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BRICS Summit
June 24, 2022 Speeches, Statements and Interviews

BRICS Summit

Vladimir Putin took part in the 14th BRICS Summit, held via videoconference and chaired by China.   The meeting’s topic is Foster High-Quality BRICS Partnership, Usher in a New Era for Global Development. President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, and President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa are also taking part in the meeting. The Beijing Declaration of the 14th BRICS Summit formalises the key agreements of the meeting. * * * Speech by the President of the Russian Federation at the BRICS Summit President

Sergey Lavrov’s Presser at a joint news conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
June 24, 2022 Speeches, Statements and Interviews

Sergey Lavrov’s Presser at a joint news conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Tehran, June 23, 2022 Ladies and gentlemen. I would like to thank my colleague, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, for the hospitality extended to me and my delegation from the first minutes of my stay on Iranian

Economic Rent and Exploitation: Michael Hudson, Shepheard Walwyn
June 18, 2022 Speeches, Statements and Interviews

Economic Rent and Exploitation: Michael Hudson, Shepheard Walwyn

Michael Hudson, Shepheard Walwyn recording May 23, 2022 Part one:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDo7HykYN9k Part two here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-xWgLertkg Jonathan Brown Michael, welcome to the podcast. Michael Hudson It’s good to be here. I’m looking forward to it. Jonathan Brown Michael, I think you have one the most extraordinary upbringings and journeys into economics. And I just wanted to give our listeners just some sense of how you got from being the godson of Leon Trotsky

June 18, 2022 Speeches, Statements and Interviews

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the BBC TV channel, St Petersburg, June 16, 2022

Update:  This transcript is now complete. Ed Note:  This transcript is not complete and we will issue an update when it is completed.  We post it now because of the renewed DDoS attacks on Russian infrastructure. In addition, Mr Lavrov had two more quite serious interviews.  They are available here: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the NTV network, St Petersburg, June 16, 2022 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with

President Putin: St Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary session
June 18, 2022 Speeches, Statements and Interviews

President Putin: St Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary session

Ed Note:  This transcript is not fully complete but we post it because of the renewed DDoS attacks on Russian infrastructure.  When it is complete, we will do an update.   (Mr Putin was on top form with an excellent, even exhaustive and detailed economic tour de force for Russia, and then of course for the sane world, or our Zone B). Pepe Escobar created a very high-level summary: THE

The Empire Strikes Back: Imperialism’s global war on multipolarity
June 15, 2022 Speeches, Statements and Interviews

The Empire Strikes Back: Imperialism’s global war on multipolarity

This is a series of talks where each talk is short and one can enjoy the long video in shorter pieces.  An absolute must-listen is the convenor’s (Radhika Desai) opening statement which explains so clearly the concept of multi-polarity or pluripolarity. The second one by Victor Gao brings a new view to how China perceives these changes in our world. Ben Norton from Multipolarista takes a look at the influence

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions: news conference on current international issues
June 08, 2022 Speeches, Statements and Interviews

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions: news conference on current international issues

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions at a news conference on current international issues, Moscow, June 6, 2022 Colleagues, Last night and this morning, we received multiple questions from the media regarding our response to the unprecedented decisions made by a number of NATO members who blocked the Russian Foreign Minister’s visit to the Republic of Serbia. An unthinkable thing has happened. I understand the interest

Teleconference: National Centre for State Defence Control chaired by General of the Army, Sergei Shoigu
June 07, 2022 Speeches, Statements and Interviews

Teleconference: National Centre for State Defence Control chaired by General of the Army, Sergei Shoigu

National Centre for State Defence Control in Moscow hosts another teleconference of Defence Ministry with the leadership of the Armed Forces, chaired by General of the Army, Sergei Shoigu Key points🔻 🔹 As for today, 97% of the territory of the Lugansk People’s Republic has been liberated. 🔹 Residential areas of Severodonetsk have been fully liberated. The takeover of its industrial zone and neighbouring settlements continues. The offensive in the

Vladimir Putin: Interview with Rossiya TV
June 04, 2022 Speeches, Statements and Interviews

Vladimir Putin: Interview with Rossiya TV

The President answered questions from Pavel Zarubin of Rossyia 1 TV channel. Pavel Zarubin: Mr President, we have just followed your meeting with the head of Senegal who is also the current leader of the African Union. He expressed, and actually in the past week many countries have expressed concern not so much about the food crisis, but they are afraid of large-scale famine because world food prices are climbing and so are oil and gas prices, These issues are interrelated. Naturally, the West blames

Sergei Lavrov: Sixth International Conference Russia and China: Cooperation in a New Era
June 03, 2022 Speeches, Statements and Interviews

Sergei Lavrov: Sixth International Conference Russia and China: Cooperation in a New Era

https://archive.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/4759576?p_p_id=101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw&_101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw_languageId=en_GB Mr Wang Yi, Mr Ivanov, Colleagues, friends, The further development of strategic partnership with China is one of our  top priorities. It is stipulated in the Foreign Policy Concept, which President of Russia Vladimir Putin approved in November 2016. We are grateful to our colleagues from the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) for organising a regular, sixth joint conference. We regard it

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