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China wins high marks from Russians, scoring 74% favorability
Young Russians in particular view economic powerhouse positively, research finds

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New survey data suggests most Russians hold positive views of China, while 40% see the giant neighbor as their country's closest friend. © Reuters

MOSCOW -- An overwhelming majority of Russians see China in a positive light, recent survey data shows, bucking global sentiment as Beijing faces criticism over its geopolitical assertiveness, human rights record and handling of COVID-19.

 

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As Negative Views of China Grow in U.S., Russians Are Happy with Their Neighbor
BY TOM O'CONNOR ON 3/12/21 AT 5:23 PM EST
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Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) presents the first Friendship Medal of the People's Republic of China to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 8, 2018. The award was said to be presented to foreigners who have who have made "outstanding contributions to China's socialist modernization drive, in promoting exchange and cooperation between China and the world, and in safeguarding world peace."



As negative views of China grow among those in the United States, Russians have overwhelmingly positive views of their neighbor, recent surveys reported.

A survey conducted jointly by the Chicago Council think tank and the Moscow-based Levada Center polling firm published Friday revealed that 74% of Russians have favorable views of China, a finding that reflects the growing geopolitical warmth between the two nations. Just 45% felt the same about the European Union, and only 39% had a favorable view of the U.S.

This data emerges amid a downward turn in the favorability of China in the U.S. A Gallup poll published earlier this month found that just one-in-five of respondents in the U.S. had a positive opinion of China. That was a drop from one-in-three just last year and an all-time low for reporting since 1979, the year Washington established relations with the People's Republic.

In the decades since, the country has established itself as a leading economic power, matched only by the U.S. Its military and diplomatic forces have also strengthened, and now challenge Washington's post-Cold War status as the world's only superpower, which it gained with the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

Today, while Washington views Beijing as its main competitor, Moscow sees it as a strategic partner with which it is enjoying the strongest bilateral ties in the history of the two nations.

The Chicago Council-Levada Center poll revealed that Russians saw the benefits of closer relations with China, which have played out in unprecedented diplomatic, economic and military cooperation.

A majority of 55% of Russians say that their country's relationship with China has the ability to improve Russia's position in the world, and 57% felt that these ties would grow closer throughout the next decade. Looking back, 56% said China gets more respect today than 10 years ago, 42% said the same for Russia and only 9% said so for the U.S.


And despite widespread perceptions of their unequal relationship, 56% of Russians said Moscow's growing ties with Beijing would not increase Russia's dependence on China.

"Russian President Putin's reorientation away from the West and toward Beijing in the aftermath of the 2014 Crimea annexation seems to have been accepted, if not embraced, by the Russian public," the Chicago Council-Levada Center survey report said. "Ironically, although the Obama administration planned for a pivot to Asia in 2009, it may be the Russians, not the Americans, who have successfully pivoted eastward."

As for worsening U.S.-China ties, the Gallup report saw the COVID-19 pandemic as a contributing factor, and warned that Asian-Americans were facing collateral damage as a result.

"In a year upended by a pandemic first discovered in China, and perhaps the most widespread cyber-attack in the U.S. attributed to Russia by the U.S. intelligence community, both China and Russia have reached new low points in Americans' views," the report said.

"The findings also coincide with reports of increased hate crimes against Asian Americans across the United States," the report said, "something Biden hopes to blunt by condemning anti-Asian speech in a recent executive order and directing the federal government to avoid such language in its operations."


 

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It’s also important to adopt global political commitments on no first placement of arms in outer space, Russian Ambassador to France Alexei Meshkov noted

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PARIS, April 11. /TASS/. Moscow expects Paris to support its initiatives aimed at non-placement of arms in outer space, Russian Ambassador to France Alexei Meshkov said in an interview with TASS on occasion of the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight.
According to him, "Moscow and Paris on the whole share the need to ensure the safety of space activities and their implementation in accordance with the norms of international law." "This concerns the prevention of an arms race in outer space and the need to prevent turning it into a new arena of confrontation," the diplomat said.
Russia is calling on its foreign partners, including France, to back its initiatives, the diplomat said. "Among them is launching talks on the treaty on preventing the placement of arms in outer space [the draft document was submitted by Russia and China - TASS]," Meshkov explained. "This also refers to the commitments on the non-use of force or a threat to use force against space objects, agreeing measures on increasing trust in space. It’s also important to adopt global political commitments on no first placement of arms in outer space." "We count on the support of these initiatives by Paris," he stressed.

