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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 4th Dialogue on Fakes International Forum, Moscow, September 22, 2026

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1 Dialogue on Fakes 4.0 — Professional Dialogue Against Weaponised Information
Уважаемые друзья, Рад возможности выступить на четвёртом международном форуме «Диалог о фейках 4.0» . Приветствую всех вас. Отмечаем, что здесь присутствуют эксперты как из стран Глобального Юга и Востока, так и из ряда стран Запада. Желаю успехов в вашей работе. Россия поощряет профессиональный диалог, по сути дела, во всех сферах, но и в том числе по противодействию использованию информации в качестве оружия.	Full house translation — pending review Dear friends, I am pleased to have the opportunity to address the fourth international forum, "Dialogue on Fakes 4.0". I welcome you all. We note that experts are present here both from countries of the Global South and East and from a number of Western countries. I wish you success in your work. Russia encourages professional dialogue in virtually every sphere, including on countering the use of information as a weapon.
Это особенно востребовано сегодня, когда информация бурным потоком заполняет всё пространство жизнедеятельности человека, и с использованием современных технологий любая новость, даже непроверенная или откровенно лживая, очень быстро может стать доступной для миллионов, если не миллиардов людей. Этим давно и часто (об этом мы много говорили) злоупотребляют те на Западе, кто стремятся помешать формированию справедливого многополярного мироустройства. Началось это не сегодня и не вчера.	Full house translation — pending review This is particularly needed today, when information is flooding every sphere of human activity, and, through modern technologies, any news item, even one that is unverified or outright false, can very quickly become available to millions, if not billions, of people. Those in the West who seek to obstruct the formation of a fair multipolar world order have long and frequently abused this, as we have discussed extensively. This began neither today nor yesterday.
2 Historical Western Information Operations — Yugoslavia 1999 and the Powell Vial
Достаточно вспомнить 1999 год, когда была организована с использованием американских сотрудников Организации по безопасности и сотрудничеству в Европе откровенная провокация на территории Сербии для того, чтобы начать агрессию НАТО против Югославии. И у всех в памяти остаётся известный «перформанс» моего бывшего коллеги госсекретаря США К.Пауэлла в Совете Безопасности ООН в 2003 году, когда он гордо с пафосом тряс пробирку с белым порошком, утверждая, что это биологическое оружие.	Full house translation — pending review It is enough to recall 1999, when a blatant provocation was organized on Serbian territory, using American personnel of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, in order to launch NATO's aggression against Yugoslavia. And everyone still remembers the well-known "performance" by my former colleague, US Secretary of State C. Powell, at the UN Security Council in 2003, when he proudly and theatrically shook a test tube containing white powder, claiming it was a biological weapon.
3 Information War on Russia — Sanctions, Skripals, and the Navalny Case
Оказалось всё это, как вы знаете, ложью. Что касается России, то информационная война была развязана против нас задолго до начала специальной военной операции , сразу после того, как в начале 2000-х гг., после прихода Президента Российской Федерации В.В.Путина Россия стала освобождаться от неоколониальных форм сотрудничества с нашими западными коллегами, проводить самостоятельную политику, возвращаться к своим традициям, устоям, корням. Нас стали сдерживать.	Full house translation — pending review All of this, as you know, turned out to be a lie. As for Russia, an information war was unleashed against us long before the start of the special military operation, immediately after Russia, in the early 2000s, following the arrival of President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, began freeing itself from neocolonial forms of cooperation with our Western colleagues, pursuing an independent policy and returning to its traditions, foundations and roots. They began trying to contain us.
По нарастающей это сдерживание дошло до сегодняшней ситуации, когда 30 с лишним тысяч санкций – рекордное количество, по сравнению со всеми остальными странами мира – были объявлены против нас. Если говорить о конкретных провокациях с использованием информационного поля, то восемь лет назад в английском местечке Солсбери было заявлено, что семья Скрипалей (сам С.В.Скрипаль и его дочь Юлия) была «отравлена российской разведкой».	Full house translation — pending review This containment escalated to today's situation, in which more than 30 thousand sanctions, a record number compared with all other countries in the world, have been announced against us. Speaking of specific provocations using the information sphere, eight years ago, in the English town of Salisbury, it was declared that the Skripal family (S.V. Skripal himself and his daughter Yulia) had been "poisoned by Russian intelligence".
Мы до сих пор не можем добиться ответа на наши многочисленные официальные запросы Следственного комитета Российской Федерации , Генеральной прокуратуры Российской Федерации , которые направляли их британским коллегам с официальными просьбами, со ссылкой на юридические обязательства, которые у всех нас есть по различным конвенциям, дать нам информацию, где находятся российские граждане. То есть никакого ответа нам не последовало. Фактически, если так по-простому: Лондон взял наших граждан в заложники.	Full house translation — pending review We still cannot obtain a response to our numerous official requests from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, which sent them to their British counterparts with official requests, citing the legal obligations that we all have under various conventions, to provide us with information on the whereabouts of Russian citizens. In other words, we received no response whatsoever. In fact, to put it simply: London has taken our citizens hostage.
Аналогичным образом разыгрывалось «дело А.А.Навального» . Напомню, когда он заболел в 2020 году на территории России, совершая поездку по Сибири, мы сделали всё, чтобы немедленно откликнуться на просьбу германской стороны и отправить его в Берлин для лечения. Меньше чем за сутки был принят немецкий частный самолёт. Никто не проверял пассажиров и экипаж, его погрузили в этот самолёт и отправили. Никакого признания того, что мы вели себя абсолютно честно, никогда с тех пор мы не слышали.	Full house translation — pending review The “A. A. Navalny case” was played out in a similar way. Let me remind you that when he fell ill in 2020 on Russian territory while traveling through Siberia, we did everything to respond immediately to the German side’s request and send him to Berlin for treatment. A private German aircraft was received in less than a day. No one checked the passengers or crew; he was loaded onto that aircraft and sent off. We have never since heard any acknowledgment that we behaved with complete honesty.
Наоборот, нас обвиняют в том, что мы в конечном итоге его «отравили». Опять же, здесь мы тоже направляли огромное количество запросов. Поначалу А.А.Навального определили в гражданский госпиталь в Германии , где, это достоверно известно, задокументировано, у него ничего не обнаружено. Тогда его перевели в военный госпиталь, который, как известно, это никакой не секрет, сотрудничает с международными структурами по тематике химического и биологического оружия. Вот там у него что-то обнаружили.	Full house translation — pending review On the contrary, we are accused of ultimately having “poisoned” him. Again, we also sent an enormous number of inquiries about this. Initially, A. A. Navalny was admitted to a civilian hospital in Germany, where nothing was found in him—this is reliably known and documented. Then he was transferred to a military hospital which, as is known and is no secret, cooperates with international organizations on chemical and biological weapons issues. That is where they found something in him.
