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🗓 On September 26, the 12th St Petersburg International United Cultures Forum concluded at the State Hermitage Museum. The Forum became a major event dedicated to promoting intercultural dialogue and strengthening understanding between countries and peoples, while preserving their linguistic, cultural and spiritual identities.
The Forum brought together 4,500 participants, including 45 official delegations, with representatives from 73 countries. Delegations from more than 10 countries were led by their Ministers of Culture.
💬 The Forum’s central event was an address by President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
👉 Read the full transcript of President Putin’s address to the Forum
The Forum featured 84 events across ten thematic tracks, covering museums, theatre, music, film, cultural sovereignty, education, artificial intelligence and other subjects.
✍️ Participants signed 33 agreements to develop cooperation in culture, museums, theatre, education and the preservation of cultural heritage.
Plans were set in motion to develop a concept for theatre development through 2035 and expand cooperation with professional associations in Vietnam, Arab countries and Iran. Russia also signed a number of bilateral documents with friendly countries.
💬 Russia’s Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova:
#UnitedCulturesForum
The Forum brought together 4,500 participants, including 45 official delegations, with representatives from 73 countries. Delegations from more than 10 countries were led by their Ministers of Culture.
💬 The Forum’s central event was an address by President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
Culture can build bridges between people. It is a vital and irreplaceable means of communication and dialogue where political and economic ties have been frozen or brought to a halt by disagreements, sanctions and restrictions.
Russia has historically developed as a crossroads of peoples, languages and traditions. For us, unity means solidarity built on nurturing the distinct identity and development of every people and ethnic group.
Culture plays a key role in this process, just as it does in our complex world, with its conflicts, profound technological and social transformations, and competition between countries.
👉 Read the full transcript of President Putin’s address to the Forum
The Forum featured 84 events across ten thematic tracks, covering museums, theatre, music, film, cultural sovereignty, education, artificial intelligence and other subjects.
✍️ Participants signed 33 agreements to develop cooperation in culture, museums, theatre, education and the preservation of cultural heritage.
Plans were set in motion to develop a concept for theatre development through 2035 and expand cooperation with professional associations in Vietnam, Arab countries and Iran. Russia also signed a number of bilateral documents with friendly countries.
💬 Russia’s Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova:
Once again, our Forum has confirmed its standing as a respected platform for open and free dialogue, bringing together representatives of different countries, peoples and cultures around a common goal: identifying the challenges facing world culture and finding ways to address them.
#UnitedCulturesForum
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🕯 September 29 marks the 85th anniversary of the beginning of the mass shooting of the Jewish population by the Nazis at the Babi Yar ravine on the outskirts of occupied Kiev.
On September 29–30, 1941, the Nazis and their collaborators rounded up Kiev’s Jews and forced them to Babi Yar. Many had no inkling until the very last moment that death awaited them. Others, realising what was happening, embraced, said their goodbyes, and prayed.
In the space of two days, 33,771 people were shot – predominantly women, children, and the elderly. People were driven into the ravine and gunned down with machine-gun fire. The sound of the shots was drowned out by music and the noise of a plane flying overhead.
💬 Mikhail Sidko, who was six years old at the time of the tragedy – one of the few survivors of Babi Yar – recalled:
Mass executions at Babi Yar continued right up until Kiev was liberated by the Red Army. In total, between 1941 and 1943, over 120,000 people of various ethnic backgrounds were killed there – Jews, Roma, Poles – as well as Soviet prisoners of war and camp inmates, clergy, underground resistance members, and others.
Sonderkommando 4a, part of Einsatzgruppe C, bore direct responsibility for the mass killings.
Ukrainian nationalists serving in the auxiliary police also took an active part in the atrocities.
As they retreated from Kiev, the Nazis attempted to destroy the evidence of their crimes by exhuming and burning tens of thousands of bodies. Nevertheless, they failed to conceal the scale of the atrocities committed. The few survivors of Babi Yar later testified at the Nuremberg Trials. Paul Blobel, who oversaw the exhumation and the destruction of evidence regarding the mass killings, was sentenced to death and hanged.
▪️ Babi Yar became one of the most notorious sites of the mass extermination of Jews during the Holocaust – a grim symbol of Nazi terror and crimes against the civilian population.
The mass extermination of people at Babi Yar marks one of the most tragic chapters of World War II. Remembering these crimes is our shared duty and serves as a reminder that any manifestation of neo-Nazism is unacceptable.
☝️ Starting this year, Russia observes April 19 as the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People Committed by the Nazis and Their Accomplices during the Great Patriotic War.
❗️ Russian diplomacy will continue to seek international recognition of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices against citizens of the Soviet Union, including the mass killings at Babi Yar, as acts of genocide against the Soviet people.
#WeRemember
🕯 September 29 marks the 85th anniversary of the beginning of the mass shooting of the Jewish population by the Nazis at the Babi Yar ravine on the outskirts of occupied Kiev.
