🗓 On August 8, the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (#ASEAN) celebrate #ASEANDay.

🌏 #ASEAN was established in Bangkok on August 8, 1967, by Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, which signed the Bangkok Declaration.

The Association was subsequently joined by Brunei (1984), Vietnam (1995), Laos and Myanmar (1997), Cambodia (1999), while in October 2025 Timor-Leste became its 11th full member.

#ASEAN is one of the key pillars of the regional architecture in the Asia-Pacific. A whole system of multilateral mechanisms involving Russia and other leading global powers has developed around the Association – the East Asia Summit (#EAS), the ASEAN Regional Forum (#ARF), the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus (#ADMMPlus) and other formats. Russia actively participates in these mechanisms.

🤝 Developing cooperation with ASEAN is among the priorities of Russia’s foreign policy in Asia. Russia became a full Dialogue Partner of the Association in 1996. In 2017, Russia’s Permanent Mission to ASEAN began operating in Jakarta, and in 2018 Russia-ASEAN relations were elevated to a strategic partnership.

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On June 17-18, 2026, Kazan hosted the anniversary Summit marking 35 years of #RussiaASEAN relations.

During the meeting, the Leaders conducted a comprehensive review of the Russia-ASEAN strategic partnership, outlined new areas of cooperation in the political, economic and humanitarian spheres, and exchanged views on current international and regional issues.

👉 Outcomes of the #RussiaASEAN Anniversary Summit
👉 Kazan Declaration “Russia-ASEAN: Unity in Diversity – 35 Years Together”

💬 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov:

Russia firmly believes that ASEAN is our reliable partner and like-minded ally.

For our part, we consistently support ASEAN’s central role in all regional affairs and contribute to strengthening the system of interstate relations built around the Association, based on the principles of international law, openness, equality and, I would particularly emphasise, due regard for the interests of all participants.

(Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the Russia-ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Manila on July 22, 2026)

#ASEAN59 #RussiaASEAN

🗓 Ежегодно 9 августа во всём мире отмечается Международный день коренных народов мира.

Его празднование было инициировано Организацией Объединённых Наций в 1994 году. Международный день коренных народов способствует привлечению внимания к истокам традиционной культуры, пробуждая интерес и уважение к обычаям народов.

🇺🇳 На сегодняшний день, по оценкам ООН, в мире насчитывается около от 370 до 500 миллионов представителей коренных народов, живущих в 90 странах, что составляет 5-6% жителей планеты. Они являются носителями свыше пяти тысяч уникальных культур и подавляющего большинства языков мира, общее количество которых составляет около семи тысяч.

Для России этот день имеет особое значение, поскольку в нашей стране издревле в мире и согласии проживают представители около двухсот национальностей, говорящие на 270 языках, из них 47 относятся к коренным малочисленным народам.

🇷🇺 Российское законодательство определяет коренные народы объектами особой правовой защиты, носителями коллективных и индивидуальных прав. Уникальное многообразие обычаев, традиций, языков – наше общее бесценное достояние, которое мы оберегаем и развиваем.

В соответствии с Конституцией Российской Федерации, в стране гарантируются права коренных малочисленных народов в соответствии с общепризнанными принципами и нормами международного права и международными договорами Российской Федерации. Государство защищает культурную самобытность всех народов и этнических общностей Российской Федерации, гарантирует сохранение этнокультурного и языкового многообразия.

Необходимость устойчивого экономического, социального и культурного развития коренных малочисленных народов, защиты их исконной среды обитания, традиционного образа жизни, прав и законных интересов трудно переоценить, поэтому поддержка коренных малочисленных народов – приоритетная задача для России, залог укрепления нашего общества перед лицом новых вызовов.

⚡️ О ситуации с правами человека на Украине | Выдержки из третьего Совместного доклада МИД России и МИД Белоруссии.

👉 К настоящему времени совершенно очевидно, что у власти в Киеве находится откровенно нацистский режим, следующий во всем своим идеологическим вдохновителям из нацистской Германии и на этом пути совершающий бесчисленное количество грубейших и систематических нарушений прав человека во всех сферах общественной жизни.

Столь широкие масштабы насаждение ненавистнической идеологии приобрело после кровавого антиконституционного путча 2014 года, когда экстремисты при поддержке стран Запада проникли на все уровни власти в стране. Ведущими силами во всём этом были экстремистские националистические организации, в частности «Правый сектор», «Свобода» и другие националистические организации, которые являются идейными продолжателями украинских националистов, известных своим сотрудничеством с фашистами и массовыми убийствами мирного населения СССР в годы Великой Отечественной войны.