И когда немцы нам сказали, что обнаруженным веществом является пресловутый «Новичок», мы попросили показать анализы. Нам сказали, что нельзя, это секрет, мы обязаны сдать эти анализы и доклад о том, как мы обследовали господина А.А.Навального, в Организацию по запрещению химического оружия . Мы, естественно, «пошли» в эту организацию, но Генеральный директор ТС ОЗХО Ф.Ариас нам сказал: «Вы знаете, не имею права этого сделать. Нам немцы запретили это кому-либо передавать, прежде всего, Российской Федерации».	Full house translation — pending review And when the Germans told us that the substance detected was the notorious “Novichok,” we asked to see the test results. We were told: “That is not possible; it is secret. We are obliged to submit these test results and a report on how we examined Mr. A. A. Navalny to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.” Naturally, we “went” to that organization, but the Director-General of the OPCW Technical Secretariat, F. Arias, told us: “You know, I have no right to do that. The Germans have forbidden us to pass this on to anyone, above all the Russian Federation.”
4 European “Russian Drone” Fakes and the One-to-Three-Day Amplification Cycle
Поэтому, когда А.А.Навальный скончался, мы ещё раз напомнили и немцам, и Организации по запрещению химического оружия показать нам, во-первых, анализы, которые были сделаны в 2020 году, и во-вторых, показать, как его потом лечили в Германии. Полная тишина, нагнетание антироссийской риторики и уход от честного разговора. Сегодня стала модной в западных медиа тема российских дронов, которые якобы появляются то тут, то там в странах Европы, атакуют какие-то объекты на территории этих стран.	Full house translation — pending review Therefore, when A. A. Navalny died, we once again reminded both the Germans and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to show us, first, the test results from 2020 and, second, how he was subsequently treated in Germany. Complete silence, an escalation of anti-Russian rhetoric, and avoidance of an honest conversation. Today, Russian drones that supposedly appear here and there in European countries and attack various facilities on their territory have become a fashionable topic in the Western media.
Но каждый раз выясняется, что либо это был не дрон, либо дрон, но украинский, либо дрон, который трудно опознать как принадлежащий Российской Федерации. Детали уже никому не интересны, разыгрываются «информационные карты», день-два-три, потом новость «сползает» куда-то на задние полосы газеты, в какие-то непонятные «закоулки» других ресурсов.	Full house translation — pending review But every time, it turns out that either it was not a drone, or it was a drone but a Ukrainian one, or it was a drone that is difficult to identify as belonging to the Russian Federation. No one is interested in the details anymore; “information cards” are played for a day, two, three, and then the news “slides” somewhere onto the back pages of the newspaper, into some obscure “corners” of other outlets.
Тем временем, как это вот сейчас случилось в Германии, за этот фейк зацепившись, высылают наших дипломатов, закрывают дипломатические и консульские представительства, культурные центры. Так что мы видим, что многократно подтверждается наша оценка, что весь смысл западной информационной политики – быстро состряпать фейк, раздуть его до «вселенской катастрофы» за один-три дня и перекрывать доступ к альтернативным оценкам, сведениям о том конкретном эпизоде, который в данном случае раздувается.	Full house translation — pending review Meanwhile, as has just happened in Germany, they seize on this fake story to expel our diplomats and close diplomatic and consular missions and cultural centers. So we see our assessment repeatedly confirmed: the entire purpose of Western information policy is to quickly cook up a fake, inflate it into a “universal catastrophe” within one to three days, and block access to alternative assessments and information about the particular episode being blown out of proportion in that instance.
Затем, как я уже сказал, задвигают в своих информационных действиях куда-то «в сторону», в лучшем случае на последние полосы мелким шрифтом. Вот и западное медиапространство, западная индустрия, в том числе в сфере развлечений, долго и настойчиво готовили население своих стран к восприятию любых (даже самых безумных) антироссийских клише и фантазий. Это продолжается до сих пор. Но надо отдать им должное – в этом духе они воспитали значительную часть общества, так что их труд не пропал даром.	Full house translation — pending review Then, as I have already said, in their information activities they push it somewhere “off to the side,” at best onto the back pages in small print. The Western media space and Western industry, including the entertainment sector, have long and persistently prepared the populations of their countries to accept any anti-Russian clichés and fantasies, even the most insane ones. This continues to this day. But we must give them their due: they have brought up a significant part of society in this spirit, so their work has not been in vain.
Справедливости ради отмечу, что общество на Западе в последнее время состоит в том числе из людей, которые стали задавать неудобные вопросы. Знаем, как спрашивают у западных правительств, почему замалчиваются факты украинского терроризма в отношении мирных жителей российских городов.	Full house translation — pending review In fairness, I would note that Western society has lately also included people who have begun asking awkward questions. We know how Western governments are being asked why facts of Ukrainian terrorism against civilians in Russian cities are being hushed up.
5 Double Standard — Starobelsk Silence Versus Anti-Russian Amplification
Вопиющий теракт в студенческом общежитии в Старобельске, когда убили два десятка молодых юношей и девушек, не вызвал никакого осуждения со стороны западных правительств, подконтрольных Западу международных структур и, как ни печально, никак не отразился в новостных сводках западных СМИ. Просто проигнорировали. Четыре смертоносных дрона ударили по откровенно гражданскому объекту – общежитию колледжа и административным зданиям. На Западе тишина. Причём ударили ночью, когда подростки спали, и все были убиты.	Full house translation — pending review The outrageous terrorist attack on a student dormitory in Starobelsk, in which twenty young men and women were killed, drew no condemnation from Western governments or international organizations controlled by the West and, sadly, received no coverage in Western media news bulletins. They simply ignored it. Four deadly drones struck a plainly civilian facility—a college dormitory and administrative buildings. Silence in the West. Moreover, they struck at night, when the teenagers were asleep, and all were killed.
6 Bucha as “Cynical Farce” — Istanbul Talks, Troop Pullback, BBC, and Johnson
Самым циничным фарсом считаю инсценировку якобы убийства мирных жителей в киевском пригороде, н.п. Буча. Напомню вкратце суть и хронологию событий. На переговорах в Стамбуле в конце марта – начале апреля 2022 года украинская сторона предложила принять документ о принципах урегулирования, который наша делегация приняла.	Full house translation — pending review I consider the staging of the alleged murder of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha to be the most cynical farce. Let me briefly recall the substance and chronology of events. At the negotiations in Istanbul in late March and early April 2022, the Ukrainian side proposed adopting a document on the principles of a settlement, which our delegation accepted.
