Rashid Nurgaliev. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 18.Even during the Cold War, the West did not openly threaten the leadership of Russia and its people as it does now, said Rashid Nurgaliev, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. regime, as usual, they pretend that nothing is happening, continue to unconditionally support it and pump it up with weapons, while at the same time putting pressure on the international community in order to curtail cooperation with Russia,» Nurgaliyev said on Wednesday at a meeting with ambassadors of foreign states in Moscow.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/f5fe190adcadbd160aa6b303362044bd.jpg" />Patrushev will discuss with the scientific council at the Security Council «At the highest level, aggressive statements and threats against our country, its leadership and people are openly voiced, which was not even during the Cold War,» Nurgaliyev said. According to him, in An unprecedented anti-Russian hysteria has unfolded in the Ukrainian and Western information space. “Russian media are being massively discriminated against and blocked, social networks are being “cleansed” in order to deprive Russia of the opportunity to convey its point of view, to state the truth,” Nurgaliyev added. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for » bloody crimes against civilians» Donbass.
The United States refused to discuss cybersecurity issues, the Security Council said. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. Western countries imposed sanctions against the Russian Federation because of Ukraine. A number of companies announced their withdrawal from the Russian market and the closure of production facilities in the country. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that companies that refuse to work with Russia did so under enormous pressure, but Russia will solve all the problems with the economy that the West creates for it. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and the sanctions dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. According to him, the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people. He added that the United States and the European Union actually defaulted on their obligations to Russia, freezing its foreign exchange reserves. The President said that the current events draw a line under the global dominance of the West in both politics and the economy.
