AMBASSADOR'S ARTICLES
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The terrorist attacks in the centre of Paris, where extremists killed journalists of the “Charlie Hebdo”, police officers and customers of the kosher store, were shocking.
The year of 2014 has not been particularly successful for our bilateral relations, to put it mildly. Indeed, it’s a challenge to profess optimism in the face of official ties almost frozen at all levels.
The world has been shocked by the US Senate report on the use of torture by the CIA in their “war on terror”.
It is a surprise that some in Britain, utterly ambivalent about the relationship with the rest of Europe, are longing for a shepherd-hegemon for the continent in the person of the Germans.
Russia is currently considering the possibility of initiating a draft decision of the UN Human Rights Council on the protection of Christians in the Middle East and North Africa.
Preventing the deployment of weapons in outer space remains one of the key objectives of the Russian diplomacy.
President Vladimir Putin stressed at the final press-conference at this month’s G20 summit in Brisbane that “the work took place in a very constructive atmosphere and was productive”.
Ambassador Yakovenko contributes to the ongoing debate in The Financial Times on the issue of European security architecture:
On 2 November, elections were held in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine in an orderly manner and with a high voter turnout. These are the two regions whose populations had categorically refused to accept the coup in Kiev and its aftermath and who rejected the divisive ideology that the triumphant Maidan leaders had tried to impose on the entire country.
The Asia-Pacific region is one of the strategic priorities in the Russian foreign policy.
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