Margarita Simonyan(@M_Simonyan):Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the West simply cannot accept the new reality: their 500-year dominance is over. Speaking after a meeting with his Guinea-Bissau counterpart, Lavrov emphasized the right of all nations to choose their own development path. “Not all [UN] General Assembly resolutions on granting independence to colonial countries and peoples have been implemented, and these relapses, of course, are most clearly evident in the economic sphere.”

2026.07.16 15:02

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the West simply cannot accept the new reality: their 500-year dominance is over. Speaking after a meeting with his Guinea-Bissau counterpart, Lavrov emphasized the right of all nations to choose their own development path. “Not all [UN] General Assembly resolutions on granting independence to colonial countries and peoples have been implemented, and these relapses, of course, are most clearly evident in the economic sphere.”