Более того – и украинцы, и россияне парафировали этот документ в качестве основы будущего юридически обязывающего договора об окончательном и полном урегулировании ситуации вокруг Украины на основе выработки коллективных, равноправных гарантий безопасности всех заинтересованных государств. Готовилось подписание.	Full house translation — pending review Moreover, both the Ukrainians and the Russians initialed this document as the basis for a future legally binding treaty on a final and comprehensive settlement of the situation around Ukraine, based on developing collective, equal security guarantees for all states concerned. Preparations were being made for the signing.
В это время, как уже рассказывал, общаясь с прессой, Президент России В.В.Путин , ему позвонил Президент Франции Э.Макрон и попросил, как он сказал, в качестве подтверждения мирных намерений России, в качестве жеста доброй воли и для создания «правильной атмосферы» вокруг предстоящего подписания мирного договора, «немного» отвести наши войска от пригородов Киева, в том числе от Бучи. Мы это сделали. Пошли навстречу, исходя из того, что все должны были быть по-честному заинтересованы в мире.	Full house translation — pending review At that time, as Russian President V. V. Putin has already recounted when speaking to the press, French President E. Macron called him and asked, as he put it, for our troops to be withdrawn “a little” from the suburbs of Kyiv, including Bucha, as confirmation of Russia’s peaceful intentions, as a gesture of goodwill, and to create the “right atmosphere” around the forthcoming signing of the peace treaty. We did so. We accommodated the request on the assumption that everyone was supposed to be honestly interested in peace.
Мы покинули территорию Киевской области 30 марта 2022 года. Через два дня по телевидению выступал глава этого населенного пункта, который гордо заявлял, что украинская сторона полностью вернула контроль над Бучей, что там нет больше русских солдат. Съёмка велась на центральной улице этого населённого пункта. Она широкая и была абсолютно пустой.	Full house translation — pending review We left the territory of the Kyiv Region on 30 March 2022. Two days later, the head of this town appeared on television, proudly declaring that the Ukrainian side had fully regained control of Bucha and that there were no more Russian soldiers there. The filming took place on the town’s main street. It is wide and was absolutely empty.
А через три дня после вывода наших подразделений там оказалась бригада «Би-Би-Си», которая транслировала репортаж с демонстрацией той же самой улицы, по обочинам которой были аккуратно разложены десятки трупов в очень чистых одеждах, несмотря на то, что вокруг была распутица и грязь. Тут же была взвинчена антироссийская истерия. Были объявлены новые санкции в качестве наказания.	Full house translation — pending review And three days after the withdrawal of our units, a BBC crew turned up there and broadcast a report showing that very same street, along whose verges dozens of bodies had been neatly laid out in very clean clothes, despite the slush and mud all around. Anti-Russian hysteria was immediately whipped up. New sanctions were announced as punishment.
Приехал тогдашний премьер-министр Британии Б.Джонсон, как вы знаете, запретил подписывать этот документ и предложил просто продолжать воевать. Хотя он недавно сказал, что это ложь. Ну, он сам скажет и недорого возьмёт. Но это не ложь, это правда. Тому есть свидетельства многих западных деятелей, которые, кстати, позитивно комментировали его тогдашний поступок, дескать, правильно вы все сделали.	Full house translation — pending review The then British Prime Minister, B. Johnson, arrived and, as you know, forbade the signing of this document and suggested simply continuing to fight. Although he recently said that this was a lie. Well, he will say anything and charge very little for it. But this is not a lie; it is the truth. There is testimony to this from many Western figures who, incidentally, commented positively on his actions at the time, saying, in effect, that you did everything right.
Но то, что Б.Джонсон отговорил украинскую сторону от подписания договора, уже давно признал в прямом эфире глава украинской делегации на тех переговорах в 2022 году и ныне по-прежнему глава фракции Верховной Рады «Слуга народа» Д.Г.Арахамия. В ответ на брошенные в наш адрес обвинения, в ответ на эти санкции, мы просто запросили список имён, чьи трупы показала «Би-Би-Си», «удачно оказавшаяся» в нужном месте в нужное время. Полная тишина.	Full house translation — pending review But the fact that B. Johnson dissuaded the Ukrainian side from signing the treaty was acknowledged long ago on a live broadcast by D. G. Arakhamia, the head of the Ukrainian delegation at those negotiations in 2022 and still the head of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada. In response to the accusations hurled at us, in response to these sanctions, we simply requested a list of the names of those whose bodies were shown by the BBC, which “happened to be” in the right place at the right time. Complete silence.
7 UN Secretariat Stonewalling and the Bucha Memorial Investigation
После этого я обратился к Генеральному секретарю ООН А.Гутеррешу не только в ходе личных встреч, но и публично на заседании Совета Безопасности, где он присутствовал, с просьбой употребить свой авторитет и свои возможности для того, чтобы всё-таки опубликовать список тех людей, чья якобы гибель от рук российских военнослужащих стала предметом грандиозного скандала. Никакой реакции.	Full house translation — pending review After that, I appealed to UN Secretary-General A. Guterres, not only during personal meetings but also publicly at a Security Council meeting that he attended, asking him to use his authority and his capabilities to finally have a list published of those people whose alleged deaths at the hands of Russian servicemen became the subject of an enormous scandal. No response.
В декабре 2022 года с благословения г-на А.Гутерреша Управление Верховного комиссара ООН по правам человека опубликовало доклад с голословными обвинениями Вооружённых Сил Российской Федерации. Как будто не было наших обращений в течение всего 2022 года. Ни одного доказательства в этом докладе не содержится, ни единой проверки приведённых в документе данных не проходило, ни одного вопроса со стороны руководства организации не возникало. Доклад просто штампует то, что продемонстрировала «Би-би-си».	Full house translation — pending review In December 2022, with the blessing of Mr A. Guterres, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published a report containing unfounded accusations against the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. As though our appeals throughout 2022 had never happened. The report contains not a single piece of evidence; not a single verification of the data presented in the document took place; not a single question arose on the part of the organization’s leadership. The report simply rubber-stamps what the BBC showed.
Потом этот сюжет исчез из международного медиапространства, как будто его там и не было. Но мы это дело так не оставили. Ежегодно напоминаю А.Гутеррешу о том, что неплохо бы и объяснить мировому сообществу, по крайней мере Российской Федерации, которую обвинили во всех смертных грехах, что же там всё-таки произошло и кто же там был продемонстрирован.	Full house translation — pending review Then this story disappeared from the international media space as though it had never been there. But we did not leave the matter at that. Every year I remind A. Guterres that it would be good to explain to the international community, or at least to the Russian Federation, which was accused of every mortal sin, what actually happened there and who exactly was shown there.