On September 29–30, 1941, the Nazis and their collaborators rounded up Kiev’s Jews and forced them to Babi Yar. Many had no inkling until the very last moment that death awaited them. Others, realising what was happening, embraced, said their goodbyes, and prayed.
In the space of two days, 33,771 people were shot – predominantly women, children, and the elderly. People were driven into the ravine and gunned down with machine-gun fire. The sound of the shots was drowned out by music and the noise of a plane flying overhead.
💬 Mikhail Sidko, who was six years old at the time of the tragedy – one of the few survivors of Babi Yar – recalled:
Many lost their senses right there, realising what was about to happen to them. They screamed, were shot, and then dragged by their legs into the ravine.
Mass executions at Babi Yar continued right up until Kiev was liberated by the Red Army. In total, between 1941 and 1943, over 120,000 people of various ethnic backgrounds were killed there – Jews, Roma, Poles – as well as Soviet prisoners of war and camp inmates, clergy, underground resistance members, and others.
Sonderkommando 4a, part of Einsatzgruppe C, bore direct responsibility for the mass killings.
Ukrainian nationalists serving in the auxiliary police also took an active part in the atrocities.
As they retreated from Kiev, the Nazis attempted to destroy the evidence of their crimes by exhuming and burning tens of thousands of bodies. Nevertheless, they failed to conceal the scale of the atrocities committed. The few survivors of Babi Yar later testified at the Nuremberg Trials. Paul Blobel, who oversaw the exhumation and the destruction of evidence regarding the mass killings, was sentenced to death and hanged.
▪️ Babi Yar became one of the most notorious sites of the mass extermination of Jews during the Holocaust – a grim symbol of Nazi terror and crimes against the civilian population.
The mass extermination of people at Babi Yar marks one of the most tragic chapters of World War II. Remembering these crimes is our shared duty and serves as a reminder that any manifestation of neo-Nazism is unacceptable.
☝️ Starting this year, Russia observes April 19 as the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People Committed by the Nazis and Their Accomplices during the Great Patriotic War.
❗️ Russian diplomacy will continue to seek international recognition of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices against citizens of the Soviet Union, including the mass killings at Babi Yar, as acts of genocide against the Soviet people.
#WeRemember
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⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
My visit to Alyoshki 15 months ago (June 2025 video)
The situation was dire then already. By that point, the city had already been without electricity, a centralised water supply or communications for two years.
Every attempt to restore these services was met with fresh attacks by Ukrainian militants on substations, water supply facilities and emergency repair crews. Ukrainian militants shelled and bombed the city every day.
Drones constantly circling overhead forced people to dash from one shelter to another. Burnt-out civilian cars lined the roads – all the result of Ukrainian militants’ “efforts and care” for the city’s civilian residents.
Even then, getting into the city meant racing along a battered road at 150 kilometres per hour to outrun a drone.
☝️ Since then, the Kiev militants’ tactics remain unchanged. Their European handlers simply provided the money and supplied vast quantities of more advanced drones, making a complete drone siege of the city possible.
👉 Zelensky and his clique then came up with the idea of blaming Russia for the siege imposed by Ukraine and the abuse of civilians. This is precisely the cynicism we are witnessing today!
Since my visit, the population of Alyoshki has fallen from 5,000-6,000 to 1,300. People have moved to other towns and cities on Russian territory.
Yet the neo-Nazis continue to torment those who remain, blocking both the delivery of essential supplies and any possibility of leaving the city. Only now, all this is accompanied by Sibiga’s deceitful lamentations from the UN General Assembly rostrum that “Russia is to blame for everything”!
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
My visit to Alyoshki 15 months ago (June 2025 video)
The situation was dire then already. By that point, the city had already been without electricity, a centralised water supply or communications for two years.
Every attempt to restore these services was met with fresh attacks by Ukrainian militants on substations, water supply facilities and emergency repair crews. Ukrainian militants shelled and bombed the city every day.
Drones constantly circling overhead forced people to dash from one shelter to another. Burnt-out civilian cars lined the roads – all the result of Ukrainian militants’ “efforts and care” for the city’s civilian residents.
Even then, getting into the city meant racing along a battered road at 150 kilometres per hour to outrun a drone.
☝️ Since then, the Kiev militants’ tactics remain unchanged. Their European handlers simply provided the money and supplied vast quantities of more advanced drones, making a complete drone siege of the city possible.
👉 Zelensky and his clique then came up with the idea of blaming Russia for the siege imposed by Ukraine and the abuse of civilians. This is precisely the cynicism we are witnessing today!
Since my visit, the population of Alyoshki has fallen from 5,000-6,000 to 1,300. People have moved to other towns and cities on Russian territory.
Yet the neo-Nazis continue to torment those who remain, blocking both the delivery of essential supplies and any possibility of leaving the city. Only now, all this is accompanied by Sibiga’s deceitful lamentations from the UN General Assembly rostrum that “Russia is to blame for everything”!
