it's great to have exercises here in morocco with our partners. local media showed selected moments from the work of the headquarters. this command post, against the backdrop of active headquarters work, was behind the scenes reporting a strike on air defense facilities of a mock enemy , the americans said that this was the s-400, it should be recalled that by now such a system was in service only in three countries in russia, china and turkey. we we have been cooperating strategically with morocco for a long time. these exercises are very important for our relations , the participation of 7,000 military personnel from various nationalities allows us to conduct large-scale multifunctional exercises, our combat capabilities will increase significantly. however, a little over a month ago, the news spread all over the world. morocco will supply ukraine with 20 t-72 tanks. the only of all african countries are these tanks. she received from belarus

20 years ago. we hand, it seems, really handed over the tanks, but not to ukraine, but to the czech republic for modernization. then they were supposed to return home, but, apparently, someone decided otherwise, paid prague for repairs and forced morocco to transfer the equipment to ukraine, this is a new one. world order, but we moroccans have good economic relations and with russia and with america russia has never been our enemy , we cooperate. many of our students study there in the east. our diplomats are also educated there. against the backdrop of military understanding between countries from below people themselves do not understand why do americans come to them and why do they train? why russia or china should be enemies american soldiers have already come to morocco but recently, besides them, there were also french spaniards and senegalese participated in the exercises about 20 countries. why they train here in morocco i don't know it's hard to say, i

really don't get it. the us army and the armed forces of less developed countries are conducting exercises to practice the destruction of russian-made air defense systems. perhaps the pentagon planned to demonstrate to friendly countries its ability to counteract and successfully hit the most modern air defense systems in a similar way, the united states could once again show friends. the need to develop cooperation. after all, if the american equipment is capable of hitting russian anti-aircraft systems, then it needs to be bought by alexander popov from morocco yes, international review. of the african countries that are allowed to be indirectly involved in the american coalition of support for ukraine, the rest keep their distance, but all the direct participants in the conflict are trying to get through to the dark continent after advertising more.

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in nigeria, the largest economy and the most populous country in africa, 213 million people passed the presidential elections in a bitter struggle , the candidate from the ruling party won the bulatinubu, before african electoral passions interested gourmets. now africa is no longer a political backwater. the american patrons of democracy have made a whole video for this vote.

thanks to colleagues from the telegram channel, the mercilessly pr manager of the plant this week , secretary of the russian security council nikolai patrushev visited algeria, and french president emmanuel macron went on an african

tour in gabon. he stated that the era of french africa in the past will not compete with china and russia, paris will not and there is a lot of wickedness in the text. africa will figure it out for itself, who is its true friend the french, of course, they are all about african prospects. we talked to members of the club's middle eastern conference. valdai who have just took place in moscow, the colonial past remains an important topic. yes, in particular the role of france we see this in the francophonie countries, but france is expanding its presence outside the french-speaking world, for example, activity in zombies, where the only goal is to protect the interests of the tatal company, the general perception in africa is that we are far from overcoming the consequences and difficulties generated by the colonial past. and by the way, we have the last colony, not a liberated country. west sahara. true, colonialist, there is no

external, and another african state of trouble. at the center of everything is the question of historical memory. algeria feels confident and strong enough to demand reconciliation with france on the basis of an apology. the recognition by paris of the status of algerian victims of the war and the colonization of france is looking for ways to avoid apologies, but to strengthen all areas of political economic social relations in france is really a lot. makes and makes efforts to keep in touch, but as long as the issue of france's memory remains, it will be difficult achieve genuine rapprochement algeria, for its part, is taking a mature, adult stance. we are not going to prove to the french that we are good students, as some african countries do. the topic of the russian presence in africa is extremely unnerving for europeans and americans. there is a reason, firstly, that the french reaction is connected not only and so much with russia, but with the fact that

the french seek to maintain their own influence on the froncophone world in the postcolonial era, and suddenly discover that in quite short term of their position weakening them are crowded out by others. the truth is not clear yet. will it be possible to do this for a long time, but they are afraid of a precedent. secondly, yes, there are fears related specifically to russia , as long as we are talking about a short period of time , the topic actually arose after the russian military operation in syria russian activity in africa raises two types of questions: the first is what are the goals of russia, whether it intends to behave in the same way, like other external players, that is, it will be aimed only at the exploitation of resources, or otherwise the second one concerns specifically the russian military forces and in particularly the wagner group, whether it be the central african republic or other countries, is a topic that concerns africans.

