Official representatives of Russia will not take part in the Munich Security Conference, which will be held February 18-20. This was stated at a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, Interfax reports .
Zakharova noted that “in recent years, the conference has been increasingly transforming into such a transatlantic forum, losing its inclusiveness and objectivity” and that “Moscow’s interest in this event has noticeably dropped.”
According to Kommersant, the reasons for Russia’s refusal to send an official delegation to Munich were a six-day quarantine for those who were vaccinated with vaccines not approved in the European Union, as well as “irritation” in connection with the statements of the organizers of the event, who recently criticized Russia’s foreign policy.
According to Kommersant, the head of Sberbank German Gref, president of the All-Russian Union of Insurers Igor Yurgens and president of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Dynkin were announced on the list of participants in the Munich conference from Russia.
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What does RuSSia know about security anyway?
Yeah, I was going to say using the words Russia and security in the same sentence is rather asinine and absurd. Russia fits at this forum like a round peg fits in a square hole.
That doesn’t really matter. Mafia land is not needed there, and the conference itself is also not needed. We require only big sticks and the message to trash countries that we will use the big sticks when we have too. That’s all the security you require.