they just didn’t really understand that this would have devastating consequences for them, but if you really look at things again, then most of the states of the world do not support anti-russian sanctions; they strive to maintain normal relations with russia and do this not because of antipathy. sympathy or desire to catch a fish in troubled waters. these, uh, world elements do not exist because of the pragmatism and responsibility of the responsible behavior of adventures from the westerners. they saw a lot of destruction from them. they saw even more, and the desire to do work on the bugs to reconstruct what was destroyed was never seen from the west, therefore the majority. states of the world seeks to preserve what has been developed over decades and centuries in the field of security, economic stability

, countering new challenges, threats, and so on. the reality of today is multipolarity, which has been talked about in moscow for more than 20 years now, moscow, together with its partners in the brix , personifies an attractive alternative to the notorious western world order, which is based on some incomprehensible rules, by the way, speaking nowhere formulated, let me remind you that against the backdrop of biden’s controversial visit to the middle east, to put it mildly , the trilateral summit russia turkey iran has just ended successfully and effectively, and intensive foreign trips of the russian leadership are planned in the autumn, which are connected with the reality of what is happening. and not with the illusion that amuse themselves in your tone. so with the abolition of russia. killed him at home, nothing happened. and it will not work

to inflict some kind of defeat on us, as they say, tear the economy to shreds, uh, bring it to its knees. all this is too much for america. hence the malicious rhetoric mixed with resentment with despair . all this is from the fact that things are not going the way we would like. things are going horribly wrong for them. well, actually, the ruling regime in washington is somehow trying to win back this situation, but it turns out even worse. and yet, by the way, here is one example of what you know, as luck would have it, my grandmother’s ears will get frostbite, and hmm as you know, washington made a decision, and the inclusion of russia in the list of countries where there is supposedly a risk unlawful detention of us citizens well then ,

i would like to advise those ideologues that you came up with in washington. you include the united states of america in the list of countries where there is a risk of wrongful detention of citizens of all countries of the world, which we see almost daily the biden administration's decision to classify russia as a country where us citizens are allegedly at risk of wrongful detention. this, of course, is an illegitimate political decision, apparently, this is another attempt to be made. it is as if the us citizens who are being held in custody on the territory of russia, detained unreasonably, have almost become victims of the arbitrariness of the russian authorities. well, you understand, if drugs are legalized in the united states of america in a number of states, hmm, this has been done for a long time. and hmm, in my opinion, now in general the whole country will be, uh, drug addicted, and this does not mean that all other countries, but go the same way. that's

the problem, if a us citizen was taken for a due to the fact that she was carrying drugs, she does not deny it. then it should be balanced with russian with ours with local laws, and not with those that are accepted in san francisco new york in washington all who? uh, from this category of americans who are under investigation or are already being punished, officials in washington are apparently trying to exert political pressure with some kind of loud moaning and dramatic studies about illegally detained fellow citizens. uh, this tactic will not work for moscow, we have talked about this repeatedly and all the questions concerning, judging by specific people serving sentences in the us and russia respectively should be addressed in a calm professional atmosphere through established channels. what washington is well

known about, apparently, this is again such a pantomine activity, which is designed to create among the population of the citizens of the united states of america and the feeling that some kind of work is going on. they try very hard to provide. eh, about you, their citizens. but this is not so, they do not try their citizens, in fact they do not deal with the situation on e. sri lanka in the capital of this state after mass protest actions of the population, which lasted from july 9 to july 15, the situation is gradually returning to normal, local authorities maintain public order, take measures to restore uninterrupted power supply to the city, however, across the country, there is an acute shortage of motor fuel for a number of essential goods, uh, july 18 was again extended state of emergency in connection with the early resignation of the president of sri lanka, and the deputies of the national parliament held a vote on july 20 on the candidacy of the next leader

the country defeated the former prime minister wounded and cream. sinky. in accordance with the constitution of this country. he will remain in office until the next national presidential election at the end of the twenty-fourth year. we are ready to cooperate with the new tank leadership. we hope for a speedy overcoming of the economic crisis friendly to us in the country. am one more topic and the ministry of foreign affairs of the russian federation is closely monitoring the signals of intent coming from latvia. suspend the action the agreement concluded in 2010 between the government of russia and the government of latvia on the treatment of mutual trips of residents of the border areas of our countries together, at the present time. e. as of july 20, the russian side did not receive any official notifications from the latvian authorities on this account. as prescribed by paragraph two of article nine of the agreement, as regards the

document itself, when e more interest. uh, i think this agreement represents just the delatweans. we turn to the statistics forward from 13 to 19 years latvian citizens were issued over 16,000 permits for local border traffic , while the citizens of russia for the same period were issued just over 200 such permits. just who is the beneficiary in this case and, accordingly, in this context , we believe that the decision of the latvian authorities to suspend the agreement will primarily affect their own citizens and is unlikely to seriously affect the total volume of mutual trips, which, starting from the twentieth year and so have seriously decreased, taking into account current events, the prerequisites for its restoration, to be honest, are not visible. i also wanted to say a few words about the cultural forum within the framework of the cross-year of humanitarian cooperation between russia and egypt against the backdrop of unsuccessful attempts