Направил А.Гутеррешу в мае с.г. 12 предельно конкретных вопросов (они есть в открытом доступе на сайте нашего Министерства – можете их найти), и там, среди прочего, спрашивалось, как Генеральный секретарь ООН мог допустить публикацию по линии Верховного комиссара ООН по правам человека серьёзнейших обвинений в адрес России, если главным аргументом в основе его методологии являлось, как это сказано в докладе, утверждение о неких «разумных основаниях полагать». В общем, по принципу «highly likely».	Full house translation — pending review In May of this year, I sent A. Guterres 12 very specific questions (they are publicly available on our Ministry’s website—you can find them). Among other things, they asked how the UN Secretary-General could have allowed the publication, through the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, of extremely serious accusations against Russia if the main argument underlying its methodology was, as the report puts it, an assertion of certain “reasonable grounds to believe.” In other words, on the “highly likely” principle.
Мы это уже проходили. Непонятно, как может такая серьёзная организация как ООН и её Генеральный секретарь, высшее должностное лицо самой важной международной структуры, вбрасывать такую ничем не подкреплённую фактуру, которая, как мы потом проверили, была просто предоставлена киевским режимом и воспроизведена ооновцами. Причём невозможно понять и то, что в связи с этим упоминается цифра жертв этой якобы акции по убийству мирных граждан Бучи: то 21 человек, то 590, то 1365.	Full house translation — pending review We have been through this before. It is incomprehensible how such a serious organization as the UN and its Secretary-General, the highest official of the most important international body, can put out such completely unsupported factual material, which, as we subsequently verified, had simply been supplied by the Kyiv regime and reproduced by UN personnel. Moreover, it is impossible to understand why the number of victims cited in connection with this alleged operation to kill civilians in Bucha is sometimes 21 people, sometimes 590, and sometimes 1365.
Стилистика этого документа узнаваемая, она очень смахивает на аргументацию по «делу Скрипалей», по «делу А.А.Навального» и так далее. На моё письмо с 12 конкретными вопросами А.Гуттереш ответил формальной отпиской.	Full house translation — pending review The style of this document is recognizable; it very much resembles the arguments concerning the “Skripal case,” the “A. A. Navalny case,” and so on. A. Guterres responded to my letter containing 12 specific questions with a perfunctory brush-off.
Наше многолетнее с ним общение по этому конкретному эпизоду (и не только) говорит о том, что уходящий глава Секретариата ООН, как у нас говорят, откровенно «путается в показаниях» – то заявляет, что данные о жертвах, об их именах есть, но ими нельзя делиться, потому что они носят какой-то там конфиденциальный характер и есть какие-то внутренние правила Секретариата (нам их никто не предъявил), то утверждает, что такой информации нет, то ссылается на то, что родственники погибших просили её не разглашать, но имена родственников тоже никому не известны.	Full house translation — pending review Our many years of communication with him on this particular episode (and others) show that the outgoing head of the UN Secretariat is, as we say, blatantly “getting tangled up in his testimony”: at one point he states that information about the victims and their names exists but cannot be shared because it is supposedly confidential in some way and there are certain internal Secretariat rules (no one has shown them to us); at another he claims that no such information exists; at another he cites requests by the victims’ relatives not to disclose it, but the relatives’ names are unknown to anyone either.
Это поразительный факт, потому что в любой ситуации, когда гибнут люди... Помните малазийский Боинг? Когда произошла трагедия, тут же была сформирована группа из многих десятков родственников. Они хорошо известны, выступают публично. Но здесь полная тишина. Так что мы уже поняли, что рассчитывать на конструктивное содействие Секретариата ООН не приходится.	Full house translation — pending review This is an astonishing fact, because in any situation where people die... Remember the Malaysian Boeing? When the tragedy occurred, a group comprising many dozens of relatives was immediately formed. They are well known and speak publicly. But here there is complete silence. So we have already understood that we cannot count on constructive assistance from the UN Secretariat.
Кстати, когда бывал в Нью-Йорке, на фоне этого тупика в отношениях с А.Гутеррешем на своих пресс-конференциях в Нью-Йорке (там представлены все члены ооновского пула, все ведущие мировые СМИ, большинство из них лично хорошо знаю) взывал к их профессиональной гордости, чтобы они провели журналистское расследование. Никакой реакции. То есть, видимо, там с журналистами активно поработали.	Full house translation — pending review Incidentally, when I visited New York, against the backdrop of this impasse in relations with A. Guterres, at my press conferences in New York (all members of the UN press pool are represented there, all the world's leading media outlets; I know most of them well personally), I appealed to their professional pride to conduct a journalistic investigation. There was no response. In other words, apparently, the journalists there had been actively worked on.
Но помимо них есть ещё и общественные деятели, организации, которые всё-таки хотят добиться правды в современном очень непростом мире. Сразу несколько групп специалистов в настоящее время ведут анализ имеющихся материалов в открытом доступе по этой ситуации в Буче. Хотел бы два слова сказать дополнительно.	Full house translation — pending review But besides them, there are also public figures and organizations that nevertheless want to get to the truth in today's very complicated world. Several groups of specialists are currently analyzing the materials available in the public domain concerning this situation in Bucha. I would like to add a few words.
Оказалось, что киевский режим ещё в 2023 году возвёл специальный мемориал, посвящённый этой самой, как они говорят, «бучинской резне», и организовал регулярное паломничество к нему своих спонсоров из НАТО и Евросоюза. Они возлагают под камеры цветы, произносят объединительные речи. Туда, кстати, возили и Генерального секретаря ООН. Но это не помогло ему проникнуть в суть тех проблем, которые очевидны для нормальных людей.	Full house translation — pending review It turned out that back in 2023 the Kyiv regime erected a special memorial dedicated to this very event, as they call it, the “Bucha massacre,” and organized regular pilgrimages to it by its sponsors from NATO and the European Union. They lay flowers before the cameras and deliver speeches calling for unity. Incidentally, the UN Secretary-General was taken there as well. But this did not help him grasp the substance of the problems that are obvious to normal people.
На самом мемориале появился и периодически пополняется список имён, которых, как говорит А.Гутерреш, нам передавать нельзя. Эти «имена» нанесли на мемориал мирные жители, как было сказано. Буквально на днях наш Международный общественный трибунал по преступлениям киевского режима опубликовал первые материалы своего расследования. Они были анонсированы и представлены 17 сентября с.г. в пресс-центре ТАСС с участием Председателя этого трибунала и члена Общественной палаты М.С.Григорьева.	Full house translation — pending review A list of names has appeared on the memorial itself and is periodically added to—names which, as A. Guterres says, cannot be passed on to us. These “names” were inscribed on the memorial by civilians, as we were told. Just the other day, our International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of the Kyiv Regime published the first materials from its investigation. They were announced and presented on September 17 of this year at the TASS press center, with the participation of the chairman of this tribunal and Civic Chamber member M. S. Grigoryev.
