🇷🇺 Today Russia marks the Day of the Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation for the first time.
✍️ The new national holiday was established by the Executive Order signed by President Vladimir Putin on 4 November 2025. It is designed to promote the preservation and development of the unique language diversity of our country.
🌏 The date was chosen for a reason: on 8 September we celebrate the birthday of Rasul Gamzatov, a great poet whose work serves as a symbol of intercultural dialogue.
🔠 There are about 100 written languages in the Russian Federation, aside from the Russian language. More than 60 of those are used to create works of fiction.
📚 Since 2016, the Russian Federation has been implementing the Programme for Supporting National Literatures of the Peoples of the Russian Federation under the auspices of the Organising Committee for the Support of Literature, Book Publishing and Reading in the Russian Federation. It covers all the literary languages, as well as more than 10 written languages and 22 dialects and subdialects.
🔗 Detailed information about the Programme is available on the Portal of National Literatures of the Peoples of Russia: www.rus4all.ru.
☝️On today’s occasion, we are pleased to present the information brochure “National Literatures of the Peoples of Russia”.
✍️ The new national holiday was established by the Executive Order signed by President Vladimir Putin on 4 November 2025. It is designed to promote the preservation and development of the unique language diversity of our country.
🌏 The date was chosen for a reason: on 8 September we celebrate the birthday of Rasul Gamzatov, a great poet whose work serves as a symbol of intercultural dialogue.
🔠 There are about 100 written languages in the Russian Federation, aside from the Russian language. More than 60 of those are used to create works of fiction.
📚 Since 2016, the Russian Federation has been implementing the Programme for Supporting National Literatures of the Peoples of the Russian Federation under the auspices of the Organising Committee for the Support of Literature, Book Publishing and Reading in the Russian Federation. It covers all the literary languages, as well as more than 10 written languages and 22 dialects and subdialects.
🔗 Detailed information about the Programme is available on the Portal of National Literatures of the Peoples of Russia: www.rus4all.ru.
☝️On today’s occasion, we are pleased to present the information brochure “National Literatures of the Peoples of Russia”.
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🎙 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question regarding the new EU human rights report (September 7, 2026)
❓ Question: In August, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy released its annual report on human rights and democracy around the world for 2025. What is your assessment of this document?
💬 Maria Zakharova: Yes, we have seen it. And frankly, it is a perfect compilation of all the EU’s favourite clichés and slogans: the usual self-promotion of their supposed role as a “global champion of human rights,” a laundry list of politicised accusations against third countries, alongside intrusive and patronising lecturing.
What’s more, the level of criticism isn’t calibrated to the facts on the ground but is determined solely by how pliant each state is towards Brussels.
A case in point: the section on Ukraine, which is utterly toothless and, in places, almost fawning – this for a country mired in corruption, lawlessness, and neo-Nazi ideology.
It is telling that Brussels no longer even bothers to hide its use of the human rights agenda as a cover for blatant interference in the internal affairs of states that pursue independent policies. They openly admit to funnelling significant funds into “civil society,” media, journalists, and activists in targeted countries with the explicit aim of shaping domestic politics and steering foreign policy choices.
One passage in particular stands out: how the EU frames its own policy towards Russia. In the country-specific section, they unabashedly call it a “wartime approach” – as if that somehow justifies their glaring lies about our country, their double standards, and their willingness to sweep under the rug the EU’s own violations of our citizens’ rights.
❗️ In essence, Brussels is openly declaring that it intends to weaponise human rights as leverage against Russia.
Throughout the report, Brussels once again presumes to speak from a self-appointed moral high ground, casting itself as a “force for good in the world.” These statements look particularly cynical against the backdrop of the EU’s own steadily deteriorating human rights record.
Intolerance is on the rise across the bloc, with racism and hate speech becoming increasingly frequent. European institutions either turn a blind eye to Russophobia, including its most grotesque manifestations – or, worse, actively condone it. The shameful reality of mass statelessness in the Baltics, alongside the systematic denial of education in their native language to local Russian-speaking populations, is a glaring case in point.
For all their outward talk of democracy and the rule of law, inside the EU they are clamping down on dissent through censorship, bans on inconvenient media outlets, and the silencing of political actors who dare to criticise current Brussels policies.
All of this is dressed up as “safeguarding democracy” when, in fact, what they are doing is engineering a more pliable socio-political environment, tightening their grip on the information space and on the will of their own citizens.
