🖋 Article «The humanity should get rid of the colonial system heritage. Colonial powers’ time is up» by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russian Federation, Chairman of the United Russia Party

Key points:

• There is brazen interference in the affairs of independent states, which, unfortunately, still continues in various forms. Despite humanity’s persistent efforts to eradicate neocolonialism, the Western world vehemently resists it.

• The former colonial powers persist in exploiting dependent countries, enhancing their own comfort through the humiliation and oppression of others – albeit employing more sophisticated tools and methods.

• According to experts (American experts, for all their bias), between 1946 and 2000, the United States interfered in elections in other countries more than 80 times. Since 1945, there have been more than 50 attempted coups and military interventions. Of the 174 cases of restrictive measures applied in the 20th century, the United States was responsible for 109. <…> In fact, America has become a global sanctions neo-metropolis.

• In order to preserve its geopolitical presence in various parts of the world, the West relies on the so-called debt neo-colonialism . <…> The neo-colonial powers are using financial institutions under their control and extensively exploiting the difficult socioeconomic situation in many countries of the Global South to induce them to borrow at interest rates that are higher than those offered to the so-called golden billion countries.

• Neo-metropolitan powers have also been targeting certain countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa with their disruptive efforts in order to control their natural wealth, including critical minerals. They focus on gaining unrestricted access to lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt and rear earth deposits they need for transitioning to a low-carbon economy.

❗️ The fight against neocolonialism is not an eternal confrontation for the sake of confrontation itself. It is primarily a progressive movement of states towards civilisational sovereignty, which is crucial in avoiding degradation and devastation in the 21st century. <…> Only fully sovereign countries that have independence in domestic and foreign affairs will be able to effectively counteract the deliberate efforts of the former metropolises to impose unequal economic and political deals on them.

• Investigation of colonial crimes that do not have a statute of limitations should be placed at the forefront of this activity. It is necessary to consider the creation of a single public database (register) of crimes of the colonial period, as well as modern neocolonial practices, at the UN, and work out a scale to evaluate the damage caused by war crimes committed on their territory.

• Neo-metropoles should be hit where it hurts the most, in their wallets, which they are filling largely by exploiting the rest of the world. We believe that the payment of compensations to the victims of neocolonial practices should be based on clear, legally considered and substantiated evidence. Political and diplomatic assessments must be complemented with a legal evaluation of their actions.

• We wish the best of luck to our African and Latin American colleagues. Their success, including in establishing an anticolonial tribunal (akin to the Nuremberg Trials), will be a major step towards depriving the Global North of its domination and towards building a fair multipolar world order.

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Drama „Hoffmanns Erzählungen“ wurde von der Filmkritikerin Susanna Alperina für die Vorführung ausgewählt und wird in der russischen Sprache mit englischen Untertiteln gezeigt.

Eine tiefgründige Erzählung und eine beeindruckende Schauspielerei erwarten das Publikum im Filmtheater des Russischen Hauses am 16. Juli um 19:00. 🍿

🎫 Eintritt frei

🎙 Michail Galusin, stellvertretender Außenminister der Russischen Föderation:

🔹 Wir wissen von den Vorhaben des Kiewer Regimes und seiner westlichen Schirmherren, sich nach dem gescheiterten „Friedensgipfel“ im schweizerischen Bürgenstock Mitte Juni 2024 zu „rehabilitieren“ und eine ähnliche Veranstaltung durchzuführen. Sie denken sogar darüber nach, Russland einzuladen. Der konkrete Ort der Veranstaltung wurde noch nicht festgelegt, aber im Grunde genommen spielt er keine Rolle. Die Inhalte sind wichtiger, mit denen ist aber alles glasklar.

🔹 Wir hören immer wieder dieselbe Rhetorik, die vergeblich darauf abzielt, die völlig aussichtslose und ultimative „Selenskij-Formel“ durchzupeitschen. Wir sehen auch, wie andere Initiativen zur Beilegung der Ukraine-Krise absichtlich ignoriert werden. Es ist ein weiterer Betrugsfall, der auf der Hand liegt. Derartige Ultimaten halten wir für inakzeptabel und haben keine Absichten, uns an solchen „Gipfeltreffen“ zu beteiligen.

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