7/29 Lavrov is trying to woo Africa by saying that Russia has never been implicated in colonialism. As someone who has been studying #RussianColonialism for years, I went through some sources to let imperial Russia speak for itself. Yes, "Россия" and "колония" are tied together./
/Expectedly, the Russian version of the Kremlin website reporting on the call between Putin and Bennett didn’t mention any apology, while the English version didn’t report on the call at all. 2/2
In the tape recorded during Lavrov's informal talks with the CIS diplomats he emphasizes that successes of East & West Germany at the Olympic Games (as he thinks) resulted from the correct doping system, based on Nazi research in concentration camps. and he admires it. 2/ うわあ