Over 11 weeks of NATO’s "military operation" against Yugoslavia, 3'000 cruise missiles were fired, and 80'000 tonnes of bombs were dropped, including cluster munitions and depleted uranium munitions, were dropped on the sovereign European republic.
Serbian authorities estimate that approximately 2'500 people, including 89 children, were killed during the barbaric bombardment. Over 12'500 people were injured, and 1'500 settlements were destroyed. According to some sources, the material damage was estimated at between $30 billion and $100 billion.
Using the mocking label of “humanitarian intervention,” NATO targeted primarily civilian sites: residential areas, hospitals, schools, bridges, passenger transport and refugee convoys.
❗️ The US and NATO "military operation" against Belgrade was launched without approval from the UN Security Council, based on unfounded accusations against the authorities of Yugoslavia of conducting "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo, allegedly triggering a humanitarian disaster in the region.
📍2 апреля в Баренцбурге прошли учения по выработке действий в условиях лавинной опасности.
🔺Учения организовала администрация губернатора Шпицбергена с участием международной организации «Красный крест». Подготовка к ним велась с марта: определены место (окрестности Баренцбурга - долина Захариасендален), дата, время, разработан и согласован сценарий.
🔺В учениях принимал участие весь состав гидов и менеджеров ЦАТ «Грумант».
🔺Для прибывшей на место группы гидов была сымитирована ситуация схода лавины. По сценарию, часть представителей норвежской полиции и «Красного креста» находились на месте учений, часть выполняла функции наблюдателей. На одного из сотрудников полиции была возложена роль прибывшего на место происшествия полицейского.
🔺Гидом-проводником силами группы были организованы спасательные работы до прибытия на место норвежских спасателей.
🔺По завершении учений в офисе ЦАТ «Грумант» задействованные в процессе стороны обсудили результаты.
Truth regarding NATO 👉 #Think4Yourself NATO is the main military force of the 'collective West', clinging to its eroding dominance against the backdrop of the emerging multipolar world order.
This so-called “defensive alliance” (which it is absolutely not) is the world's largest military expender, one that drives the arms race and ensures its capability to force on others the 'rule-based order' — another euphemism, which is code for a loose system where the West and the West alone will establish or change any rules at any time at one's whim, if it's to the West.
It is no surprise that NATO stands as the unequivocal global leader in military expenditure.
Annually, the member-states of this “peaceful” (NOT) alliance allocate approximately $1.3 trillion to military needs, accounting for over half of all defence spending worldwide.
❗️ However, the colossal expenditure on “defence” have not yielded additional stability or security for Europe. On the contrary, NATO’s geopolitical expansion eastward resulted in turmoil, military conflicts and the erosion of the European security architecture.
21.03.202516:57
🎙️ КомментарийПосольства России в Норвегии для норвежских СМИ (21 марта 2025 г.)
❓20 марта на пресс-конференции с премьер-министром Норвегии Й.Г.Стёре в Осло Владимир Зеленский заявил, что «в Крыму туризма нет» с момента его воссоединения с Россией, поэтому сейчас «полуостров вымирает». Как вы прокомментируете это заявление?
💬 Ответ: Заявления Владимира Зеленского о якобы отсутствии в Крыму туризма после его воссоединения с Россией не соответствуют действительности. После воссоединения с Россией туристический поток в Крым вырос в 2,5 раза по сравнению с периодом упадка под украинским контролем. В 2021 г. на курортах республики отдохнули около 9,5 млн человек. Несмотря на преступления ВСУ против мирного населения российского полуострова, в т.ч. удар ракетой ATACMS с кассетными боеприпасом по Севастополю 23 июня 2024 г., в результате которого на городском пляже погибло четыре человека, включая двоих детей, в 2024 г. турпоток в Крым составил более 6 млн туристов, что на 16% больше, чем за 2023 г. Такой рост стал возможен благодаря интенсивному строительству и модернизации рекреационных объектов и транспортной инфраструктуры, в т.ч. открытию в 2018 г. нового терминала аэропорта Симферополя и Крымского моста, соединившего полуостров с материковой частью России. Финансирование дорожной отрасли выросло по сравнению с 2014 г. более чем в семь раз, что позволило не только построить новые трассы, такие как «Таврида», но и отремонтировать порядка 4,5 тыс. км автодорог. После интеграции Крыма в экономическое пространство России значительно улучшилось и социально-экономическое положение жителей региона. Валовой региональный продукт (ВРП) Крыма увеличился более чем в три раза: с 189,4 млрд. рублей в 2014 г. до 768 млрд. рублей. Уровень безработицы снизился в три раза до 2,6% в 2024 г. Количество субъектов малого и среднего предпринимательства выросло до 242 тыс., обеспечивая около 35% ВРП региона, несмотря на санкционное давление. Около 350 млрд рублей с 2014 г. вложено в развитие системы здравоохранения региона. Открыто множество медицинских учреждений, включая кардиологические и онкологические центры. Средняя продолжительность жизни увеличилась до 72,3 лет. Введено более 150 новых детских садов, реконструированы школы.
👆Таким образом, за последние годы Крым превратился в регион с развивающейся экономикой, улучшенной инфраструктурой и социальной сферой.
16.04.202514:54
Фотовыставка ТАСС #ИхПодвигБессмертен, приуроченная к 80-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне, рассказывает о последних месяцах войны: от ожесточённых боёв под Веной — до триумфа 9 Мая.
📸 Архивные фото, военные сводки, плакаты #ОкнаТАСС передают атмосферу решающей весны 1945 года.
