Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s reply to a media question about Russia’s retaliation against the expulsion of Russian diplomats, Moscow, March 29, 2018
http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3145578
Question: Will you retaliate against the expulsion of Russian diplomats using tit-for-tat methods or something stronger?
Sergey Lavrov: We will retaliate in kind, but there will be more. Virtually right now, US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman is at the Ministry and Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov is explaining to him the substance of our retaliatory measures with regard to the United States. These include the expulsion of the same number of US diplomats and our decision to withdraw our consent to the operation of the US Consulate General in St Petersburg. As for the number of diplomatic mission staff from the other countries who will be leaving Russia, it is also a tit-for-tat procedure. Basically, this is it.
I would like to say right away that in addition, we want to do more than just respond to the absolutely unacceptable actions taken against us under the harshest ever US and British pressure predicated on the “Skripal case.” By the way, I would like to mention with some satisfaction that earlier today the British authorities informed us about the condition of at least Yulia Skripal. They said Yulia is rapidly recovering. We again urged them to provide us with access to Yulia as a Russian citizen. I hope our British counterparts will be able to perform its obligations under the Consular Convention and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
We will not just respond reactively to what the Anglo-Saxon tandem is doing with regard to Russia, forcing everyone to follow the anti-Russian course. We would like to establish the truth. Since the very start of this crisis, we have repeatedly stated that British Prime Minister Theresa May has baselessly accused Russia of being implicated in the poisoning of Sergey Skripal and his daughter. She urged us in an ultimatum-like manner to answer a question that could not be answered: she demanded that, within 24 hours, we confirm that the Russian leadership had ordered the poisoning of the Skripals or that they had lost control over their chemical arsenal. Clearly, it is impossible to respond to these things, even if we tried hard to find some answers. Instead, we suggested that they refer to international law, the Chemical Weapons Convention which contains a special article. Under this article, if any party to the CWC has questions for another party, it is recommended that they get in contact with each other, hold a bilateral exchange of views and information, and hold consultations. Great Britain arrogantly turned this down and instead dug out of the CWC a technical clause to the effect that a party to the Convention can apply to the OPCW Technical Secretariat for technical assistance. Under that clause, OPCW experts have now arrived in Britain at its invitation to form an opinion and analyse the substance, which, as the British allege, was used to poison Sergey and Yulia Skripal. I would like to note right away that this article only enables the OPCW Technical Secretariat to identify the chemical composition of a substance that will be presented for analysis. The OPCW Technical Secretariat has no power to confirm or verify Britain’s conclusions. It has no such rights. Also, the investigation itself is not over yet. As you know, Scotland Yard says that it will take months, but the verdict has been returned nonetheless. This is sad, because we have not seen so much mockery of international law for quite a long time.
To get a normal discussion and to establish the truth, we have officially proposed to convene an extraordinary session of the OPCW Executive Council on April 4, where we will present a summary of the specific questions that we have repeatedly asked. I hope that our Western partners will not evade an honest conversation. Otherwise they will confirm once again that what is happening is a premeditated gross provocation.
News In Brief
Embassy Press Officer on unanswered questions regarding the Salisbury poisoning
Press release on Russia’s response to unfriendly UK steps
Press release on summoning foreign ambassadors to the Foreign Ministry
“Otherwise they will confirm once again that what is happening is a premeditated gross provocation.”
lavrov must feel like the only adult in the kindergarden …
Interestingly, Huntsman was US ‘Ambassador’ in Beijing in 2011, when the phony ‘Arab Spring’ Colour Revolution was being rolled out. Huntsman, in the US tradition of malignant interference in any country they care to target, announced a ‘Jasmine Revolution’ for China. and proposed leading it, like Robert Ford in Deraa in 2011, and named a time and place for the long-suffering Chinese to report for duty to the Yankee ‘Gods Upon the Earth’.