by the collective west, it’s simply impossible to talk about it without a smile. cancel russian culture russia is ready for constructive cooperation on the humanitarian track with foreign countries on july 16-17 in cairo with the support of the russian ministry of culture mida our country's president's cultural forum within the framework of the cross-year of humanitarian cooperation between russia and egypt on the state of the russian house hosted performances by the halama song and dance ensemble . the traditional decoration of the peoples of russia special attention. during the plenary states there was a green museum, educational youth exchange. including the opening of branches of russian universities c. egypt from teaching the russian language to expanding contacts through the victory volunteers project egypt summed up the results, rich programs of the first humanitarian year in the history of bilateral relations between russia and egypt. we are talking about holding more bright and spectacular events, among them exhibitions, concerts, forums, scientific conferences, their successful implementation is evidence of a high level of

interaction between russia and egypt, including the humanitarian field and more about the same humanitarian event, russia has consistently advocated the development of depoliticized international sports cooperation. it is an important element in the rapprochement of states of peoples. and, of course, strengthening the interaction of mutual understanding between us and on july 24, at the moscow country club of the moscow region, with the assistance of our ministry , a charity golf tour will be held as part of the international festival of intellectual sports of a strong figure, a match game in the format of the russian national team, the world team, which will be attended by well-known state public figures, titled russian foreign athletes, representatives did circles diplomatic missions. we know the participation of our colleague from the embassies of vietnam, the zambezi baba of india and other states, and my additional information about the russian participants will be

included in the text of today's briefing, in addition , curling golf competitions will be organized for the guests of the participants, sessions of a simultaneous game of chess with grandmaster sergey karyakin a and the link in the text will also lead to the site, uh, where there will be additional information on this subject. so i turn to questions ready for them to answer, and please, the magazine international life with us or today. good morning. hello topic russia europe the european union started talking about the need to revise the basic principles of eu relations russia minister of foreign affairs. in the czech republic, mr. lebavsky makes such a statement motivated by new threats that have arisen. here is, uh, how the russian foreign ministry assesses

such intentions. and what in general can be expected from such a revision and, of course, it will take place. we are here with this russophobic anti-russian concept, uh, which we tried, but in the west implement. well, we've been watching for a long time. she knew how to different manifestations, local, larger-scale , long-term, short-term in all manifestations. we have seen this sport humanitarian sphere. visas and logistics, by the way, are anti-covid, but remember that the issue was also raised. what developed the first vaccine? anticovid russia offered, uh, such a full-scale interaction to the world community in the form of studying joint production. the production area of ​​these

countries for the sale of the exchange of humanitarian supplies charity and so on. and remember how it ended. uh, just blocking and hard work, and these russophobic ill-wishers of ours here are blocking, and registering it, and hmm and obtaining the corresponding international certification. do you remember, yes, and there was also, ah, a whole company deployed through k. unfortunately, not a company that would produce studied and uh hmm would sell and make these very injections of our vaccine, but a campaign through the letter a , information and political on u , just real such black pr, anti-advertising of our efforts in this direction. here. we remember all this well, but, probably, it was not collected into a single concept, that is, it was.

they don't talk about it publicly. and now they all tell you also because all this needs to be fixed doctrinally as an absolute norm. that is, opposition to us in all directions. well , before that, until february 22. we saw it all and the persecution of our athletes and the kidnapping of our completely different citizens and the squeezing of our journalists and the persecution journalists in russian-speaking, uh, or not falling under the general mainstream. e. well, i don't know, in my opinion there was no area of ​​activity, wherever we were not put a spoke in the wheels, and you know, not hmm in the context of, maybe, uh, not sports behavior, but in the context of just malicious uh hmm malicious desire, and not let us, in principle, develop. uh, so this is not the first time we have seen attempts by individual european politicians to exploit this russophobic story in order to plunge even deeper into the crisis of eu relations with our country and contribute to the self-isolation of the west

from the rest of the world, and this time the head of the czech foreign ministry was treated, apparently, he decided to opportunistically use the country’s chairman, which began on july 1, to call for a review of the fundamental principles of interaction with russia of the current bilateral agreement, including the agreement on the simplification of the issuance of visas but on energy. no, you don't need to revisit. supply of gas fertilizer food is not necessary from his point of view revise until they need to touch anything. come on, what kind of absolute barbaric attitude to humanistic values ​​is this? by the way, it should be noted that even before this relationship, as i already said yes, our country was significantly limited by the ukrainian-centric so -called principles of mogirine, hmm and