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⚡️ Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation:

The Head of Russia’s Investigative Committee held a meeting on current issues and listened to a report of the investigative team on the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall.

The investigators reported about their intensive efforts to reconstruct a complete picture of the crime, both its preparation and planning and the commission of a terrorist attack against unarmed civilians.

The initial results of the investigation fully confirm that the crime was planned, meticulously prepared and funded by its organisers.

❗️ Interrogations of the detained terrorists, study of their technical devices and the analysis of information on their financial transactions point 👉 to their connections with Ukrainian nationalists.

The investigators have confirmed evidence that the terrorists received substantial funds and crypto currency from Ukraine for preparing the crime.

One more suspect who took part in funding the terrorists was detained. The investigators will apply to the court for his detention as a measure of restraint.


🤝 On March 28, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with President of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Bafel Talabani, who is on a working visit to Moscow.

During the meeting, the Parties discussed issues of further strengthening the traditionally friendly relations between Russia and Iraq, including in the context of advancing diversified, mutually beneficial cooperation with the Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq.

The officials exchanged views in detail on relevant Middle Eastern matters, with a focus on the situation in Iraqi Kurdistan and Iraq as a whole. Both sides reiterated their support for the efforts to ensure the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Iraq, to respect its constitution, and prevent the transformation of this multiethnic state into a battleground for settling scores and confrontation between external actors.

On the same day, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov held extensive consultations with Bafel Talabani at the Foreign Ministry.


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What will be the endgame in Ukraine?

✍🏻 Article by Ambassador of Russia to South Africa Ilya Rogachev (28 March 2024)

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➡️Key takeaways:

🔸The situation on the battlefield is growing worse for Ukraine and its Western allies amid the failed ‘counter-offensive’ and Russia’s resilience to sanctions pressure

🔸The collective West won’t stop supporting the Kiev regime because “the failure in Ukraine could be the beginning of the end of its golden age” (Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki)

🔸Some European officials started talking about NATO’s direct interference in Ukraine conflict. Many reckless politicians in the West really wish to go to war against Russia, hoping to achieve a military victory at least that way

❗In case of the West sending troops to Ukraine, we would need to talk not about the probability, but about the inevitability of a direct conflict between NATO and Russia.

🔸Who would benefit from a new war of Europe against Russia? US-based global companies already made billions on EU’s energy crisis, food market situation, must people now be sent to death to secure their interests in Ukraine?

🔸Western officials and mainstream media are frantically pushing the totally false ‘no-life-after-Ukraine’ narrative, trying to convince people that Ukraine crisis is existential for them. However, if it were not for the West, it wouldn’t have emerged at all.

🔸Ukraine crisis can be resolved rather easily – simply by taking Russia’s legitimate security concerns into account. They are basically about an indivisible security system in Eurasia, equal for all.

☝🏻The so-called ‘Zelensky peace formula’ and its variations cannot serve as a basis for conflict resolution as it totally ignores Russia’s security interests. It was initiated and is being promoted solely for propaganda purposes.


🇷🇺🇪🇷 The Russian Embassy in Eritrea:

🗓 On March 28, the first time for 30 years of diplomatic relations of Russia and Eritrea the Russian Navy frigate arrived at the Eritrean port "Massawa".

Navy frigate of the Russian Pacific Fleet "Marshal Shaposhnikov" will stay in Eritrea until April 5, 2024. Russian sailors will hold the joint events with representatives of the Eritrea Navy and will exchange experience.


🇷🇺🇿🇦📞 President Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa.

The President of South Africa expressed his deep condolences and feelings of solidarity over the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall. He wished resilience to the families and friends of the victims and a speedy recovery to the injured.

The Leaders expressed satisfaction with the current level of strategic partnership between their countries and discussed issues of practical trade, economic, energy and humanitarian cooperation.

Speaking in the context of the #BRICS Chairmanship, which Russia has taken over from South Africa, they discussed interaction within the group in its new expanded format.

In light of the peace initiative advanced by African states to resolve the Ukraine crisis, Cyril Ramaphosa briefed Vladimir Putin on South Africa’s intention to continue working in this area with due regard for Russia’s legitimate interests. Vladimir Putin, in turn, outlined Russia’s position of principle on developments around Ukraine, noting that Russia had always been open to a serious and substantive discussion of a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict.