 

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CAIRO, April 12. /TASS/. The question about what the United States is doing in Ukraine by organizing NATO activities and sending its ships to the Black Sea located thousands of kilometers away from its border remains open, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a press conference Monday.
"Questions are asked what Russia is doing on the border with Ukraine. The answer is simple, we live like that, it is our country. Meanwhile, what the US is doing in the form of their ships and servicemen who constantly organize some NATO activities in Ukraine, thousands of kilometers away from its territory, still remains unanswered," the minister stressed.

 

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Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pointed out that Russian diplomats in Moscow and Vienna have been calling on partners not to distort reality and not to interpret Russia’s planned combat training events on the Russian territory as a display of aggressive intentions

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MOSCOW, April 15. /TASS/. Moscow calls on Paris and Berlin to stop partaking in the propaganda campaign around Russian military combat training events on the Russian territory that do threaten absolutely no-one, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.
"Once again, we call on our partners, mainly Germany and France as our colleagues on the Normandy Four format, to stop partaking in the propaganda campaign around Russian events on the Russian territory that threaten no-one, and to focus instead on urging Kiev to de-escalate tensions in Donbass and implement the Minsk Agreements," she said.
The spokeswoman pointed out that Russian diplomats in Moscow and Vienna have been calling on partners not to distort reality and not to interpret Russia’s planned combat training events on the Russian territory as a display of aggressive intentions.

 

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MOSCOW, April 21. /TASS/. Russia will scrutinize the prospect of military and technical cooperation with Turkey, if Ankara delivers drones to Ukraine, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin’s annual State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly.

"We will look [at the prospect] specifically in each individual case," the vice premier told reporters, responding to a question about whether Russia would suspend military-technical cooperation with Turkey, if Ankara delivered drones to Ukraine.


The Turkiye newspaper reported on April 15 citing an unnamed source that Ankara was ready to sell its weapons and drones to all countries, including Russia. The source noted that Ankara might sell the armament "after negotiations and upon reaching mutually acceptable terms" as drones "are not aimed against Russia or any other country."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on April 12, commenting on the reports of Ankara selling drones to Kiev, that Moscow urged responsible countries, including Turkey, "to analyze the situation and Kiev regime’s unending bellicose statements" and cautioned them against fueling these militaristic aspirations.

 

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MOSCOW, April 21. /TASS/. Russia will scrutinize the prospect of military and technical cooperation with Turkey, if Ankara delivers drones to Ukraine, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin’s annual State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly.

"We will look [at the prospect] specifically in each individual case," the vice premier told reporters, responding to a question about whether Russia would suspend military-technical cooperation with Turkey, if Ankara delivered drones to Ukraine.


The Turkiye newspaper reported on April 15 citing an unnamed source that Ankara was ready to sell its weapons and drones to all countries, including Russia. The source noted that Ankara might sell the armament "after negotiations and upon reaching mutually acceptable terms" as drones "are not aimed against Russia or any other country."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on April 12, commenting on the reports of Ankara selling drones to Kiev, that Moscow urged responsible countries, including Turkey, "to analyze the situation and Kiev regime’s unending bellicose statements" and cautioned them against fueling these militaristic aspirations.

It was good when they donated billions of equipment to Armenia in order to keep the status quo in Karabakh. Hypocrites.
 

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And why do they concern about it if they have adequate countermeasures, as claimed, against drones?
 

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sending billions of military aid to Assad, not a problem for Russia.

Its always good to see the Russians squirming, i hope Turkeys arms Ukraine to the teeth. Time for Russians to enjoy the same game they played in Syria.
 

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It’s time for Turkey to up its game and get more and more involved and connected to Azerbaijan, Ukraine and even Georgia. There’s much that Turkey can win from helping them, modernizing their militaries and getting them closer as friends, trade partners and allies.

Turkish Military presence and bases in brotherly Azerbaijan... so close to Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan + nice Turkish drones, munitions and other systems being available in good quantities to our Ukrainian buddies= Angry Moskals.
 