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🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks to the media following the 23rd meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club (Moscow Region, September 29, 2026)
❓ Question: German FM Johann Wadephul himself said that he attended the meeting solely to avoid being, so to speak, “left out” of the negotiations and leaving the US with a monopoly on the process. So what is Germany seeking – genuine negotiations or some semblance of them? What could move our relations with Berlin forward at this stage?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I commented on this in detail at my news conference in New York. It is difficult for me to judge what Germany is seeking.
I think one obvious explanation is simply a desire “not to miss the train” – the one They believe “has already picked up speed”. I do not know whether that is the case. If they mean the Ukrainian crisis, it is difficult for me to judge.
The Ukrainian crisis is intertwined with a vast number of problems across Europe: the militarisation of the EU, the repeated “mantras” that NATO will expand and admit the Ukrainian regime, that Russia is an eternal enemy, and that “we will be at war in three years”.
If these “mantras” are being repeated, and the aim, as Wadephul himself stated, is simply to repeat them behind closed doors, without the press, supposedly to make Russia understand that this is indeed how things stand, then this is a futile and, I would even say, harmful exercise.
It is deeply regrettable that such figures from the EU and NATO are effectively taking on the role of “spokesmen” for this European scheme.
❓ Question: A few days ago, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced further contacts with the US on removing irritants in bilateral relations. Could you tell us whether these contacts have taken place, which specific irritants are currently on the agenda and, in particular, whether there are realistic prospects for the return of diplomatic property?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: The contacts have not yet taken place.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and I agreed that they would take place soon. Our experts need to agree on the specific dates and venue.
The discussions will focus on the functioning of our respective diplomatic missions – Russia’s in the US and America’s in Russia. There are many issues, including, of course, diplomatic property.
We have heard no encouraging comments on this issue from the Americans under the Donald Trump administration.
❓ Question: You said that reality would compel the US to think in terms of multilateralism. Yet, for now, we see key players in Eurasia and the Middle East – the US, Iran, Israel and the Gulf monarchies – stuck in a zero-sum mindset. Do you see any prospects at all for creating a new security system in these regions? Is Russia prepared to act as a guarantor of a balance of interests if everyone else continues to pursue an “all-or-nothing” approach?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I said that reality would compel them.
But life is only just beginning. Be patient. President Putin and I have repeatedly set out all our proposals on how to build relations in the international arena. We stand for honest dialogue on an equal footing and for taking each other’s interests into account.
What we are seeing in US policy today is, of course, an effort to advance its own interests unilaterally.
However, the US has to engage with countries such as Russia and China. These contacts involve discussions of steps that would serve the interests of both sides. 👉 That is precisely what I meant when I said that “reality would compel them”.
❓ Question: Poland plans to manufacture Patriot missiles on its territory. At what point would European countries’ involvement in the Ukrainian conflict require Russia to respond with direct military action?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We have our military doctrine that addresses this, which President Vladimir Putin has cited on numerous occasions. ☝️ I urge you to study the relevant sections of this fundamental document carefully.
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❓ Question: German FM Johann Wadephul himself said that he attended the meeting solely to avoid being, so to speak, “left out” of the negotiations and leaving the US with a monopoly on the process. So what is Germany seeking – genuine negotiations or some semblance of them? What could move our relations with Berlin forward at this stage?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I commented on this in detail at my news conference in New York. It is difficult for me to judge what Germany is seeking.
I think one obvious explanation is simply a desire “not to miss the train” – the one They believe “has already picked up speed”. I do not know whether that is the case. If they mean the Ukrainian crisis, it is difficult for me to judge.
The Ukrainian crisis is intertwined with a vast number of problems across Europe: the militarisation of the EU, the repeated “mantras” that NATO will expand and admit the Ukrainian regime, that Russia is an eternal enemy, and that “we will be at war in three years”.
If these “mantras” are being repeated, and the aim, as Wadephul himself stated, is simply to repeat them behind closed doors, without the press, supposedly to make Russia understand that this is indeed how things stand, then this is a futile and, I would even say, harmful exercise.
It is deeply regrettable that such figures from the EU and NATO are effectively taking on the role of “spokesmen” for this European scheme.
❓ Question: A few days ago, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced further contacts with the US on removing irritants in bilateral relations. Could you tell us whether these contacts have taken place, which specific irritants are currently on the agenda and, in particular, whether there are realistic prospects for the return of diplomatic property?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: The contacts have not yet taken place.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and I agreed that they would take place soon. Our experts need to agree on the specific dates and venue.
The discussions will focus on the functioning of our respective diplomatic missions – Russia’s in the US and America’s in Russia. There are many issues, including, of course, diplomatic property.
We have heard no encouraging comments on this issue from the Americans under the Donald Trump administration.