В этом докладе , который был представлен и, как я понимаю, может быть или будет распространен на этом форуме, анализируются эти увековеченные на мемориале фамилии. По неоднократным заявлениям представителей офиса В.Зеленского, все погибшие – исключительно «мирные жители», никак не связанные с военными. Это откровенная ложь. Даже первичный анализ тех фамилий, которые нанесли на этот мемориал, даёт очень интересный результат.	Full house translation — pending review This report, which has been presented and, as I understand it, may be or will be circulated at this forum, analyzes these surnames commemorated on the memorial. According to repeated statements by representatives of V. Zelensky's office, all those who died were exclusively “civilians,” with no connection whatsoever to the military. This is an outright lie. Even an initial analysis of the surnames inscribed on this memorial yields a very interesting result.
Только на основе открытых источников, повторю ещё раз, установлено, что на мемориале содержатся десятки имен военнослужащих вооружённых сил Украины, сотрудников службы безопасности Украины, членов отрядов «территориальной обороны», полиции, национальной гвардии, включая боевиков националистического формирования «Азов». Более 70 фамилий не имеют никакого цифрового следа, что в сегодняшнем мире практически невозможно. Эти факты опровергают миф о якобы сотнях убитых мирных жителей в Буче.	Full house translation — pending review Using open sources alone, I repeat once again, it has been established that the memorial contains dozens of names of servicemen of the armed forces of Ukraine, employees of the Security Service of Ukraine, members of “territorial defense” units, the police and the national guard, including militants from the nationalist Azov formation. More than 70 surnames have no digital trace whatsoever, which is practically impossible in today's world. These facts refute the myth about the allegedly hundreds of civilians killed in Bucha.
Думаю, что даже самому доверчивому европейскому обывателю должно показаться странным, что за долгие годы Секретариат ООН и называющие себя «профессиональными» западные средства массовой информации этот подлог так и не разоблачили. Почти убежден, что здесь дело не в том, что у них не было такого интереса, а в том, что они были частью операции по сокрытию истины.	Full house translation — pending review I think even the most credulous ordinary European should find it strange that over all these years, the UN Secretariat and the Western media that call themselves “professional” have never exposed this falsification. I am almost convinced that the issue here is not that they had no interest in doing so, but that they were part of an operation to conceal the truth.
Важно отметить, что при подготовке этого доклада проверка фактов проводилась в первую очередь по украинским базам данных, по украинским медиаисточникам, государственным порталам, специализированным украинским сайтам, где были опубликованы некрологи лиц, которые никакого отношения к мирным гражданам не имеют. Понятно, что в нынешнем мире что‑то пытаются убрать «задним числом» из информации, которая попадает в медийное пространство.	Full house translation — pending review It is important to note that in preparing this report, fact-checking was conducted primarily using Ukrainian databases, Ukrainian media sources, government portals and specialized Ukrainian websites where obituaries had been published for people who have nothing to do with civilians. It is clear that in today's world, attempts are made to remove things “retroactively” from information that enters the media space.
Но прошло четыре года, и никто из тех, кто этот сайт организовал, даже не подумал о том, чтобы как‑то почистить эту фальсификацию. Поэтому у нас есть твёрдые гарантии, что каждый пункт расследования, результаты которого будут распространены здесь, подкреплён данными сразу нескольких ресурсов. Они доступны для перепроверки. Уважаемые коллеги, сюжетов, подобных Буче и другим упомянутым выше ситуациям, немало. Конечно, они ждут своих исследователей.	Full house translation — pending review But four years have passed, and none of those who set up this website has even thought of somehow cleaning up this falsification. We therefore have firm guarantees that every point in the investigation, the results of which will be circulated here, is supported by data from several resources at once. They are available for rechecking. Esteemed colleagues, there are many cases like Bucha and the other situations mentioned above. Of course, they await their investigators.
Думаю, что ваша структура будет проявлять интерес к тому, чтобы не засорять информационное пространство откровенной ложью, которая реально противодействует тенденции к укреплению нормальных отношений, развитию нормальных связей и сотрудничества между всеми государствами, а, наоборот, провоцирует рознь и ненависть, не позволяет правде восторжествовать.	Full house translation — pending review I think your organization will take an interest in ensuring that the information space is not cluttered with outright lies, which actually work against the trend toward strengthening normal relations and developing normal ties and cooperation among all states, and instead provoke discord and hatred and prevent the truth from prevailing.
8 Fear of Fair Competition — Economy, Global South Pressure, Sport, and Culture
Нисколько не сомневаюсь, что в конечном итоге правда восторжествует, и это станет адекватным ответом на информационную агрессию Запада против стран Мирового большинства. Россия – одна из них. При этом хочу сказать очень важную вещь. Действия Запада по утаиванию в информационной сфере истины, по её искажению отражают и более широкую тенденцию – боязнь честной конкуренции практически во всех сферах человеческой деятельности.	Full house translation — pending review I have no doubt whatsoever that the truth will ultimately prevail, and that this will be an appropriate response to the West's information aggression against the countries of the World Majority. Russia is one of them. At the same time, I want to say something very important. The West's actions to conceal and distort the truth in the information sphere also reflect a broader trend: fear of fair competition in practically every sphere of human activity.
В экономике Запад откровенно проигрывает, причём это происходит в рамках системы, которую он сам долгие десятилетия создавал и рекламировал всем остальным странам нашей планеты под лозунгами глобализации, свободной конкуренции, неприкосновенности собственности, свободной «игры рыночных сил» и так далее.	Full house translation — pending review In the economy, the West is plainly losing, and this is happening within the system that it itself spent many decades creating and promoting to all the other countries on our planet under the slogans of globalization, free competition, the inviolability of property, the free “play of market forces,” and so on.
Всё это было мгновенно принесено в жертву, как только Запад понял, что страны Мирового большинства (прежде всего Китайская Народная Республика, но есть и другие быстро развивающиеся экономики) обыгрывают Запад на его же «поле», по его же правилам. Тут же в ход пошли нечестные методы – санкции, тарифы, обвинения (европейцы обвиняют КНР в том, что у неё «слишком много производственных мощностей» – вот и всё!).	Full house translation — pending review All of this was instantly sacrificed as soon as the West realized that the countries of the World Majority (above all the People's Republic of China, but there are other rapidly developing economies as well) were beating the West on its own playing field, under its own rules. Unfair methods were immediately brought into play: sanctions, tariffs, accusations (the Europeans accuse the PRC of having “too much production capacity”—that is all!).