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In March 2021, 23.7 thousand people with a diagnosis of Covid-19 died in Russia. This is almost the same as in February, when almost 24.4 thousand people with a diagnosis of Covid-19 died. All-cause mortality increased by 25% compared to March 2020.

In total, 191.3 thousand Russians died in March 2021. This is 25% more than in March last year.

Coronavirus became the leading cause of death in 17.4 thousand people in March. Another 6.2 thousand people were diagnosed with Covid-19, but the main cause of death was other diseases that could be exacerbated by the coronavirus.

Rosstat distinguishes several categories in its Covid-19 mortality statistics. The breakdown for March looks like this:

15,003 people - coronavirus became the leading cause of death (virus identified).

2,454 people - The coronavirus may have been the leading cause of death (but the virus has not been identified).

1401 people - coronavirus is not the main cause of death, but it had a significant impact on the development of fatal complications of the disease.

4,857 people - coronavirus is not the main cause of death and did not have a significant impact on the development of fatal complications of the disease.



When analyzing mortality from coronavirus, the excess mortality rate is often used, which is measured in absolute terms or as a percentage. Excess mortality shows how much the number of deaths from all causes has increased compared to the average for several years. Sometimes, when calculating the expected number of deaths, the trend of decreasing mortality is taken into account.

Excess mortality takes into account the number of deaths from all causes and thus helps to assess both the direct and indirect impact of a pandemic.

In March, the excess death rate, according to BBC estimates, amounted to 30.9 thousand people, or 19% compared with the average this month over the past five years (160 396 people).

How many people have died since the start of the epidemic?

According to Rosstat, from April 2020 to March 2021, 248.5 thousand people with a diagnosis of Covid-19 died in Russia. This is more than two times more than the official data on the stopkoronavirus.ru website show.

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Open Media calculated that the excess death rate as of April 27 was about 500 thousand people. The independent demographer Alexey Raksha came to the same conclusion.

According to Dmitry Kobak, a data analyst from the University of Tübingen, excess mortality in Russia from April 2020 to February 2021 was 447 thousand people.

Most of all, the pandemic affected the mortality of older generations in cities, according to Rosstat statistics on mortality rates (the number of deaths per thousand people in each age category).

For example, throughout Russia, the mortality rate among the urban population aged 85 and over in 2020 increased by 18% to almost 200 deaths per 1,000 people.



In Moscow, where the epidemic began to spread in April 2020, mortality among the population aged 85 and over increased by 17.7% - to almost 125 deaths per thousand people.



The strongest increase in mortality among the urban population took place in Chechnya. The mortality rate among urban residents aged 85 and over has grown 2.5 times - up to 653 deaths per 1,000 people. According to Rosstat, as of early 2020, 923 people of this age lived in the cities of Chechnya.

The mortality rate among Chechen townspeople aged 80-84 and 75-79 has more than doubled. At the beginning of 2020, more than 5.3 thousand people aged 75-84 lived in the cities of Chechnya.



What's happening with the coronavirus now?

Across Russia, the number of new Covid-19 infections, which began to rise again after reaching a minimum in August 2020, approached 30 thousand by the end of the year. In 2021, the indicator gradually decreased and by mid-March dropped below the 10 thousand mark. In April, the number of new cases ranges from 8-9 thousand.

In Moscow, there is a slight increase in infections and hospitalizations, according to the data of the headquarters of the capital. In the first two weeks of April, the incidence in the capital ranged from 1-2 thousand people per day, and then the figure began to increase. On April 29, for the first time since the end of January, the threshold of 3,000 new infections was exceeded.


In late March, Deputy Health Minister Tatiana Semenova said that the incidence rates "allow us to talk about the third wave of coronavirus infection." However, later the Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko stated that it was "too early" to talk about the third wave.

In late April, Bloomberg wrote, citing two unnamed officials familiar with unofficial government statistics, that a third wave of coronavirus had already begun in Russia.

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I really suspect the efficiency of Sputnik V vaccine which Türkiye plans to produce.
 