❓ Question: You said that reality would compel the US to think in terms of multilateralism. Yet, for now, we see key players in Eurasia and the Middle East – the US, Iran, Israel and the Gulf monarchies – stuck in a zero-sum mindset. Do you see any prospects at all for creating a new security system in these regions? Is Russia prepared to act as a guarantor of a balance of interests if everyone else continues to pursue an “all-or-nothing” approach?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I said that reality would compel them.
But life is only just beginning. Be patient. President Putin and I have repeatedly set out all our proposals on how to build relations in the international arena. We stand for honest dialogue on an equal footing and for taking each other’s interests into account.
What we are seeing in US policy today is, of course, an effort to advance its own interests unilaterally.
However, the US has to engage with countries such as Russia and China. These contacts involve discussions of steps that would serve the interests of both sides. 👉 That is precisely what I meant when I said that “reality would compel them”.
❓ Question: Poland plans to manufacture Patriot missiles on its territory. At what point would European countries’ involvement in the Ukrainian conflict require Russia to respond with direct military action?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We have our military doctrine that addresses this, which President Vladimir Putin has cited on numerous occasions. ☝️ I urge you to study the relevant sections of this fundamental document carefully.
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🔹 Заявление американского министра ВВС Т.Мейнка является по сути первым публичным признанием со стороны США факта создания орбитального оружия. Хотя американцы и ранее не скрывали своих устремлений к полному военному доминированию в космосе. Наиболее наглядно эти амбиции проявились в проекте «Золотой купол». Его реализация и ведет к развязыванию гонки вооружений в космосе и, как следствие, глобальным конфликтам с катастрофическими последствиями для всех. Не допустить такой сценарий – одна из важнейших задач международного сообщества. Хотелось бы думать, что «точка невозврата» еще не пройдена.
🔹 Как и большинство государств-членов ООН, Российская Федерация считает единственным действенным способом предотвращения гонки вооружений в космосе (ПГВК) разработку профильного многостороннего юридически обязывающего инструмента. В качестве добротной основы для него рассматриваем представленный на Конференции по разоружению Россией и Китаем проект договора о предотвращении размещения оружия в космическом пространстве, применения силы или угрозы силой в отношении космических объектов, а также положения итогового доклада Группы правительственных экспертов по ПГВК 2024 г.
🔹 В ходе 81-й сессии Генассамблеи ООН мы намерены вновь представить проекты резолюций «Дальнейшие практические меры по ПГВК», «Неразмещение первыми оружия в космосе» и «Меры по обеспечению транспарентности и укреплению доверия в космической деятельности». Призываем все здравомыслящие и ответственно относящиеся к будущему космоса государства поддержать эти документы и выступить их соавторами.
🔹 Растет число проявлений враждебного и вредоносного курса Запада, направленного на подрыв нашего государства, о чем в т.ч. свидетельствует их возрастающая вовлеченность в украинский конфликт. При этом ядерные союзники США – Франция и Великобритания, пренебрегая собственными же принципами соблюдения транспарентности в ядерной сфере, приступили к непрозрачному наращиванию своих стратегических арсеналов.
🔹 Убежден, что для подтверждения своего конструктивного настроя, если он имеет место, Вашингтону предстоит провести калибровку собственных подходов, а также серьезно поработать на этот счет со своими союзниками.
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📍 28 сентября 2026 г., Женева
Ключевые элементы:
🔹 Народовластие – одна из первых жертв госпереворотчиков, пришедших к власти в Киеве в 2014 году. Подавление нынешними украинскими властями возможностей для населения влиять на управление своей страной превратило Украину в безвольное образование с внешним управлением и марионеточной властью.
🔹 Примечательна двойственность подходов западных элит к закрепленному в Уставе ООН праву на самоопределение. Запад приветствует право на самоопределение жителей Косово и Гренландии, однако отказывается применять аналогичный подход к волеизъявлению населения Донбасса и Новороссии, ставя в приоритет «территориальную целостность» Украины и «закрывая глаза» на продолжающуюся двенадцать лет террористическую войну киевских вооруженных формирований против мирного населения.
🔹 Даже в условиях непрекращающейся украинской агрессии в отношении мирных граждан наша страна смогла обеспечить безопасные условия для проведения выборов депутатов Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации во всех своих регионах, включая ДНР, ЛНР, Запорожскую и Херсонскую области. В это время украинские власти открыто идут на нарушение собственной Конституции, продолжая третий год игнорировать необходимость проведения президентских выборов.
🔹 Вместо осуществления демократических процедур у себя Киев предпочел попытаться сорвать сентябрьские выборы в России: в дни голосования на российской территории были разрушены десятки зданий, где была организована работа избирательных комиссий, погибли члены избиркомов. Пиком стал массированный налет дронов на Москву. Электронная система выборов подверглась миллионам кибератак.