a number of african countries opposed the anti-russian resolution during the voting in the un general assembly for a document on the termination of the special military operation in ukraine and the complete withdrawal of russian troops from its territory 141 countries voted against russia belarus north korea syria and eritrea 35 more states abstained from voting, thus acting on the side of moscow, more than half of african countries are algeria angola burundi king congo equatorial guinea madagascar we pray zambik us without sudan senegal south africa south sudan uganda tanzania and zimbabwe eight more african countries, including cannes ethiopia and morocco did not vote at all.

france and, to a lesser extent, great britain are trying to deny the reality the problem is not in russia and not in china the fact is that africans themselves understand better what is happening in the world and insist that their voice be heard in international politics, the former colonial powers, especially france maintain relations with the elites that they themselves created and now others who are much more knowledgeable are coming. russia was scary for france now, but in fact there are more and more people in africa who want equal balanced relations with europeans, and not like now, when and from africans are siphoning off resources and brains , and in return, new restrictions on access to europe are being introduced and russia comes at the right time, offering measures to maintain security and political stability, especially in the most problematic countries, and i see no signs that russia interfered in the internal affairs of african countries. in moscow, it is beneficial to maintain the current approach that is beneficial to both sides.

since the collapse of the colonial system of russia, the united states and france have been and remain the main suppliers of weapons to africa. americans supply weapons mainly to the arab countries of the black continent, egypt, morocco and tunisia. end of 2019 state department. us approves $10bn deal washington sold to the moroccans 36 heavy apache 25 helicopters, f-16 fighters, as well as bomb shells worth a billion dollars, it is no coincidence that the united states awarded the kingdom the status of a strategic ally. not nato , tunisia also circled the same status after the flight of president ben ali from the country in 2011. after the americans received the right to use the air base, close to and build a new base on

the border with al. among russia's clients , at least 21 states are the largest buyers algeria and egypt algeria bought more than 500 t-90 ssa tanks and 300 modernized tank support combat vehicles terminator 2. in addition, algerian military aviation almost entirely consists of soviet and russian vehicles , russian weapons are returning to the egyptian market after 2018. under the asisi president. cairo signed an agreement with moscow for the supply of up to 500 t-90 tanks and russian su-35 fighters. and this is despite the regular and gratuitous military assistance from the united states, which has been coming for 45 years. after making peace with israel, egypt also got a helicopter carrying a mistral which france was built for russia but refused to transfer in 2015 due to sanctions. now

this ship bears the name of the anvard. in honor of the third egyptian president, but considering that it was originally developed for russia by egypt. i had to buy domestic k5 helicopters for him. for the african arms market, paris is also actively fighting, according to the french weekly. jona frick from 2012 to 2016. africa bought almost 4 billion french arms, euros, top ten leaders, egypt, morocco and algeria , followed by senegal, gabon, burkina faso cameroon yuarmoli, the most sought-after product of france fourth- generation rafael fighters. russia pays much more attention to africa. than a few years ago , the second russia-africa summit will take place in the summer. sergei lavrov has just been there twice . in the speeches of russian representatives , the anti-colonial theme constantly sounds