Regretably, at the appointed place and hour, there were vastly more Western presstitutes assembled than Chinese, no doubt due to fear and terror among the ‘huddled masses, yearning to be Free’. Later Huntsman appeared at a Republican Presidential candidate debate in 2012, where he matter-of-factly observed that US policy was ‘to bring China down’. No-one demurred from that observation. I see that the filth, Navalny, is using the Siberian fire tragedy in one of his villainous PR stunts. Could the Russians not place him on the plane with his US controllers, and send him to his dream society in the USA, NEVER to return?
I agree that something has to be done about Navalny,” high likely” he is on a CIA paybook, and stays in Russia only to create problems.
He is punished enough for being who he is, a western stooge. No need to do anything else.
His popularity is around 1% from what I remember. He is nobody basically. Irrelevant.
Navalny is presented in the psychopathic Western fakestream media sewer, as a hero, and the real choice of Russians. Universally, and without exception.
He’s playing a dangerous game and he knows it.
When the Ukraine crisis had first heated up Navalny was astute enough to realize that an attempt at a Moscow Maidan was in the works…….and that to make it work one of the prerequisites would be a “sacrificial lamb” whose death would be blamed on Putin.
Fearing that he might be that lamb, Nanvalny hastily called a demonstration which violated some Moscow Civic ordinance or something and got himself thrown in jail for a week or so just prior to previously scheduled (legally approved!) mass demonstration in Moscow protesting the Putin government.
Astute players of these mind control games know that the agenda of such a previously organized event can be quickly shifted or augmented by a “timely sacrifice” of one of the Empire’s allies…in order to build numbers at the mass march to such a degree that security might be overwhelmed….and minimally to make it appear that protests against the government spontaneously exploded over night.
This was done in Paris for the “I Am Charlie!” mass stupidity, by the way. French Insitutional/state resources had built a march for days after the later shooting up of people a Charlie Hebdo offices….and then a beaming Bibi Netanyahu marched arm in arm with other dupes and psychpaths from various countries in just an incredible, “inspiring” show of “solidarity”…..for A Clash of Civilizations and Perpetuation of Uni-polar World.
Safely in jail, Navalny heard that his washed up fellow “dissident” Nemtsov had become the sacrificial lamb, shot to death by fleeing assailants on the bridge within sight of the Kremlin.
That’s how you do these things for gullible movie audiences. Think like a movie producer! Like Arnon Milchan….both in charge of weapons technology procurement for the Israeli Defense Forces….AND a secretive some time Hollyword producer who made a movie 15-20 years before 911….about a terrorist hijacked airliner hitting a Manhattan skyscraper.
It’s called “staging for the sale” in residential real estate terms.
Although the march in Moscow went ahead as planned and was 40,000 or so people, it did not reach near the proportions were the planned Moscow Maidan could be pulled off ….by mass panic precipitated by snipers, or whatever.
Navalny is ready to play his part as stunt man. But only for the right risk/reward ratio. It’s in his contract. LOL
Putin Exposes U.S. Agent Navalny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNPliqQRsAE
Unfortunately those kindergartners are armed and dangerous. I am impressed with the calm and patient but firm response by the Russians to each successive provocation. My fear is that their Western Partners will do something that will require escalation. This is particularly an issue after Trump’s surprising comments about an imminent American withdrawal from Syria. If the deep-state creatures think he is serious they will feel compelled to act.
Sergey Lavrov is certainly the worlds top diplomat. Everything he says makes sense. I am pleased that Russia is applying reciprocity. I also see that Yulia Skripal is making a rapid recovery. Remarkable. How on earth did she survive an “attack” by a military nerve gas ? And how did that British cop, who came to the “rescue”, also survive infection by military nerve gas, being discharged from hospital after a relatively short stay ? What we have here are propaganda and political theatrics which were poorly planned, and this piece of nonsense has no doubt caused immense political damage to both London and Washington. As for Continental Europe, it will now look even more towards Russia. London applied it’s old tactic of interfering in Europe for the sake of keeping a balance of power among European nations. What this means is that it tried to turn Europe against Russia and prevent Germany joining the Russian/Chinese economic camp, after which others would have followed. As far as I can see, it has failed. Germany has given permission to Russia to build the Nord Stream – 2 gas pipeline on German territory. We shall now see if Washington has the power to rescind this German decision.
