниками продолжать энергичные усилия с целью скорейшего прекращения огня в секторе Газа и запуска комплексного мирного процесса, который должен способствовать общей нормализации ситуации на Ближнем Востоке.

🗣️ Комментарий Посольства России 🇷🇺 в Ливане 🇱🇧
 
О запрете канонического Православия на Украине
 
Фиксируем очередной эпизод беззакония на украинском направлении. Недавно киевские законодатели приняли скандальный закон «О защите конституционного строя в сфере деятельности религиозных организаций». За туманным названием кроется не что иное, как долгосрочный план репрессий против канонической Украинской Православной Церкви Московского Патриархата.

Государство, упорно позиционирующее себя как «оплот демократии» на востоке Европы, ставит под запрет целую конфессию. Происходящие религиозные пертурбации на Украине – абсолютно вопиющая дискриминация духовных прав и свобод миллионов людей. Очередной симптом тоталитарной и нетерпимой к инакомыслию сути режима нынешних киевских властей.

У нас перед глазами два наглядных примера. Ливан, который зиждется на способности почти двух десятков религиозных конфессий сосуществовать в рамках одной государственной системы, обеспечивать права и интересы различных общин. И Украина, которая выбрала путь жестоких и бесчеловечных гонений тех, кого власти по политическим мотивам нарекли «иноверцами».

Не сомневаемся, что ущемление Православия на Украине не останется без внимания, и все, кому небезразлична судьба конфессионального равноправия, сделают соответствующие выводы.

🗣️ تعليق من السفارة الروسية 🇷🇺 في لبنان

بشأن الحظر المفروض على الكنسية الأرثوذكسية الأصلية في أوكرانيا
 
نسجل حلقة أخرى من الفوضى وخَرْقِ القانون في أوكرانيا، حيث اعتمد المشرعون في كييف مؤخراً، قانوناً فاضحاً "بشأن حماية النظام الدستوري في مجال أنشطة المنظمات الدينية". خلف هذا الاسم الغامض لا يوجد أكثر من خطة قمع طويلة المدى ضد الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية الأوكرانية التابعة لبطريركية موسكو.

وها نحن نرى بأعيننا أن الدولة، التي تنصب نفسها بعناد على أنها "معقل للديمقراطية" في أوروبا الشرقية، تحظر ديناً بأكمله. إن الاضطرابات الدينية المستمرة في أوكرانيا هي تمييز صارخ تماما ضد الحقوق والحريات الروحية لملايين الأشخاص. وهذه علامة أخرى للطبيعة الشمولية وغير المتسامحة لنظام السلطات الحالية في كييف.

لدينا مثالان واضحان أمام أعيننا. لبنان، الذي يحتوي على ما يقرب من عشرين طائفة دينية، يضمن حقوق ومصالح مختلف الطوائف، القادرة على التعايش ضمن نظام دولة واحد. وأوكرانيا التي اختارت طريق الاضطهاد القاسي واللاإنساني لأولئك الذين وصفتهم السلطات، لأسباب سياسية، بـ "غير المؤمنين".

ليس لدينا أدنى شك في أن انتهاك الأرثوذكسية في أوكرانيا لن يمر دون أن يلاحظه أحد، وكل من لا يبالي بمصير المساواة الدينية سوف يستخلص الاستنتاجات المناسبة.

🎙 Interview by President of Russia Vladimir Putin to Mongolian Onoodor Newspaper (August 2, 2024)

Key talking points:

• The development of comprehensive and mutually beneficial partnership with Mongolia, our close neighbour and old friend, has always been and remains among the priorities of Russia’s foreign policy in Eurasia.

• Our country was the first in the world to recognise Mongolia’s independence in 1921 and for a long time remained the only guarantor of its sovereignty and security. During the summer of 1939 – a critical period for Mongolia – the USSR, which remained committed to its duty as an ally under the Protocol on Mutual Assistance of March 12, 1936, immediately responded to the Mongolian government's request for assistance in repelling the Japanese aggression in the battles on the river Khalkin Gol.

• The Russian people remember with gratitude the support Mongolia offered us during the Great Patriotic War and commemorates joint battles to defeat the Kwantung Army in the summer of 1945.

• Today, Russia and Mongolia further develop the invaluable traditions of friendship, good neighbourliness and mutual assistance. For instance, this year alone, Russia has supplied over 8,500 tonnes of grain forage to Mongolian livestock farms affected by severe colds and snowfalls, and the Mongolian Government has allocated funding to mitigate the aftermath of the floods in the Ural area.