☝️ Прекращение конфликта для такого режима становится равнозначным прекращению его существования.

Действуя в этой парадигме, Киев проводит дискриминационную политику по отношению к русскоязычному населению и представителям национальных меньшинств во всех сферах.

В стране запрещено всё русское – язык, культура, печатная продукция любого характера, СМИ. Образование на русском, его изучение в какой бы то ни было форме также запрещены. Из учебного процесса изъяты литература, учебные и научные материалы на русском языке. Под запретом даже межличностное общение на русском языке в школе.

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Небывалого размаха достигла проблема коррупции. Попытка режима Зеленского помешать расследованию Национального антикоррупционного бюро Украины (НАБУ) и Специализированной антикоррупционной прокуратуры (САП) относительно масштабных хищений в энергетической сфере путем ограничения их полномочий натолкнулась на сопротивление общества и даже на недовольство западных кураторов.

В результате обнародования материалов расследования, подтвердилось, что коррупцией пронизана вся украинская власть, включая ближайшее окружение Зеленского.

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☦️ В настоящее время киевским режимом предпринимаются попытки законодательного запрета деятельности Украинской православной церкви (#УПЦ).

Заметная роль в наступлении на УПЦ отводится организованным группировкам национал-радикалов, осуществляющим рейдерские захваты храмов и имущества канонической церкви. Всё это сопровождается физическим насилием по отношению к её духовенству и прихожанам, осквернением святых мест и иными противоправными действиями, которые остаются безнаказанными.

При попустительстве украинских властей приходы УПЦ становятся целью многочисленных «независимых» мародёров и погромщиков, мотивирующих свои набеги идейной борьбой с «оккупантами» и их «духовными ставленниками».

На священнослужителей канонической УПЦ властями оказывается беспрецедентное давление, в том числе с применением мер репрессивного характера.

По данным СБУ по состоянию на ноябрь 2025 года, с начала СВО открыто более 200 уголовных дел против священников УПЦ, включая 27 митрополитов и архиепископов якобы за сотрудничество с ФСБ России, сбор разведданных, вербовку прихожан и т.п. 78 клириков получили подозрения, 40 – приговорены к реальным срокам, а 19 – лишены украинского гражданства.

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Киевом создаются всё новые списки «врагов Украины». В частности, беспрепятственно продолжает действовать ресурс, открыто нарушающий право на частную жизнь, – получивший скандальную известность сайт «Миротворец».

На нём публикуются собранные нелегальным путем персональные данные украинских и иностранных граждан, в том числе несовершеннолетних, именуемых «сепаратистами» или «врагами Украины», включая репортеров, политиков, деятелей культуры, российских и белорусских дипломатов.

Этот Интернет-ресурс активно используется украинскими спецслужбами и радикальными националистическими структурами для оказания психологического давления на тех, кого они обвиняют в «сепаратизме и измене родине».

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⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:

💬 The August 8 press conference of Aleksandar Vucic and Vladimir Zelensky in Belgrade cast a distinctly brown shadow by Michael Martens, a correspondent for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). His question was: “Can you tell us Europeans what we can concretely do to help you kill more Russians? More Russian soldiers, of course”.

To leave no doubt as to the motives behind the provocation, he later clarified on social media: “It is not scandalous to ask the Ukrainian President how Europe can help Ukraine to kill more Russians. That is what is needed. Outside Barbieworld, this is how wars are fought”.

This German clearly knows how wars are supposed to be fought in the real world and how to “kill Russians”. Martens previously worked, with the support of – or, more accurately, on assignment from – the German Foreign Ministry, as an editor at Russian-German newspapers in Bishkek, Almaty, St Petersburg and Kiev.

☝️ He himself comes from a Nazi family. His grandfather, Hans-Hermann Martens, a member of the NSDAP, was a senior Nazi officer who served on the staff of the Wehrmacht High Command under Alfred Jodl, who was executed following the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is not difficult to imagine what atrocities Hans-Hermann Martens committed under the command of this Nazi criminal.

Like many public figures in today’s Germany, this descendant of Nazi filth has learned to weaponise the brown legacy for his own ends.

Now a word about the technique involved. In 2024, Martens wrote on X: “Before the trip to Wrocław, I had decided not to take part in any political discussions about Israel, should they occur. Being German and being the descendant of an officer in the Wehrmacht command staff in WWII, I thought I should remain silent”.

There you have it – tolerance in action, while morality remains in the concentration camp. Martens is a textbook brown propagandist – peddling xenophobia, dehumanising Russians and legitimising anti-Russian hate speech.

Has anyone in the West condemned the revanchist remarks of this descendant of Nazis? Where are all those celebrated human rights advocates, journalists and humanists who are so quick to react to every supposedly intolerant word and every instance of hate speech?