💬Из выступления Министра иностранных дел России Сергея Лаврова:
Когда мы говорим о Великой Победе, мы вспоминаем ратные подвиги советских воинов, спасших мир от ужасов «коричневой чумы». Свой вклад в общее дело разгрома врага внёс и «информационный фронт». Корреспонденты ТАСС, ежедневно рискуя жизнью, мужественно вели летопись всех 1418 дней войны.
Из сводки от 9 мая 1945 года о капитуляции нацистской Германии:
8 мая 1945 года в Берлине представителями германского верховного командования подписан акт о безоговорочной капитуляции германских вооружённых сил. Великая Отечественная война, которую вёл советский народ против немецко-фашистских захватчиков, победоносно завершена, Германия полностью разгромлена. Вечная слава героям, павшим в боях за свободу и независимость нашей Родины! Да здравствуют победоносные Красная армия и Военно-морской флот!
Synopsis: During the Great Patriotic War Soviet Belarus, a part of the USSR, was under Nazi occupation from 1941 to 1944.
The fraternal Belarusian people, among the first to confront the Nazi invasion in June 1941, endured immense suffering and hardship. After seizing the territory of the Byelorussian SSR, the Hitlerites imposed a brutal and oppressive occupation regime.
🕯 The Nazis killed people of all nationalities through punitive operations, ghettos, and encircling concentration camps. During the Great Patriotic War, one in every three people in Belarus died.
But the citizens of the Soviet Union endured all the horrors of war and never lost faith in Victory. The resistance movement in Belarus was one of the largest. Even children and teenagers joined the partisans to fight for their homeland.
The occupation ended in 1944, when the Red Army, together with the partisans, launched Operation Bagration — the largest military operation in history. As a result of their combined efforts, Belarus was liberated.
📺 In this documentary, the filmmakers spoke to representatives from the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Belarus, leading experts, frontline veterans, home front workers, and descendants of the heroes who defended the Brest Fortress.
Historians featured in the film shed light on the Nazi war crimes committed on Belarusian soil and highlight the courage and sacrifice of the Soviet soldiers who liberated Belarus from occupation.
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a ceremony for opening the "Anniversary Year: From Mexico to Argentina" exhibition marking anniversaries of Russia’s diplomatic relations with several Latin American and Caribbean countries (Moscow, April 15, 2025)
💬 Sergey Lavrov: This year marks anniversaries of Russia’s diplomatic relations with a number of Latin American countries:
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Argentina (140 years), Mexico (135 years), Colombia (90 years), Bolivia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, and Ecuador (80 years), and Honduras (35 years). That includes the 65th anniversary of reconstituting diplomatic relations with Cuba.
On this occasion, we have set up an all-encompassing exhibition in our building on Smolenskaya Square. I’m thrilled to welcome you to its opening.
I would like to begin by thanking our colleagues from our Ministry’s Department of History and Records and Department of Latin America. Thank you to the artists from the Creative Union Association for Promoting Culture and Art for their highly professional and creative efforts that made today’s event possible.
In addition to unique documents and photographs that describe the most outstanding events in our country’s relations with Latin America, the items on display here include exhibits that highlight the Latin American continent’s cultural identity.
Our relations go back to the Russian Empire. Many years have passed since then. I am pleased to note that despite changes in our country and around the world, we were able to ensure progress in cooperation with our partners from that region across a variety of areas. The outcomes of our joint work are presented at this exhibition.
We have always held in high regard the Latin American peoples’ aspirations to preserve their own civilisational identity, to acquire and strengthen genuine sovereignty, and to hold their future in their own hands. During the former Spanish colonies’ war of independence, the Russian Empire firmly adhered to the principle of non-interference.
Today, our country consistently advocates a greater role for the Latin American countries and integration associations in the emerging multipolar world order that is more equitable.
🤝 Just like our Latin American friends, we are firmly committed to democratising country-to-country relations and building them on the principles of international law, primarily the UN Charter, which enshrines the principle of the sovereign equality of states.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II and related 80th anniversary of the United Nations. We will all celebrate these dates. A portion of the exhibition is dedicated to the Latin American and Caribbean States’ contribution to defeating Nazism. For example, the Brazilian Expeditionary Corps fought battles against German and Italian troops. The 201st Squadron of the Mexican Air Force, aka Aztec Eagles, fought in the Pacific theatre against Japan in 1945. People from many Latin American countries participated in the movement of solidarity with the Soviet Union and provided all kinds of help and assistance.
🌐 I would like to take this opportunity to once again express gratitude to our Latin American friends for standing with us on multilateral venues when it comes to the initiatives on combatting glorification of Nazism and falsification of history, and unacceptability, in general, of revising the outcomes of the Second World War and Great Victory. <...>
Russia-Latin America relations are steeped in a pragmatic, mutually beneficial, and ideology-free basis and boast an immense potential. We stand ready to work as a team to expand them in politics, trade and investment, scientific and technological research, culture, education, sports, and all other spheres.
☝️ The long-standing traditions of friendship, trust and mutual affection that bring our peoples together are the most important building blocks of success.
💬Vladimir Putin:Russia is the largest Arctic power.
We have consistently advocated for equitable cooperation in the region, encompassing scientific research, biodiversity protection, climate issues, emergencies response, and, of course, the economic and industrial development of the Arctic. We are prepared to collaborate not only with Arctic states but with all who, like us, share responsibility for ensuring a stable and sustainable future for the planet and are capable of adopting balanced decisions for decades to come. <...>
The role and importance of the Arctic for Russia and for the entire world are obviously growing. Regrettably, the geopolitical competition and fighting for positions in this region are also escalating. <...>
As to Greenland, this is an issue that concerns two specific nations and has nothing to do with us. But at the same time, of course, we are concerned about the fact that NATO countries are increasingly often designating the Far North as a springboard for possible conflictsandare practicing the use of troops in these conditions, including by their “new recruits” – Finland and Sweden, with whom, incidentally, until recently we had no problems at all. <...>
Russia has never threatened anyone in the Arctic. However, we are closely monitoring developments in the region, formulating an appropriate response strategy, enhancing the combat capabilities of the Armed Forces, and modernising military infrastructure facilities.
