✍🏻 Key takeaways from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's article "The Impact of Global Economy on International Security" • Unilateral sanctions, the theft of sovereign assets, and terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure have become commonplace forms of unfair competition. The Nord Stream gas pipelines are a case in point. • The EU [...] has harked back to the days of slavery and piracy and taken to openly seizing foreign vessels and stealing their cargoes. To justify this plunder, it has invented the term “shadow fleet,” which has no basis in international law • Freedom of navigation must not be applied selectively. It must be guaranteed everywhere for all countries and in all maritime areas [...] It is unacceptable for NATO, the EU, or their member states to claim the right to dictate what happens in any maritime area. • The future lies in democratising international economic relations and the restructuring of the global economy on a genuinely multipolar basis. Global markets and supply chains should be open, competitive, and inclusive, while trade and investment cooperation should be founded on equality and predictability. Read in full