02/15/23
Russian top diplomat to brief parliament on key foreign policy issues
It is assumed that in his speech and subsequent conversation with parliamentarians, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry will pay special attention to a special military operation | Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will address the plenary session of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, and discuss key areas of the country’s foreign policy with Russian lawmakers. ● The previous event of this kind was held on January 26, 2022. Back then, before the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Lavrov warned that Western countries were goading the Ukrainian regime into committing direct provocations against Russia. He also drew attention to profound negative changes in global politics. ● Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Lavrov’s annual meetings with parliamentarians allow for enhancing the interaction between the executive and legislative branches of power, exchanging views on the current international situation and outlining ways of further promoting Russia’s common foreign policy through joint efforts.
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The Obama Regime’s Plan to Seize the Russian Naval Base in Crimea
Eric Zuesse | The U.S. regime under Barack Obama had been planning, ever since June 2011, a takeover of Ukraine, in order to become enabled ultimately to place its nuclear missiles within less than five minutes flying-time to a first-strike blitz destruction of the Kremlin | Clear and convincing evidence will be presented here that, under U.S. President Barack Obama, the U.S. Government had a detailed plan, which was already active in June 2013, to take over Russia’s main naval base, which is in Sevastopol in Crimea, and to turn it into a U.S. naval base. There can now be no question that the war in Ukraine started, and resulted from, the U.S. Government’s plan to take over all of Ukraine, and especially to take over that Russian naval base, in Crimea, which then was in Ukraine. ● The war in Ukraine didn’t start at the time when a lot of people think it did, with the overthrow of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych. It was already underway considerably before that time, because it started in Washington, as the following masterful 11-minute documentary makes clear — it started as a subterranean war by Washington to take over Ukraine before it became an overt war (a “civil war”) within Ukraine.
The Prime Minister of Finland is about to add to the list of "downed pro-Ukrainian pilots"
Elena Panina (Елена Панина) | The Prime Minister of Finland is about to add to the list of "downed pro-Ukrainian pilots" | The party of Finnish Prime Minister Anna Marin is lagging behind its rival ahead of the April 2 elections. The main problem for Finns, as well as for other "successful democracies of Europe", is the growth of public debt. It has been progressing since 2008, and in the last couple of years it has jumped up to 70.9% of GDP. If Marin becomes the next — after Johnson, Truss, Draghi, the governments of Bulgaria and Estonia — a politician kicked out of power as a result of a thoughtless quarrel with Russia over economic policy, it will [happen]. However, Finland is unlikely to change its mind about joining NATO. The National Coalition Party, which claims power, simply adores gays, migrants and the North Atlantic Alliance. [The Politico article Ms. Panina comments on is here. yandex.ru]