What was the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov told reporters

The fight against international terrorism, the war in Syria, relations with neighbors and the largest partners have become the main topics of the held press conference in the Russian Foreign Ministry. But Lavrov’s stories about provocations against Russian diplomats in the United States and about the dressed American spies that participated in rallies in the Russian opposition rallies caused a much greater reaction.

The main difference between Russia and the West

The problem of terrorism has been a systematic character, lavrov complains, and all because the countries cannot form the “Unified Anti -Terrorism Front” (President Putin has introduced this wording into the vocabulary). And they cannot do this because of the desire of a “group of states with their values” to dominate the world. Further, Lavrov divided the countries into “pragmatic” (which in which a well -understood national interest) and “messianic” (which instruct their values ​​in other countries around the world). Russia, according to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is naturally a pragmatic country, and the West is a group of messianic countries.

“To accept these new, post -Christian Western values, including permissiveness, the absolutization of liberal approaches to the life of individuals, I think, from a human point of view, is indecent, and from the point of view of professional internationalists, this is a huge mistake,” Lavrov frank.

The minister again recalled how the West provoked the Arab Spring, and the “import of migration” and all the problems that accompany this was the sad consequence of Western democracy.

Another thing is Russia, where, says Lavrov, the internal interest is state interest - the concern for the well -being of its citizens in conditions of security and the sustainable development of the economy.

"There is no place for messianism!" - warned the Foreign Minister, noting that the country was open to partnership “from the position of equality” with everyone, “who is ready to take into account mutual interests.”

“We are ready to work with both the USA and NATO. But without import of values. He has already discredited himself, ”Lavrov concluded his performance.

By the way, an incident with a Serbian train to Kosovo, a persecution of Christians, all this is “the result of the export of European values”.

Russia and the USA

When discussing the cooperation of Russia with the new US administration, Lavrov asked "not to fall to extremes."

“We, of course, are realists, we follow how the new US administration is preparing for its rights. Only when practical work begins, it will be clear how relations with the United States and the world will be built. I specifically say “with the outside world”, since Trump has a look at him fundamentally different from his predecessors, ”the minister said.

The outgoing administration of Obama “creates unworthy things,” said Lavrov. And Trump, who “wants to focus on security for Americans,” is “exactly what Putin is guided by” in relation to Russians in determining the foundations of Russia's foreign policy.

Recruitment of Russian diplomats: bribery and wigs

According to Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Ministry periodically receives complaints that the American diplomat is “unbearable to work in Russia”, including because “surveillance is organized behind them”.

“We specially dealt with this situation, it turned out to be the absolutely opposite. Ten times more Russian ministries, departments, parliamentarians accept US ambassadors, how the Americans accept the ambassador of the Russian Federation, ”Lavrov said.

During the second term of Obama, such "unfriendly activity against our diplomats increased."

Lavrov recalled several cases, in particular, an episode with the recruitment of an employee of the consulate, who came to the doctor to pick up the medicine for Evgeny Primakov. “To recruit in this situation, of course, it is necessary to have a specific professional impudence,” the minister commented.

He said that employees of the American embassy love to drive rented cars, that is, on those who have Russian, and not diplomatic, numbers.

And in April 2016 last year, according to Lavrov, an “unprecedented case” occurred, “at the level of the second person at the embassy”: “The American special services, trying to make a recruitment, literally put 10 thousand dollars into the car along with a proposal for cooperation ... money, if someone is interested, was capitalized and now work for the benefit of the Russian state.”

The Minister Lavrov spoke about several cases with changing the American intelligence officers and shared the details of the episode when the dressed diplomat “in a wig and with overlaid eyebrows”, trying to penetrate the US Embassy, ​​refused to present a certificate and hit him. There was a case with a male diplomat dressed in a woman.

“I’m not saying that in addition to espionage, the diplomats of the US Embassy were repeatedly seen participating in the rallies of our opposition, in anti -government rallies, unauthorized rallies, including a redistribution of form. Make conclusions yourself, ”concluded the Foreign Minister, without telling any details and facts of such activity of US citizens.

Russian hackers

The German journalist asked Lavrov how Russia could prove that it has nothing to do with hacker attacks. “Prove you,” Lavrov suggested him in response.

Russia in Syria

There is a hope that interaction with the new US administration on the Syrian topic “will be more effective” than with the Obama administration.

Field commanders should become full participants in the negotiation process.

“Until now, I think, one of the problems, due to which the negotiation process was bowed, was that the UN invited only political opposition-most of whom are emigrants, live in Europe, in the Middle East and other countries, but not in Syria, and a certain number of intra-Syrian oppositionists. But all (they, - ed .) - political figures. What was missing in these negotiations is the participation of those who really determine the situation on Earth. Call their armed groups, armed opposition groups. Now, when Russia and Türkiye have come up with the initiative to involve negotiations of those who confront each other with weapons in their hands (...) I, I think, have made a very important, high -quality step forward ”

Russia and Ukraine

The Budapest Memorandum obliges Russia not to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Lavrov explained.

“Of course, in this protocol there are political obligations to respect the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of the Ukrainian state, and all this corresponds to our position. The only thing that is not in the Budapest memorandum is the responsibilities of Russia to agree with the results of anti -constitutional, armed, the coup, whose authors the first action proclaimed the struggle against the Russian language and the struggle with the Russians in the Crimea. I quoted Dmitry Yarosh, who said that the Russian in the Crimea should be expelled or destroyed, ”the Foreign Minister closed the topic.

Russia and China

“With China, we probably have the best relationships in the history of our countries.”