Russia helping people despite obstacles: envoy

Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander V Mantytskiy has said despite all obstacles imposed by the United States and its allies, his country has helped, are helping, and will continue to help those in need around the world.

"We have and will continue to build factories, schools, hospitals, and universities so that people in the developing countries can use their natural resources to manufacture finished goods with added value instead of exporting raw materials, so that young people would rather stay at home than leave en masse," he said in a letter to editors of print and electronic media outlets, the heads of radio and TV broadcasters in Bangladesh.

The ambassador said Russia has never viewed Africa, Asia or Latin America as a space to draw profit from.

Russia has been paying priority attention to famine and conflict-induced global food insecurity, he said.