🤐 Silence. Deafening silence. Because for the supposedly “civilised” world, this Nazi grandson merely said out loud what they all think. He simply called it not “inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia”, but, quite literally, “killing Russians”.

Anyone who shakes his hand now should not be surprised to find a brown stain on theirs.

⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's statement on the terrorist attacks by Ukrainian militants against Belgorod and Nizhnekamsk (August 10, 2026)

💬 On the night of August 8-9, the Kiev neo-Nazis, suffering defeats on the battlefield, once again took their revenge on civilians, launching drone attacks against residential areas of Belgorod. Six civilians were killed. Another 27 were injured, including boys aged four and nine.

Around 30 apartment buildings, social facilities, administrative and commercial buildings, as well as more than 30 vehicles, were damaged.

On the morning of August 10, the neo-Nazi Kiev regime launched drones at residential and industrial buildings in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan. Thirteen people were killed. Another 39 were injured.

▪️ We express our heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed and wish the injured a speedy recovery.

The Russian Investigative Committee has opened criminal cases on charges of terrorism. All those involved will be identified and face inevitable severe punishment or military retribution.

The Kiev regime continues to commit crimes against civilians in other Russian regions on a daily basis, causing casualties among children, women and the elderly.

❗️ These strikes, devoid of any military purpose, are carried out deliberately as acts of terror.

We strongly condemn yet another vile attack by the Ukrainian Banderites.

We call on all reasonable members of the international community, relevant international organisations and independent media to categorically condemn Kiev’s terrorist crimes.

Silence will be regarded as complicity and as encouragement for further attacks against Russian civilians.

💬 Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department for Multilateral Human Rights Cooperation Grigory Lukiyantsev:

🌐 Every year on August 9, the world marks the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. It was first proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1994 to raise awareness of the challenges facing indigenous populations.

Indigenous peoples live in all regions of the world and occupy around 22% of the planet’s land area. They speak the vast majority of the world’s roughly 7,000 languages and represent some 5,000 distinct cultures.

Knowing how much our Western colleagues like to raise the issue of alleged “violations of the rights of indigenous small-numbered peoples” in Russia, I will cite just a few facts from our own human rights dossiers on the countries concerned, illustrating the systemic nature of the problems they themselves face in this area.

• Australia. Out of every 1,000 Aboriginal children, 58 are in state care, compared with just 4.7 among the rest of the population – more than 12 times fewer.

• Denmark. According to statistics, homelessness among Inuit people is five times higher per capita than among ethnic Danes.

• Canada. From the 1890s to the present day, at least 15,000 indigenous women have been subjected to forced sterilisation.

• New Zealand. The indigenous Māori population accounts for a disproportionately high share of suicides, while in psychiatric institutions Māori patients are more frequently subjected to seclusion as a form of punishment and discipline.

• Norway. According to statistics, three out of four Sámi people – who live predominantly in the three northern counties of Finnmark, Troms and Nordland – experience discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, gender and place of residence.

• United States. More than a quarter of representatives of the “First Nations” live below the poverty line, while only 15% hold a bachelor’s degree or higher.

• Finland. Finnish authorities issue permits for geological exploration and quarry development on Sámi lands while disregarding objections from the Sámi community, thereby depriving its members of their traditional habitat.

• Sweden. Citing its commitment to the “green transition”, the country is actively accelerating mineral development without due regard for the preservation of lands traditionally used for reindeer herding, Sámi culture or its international obligations to protect minority rights.

• Japan. Discrimination against the Ainu, who live in the north of the country, and the Ryukyuans, who inhabit the southern islands, continues. Indigenous people face discrimination in employment, education and social welfare.

Even these bare facts show that a number of states which portray themselves as “model democracies” treat their own populations harshly. This concerns not only policies of assimilation and the displacement of indigenous peoples from their traditional lands, but even efforts to forcibly reduce their populations.

🔍 More information on the situation regarding the rights of indigenous peoples in a number of countries are available in the relevant thematic report by the Russian MFA.

#KievRegimeCrimes

⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:

💬 Over the past week, 43 civilians, including four children, were killed as a result of criminal actions by Ukrainian armed forces. Around 420 people were affected in total. Every day, Kiev regime militants fired more than 1,000 munitions of various types at civilian targets across Russia.

The most severe consequences followed a Ukrainian drone strike on a crowded beach in Arkhipo-Osipovka, Krasnodar Region. The Moscow Region also came under massive drone attacks, with strikes on residential areas and an industrial zone in the Chekhov Municipal District resulting in civilian deaths and injuries.

