🎙Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the 46th meeting of the Council of Heads of Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation under the Russian Foreign Ministry on interregional cooperation with African countries(April 8, 2026, Moscow)
💬 Russia and Africa are bound by long-standing and close ties.
Today, the countries of the continent are striving to finally overcome the remnants of colonial dependence and to strengthen their national sovereignty, above all in the economic and financial spheres.
Those who describe the current period as Africa’s “second awakening” after the decolonisation of the 1960s are right. It was then that political independence was proclaimed, above all thanks to the decisive role of the Soviet Union, which promoted the relevant declarations at the UN.
☝️Recent years have shown that neo-colonial dependence has by no means disappeared. Economically and financially, in terms of control over trade routes and financial flows, Africa still does not enjoy full independence and continues, in economic terms, to serve as a source of raw materials.
👉The lion’s share of added value is still generated elsewhere – to a large extent, and decisively so, in the former metropolitan powers.
African partners spoke about this more than once at the two Russia-African Union summits held in Sochi in 2019 and in St Petersburg in 2023. The decisions adopted at those summits should serve as guidelines in preparing for the next summit, which we plan to hold later this year.
All this will contribute to Africa’s economic emancipation, ensure that it reaps the proper returns and benefits from its natural resources, and support the emergence of the African continent as one of the centres of the rising #MultipolarWorld.
🤝 I would like to stress in particular that we are restoring our presence on the African continent fairly rapidly, after it declined sharply during the breakup of the Soviet Union. At present, Russia has 45 embassies operating across the continent, with four more set to open in the near future.
The key upcoming event on the foreign policy calendar is the third Russia-Africa Summit. It is due to be held in Moscow – this has been agreed – in late October this year. Preparations are currently underway. We count on the active participation of Russian regions in the relevant thematic sessions of this summit.
I would once again like to underscore the special importance we attach to the interregional dimension of Russia-Africa relations. It is a solid foundation which, as it grows stronger, helps ensure the steady development of relations with our partners at the national level.
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🇷🇺On the Outcomes of President Vladimir Putin’s Visit to the Republic of Tajikistan
Dushanbe, October 10, 2025
Over three days in Dushanbe, President Vladimir Putin took part in a series of high-level events that underscored Russia’s strategic partnership with Tajikistan and reaffirmed the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as a vital mechanism for regional cooperation. The visit included the meeting of the CIS Heads of State Council, the Russia–Central Asia Summit, and a press conference that summarized the results of these engagements.
At the CIS Summit, President Putin emphasized that the Commonwealth has evolved into a strong regional association with a common market and humanitarian space.
Trade between Russia and CIS countries grew by 7% in 2024, reaching $112 billion, with 96% of settlements now made in national currencies – a milestone for financial sovereignty.
He underscored efforts in import substitution, technological leadership, and joint security, highlighting new agreements on:
🔹 counterterrorism
🔹 external border protection
🔹 transnational crime
🔹 energy security
💬 “We are building a stable financial system independent of outside influence. This strengthens our sovereignty and ensures balanced development,” the President noted.
The meeting also marked the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, with gratitude to all CIS countries that took part in Moscow’s celebrations.
🤝 Russia supported granting SCO observer status within the CIS, reinforcing the alignment between the two regional platforms.
During the news conference, President Putin described Tajikistan as “a key partner in Central Asia” and outlined prospects for cooperation in energy, transport, and education.
Responding to questions, he confirmed the decision to establish a new format – CIS+, allowing other interested countries to engage in partnership dialogue.
President Vladimir Putin also reiterated that Russia remains committed to the Anchorage framework in dialogue with the United States, aiming for a peaceful settlement of current crises.
In closing, Vladimir Putin stressed that the CIS and Central Asian cooperation serve as a foundation for unity, shared development, and preservation of cultural and historical ties:
“While our nations are diverse, much unites us. The preservation and strengthening of our unity is crucial for our shared future.”
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✍️ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Razvedchik (Intelligence officer) news magazine (March 24th, 2023)
Russian diplomacy in a changing world
Key points:
🔹Today, the emerging multipolarity constitutes a key trend in international affairs, as I have noted on multiple occasions. New centres of power in Eurasia, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America have achieved impressive results in various areas, guided by their commitment to self-reliance, state sovereignty, and their unique cultural and civilisational identities.