Russia sees Europe as a natural partner, though Washington have been able to keep her away from Russia artificially. with series of badly scripted provocations against Russia by the NWO proponents, they are gradually, and certainly driving reasonable politicians in Europe into the warm embrace of Russia. Russia will surely be patient with Europe because it(Russia)knows that Europe is only arm twisted to dance to the rhythms played from Washington.
Esharky
That is correct. Since last year analysts have been stating that there will be a split between the US and European elites, with the European ones looking towards Russia. After all, money is money, and interests come first.
Two days ago prognosis for both Skripals was they would never gain awareness and normal body functions again if they were lucky enough to even survive. Today we have a miracle recovery of a daughter. I bet she is going through intensive brainwashing course with secret service methods to prepare her for correct testimony.
Anonymous
Yes, that is correct. She will be given two scripts to read, one for England and the other one for Russia. If they permit her to return to Russia, then she will have a prepared propaganda story for the Russian media, especially for the liberal media under Western control. I wonder what she will say. No doubt they will have trouble preparing a believable story, like explaining her illness. If she does state that military nerve gas was used, then she will have trouble explaining how she became an expert in military nerve gas, something small numbers of people in the world know about.
It is more than likely that she will not be able to remember anything
if she really was in a coma caused by a nerve agent.
She woke up just in time to be interviewed by OPCW experts.
Either because it was in her script or an antidote was finally
administered. If she is part of the scheme, she might refuse
to see Russian officials.
I can’t believe why any intelligent person believes a word
coming out of Salisbury, yet here we are writing replies in
the hope that it will ameliorate this epic fraud
”I wonder what she will say. No doubt they will have trouble preparing a believable story, like explaining her illness”
BF, the credibility of whatever nonsensical story/stories about to be concocted here is an absolute non-issue. One thing I’ll say for the MSM: They know the ”intellectual stature” of their faithful consumers all right. Just for the fun of it, let’s make it a multiple choice question. To wit,
Q: What will Yulia say?
A1: ”Putin is an evil dictator. Free elections now and God bless Navalny!”
A2: ”As long as there are British hospitals, Russian chemical weapons can’t kill me. Rule Britannia!”
A3: ”No comments because The Kremlin is all over the place and Putin maybe under my bed”
Curiouser and curiouser: Yulia Skripal logged into VK while in coma
The 33-year-old daughter of Sergei Skripal, Yulia Skripal, visited her”Vkontakte” page – sort of a Russian version of Facebook – on the morning of March 7th, three days after the “assassination” attempt that put her allegedly in a coma, until just a few days ago. She was poisoned, according to the British government, along side her father Sergei, and according to the official version, hasn’t regained consciousness until quite recently.
https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/03/curiouser-and-curiouser-yulia-skripal-logged-into-vk-while-in-coma/
Lol, it appears “last seen” information on VK is available to everyone without logging in to account. British forgot about that.
As for Continental Europe, it will now look even more towards Russia.
Don’t count on the majority of German politicians to look towards Russia.
Anonymous
I do not. The point is that when sanctions were introduced, a split occurred among the German elite. Merkel retained control over the bankers, but lost control over the industrialists, who openly started negotiating in Russia, At one time there were 500 of them. They bypassed sanctions by opening subsidiaries in Russia, like Mercedes for example. As for German politicians, they are practical people. No, they wont make the first move. They will make their moves when the time comes for that. They left the initiative to German industrialists.
