Biden considers deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus “completely irresponsible” – White House.

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#Санкции

💬 The frenzy with which the West now requires everyone to “punish” the Russian Federation, not to communicate with us, reflects its understanding that there will be no unipolar world anymore . These convulsions that we are now seeing, agony to some extent, can last for many years.

#Украина

💬 If someone tells me that since the coup d’état in February 2014, the Kiev junta has represented people living in Crimea, in the southeast of Ukraine, then everyone will understand that this is a bluff . Just like P.A. Poroshenko and V.A. Zelensky, their regimes do not represent the people who voted to be part of the Russian Federation.

#Русофобия

💬 Russia must remain itself , continue to create opportunities for the development of art, science, education and openly share its achievements with all countries of the world, as we have done so far. It is impossible to “kill” Russian culture, no matter how hard anyone tries.

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ST. PETERSBURG, June 15 (Xinhua) — The Moscow City Tourism Committee will hold a presentation of the Russian capital’s tourism potential in Beijing next week, Yevgeny Kozlov, chairman of the Moscow Tourism Committee, said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Thursday.

According to E. Kozlov, representatives of Mostourism are currently in Guangzhou, and will arrive in Beijing next week to discuss possible cooperation with local travel agencies.

E. Kozlov expects to launch group visa-free agreements between Russia and China by the end of summer 2023. Such agreements can significantly increase the flow of tourists between the two countries.

SPIEF has been held since 1997. This year it takes place from June 14 to 17, the main theme of the business program is “Sovereign development is the basis of a just world. Let’s unite efforts for the sake of future generations.”

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June 15, People’s Daily Online — On June 12, the construction and acceptance testing of one of the world’s largest floating oil production, storage and offloading units, Sepetiba /FPSO SEPETIBA/, was completed. In the Tianjin Free Trade Zone, the oilfield vessel was handed over to the customer, and on June 15 it will be sent to Brazil. This is the first super-large FPSO exported directly from Tianjin Port.

It is known that the length of the vessel “Sepetiba” is 333 m, height – 64 m, width – 60 m, the area of ​​​​the main deck is equal to the area of ​​​​two football fields, the storage capacity is 2 million barrels of oil, the weight of the structure is 93 thousand tons, the largest displacement is 450 thousand tons. Due to its impressive size, the Sepetiba floating oil production, storage and offloading unit was called the “sea giant”.

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🎙 Excerpts from the speech of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the XXVI St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

• Common sense, business energy, objective market laws work stronger than the current political situation. This suggests that the inherently ugly neo-colonial international system has ceased to exist, while the multipolar world order, on the contrary, is strengthening. This is an inevitable process.

• To force other countries to stupidly follow someone’s interests in the modern world is difficult, and sometimes almost impossible. And those people who do this must understand that this is not only counterproductive for the world economy, but also unacceptable for millions of people.

• For the West, only the current state, the current crisis in Ukraine, is beneficial. This is an excuse to cover up your economic mistakes – both in energy and in finance. They also brought the situation to a sharp rise in inflation. Why? Yes, because they mindlessly poured trillions of money into their economy.

• Now the option of supplying [NATO to Ukraine] aircraft is being considered. But if they are located at air bases outside Ukraine and used in combat operations, we will have to look at how and where we can hit those weapons that are used in hostilities against us. This is a serious danger of further involvement of NATO in this armed conflict.

• Nuclear weapons are created in order to ensure our security in the broadest sense of the word and the existence of the Russian state. But we, firstly, do not have such a need , and secondly, the very factor of reasoning on this topic already lowers the possibility of lowering the threshold for the use of weapons. This is the first part. The second is that we have more such weapons than the NATO countries . They know about it and all the time they persuade us to start negotiations on reductions.

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