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🌐 Forum “Dialog on Fakes 3.0” presents the International Content Center (#ICC) — a community pioneered by the World Youth Festival Directorate.
The #InternationalContentCenter brings together bloggers and content creators from all around the globe. The mission of the community — to promote the ideas of preserving historical memory, upholding traditional values, and supporting #Multipolarity in the international arena through the making up-to-date and positive content.
The project of #ICC is pivoted on the ideas and proposals generated by participants of the World Youth Festival Assembly in Nizhny Novgorod, where the World Youth Festival Directorate, in cooperation with with the New Media Workshop, presented a specialized educational course for media professionals from all around the world.
The principal impetus for establishing the ICC was the need to create a unified platform for professional dialogue in fostering the international media environment, as it was suggested by representatives from 50 countries.
The structure and key areas of the ICC’s activities were drafted by the bloggers themselves:
🇺🇸🇷🇺 Alexandra Jost
🇩🇿🇷🇺 Ben Aissa Ibrahim
👉 Register to participate in the project
The #InternationalContentCenter brings together bloggers and content creators from all around the globe. The mission of the community — to promote the ideas of preserving historical memory, upholding traditional values, and supporting #Multipolarity in the international arena through the making up-to-date and positive content.
The project of #ICC is pivoted on the ideas and proposals generated by participants of the World Youth Festival Assembly in Nizhny Novgorod, where the World Youth Festival Directorate, in cooperation with with the New Media Workshop, presented a specialized educational course for media professionals from all around the world.
The principal impetus for establishing the ICC was the need to create a unified platform for professional dialogue in fostering the international media environment, as it was suggested by representatives from 50 countries.
The structure and key areas of the ICC’s activities were drafted by the bloggers themselves:
🇺🇸🇷🇺 Alexandra Jost
🇩🇿🇷🇺 Ben Aissa Ibrahim
👉 Register to participate in the project
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#Outcomes2025
✍️ Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s answers to media questions received for Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s news conference on the performance of Russian diplomacy in 2025
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Key points
#UkraineCrisis #KievRegimeCrimes
• [Following the Kiev regime attack on Russia’s President’s state residence in the Novgorod Region] many countries could once again see the terrorist nature of Zelensky’s clique <…> Terrorism in any form is unacceptable and certainly does not help achieve a political and diplomatic solution to the conflict. Kiev is only making matters worse for itself with its recklessness and impeding efforts to find possible compromises.
• The deployment of military units, facilities, warehouses and other infrastructure of the Western countries in Ukraine <…> will be considered as foreign intervention that directly threatens Russia’s security.
#Multipolarity
• The situation surrounding Denmark’s northern autonomous territory vividly demonstrates the bankruptcy of the so-called “rules-based international order” so dear to many in the West.
• Cooperation is being actively forged in formats with limited membership. Alongside the CIS, mechanisms such as the #EAEU, #BRICS, #SCO, #ASEAN, #LAS, #GCC, the #AfricanUnion, and #CELAC, among others, maintain momentum. <...> We regard these developments as part of the historically determined process of shaping a multipolar world order, which will lead to the further consolidation of several global and an even greater number of regional centres of power and development.
#InternationalSecurity
• The international security system is indeed undergoing a period of profound transformation today. This is driven by two primary factors: the objective processes shaping a polycentric world order, and attempts to substitute international law with the law of the mightiest.
• Relying on force as the primary instrument in foreign policy and undermining of the existing institutional and legal framework of international relations risks chaos and escalating confrontation, <...> increase of the likelihood of direct clashes between major states, including nuclear powers. Under these conditions, developments become highly unpredictable.
• Russia firmly opposes this scenario. We are capable of defending our interests – history provides ample evidence of this. Our country has traditionally played a stabilising and balancing role in global affairs.
#RussiaUS
• Following Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the Presidents of Russia and the US <...> agreed to maintain a high tempo of work. This was founded upon a mutual understanding of the necessity to rid ourselves as soon as possible of the “toxic legacy” of the Joe Biden administration. <...> Our American counterparts made it clear: great powers, when their national interests diverge <...> must not allow differences to escalate into confrontation.
• President Donald Trump is perhaps one of the few Western politicians who not only immediately rejected imposing meaningless and destructive preconditions for substantive dialogue with Moscow on the Ukraine crisis but also publicly addressed its root causes.