They are all a part of the global village the global community, the reality is that there is no alternative to the current world order, the elites have no way to sustain 7 billion people anymore, people are resistant to change. Putin’s daughters went to school in Holland and have access to bunkers in Europe as well as the European elite, the Russian elite, the Chinese elite, even Kim Jong Un who studied in switzerland understands this and is in on the plan, each family is related to ancestral royal bloodlines and have tasks related to managing their corner of the world. The American bunkers are located in colorado and various airports are outiftted with underground bunkers. The Russians also have complexes in the Urals. They are all in on it. The job will be to reduce the world population by 50% through nuclear warfare, chemical warfare, conventional warfare, and the poisoning of the oceans and global food stocks. The issue is on implementing a one world government along with a one world religion, army, and culture. Putin wants the Russian people to be like the west, which is why he refers the the west as partners and friends. He sincerely means it, as well as when he mentions a multipolar world with dialogue and communication. The dialogue and communication he means is through the elites who decide peacefully how to control the remaining world population. Bush and Clinton and various elites have also suggested this idea, as well as Thatcher, Blair, May, and the list goes on and on. But the elites have run into trouble. The Russian people do not want to be western, and the western people do not want to be uber liberal. Only the european people have been brainwashed to the fullest extent and are the most willing to implement the changes suggested by the United Nations, Agenda 21, the agenda for cooperation and sustainability. These words belong to a lexicon that is referring to the world after the mass extinction event. For now the people were appeased, the Americans were given Trump to simmer down, and the Russians were given a temporary recovery to appease them as well. The Chinese were hungry in the 90s and 80s and were developed so as to simmer them down. The rest of the world population is simmered down. This allows the global communal elite to continue to elaborate upon the apparatus of control once the mass extinction event is over. The audience is already prepared globally for what is coming. News plays in every country alluding to the same thing. The people of the world are prepared for a massive event that will kill many of them. The survivors will be chipped and shuttled into a new world order. The world island of america, the eurasian island, and the pacific. The global south is going to be chemically destroyed along with irradiation. The cobalt status-6 weapons will poison global fish stocks. Everything is going according to plan. The houses of Holstein Gottorp Romanov, the Royal family, the Jinping elite and the Taiwanese Dynasties, the Korean Dynasties, the Middle eastern royal elite, the european elites. They are ready, all that is needed now is a justification to initiate the war, noone will assume responsibility. Nothing can be done by Russia, America, China, Europe, or anyone to avert the coming catastrophe. Everything has systematically arranged to narrow the room for maneuver. The west have made their intentions clear, and the west unanimously agrees that war is the only wy to save their people. Putin also feigns diplomacy but meanwhile also arranges the preparation for all of Russias nuclear arsenal to be unleashed. The Chinese are quiet and with 500 nukes will do their task in the pacific and asia, while the Indian and Chinese populations are reduced 10 fold. We are getting closer and closer. Everyone should spiritually prepare and be right with yourselves and your neighbors even your enemies. Live in love and love will continue to live.
‘Jinping’ is Xi’s given name, NOT his family name. The rest is of similar standard.
https://www.rt.com/news/422772-russia-uk-diplomats-numbers/
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the UK has been given one month to cut its diplomatic mission in the country to the same number of Russian diplomatic staff in Britain. … Among those summoned was UK envoy to Russia Laurie Bristow. He was told that within one month, the British side must cut its diplomatic staff in the embassy and its consulates across Russia to the same size as the Russian diplomatic mission in the UK. No exact numbers were provided to the public.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Saturday that the UK had been notified it should send home “just over 50” of the country’s diplomats.
“We’ve asked for parity. The Brits have 50 diplomats more than the Russians,” said Zakharova.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201803311063093947-russia-uk-diplomats-zakharova/
“These include the expulsion of the same number of US diplomats and our decision to withdraw our consent to the operation of the US Consulate General in St Petersburg”
Lavrov is a very fine diplomat and St Petersburg will be all the finer without the US Consulate General, but where is the world going ?
One problem with the expulsion of Russian diplomats from US is that 12 of them are not accredited to US but to UN and US has no jurisdiction over UN and this action is more than unlawful. I think this is a dry run of a larger and nastier action of US “partners” and “colleagues” and depends how Russia will react: if Russia will react like the wimps they usually seems to be, than the next step, trigger by a false flag, will be the ban of the entire Russian delegation to the UN (who cares about international conventions?) and so no Russia in the UNSC. If Russia will call the UNSC and will protest against such “unfriendly” actions of US “partners” and “colleagues” and threaten to ask the move of UN in a neutral country because US in not reliable and abusive as a host country than, maybe, the unfriendly (read hostile) actions may stop. Cheers
Apparently an Aeroflot airplane itself has been inspected after landing at a London airport….