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WWII Victory Day Parade in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2021. © Evgeny Biyatov / Sputnik

An annual military parade was held on Moscow’s iconic Red Square as Russia celebrates victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
World War II is often called the Great Patriotic War in Russia, and May 9 is one of the country’s most revered holidays.
More than 12,000 uniformed soldiers, military police officers, national guardsmen and cadets marched through Red Square on Sunday shortly after a moment of silence was observed in honor of the millions killed in the war.
The number of participants was slightly scaled-down compared to last year when Russia marked the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies.
The victory in World War II played a “colossal historic role for the fate of the whole world,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his address.
“We will always remember that it was the Soviet people who had done this great act of bravery,” Putin said. He noted that the unity and courage of Soviet citizens ultimately led them to “accomplish what was thought to be impossible – vanquishing a merciless enemy… and unequivocally defeating Nazism.”
One of the traditional elements of the parade is the Victory Banner – the iconic red flag that was raised by the Soviet Red Army soldiers on the Reichstag building in Berlin on May 1, 1945.

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T-72B3M tanks participate in a WWII Victory Day Parade in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2021. © Yevgeny Odinokov / Sputnik
The audience also saw the legendary Soviet T-34/85 tanks that fought the German Wehrmacht troops.

More than 190 pieces of military hardware rolled through Red Square, including the newest T90M Proryv and T-14 Armata main battle tanks, Kurganets-25 tracked infantry fighting vehicles and Boomerang amphibious armored personnel carriers.

The military also showcased Uran-9 ‘robo-tanks’ – remote-controlled ground combat machines that were used in Syria.

Typhoon-PVO armored vehicles took part in the parade for the first time. They are tailored for transporting anti-aircraft units and armed with a powerful machine gun to repel ground and aerial attacks.

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Typhoon-VDV armored vehicles participate in the WWII Victory Day Parade in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2021. © Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik

Other state-of-the-art weapons shown during the parade included Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile systems, which have a range of up to 500km (310 miles) and can strike targets with great precision.

S-400 air defense missile systems also made their way to Red Square. They can engage with aerial targets at a range of up to 400km and ballistic missiles up to 60km away.


 

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Russia’s Rosoboronexport state arms seller has signed contracts worth $4 billion in 2021, Rosoboronexport CEO Alexander Mikheyev said at the HeliRussia 2021 exhibition: “We have signed contracts worth more than $4 billion this year. Our order portfolio is at $52.1 billion,” the CEO said. Rosoboronexport is a subsidiary of Russia’s Rostec state hi-tech corporation.

For a number of years, Russia has remained the world’s second-largest arms exporter. Aircraft exports account for about 45%, exports of air defense systems and equipment operational with ground forces — 30% and 15%, respectively, naval weapon exports — about 7%.

Rosoboronexport has delivered about 23% of the total volume of weapons to foreign customers according to this year’s plan, Rosoboronexport CEO Alexander Mikheyev said at the HeliRussia 2021 exhibition. “Everything is on schedule. We carry out shipments … we receive payments. We have delivered about 23% of this year’s planned volumes to our customers,” the CEO said.

In 2020, Rosoboronexport sold military hardware worth about $13 billion. Russia firmly holds one of the leading positions among the world’s arms exporters. Annual sales amount to around $15 billion, with Rosoboronexport accounting for about $13 billion.

 

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Some will tell you otherwise but this message about Siberia is directed at China. Russians want the world to believe US&European countries are their main threat,but no other country is such an existantial threat to Russia than China is and the Russians deep down know it. Slowly but surely Chinese are taking over Siberia. Rising China is a threat to Russia but some refuse to see it.
 

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LONDON, May 23. /TASS/. UK Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace described Russia as his country’s "number one adversary threat" in an interview to Sunday Telegraph.

"We have tried de-escalation, we have tried methods but at the moment until Russia changes its attitude, it’s quite hard to see where we’re going to go," he said.

Wallace also claimed that Russian warships were increasingly active in the vicinity of UK borders.

"We’re regularly visited by nosy Russian ships, and we are regularly visited now by a number of Russian warships," the UK defense chief said, adding that a a Russian kilo class submarine was detected in the Irish Sea late last year, which the UK had not seen "for a very, very long time.

The UK Navy said last December they had been observing significant presence of Russian warships near the kingdom’s territorial waters. According to Sunday Telegraph, a total of 150 Russian warships have been spotted by the UK Navy since 2013.

Earlier, the Russian Embassy to the United Kingdom has repeatedly noted that UK political and military officials often cite the alleged Russian threat in an attempt to justify their country’s growing military budgets and increased military presence in other regions.

 

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