Поэтому нам хорошо видно, как Запад пытается откровенно нечистоплотными приёмами сохранить свои позиции в мировой экономике, которые быстро падают. Это объективный исторический процесс, его остановить нельзя, но навредить можно, в том числе последствиями далеко не экономического, но и политического, военного плана.	Full house translation — pending review That is why we can clearly see how the West is trying, through openly unscrupulous methods, to preserve its rapidly declining position in the world economy. This is an objective historical process; it cannot be stopped, but damage can be done, including through consequences that are far from merely economic, but also political and military in nature.
Страны Глобального Юга подвергаются грубейшему давлению, им грозят перекрыть финансирование, и это происходит не только в вопросах, касающихся политических процессов, когда их безуспешно заставляют присоединиться к санкциям против России. Во многих других случаях, в том числе и когда идут дипломатические процессы в той же ООН и других международных структурах.	Full house translation — pending review The countries of the Global South are subjected to the most blatant pressure; they are threatened with having their funding cut off, and this happens not only on matters concerning political processes, when unsuccessful efforts are made to force them to join sanctions against Russia. In many other cases too, including when diplomatic processes are taking place in the UN itself and other international bodies.
При голосовании по каким‑то резолюциям, отражающим позицию той или иной страны или группы стран, Запад, если ему эта резолюция не нравится, прибегает к самым разным методам шантажа, угроз перекрыть финансирование, наказать каким‑то иным способом. Потому что, если бы голосование проводилось честно, то Запад по ключевым вопросам, которые составляют суть сегодняшнего этапа мирового развития, откровенно был бы в абсолютном меньшинстве. Так что боязнь конкуренции…	Full house translation — pending review When votes are held on resolutions reflecting the position of a particular country or group of countries, the West, if it dislikes the resolution, resorts to all kinds of blackmail, threats to cut off funding or to punish them in some other way. Because if voting were conducted fairly, the West would frankly find itself in an absolute minority on the key issues that constitute the essence of the present stage of global development. So, fear of competition…
Кстати, она налицо и в спорте, где целый ряд международных федераций, до сих пор возглавляемых гражданами западных стран, делают всё, чтобы сохранять политическую дискриминацию, попирая принципы Олимпийской хартии. И сфера культуры – идёт остервенелый «накат» на русские дома, российские центры науки и культуры.	Full house translation — pending review Incidentally, it is also evident in sport, where a whole range of international federations, still headed by citizens of Western countries, are doing everything they can to maintain political discrimination, trampling on the principles of the Olympic Charter. And in the sphere of culture, there is a furious onslaught against Russian Houses and Russian centers of science and culture.
Сейчас закрыли один из самых знаменитых центров – в Берлине, просто потому, что кому‑то показалось, что можно ситуацию с нахождением неких обломков представить как падение российского БПЛА, и за это надо Россию «наказать». Закрыли Генеральное консульство в Бонне – самое крупное наше генеральное консульство в Европе – это бывшее здание посольства времён, когда Бонн ещё был столицей Западной Германии. Закрыли пользовавшийся огромным успехом у граждан Берлина и других немецких граждан наш культурный центр.	Full house translation — pending review They have now closed one of the most famous centers, in Berlin, simply because someone thought that the discovery of some debris could be presented as the crash of a Russian UAV, and that Russia had to be “punished” for it. They closed the Consulate General in Bonn, our largest consulate general in Europe, which occupies the former embassy building from the days when Bonn was still the capital of West Germany. They closed our cultural center, which had been enormously popular with the people of Berlin and other German citizens.
Это тоже борьба. «Отмена» культуры отражает тот факт, что Россия, как и страны Мирового большинства, отстаивает традиционные ценности в культуре и всех других сферах нашей жизни, а Запад уже считает это несоответствующим либеральным «ценностям». Ваш форум – это часть глобального движения за справедливость, против рецидивов колониальной политики, к которой опять прибегает Запад.	Full house translation — pending review This too is a struggle. The “cancellation” of culture reflects the fact that Russia, like the countries of the World Majority, defends traditional values in culture and every other sphere of our lives, while the West already considers this incompatible with liberal “values.” Your forum is part of the global movement for justice, against recurrences of the colonial policy to which the West is once again resorting.
Хотел бы вам пожелать продуктивной работы, хороших дискуссий в интересах содействия становлению более справедливого мира, который будет отвечать интересам всех без исключения народов.	Full house translation — pending review I would like to wish you productive work and good discussions in the interests of helping to bring about a fairer world that will serve the interests of all peoples without exception.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Friends, I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak at the 4th Dialogue on Fakes International Forum. Welcome! Notably, experts from the countries of the Global South and East as well as some Western countries are present here. I wish you all productive work. Russia encourages professional dialogue in all areas, which also includes counter-action against weaponising information.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified These efforts are particularly relevant today, when turbulent flows of information fill up people’s lives and the use of modern technology can make any piece of news, even something unverified or audaciously misleading, quickly accessible by millions if not billions of people. We have talked at length about the fact that parties in the West seeking to disrupt the formation of a just multipolar world order have long and frequently abused these tactics. It didn’t start today or yesterday.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified It will suffice to recall the year 1999, when the American staff within the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe organised a blatant provocation on Serbian territory with the intention of launching a NATO aggression against Yugoslavia. We all remember the notorious performance by my former colleague, US Secretary of State Colin Powell at the UN Security Council in 2003, when he proudly and dramatically shook a vial with some white powder in his hand, claiming that it was a biological weapon.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified As you know, it turned out to be a lie. As concerns Russia, an information war against us was launched long before the special military operation, immediately after – with President Putin’s arrival in office in the early 2000s – Russia began freeing itself from the neocolonial forms of cooperation with our Western colleagues, pursuing an autonomous policy, and returning to its traditions, customs and roots.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified There were attempts to contain us that grew until they reached the state of today, when over 30,000 sanctions – a record number compared to other countries – were imposed on Russia. Speaking about specific provocations using information, eight years ago in the English town of Salisbury, claims were made that the Skripal family (Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia) were allegedly poisoned by Russian intelligence.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified We are still trying to get responses to multiple official inquiries by the Russian Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Office, sent to their British colleagues with references to the legal obligations we all have under various conventions, requesting information about the whereabouts of these Russian nationals. No response has been given to date. In plain terms, London took our citizens hostage. The “Navalny case” played out along similar lines.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified When he fell ill in Russia in 2020 while touring Siberia, we did our best to immediately respond to the German side’s request to send him for treatment to Berlin. A German private plane arrived less than 24 hours later. No one checked its passengers and crew; Navalny was whisked aboard that plane which then took off. Since then, we have never heard them admit that we acted completely fairly. On the contrary, they are accusing us of “poisoning” him. We also sent multiple inquiries.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified At first, Navalny was admitted to a civilian hospital in Germany where doctors found nothing wrong with him (as proved convincingly by the relevant records). Later, he was transferred to a military hospital which cooperates with international organisations on chemical and biological weapons issues; this is common knowledge. Doctors found something in his body. When the Germans said that traces of the so-called Novichok agent had been found, we requested medical test results.