…going to try to “find” a military type of nerve agent being transported….?
https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3001662
“Theatre of the absurd “comes to mind…..??????
Russian media under cyber attack
Says Kaspersky
https://sputniknews.com/world/201803301063072280-kaspersky-cyberattacks-media-websites/
And
https://sputniknews.com/world/201803301063082558-moscow-uk-concern-cyber-capabilities/
Much has been written about a possible successor to Putin. Could that be Lavrov?
jon
Take it easy. No need to speculate on that particular point. Putin will be in power for six years. I dont think he will depart in six years time without training an adequate successor.
Lavrov is older than Putin and wants to retire so he can smoke full time.
Pray for the man. He’s the last great diplomat alive.
New Eastern Outlook is back online.!
“Establishing the truth” seems like such a Quixotic adventure. Okay, so maybe the history books will settle on the appropriate rendition one day. By all means, prepare things just-so for the archivists. Let’s hope we have interested readers post-thermonuclear war. But why be so scrupulous? And the ‘Western partner’ thing is beyond ridiculous. It’s like we’re in a pie-throwing contest where Lavrov insists on sampling the filling to make sure it is appropriately baked.
I suggest a different diplomatic tact: inscrutable Russian silence. Why keep answering the pies with impeccable protocol? The forced normalcy that Lavrov keeps belaboring will be read only as weakness. The absence of diplomatic discourse is hurtling us to the abyss anyway. Reciprocal dismissals, while fair enough, tit-for-tat, are a catastrophe for the world.
Why? Because there are still adults in the room.
Breaking News – “Right of Return”
Israel Puts 100 Snipers on Gaza Border to Face “Right of Return” Protests
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-puts-100-snipers-on-gaza-border-to-face-right-of-return-protests/5634085
16 Killed, Dozens Wounded as Thousands Gather on Gaza-Israel Border for “March of Return”
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-five-palestinians-reportedly-killed-by-israeli-army-as-thousands-rally-for-mass-gaza-protests-1.5962159
UN Chief Calls for Independent Investigation Into Palestinian Deaths at Gaza Border
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/un-chief-calls-for-independent-investigation-into-gaza-deaths-1.5962519
Nabucco – Va, Pensiero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caupqMpmCD8
Russian Envoy to US: National Flag Will Be Fluttering Above Closed Consulate
https://sputniknews.com/us/201803311063090205-usa-russia-diplomats-seattle-closure/
“Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov told reporters earlier in the day that they made a fundamental decision not to take down the flag from its residence in Seattle.
“We have made a fundamental decision not to take down the flag,” Antonov said on Friday. “We are leaving this issue to the conscience of our US colleagues.”
No doubt pindo teenagers, of which washington state has an over abundance of the gray haired variety, will perceive this move as “weakness”.
FBI harassing Russian-Americans who march in Great Patriotic remembrance.
Very Gestapo of the Bureau. Intimidation of Free Speech and Rights of Assembly.
Especially, since without the heroes of the Eastern Front, Americans and Brits and all Europeans would be German chattel now.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201803311063090983-usa-russia-seattle-raci-fbi/
The founder of the chain of cafés “Teremok”, Mikhail Goncharov, has spoken of a “hostile” attitude of the sanitary inspector in New York.
The check itself caused financial damage to the franchise, while the health department official asked several “surprising” questions.
“Do we hold secret meetings in the basement? Does Putin own our company? Do we launder money from Russia?” Goncharov quoted the inspector. Such questions seem beyond the mandate of a health inspector.
https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/03/russian-cafe-in-nyc-raided-by-overzealous-health-official/
Russian Ambassador to US: “Atmosphere in Washington is poisoned. It’s a toxic atmosphere” (Video)
The Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, told NBC’s Today that he can’t remember a period when relations between Washington and Moscow were worse, after both countries expelled dozens of each other’s diplomats following the poisoning of a former Russian spy.
