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Prominent Russian voices, in their own words.
BRICS is not seeking to replace the dollar, but rather to develop alternative settlement mechanisms resilient to external pressure, says Russian Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov. 🔗 Source: youtu.be/yuERYCMq69Y?si…
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Lavrov: Trump’s threat of secondary tariffs unlikely to deter Russia’s trading partners from honoring their agreements. 🔗 Source: mid.ru/ru/foreign_pol…
Total capitulation of Ukraine and Europe would be the preferred war outcome for Russia, says influential political scientist Sergey Karaganov. 🔗 Source: youtu.be/RAaSaqZCBg8?si…
In 1991, people didn’t leave the Soviet Union — the Soviet Union left them, turning Russians into a divided nation, says senior MP Konstantin Zatulin. 🔗 Source: rutube.ru/video/0e6d4433…
Putin: I’ve said many times that Russians and Ukrainians are one people — and in that sense, all of Ukraine is ours. 🔗 Full transcript: en.kremlin.ru/events/preside…
Russia’s goals in Ukraine have been consistent from day one and will not change under any circumstances, says Federation Council head Valentina Matviyenko. 🔗 Source: rutube.ru/video/f0cc85ea…
Dmitri Trenin: Russia has exhausted its limit of verbal warnings to the West. Strengthening deterrence now requires action. 🔗 Source: 1tv.ru/shows/big-game…
Only an imminent threat to the West itself will compel it to end the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, says top state media executive Margarita Simonyan. 🔗 Source: smotrim.ru/video/2999686
The world is entering a turbulent era of survival — and only Russia, Brazil, and the U.S. have the resources to be truly self-sufficient, argues strategist and former Russian intelligence officer Andrey Bezrukov. 🔗 Source: legalforum.info/en/programme/b…
Medinsky: Soviet Russia once faced a complete diplomatic and economic blockade by the entire world — yet still went on to win World War II. 🔗 Source: youtu.be/9f7DPQl_avk?si…
Russian and Ukrainian positions remain far apart, says Vladimir Medinsky, head of Russia’s negotiation team, after the third round of peace talks in Istanbul. 🔗 Source: youtu.be/9f7DPQl_avk?si…
Lavrov: Europe has gone mad, resorting to Goebbels-style propaganda narratives to justify full-scale militarization. 🔗 Full transcript: mid.ru/ru/foreign_pol…
Valery Fadeyev: The Western era, as we’ve known it for the past 600–700 years, is coming to an end. 🔗 Source: rutube.ru/video/a9a61ae3…
Senior Russian human rights official Valery Fadeev admits wartime restrictions on speech, but calls them minimal. 🔗 Source: rutube.ru/video/a9a61ae3…
Polyanskiy: With or without additional weapons, it’s absolutely clear to everyone that Ukraine will lose — it’s only a matter of time. 🔗 Full video: youtu.be/D6VIhTPJ6IE?si…
Unfazed by the latest U.S. sanctions threat, Russia’s Deputy UN Ambassador @Dpol_un responds: “Do it! No problem.” 🔗 Full video: youtu.be/D6VIhTPJ6IE?si…