For a more accurate picture of the real human rights situation in Europe, including in Ukraine, I would refer you to the joint report published in June by the Russian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries, entitled “Human Rights Situation in Certain Countries.” It is available in English, so that anyone interested, including international audiences, can judge for themselves which document shows genuine concern for human rights.
☝️ And I think we can safely say that the comparison will not reflect well on the opus signed by Kaja Kallas.
❓ Question: In August, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy released its annual report on human rights and democracy around the world for 2025. What is your assessment of this document?
💬 Maria Zakharova: Yes, we have seen it. And frankly, it is a perfect compilation of all the EU’s favourite clichés and slogans: the usual self-promotion of their supposed role as a “global champion of human rights,” a laundry list of politicised accusations against third countries, alongside intrusive and patronising lecturing.
What’s more, the level of criticism isn’t calibrated to the facts on the ground but is determined solely by how pliant each state is towards Brussels.
A case in point: the section on Ukraine, which is utterly toothless and, in places, almost fawning – this for a country mired in corruption, lawlessness, and neo-Nazi ideology.
It is telling that Brussels no longer even bothers to hide its use of the human rights agenda as a cover for blatant interference in the internal affairs of states that pursue independent policies. They openly admit to funnelling significant funds into “civil society,” media, journalists, and activists in targeted countries with the explicit aim of shaping domestic politics and steering foreign policy choices.
One passage in particular stands out: how the EU frames its own policy towards Russia. In the country-specific section, they unabashedly call it a “wartime approach” – as if that somehow justifies their glaring lies about our country, their double standards, and their willingness to sweep under the rug the EU’s own violations of our citizens’ rights.
❗️ In essence, Brussels is openly declaring that it intends to weaponise human rights as leverage against Russia.
Throughout the report, Brussels once again presumes to speak from a self-appointed moral high ground, casting itself as a “force for good in the world.” These statements look particularly cynical against the backdrop of the EU’s own steadily deteriorating human rights record.
Intolerance is on the rise across the bloc, with racism and hate speech becoming increasingly frequent. European institutions either turn a blind eye to Russophobia, including its most grotesque manifestations – or, worse, actively condone it. The shameful reality of mass statelessness in the Baltics, alongside the systematic denial of education in their native language to local Russian-speaking populations, is a glaring case in point.
For all their outward talk of democracy and the rule of law, inside the EU they are clamping down on dissent through censorship, bans on inconvenient media outlets, and the silencing of political actors who dare to criticise current Brussels policies.
All of this is dressed up as “safeguarding democracy” when, in fact, what they are doing is engineering a more pliable socio-political environment, tightening their grip on the information space and on the will of their own citizens.
For a more accurate picture of the real human rights situation in Europe, including in Ukraine, I would refer you to the joint report published in June by the Russian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries, entitled “Human Rights Situation in Certain Countries.” It is available in English, so that anyone interested, including international audiences, can judge for themselves which document shows genuine concern for human rights.
☝️ And I think we can safely say that the comparison will not reflect well on the opus signed by Kaja Kallas.
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#KievRegimeCrimes
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of August 31 - September 6, 2026:
▪️ August 31 – a UAV strike on civilian cargo transport in the Genichesk District, Kherson Region.
▪️ August 31 – a fixed-wing UAV strike on an apartment building in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Region.
▪️ September 1 – a UAV strike on an EMERCOM emergency vehicle in the Volnovakha District, DPR.
▪️ September 1 – aUAV strike on an EMERCOM emergency vehicle near Severodonetsk, LPR.
▪️ September 3 – a UAV strike on a passenger bus in Gorlovka, DPR.
▪️ September 3 – a UAV strike on a hardware store in Kakhovka, Kherson Region. Two civilians were injured.
▪️ September 3 – a UAV strike on a kindergarten building in the village of Skelki, Zaporozhye Region.
▪️ September 3 – a UAV strike on a municipal utility vehicle in Shebekino, Belgorod Region. Three civilians were injured.
▪️ September 3 – a UAV strike on passenger transport in Shebekino, Belgorod Region.
▪️ September 5 – a UAV strike on a civilian car in Bryanka, LPR. A 23-year-old woman and her 63-year-old mother were killed.
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of August 31 - September 6, 2026:
▪️ August 31 – a UAV strike on civilian cargo transport in the Genichesk District, Kherson Region.