#RussiaAfrica #RussiaSouthAfrica


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🇷🇺🇲🇲 Deputy Russian Defence Minister Aleksandr Fomin holds talks with Prime Minister / Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services of Myanmar

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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

The Interior Minister of Germany Nancy Faeser said in an interview with the magazine Der Spiegel: “Germany will amend the test for citizenship candidates to include questions about the Holocaust, Judaism and the history of Israel.

Germany bears special responsibility for protecting Jews and the State of Israel because of the Holocaust, which is Germany’s crime against humanity. Today, this responsibility if part of our identity.”

 
💬 What about people of other nationalities and citizenship who were tortured to death, burned and buried alive?
 
Paying compensations for the Nazi atrocities to the victims of one nationality and assuming historical responsibility for the citizens of only one state would amount to repeating the crimes and mistakes made 80 years ago.
 
A large article published recently in Rossiyskaya Gazeta shows that Berlin is returning to the path of racial discrimination. (It is available in German) In the past, wagons packed with people transported them to concentration camps along this path. Incidentally, IBM equipment and punch cards were used to count the prisoners at all stages between ghettoes and gas chambers. It was hailed as progress.
 
Germany’s policy runs contrary to the provisions of international law.

UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/60/7 on Holocaust remembrance mentions the suffering of “the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities,” just like UNESCO Resolution 34С/61. The OSCE Berlin Declaration mentions “all ethnic and religious groups.”
 
Nazi Germany committed crimes not against one ethnic group but against many.
 
Actually, this is what the phrase “crimes against humanity,” which was first used at the Nuremberg Trials that condemned Nazism, is all about.
 
As for crimes against a certain ethnic group, there are different names for them in different national legislations and traditions. The Jews call it Shoah, the residents of Leningrad call it the Blockade, which has been declared genocide, just like the Nazis’ actions in the Kaliningrad, Rostov, Pskov, Voronezh and other regions in Russia, and the Roma remember it as Samudaripen or Paraimos.
 
Berlin has no moral right to adopt different attitudes to the victims of Nazi crimes. All ethnic groups died an equally horrible death in gas chambers. The stoves of Treblinka did their job regardless of ethnic or language distinctions, and Nazi policy documents included plans for the extermination or enslavement of various ethnic, religious and social groups.

We must prevent Nazism from raising its ugly head in Europe again!


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⚡️ Deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Nikolay Kharitonov, Andrey Krasov, Yana Lantratova, as well as Dr. Alexander Dugin and Andrey Derkach issued a statement to the ministries and departments of justice urging them to investigate the organisation and financing of terrorism, including with regard to the explosions of the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 pipelines, and the crimes of the Kiev regime, in particular the terrorist attacks planned and carried out by the MID MD Ukraine.

Addressees:
• Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation
• Federal Office of Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany
• US Department of Justice
• Ministry of Justice and Public Order of the Republic of Cyprus
• Ministry of Justice of the French Republic
• Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation

👉 FULL TEXT OF THE STATEMENT


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Excerpts from Ambassador Gennady Gatilov’s opening statement during his briefing with members of ACANU (Association of Accredited Journalists at the UN):

📍 March 26, 2024, Geneva

🕯️ On March 22, our country was hit by a terrorist attack, the scale and brutality of which Russia hasn’t seen for the past 20 years. 137 people confirmed dead and over 180 injured in the tragic events at the Crocus City Hall. We are grateful to the host country, UN high-ranking officials, fellow diplomats and ordinary Swiss citizens for expressing their sympathies, condolences and condemnation of the attack. As our President has stated, all perpetrators will face fair and inevitable punishment, whoever they may be, whoever directed them.

🗳️ During the recent presidential elections in Russia, the will of over 76 million of its citizens, 87% of whom voted for Vladimir Putin, is evident. We do not care that certain Western states consider the elections unfair - we have the statistics and numbers that say otherwise. The Russian people have expressed their unequivocal support and trust in the political and economic course of the country's development. Which, among other things, means that Russia will continue to uphold its sovereign and independent foreign policy and protect its citizens across all Russia and its new regions.

🇺🇦 The Ukrainian crisis could have been resolved in April 2022, until the Western mentors of Zelenskiy convinced him to pursue a violent path. A big miscalculation, which has already led to unnecessary loss of life, and one that will be the undoing of the Zelenskiy regime.