🔹 За двенадцать лет с момента госпереворота в Киеве Украина прошла путь от ограничения избирательных прав жителей юго-востока до полной узурпации власти. Зеленский уже более двух лет незаконно находится во главе государства, опираясь на силовые структуры и внешнюю поддержку, игнорируя как нормы международного права, так и права собственных граждан.
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Провели мероприятие на полях СПЧ ООН «Об уничтоженном народовластии на Украине».
Право избирать и быть избранным, право влиять на принятие ключевых решений для страны путем референдумов, право спросить с власти. Это все так красиво описывали как украинскую реальность. А что по факту?! Последние местные выборы на Украине прошли почти 6 лет тому назад, парламентские – 7 лет, а президентские – 7,5. За все время пребывания Зеленского при власти ни одного референдума проведено не было.
Потому и проведение выборов в России для Зеленского как кость в горле.
Полный текст моего выступления опубликован на сайте МИД России.
Хорошая аудитория, значимое представительство, компетентные вопросы и комментарии.
Право избирать и быть избранным, право влиять на принятие ключевых решений для страны путем референдумов, право спросить с власти. Это все так красиво описывали как украинскую реальность. А что по факту?! Последние местные выборы на Украине прошли почти 6 лет тому назад, парламентские – 7 лет, а президентские – 7,5. За все время пребывания Зеленского при власти ни одного референдума проведено не было.
Потому и проведение выборов в России для Зеленского как кость в горле.
Полный текст моего выступления опубликован на сайте МИД России.
Хорошая аудитория, значимое представительство, компетентные вопросы и комментарии.
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🎙 Подход к СМИ Министра иностранных дел Российской Федерации С.В.Лаврова по итогам XXIII заседания Международного дискуссионного клуба «Валдай» (Московская область, 29 сентября 2026 года)
❓ Вопрос: Министр иностранных дел Германии Вадефуль говорил, что пошёл на эту встречу только для того, чтобы не оставаться, скажем так, «за бортом» переговоров и оставлять США монополию в этом вопросе. Так, чего добивается Германия – действительно переговоров или какой-то их имитации? Что может сдвинуть наши отношения с Берлином на этой стадии?
💬 С.В.Лавров: Мне трудно судить, чего добивается Германия.
Думаю, одно из объяснений, которое лежит на поверхности, — это просто желание «не отстать от поезда». Они считают, что «поезд уже набрал ход». Не знаю, так ли это. Мне трудно судить, если они имеют в виду украинский кризис.
Украинский кризис сопряжён с огромным количеством общеевропейских проблем: милитаризация Евросоюза, продолжающиеся «заклинания», что НАТО будет расширяться и «возьмёт в себя» украинский режим, что Россия — это вечный враг, что «через три года будем воевать».
Если такие «заклинания» звучат, и цель, как объявил сам Вадефуль, — просто воспроизвести их в закрытом режиме, без прессы, чтобы, дескать, Россия уяснила, что это всё так и есть на самом деле, то это бесплодная, даже, я бы сказал, вредная затея.
❗️ И очень печально, что такие деятели из Европейского союза, из НАТО берут на себя, по сути дела, функцию «глашатая» этой европейской комбинации.
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❓ Вопрос: Вы сказали, что жизнь заставит США мыслить категориями многосторонности. Но пока мы видим, что в Евразии и на Ближнем Востоке ключевые игроки – США, Иран, Израиль, монархии Залива – застряли в логике игры с нулевой суммой. Видите ли Вы вообще перспективы для создания новой системы безопасности в этих регионах? Готова ли Россия выступить гарантом баланса интересов, если все остальные продолжат действовать по принципу «всё или ничего»?
💬 С.В.Лавров: Я сказал, что жизнь заставит. Но жизнь только начинается. Наберитесь терпения. Мы с Президентом России В.В.Путиным неоднократно озвучивали все наши предложения о том, как выстраивать отношения на международной арене. Мы за честный, равноправный диалог, за учёт интересов.
То, что сейчас происходит в политике США, конечно, это стремление продвигать свои односторонние интересы. Но Соединённые Штаты вынуждены контактировать с такими странами, как Российская Федерация, Китайская Народная Республика. В ходе этих контактов обсуждаются шаги, которые будут отвечать интересам и одной, и другой стороны. Это как раз и есть то самое понятие, которое я назвал «жизнь заставит».
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❓ Вопрос: Звучат взаимные обвинения России и Запада. Запад всё чаще обвиняет Россию в том, что она проводит гибридную войну против европейских стран. Вы недавно обвинили Запад в том, что он прибегает к грубой силе. Вы признаёте, что Россия проводит скрытую гибридную войну против европейских стран? И если да, то с какой целью?
💬 С.В.Лавров: Вы имеете ввиду, когда мы уничтожаем дроны и ракеты, которые Британия и континентальная Европа поставляют Украине, а они потом по нам стреляют? Это Вы имеете ввиду?
