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Lavrov: “those who want Russia’s defeat don’t know history”
Western politicians who claim that Russia must be defeated know little of history. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, as reported by Tass, speaking in the context of the Gymnasium project. EM Primakova “100 questions to the leader”. “They say that Russia must ‘fail’, that it must ‘defeat’ it, make Russia ‘lose on the battlefield'”, said the head of diplomacy in Moscow, speaking of “spells” cast by Western politicians who ‘They probably didn’t study well at school. They draw wrong conclusions from their understanding of the past and of what Russia is. ‘ Lavrov added that Moscow is concerned about the attempts of many Western governments to indulge manifestations of russophobia. “This is worrying,” he stressed, but he said he was convinced that in the end the West “will be forced to admit that it is impossible to constantly attack vital Russian interests, the Russians, wherever they live.”
“We were about to be expelled from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). We decided to do it ourselves. The Council discredited itself long before the current situation in Ukraine began, ”said the Russian Foreign Minister. After recalling that a large part of the Ukrainian population “is legally deprived of the opportunity to continue living using their mother tongue, to raise children in a Russian cultural key and in the Russian language”, and that for this reason, “after many years of warnings, having no other choice, we have begun to protect the security interests of the Russian population in the Donbass “, Lavrov added that Western countries have betrayed the United Nations Charter, which enshrines the principle of sovereign equality of states:” They believe that sovereignty is theirs alone, “said the minister.