“It seems to me that atmosphere in Washington is poisoned — it’s a toxic atmosphere,” he said. “It depends upon us to decide whether we are in Cold War or not. But … I don’t remember such [a] bad shape of our relations.”
Pointing out that “there is great mistrust between the United States and Russia” at present, Antonov said that “today Russia’s responsible for everything, even for bad weather.”
http://theduran.com/russian-ambassador-to-us-atmosphere-in-washington-is-poisoned-its-a-toxic-atmosphere/
This is just one of the litany of things that don’t add up with the official British govt/media story:
The early reports of “40” people affected were denied by the NHS doctor in Salisbury- there were only “3”. Presumably the Scripals and the policeman.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/03/no-patients-have-experienced-symptoms-of-nerve-agent-poisoning-in-salisbury.html
Secondly, there is the astounding coincidence of the whole affair virtually involving the same script as a TV spy series, that aired a couple of weeks beforehand in the UK and US – to soften up the public?
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/03/governments-decree-truth-about-skripal-dissenters-will-be-punished.html
Yes, that idiot and rabble rouser, Huntsman, he was present at the TianAnMen Square cheering on the student protestors.
Maybe he had a hand in it. There was no massacre of students at the Square but the western media and ” diplomats ” like Huntsman continue to propagate fake news every anniversary of the event, up till to-day.
There is nothing immoral or criminal that these AngloZionists cannot do.
Dear Friends,
I have been thinking about this brief statement from Lavrov, and also discussing it with some German and Austrian friends. In the course of that discusion,I had the opportunity to elaborate on some impotant, as I think, things and submit them to your esteemed consideration.
First, this is classical Lavrov, but, on the other hand, when is Lavrov not classical? Lavrov is a classical and masterful ironist, and I suspect, if we had a video-slip of this brief sttement, we would probably see him smiling.
Let me briefly define classical irony, because it is not what I suspect you think it is. It is not ironic when someone says something he does not mean. To the contrary, classical irony is the art of saying exactly what you mean, whioch is also true, while knowing that the target or recipient of the irony will not understand what is meant.
Consider the last paragraph of the statement, because it contains a familiar irony: “To get a normal discussion and to establish the truth, we have officially proposed to convene an extraordinary session of the OPCW Executive Council on April 4, where we will present a summary of the specific questions that we have repeatedly asked. I hope that *our Western partners* will not evade an honest conversation. Otherwise they will confirm once again that what is happening is a premeditated gross provocation.”
“Our Western partners”: 1. The Brits or the US State Department, or the EU-NATO supposed leaders who support the Brits, believe Lavrov is saying the contrary of what he means, because, after what they have tried to do, no one could consider them partners and they do not want to be partners; 2. many who watch Rusian diplomacy have been chirping for some time, and louder each time the opportunity presents itself, have castigated the “Western partner”-formula because, as they believe they know, the Western partners are not partners. But in the meanime, Lavov and Putin have said explicitly on numerous occasions what “Western parners” means: it simply means we and they inhabit the same, one planet Earth. Is that not true? Of course it is true. So, if someone says, no, we / they are not partners, which planet do they inhabit? And the intereting thing, from the standpoint of logic, is that both so-called friends of Russia and the psychpathic so-called leaders of western countries, agree with each other.
But the paragraph is packed full of more irony. — Let me provide a context from a different domain: if we parse the new strategic doctrine documents issued rom the US, inclujding the “NPR” — Nuclear Posture Review — we will notice that the writers have identified what they consider to be a nested pair of options which must be avoided. Do not, they insist, let Russia trap the US into a situation where the only options are “surrender of commit suicide.”
Now please consider Lavov’s statement again, in particular the last, culminating paragraph: Russia will submit questions, in the proper legal format and at the proper legal forum for such questions. If the western partners *do not* evade an honest conversation, they “surrender.” if they *do* evade that kind of conversation, they “commit suicide.”
