🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a ceremony for opening an exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Russia-Syria diplomatic relations (Moscow, July 19, 2024)
💬 Russian-Syrian diplomatic relations were established on July 21, 1944 at the height of WWII. You don’t need me to tell you what a difficult time it was for our respective countries and the world at large.
☝️ Today, we are once again living through hard times. The "collective West" led by the US has challenged the natural course of history and the processes leading to a more sustainable and just world order without hegemons, or colonial and neo-colonial practices, where countries will be able to cooperate on the basis of equality and balance of interests. Russia and Syria are at the leading edge of the pursuit of truth and justice worldwide.
We appreciate Damascus providing principled support for the special military operation in defence of Russian people, the Russian language and culture. <...>
I am convinced that no one will succeed in preventing our Syrian friends or us from upholding our vital interests, sovereignty, and political independence. We will continue to pursue an independent foreign policy and to strengthen ties with the countries that are willing to abide by the principles of equality and mutual respect.
🇷🇺🇸🇾 Syria is our reliable and time-tested ally and an important partner in the international arena. Our joint efforts made it possible for us to put out the hotbed of international terrorism in Syria. A stable ceasefire regime is maintained in the country. Not without difficulty, peaceful life is gradually returning to Syria. <...>
🤝 I’m convinced that relations between Russia and Syria will continue to make steady progress based on the countries’ extensive historical experience and in the spirit of long-standing friendship between our countries and peoples.
🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a ceremony for opening an exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Russia-Syria diplomatic relations (Moscow, July 19, 2024)
💬 Russian-Syrian diplomatic relations were established on July 21, 1944 at the height of WWII. You don’t need me to tell you what a difficult time it was for our respective countries and the world at large.
☝️ Today, we are once again living through hard times. The "collective West" led by the US has challenged the natural course of history and the processes leading to a more sustainable and just world order without hegemons, or colonial and neo-colonial practices, where countries will be able to cooperate on the basis of equality and balance of interests. Russia and Syria are at the leading edge of the pursuit of truth and justice worldwide.
We appreciate Damascus providing principled support for the special military operation in defence of Russian people, the Russian language and culture. <...>
I am convinced that no one will succeed in preventing our Syrian friends or us from upholding our vital interests, sovereignty, and political independence. We will continue to pursue an independent foreign policy and to strengthen ties with the countries that are willing to abide by the principles of equality and mutual respect.
🇷🇺🇸🇾 Syria is our reliable and time-tested ally and an important partner in the international arena. Our joint efforts made it possible for us to put out the hotbed of international terrorism in Syria. A stable ceasefire regime is maintained in the country. Not without difficulty, peaceful life is gradually returning to Syria. <...>
🤝 I’m convinced that relations between Russia and Syria will continue to make steady progress based on the countries’ extensive historical experience and in the spirit of long-standing friendship between our countries and peoples.
The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. "Your messages about the movement of the enemy through the official chatbot … bring new trophies every day," the government agency tweeted. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. "We're seeing really dramatic moves, and it's all really tied to Ukraine right now, and in a secondary way, in terms of interest rates," Octavio Marenzi, CEO of Opimas, told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. "This war in Ukraine is going to give the Fed the ammunition, the cover that it needs, to not raise interest rates too quickly. And I think Jay Powell is a very tepid sort of inflation fighter and he's not going to do as much as he needs to do to get that under control. And this seems like an excuse to kick the can further down the road still and not do too much too soon." Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for much of its life, it has become a vital source of communication during the invasion of Ukraine. But, if all of this is new to you, let us explain, dear friends, what on Earth a Telegram is meant to be, and why you should, or should not, need to care.
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