Rebuttals
Embassy’s reply to the articles on News24/City Press, Business Live and Daily Maverick of June 29, 2023
On 28 June 2023 the ANC held the dialogue on “Russia-Ukraine Conflict – South Africa’s non-alignment Approach to Peace and Security.” I participated in the event along with other representatives...
Embassy’s reply to the Pretoria News article published in the “Back in The Day” column on August 21, 2023
We took note of an article, published in the “Back in the Day” column of The Star on August 21, 2023. The column on historically significant events reports following the Western propaganda...
Embassy's reply to the article ‘Russia-Ukraine war presents a perfect chance for Africa to lead’ by S.Vilakazi of 26 June 2023 published in ‘The Star’
We took note of Dr Sibongile Vilakazi’s article ‘Russia-Ukraine war presents a perfect chance for Africa to lead’ published in The Star on 26 June. It cannot be treated otherwise than as yet...
Russian Embassy’s reply to the article ‘Russia today echoes ‘might is right’ foreign policy of the past’ by Gjermund Sæther, Norwegian Ambassador to SA, published in The Star on 15 May
We’ve taken note of article by H.E. Gjermund Sæther, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Norway to the Republic of South Africa, published in The Star on 15 May....
Embassy’s reply to the article by Oleksandra Romantsova of 24 April 2023 published on TimesLIVE
We were surprised and confused as we familiarized ourselves with the article published on TimesLIVE on 24 April 2023. Oleksandra Romantsova, the executive director of the Centre for Civil...
Embassy’s reply to the article ‘SA must remember its friends’ published in ‘Saturday Star’ on 22 April 2023
It is always sad to see the Western and Ukrainian propaganda use a respected South African outlet for disinformation. Regrettable as it is, article “SA must remember its friends” by Saturday...
Embassy’s reply to the editorial ‘Sacrificing South Africa to protect a war criminal’ published in Financial Mail on 12 April 2023
Having read volumes of articles and opinion pieces on the ICC’s much-touted document, we weren’t surprised by another one – editorial ‘Sacrificing South Africa to protect a war criminal’...
Embassy’s reply to the Pretoria News article published in the “Back in The Day” column on April 12, 2023
We took note of an article, published in Pretoria News in the “Back in the Day” column on April 12, 2023. The column dedicated to events of historical significance reports that in 1945 the US...
Embassy's reply to the article ‘Over 30 Ukrainian children returned from Russia’ of April, 9, 2023, published on the website of The Citizen
The Citizen article ‘Over 30 Ukrainian children returned from Russia’ of April 9 2023 referring to Mykola Kuleba, head of the Save Ukraine charity organisation, reports on the return to Ukraine...
Embassy's reply to the article ‘Ukraine latest: Woman and two children killed in Russian shelling in southern Ukraine’ published on TimesLIVE on 5 March 2023
We took note of the Reuters-authored article ‘Ukraine latest: Woman and two children killed in Russian shelling in southern Ukraine’ of 5 March 2023, published on TimesLIVE. After a year of...
Embassy's reply to the article ‘No let-up in attacks’ published in The Citizen on 21 February 2023
Having read the AFP-authored ‘No let-up in attacks’ in The Citizen of 21 February we pondered over journalists’ responsibility to the public and what role they can play in helping to resolve a...
Foreign Ministry statement on the introduction of personal sanctions against US citizens
Embassy's reply to the article ‘Let’s help to defuse a nuclear war’ by Kevin Martin published on Oct 16, 2022, in Sunday Independent
Having read the article ‘Let’s help to defuse a nuclear war’ by Kevin Martin published on Oct 16, 2022, on IOL website, we were filled with desire to help the author do so and propose that we...
Letter to editor of The Citizen (26 October 2022)
We couldn’t but take note of two publications in The Citizen’s ‘World’ section of Oct 19, 2022. One of them, the AFP-authored piece tells the readership of yet another ‘blatant human...
On the situation with students from Mpumalanga studying in Russia
We took note of the yesterday’s material “MP Education Dept vows to assist students” on the eNCA official website. Providing no reference to the sources, the author claims Russia is ‘threatening...
Russian Embassy's reply to the article 'With broken arms and Airbnb, draft-dodging Google-eyed Russians give a pacifist new hope' by Hans Mackenzie Main published on Daily Maverick on Oct 6, 2022
We couldn’t but take note of Mr. Hans Mackenzie Main’s article “With broken arms and Airbnb, draft-dodging Google-eyed Russians give a pacifist new hope” published by Daily Maverick on 6...
Russian Embassy's reply to the article 'Did Cuban missile crisis delay the inevitable?' by James Cunningham published in Business Day on Sept 23, 2022
It was with surprise that we read a piece of opinion by James Cunningham in Business Day of 23 Sept – primarily because that contribution’s poor level obviously fails to meet the status of a...
Letter to editor of The Citizen (Aug 4, 2022)
We took a note of several publications in The Citizen claiming Russia is manipulating or even blackmailing Europe due to its energy dependency on our country. Indeed, Europeans are ready to...
Embassy's reply to the article ‘Russia has lost it, so SA should realign’ by Steven Quo (Business Day, June 30, 2022)
The Russian Embassy took note of Mr. Steven Kuo’s article ‘Russia has lost it, so SA should realign’ published in Business Day on 30 June. We would like to point out the most ridiculous of...
Embassy's reply to the article “Russia’s war ‘costing SA billions’" by Bobby Jordan (Sunday Times, June 26, 2022)
We took note of Bobby Jordan’s article “Russia’s war ‘costing SA billions’" in Sunday Times of June 26, 2022. We regret that in his unfounded allegations the author refers to political...