▪️ August 31 – a fixed-wing UAV strike on an apartment building in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Region.
▪️ September 1 – a UAV strike on an EMERCOM emergency vehicle in the Volnovakha District, DPR.
▪️ September 1 – aUAV strike on an EMERCOM emergency vehicle near Severodonetsk, LPR.
▪️ September 3 – a UAV strike on a passenger bus in Gorlovka, DPR.
▪️ September 3 – a UAV strike on a hardware store in Kakhovka, Kherson Region. Two civilians were injured.
▪️ September 3 – a UAV strike on a kindergarten building in the village of Skelki, Zaporozhye Region.
▪️ September 3 – a UAV strike on a municipal utility vehicle in Shebekino, Belgorod Region. Three civilians were injured.
▪️ September 3 – a UAV strike on passenger transport in Shebekino, Belgorod Region.
▪️ September 5 – a UAV strike on a civilian car in Bryanka, LPR. A 23-year-old woman and her 63-year-old mother were killed.
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▪️ On September 8, 1941, the Siege of Leningrad began — one of the most horrific and tragic events not only of the Great Patriotic War but of the entire World War II.
The siege lasted for 872 days and claimed the lives of approximately 1 million residents of the city, including more than 600'000 people who died from starvation.
Alongside German troops, military units from European countries conquered by Hitler participated in the Siege of Leningrad — the 'Norway', 'the Netherlands' and 'Flanders' legions, as well as the Spanish infantry division. From the Narva direction, Baltic units — Latvian and Estonian battalions — were kept in reserve by the Nazis. From the north, the Finnish army besieged Leningrad and also shelled the city with its artillery.
The Nazis and their accomplices planned to wipe Leningrad off the face of the Earth and subject its population to complete annihilation, including by creating conditions for mass starvation, destroying food supplies, and cutting off supply routes.
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In early September 1941, during the Leningrad Defensive Operation of the Red Army, the city was cut off by the Nazis from all land routes. On September 8, Hitler's troops captured Shlisselburg, completing the encirclement. The city was bombarded daily with artillery.
The Nazi command's orders were absolutely clear: maintain the siege, strictly enforce the blockade, shoot anyone crossing the front line, and bring about the total destruction of the city's population.
❗️But Leningrad endured and never stopped fighting.
Under unbearable conditions, the city's industrial enterprises continued to operate. During the blockade, workers produced or repaired about 2'000 tanks, 1'500 aircraft, 850 warships and vessels of various classes, as well as 225'000 submachine guns, 12'000 mortars, and 7.5 million shells and mines.
The most famous memorial to the victims of the blockade is the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Saint Petersburg — the largest mass military grave of World War II. Over 420'000 Leningrad residents and 70'000 defenders of the city are buried there.
#Victory81
🌟 The blockade was finally lifted on January 27, 1944, during the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive.
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In 2022, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, the Saint Petersburg City Court officially recognised the actions of the German occupying forces — along with their collaborators, including armed units formed in Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, and Finland, as well as individual volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France, and Czechoslovakia — as a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an act of genocide against national and ethnic groups representing the population of the Soviet Union.
The siege lasted for 872 days and claimed the lives of approximately 1 million residents of the city, including more than 600'000 people who died from starvation.
Alongside German troops, military units from European countries conquered by Hitler participated in the Siege of Leningrad — the 'Norway', 'the Netherlands' and 'Flanders' legions, as well as the Spanish infantry division. From the Narva direction, Baltic units — Latvian and Estonian battalions — were kept in reserve by the Nazis. From the north, the Finnish army besieged Leningrad and also shelled the city with its artillery.
The Nazis and their accomplices planned to wipe Leningrad off the face of the Earth and subject its population to complete annihilation, including by creating conditions for mass starvation, destroying food supplies, and cutting off supply routes.
***
In early September 1941, during the Leningrad Defensive Operation of the Red Army, the city was cut off by the Nazis from all land routes. On September 8, Hitler's troops captured Shlisselburg, completing the encirclement. The city was bombarded daily with artillery.
The Nazi command's orders were absolutely clear: maintain the siege, strictly enforce the blockade, shoot anyone crossing the front line, and bring about the total destruction of the city's population.
❗️But Leningrad endured and never stopped fighting.