• In recent years, we have been working on a number of new promising economic and industrial projects, including the construction of the Trans-Mongolian gas pipeline connecting Russia and China, works to modernise and increase the performance of the Ulaanbaatar Railway joint venture, the Rosneft Corporation’s fuel supplies for the fuelling complex at the new Chinggis Khaan international airport, and the renovation of TPP-3 in Ulaanbaatar with the participation of INER RAO – Export.

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وزير الخارجية الروسي سيرغي لافروف في مقابلة مع "روسيا اليوم": "لا يمكن لإسرائيل التغلب على حزب لله لانه جزء لا يتجزأ من المجتمع اللبناني".

📆 September 3 marks Solidarity Day against Terrorism in Russia.

◾️ The date is linked to the tragic events that took place on September 1−3, 2004, in Beslan, North Ossetia. During the first bell ceremony to mark the beginning of the new school year, a terrorist unit seized School No 1. The attack resulted in the loss of 334 lives, including 186 children.

The horrific terrorist attack on March 23, 2024 at the Crocus City Hall concert facility, which affected numerous innocent civilians, once again emphasised the need to consolidate international efforts in the fight against terrorism.

We urge the international community to work together to combat terrorism, with the United Nations playing a central coordinating role. This should be done without any double standards or hidden agendas, in accordance with the UN Charter, specialised universal conventions and protocols, UN Security Council resolutions, and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.

Learn more on Russia’s position at the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly.

☝️ Russia remains firmly committed to a principled struggle against terrorist threats. We advocate for more intensive efforts to disrupt ideological, material and financial support for terrorism and oppose the stiving of Western countries to undermine the international legal framework for counterterrorism.

🎙 Interview with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for 'Bridges to the East' documentary (Moscow, August 31, 2024)

Key talking points

#Syria

• In 2011, the United States decided to send the Syrian people along the same path as Iraq and Libya which countries they had devastated by their aggressive policies. We were strongly against seeing this scenario replay. In 2015, by President Putin’s decision, we sent a contingent of our armed forces to defend the Syrian Arab Republic against direct aggression.

❗️ The US invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein gave rise to ISIS, which posed a real threat to Syria’s existence.

• When the Russian armed forces moved into Syria, ISIS was on the outskirts of Damascus, and Western countries, led by the United States, were attempting to assert their dominance in eastern Syria. We stabilised the situation and since then most of Syria’s territory has been controlled by the legitimate government.

#Iraq

• In 2003, led by the United States, NATO invaded Iraq under a false pretext, a false flag. Later, the Westerners admitted there was no reason for an invasion. No need to eliminate weapons of mass destruction whatsoever. They broadcasted to the whole world the hanging of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, allegedly for possessing weapons of mass destruction. This is a disgusting turn of events.

#MiddleEast #Libya

• Western Jerusalem is ramping up military actions against the entities that they believe support the Palestinians and do so with an extremist slant, namely, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine. Israel wants to destroy the latter which is an exercise in futility. The sides must come to terms instead. Hamas is part of the Palestinian people, just as Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese people.

• Lebanon remains in a situation where it is facing new challenges largely due to the crisis in the Gaza Strip and, more broadly, the Palestinian territories.

• We remain in contact with our Israeli colleagues through the Foreign Ministry, the Defence Ministry, and the respective security councils from both countries. We are trying to drive home the futility of the attempts to address issues by force without considering alternative paths.

• Washington stands behind every decision made by Israel. The US blocks all agreements at the UN Security Council that would lead to a full and permanent ceasefire. The Americans continue to supply weapons to Western Jerusalem, which are then used to commit even more violence against the Palestinian people. Over 40,000 civilians (!) have died in the ten months of hostilities since October 7, 2023 which is a horrifying number.

#Iran

• Iran is outright unwilling to fall for a provocation or to get embroiled into any kind of large-scale hostilities. Iran is facing provocations. The assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran during the inauguration ceremony of the new president is, without a doubt, a provocation.

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Excerpts from the interview with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for Bridges to the East documentary, Moscow, August 31, 2024 (1/2)

Question: The year 2024 marks 80th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Lebanon as well. Where do Russia-Lebanon relations stand now?