☝️ We will not tolerate any encroachments on our country’s sovereignty and will steadfastly safeguard our national interests. By upholding peace and stability in the Arctic region, we will ensure its long-term socio-economic development, improve the quality of life for its residents, and preserve its unique natural environment.
Key points:
• Over the past decade, cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route – spanning from the Kara Gates Strait to the Bering Strait – has substantially increased. In 2014, a mere four million tonnes of cargo were transported via this corridor. By last year, that figure had risen to nearly 38 million tonnes – five times the Soviet-era record.
• The Northern Sea Route is poised to become a pivotal segment of the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor, stretching from St Petersburg through Murmansk to Vladivostok.
• Cargo shipments along the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor are set to increase on the back of growing minerals production and the advancedprocessing of these resources right here in the Arctic, and due to rising international transits.
• Russia already operates the world’s biggest icebreaker fleet. We must consolidate our leadership in this sector by building new-generation icebreakers, including nuclear icebreakers. Today, only Russia has them – no other country has a nuclear icebreaker fleet.
• Plans are in place to increase the capacity and turnover of our northern ports through the introduction of innovative and environmentally friendly solutions, including unmanned and automated cargo handling equipment. <...> I would like to add that our partners from Belarus, China, the United Arab Emirates and other countries are showing keen interest in [the Murmansk transport hub] and in the development of the Arctic transport infrastructure in general.
• The regions of Siberia, the Urals, and Russia’s North-West will receive direct access to the North, to the Arctic ports, which will lessen the load on the Trans-Siberian Railway and promote effective use of sea transport. In addition, there will be new points of access to the Arctic from the North-South corridor, which connects us with Central Asia and the Gulf states.
12 апреля 2025 г. в честь Дня космонавтики российские соотечественники возложили цветы к памятнику первому космонавту Ю.А.Гагарину (г.Берген).
12. april 2025 i forbindelse med Den internasjonale romfartsdagen nedla russiske landsfolk blomster til minnesmerket for den første kosmonauten Jury Gagarin (Bergen).
🏒🔥 Планета поздравляет Александра Овечкина с рекордом!
Вечером 6 апреля 2025 года по всему миру одновременно раздались миллионы голосов — от США до Японии, от Канады до Афганистана — отовсюду зазвучали поздравления в адрес великого русского хоккеиста Александра МихайловичаОвечкина, забросившего 895-ю шайбу в регулярных чемпионатах НХЛ и побивший считавшийся «вечным» рекорд. Теперь новый рекорд наш!
С историческим событием спортсмена поздравил Президент России Владимир Путин: Без сомнения, и нынешнее достижение стало не только Вашим личным успехом, но и настоящим праздником для болельщиков в России и за её пределами. Российского хоккеиста поздравили все клубы Национальной Хоккейной Лиги и представители других видов спорта — сборная России по футболу, звезды мирового баскетбола Майкл Джордан и Леброн Джеймс, теннисист Роджер Федерер и другие.
#See4Yourself #Think4Yourself “Not an Inch Eastward” they said... – what the West promised and what the West did in a nutshell.
To put things in perspective, here's NATO’s expansion over the years. This “defensive” alliance has undergone ten waves of enlargement (or if speaking plainly – ten waves of constant expansion), seven of which occurred after the dissolution of the USSR.
Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has incorporated the following countries, building up their aggressive military potential, sowing anti-Russian sentiment and foisting its confrontational mindset on new and old members alike:
As of now, the alliance comprises 32 members. On NATO’s so-called Eastern flank, for decades there has been an active buildup of military capabilities.
As a result, the militarization of Europe is unleashed and out of control, with the security architecture and balance that kept the region relatively safe is being dismantled.
📺 NATO aggression against Yugoslavia of 1999 in a nutshell.
👉 Detailed recap of the atrocities by the North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation and its member-states. #NeverForget
02.04.202513:00
🇷🇺🇳🇴 26. mars arrangerte Russlands ambassade i Norge et tematisk møte med norske skoleelever om nyere historie, spesielt historien om den kalde krigen.
🎥 Som en del av møtet ble den russiske dokumentarfilmen «Cubakrisen. Etterord» vist til gjester, og deretter besvarte ambassadens ansatte en rekke spørsmål fra norske ungdommer som viste stor interesse for dette temaet.
♦️ Vi vil gjerne rette en spesiell takk til Det russiske historiske samfunn og Det russiske statsarkivet for nyere historie for det formidlede materialet, samt til filmens produsent og manusforfatter, TV-dokumentarfilmskaperen Natalia Spiridonova, for hennes store bidrag til å forberede filmvisningen for det norske publikummet.
⚡️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces Easter ceasefire
During a meeting at the Kremlin with the Chief of the General Staff of Russia's Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov President Vladimir Putin declared that the Russian Side is ceasing all military action starting April 19, 06:00 pm MSK to April 21, 00:00 am MSK
💬 President Putin: Guided by humanitarian motives, the Russian Side announces an Easter ceasefire from 06:00 pm today to 00:00 am Monday. I hereby order all military operations ceased for this period. We assume that the Ukrainian Side will follow our example. At the same time, our forces should be prepared to repel possible ceasefire violations and provocations by the enemy, as well as any aggressive acts on their part.