• It was precisely the elimination of these root causes that was discussed in Anchorage on August 15, 2025. <...> We anticipate that, provided the original Anchorage formula is preserved and Russian interests are handled with due care, we can, sooner or later, come close to a negotiated resolution of the Ukraine issue.
#Iran
• We strongly condemn subversive external interference in Iran’s domestic political processes. <...> Threats of new military strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran are absolutely unacceptable.
• Those who intend to exploit foreign-inspired unrest as a pretext to repeat the aggression against Iran <...> must clearly understand the catastrophic consequences such actions would have for the situation in the Middle East and for international security as a whole.
✍️ Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s answers to media questions received for Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s news conference on the performance of Russian diplomacy in 2025
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Key points
#UkraineCrisis #KievRegimeCrimes
• [Following the Kiev regime attack on Russia’s President’s state residence in the Novgorod Region] many countries could once again see the terrorist nature of Zelensky’s clique <…> Terrorism in any form is unacceptable and certainly does not help achieve a political and diplomatic solution to the conflict. Kiev is only making matters worse for itself with its recklessness and impeding efforts to find possible compromises.
• The deployment of military units, facilities, warehouses and other infrastructure of the Western countries in Ukraine <…> will be considered as foreign intervention that directly threatens Russia’s security.
#Multipolarity
• The situation surrounding Denmark’s northern autonomous territory vividly demonstrates the bankruptcy of the so-called “rules-based international order” so dear to many in the West.
• Cooperation is being actively forged in formats with limited membership. Alongside the CIS, mechanisms such as the #EAEU, #BRICS, #SCO, #ASEAN, #LAS, #GCC, the #AfricanUnion, and #CELAC, among others, maintain momentum. <...> We regard these developments as part of the historically determined process of shaping a multipolar world order, which will lead to the further consolidation of several global and an even greater number of regional centres of power and development.
#InternationalSecurity
• The international security system is indeed undergoing a period of profound transformation today. This is driven by two primary factors: the objective processes shaping a polycentric world order, and attempts to substitute international law with the law of the mightiest.
• Relying on force as the primary instrument in foreign policy and undermining of the existing institutional and legal framework of international relations risks chaos and escalating confrontation, <...> increase of the likelihood of direct clashes between major states, including nuclear powers. Under these conditions, developments become highly unpredictable.
• Russia firmly opposes this scenario. We are capable of defending our interests – history provides ample evidence of this. Our country has traditionally played a stabilising and balancing role in global affairs.
#RussiaUS
• Following Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the Presidents of Russia and the US <...> agreed to maintain a high tempo of work. This was founded upon a mutual understanding of the necessity to rid ourselves as soon as possible of the “toxic legacy” of the Joe Biden administration. <...> Our American counterparts made it clear: great powers, when their national interests diverge <...> must not allow differences to escalate into confrontation.
• President Donald Trump is perhaps one of the few Western politicians who not only immediately rejected imposing meaningless and destructive preconditions for substantive dialogue with Moscow on the Ukraine crisis but also publicly addressed its root causes.
• It was precisely the elimination of these root causes that was discussed in Anchorage on August 15, 2025. <...> We anticipate that, provided the original Anchorage formula is preserved and Russian interests are handled with due care, we can, sooner or later, come close to a negotiated resolution of the Ukraine issue.
#Iran
• We strongly condemn subversive external interference in Iran’s domestic political processes. <...> Threats of new military strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran are absolutely unacceptable.
• Those who intend to exploit foreign-inspired unrest as a pretext to repeat the aggression against Iran <...> must clearly understand the catastrophic consequences such actions would have for the situation in the Middle East and for international security as a whole.
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🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks and answers to questions at the 12th International Scientific and Expert Forum Primakov Readings (Moscow, June 24, 2026)
Key points:
• This Forum is our way of paying tribute to Yevgeny Primakov, his outstanding personality, rich intellectual legacy and ideas, which remain fully relevant to our work today.
• The West remains unwilling to comply with the universally recognised norms of international law enshrined in the UN Charter, even though all states, by signing and ratifying the Charter, undertook to observe these norms in their entirety, totality and interrelation.
• A defining feature of the current moment is the West’s readiness to rewrite even its notorious “rules” on the fly – the very rules it until recently sought to substitute for international law. As soon as the West realised that free trade, fair competition, the inviolability of property and the unrestricted movement of capital had enabled new centres of development in Asia, Africa and Latin America to unlock their potential, it immediately weaponised the dollar and other global currencies, unleashed sanctions and tariff wars, and began seizing foreign exchange and gold reserves.
