🇷🇺🇸🇬 26 августа в Сингапуре заместитель Министра иностранных дел Российской Федерации А.Ю.Руденко провёл консультации с Постоянным секретарём Министерства иностранных дел Республики Сингапур А.Чуа.
Состоялся обмен мнениями по актуальным вопросам двусторонней повестки дня в развитие договорённостей, достигнутых на российско-сингапурской встрече на высшем уровне 18 июня в Казани. С сингапурской стороны подтверждена заинтересованность в активной работе над реализацией решений лидеров двух стран.
Обсуждены состояние и перспективы внешнеполитического взаимодействия России и Сингапура на глобальных и региональных площадках, в том числе в ООН и в контексте председательства города-государства в АСЕАН в 2027 году.
#РоссияСингапур
🎙 Opening remarks by President of Russia Vladimir Putin at a meeting with President of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing, who is on an official visit to Russia (Moscow, August 18, 2026)
💬 Vladimir Putin: We are very pleased to welcome you back to Moscow.
Before we begin our conversation, I would like to express my sincere condolences over the devastating flooding in your country, which has affected tens of thousands of people.
Relations between our countries were established back in 1948 and have continued to develop steadily ever since, acquiring a particularly close and trusting character in recent years.
We are grateful to you for facilitating the development of #RussiaASEAN relations. We also actively cooperate on the international stage.
Of course, there is work to be done on the economic track. We have a solid foundation and promising projects. Our cooperation in the field of security is also developing.
You have a very extensive and eventful programme during your visit to Russia, and I am confident that we will have an opportunity to discuss all these issues.
🤝 Mr President, we are very pleased to see you. Welcome!
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🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with VGTRK broadcasting company (Moscow, August 14, 2026)
Key points:
• President of Russia Vladimir Putin made it very clear that we will respond in kind to Western maritime piracy. We will choose the targets ourselves. They will include vessels operating in the interests of countries that have made piracy and plunder part of their official policy.
• We will not stoop to the level of the Ukrainian leadership, which celebrates on social media its terrorist strikes on beaches, dormitories housing young students and other civilian sites. ☝️ We will make our own methods far tougher, targeting everything that enables the West to fuel Kiev’s war machine. And we are already doing so.
• Hostilities should stop only when there is a long-term, reliable and sustainable settlement. If we were suddenly to halt now along the line of contact, we would, in effect, allow the feat of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers who defeated Nazism to be erased. That is simply not an option.
• As for the episode at the press conference of Aleksandar Vucic and Zelensky, where a question was asked about “how Europeans could help kill more Russians”, I saw that President Vucic was simply taken aback. Given Serbia’s enormous contribution to the Victory over Nazism, we would of course like to hear some reaction from our Serbian friends.
• The metastases of Nazism continue to resurface in German society under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who openly speaks of the need to make Germany Europe’s leading military power again. Does he understand what the word “again” means in this context? 👉 I am not sure.
• We do not refuse to talk with US presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. If they come, they know that President Vladimir Putin is ready to receive them once again. The question is what they will bring with them.
• We do not issue ultimatums. We have submitted a number of questions to the US State Department and asked for clarification, including regarding intelligence data and the fact that the US is much more deeply involved in organising and carrying out strikes deep inside Russia against civilian targets. We will await a response.
• Our Turkish colleagues are once again saying that some arrangement should be reached to ensure that shipping is not targeted. ❗️ But we did not start this. When a Ukrainian drone strikes a Turkish bulk carrier, tanker or other civilian vessel, or hits ships linked to US companies Chevron and ExxonMobil, neither Turkiye nor the US publicly states that such actions by Ukrainian terrorists are unacceptable.
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EEC and Thailand Discuss Prospects for Expanding Economic Cooperation
On 13 August, 2026, Bakytzhan Sagintayev, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission, met with Sihasal Phuangketkeow, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, at the EEC headquarters.
The parties discussed cooperation under the 2018 Memorandum of Understanding between the Commission and the Government of Thailand.
They noted positive trade dynamics: in January-May 2026, EAEU-Thailand trade exceeded $1 billion, up 20% year-on-year. Digitalization, transport and logistics, and green energy were identified as promising areas for further cooperation.
The parties also confirmed their interest in advancing joint economic initiatives and cooperation within ASEAN.
EEC and ASEAN Discuss Technical Regulation and Food Safety Requirements
On 31 July, 2026, the Eurasian Economic Commission, jointly with the Secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, held a seminar to discuss the technical regulation systems of the Eurasian Economic Union and ASEAN. The seminar was attended by representatives of a number of EEC departments, ASEAN countries' authorities and divisions of the ASEAN Secretariat.
The seminar considered the requirements currently in effect within the EAEU for the safety of light industry products, including tea, coffee, fish and seafood. The participants discussed issues related to the release of goods into circulation on the Union market and control over compliance with product safety requirements in the EAEU.
Representatives of the Commission became familiar with aspects of regulation and standardization in the field of food safety in ASEAN member-states.
Following the event, the parties agreed to continue the dialogue.