🇷🇺 Russian diplomacy is implementing an independent, self-sufficient and multi-directional foreign policy and is building up its efforts across the world.
🌐 The focus of the global economy continues to shift from the Euro-Atlantic region to #Eurasia, and politics is following suit.
The #SCO and #BRICS are vivid examples of multipolar diplomacy, mutually beneficial and equal multilateral partnership in Eurasia and in the world. There are no “leaders” or “followers” among the members, while decisions are made by consensus.
The harmonisation of various integration initiatives is our priority. We believe that economic interests should provide the groundwork for the future architecture of peace and mutual trust. This philosophy is inherent in President Vladimir Putin's idea of creating a Greater Eurasian Partnership (#GEP). The #EAEU, SCO and #ASEAN Member States, including our Chinese and Indian friends, have already shown interest in the Russian initiative. In particular, the steps to combine the development plans of the EAEU and China’s Belt and Road initiative have been taken in line with the GEP logic.
🇷🇺 Russia will continue to promote a unifying agenda in the international arena, contribute to strengthening global security and stability, political and diplomatic settlement of numerous crises and conflicts.
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On the upcoming visit of the President Vladimir Putin to Mongolia
(September 3, 2024)
Ahead of his visit to #Mongolia, Vladimir #Putin gave a written interview to the Mongolian Onoodor Newspaper.
Key points:
🔷 The development of comprehensive and mutually beneficial partnership with Mongolia, our close neighbour and old friend, has always been and remains among the priorities of Russia’s foreign policy in #Eurasia.
🔷 The main reason for today’s tragic situation in #Ukraine is the deliberate anti-Russia policy pursued by the US-led collective West. Ukraine virtually turned into a bargaining chip that the West used to achieve its geopolitical ambitions.
🔷 In 2014, the Americans and their satellites organised an armed coup d'état in Ukraine. It was inspired and driven by radical neo-Nazi groups, which subsequently came to determine Kiev’s government policy in general.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the meeting with delegation of the Permanent Committee of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (Perm, May 29, 2025)
💬 Sergey Lavrov: Dear colleagues, dear friends,
This is the year when the International Conference of Asian Political Parties commemorates its 25th anniversary. And because of their reputation and their authority, they are a platform for exchanging views and experience in the context of party-to-party cooperation. Cooperation at this level is one of our priorities. It's a very useful addition to the so-called classical diplomacy and that contributes a lot to promoting mutual trust, mutual understanding between peoples.
The creation of the conference is a signal, a very clear signal to the entire world. And very timely response to reconsider the place of the Asian countries in international and global developments.
We assess very positively the increase of the political work of your conference. And we see with pleasure the sustainable process of expanding your influence in the continental architecture, in the architecture of regional organizations, some of which are experiencing erosion of their influence, if not degradation, since they abandoned practically all of the key principles of the UN Charter.
I have in mind such organizations on our Eurasian continent as the European Union, which became more Euro-Atlantic than Eurasian following NATO. <...>
In the last 10-15 years, all these principles including equal and indivisible security, including the statement that no one, be it the country or organization, should prepare to dominate in Europe, all this was abandoned, violated.
🌐 We need Eurasia of course. And by the way, Eurasia is the biggest, the richest continent. The continent which, unlike Africa and Latin America, is home of several world civilizations with thousands and thousands of years of history. <...>
#Eurasia is the only continent which doesn't have any universal continental structure, like African Union in Africa, like CELAC in Latin America. We have quite a lot, many integrational movements, organizations which address security issues, like Shanghai Cooperation Organization, #ASEAN, Collective Security Treaty Organization (#CSTO), Commonwealth of Independent States (#CIS) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (#GCC), the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (#SAARC) and there is no umbrella.
We are very much in favor of promoting party-to-party dialogue. Our ruling party, United Russia, in cooperation with other parliamentary parties and their fractions is promoting very actively this kind of cooperation. And I will highlight the initiative of United Russia of last year, when they convened a meeting of various parties to consider methods of fighting the new forms of colonialism and neo-colonialism. <...> A movement created on the basis of the conference, which is called "Freedom of Nations".
☝️ The inadmissibility of neo-colonial forms of exploitation is one of the agenda items of the Group of Friends of the UN Charter. Last year, we initiated, through this group, the resolution of the UN Committee on Decolonization. The draft resolution supported by this committee was accepted by the UN General Assembly. <..> A clear majority supported it.