🇷🇺🇧🇾 On April 2, the peoples of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus celebrate their Day of Unity.
✍️ #OTD in 1996, they signed a treaty on the formation of the Community of Russia and Belarus, which served as the first step towards the creation of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.
The Treaty on the Union of Russia and Belarus came into force a year later, and on December 8, 1999, the Treaty on the Creation of the Union State was signed.
🤝 Today, the Union State implements programmes in industry, energy and IT, to name a few. Trade between Russia and Belarus grows at record high rates every year, given the considerable degree of mutual complementarity of their economies.
💬 President Vladimir Putin:
We have been working together to build the Union State for almost 25 years. Along this path, we have managed to achieve a great deal. Thanks to the successful implementation of 28 sectoral Union programmes, Russian and Belarusian legislation was harmonised, the legal and organisational foundations for a common economic space formed, and conditions created for the implementation of a unified macroeconomic and monetary policy, and for joint work to minimise damage from illegal Western restrictions.
☝️ The Unity Day of the Peoples of Russia and Belarus confirms the cohesion of the two fraternal peoples and their striving to continue strengthening their interaction based on the centuries-old traditions of friendship and close cultural and spiritual ties.
🎊 We congratulate our Belarusian friends on a holiday that is a symbol of unbreakable ties of brotherly friendship between our countries and peoples!
Көбірек мүмкіндіктерді ашу үшін кіріңіз.
"Посольство России в Норвегии - Russlands Ambassade i Norge" тобындағы соңғы жазбалар
⚡️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces Easter ceasefire
During a meeting at the Kremlin with the Chief of the General Staff of Russia's Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov President Vladimir Putin declared that the Russian Side is ceasing all military action starting April 19, 06:00 pm MSK to April 21, 00:00 am MSK
💬 President Putin: Guided by humanitarian motives, the Russian Side announces an Easter ceasefire from 06:00 pm today to 00:00 am Monday. I hereby order all military operations ceased for this period. We assume that the Ukrainian Side will follow our example. At the same time, our forces should be prepared to repel possible ceasefire violations and provocations by the enemy, as well as any aggressive acts on their part.
Synopsis: During the Great Patriotic War Soviet Belarus, a part of the USSR, was under Nazi occupation from 1941 to 1944.
The fraternal Belarusian people, among the first to confront the Nazi invasion in June 1941, endured immense suffering and hardship. After seizing the territory of the Byelorussian SSR, the Hitlerites imposed a brutal and oppressive occupation regime.
🕯 The Nazis killed people of all nationalities through punitive operations, ghettos, and encircling concentration camps. During the Great Patriotic War, one in every three people in Belarus died.
But the citizens of the Soviet Union endured all the horrors of war and never lost faith in Victory. The resistance movement in Belarus was one of the largest. Even children and teenagers joined the partisans to fight for their homeland.
The occupation ended in 1944, when the Red Army, together with the partisans, launched Operation Bagration — the largest military operation in history. As a result of their combined efforts, Belarus was liberated.
📺 In this documentary, the filmmakers spoke to representatives from the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Belarus, leading experts, frontline veterans, home front workers, and descendants of the heroes who defended the Brest Fortress.
Historians featured in the film shed light on the Nazi war crimes committed on Belarusian soil and highlight the courage and sacrifice of the Soviet soldiers who liberated Belarus from occupation.
#Victory80
17.04.202516:11
🇷🇺 Discover Russia 2025
🇷🇺 The Discover Russia outreach program is an opportunity for young people from different countries to visit Moscow and participate in an intensive 5-day outreach program that includes interactive sessions, sightseeing tours, creative workshops and meetings with Russian youth activists.
The goal of the Discover Russia program is to show Russia to foreign youth and establish dialogue, friendship and professional ties between Russian and foreign youth.
⚠️Expenses for accommodation, meals, transfer to Moscow and back, visa fee are covered by the host party.
Application requirements:
🔵 Foreign citizens aged 18 to 35 are eligible to participate in the competitive selection
🔵To participate, applicants must register on the program's website, submit an application and complete a mandatory online interview
🔵 Applicants must be fluent in English and should not have visited Russia in the past.
• Restoring our dialogue with President of the United States Donald Trump is a natural step. Importantly, both Sides are willing to move in this direction despite the many challenges and the divergence of our national interests on several, if not most of the international matters. We need to hold meetings and treat each other as well-educated and polite people by listening and hearing each other.
• The sincere desire to transition to normality shown by President Donald Trump is met with resistance after recent political upheavals that have rocked the Washington-based elites. They are preparing some moves behind the scenes, using their lobbies and the media. Their aim is to prevent President Donald Trump from mending relations with Russia and putting them back on track as they should be between two great powers and between all countries, for that matter.
#NATO #Ukraine • International humanitarian law explicitly prohibits placement of military facilities and weapons in or around civilian sites.
• Since the onset of the [Ukrainian] crisis, there have been countless instances of artillery and air defence systems deployed in [Ukrainian] city quarters next to kindergartens. The internet was full of videos showing Ukrainian women yelling at the military telling them to leave retail outlets and playgrounds, but they keep doing so to this day.
• We have verified information about who was inside the building that was struck in Sumy. It was yet another gathering of Ukrainian military commanders alongside their Western counterparts operating under the guise of mercenaries, or someone else.
• NATO military personnel are there and are directly in charge of the operations. Everyone is aware of that. Even The New York Times has reported that U.S. military staff have played a central role in orchestrating attacks on Russia from the outset. Without their involvement, the vast majority of long-range missile strikes would never have happened.
• President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that the decision by the Joe Biden administration to drag Ukraine into NATO was a major mistake. Among other things, it served as a trigger, or one of the triggers, in terms of what is happening today in Ukraine. President Trump has recognised in public several times that he viewed this as one of the root causes.