❓ Вопрос: Например.
💬 С.В.Лавров: Если Вы признаёте, что вашим оружием бьют по нам, а мы это оружие сбиваем, называйте это как угодно, но то, что это война, которую Европа ведёт против нас, это у меня никаких сомнений не вызывает. Мы об этом давно говорили.
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❓ Вопрос: Вы совсем недавно сказали, что Запад прибегает к грубой силе.
💬 С.В.Лавров: А это была мягкая сила, то, что сделали в Венесуэле, или грубая сила? То, что сделали с газопроводами «Северный поток», — это мягкая сила или грубая? То, что разбомбили и уничтожили иранское руководство вместе с семьями, включая детей, — это не грубая сила?
❓ Вопрос: Но не прибегает ли Россия каждый день на Украине к грубой силе?
💬 С.В.Лавров: Если Вы имеете в виду уничтожение инфраструктуры, которая используется нацистским режимом при поддержке Запада для ведения войны против Российской Федерации, то мы прибегаем к грубой силе для подавления этой прямой угрозы нам.
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❓ Вопрос: Министр иностранных дел Германии Вадефуль говорил, что пошёл на эту встречу только для того, чтобы не оставаться, скажем так, «за бортом» переговоров и оставлять США монополию в этом вопросе. Так, чего добивается Германия – действительно переговоров или какой-то их имитации? Что может сдвинуть наши отношения с Берлином на этой стадии?
💬 С.В.Лавров: Мне трудно судить, чего добивается Германия.
Думаю, одно из объяснений, которое лежит на поверхности, — это просто желание «не отстать от поезда». Они считают, что «поезд уже набрал ход». Не знаю, так ли это. Мне трудно судить, если они имеют в виду украинский кризис.
Украинский кризис сопряжён с огромным количеством общеевропейских проблем: милитаризация Евросоюза, продолжающиеся «заклинания», что НАТО будет расширяться и «возьмёт в себя» украинский режим, что Россия — это вечный враг, что «через три года будем воевать».
Если такие «заклинания» звучат, и цель, как объявил сам Вадефуль, — просто воспроизвести их в закрытом режиме, без прессы, чтобы, дескать, Россия уяснила, что это всё так и есть на самом деле, то это бесплодная, даже, я бы сказал, вредная затея.
❗️ И очень печально, что такие деятели из Европейского союза, из НАТО берут на себя, по сути дела, функцию «глашатая» этой европейской комбинации.
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❓ Вопрос: Вы сказали, что жизнь заставит США мыслить категориями многосторонности. Но пока мы видим, что в Евразии и на Ближнем Востоке ключевые игроки – США, Иран, Израиль, монархии Залива – застряли в логике игры с нулевой суммой. Видите ли Вы вообще перспективы для создания новой системы безопасности в этих регионах? Готова ли Россия выступить гарантом баланса интересов, если все остальные продолжат действовать по принципу «всё или ничего»?
💬 С.В.Лавров: Я сказал, что жизнь заставит. Но жизнь только начинается. Наберитесь терпения. Мы с Президентом России В.В.Путиным неоднократно озвучивали все наши предложения о том, как выстраивать отношения на международной арене. Мы за честный, равноправный диалог, за учёт интересов.
То, что сейчас происходит в политике США, конечно, это стремление продвигать свои односторонние интересы. Но Соединённые Штаты вынуждены контактировать с такими странами, как Российская Федерация, Китайская Народная Республика. В ходе этих контактов обсуждаются шаги, которые будут отвечать интересам и одной, и другой стороны. Это как раз и есть то самое понятие, которое я назвал «жизнь заставит».
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❓ Вопрос: Звучат взаимные обвинения России и Запада. Запад всё чаще обвиняет Россию в том, что она проводит гибридную войну против европейских стран. Вы недавно обвинили Запад в том, что он прибегает к грубой силе. Вы признаёте, что Россия проводит скрытую гибридную войну против европейских стран? И если да, то с какой целью?
💬 С.В.Лавров: Вы имеете ввиду, когда мы уничтожаем дроны и ракеты, которые Британия и континентальная Европа поставляют Украине, а они потом по нам стреляют? Это Вы имеете ввиду?
❓ Вопрос: Например.
💬 С.В.Лавров: Если Вы признаёте, что вашим оружием бьют по нам, а мы это оружие сбиваем, называйте это как угодно, но то, что это война, которую Европа ведёт против нас, это у меня никаких сомнений не вызывает. Мы об этом давно говорили.
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❓ Вопрос: Вы совсем недавно сказали, что Запад прибегает к грубой силе.
💬 С.В.Лавров: А это была мягкая сила, то, что сделали в Венесуэле, или грубая сила? То, что сделали с газопроводами «Северный поток», — это мягкая сила или грубая? То, что разбомбили и уничтожили иранское руководство вместе с семьями, включая детей, — это не грубая сила?
