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Russia will not put up with the oppression of the Russian people who want to profess Russian culture and have respect for it, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. According to the MFA, Russia seeks to maintain a belt of good-neighbourliness along its borders, so that NATO’s military infrastructure does not develop at its borders, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper reports.
The minister recalled that the containment of Russia remains one if not the only objective for the North Atlantic alliance. American military bases immediately appear on the territory of any country that is being drawn into NATO notwithstanding the fact that there is no visible military threat to them.
The head of Russian diplomacy assured that Moscow wanted the world to maintain order based on international law. Lavrov called it a guarantee of predictability. Predictability is necessary to interact with other countries in the field of investment and economy.
We need to create such a strategic line that will ultimately ensure our country’s stability and independence.
Today, the international situation is ruled by the conjuncture, the Foreign Minister stressed. And it did not begin after the Maidan in Ukraine. Eight years ago Edward Snowden refused to go to where the electric chair was waiting for him, and Washington immediately began to punish us. Then the so-called "Magnitsky list" came up, and it was long before the Ukrainian events. Ukraine only added a spark to the efforts of Washington. At the same time, all this showed the United States that Moscow was not going to silently look at how Russian people were being oppressed.
Russia is being punished for trying to protect its compatriots from radicals and neo-Nazis, Lavrov added. He recalled that, after the 2014 coup, Dmitry Yarosh declared that Russians had to be expelled from the Crimea or destroyed, because the Russians would never think like Ukrainians, they would not worship Shukhevych and Bandera.
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that many Russians in the Baltic States voted for the independence of the republics in which they lived, and after that they were unfairly deprived of the right to vote. Meanwhile, they wanted and want to be loyal citizens of their states. If countries are interested in maintaining multi-confessional and multi-ethnicity, the authorities should make sure that the Russian-speaking people fell they are rightful citizens, Lavrov believes.
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