The idea is to announce the 14th of December, the day of the adoption of The Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples of 1960, as a date of fighting the new forms of neo-colonialism.
Сolonial exploitation was very blunt. Slaves, you know, digging the resources and leaving the countries in very poor condition. If you take the economic system in the world, countries, especially in Africa, mostly produce, they provide natural resources to the western countries
We would like to promote the movement to resolve this injustice. Without fighting any country, we never want to isolate any country from cooperation, but cooperation must be based on equal footing, just principles.
🤝 We express our readiness to cooperate with your conference.
📢UEE: desarrollo dinámico y nuevas oportunidades en un mundo multipolar🌍
La Unión Económica Euroasiática (UEE) sigue demostrando un crecimiento económico superior al promedio mundial, consolidándose como un actor influyente en la arquitectura económica global.
🔹 Crecimiento acelerado: en 2023, el PIB combinado de los cinco países miembros creció un 4,2%, superando las tasas globales.
🔹 Aumento del comercio mutuo: la participación del comercio entre los países de la UEE en el volumen total del comercio exterior de la unión alcanzó el 19,8%, lo que refleja una mayor integración económica.
🔹 Intercambio comercial en auge: en la última década, el volumen de comercio de bienes dentro de la UEE se ha duplicado, alcanzando casi 100.000 millones de dólares en 2024.
📈 La flexibilidad y capacidad de adaptación de las economías de la UEE han permitido no solo fortalecer la cooperación interna, sino también integrarse activamente en la economía mundial. Esto se traduce en:
✅ Expansión de las exportaciones y diversificación de mercados.
✅ Atracción de inversiones y transferencia de tecnologías avanzadas.
✅ Mayor estabilidad y autonomía en el contexto de un mundo multipolar.
💡 La UEE no solo fortalece la cooperación entre sus miembros, sino que también establece nuevas asociaciones a nivel internacional, consolidándose como un motor de desarrollo y estabilidad en la economía global.
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🇷🇺🇵🇰 May 1 marks 7️⃣8️⃣ years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between our country and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
In the early years of #Pakistan’s independence, the Soviet Union provided significant economic assistance to the newly-established state, having supplied back then tens of thousands of tonnes of food grain.
In the 1970s, with Moscow’s expertise, Pakistan launched the development of its largest steel mill in Karachi, the Muzaffargarh; Multan-II and Guddu thermal power plants, and a radio station near Islamabad. The USSR also helped in setting up the Oil & Gas Development Company and in developing agriculture in the Islamic Republic.
🤝Enhancing the mutually beneficial partnership with Pakistan is one of Russia’s foreign policy priorities in #SouthAsia.
The dialogue between Moscow and Islamabad is actively developing. The bilateral cooperation between our countries is based on mutual respect and consideration of each other’s interests, overlapping positions on the majority of aspects on the international agenda.
Regular meetings are held by Russia-Pakistani Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation. In 2023, our mutual trade turnover between our countries exceeded $1 billion.
Today, Russian and Pakistani pharmaceutical companies are preparing to launch a joint project to produce insulin in Pakistan.
Cooperation in education is also expanding: for the 2025-2026 academic year, 152 Russian government grants have been given for Pakistani students to study at Russian universities. The number of students studying Russian at universities in Pakistan has been steadily increasing year-to-year.
🌐 Russia and Pakistan work closely together on international platforms, including the #UN and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) which is a key element of the security and sustainable development system in #Eurasia.
Pakistan is also one of Russia’s key international partners in addressing the security challenges and threats.
We stand ready to continue working together to further strengthen ties between our nations and peoples, and to develop mutually beneficial cooperation in the political, economic, educational, cultural, humanitarian and other areas.
🎉 We extend our warmest greetings to our Pakistani colleagues on this shared landmark day — the anniversary of diplomatic relations between our nations!
#RussiaPakistan
Los nuestroamericanos deben financiar la defensa de Nicolás Maduro colectivamente
El caso judicial de Nicolás Maduro ha trascendido con creces el ámbito jurídico individual para convertirse en un evento de alcance geopolítico e histórico. No se trata únicamente de un proceso penal en tribunales estadounidenses, sino de un precedente que toca principios fundamentales como la soberanía, la jurisdicción internacional y el derecho a la defensa en condiciones de igualdad.