• The West is dismantling the foundations of the international security system built over decades. For many years, Russia has faced the irresponsible eastward geopolitical expansion of the “Atlantic community”, right up to our borders.
• Russia welcomes the agreement between the US and Iran to cease hostilities, as well as the negotiations now under way. We stand ready to assist in developing a comprehensive, long-term agreement between the two countries and a broader settlement involving their neighbours, should our good offices be required.
• Centuries of diplomatic experience point to one conclusion: the golden rule of lasting conflict settlement is to eradicate its root causes. For us, this applies first and foremost to the Ukrainian crisis, which was deliberately engineered by the West as part of its expansion towards Russia’s borders.
• I am convinced that a political and diplomatic settlement of the situation around Ukraine remains entirely possible. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated this. It requires specific, legally binding security guarantees based on the principle of indivisible security, including guarantees for Russia’s security along its western borders.
• The West must understand that it must abandon its plans for military-political, geoeconomic and ideological expansion into areas of Russia’s vital interests.
• #Multipolarity does not condemn the world to chaos and confrontation, despite what its critics claim. A balance of interests based on international law is fully achievable. #RussiaChina relations, particularly our comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction, clearly demonstrate this.
• #BRICS and the #SCO show how the principles of sovereign equality and mutually beneficial cooperation can be implemented multilaterally. Their philosophy is close to and understood by all states seeking to pursue independent foreign policies and advance their national interests above all.
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Key points:
• This Forum is our way of paying tribute to Yevgeny Primakov, his outstanding personality, rich intellectual legacy and ideas, which remain fully relevant to our work today.
• The West remains unwilling to comply with the universally recognised norms of international law enshrined in the UN Charter, even though all states, by signing and ratifying the Charter, undertook to observe these norms in their entirety, totality and interrelation.
• A defining feature of the current moment is the West’s readiness to rewrite even its notorious “rules” on the fly – the very rules it until recently sought to substitute for international law. As soon as the West realised that free trade, fair competition, the inviolability of property and the unrestricted movement of capital had enabled new centres of development in Asia, Africa and Latin America to unlock their potential, it immediately weaponised the dollar and other global currencies, unleashed sanctions and tariff wars, and began seizing foreign exchange and gold reserves.
• The West is dismantling the foundations of the international security system built over decades. For many years, Russia has faced the irresponsible eastward geopolitical expansion of the “Atlantic community”, right up to our borders.
• Russia welcomes the agreement between the US and Iran to cease hostilities, as well as the negotiations now under way. We stand ready to assist in developing a comprehensive, long-term agreement between the two countries and a broader settlement involving their neighbours, should our good offices be required.
• Centuries of diplomatic experience point to one conclusion: the golden rule of lasting conflict settlement is to eradicate its root causes. For us, this applies first and foremost to the Ukrainian crisis, which was deliberately engineered by the West as part of its expansion towards Russia’s borders.
• I am convinced that a political and diplomatic settlement of the situation around Ukraine remains entirely possible. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated this. It requires specific, legally binding security guarantees based on the principle of indivisible security, including guarantees for Russia’s security along its western borders.
• The West must understand that it must abandon its plans for military-political, geoeconomic and ideological expansion into areas of Russia’s vital interests.
• #Multipolarity does not condemn the world to chaos and confrontation, despite what its critics claim. A balance of interests based on international law is fully achievable. #RussiaChina relations, particularly our comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction, clearly demonstrate this.
• #BRICS and the #SCO show how the principles of sovereign equality and mutually beneficial cooperation can be implemented multilaterally. Their philosophy is close to and understood by all states seeking to pursue independent foreign policies and advance their national interests above all.
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🌏 On September 25, a ministerial meeting marking the start of negotiations on drafting the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century took place at Russia’s Permanent Mission to the UN in New York on the sidelines of the High-Level Week of the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly*.
The meeting was co-chaired by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov.
👉 Sergey Lavrov's opening remarks
In their remarks, the Foreign Ministers of Belarus and Russia noted that negotiations on the Charter’s text would help build an atmosphere of trust and identify common approaches to addressing security challenges across Eurasia, based on a balance of interests of all states involved.
In this context, the Charter is intended to enshrine principles of interstate security cooperation in Eurasia in the era of #Multipolarity, including equal and indivisible security and the responsibility of the continent’s countries for addressing regional security challenges, as well as lay the foundations for a new architecture of international relations.