❓ Вопрос: Но не прибегает ли Россия каждый день на Украине к грубой силе?
💬 С.В.Лавров: Если Вы имеете в виду уничтожение инфраструктуры, которая используется нацистским режимом при поддержке Запада для ведения войны против Российской Федерации, то мы прибегаем к грубой силе для подавления этой прямой угрозы нам.
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🗓 On September 30, 2022, following referendums, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions officially became part of the Russian Federation.
✍️ Looking back at #HowItHappened (Signing of the treaties on the accession of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia)
In the referendums held on September 23-27, 2022, residents of the four regions made a historic decision that determined their future. International observers from Italy, Germany, Venezuela, Latvia and other countries (133 in total) who monitored the voting recognised the results as legitimate.
In 2014, the Kiev regime unleashed full-scale hostilities against the civilian population of Donbass, while neo-Nazis and radicals intimidated and attacked people in Zaporozhye and other regions as well. For eight long years, people endured relentless shelling, terrorist attacks and persecution.
Despite shelling and numerous provocations by the Kiev regime, people went to the polls and expressed their will.
🗳 Four years ago, the people voted in favour of joining Russia:
• DPR – 99.23%, with a turnout of 97.5%;
• LPR – 98.42%, with a turnout of 92.6%;
• Zaporozhye Region – 93.11%, with a turnout of 85.4%;
• Kherson Region – 87.05%, with a turnout of 76.9%.
Behind these figures are the lives of millions of people and their hopes for safety, for the freedom to speak their native language, to honour their ancestors – true heroes of the Great Patriotic War (instead of Hitler’s henchmen) – to preserve their culture and raise their children without fearing for their lives.
❗️ Russia’s position remains unchanged: the people of Donbass and Novorossiya exercised their legitimate right to self-determination, enshrined in the UN Charter, the 1966 International Covenants on Human Rights and the 1975 CSCE Helsinki Final Act.
💬 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address at the General Debate of #UNGA81 (New York, September 26, 2026):
And we will do this #TOGETHER.
✍️ Looking back at #HowItHappened (Signing of the treaties on the accession of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia)
In the referendums held on September 23-27, 2022, residents of the four regions made a historic decision that determined their future. International observers from Italy, Germany, Venezuela, Latvia and other countries (133 in total) who monitored the voting recognised the results as legitimate.
In 2014, the Kiev regime unleashed full-scale hostilities against the civilian population of Donbass, while neo-Nazis and radicals intimidated and attacked people in Zaporozhye and other regions as well. For eight long years, people endured relentless shelling, terrorist attacks and persecution.
Despite shelling and numerous provocations by the Kiev regime, people went to the polls and expressed their will.
🗳 Four years ago, the people voted in favour of joining Russia:
• DPR – 99.23%, with a turnout of 97.5%;
• LPR – 98.42%, with a turnout of 92.6%;
• Zaporozhye Region – 93.11%, with a turnout of 85.4%;
• Kherson Region – 87.05%, with a turnout of 76.9%.
Behind these figures are the lives of millions of people and their hopes for safety, for the freedom to speak their native language, to honour their ancestors – true heroes of the Great Patriotic War (instead of Hitler’s henchmen) – to preserve their culture and raise their children without fearing for their lives.
❗️ Russia’s position remains unchanged: the people of Donbass and Novorossiya exercised their legitimate right to self-determination, enshrined in the UN Charter, the 1966 International Covenants on Human Rights and the 1975 CSCE Helsinki Final Act.
💬 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address at the General Debate of #UNGA81 (New York, September 26, 2026):
Having launched the special military operation in 2022 to protect the people of Donbass and Novorossiya from extermination by the Kiev regime, Russia continues to fight for their security and rights in full accordance with the letter and spirit of the UN Charter.
Our struggle for truth and justice will be carried through to the end: the objectives of the special military operation will be achieved, threats to Russia’s security will be eliminated, and peaceful life will be restored.
And we will do this #TOGETHER.
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🎙 Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik’s remarks at the side event “Systematic Violations of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law in the Context of the Evolving Conflict in Europe in 2026” (Geneva, September 28, 2026)
💬 Even before Ukraine gained statehood in 1991, its 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty stipulated that “The people of Ukraine shall be the single source of the state authority in the Republic”.
The same document stated that “the Ukrainian nation has exercised its inalienable right to self-determination” to leave the USSR. Thirty-five years ago, the Western world applauded this move and swiftly and widely recognised the new state that had appeared on the map.
12 years ago, in response to the illegal coup in Kiev and the unconstitutional so-called “anti-terrorist operation” launched against them, the residents of Ukraine’s Lugansk and Donetsk regions likewise exercised their “inalienable right to self-determination” and voted in referendums to leave Ukraine. Yet this expression of the will of more than four million people in Donbass received no such approval in the West.