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified They told us that this data was classified, and that test results and a report on Navalny’s medical evaluation had to be submitted to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Naturally, we contacted that organisation, but Director-General of the OPCW’s Technical Secretariat, Fernando Arias, noted that he had no right to do this, and that the Germans had forbidden the OPCW to release any data to anyone, especially to the Russian Federation.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified After Navalny passed away, we once again asked the Germans and the OPCW to show us the results of the 2020 medical tests and to show how he was subsequently treated in Germany. They maintained complete silence, whipped up anti-Russia rhetoric and declined to hold an honest conversation. Western media outlets are now focusing on the issue of Russian drones which allegedly show up in various European countries and attack certain installations there.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Each time, it turns out that this was not a drone, or that it was a Ukrainian drone, or that it can hardly be identified as belonging to Russia. No one cares about the details, “information cards” are laid on the table for up to three days, and then this news recedes onto the back pages of newspapers and some mysterious corners of other resources.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Meanwhile, as it is unfolding in in Germany now, the authorities seized the moment and used this fake news to expel Russian diplomats and to close diplomatic and consular missions and cultural centres. We can see that our assessment is being confirmed, and that the entire Western policy aims to quickly concoct a piece of fake news, to present it as an all-out disaster for one to three days and to deny access to alternative opinions and information about the particular episode which is being hyped up.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified As I said, after that their information activities move sideways, at best burying them on the back pages in fine print. The Western media space and the Western industry, including in the field of entertainment, have for a long time and with great persistence conditioned the population of their countries to accept any, even the wildest anti-Russian cliches and fantasies. They continue to do this.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified But you have to do them credit – they have raised a considerable part of society in this spirit, so their efforts were not in vain. To be fair, I should say that some members of the Western society have recently started asking awkward questions. We know that they are asking Western governments why they hush up the facts of Ukrainian terrorist attacks on civilians in Russian cities.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified The heinous terrorist attack on a student dormitory in Starobelsk, where over 20 young people were killed, has not been condemned by international structures controlled by the West, and regrettably, has not been reported in the Western media. They have simply disregarded it. Four deadly drones attacked an undeniably civilian buildings – a college dormitory and administration. The West remained silent. The attack was perpetrated at night, when students were sleeping, and they were killed.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified I believe that the most cynical farce was the alleged massacre of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kiev. I will briefly recount the essence and the timeline of that event. During the talks in Istanbul on late March and early April 2022, the Ukrainian side proposed signing a document on settlement principles, which our delegation accepted.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Moreover, both the Ukrainian and the Russian delegations initialled that document as the basis for a future legally binding agreement on the final and complete settlement of the situation around Ukraine based on the elaboration of collective and equal security guarantees for all interested countries. We prepared to sign it.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified At that time, as President Putin told the media, he received a phone call from President of France Emmanuel Macron, who asked Russia to pull its troops back from the Kiev suburbs, including Bucha, as proof of its peaceful intentions and a sign of goodwill, as well as to create “the right atmosphere” for the upcoming signing of a peace treaty. We did it. We accommodated their request, assuming that all sides are really interested in peace. Our troops left the Kiev Region on March 30, 2022.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Two days later, the Bucha mayor proudly stated in a video that Ukraine had resumed full control of Bucha and there were no Russian troops there. The video was made in the central street of the town, which was wide and empty. Three days after our troops pulled out, a BBC film crew streamed a story from the same street, showing dozens of dead bodies lying on the sidewalks in clean clothes, although there was mud and slush all around. Anti-Russian hysteria was immediately whipped up.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified New sanctions were adopted to punish us. The then Prime Minister of Britain Boris Johnson went to Kiev to prohibit them from signing the agreement and tell them that they should continue fighting. He has recently said that this is a lie, but he himself lies like a cheap watch. But this is not a lie. There is evidence of this from many Western figures, who had a positive view of his action, saying that he did the right thing.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified David Arakhamiya, the head of the Ukrainian delegation at the 2022 talks and the leader of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, has long admitted on air that Boris Johnson had talked the Ukrainian side out of signing the agreement. Reacting to these accusations and sanctions, we requested the list of persons whose dead bodies were shown by the BBC crew, which happened to be in the right place at the right time. In response, complete silence.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified After that, I appealed to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, both during personal conversations and publicly during a meeting of the UN Security Council he attended, asking him to use his authority and resources to ensure the publication of the list of those whose alleged death at the hands of the Russian military caused a massive scandal. No reaction.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified In December 2022, Antonio Guterres initiated the publication by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights of a report containing groundless accusations against the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It was as if all the requests we submitted in 2022 never existed. This report did not contain a single piece of evidence, and nothing was done to check the information it presented. However, this did not raise any concerns among the organisation’s executive team.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified The report simply replicated what the BBC had shown in its reporting. This topic later disappeared from the international media space as if it never existed. However, we refused to let them drop this whole affair. I keep reminding Antonio Guterres every year that it would be fitting to tell the international community or at least the Russian Federation, since it stands accused of all the deadly sins, what happened there, and who was shown in that footage.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified In May 2026, I sent 12 specific questions to Antonio Guterrres. This list is available on the Foreign Ministry’s website – you can find it. Among other things, I asked how the UN Secretary General could have allowed the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to come forward with these serious accusations against Russia, if his main argument, according to the report, is that there were some “reasonable grounds to believe”? This is akin to the infamous ‘highly likely’ principle. We have already seen it.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified It is unclear how a serious organisation like the United Nations and its Secretary General, the chief executive of the world’s most important structure, can spread information that lacks any evidence, and which, as we learned later, was simply provided by the Kiev regime and copied by the UN staff. Another thing that we find impossible to understand is the number of casualties in what they present as a civilian massacre in Bucha. Sometimes they report 21 fatalities, and sometimes 590 or 1,365.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified This document follows a familiar style guide and has much in common with the arguments regarding the Skripals, Navalny, etc. Antonio Guterres answered my letter containing these 12 specific questions by offering a formal, noncommittal reply. Having attempted to engage with him on this particular incident and other matters for several years now, I can conclude that the outgoing UN Secretary General, as we say, is clearly confused.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Sometimes he claims that there are data on the casualties, including the names, but they cannot be disclosed because they are confidential, while the Secretariat abides by some sort of internal guidelines, even if they never showed them to us. But then it switches to asserting that there is no information of this kind, only to say later that the families of victims asked not to disclose this information, while no one knows the names of those family members. This is astonishing, because whenever people get killed…