At the same time, systematic strikes on key substations caused rolling power outages in Crimea, a prolonged blackout in the Kherson Region, and prompted the introduction of a technological emergency regime in the Zaporozhye Region due to water supply disruptions.

Attacks on residential areas, industrial and logistics hubs, and infrastructure facilities were recorded in 16 regions located far from the combat zone.

The highest numbers of civilian casualties resulting from Kiev’s attacks were recorded in the Belgorod Region, Krasnodar Region, DPR, Zaporozhye Region, and Kherson Region.

On August 3-9, Ukrainian neo-Nazi shelling affected 419 civilians: 376 people, including 24 children, were injured, while 43 people, including four children, were killed.

Over the seven-day period, Ukrainian militants fired at least 7,061 munitions at civilian targets on Russian territory.

🎙 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s statement on the death of foreign nationals in the terrorist attack by Ukrainian militants on Nizhnekamsk (August 10, 2026)

💬 The terrorist attack by the Kiev regime against civilian sites in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, on August 10 resulted in at least 13 fatalities, most of them foreign nationals.

According to preliminary reports, the victims included eight citizens of Uzbekistan and one citizen of Tajikistan. Approximately 20 foreign nationals were wounded.

The Kiev neo-Nazis deliberately targeted facilities where people from our friendly countries live and work, aiming to drive a wedge between our nations and undermine our brotherly relations.

The terrorist attacks perpetrated by Ukrainian militant have claimed the lives of not only Russian civilians, but also foreign nationals.

▪️ We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims and wish speedy recovery to the wounded.

The Russian Foreign Ministry calls on all members of the international community to condemn the barbaric crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis.

⚡️ Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation:

EU ready to do anything to prevent Russia’s return to international sport

The Press Bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR) reports that, according to information received by the SVR, Europe’s so-called elites are deeply alarmed by the International Olympic Committee’s decision to lift sanctions against the Russian Olympic Committee and Russian athletes.

In Brussels and EU capitals, there is much lamenting that the IOC’s move effectively nullifies years of Western efforts to “isolate” our country from international sport. What has caused particular alarm among Eurobureaucrats, bordering on panic, is the prospect of Russian athletes participating in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles under their national flag and anthem.

In the totalitarian and fascist manner typical of Euro-liberals, they now intend to “punish” the International Olympic Committee itself. The plan is to “hit them in the wallet” by restricting funding for the IOC and other sports organisations that agree to allow Russians to compete.

❗️A fresh push is underway to undermine Russia’s standing as a major sporting power.

Europe’s “undertakers” of the Olympic Movement intend to step up anti-Russian propaganda among countries and sports federations that take a constructive approach towards Moscow, seeking to persuade them to sabotage the IOC’s “apolitical” decision.

The EU has already included Russian sports officials, including Russian Sports Minister and President of the Russian Olympic Committee Mikhail Degtyarev, in its 21st sanctions package. It is also considering visa bans and additional targeted restrictions against an even broader range of Russian athletes and representatives of Russian sports organisations.

Another effective way of “taking the Russians out of the game”, according to the EU, is to stage provocations against members of Russian teams ahead of competitions. This approach was tested in Munich in early July, when police detained members of the Russian team competing at the European Junior Artistic Swimming Championships on suspicion of “espionage”.

The intimidation, however, did not prevent the Russians from confidently topping the tournament’s overall medal table.

👉 It seems Russophobia has so clouded Eurobureaucrats’ judgment that they are ready to sacrifice the Olympic Movement itself. Yet the IOC’s latest decision shows that the global sporting community will not follow the lead of those seeking to bury Pierre de Coubertin’s great legacy.

☢️ Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant (#ZNPP):

On August 11, three people were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in Energodar’s industrial area. Two of them are employees of the electrical grid workshop at the Zaporozhskaya NPP (part of Rosatom).

The employees were en route to restore power to facilities in the industrial area damaged in previous AFU attacks.

ZNPP electrical grid personnel work every day to restore power to Energodar and industrial facilities following Ukrainian strikes. Often working under the threat of renewed attacks, they make every effort to promptly restore electricity to damaged areas.

It was these very people – on their way to restore power supplies – who were targeted.

All those injured were taken to Medical Unit No. 145, where they are receiving all necessary medical care. Unfortunately, one of them is in serious condition.

❗️ The AFU deliberately put Zaporozhskaya NPP personnel at risk as they carry out work vital to the city. They repair damaged infrastructure and maintain power supplies to social and industrial facilities – doing so every day despite the constant threat of attack.

The plant’s personnel continue to perform their professional duties, ensuring the safety and uninterrupted functioning of Energodar.