🤝 The Ministers emphasised that the Charter aims to strengthen economic cooperation and connectivity, develop humanitarian ties, support dialogue among civilisations and establish mechanisms for decision-making on an equal footing in the interests of Eurasian countries and peoples.
The meeting brought together representatives of various Eurasian states. In their remarks, participants welcomed the joint initiative of Belarus and Russia and confirmed their countries’ interest in taking part in the forthcoming negotiations.
👉 The meeting concluded with the adoption of a Joint Statement on the Inauguration of Negotiations on Drafting the Eurasian Charter and the approval of the Terms of Reference of the Working Group of the Working Group tasked with drafting the Charter.
*Unofficial translation
The meeting was co-chaired by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov.
👉 Sergey Lavrov's opening remarks
In their remarks, the Foreign Ministers of Belarus and Russia noted that negotiations on the Charter’s text would help build an atmosphere of trust and identify common approaches to addressing security challenges across Eurasia, based on a balance of interests of all states involved.
In this context, the Charter is intended to enshrine principles of interstate security cooperation in Eurasia in the era of #Multipolarity, including equal and indivisible security and the responsibility of the continent’s countries for addressing regional security challenges, as well as lay the foundations for a new architecture of international relations.
🤝 The Ministers emphasised that the Charter aims to strengthen economic cooperation and connectivity, develop humanitarian ties, support dialogue among civilisations and establish mechanisms for decision-making on an equal footing in the interests of Eurasian countries and peoples.
The meeting brought together representatives of various Eurasian states. In their remarks, participants welcomed the joint initiative of Belarus and Russia and confirmed their countries’ interest in taking part in the forthcoming negotiations.
👉 The meeting concluded with the adoption of a Joint Statement on the Inauguration of Negotiations on Drafting the Eurasian Charter and the approval of the Terms of Reference of the Working Group of the Working Group tasked with drafting the Charter.
*Unofficial translation
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🇺🇳💪 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov continues his intensive work on the sidelines of the High-Level Week of the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly.
#Day3 📹 #VideoRecap
🎙 Sergey Lavrov took part in a ministerial meeting marking the start of negotiations on drafting the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century.
On September 25, Minister Lavrov held 14 bilateral meetings:
🇧🇧 Prime Minister of the Republic of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley
🇺🇬 Vice President of Uganda Jessica Alupo
🇰🇿 Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi
🇮🇳 External Affairs Minister of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
🇸🇬 Foreign Minister of Singapore Vivian Balakrishnan
🇸🇩 Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Sudan Mohieldin Salem Ahmed Ibrahim
🇰🇼 Foreign Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
🇬🇹 Foreign Minister of Guatemala Carlos Ramiro Martínez
🇺🇾 Foreign Minister of Uruguay Mario Lubetkin
🇬🇾 Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Guyana Hugh Todd
🇲🇦 Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates Nasser Bourita
🇮🇶 Foreign Minister of Iraq Fuad Hussein
🇲🇻 Foreign Minister of of Maldives Iruthisham Adam
🇾🇪 Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen Dr. Abdullah Al-Alimi Bawazeer
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👉 Follow the activities of the Russian delegation, led by Minister Sergey Lavrov at the High-Level Week of the #UNGA81 in real time!
#Day3 📹 #VideoRecap
🎙 Sergey Lavrov took part in a ministerial meeting marking the start of negotiations on drafting the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century.
💬 We proposed establishing a new Eurasian security architecture as a foundation for the peaceful and steady development of all the peoples of our largest and richest continent, home to several of the world's oldest civilisations.
In putting forward this initiative, we took into account the fact that the rise of #Multipolarity is the most enduring trend in global affairs for years to come.
On September 25, Minister Lavrov held 14 bilateral meetings:
🇧🇧 Prime Minister of the Republic of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley
🇺🇬 Vice President of Uganda Jessica Alupo
🇰🇿 Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi
🇮🇳 External Affairs Minister of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
🇸🇬 Foreign Minister of Singapore Vivian Balakrishnan
🇸🇩 Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Sudan Mohieldin Salem Ahmed Ibrahim
🇰🇼 Foreign Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
🇬🇹 Foreign Minister of Guatemala Carlos Ramiro Martínez
🇺🇾 Foreign Minister of Uruguay Mario Lubetkin
🇬🇾 Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Guyana Hugh Todd
🇲🇦 Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates Nasser Bourita
🇮🇶 Foreign Minister of Iraq Fuad Hussein
🇲🇻 Foreign Minister of of Maldives Iruthisham Adam
🇾🇪 Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen Dr. Abdullah Al-Alimi Bawazeer
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👉 Follow the activities of the Russian delegation, led by Minister Sergey Lavrov at the High-Level Week of the #UNGA81 in real time!
