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Навстречу российскому образованию: Русский дом на Visakha EduFest
На площадке школы Visakha Vidyalaya в Коломбо состоялся масштабный образовательный фестиваль Visakha EduFest & Carnival 2026, объединивший школьников, родителей, педагогов и гостей. В программе — образовательная ярмарка, культурные выступления, развлечения и самые разные активности для детей и взрослых.
Русский дом в Коломбо принял участие в образовательной части фестиваля, представив возможности обучения в России, российские образовательные программы и свои разнообразные проекты.
Особый интерес у школьников и родителей вызвала тема высшего образования в России. Координатор отдела образования Русского дома Элина Бабаева рассказала о преимуществах обучения в российских университетах, доступных образовательных направлениях и возможностях поступления.
🎓 Ребята узнали о программах бакалавриата, магистратуры и аспирантуры, а также о возможности получить образование в рамках квоты Правительства Российской Федерации.
Но знакомство с Россией на этом не закончилось. Гостям фестиваля также рассказали о возможностях изучения русского языка и культурно-образовательных проектах Русского дома — от искусства и музыки до балета и шахмат. Участники смогли задать интересующие их вопросы и лично пообщаться с представителями Русского дома.
✨ Для многих школьников это стало первым знакомством с российской системой образования и возможностью задуматься о будущем обучении. Такие встречи особенно важны, ведь интерес к большой образовательной траектории может начинаться именно со школьной скамьи — с одного разговора, одного вопроса и одной мечты.
📢 А впереди — особенно важный этап! Уже совсем скоро стартует новая долгожданная квотная кампания по набору ланкийских студентов в российские вузы. В ближайшее время заработает и новая онлайн-платформа для подачи заявлений.
Мы с нетерпением ждем заявок от ярких, талантливых и амбициозных молодых людей Шри-Ланки и надеемся, что в следующем учебном году еще сотня ланкийских абитуриентов отправятся в Россию, чтобы открыть для себя нашу страну и сделать первые шаги навстречу своему будущему!🎓✨
Благодарим организаторов Visakha EduFest & Carnival 2026 за возможность стать частью этого замечательного образовательного события!
#РусскийДомКоломбо #ШриЛанка #ОбразованиеВРоссии #РоссийскиеВузы #РусскийЯзык #StudyInRussia #RussianEducation
На площадке школы Visakha Vidyalaya в Коломбо состоялся масштабный образовательный фестиваль Visakha EduFest & Carnival 2026, объединивший школьников, родителей, педагогов и гостей. В программе — образовательная ярмарка, культурные выступления, развлечения и самые разные активности для детей и взрослых.
Русский дом в Коломбо принял участие в образовательной части фестиваля, представив возможности обучения в России, российские образовательные программы и свои разнообразные проекты.
Особый интерес у школьников и родителей вызвала тема высшего образования в России. Координатор отдела образования Русского дома Элина Бабаева рассказала о преимуществах обучения в российских университетах, доступных образовательных направлениях и возможностях поступления.
🎓 Ребята узнали о программах бакалавриата, магистратуры и аспирантуры, а также о возможности получить образование в рамках квоты Правительства Российской Федерации.
Но знакомство с Россией на этом не закончилось. Гостям фестиваля также рассказали о возможностях изучения русского языка и культурно-образовательных проектах Русского дома — от искусства и музыки до балета и шахмат. Участники смогли задать интересующие их вопросы и лично пообщаться с представителями Русского дома.
✨ Для многих школьников это стало первым знакомством с российской системой образования и возможностью задуматься о будущем обучении. Такие встречи особенно важны, ведь интерес к большой образовательной траектории может начинаться именно со школьной скамьи — с одного разговора, одного вопроса и одной мечты.
📢 А впереди — особенно важный этап! Уже совсем скоро стартует новая долгожданная квотная кампания по набору ланкийских студентов в российские вузы. В ближайшее время заработает и новая онлайн-платформа для подачи заявлений.