; the african reaction is ambiguous. many believe that the activation of russian rhetoric. on racism and anti-clonealism, the result of the events that have been taking place since february of last year does not appeal to everyone in africa, that russia may exploit the legitimate concerns of africans for its own reasons. i would say that russia can make efforts to convince the africans that this issue is really important for it. they are just to get support in a difficult time. of course, i myself have many friends who studied in your country or received military training here. and they have preserved very warm feelings, which are now expressed in support for russia. positions, but the majority still does not believe that russia is the successor it is important for the soviet union that there is anti-russian sentiment in africa no i think russia should be careful about narratives in general russia has a very glorious

past and a very ambitious vision of the desired world a bold approach, but one must understand that this can also be perceived as redundant russia's pressure should be more flexible, a clearer targeted strategy in relation to africa and the middle east as a whole is needed. russia should choose the most important supporting partners of the country, as we say the tough ones who proved the ability to be independent and set big goals. such as vietnam indonesia algeria and so on. this is the path to success. and what africa needs today is that the benefits that external players derive from our resources are not comparable to what africans get. we need a model of interaction in which africa will receive a much larger share and become the main beneficiary. this applies not only to the french for the chinese, for example, too. although china is the largest trading partner

of most african countries of cooperation, mainly concerns the extraction of our wealth. and then we buy finished products. for the chinese, of course, this also depends on the american governments, which often conclude agreements with external players more in their own interests than in the interests of the people of african countries as a whole. more and more guided by their own interests. they are often determined by what can be obtained from the big powers and one must also take into account that africa is again facing the phenomenon of coups and power changes. so experiments with democratization are in question, and this makes development less predictable. the military-technical cooperation of the military-technical cooperation is not just the sale of weapons, it is the creation of an entire infrastructure, when a single standard is set, it is not enough to sell equipment, it must be serviced , supplied with spare parts, and over time, and modernize

to abandon already purchased equipment and the standard, the task is extremely, expensive, you will have to change the entire infrastructure in the era rivalry between the two superpowers, the main players were the soviet union and the united states, now according to according to the stockholm international peace research institute, the top five largest arms exporters are the united states russia france germany and china a in the top ten largest arms suppliers. israel and south korea also entered. however, in general, two standards remain, even many nato countries until recently kept soviet weapons and ammunition and even produced them for sale, for example, to africa, where there is a lot of soviet technology. these are former members of the warsaw pact, bulgaria slovakia czech republic and even poland to trade soviet weapons are still profitable. however , now these weapons are being transferred to ukraine ; new weapons are produced according to standards.

nato can strangely exchange licenses, for example, a tank cannon, an english rifled leopard-1, a gun, it was also put on other western tanks, a leopard gun, 2 originally from germany, the same costs a nabrance and is produced in the usa under license to buyers of south korean weapons, the philippines , indonesia and great britain is noteworthy, but in 2021, 7% of israeli arms exports were sent to the united united arab emirates and bahrain a in the eighties, israel, together with south africa, even developed nuclear weapons. true, there is no official confirmation, soviet and now russian weapons are produced by a former member of the warsaw pact china india vietnam dprk ethiopia and a number of other countries soviet missile technologies first came to north korea from iraq and then from north korea to iran , of course, it cannot be considered legal mtc, but sometimes there are paradoxes, for example, turkey itself

is a new exporter of weapons and greece has put on armament russian anti-aircraft systems s-400 and s-300 an unusual solution for nato countries, according to one version, the reason is that both countries are at enmity, but they fly on the same type of western aircraft and decided to purchase anti-aircraft systems designed to combat combat types of nato vehicles. algeria is a long-standing and major client of the russian military-industrial complex, it is clear that in the current circumstances, western countries are doing everything to slow down this cooperation, there are risks. it depends on the outcome of the special military operation, if russia succeeds. this will strengthen military-technical cooperation with other countries and algeria in particular. but if russia does not realize its goals or russian weapons demonstrate less effectiveness than the equipment of other manufacturers that the enemy uses, algeria will draw conclusions and probably think about