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🗓 On October 22, the Nizhny Novgorod Economic Forum concluded in Nizhny Novgorod.
Thanks to the extensive business programme, representatives of government, Russian and foreign entrepreneurs, academia and development institutions had the opportunity to discuss practical solutions for implementing international projects.
The main event was the Plenary Session “Advancing international cooperation at the confluence of the Oka and Volga”.
🌐 The event gathered more than 600 government representatives, business leaders and diplomats from 27 countries, including China, India, Brazil, Azerbaijan and Sri Lanka.
The Forum was organised by the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region and the Oka Agency.
💬 Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin:
Throughout the discussion, speakers emphasised that, as the world moves towards #Multipolarity, Russia is developing new logistics routes and strengthening ties within the #EAEU, #CIS, #SCO and #BRICS, while attempts to isolate our country are doomed to fail.
💬Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov:
Chinese representatives proposed making greater use of the Yangtze-Volga cooperation mechanism to establish joint production facilities, conduct scientific research and enter third-country markets.
Cooperation with African countries was also identified as a promising area, with companies from the Nizhny Novgorod Region well placed to supply industrial equipment, medical devices, food products and IT solutions.
✍️ Three cooperation agreements were also signed at the Forum:
• between Privolzhsky Research Medical University and the University Clinical Centre of Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina);
• between the Nizhny Novgorod Region Export Support Centre and the Association for Business Cooperation between Exporters and Middle Eastern Countries;
• between the Agency for Attracting Foreign Talent and the Oka Agency.
The success of the inaugural Forum has set the course for its development – this is only the beginning!
Next year, the Forum is expected to become a two-day event, with a stronger focus on interregional cooperation, pooling the capabilities of Russia’s regions to attract foreign partners and implement joint projects.
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Thanks to the extensive business programme, representatives of government, Russian and foreign entrepreneurs, academia and development institutions had the opportunity to discuss practical solutions for implementing international projects.
The main event was the Plenary Session “Advancing international cooperation at the confluence of the Oka and Volga”.
🌐 The event gathered more than 600 government representatives, business leaders and diplomats from 27 countries, including China, India, Brazil, Azerbaijan and Sri Lanka.
The Forum was organised by the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region and the Oka Agency.
💬 Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin:
Before 2022, almost 80% of our region’s exports went west – to Europe and the US.
Over the past few years, however, the vast majority of enterprises in the Nizhny Novgorod Region have managed to redirect their sales to new markets – primarily India and China. Companies in our region and across Russia have learned to compete with leading global manufacturers under these extremely challenging conditions.
Throughout the discussion, speakers emphasised that, as the world moves towards #Multipolarity, Russia is developing new logistics routes and strengthening ties within the #EAEU, #CIS, #SCO and #BRICS, while attempts to isolate our country are doomed to fail.
💬Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov:
It is deeply symbolic that this forum is taking place in Nizhny Novgorod, where fairs have been held for centuries, helping establish and develop trade and personal ties between Russia, Europe, Central Asia, India and Persia.
I hope the Nizhny Novgorod Economic Forum will likewise become a meeting point for all those interested in doing business with our country.
Chinese representatives proposed making greater use of the Yangtze-Volga cooperation mechanism to establish joint production facilities, conduct scientific research and enter third-country markets.
Cooperation with African countries was also identified as a promising area, with companies from the Nizhny Novgorod Region well placed to supply industrial equipment, medical devices, food products and IT solutions.
✍️ Three cooperation agreements were also signed at the Forum:
• between Privolzhsky Research Medical University and the University Clinical Centre of Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina);
• between the Nizhny Novgorod Region Export Support Centre and the Association for Business Cooperation between Exporters and Middle Eastern Countries;
• between the Agency for Attracting Foreign Talent and the Oka Agency.
The success of the inaugural Forum has set the course for its development – this is only the beginning!
Next year, the Forum is expected to become a two-day event, with a stronger focus on interregional cooperation, pooling the capabilities of Russia’s regions to attract foreign partners and implement joint projects.
👉 LEARN MORE
#NEF2026