👉 This exercise of direct democracy by a population outraged by the coup was branded “separatism”, “occupation” and an attack on “Ukraine’s territorial integrity”.
Exactly four years ago, the residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions also exercised their “inalienable right to self-determination” and voted in referendums to join the Russian Federation. Since then, these regions have been new constituent entities of Russia and part of its territory under the Constitution.
👉 Yet both Kiev and the West chose to describe this exercise of direct democracy as “Russian occupation” as well.
A few days ago, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres displayed similar double standards.
In his view, the question of self-determination for Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya must be approached exclusively through Ukraine’s “territorial integrity”, whereas the issue of Greenland must be resolved on the basis of both Denmark’s territorial integrity and the right of Greenland’s population to self-determination.
In other words, the rights of the people of Greenland are one thing, while those of the people of Crimea and Donbass are something else entirely. The key here is not to get the two mixed up…
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💬 Even before Ukraine gained statehood in 1991, its 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty stipulated that “The people of Ukraine shall be the single source of the state authority in the Republic”.
The same document stated that “the Ukrainian nation has exercised its inalienable right to self-determination” to leave the USSR. Thirty-five years ago, the Western world applauded this move and swiftly and widely recognised the new state that had appeared on the map.
12 years ago, in response to the illegal coup in Kiev and the unconstitutional so-called “anti-terrorist operation” launched against them, the residents of Ukraine’s Lugansk and Donetsk regions likewise exercised their “inalienable right to self-determination” and voted in referendums to leave Ukraine. Yet this expression of the will of more than four million people in Donbass received no such approval in the West.
👉 This exercise of direct democracy by a population outraged by the coup was branded “separatism”, “occupation” and an attack on “Ukraine’s territorial integrity”.
Exactly four years ago, the residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions also exercised their “inalienable right to self-determination” and voted in referendums to join the Russian Federation. Since then, these regions have been new constituent entities of Russia and part of its territory under the Constitution.
👉 Yet both Kiev and the West chose to describe this exercise of direct democracy as “Russian occupation” as well.
A few days ago, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres displayed similar double standards.
In his view, the question of self-determination for Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya must be approached exclusively through Ukraine’s “territorial integrity”, whereas the issue of Greenland must be resolved on the basis of both Denmark’s territorial integrity and the right of Greenland’s population to self-determination.
In other words, the rights of the people of Greenland are one thing, while those of the people of Crimea and Donbass are something else entirely. The key here is not to get the two mixed up…
Read in full (in Russian)
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#KievRegimeCrimes
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
💬 Over the past week, Kiev regime militants focused their attacks on medical personnel, emergency workers and volunteers. They repeatedly targeted medical teams in the Belgorod and Zaporozhye regions. These crimes resulted in the death of one medical worker and injuries to seven others.
In the Zaporozhye Region, a terrorist attack on a civilian vehicle delivering humanitarian aid killed three volunteers from the Omsk Region and injured another.
The highest numbers of civilian casualties over the past week were recorded in the Belgorod, Zaporozhye, Kursk and Kherson regions and the LPR.
Kiev’s armed groups continued their criminal strategy of “energy terror” in the Belgorod, Zaporozhye, Kursk and Kherson regions, the LPR and DPR, and the Krasnodar Territory. Ukrainian strikes on electrical substations left communities in the Krasnoyaruzhsky and Grayvoronsky districts of the Belgorod Region without electricity. A drone strike also damaged a radiation monitoring station at the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant.
On September 21-27, shelling by Ukrainian neo-Nazis resulted in 315 civilian casualties: 274 civilians were injured, including nine children, and 41 people were killed.
Over the seven days, Ukrainian militants fired at least 8,033 munitions at civilian facilities on Russian territory.
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
💬 Over the past week, Kiev regime militants focused their attacks on medical personnel, emergency workers and volunteers. They repeatedly targeted medical teams in the Belgorod and Zaporozhye regions. These crimes resulted in the death of one medical worker and injuries to seven others.
In the Zaporozhye Region, a terrorist attack on a civilian vehicle delivering humanitarian aid killed three volunteers from the Omsk Region and injured another.
The highest numbers of civilian casualties over the past week were recorded in the Belgorod, Zaporozhye, Kursk and Kherson regions and the LPR.
Kiev’s armed groups continued their criminal strategy of “energy terror” in the Belgorod, Zaporozhye, Kursk and Kherson regions, the LPR and DPR, and the Krasnodar Territory. Ukrainian strikes on electrical substations left communities in the Krasnoyaruzhsky and Grayvoronsky districts of the Belgorod Region without electricity. A drone strike also damaged a radiation monitoring station at the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant.
On September 21-27, shelling by Ukrainian neo-Nazis resulted in 315 civilian casualties: 274 civilians were injured, including nine children, and 41 people were killed.
Over the seven days, Ukrainian militants fired at least 8,033 munitions at civilian facilities on Russian territory.