#UkraineCrisis
• Speaking at the Russia's Foreign Ministry on June 14, 2024, President Vladimir Putin laid out a clear framework for a lasting, reliable and just settlement [of the Ukraine crisis] which would primarily focus on fulfilling the interests of the people and ensuring that human rights are respected <...> as per the UN Charter.
• For us the future of the people is what matters most, and saying the territorial integrity of Ukraine cannot be violated means letting Russians, the Russian-speaking people who escaped from the Nazi regime end up at the mercy of these beasts.
• All peacekeeping “arrangements” painted by “macrons” and “starmers” seek to preserve at least a small piece of land as home to the blatantly Nazi and Russophobic regime designed to be used for preparing another war against Russia. This poses a major challenge for the West’s reputation and credibility.
16.04.202514:54
Фотовыставка ТАСС #ИхПодвигБессмертен, приуроченная к 80-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне, рассказывает о последних месяцах войны: от ожесточённых боёв под Веной — до триумфа 9 Мая.
📸 Архивные фото, военные сводки, плакаты #ОкнаТАСС передают атмосферу решающей весны 1945 года.
💬Из выступления Министра иностранных дел России Сергея Лаврова:
Когда мы говорим о Великой Победе, мы вспоминаем ратные подвиги советских воинов, спасших мир от ужасов «коричневой чумы». Свой вклад в общее дело разгрома врага внёс и «информационный фронт». Корреспонденты ТАСС, ежедневно рискуя жизнью, мужественно вели летопись всех 1418 дней войны.
Из сводки от 9 мая 1945 года о капитуляции нацистской Германии:
8 мая 1945 года в Берлине представителями германского верховного командования подписан акт о безоговорочной капитуляции германских вооружённых сил. Великая Отечественная война, которую вёл советский народ против немецко-фашистских захватчиков, победоносно завершена, Германия полностью разгромлена. Вечная слава героям, павшим в боях за свободу и независимость нашей Родины! Да здравствуют победоносные Красная армия и Военно-морской флот!
🎙 Address of Federation Council of Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to parliaments of foreign countries and peoples of the world on unacceptability of distorting the history of the Second World War and rehabilitating Nazism
💬 May 9, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of historic victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. The war unleashed by Nazi Germany and its satellites claimed the lives of 27 million Soviet citizens. Millions of people became prisoners of Nazi death camps, lost their homes, and were deported for forced labour to Germany and other countries under its control.
The Great Victory was achieved through the unwavering determination and bravery of the Soviet people and their strong resolve to defeat Nazism which presented a threat to humanity. The Allies of the Soviet Union made an important contribution to defeating the Third Reich.
The International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg Tribunal) brought before court and handed down sentences to the main war criminals of the European Axis countries. It held the Nazi regime leaders accountable for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, among others. The facts of banishment and extermination of the Soviet civilian population by Nazis and their accomplices, which was established in the verdict handed down by the Nuremberg Tribunal, must be regarded as genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union.
Thanks to victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over Nazism, proper conditions for forming a modern system of international relations were created, and the United Nations Organisation (UN) was established.
The international law principles recognised by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and expressed in the verdict passed by the Nuremberg Tribunal were confirmed by UN General Assembly Resolution 95(I) of December 11, 1946.
The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation supports the annual adoption by the UN General Assembly of the resolution titled «Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance», as well as Resolution 79/272 of March 4, 2025 titled «Eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War», co-sponsored by 54 countries.
The Russian Federation senators express their concern about the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to include non-aligned European countries, the militarisation of the European Union, and the support it accords to the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine. Europe was the starting point of both world wars. For this reason, it bears a unique responsibility to humanity in preventing another global conflict.
☝️ Denying the Soviet Union’s decisive role in Victory of the Anti-hitlerite Coalition over the Nazi Germany and its satellites, glorifying Nazi criminals and their accomplices, and demolishing and desecrating monuments to Soviet liberator soldiers are all immoral and blasphemous acts.
The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation calls on the parliaments of foreign countries and the peoples of the world to counter any attempts to falsify history, to rehabilitate or glorify Nazism, fascism, or militarism, to condemn the encouragement of the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine and the incitement of another world war, and to demand that those who dishonour the memory of the liberator soldiers and those who fought against Nazism be brought to justice.
❗️Only our joint efforts can protect the truth about the Second World War, counter the rise of neo-Nazism, and avert the recurrence of brutal crimes against humanity.
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a ceremony for opening the "Anniversary Year: From Mexico to Argentina" exhibition marking anniversaries of Russia’s diplomatic relations with several Latin American and Caribbean countries (Moscow, April 15, 2025)
💬 Sergey Lavrov: This year marks anniversaries of Russia’s diplomatic relations with a number of Latin American countries:
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Argentina (140 years), Mexico (135 years), Colombia (90 years), Bolivia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, and Ecuador (80 years), and Honduras (35 years). That includes the 65th anniversary of reconstituting diplomatic relations with Cuba.
On this occasion, we have set up an all-encompassing exhibition in our building on Smolenskaya Square. I’m thrilled to welcome you to its opening.
I would like to begin by thanking our colleagues from our Ministry’s Department of History and Records and Department of Latin America. Thank you to the artists from the Creative Union Association for Promoting Culture and Art for their highly professional and creative efforts that made today’s event possible.
In addition to unique documents and photographs that describe the most outstanding events in our country’s relations with Latin America, the items on display here include exhibits that highlight the Latin American continent’s cultural identity.
