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President Putin of Russia: speech on Red Square Victory Parade

Victory Parade on Red Square President of Russia – Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation Armed Forces Vladimir Putin attended a military parade marking the 77th anniversary of Victory in the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War. Overall, 11,000 personnel and 131 units of military equipment were engaged in the parade. * * * Address by the President of Russia at the military parade President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Fellow Russian citizens, Dear veterans, Comrade soldiers and seamen, sergeants and sergeant majors, midshipmen and warrant officers, Comrade officers, generals and admirals, I congratulate you on the Day of Great Victory!

Russian Sanctions on Europe: Gonzalo Lira II

Gonzalo Lira : commentary on the decree that Vladimir Putin signed as follows: Executive Order on retaliatory special economic measures in connection with unfriendly actions of certain foreign states and international organisations The President signed the Executive Order On Imposing Retaliatory Special Economic Measures in Connection with the Unfriendly Actions of Certain Foreign States and International Organisations. May 3, 2022 13:00 This Executive Order was signed in order to protect the national interests of the Russian Federation in response to unfriendly actions, which contradict

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Mediaset, Italian television network, Moscow, May 1, 2022 (it is a Hot one!)

https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1811569/ Ed Note:  This transcript will be completed as it becomes available. Ed Note update:  This transcript is now complete. Question: After your statement about the possibility of a nuclear war, of the third world war, the whole world is asking: is there a real risk of that happening? Sergey Lavrov: It looks like by the whole world you mean Western media and politicians. This is not the first time

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Xinhua News Agency (China), April 30, 2022

https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1811525/ Question: What do you think is at the root of the Ukrainian crisis? What can the international community do to solve this problem? Sergey Lavrov:  When we talk about the Ukrainian crisis, first of all we need to look at the destructive policy of the Western states conducted over many years and led by the United States, which set a course to knock together a unipolar world order after the

Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 

Machine Translated and then refined by The Saker’s Team of Translators Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, spoke about the tasks of the Russian special operation and the role of the United States in supporting neo-Nazis in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. And also-about the near future of Europe, the Russian gold and foreign exchange reserves and sanctions, and what changes are waiting for our country in the near

President Putin met with members of the Council of Lawmakers

Speech at the Council of Lawmakers meeting President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues. I would like to welcome all of you to our traditional meeting. I would like to congratulate you on the Day of Russian Parliamentarism, you and your colleagues, senators and deputies at all levels, legislative body staff and, of course, veteran MPs. In May, the Council of Lawmakers will be 10 years old. We have all seen for ourselves that this format is useful and essential. As it coordinates the drafting of laws, following the principles of federalism, the Council facilitates the balanced development

President Putin and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: Meeting

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68287 April 26, 2022 President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Secretary-General, I am very happy to see you. As one of the founders of the United Nations and a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia has always supported this universal organisation. We believe the UN is not simply universal but it is unique in a way – the international community does not have another organisation like it. We are doing all we can to support the principles on which it rests, and we intend to continue doing this in the future. We

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: joint press conference

🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hold a joint press conference following talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇺🇳 This video format does not lend itself to embedding so please click on the link and as this is the livecast, please forward the video to 1:15 at this moment.  The time marker may change as the video itself is trimmed. https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/62668764fe5bc25e8aa69cc6/19992/English Lavrov and UN Secretary-General Guterres hold

Mr Putin at the expanded meeting of the Prosecutor General’s Office Board.

At the expanded meeting of the Prosecutor General’s Office Board. Photo: RIA Novosti President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Prosecutor General, colleagues, Earlier this year, we celebrated 300 years of the Russian Prosecution Service, once again emphasising its significant role in the history of the Fatherland, the development of our society and the building of the foundations of a rule-of-law state. During the annual expanded meeting of the Prosecutor General’s Office Board today, we will sum up the results of your work in 2021, considering the current situation, and will discuss objectives for the short and long term. I should note

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with India Today television channel, Moscow, April 19, 2022

https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1810023/ Question: The big question that most are asking is the reason for this operation, the reason for President Putin to take the country to war at a time when we have seen negotiations and talks taking place. What was the reason? We know that America said that Russia was going to carry out operations. New Delhi certainly was not aware of it. Many countries said that it is not

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova’s interview with “RT” TV Channel, Moscow, April 16, 2022

https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1809592/ Question: It became known that during the special military operation in Ukraine, Russian troops discovered new documents on military biological activities in Ukraine. Can you talk about this in more detail? Maria Zakharova: As a result of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine (SMO), Russia’s Armed Forces found documents that shed some light on the bio-military programme implemented by the US Defence Department in Ukraine. The researchers in the programme were

Vladimir Putin held talks with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at Vostochny Cosmodrome.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Lukashenko, friends, I consider it important and symbolic that the talks with the President of Belarus today, on Cosmonautics Day, took place here, at Vostochny Cosmodrome. Our nations are proud that the first manned flight to space, by Yury Gagarin, 61 years ago ushered in a new era of space exploration. President Lukashenko and I visited the Cosmodrome’s key facilities on this memorable day – the command centre and the launching pad for the Angara launch vehicles. We talked to Cosmodrome employees and met with the pilot-cosmonauts who received Russia’s high

Interview: London Paul from the Sirius Report – Move to Multipolarity

Amarynth interviewed London Paul for the Saker Blog London Paul from the Sirius Report has a story to tell. This is the story of the history of multipolarity and the global move to a new multipolar structure in our world with the old single polarity hegemon now collapsing. He graciously agreed to this 5-question written interview to bring Saker readers up to date and we are grateful for his time.

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