Мы с нетерпением ждем заявок от ярких, талантливых и амбициозных молодых людей Шри-Ланки и надеемся, что в следующем учебном году еще сотня ланкийских абитуриентов отправятся в Россию, чтобы открыть для себя нашу страну и сделать первые шаги навстречу своему будущему!🎓✨
Благодарим организаторов Visakha EduFest & Carnival 2026 за возможность стать частью этого замечательного образовательного события!
#РусскийДомКоломбо #ШриЛанка #ОбразованиеВРоссии #РоссийскиеВузы #РусскийЯзык #StudyInRussia #RussianEducation
🇷🇺 On September 13, President of Russia Vladimir Putin concluded his three-day working visit to India to attend the XVIII BRICS Summit.
Key events of the Summit:
🤝 Visit to the Innoprom.India exhibition
🎙 Vladimir Putin’s address at the BRICS Business Forum
🎙 Vladimir Putin’s address at the XVIII BRICS Summit
🎙 Vladimir Putin’s address at the Outreach/BRICS Plus Session of the XVIII BRICS Summit
✍️ On September 12, The XVIII BRICS Summit adopted the New Delhi Declaration “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”:
Bearing in mind the need to adapt the current architecture of international relations to better reflect the contemporary realities, we reiterate our commitment to strengthening multilateralism and multipolarity and to upholding international law, including the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnectedness in a balanced and inclusive manner, as its indispensable cornerstone, and the central role of the #UN in the international system.
📃 Full text of the Declaration
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On the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, President of Russia Vladimir Putin also held a series of bilateral meetings with:
🇮🇳 Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
🇿🇦 President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa
🇪🇬 President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
🇲🇾 Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim
🇪🇹 Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed
🇦🇪 Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
🤝 President of the New Development Bank Dilma Rousseff
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🎙 During the visit, Vladimir Putin also answered questions from Russian journalists, addressing key issues on the international agenda.
#BRICS2026 #RussiaBRICS
Key events of the Summit:
🤝 Visit to the Innoprom.India exhibition
🎙 Vladimir Putin’s address at the BRICS Business Forum
🎙 Vladimir Putin’s address at the XVIII BRICS Summit
🎙 Vladimir Putin’s address at the Outreach/BRICS Plus Session of the XVIII BRICS Summit
✍️ On September 12, The XVIII BRICS Summit adopted the New Delhi Declaration “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”:
Bearing in mind the need to adapt the current architecture of international relations to better reflect the contemporary realities, we reiterate our commitment to strengthening multilateralism and multipolarity and to upholding international law, including the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnectedness in a balanced and inclusive manner, as its indispensable cornerstone, and the central role of the #UN in the international system.
📃 Full text of the Declaration
***
On the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, President of Russia Vladimir Putin also held a series of bilateral meetings with:
🇮🇳 Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
🇿🇦 President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa
🇪🇬 President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
🇲🇾 Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim
🇪🇹 Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed
🇦🇪 Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
🤝 President of the New Development Bank Dilma Rousseff
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🎙 During the visit, Vladimir Putin also answered questions from Russian journalists, addressing key issues on the international agenda.
#BRICS2026 #RussiaBRICS
☢️ Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant (#ZNPP):
Since the evening of September 12, Ukrainian forces have been attacking the training centre at the ZNPP (managed by Rosatom). More than 10 UAV attacks have been recorded so far.
According to preliminary information, there have been no casualties. The extent of the damage is being assessed.
❗️ The risk of further attacks remains high.
The training centre provides instruction and practical training for plant personnel, including drills for abnormal conditions and emergencies. It forms part of the plant’s safety system: specialists must regularly maintain their skills and be ready to act precisely and in coordination in any situation.
Strikes on a facility used to train nuclear plant personnel therefore target both infrastructure and a component of the nuclear safety system.
The situation at the plant remains under control. The plant’s operational safety remains assured. Radiation levels are within normal limits.
Further information on the consequences of the attacks will be provided as the facility is inspected, once the threat of further attacks has subsided.