Our relations go back to the Russian Empire. Many years have passed since then. I am pleased to note that despite changes in our country and around the world, we were able to ensure progress in cooperation with our partners from that region across a variety of areas. The outcomes of our joint work are presented at this exhibition.
We have always held in high regard the Latin American peoples’ aspirations to preserve their own civilisational identity, to acquire and strengthen genuine sovereignty, and to hold their future in their own hands. During the former Spanish colonies’ war of independence, the Russian Empire firmly adhered to the principle of non-interference.
Today, our country consistently advocates a greater role for the Latin American countries and integration associations in the emerging multipolar world order that is more equitable.
🤝 Just like our Latin American friends, we are firmly committed to democratising country-to-country relations and building them on the principles of international law, primarily the UN Charter, which enshrines the principle of the sovereign equality of states.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II and related 80th anniversary of the United Nations. We will all celebrate these dates. A portion of the exhibition is dedicated to the Latin American and Caribbean States’ contribution to defeating Nazism. For example, the Brazilian Expeditionary Corps fought battles against German and Italian troops. The 201st Squadron of the Mexican Air Force, aka Aztec Eagles, fought in the Pacific theatre against Japan in 1945. People from many Latin American countries participated in the movement of solidarity with the Soviet Union and provided all kinds of help and assistance.
🌐 I would like to take this opportunity to once again express gratitude to our Latin American friends for standing with us on multilateral venues when it comes to the initiatives on combatting glorification of Nazism and falsification of history, and unacceptability, in general, of revising the outcomes of the Second World War and Great Victory. <...>
Russia-Latin America relations are steeped in a pragmatic, mutually beneficial, and ideology-free basis and boast an immense potential. We stand ready to work as a team to expand them in politics, trade and investment, scientific and technological research, culture, education, sports, and all other spheres.
☝️ The long-standing traditions of friendship, trust and mutual affection that bring our peoples together are the most important building blocks of success.
16.04.202514:47
📰 Highlights from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with Kommersant
• The Europeans have literally gone mad in their frenzy [over Ukraine], especially the leaders of France, Britain, the Baltic states and several other EU and NATO countries. Unlike them, Donald Trump's administration has tried to get to the bottom of this issue and understand its root causes, which go back to what Washington and Brussels did to bring the current regime to power by staging and sponsoring an anti-constitutional government coup in February 2014.
• It is an uphill struggle to get Russia-US relations out of the deep hole they are currently in after three years of free fall. This is especially true given that the sincere desire of President Trump and his team to return to normality is beginning to meet resistance after the shock that has shaken the Washington-based elites (both Democrats and some Republicans).
• There is no such thing as globalisation in the world economy anymore. It has been destroyed. It was not Donald Trump who did it, but Joe Biden, by imposing sanctions and using them as his one and only foreign policy tool. More than half the countries in the world are facing sanctions and various restrictions.
• Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are obsessed with this idea of peacekeepers and are busy cobbling together a "coalition of the willing". But most of the EU and NATO countries aren't so enthusiastic. They say a line of contact is a good thing. Ending the conflict is the most important thing. But they are still leaving the political solution for later.
• All of the "peacekeeping arrangements" promoted by Macron and Starmer are designed to preserve at least a small piece of land as the home of the blatantly Russophobic regime, which will be used to prepare another war against Russia. This is a major challenge to the West's reputation and credibility.
🇺🇳🇷🇺 14 апреля в штаб-квартире ООН в Нью-Йорке состоялось открытие фотовыставки «В сердце Полярного круга», приуроченной к 80-летию атомной промышленности России. Организатором мероприятия выступила Росмолодёжь и Дирекция Всемирного фестиваля молодёжи совместно с государственной корпорацией по атомной энергии «Росатом».
Выставка проходит при содействии Постоянного представительства Российской Федерации при ООН на полях Молодежного форума Экономического и Социального Совета ООН, в котором принимают участие представители разных сфер молодёжной политики России. На церемонии открытия выступил Заместитель Постоянного представителя России при ООН Д.С.Чумаков.
💬 Д.С.Чумаков: «Пока в ООН призывают расширить участие молодежи в принятии ответственных решений, мы в России это уже делаем. Рады приветствовать нашу представительную делегацию под руководством «Росмолодежи», которая поделится с иностранными друзьями своим опытом и познакомится с опытом других».
📸 Снимки, представленные на выставке, сделаны участниками арктических экспедиций Росатома «Ледокол знаний», которые объединяют студентов, молодых ученых и специалистов со всего мира. Экспедиция 2024 года стала особенно масштабной. В ней приняли участие молодые люди из 15 стран, они на атомоходе достигли Северного полюса и установили там флаги своих стран.
❗️Посетители ООН увидят уникальные кадры работы арктического ледокола, узнают о жизни участников экспедиций и насладятся захватывающей дух красотой арктических пейзажей.
• The Northern Sea Route is one of the most promising, safe, short and economically advantageous sea corridors in the world. The demand for the NSR for global trade is growing. Cargo traffic is steadily increasing, which last year totalled 37.9 million tonnes. Transit along the NSR has increased by 44% - shippers have started to redirect some cargo to Asia via the NSR.
• Developing the Arctic's mineral resource potential is one of our key priorities and it requires an integrated approach. This includes both facilities at the fields and the entire network of logistics chains including offshore and onnshore transportation, and supply infrastructure.
• Russia is ready to work together not only with the Arctic states, but with all those who are interested in the sustainable and peaceful development of the region and focus on the long-term perspective.
• The main consequence of the selective approach of some states to the international law, including the issue of expanding the outer limits of the continental shelf, is the growing uncertainty and destabilizing of the region, which will affect the prospects for economic activity.