Under unbearable conditions, the city's industrial enterprises continued to operate. During the blockade, workers produced or repaired about 2'000 tanks, 1'500 aircraft, 850 warships and vessels of various classes, as well as 225'000 submachine guns, 12'000 mortars, and 7.5 million shells and mines.
The most famous memorial to the victims of the blockade is the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Saint Petersburg — the largest mass military grave of World War II. Over 420'000 Leningrad residents and 70'000 defenders of the city are buried there.
#Victory81
***
In 2022, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, the Saint Petersburg City Court officially recognised the actions of the German occupying forces — along with their collaborators, including armed units formed in Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, and Finland, as well as individual volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France, and Czechoslovakia — as a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an act of genocide against national and ethnic groups representing the population of the Soviet Union.
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⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's comment on the International Day of Journalists’ Solidarity (September 8, 2026)
💬 September 8 marks the International Day of Journalists’ Solidarity.
The date was established in 1958 in memory of Czechoslovak anti-fascist journalist Julius Fucik, who was executed by the Nazis in 1943. It serves as a reminder of the importance of freedom of speech and professional journalism, while also drawing attention to the safety of media workers and the need for solidarity and mutual support within the global journalistic community.
In recent years, these fundamental principles have been increasingly eroded by the West’s policy of purging the media landscape of unwelcome viewpoints in pursuit of narrow political goals.
👉 Russian media outlets abroad have faced systematic harassment and various forms of repression in countries whose leaders routinely proclaim their commitment to press freedom while grandly portraying themselves as a “flourishing garden”.
In practice, under far-fetched pretexts, they have blocked Russian television channels, shut down correspondent offices and expelled journalists.
The Kiev regime has launched an outright campaign against Russian journalists reporting truthful, first-hand information.
At the same time, the neo-Nazi junta’s openly declared intent to kill civilians – a category that under international law includes media workers – has drawn not the slightest criticism from its Western patrons.
Terrorist attacks have claimed the lives of:
▪️ Igor Kornelyuk
▪️ Anton Voloshin
▪️ Andrey Stenin
▪️ Anatoly Klyan
▪️ Daria Dugina
▪️ Oleg Klokov
▪️ Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky)
▪️ Rostislav Zhuravlev
▪️ Boris Maksudov
▪️ Semyon Yeryomin
▪️ Valery Kozhin
▪️ Nikita Tsisagi
▪️ Yulia Kuznetsova
▪️ Alexander Martemyanov
▪️ Alexander Fedorchak
▪️ Andrey Panov
▪️ Anna Prokofyeva
▪️ Nikita Goldin
▪️ Ivan Zuev
Dozens of media workers have also been wounded while carrying out their professional duties.
It is deeply troubling that these crimes and acts of repression have failed to elicit an adequate response from the Western media community. Mainstream outlets in those countries, guided by political expediency and in defiance of the principles of journalistic solidarity, chose to remain silent and act as though the issue did not concern them. In doing so, they abandoned professional ethics and the very idea of solidarity among journalists.
Those who nevertheless found the courage to defend Russian media workers or honour the memory of those who died for the truth were met with a barrage of criticism and accusations, including from fellow journalists.
***
❗️ We call on the global media community to show solidarity with their Russian colleagues and speak out in their defence against politically motivated repression by Western countries.
For our part, we will continue to consistently defend the rights of Russian journalists abroad and seek justice for crimes committed against Russian correspondents.
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💬 September 8 marks the International Day of Journalists’ Solidarity.
The date was established in 1958 in memory of Czechoslovak anti-fascist journalist Julius Fucik, who was executed by the Nazis in 1943. It serves as a reminder of the importance of freedom of speech and professional journalism, while also drawing attention to the safety of media workers and the need for solidarity and mutual support within the global journalistic community.
In recent years, these fundamental principles have been increasingly eroded by the West’s policy of purging the media landscape of unwelcome viewpoints in pursuit of narrow political goals.
👉 Russian media outlets abroad have faced systematic harassment and various forms of repression in countries whose leaders routinely proclaim their commitment to press freedom while grandly portraying themselves as a “flourishing garden”.
In practice, under far-fetched pretexts, they have blocked Russian television channels, shut down correspondent offices and expelled journalists.
The Kiev regime has launched an outright campaign against Russian journalists reporting truthful, first-hand information.
At the same time, the neo-Nazi junta’s openly declared intent to kill civilians – a category that under international law includes media workers – has drawn not the slightest criticism from its Western patrons.