Since the evening of September 12, Ukrainian forces have been attacking the training centre at the ZNPP (managed by Rosatom). More than 10 UAV attacks have been recorded so far.
According to preliminary information, there have been no casualties. The extent of the damage is being assessed.
❗️ The risk of further attacks remains high.
The training centre provides instruction and practical training for plant personnel, including drills for abnormal conditions and emergencies. It forms part of the plant’s safety system: specialists must regularly maintain their skills and be ready to act precisely and in coordination in any situation.
Strikes on a facility used to train nuclear plant personnel therefore target both infrastructure and a component of the nuclear safety system.
The situation at the plant remains under control. The plant’s operational safety remains assured. Radiation levels are within normal limits.
Further information on the consequences of the attacks will be provided as the facility is inspected, once the threat of further attacks has subsided.
Meeting of Eurasian Economic Commission's Council held at EEC's headquarters
It considered relevant matters of the Eurasian economic integration.
The EEC Council adopted amendments to the Rules for Determining the Country of Origin of Certain Types of Goods to ensure access to public procurement in the EAEU countries.
Amendments were made to the EAEU Common Phytosanitary Quarantine Requirements and the List of quarantinable products subject to phytosanitary quarantine control (supervision) at the Union's customs border and within its customs territory.
The EEC Council amended to the EAEU Technical Regulation “On the Safety of Toys”.
An amendment was approved to the Rules for Marketing Authorization and Expert Examination of Security, Quality, and Efficiency of Medical Devices.
The EAEU Good Manufacturing Practice Rules have been supplemented with requirements to the manufacture of advanced therapy medicinal products.
📷:EEC
#EAEU
It considered relevant matters of the Eurasian economic integration.
The EEC Council adopted amendments to the Rules for Determining the Country of Origin of Certain Types of Goods to ensure access to public procurement in the EAEU countries.
Amendments were made to the EAEU Common Phytosanitary Quarantine Requirements and the List of quarantinable products subject to phytosanitary quarantine control (supervision) at the Union's customs border and within its customs territory.
The EEC Council amended to the EAEU Technical Regulation “On the Safety of Toys”.
An amendment was approved to the Rules for Marketing Authorization and Expert Examination of Security, Quality, and Efficiency of Medical Devices.
The EAEU Good Manufacturing Practice Rules have been supplemented with requirements to the manufacture of advanced therapy medicinal products.
📷:EEC
#EAEU
🗓 31 августа заместитель Министра иностранных дел Российской Федерации А.С.Алимов принял Генерального секретаря Международного органа по морскому дну (МОМД) Л.Карвальо.
А.С.Алимов подтвердил готовность России продолжать активно участвовать в работе МОМД, выразил поддержку его деятельности, подчеркнув исключительный мандат Органа и его роль в деле упорядоченного, безопасного и рационального использования ресурсов международного района морского дна (Район).
Генеральный секретарь, в свою очередь, высоко оценила вклад России в функционирование Органа и выразила надежду на продолжение и укрепление плодотворного взаимодействия.
Были обсуждены актуальные вопросы международного сотрудничества в сфере глубоководной разведки и добычи полезных ископаемых. Среди них – перспективы завершения ведущейся в МОМД реализации проекта правил разработки минеральных ресурсов в Районе и перехода от стадии разведки к стадии промышленной добычи глубоководных ресурсов.
Л.Карвальо прибыла в Россию для участия в Восточном экономическом форуме #ВЭФ (1-4 сентября, Владивосток).
А.С.Алимов подтвердил готовность России продолжать активно участвовать в работе МОМД, выразил поддержку его деятельности, подчеркнув исключительный мандат Органа и его роль в деле упорядоченного, безопасного и рационального использования ресурсов международного района морского дна (Район).
Генеральный секретарь, в свою очередь, высоко оценила вклад России в функционирование Органа и выразила надежду на продолжение и укрепление плодотворного взаимодействия.