Unabashedly, Lavrov says Russia is setting a trap, but he also says — watch how he does it — that this trap is just tit for tat, because if the western partners evade an honest conversation, they will confirm that the whole Salisbery affair was no “incident,” it was a trap, a premeditated gross provocation, and a provocation is set to provoke someone to do something they do not want to do.
How so? What does that mean? — The trap was to do something so gross, so outlandish, that Russia would have to strike back in kind, so that, even if Russia was innocent and has nothing to do wih any “poisoning incident”, Russia would make itself guilty for the damage incurred by striking back the way the British intended with their provocation. But Russia is guilty in neither of the two senses.
So the Brits have only two options: surrender or commit suicide. And the beauty of it all is that, no, the Russians didn’t do it, and everyone knows it.
That the Brits huff and putt and end up with only two options, the same two options the Americans are trying to wiggle out of in the military dimension, is not ironic. — Let’s not abuse the concept.
Moscow confronts London with 14 questions on ‘fabricated’ Skripal case
https://www.rt.com/news/422871-russia-questions-uk-skripal-case/
Official (in Russian)
https://www.rusemb.org.uk/fnapr/6447
Interesting about the french connection, among other things.
Remembering that France is eagerly looking for evidence of chemical attacks by Assad( not rebel terrorists)…in support of usa saying will use missiles against a democratically elected President of a sovereign country….and probably trying to tie in Russia somehow to these….?
The questions:
1. Why has Russia been denied the right of consular access to the two Russian citizens, who came to harm on British territory?
2. What specific antidotes and in what form were the victims injected with? How did such antidotes come into the possession of British doctors at the scene of the incident?
3. On what grounds was France involved in technical cooperation in the investigation of the incident, in which Russian citizens were injured?
4. Did the UK notify the OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) of France’s involvement in the investigation of the Salisbury incident?
5. What does France have to do with the incident, involving two Russian citizens in the UK?
6. What rules of UK procedural legislation allow for the involvement of a foreign state in an internal investigation?
7. What evidence was handed over to France to be studied and for the investigation to be conducted?
8. Were the French experts present during the sampling of biomaterial from Sergei and Yulia Skripal?
9. Was the study of biomaterials from Sergei and Yulia Skripal conducted by the French experts and, if so, in which specific laboratories?
10. Does the UK have the materials involved in the investigation carried out by France?
11. Have the results of the French investigation been presented to the OPCW Technical Secretariat?
12. Based on what attributes was the alleged “Russian origin” of the substance used in Salisbury established?
13. Does the UK have control samples of the chemical warfare agent, which British representatives refer to as “Novichok”?
14. Have the samples of a chemical warfare agent of the same type as “Novichok” (in accordance to British terminology) or its analogues been developed in the UK?
The Times – They Are A Changin’!
The Death Of NATO And US Hegemony And The Possibility Of A Better World
https://rebel0007com.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/the-death-of-nato-and-us-hegemony-and-the-possibility-of-a-better-world/
An extremely interesting article has been posted on RT. It lists a set of 14 questions the Russian government has sent to the British government about the alleged poisoning.And a set of 10 questions they’ve sent to the French government.This is the first I’ve heard that the French government may be involved in this affair.But from the questions it appears Russia thinks they may be “very” involved in this case. I’ve heard that a standard “rule” is, you never ask questions in a case like this “unless” you have a good idea of what the true answers would be.So it looks like the anti-Russian plot thickens.
https://www.rt.com/news/422871-russia-questions-uk-skripal-case/
Germany, Bild am Sonntag, interview with Foreign Minister Heiko Maas: “Despite diplomatic tensions following the poison atttack in Great Britain, Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) wants to stay in discussion with Russia.”
Maas quote: “Without a doubt, a lot of trust has been lost in recent years due to Russian behavior. At the same time, we need Russia as a partner, for example to solve regional conflicts, for disarmament and as an important pillar of multilateral order.” My translation.
Original: “Durch das russische Verhalten der letzten Jahre ist ohne Zweifel viel Vertrauen verloren gegangen. Gleichzeitig brauchen wir Russland als Partner, etwa für die Lösung regionaler Konflikte, für Abrüstung und als wichtige Stütze der multilateralen Ordnung.”