Sergey Lavrov: "The period of recognition” of the Arab states was marked by the Soviet Union providing the broadest possible assistance helping them develop their respective national economies, industries, the social infrastructure, and educational systems.

Diplomatic relations with Lebanon were established in August 1944, right after the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with Syria. In addition to helping Lebanon develop its statehood, we strongly supported international efforts to put an end to the civil war in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We were against the Israeli aggression during the 2006 war when it attempted to forcefully resolve the threat that the Israeli state believed Lebanon posed to it. This has never stopped since then. Decades of similar developments have clearly shown that these issues cannot be resolved by force, but must instead be addressed by recognising the legitimate rights of the peoples living in that region, including the Palestinians, to their own state. The fact that the “consequences” regularly showed themselves in Israel’s policies towards Lebanon and Syria, such as the illegitimate use of airstrikes against the territories of sovereign states under the guise of fighting terrorism, has remained a serious irritant to this day.

Now that Israel is seeking to achieve the “final solution” to the Palestinian problem by force rather than talks (as some political figures said in the past), Western Jerusalem is ramping up military actions against the entities that they believe support the Palestinians and do so with an extremist slant, namely, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine. Israel wants to destroy the latter which is an exercise in futility. The sides must come to terms instead. Hamas is part of the Palestinian people, just as Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese people. There are resistance movements in Syria and Iraq which Israel considers terrorists as well.

Excerpts from the interview with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for Bridges to the East documentary, Moscow, August 31, 2024 (2/2)

To reiterate, the problems that Israel is seeing as obstacles to its peaceful existence cannot be solved by force. The sides need to sit down and talk and act upon the UN resolution regarding the creation of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. This is the only path forward to achieving lasting and sustainable peace and ensuring Israel’s security. We are very much interested in seeing this happen. These issues cannot be resolved by force.

Lebanon remains in a situation where it is facing new challenges largely due to the crisis in the Gaza Strip and, more broadly, the Palestinian territories. Standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, Hezbollah has been launching harassing strikes on Israel. However, all of this is relatively small in scale. Israel believes Hezbollah should “stay quiet” and not align with the Palestinians, which Israel mostly sees as Hamas members and which, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public statement, Israel has committed to destroy.
We remain in contact with our Israeli colleagues through the Foreign Ministry, the Defence Ministry, and the respective security councils from both countries. We are trying to drive home the futility of the attempts to address issues by force without considering alternative paths.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly stated that he is concerned not about creating a Palestinian state, but about the security of Israel as a country. This statement means he refuses to comply with the UN resolution, which is sad and is made even sadder by the fact that Washington stands behind every decision made by Israel. The US blocks all agreements at the UN Security Council that would lead to a full and permanent ceasefire. The Americans continue to supply weapons to Western Jerusalem, which are then used to commit even more violence against the Palestinian people. Over 40,000 civilians have died in the ten months of hostilities since October 7, 2023 which is a horrifying number. The collective punishment of the Palestinians for the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack by Hamas (which we condemned) are no less criminal which is expressly stated in international humanitarian law.

To follow up on Lebanon, that country’s governmental structure, which ensures equal and balanced representation of ethnic and religious groups, sets it apart from other countries. Over the past two years or so, following the most recent elections, they have been unable to form governing structures, and drawing Lebanon into the conflict by “punishing” Hezbollah and the entire Lebanese people is throwing a wrench into our Lebanese colleagues and partners’ efforts to effectively address this governmental formula.

🇷🇺🇲🇳 On September 3, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Chairman of the State Great Khural of Mongolia Dashzegve Amarbayasgalan had a meeting in Ulaanbaatar.

💬 Vladimir Putin: I am also very pleased to visit friendly Mongolia.

Together with the Mongolian people we marked a milestone event – an Anniversary of our common victory over the aggressors on the river Khalkhin Gol. In those battles we ensured Mongolia’s independence and territorial integrity.

We have just noted with Mr President in the course of our talks that Mongolia turned out to be a very loyal and reliable ally of the Soviet Union and Russia during our fight with German Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.

Throughout decades Russia and Mongolia have maintained very close and friendly relations, and today they are effectively developing. Trade is growing. We interact through our parliaments; last year our interparliamentary commission held its first meeting.

We give very much importance to interaction between our government authorities. In today's world and in our countries it is an essential addition to the development of contacts between the executive bodies. Direct interaction between the parliaments creates a very good atmosphere and contributes to the creation of a legal framework for such interaction.

Thank you very much for the warm reception.

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