• The fact that seven out of eight Arctic states are members of NATO indicates that the «security formula» in high latitudes is becoming increasingly complicated. The Arctic countries are currently in a difficult situation, facing challenges in the areas of security, climate, frozen scientific cooperation, and the consequences of crises in other regions. The only thing that NATO's presence in the region contributes to is further escalation of tensions.
• Asia is the driver of global economic growth. China and India account for a significant share of global GDP. It is natural that these countries think globally and don’t exclude the Arctic from their area of interest.
• Norway is currently following the anti-Russian agenda of Western countries. Given the economic and geographical position of your country as well as taking into account long-term benefits, it is obvious that if Norway acted in its own interests, it would not miss the opportunity to implement joint projects related to the development of the Northern Sea Route. Instead, Norway has set on a course towards confrontation and breaking existing ties.
• The objective picture is that Russia and Norway are doomed to cooperate. Our countries are not just neighbors – as Arctic states, we bear special responsibility for the destiny of the region. Many existing problems in the Arctic can only be solved through joint efforts. Climate change, permafrost degradation, loss of biodiversity, natural or man-made disasters, well-being of Indigenous Peoples require searching for common solutions within the framework of existing intergovernmental formats and for the sake of developing international science.
Glenn Diesen is a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, contributor to the Valdai Discussion Club, and editor of the journal «Russia in Global Affairs».
• Северный морской путь – один из самых перспективных, безопасных, коротких и экономически выгодных морских коридоров в мире. Востребованность СМП для глобальной торговли растет. Стабильно увеличивается грузопоток, который в прошлом году составил 37,9 млн.т. Транзит по Севморпути вырос на 44 % – грузотправители стали перенаправлять часть грузов в Азию через СМП.
• Освоение минерально-сырьевого потенциала Арктики – одна из наших ключевых задач, которая требует комплексного подхода. Речь идет не только об объектах на месторождениях и морских перевозках, но всей сети логистических цепочек, включая наземную и подводящую инфраструктуру.
• Россия готова к совместной работе не только с арктическими государствами, но со всеми, кто заинтересован в стабильном и мирном развитии региона и способен ориентироваться на долгосрочную перспективу.
• Основное последствие избирательного подхода некоторых государств к действующим международным нормам, в т.ч. по вопросу о расширении внешних границ континентального шельфа – рост неопределенности и дестабилизация региона, которая будет сказываться на перспективах экономической деятельности.
• Тот факт, что семь из восьми арктических государств входят в НАТО, говорит о том, что «формула безопасности» в высоких широтах становится все более сложной. Арктические страны находятся в непростой ситуации, сталкиваясь с вызовами в сфере безопасности, климата, остановкой полноценной научной кооперации, последствиями кризисов в других регионах. В такой ситуации единственное, чему способствует присутствие НАТО в регионе, это дальнейшая эскалация напряженности.
• Регион Азии – это драйвер мирового экономического роста. Китай и Индия обеспечивают значительную долю мирового ВВП. Закономерно, что эти страны мыслят в глобальных масштабах, не исключая Арктику из зоны своих интересов.
• Сейчас Норвегия следует в русле антироссийских установок западных стран. Учитывая экономическое и географическое положение Норвегии, понимание долгосрочных выгод, очевидно, что если бы Осло действовал в своих интересах, то не стал бы упускать возможности реализации совместных проектов, связанных с развитием Севморпути. Вместо это взят курс на конфронтацию и обрыв связей.
• Объективная картина такова, что Россия и Норвегия «обречены» на сотрудничество. Наши страны не просто соседи – будучи арктическими государствами мы несем особую ответственность за судьбу региона. Многие задачи в Арктике возможно решить только совместными усилиями. Изменение климата, деградация вечной мерзлоты, тематика биоразнообразия, чрезвычайные ситуации природного или техногенного характера и другие вопросы требуют поиска общих решений в рамках действующих межправительственных форматов и в т.ч. в интересах развития мировой науки.
Г.Дисен – профессор Университета Юго-Восточной Норвегии, участник дискуссионного клуба «Валдай», редактор журнала «Россия в глобальной политике».
The Kiev regime cynically continues daily attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure despite its own vows to support the 30-day moratorium on firing at energy facilities, which was coordinated by the Presidents of Russia and the United States on March 18.
Russia, in this context, strictly observes the ban on such attacks.
Between April 4 and 7, the AFU launched 32 assaults on energy facilities in Russian regions.
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A priest from Sudzha told journalists that Ukrainian soldiers had sold “tickets for plundering the Sudzha District” to residents in the Sumy Region of Ukraine.
On presenting this “marauding ticket” at a Ukrainian checkpoint, they got a permission to drive to occupied settlements, where these hunters for other people’s property picked up houses for plunder. They plundered whatever they could carry away.
#Europe #Militarisation
On April 3-4, NATO foreign ministers gathered in Brussels showing once again that NATO is relentless in its efforts to militarise Europe and to concoct confrontational plans with regard to our country. The alliance continues to believe that Russia remains a long-term threat to it and will remain such after the Ukraine conflict is over.
🤷♀️ As they are getting prepared for an armed conflict with Russia, which NATO officials believe could break out within the next four to five years, NATO countries plan to dramatically increase military spending.
Brussels believes Zelensky’s position will get stronger with the laughable coalition of the willing on his side. The latter is a group of maniacs, the extremely radical part of the alliance’s member states, who are eager to directly participate in the Ukraine conflict on the side of the regime that is led by Bandera followers.
The ringleaders of this group of reckless adventurers — Britain and France — are convening summits and meetings of general staff chiefs, failing to realise that their reckless actions could lead to the largest armed conflict involving nuclear powers ever since World War II.