US expulsion of Russian diplomats from UN HQ violates all international deals – envoy
https://www.rt.com/news/422880-un-us-russia-diplomats/
“This is absolutely unlawful because… those diplomats are accredited at the United Nations and have a completely different status. They work as representatives of Russia at the UN, but not with the US government,” he explained.
The envoy said that the US used “unscrupulous methods” to put pressure on Russian diplomats at the UN long before announcing the expulsion on Monday. One of these means was through the “non-renewal of visas for our diplomats working in New York,” he said.
“By doing so, they create a situation, in which people are unable to travel outside the US for personal or official purposes and then return to their place of work because their visa expired and the entry to the US is closed for them,” Gatilov said.
The envoy said that he knew of four or five Russian diplomats at the UN whose visas have not been prolonged for six months, despite the fact that all the required documents had been filed in time. “There was simply no reaction from the American side,” he said, adding that all attempts to clarify the situation by the Russian side were also ignored.
Gatilov described the expulsion of the Russian UN staff as “an unfriendly act towards our country,” saying that Washington has behaved “indecently… not the way the host country, which accommodates diplomats working at the UN, should act.”
According to the envoy, such persecution of Russian diplomats would be “hardly possible” at the UN office in Geneva, Switzerland.
“We believe that the local authorities have more sanity” and understand the special status of those working at international organizations, he said. “Rationally thinking people do not succumb to such provocative methods.”
But, but, but, spanky in chief…um, trump, weely meant what he said about improving relations with Russia. Both on the campaign trail and since assuming office. It’s all the fault of the “deep state”, yada, yada, yada, so says the trump marketing people and their gullible dittoheads.
Throughout history anytime a nation rose up to challenge the British Empire and presently the American Empire force and lies were used to block the challenge. If one looks at the Congress of Vienna, Congress of Berlin, League of Nations, and the United Nations each treaty established rules to settle the challenge in favour of the Empire of the day. The first three protected the economic interests (colonialism) of the British Empire and the smaller beneficiaries related to the British Royalty and the Catholic Church..
Decolonization (Marxism) with its headquarters in Moscow became enemy number one of the British Empire. When Hitler failed to do what the British, French and Rome wanted him to do (crush Russia) and when he turned on Britain the enemy of my enemy became my friend. The British Empire was saved with Russian blood and American Ford Trucks and Spork and rather than saying thank you Churchill wanted to use Nuclear weapons against Russia .
After WWII Britain was unable to defend its empire built on slavery and colonial control .so they turned over the world economic control to their former colony America who emerged as the world military power after WWII. . USA gained control of the World economy and finances , through the World Bank, IMF and its dominant currency. After WWII USSR was the main power to challenge this US hegemony.
Russian Revolution was the example for working people all over the world and Russia was there to help them break the chains of oppression, of low wages, of poor working conditions, of slavery, and of colonial oppression. The Comintern and Cominform were there to promote unions, socialism, and rebellion. . The bastions of Conservatism (UK and USA) fought against Unions, socialism and rebellions and blamed the leadership of these organizations form their rebellion and demands on Russia and Communism when in reality it was just a struggle of working people against exploitation.
The Red Scare, the Russian Bear, replaced the fear of the Hun and the Nazis. Russia and China and their organization the BRICS is the new challenge to US organization the IMF, World Bank and US dollar that control the world economy, and their Military domination of the globe that provides protection for the economic tentacles of globalization. ..
As a result the Empire has slapped down those who aspired to join the BRICS club –Yugoslavia, Libya, Greece, North African Countries, South American countries like Argentina and Venezuela as well as Brazil. They have also slapped down the Middle East countries and now its Russia’s that is the target. .
NATO nations the same ones that joined Napoleon and Hitler in wars against Russia have now joined USA and its poodle UK in another “Drang Nacjh Osten”. Its the economy that feeds the Lords and Ladies that May and Macron are protecting . Putin is the target now China is next.