7/29 Lavrov is trying to woo Africa by saying that Russia has never been implicated in colonialism. As someone who has been studying #RussianColonialism for years, I went through some sources to let imperial Russia speak for itself. Yes, "Россия" and "колония" are tied together./
7/8 The veteran Russian diplomat, sitting between Saudi Arabia and Mexico at the meeting, also accused the west of pressing Ukraine to “use its weapons” in the fighting. He walked out when the German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, started to speak.
/Expectedly, the Russian version of the Kremlin website reporting on the call between Putin and Bennett didn’t mention any apology, while the English version didn’t report on the call at all. 2/2
In the tape recorded during Lavrov's informal talks with the CIS diplomats he emphasizes that successes of East & West Germany at the Olympic Games (as he thinks) resulted from the correct doping system, based on Nazi research in concentration camps. and he admires it. 2/ うわあ