#EU #sanctions #Russophobia
Brussels assiduously obscures the true cost to the EU of massive anti-Russian sanctions introduced since the start of the special military operation, alongside other ill-considered measures — or conversely, “highly calculated” efforts to dismantle economic ties with our country.
Were one to assess the full extent of the European Union’s lost profit due to its anti-Russian energy stance, the magnitude of the issue would appear overwhelming. Expert estimates suggest that from 2022 to 2024, as a consequence of procuring more costly energy resources over Russian alternatives, the European Union incurred losses of approximately €50-60 billion, exclusive of indirect economic repercussions. Had the energy crisis not materialised – its root cause being the ill-judged manoeuvres of the European Union and the West collectively – and had the EU continued sourcing Russian energy at equitable prices, member states might have realised savings exceeding €500 billion.
This, however, is not the entirety of the predicament. Expert analyses have shown that by 2024, the cumulative GDP losses across EU nations attained 3.8%, with an average decline of 2.4% over the period spanning 2022 to 2024. Altogether, this translates to approximately €1.3 trillion in damages.
Yesterday, the Russian Armed Forces launched two Iskander-M operational-tactical missiles in conditions of heavy electronic warfare countermeasures and foreign-made air defence systems in action to hit the site in Sumy where commanding officers of the Seversk task force had a meeting. More than 60 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been eliminated.
▪️ The Kiev regime continues to use the Ukrainian population as a human shield by deploying military facilities and carrying out activities involving servicemen in the centre of the densely populated city.
#KievRegimeCrimes
14.04.202513:09
🌍 In 2025, Russia hosts the next edition of the Vyzov Prize for Future Technologies.
☝🏻 The award is aimed at recognizing breakthrough ideas and inventions in fundamental and applied science and engineering, as well as encouraging the young generation to connect their lives with science.
5️⃣ The Vyzov Prize has 5 nomination categories: "Breakthrough", "Engineering Solution", "Future", "Scientist of the Year" and the international one — "Discovery".
🤔 Nominations can be submitted in 3 ways: by a colleague — a bona fide scientist, a scientific organization and self-nomination.
🏆 The prize fund in 2025 is 60 million rubles — 12 million rubles for each nomination.
🏅 8️⃣0️⃣ years ago, on April 13, 1945, the Soviet forces liberated the capital of Austria during the #Vienna Offensive.
🌟 By the spring of 1945, the Red Army drove the Nazi invaders out of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia and rapidly launched an offensive towards Germany. The Third Reich’s defeat was only a matter of time: the Soviet forces were preparing to attack Berlin.
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Austria, annexed by the Nazis as a result of anschluss in 1938, served as a shield for the Third Reich’s southern regions during #WWII. The capital of Austria — the city of Vienna — was a strategically important point of the Nazi defence, which the enemy was committed to hold at any cost.
⚔️ In March 1945, during the successful offensive along the Austrian line of advance, the Red Army broke the resistance of the Nazi units deployed between the Danube and Lake Balaton (Hungary) and defeated the troops of the Nazi army group 'South'. Having advanced by that time up to 80 kilometers to Vienna, the Soviet forces launched the operation to liberate the Austrian capital.
The enemy undertook extensive preprations to hold the city. The streets were barricaded and mine-strewn. Firing points were set up in residential buildings. Destroyed houses were used to camouflage tanks and artillery pieces. All bridges over the Danube were prepared by the Nazis for demolition. In the event of retreat, the Nazis were ready to tear down the Austrian capital to the ground, including by destroying (!) itshistorical architectural heritage.
On April 5, 1945, the Soviet forces attacked the Nazi garrison in Vienna. Intense fighting erupted on the city outskirts. The Red Army was confronted by the most prepared enemy units and formations, including SS tank divisions. Soviet soldiers fought to death against the Nazis for every quarter and every building of the city.
With a view to prevent victims among the city's population and protect Vienna from destruction by the Nazis, the Soviet command addressed local residents:
📢 The Red Army entered Austria not to occupy its territory but only to defeat the enemy Nazi troops and liberate the country from German occupation. It also called on the Vienna residents to help fight the Nazis — this call was answered by many Austrian patriots.
On April 13, the last enemy point of resistance in the city centre was crushed, with Vienna being completely liberated from the Nazis.
During the fierce and brutal fighting for Vienna, the Red Army crushed Wehrmacht's 11 armoured divisions, destroyed the 6th SS Tank Army, and captured more than 130,000 enemy soldiers and officers. The Soviet people paid a high price for the liberation of Vienna from the Nazis: 38,000 Red Army soldiers gave their lives for saving the city from fascists.
Having liberated Vienna, our country provided aid to the city residents. The population was supplied with food: hundreds of tonnes of grain, meat, sugar, salt and other products were given to the Austrians. After the war, the people of Vienna recalled how their “fear of hunger had disappeared” and spoke with gratitude about the generosity of the Soviet people, which “exceeded all expectations.”
🎙 An excerpt from the briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (April 9, 2025):
💬 “By acting swiftly and selflessly, the Soviet forces prevented the destruction of Vienna.
It was thanks to the decision by the Soviet command not to use artillery that Vienna has preserved its historical outlook.”
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🌟 A monument to the Soviet soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the sake of the liberation of Austria from Nazism was unveiled on August 19, 1945, on #Schwarzenbergplatz in the centre of Vienna. The country has 217 monuments and war graves on its territory.
Tens of thousands Red Army soldiers, who saved Europe from the Nazi plague, are buried in Austria.
❗️ In 1955, under the State Treaty for the Re-establishment of Independent and Democratic Austria (Art.19), Vienna took the obligations to respect, preserve and maintain the graves of the soldiers on Austrian territory.