Terrorist attacks have claimed the lives of:
▪️ Igor Kornelyuk
▪️ Anton Voloshin
▪️ Andrey Stenin
▪️ Anatoly Klyan
▪️ Daria Dugina
▪️ Oleg Klokov
▪️ Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky)
▪️ Rostislav Zhuravlev
▪️ Boris Maksudov
▪️ Semyon Yeryomin
▪️ Valery Kozhin
▪️ Nikita Tsisagi
▪️ Yulia Kuznetsova
▪️ Alexander Martemyanov
▪️ Alexander Fedorchak
▪️ Andrey Panov
▪️ Anna Prokofyeva
▪️ Nikita Goldin
▪️ Ivan Zuev
Dozens of media workers have also been wounded while carrying out their professional duties.
It is deeply troubling that these crimes and acts of repression have failed to elicit an adequate response from the Western media community. Mainstream outlets in those countries, guided by political expediency and in defiance of the principles of journalistic solidarity, chose to remain silent and act as though the issue did not concern them. In doing so, they abandoned professional ethics and the very idea of solidarity among journalists.
Those who nevertheless found the courage to defend Russian media workers or honour the memory of those who died for the truth were met with a barrage of criticism and accusations, including from fellow journalists.
***
❗️ We call on the global media community to show solidarity with their Russian colleagues and speak out in their defence against politically motivated repression by Western countries.
For our part, we will continue to consistently defend the rights of Russian journalists abroad and seek justice for crimes committed against Russian correspondents.
Read in full
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🇷🇺 Today, September 8, we mark the Day of the Languages of the Peoples of Russia for the first time.
The main goal of the holiday is to preserve and support Russia’s linguistic diversity, promote native languages, and strengthen interethnic harmony and respect for the cultures of all the peoples of our country.
Russia fosters more than 150 languages, each of which is an invaluable cultural heritage of the peoples of our nation.
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🔹 More than 190 peoples live in Russia, each with its own cultural and linguistic traditions. There are more than 270 different languages and dialects in total, which can be divided into several major groups:
• Slavic languages. Russian is the state language and the most widely spoken language.
• Turkic languages. These include Tatar, Bashkir and Chuvash.
• Finno-Ugric languages. These include Mari, Udmurt and Komi.
• Caucasian languages. These include Avar, Chechen and Ingush.
• Paleoasiatic languages. These include Chukchi and Koryak.
🔹 105 languages are represented in the education system: 24 are used as languages of instruction, while 81 are taught as academic subjects.
🔹 Russian is the state language and the most widely spoken language throughout the country.
🔹 The rarest languages of the peoples of Russia include Itelmen and Copper Island Aleut, each of which has only one competent speaker remaining. Several other languages have fewer than ten speakers, including the Orok language on Sakhalin, Negidal and Udege languages in Khabarovsk Krai, Southern Yukaghir in Yakutia, Southern Selkup in Tomsk Region, Votic in Leningrad Region, as well as Kildin Sámi and Akkala Sámi in Murmansk Region.
The main goal of the holiday is to preserve and support Russia’s linguistic diversity, promote native languages, and strengthen interethnic harmony and respect for the cultures of all the peoples of our country.
Russia fosters more than 150 languages, each of which is an invaluable cultural heritage of the peoples of our nation.
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🔹 More than 190 peoples live in Russia, each with its own cultural and linguistic traditions. There are more than 270 different languages and dialects in total, which can be divided into several major groups:
• Slavic languages. Russian is the state language and the most widely spoken language.
• Turkic languages. These include Tatar, Bashkir and Chuvash.
• Finno-Ugric languages. These include Mari, Udmurt and Komi.
• Caucasian languages. These include Avar, Chechen and Ingush.
• Paleoasiatic languages. These include Chukchi and Koryak.
🔹 105 languages are represented in the education system: 24 are used as languages of instruction, while 81 are taught as academic subjects.
🔹 Russian is the state language and the most widely spoken language throughout the country.
🔹 The rarest languages of the peoples of Russia include Itelmen and Copper Island Aleut, each of which has only one competent speaker remaining. Several other languages have fewer than ten speakers, including the Orok language on Sakhalin, Negidal and Udege languages in Khabarovsk Krai, Southern Yukaghir in Yakutia, Southern Selkup in Tomsk Region, Votic in Leningrad Region, as well as Kildin Sámi and Akkala Sámi in Murmansk Region.