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🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at a meeting with students and faculty of the @mgimo_university READ WATCH Key points: 🔹 Ten or so years ago, our Western colleagues began urging everyone to respect what they called “rules-based order” and to follow these “rules” instead of “international law”. No one presents these “rules” to anyone because there are none. They are created from scratch for each particular case. 🔹 There is no doubt that containing any rival is one of the “rules” that the West is eager to implement. Today, Russia is that rival, but China has been declared next in line. 🔹To be an active tool for containment, Ukraine had to become “anti-Russia,” as President of Russia Vladimir Putin recently noted. Ukrainian authorities encouraged neo-Nazism and passed legislation on de-Communisation and on glorifying winners in World War II, among which they listed Shukhevich, Bandera and all other collaborators, who should have been tried by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal. But nobody was interested in this subject. The “civilised” West silently watched and even encouraged this. 🔹 At the moment, it is not Ukraine that is being used to limit, humiliate and destroy everything that is Russian. The entire world has been commanded “get ’em,” even the “educated” West. One is under attack just for having a Russian passport, walking into a shop where the owner thinks you are a Russian. Never mind what is going on in sports, our Paralympic athletes – it is a cruel joke, the doom of the Western civilisation. 🔹If you are a Russophobe, you are allowed to do anything. This principle is evident in the daily activities of the Ukrainian authorities for the past eight years. 🔹 The Ukrainian party, although it showed understanding of the matters to be coordinated during the talks, has been changing its position all the time, rejecting its own proposals. It is difficult to get rid of the impression that their American colleagues are holding them by the hand. According to Russian and Western political analysts, the Americans do not want this process to end soon. 🔹 The attempts to present Russia as isolated or being isolated is a futile attempt. We have many friends. Just take a look at how many countries have adopted sanctions and how many have refused to do so despite the immense US pressure, which I would describe as unbecoming of a great power.