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Do you remember the MH-17 crash? When the tragedy happened, dozens of family members instantly created a group. Everyone knows who they are, and they make public appearances. But here, there is total silence. Therefore, we already know that we cannot expect the UN Secretariat to engage with us in a constructive manner.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified By the way, while in New York, and considering this impasse in our relations with Antonio Guterres, during my press conferences in New York – there are all members of the UN pool there representing the world’s leading media outlets, and I know most of these journalists in person – I urged them to act with a sense of professional pride by holding a journalist investigation. There was no response. It seems that these journalists were also affected by this proactive influence campaign.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified However, apart from them there are also civil society activists, there are organisations that do want to learn the truth in our complicated world. Several groups of specialists are currently parsing through the publicly available materials on Bucha. Let me add a few words. It turns out that the Kiev regime built a special memorial back in 2023 devoted to what they call the Bucha massacre, and went on to take its sponsors from NATO and the European Union on pilgrimage trips there.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified They pose for cameras while laying flowers and perorating about unity. By the way, they took the UN Secretary General there. However, this did not help him get to the bottom of the questions which any reasonable person would ask. There is a list of names on the memorial with new ones added all the time, even if Antonio Guterres claims that this list cannot be shared with us. It is said that civilians have been adding these names to the memorial.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Our International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis recently published the preliminary findings of its investigation. They were presented at a news conference at the TASS press centre on September 17, attended by the Tribunal’s Chairman and Civic Chamber member Maxim Grigoryev. The report, which has already been presented and, as I understand it, may also be distributed at this forum, examines the names inscribed on the memorial.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Representatives of Vladimir Zelensky’s office have repeatedly claimed that all those commemorated were civilians with no military affiliations. This is an outright lie. Even a preliminary examination of the names on the memorial has produced some revealing findings.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Using exclusively open-source information – and I emphasise, open sources alone – the investigators have identified dozens of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, territorial defence units, the police and the National Guard, including members of the nationalist Azov formation. More than 70 of the names have left no digital footprint whatsoever – something that is virtually impossible in today’s world.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified These findings expose the myth surrounding the alleged killing of hundreds of civilians in Bucha. Even the most trusting European citizen should find it strange that, after several years, neither the UN Secretariat nor Western media outlets, which pride themselves on their professionalism, have uncovered this fabrication. I am almost certain that this was not a matter of insufficient interest. Rather, they were complicit in an operation to conceal the truth.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Importantly, the report’s findings were verified primarily against Ukrainian databases, media reports, government portals and specialised Ukrainian websites. These sources published obituaries for individuals who were anything but civilians. Of course, attempts are sometimes made to alter information retrospectively once it has entered the public domain. Yet four years have passed, and those responsible for these websites have not even bothered to remove the information that exposes this fabrication.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified We can therefore be confident that every finding in the investigation presented here is supported by multiple sources, all of which remain publicly available for independent verification. Colleagues, there are many incidents like Bucha, and others like those raised earlier. Naturally, they require further investigation.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified I am confident that your organisation will be interested in preventing the information space from being clogged with outright lies – lies that actively undermine the movement towards stronger ties, normal relations and cooperation among all states, and instead sow discord and hatred, holding back the truth. I have no doubt that truth will ultimately prevail, and that this will serve as a fitting response to the West’s information aggression against the nations of the Global Majority – of which Russia is one.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified At the same time, I wish to stress a crucial point. The West’s efforts to conceal or distort the truth in the information sphere are part of a broader pattern: a fear of fair competition in virtually every area of human endeavour. The West is clearly losing ground economically – and this is happening within a system it spent decades building and promoting to the rest of the world under the banners of globalisation, free competition, the sanctity of property rights, the free play of market forces, and so on.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified All of this was cast aside the moment the West realised that the nations of the Global Majority (foremost among them the People’s Republic of China, though there are other rapidly developing economies too) were beating the West at its own game and by its own rules. Unfair tactics were immediately deployed: sanctions, tariffs, and accusations (the Europeans accuse the PRC of “overcapacity” – and that is as far as it goes!).
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified We can see clearly, then, how the West is trying to shore up its rapidly declining position in the global economy through thoroughly unscrupulous methods. This is an objective historical process; it cannot be stopped, though it can be harmed – including through consequences that go far beyond the economic, extending into the political and military spheres. Countries of the Global South are subjected to crude pressure and threats that their funding will be cut off.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified This happens not only in relation to political processes such as unsuccessful attempts to force them to join sanctions against Russia, but also in many other contexts, including diplomatic proceedings at the UN and other international bodies. When votes are held on resolutions reflecting the stance of a particular country or group of nations, the West – if it dislikes the resolution – resorts to various forms of blackmail, threatening to withhold funding or impose other punishments.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified Because if voting were conducted fairly, the West would find itself in a distinct minority on the key issues defining the current stage of global development. So, it is a fear of competition... Incidentally, this is also evident in sport, where numerous international federations, still led by Western nationals, go to great lengths to maintain political discrimination, thereby trampling on the principles of the Olympic Charter.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified The same applies to the cultural sphere: there is a fierce campaign against “Russian Houses” – Russian centres for science and culture. Recently, one of the most renowned centres – in Berlin – was shut down simply because someone decided to frame the discovery of certain debris as the crash of a Russian UAV, using this as a pretext to “punish” Russia. They closed the Consulate General in Bonn – our largest in Europe, housed in the former embassy building from the days when Bonn was the capital of West Germany.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified They also shut down our cultural centre, which had been immensely popular among Berliners and the German public at large. This, too, is a form of struggle.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified The “cancellation” of culture reflects the fact that Russia, like the nations of the Global Majority, upholds traditional values in culture and in every other sphere of life, whereas the West now deems this incompatible with its liberal “values.” Your forum is part of a global movement for justice and against the resurgence of the colonial policies to which the West is once again resorting.
Matching Russian passage has not been identified	Cached English source — passage alignment not verified I would like to wish you productive work and fruitful discussions aimed at helping to build a more just world that serves the interests of all peoples, without exception.