Maria Zakharova lashes out at UK and EU

Translations of her latest Telegram posts

Between yesterday (Monday 13th May 2024) and today (Tuesday 14th May 2024), the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, released two statements (in Russian) on her Telegram channel, one against the UK and the other against the EU. Here are the English translations (all formatting original).

Here is the translation of the first Telegram post, where Maria Zakharova lashed out against Rishi Sunak yesterday:

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivered a denunciatory speech today [13th May 2024] at the Policy Exchange think tank:

“Putin's recklessness has brought us closer to dangerous nuclear escalation than anything since the Cuban Missile Crisis. When Putin cut off gas supplies, it had a devastating impact on people's lives and jeopardised our energy security. And in this world of increasingly serious conflict and constant danger, one hundred million people were forced from their homes.”

Sunak's lies are so desperate that one even feels sorry for him. What if it's just stupidity?

To make it clearer to Sunak, let's break it down point by point.

First. Regarding “dangerous nuclear escalation”. It is the Kiev regime, not someone else, that is shelling Europe's largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Everyone knows this, including the IAEA, and of course Downing Street knows it too.

Second. Russia has not stopped supplying gas for a single second. This is an irrefutable fact. As well as the fact that it was the US and all that is scattered around NATO corners that banned the import of hydrocarbons from Russia. First on their own, then through the G7 they pressurised the EU to refuse to buy Russian pipeline and liquefied natural gas. But even after all this, Russia remains the most reliable supplier, fulfilling 100% of its contractual obligations.

If anyone has had a “devastating impact on people's lives”, it is those who ordered the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines and then, when Russia proposed the creation of a transparent international mechanism under the auspices of the UN Secretary General, made an international investigation into the attack impossible. Who are the bad countries?

The US, which promised to destroy the pipeline, Britain and France, which blocked the UNSC draft resolution to this effect.

You, Rishi, are the Prime Minister of Britain, aren't you? You must remember what position you ordered your diplomats at the UNSC to take on this issue.

Incidentally, London's allies, US diplomats then called the Russian initiative “an attempt to discredit the competent investigation into the incidents currently being conducted by Sweden, Denmark and Germany”. “National competent investigations” ended up with nothing: the investigation in Sweden and Denmark is curtailed, the case is closed, and the FRG is faithfully going the same way.

Now for Sunak's main lie. About Moscow supposedly stopping supplying energy resources. Well, the remaining workable line - pipeline B of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline system - is still functional. But it is closed on the western side. European heads of state, in particular Scholz, openly admit that they “can hardly imagine the operation of the remaining pipeline”. Why? Because Washington forbids it.

Third. About immigration and “a hundred million people forced to leave their homes”. Don't be ridiculous, Rishi, or better yet, don't become a laughing stock.

Iraq. Libya. Yemen. Afghanistan. Arab Spring. The escalation in the Middle East. The Sudanese crisis. All these results of Western engineering provoked the displacement of millions of people not only to other regions, but immediately to the other world. And this is the result primarily of Anglo-Saxon crimes. Ask your minister Cameron, he voted in favour of the invasion of Iraq at the time, and later tried to stop the investigation into the crimes of the British military.

Separately, I would like to remind you that it was the efforts of the West that led to the creation of the Islamic State. We have covered this on numerous occasions.

And finally, about today - it was the British, among others, who were behind the two unconstitutional coups in Ukraine [the Orange Revolution in 2004 and EuroMaidan in 2014], which led to a civil war, the growth of nationalism and the undermining of security in the region. That in turn led to several waves of refugees from Ukraine, millions of citizens who travelled to Russia. And it was our country that took in hundreds of thousands of people from the Ukrainian territory in 2014, then sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine for 7 years, and then became a home for millions of those whom it considers to be representatives of a brotherly people.

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Here is the translation of the second Telegram post, where Maria Zakharova has lashed out at the EU today:

European Commission: “Adoption of the law on foreign agents will be an obstacle on Georgia's way to the EU”. [I incidentally talked about it here]

And the adoption of the law on foreign agents by EU member states will not become an obstacle to, for example, receiving subsidies, assistance and support within the association?

Let me remind you that similar in content, in some cases much tougher, laws on foreign agents are in force in more than 60 countries of the world, first of all in the “benchmark” democracies. This is where it all started. For example, the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) has been applied in the USA since 1938, in Australia - on the system of transparency of foreign influence, in Great Britain - on national security, in Israel - on transparency of NGO financing, in France - on prevention of foreign interference (voting in the Senate is planned in the near future).

In most cases, the issue is not so much about regulatory normative acts as about repressive instruments. In the same States, it is easy to go to prison for failure to comply with “FARA”. Maria Butina has written a whole book about these charming manifestations of neoliberal democracy. I advise you to read it.

The EU itself, in its usual manner of chronic bipolar disorder, is planning to adopt its own version of legislation on foreign agents - the “Democracy Protection Package”. In some elements, still in draft form, the draft regulation looks even tougher than its American forebear.

I wonder, when it comes to the adoption of this document, will the EU start to exclude itself from its membership? I even thought of a name for it - postmodern bipolar.

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UPDATE (14/05/2024): Tonight Maria Zakharova has lashed out against the Outlaw US Empire too. Here is her latest Telegram post:

Vedant Patel, Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. State Department: “We have made it clear <...> that the adoption by the Georgian parliament of the law on foreign agents is not only inconsistent with U.S. values, but also inconsistent with the aspirations of the Georgian people... The Georgian government needs to change course”.

We would like to ask clarifying questions:

1. Is the problem that the Georgian law is much softer than the American one?

2. Why should Georgia or any other country conform to someone else's values?

3. US “values” do not include non-interference in the internal affairs of other states?