🇺🇳 As far as UN Geneva affairs are concerned, the current situation within the UN Human Rights Council continues to be especially disturbing. There is an urgent need to prevent the increasing trend of turning the Council into an instrument, which caters to political whims of just a single group of countries, punishing other governments for their independent domestic and foreign policies.

📖 FULL STATEMENT


🇷🇺🇨🇬📞 President Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou-Nguesso at the initiative of the Congolese side.

The President of the Republic of the Congo expressed his deep condolences and solidarity with the Russian Federation in connection with the barbaric terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.

The Presidents discussed the implementation of agreements reached following their meeting at the Russia–Africa Summit in July 2023. Denis Sassou-Nguesso expressed appreciation for the effective work of Russian epidemiologists in eliminating an outbreak of infectious diseases in the Republic of the Congo.

This March marks the 60th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and the Republic of the Congo. In this context, the Presidents reaffirmed their mutual commitment to the further development of active bilateral interaction in the political, trade and economic, cultural, humanitarian, and other areas.

The Presidents agreed to continue their contacts.

#RussiaRepublicOfCongo


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🇷🇺🇲🇱📞 President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Interim President of the Republic of Mali Assimi Goïta who resolutely condemned the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue and offered his deep condolences to the people of Russia.

The Presidents discussed further steps to strengthen Russia-Mali ties in various fields, including the implementation of joint projects in energy, agriculture, and mining sector. Assimi Goïta expressed special gratitude for the deliveries of Russian wheat, fertiliser, and fuel, free of charge.

The Presidents conducted a detailed exchange of opinions in the context of the uneasy situation in the Sahara-Sahel region. They agreed to step up practical interaction to counter terrorism.

#RussiaMali


🇺🇳 On the UNSC's consideration of the situation in Gaza

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🗓 On March 22, the UN Security Council voted on the US draft resolution concerning the situation in Gaza. The text was submitted after the US alone vetoed the February 20 Algerian draft demanding an immediate ceasefire. The US representatives made assurances that their document would allegedly allow the UNSC to make the right decision and claimed, publicly too, that they were in favour of ending the bloodshed in the enclave.

👉 In reality, however, the American draft that was put to a vote after four weeks of drawn-out consultations contained only a general imperative to stop the hostilities on the strict condition that the hostages are released. It included one-sided condemnation of Hamas qualifying it as a terrorist movement, but made no mention of Israel as an occupying power or its multiple violations of humanitarian obligations.

The text was not supported by the majority of UNSC member states and was rejected by the Palestinians and representatives of the Arab group. In the end, the Algerian delegation representing the countries of the region voted against it. Guyana abstained, and Russia and China vetoed it.

In parallel, the ten non-permanent members of the Security Council put together and then put to a vote their alternative draft resolution. On March 25, it was adopted by 14 votes in favour, with the United States abstaining. UNSC Resolution 2728 clearly and unambiguously enshrines the demand for “an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties, leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire.” It also contains demands to ensure humanitarian access to those in need, the immediate release of hostages, and compliance with the obligations established by international humanitarian law with respect to all detainees.

🇷🇺 Russia remains convinced that the opportunity to act on the UN Security Council resolution, which the United States has so persistently and hypocritically obstructed, must be taken.


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🇷🇺 Russia's EMERCOM aircraft delivered yet another 29 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip

✅ cereal, flour, sugar and other long-term storage products;
✅ personal hygiene products.

The EMERCOM's IL-76 aircraft flew to the airport of El-Arish. In Egypt, the humanitarian aid will be handed over to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society. They will redirect it to the people of the Gaza Strip.

In total, since the beginning of the humanitarian mission, 20 flights of the Russia's EMERCOM have delivered ~480 tonnes of food products, medicines, clothing and other essentials to the people of the Gaza Strip.

📹 EMERCOM of Russia

#RussiaHelps


Forward from: Russian Embassy in India
🕯Indian citizens continue bringing flowers and candles to the Russian Embassy in New Delhi, expressing their grief and condolences over the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall in Moscow on March 22.

On March 27, the memory of the victims of the terrible tragedy was honoured by President of the Federation of Indo-Russian Youth Clubs Purnima Anand, advocate Baljeet Singh, President of the India-Russia Friendship Society RB Singh and others. 🙏



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