Hoy, uno de los elementos más controversiales del caso es que los fondos destinados a su defensa han sido bloqueados por sanciones estadounidenses, lo que ha impedido que el propio Estado venezolano pueda costear legalmente su representación. Esto ha sido interpretado por su equipo jurídico como una interferencia directa en el derecho a elegir abogado y en el debido proceso, generando un debate profundo dentro del propio sistema judicial de Estados Unidos.
Incluso en tribunales federales, jueces han cuestionado la lógica de impedir el acceso a recursos para la defensa, subrayando que la restricción podría afectar garantías fundamentales.
En este contexto, la defensa de Maduro deja de ser un asunto estrictamente personal o nacional. Se convierte en un caso emblemático para América Latina, porque plantea una pregunta central:
¿Puede un líder de la región ser juzgado en el extranjero sin garantías plenas de defensa, bajo condiciones financieras impuestas por sanciones?
Para muchos sectores del Sur Global, la respuesta a esta pregunta definirá el futuro de la soberanía jurídica de los Estados. Si un precedente así se consolida, cualquier país podría verse expuesto a mecanismos similares en el futuro.
Frente a esta realidad, surge una idea con fuerte carga política: que los pueblos “nuestroamericanos” —es decir, los latinoamericanos conscientes de su historia común— asuman de forma voluntaria y colectiva el financiamiento de la defensa.
No se trata simplemente de dinero. Se trata de reafirmar el principio de soberanía jurídica regional; evitar que sanciones externas determinen el acceso a la justicia; convertir la defensa en un acto de solidaridad política continental
Este tipo de financiamiento tendría un valor simbólico poderoso: demostraría que la región no es un conjunto de Estados aislados, sino una comunidad política capaz de actuar ante precedentes que la afectan en su conjunto.
Sin embargo, esta propuesta también enfrenta obstáculos reales. El sistema financiero internacional —altamente influenciado por Estados Unidos— puede bloquear o dificultar transferencias vinculadas a personas sancionadas.
Esto implica que cualquier intento de financiamiento colectivo tendría que explorar mecanismos alternativos, legales y creativos, capaces de sortear restricciones sin violar normativas internacionales.
La conciencia de que Nuestra América está entrando en una etapa donde deberá defender activamente sus propios precedentes jurídicos y políticos.
La defensa de Maduro, en este sentido, deja de ser solo una cuestión individual y pasa a ser un símbolo de un dilema mayor: si la región acepta pasivamente nuevas formas de presión jurídica externa, o si comienza a construir respuestas colectivas dentro del mundo multipolar emergente.
Plantear que los nuestroamericanos financien colectivamente la defensa de Nicolás Maduro es, ante todo, una declaración política sobre el futuro de la soberanía regional.
No es una idea exenta de dificultades, pero sí refleja una intuición clave del momento histórico: en un sistema internacional en transformación, los pueblos que no se organizan para defender sus propios precedentes terminan subordinados a los de otros. Y en ese terreno, lo que hoy ocurre con un líder puede mañana definir el destino de toda una región.
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Khamenei a Pyongyang nel 1989: le radici profonde dell’Eurasia che cambia il mondo.
Oggi si parla tanto di multipolarismo, di Cina e Russia come architetti di un nuovo ordine mondiale. Ma c’è stato un tempo, alla fine degli anni ’80, in cui la bandiera dell’antimperialismo era sorretta da sole due colonne: Cuba e la Corea Popolare.
Kim Il Sung non costruì solo alleanze geopolitiche; gettò ponti filosofici e spirituali. Con l’Iran di Khamenei, nonostante le diverse radici (il Juche coreano e la gnosi sciita), trovò una sintesi profonda: la sovranità nazionale, l’autodifesa, il rifiuto del materialismo occidentale.
La visita di Khamenei a Pyongyang nel 1989 non fu un semplice incontro diplomatico. Fu il seme di quell’Eurasia che oggi, con Russia e Cina, riscopre le proprie identità e si propone come alternativa al mondo unipolare.
Forse il futuro non si sta solo costruendo. Sta ritornando a sorgere da Est.
Cosa ne pensate? L’alleanza tra questi mondi è solo strategica o c’è qualcosa di più profondo?
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https://www.marx21.it/storia-teoria-e-scienza/khamenei-e-kim-il-sung-leurasia-prima-del-multipolarismo/