western suppliers, the algerian military is watching very closely. over the course of hostilities , they evaluate how this or that weapon has shown itself in particular, how russian manufacturers solve hidden problems, what they are doing to improve weapons and correct deficiencies. this is extremely important in general. i believe our cooperation in the military technical sphere will continue and algeria will retain its place in the top three clients of the russian pc the slave-owner's past has become a pivotal socio-political theme a funny incident happened the other day viewers of the older generation, of course, remember angela davis, a radical communist fighter for the rights

of blacks, the release demanded by soviet schoolchildren. well, in general, people of good will since then, the former prisoner has become a respected professor and activist of the left of liberal views, an adherent of feminism, the so-called critical racial theory and other manifestations of the tireless fight against discrimination. so the other day on a tv show. find your roots on the pbs channel. she found out that the descendant of not even african slaves, but european colonists who arrived in america in the 17th century, on the famous mayflower ship , you know what you are looking at is the list of passengers of the mayflower ship. no, i can't believe my ancestors couldn't sail on my flowers. you are not their descendant. no, no one in 101 passengers. this is a bit overkill for me.

now you could imagine that your ancestors laid the foundation of this country never ever so that from the prison from suma and from the ancestors of the colonialists. don't hesitate. now he knows all these three components firsthand. fbi chief christopher ay told his agency tends to conclude. the covid pandemic was the result of a virus leak from a laboratory in wuhan, there is no trump, he is wearing clothes, reuters reported that the united states began consultations with allies on the subject of sanctions against china , now for possible military assistance in moscow , china categorically denies it even

put forward a peace initiative in ukraine, but washington is firm. in any case, the american authorities reproach the chinese for not condemning russia . washington is trying to present the neutral position of china. or, for example, india, as something that they sided with russia against ukraine to maintain normal relations with russia and even increase trade. how it happens to her is in line with china's national interests. but this is not the case, as washington claims to be. china provides material support to russia, i always answer such reproaches, if normal trade relations are perceived in this way, then the united states. china provides gigantic material support, given the record level of trade, of course, it is nonsense to equate trade with political support. china has been doing so well so far that the situation of choice, of course, i would like to avoid, my favorite

example because of the history of the so-called brilliant isolation of britain is wonderful. the model of british policy maintains normal trade relations with all european powers, even if they are at war with each other, this is a truly neutral position, in general the expanding trade relations between russia and china are part of the general reorganization of the world situation and they, among other things, help to overcome te problems that arise on the world economic stage due to the sanctions, so there are all reasons, including moral ones , to continue such a course to stay on the sidelines , china will not allow the united states to have already decided everything. well, let's be honest, russia also expects certainty from china. so it's coming and pretty soon. joe biden and his ties to china are concerned about the theme of the artist harry barwala

on the table president xi sign and a box of secret documents the president speaks on the phone hello american national archives. you won't believe what i just found beaverhead, a very accurate and vivid image of a time bomb tick tik tik michael ramirez and fears of a chinese navy aircraft carrier. clearly american , but on the wave written chinese naval construction the view of the chinese themselves on us relations drawing liul from the english-language newspaper china daily here and without words it is clear who creates and who destroys? a set of tin cars produced 40 years ago by the moscow orlyonok plant was called tourist and everything about africa. you see, before globalization, this

tourism. it seemed to us literary. e listen far, far away on the lake. chad exquisite roam the giraffe, but and so on in the soviet kids were offered. uh, romantic dreaming, since tourism is applied, was not very common then. but cooperation with africa has changed very much since then, more than once our country has practically left africa, global tourism , on the contrary, has come to us and is now leaving. he is back in africa. more precisely, we are going there, like the children of the eighties, the world, large and diverse, we have to rediscover. true, in his fatal moments. well, that 's lucky. it was an international review, goodbye.

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the main event to this minute in our news release was discussed by the members of the russian security council . vladimir putin held an operational meeting. this is how he defined the main topic of the meeting as a very important issue of measures to anti-terrorist security of objects under the jurisdiction of law enforcement agencies and the speaker, just the minister of the interior. some saboteurs who attacked the bryansk region