Были обсуждены актуальные вопросы международного сотрудничества в сфере глубоководной разведки и добычи полезных ископаемых. Среди них – перспективы завершения ведущейся в МОМД реализации проекта правил разработки минеральных ресурсов в Районе и перехода от стадии разведки к стадии промышленной добычи глубоководных ресурсов.
Л.Карвальо прибыла в Россию для участия в Восточном экономическом форуме #ВЭФ (1-4 сентября, Владивосток).
⚡️ Служба внешней разведки Российской Федерации:
Несостоявшаяся «диверсия» в Лейпциге: чего пытается добиться Берлин обвинениями в адрес России?
Пресс-бюро Службы внешней разведки Российской Федерации сообщает, что, по поступающей в СВР информации, многие на Западе лишь делают вид, что верят руководству Германии, которое голословно возложило на Россию вину за недавний «дроновый инцидент» в аэропорту немецкого Лейпцига.
На публику союзники транслируют «полную солидарность» с Берлином, якобы ставшим «жертвой российской провокации». Однако «за кулисами» всё выглядит совсем иначе.
По имеющимся у СВР надёжным данным, спецслужбы натовских государств, изучившие обстоятельства инцидента, информировали национальные власти об отсутствии даже малейших доказательств причастности России. Напротив, указывалось на многочисленные признаки «украинского следа». Госструктурам рекомендовалось воздержаться от однозначных, а тем более публичных, заявлений о вине Москвы.
Однако такая осторожная позиция союзников не устроила руководство ФРГ. Немецкие власти, несмотря на предупреждения натовских спецслужб, предпочли выдвинуть огульные обвинения в адрес России.
👉 Основная причина - обосновать «мегазатраты» на милитаризацию Германии в рамках бюджета на 2027 год.
Как показало дальнейшее развитие событий, немецкий избиратель не столь наивен. Итоги выборов в федеральной земле Саксония-Анхальт 6 сентября показали, что антироссийская провокация властей не сработала.
☝️ Предстоящие 20 сентября выборы в Мекленбурге – Передней Померании и Берлине станут ещё одним испытанием для Ф.Мерца.
Несостоявшаяся «диверсия» в Лейпциге: чего пытается добиться Берлин обвинениями в адрес России?
Пресс-бюро Службы внешней разведки Российской Федерации сообщает, что, по поступающей в СВР информации, многие на Западе лишь делают вид, что верят руководству Германии, которое голословно возложило на Россию вину за недавний «дроновый инцидент» в аэропорту немецкого Лейпцига.
На публику союзники транслируют «полную солидарность» с Берлином, якобы ставшим «жертвой российской провокации». Однако «за кулисами» всё выглядит совсем иначе.
По имеющимся у СВР надёжным данным, спецслужбы натовских государств, изучившие обстоятельства инцидента, информировали национальные власти об отсутствии даже малейших доказательств причастности России. Напротив, указывалось на многочисленные признаки «украинского следа». Госструктурам рекомендовалось воздержаться от однозначных, а тем более публичных, заявлений о вине Москвы.
Однако такая осторожная позиция союзников не устроила руководство ФРГ. Немецкие власти, несмотря на предупреждения натовских спецслужб, предпочли выдвинуть огульные обвинения в адрес России.
👉 Основная причина - обосновать «мегазатраты» на милитаризацию Германии в рамках бюджета на 2027 год.
Как показало дальнейшее развитие событий, немецкий избиратель не столь наивен. Итоги выборов в федеральной земле Саксония-Анхальт 6 сентября показали, что антироссийская провокация властей не сработала.
☝️ Предстоящие 20 сентября выборы в Мекленбурге – Передней Померании и Берлине станут ещё одним испытанием для Ф.Мерца.
⚡️ Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation:
The Press Bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (#SVR) reports that, according to information received by the SVR, many in the West are merely pretending to believe the German leadership’s unsubstantiated claims blaming Russia for the recent “drone incident” at Leipzig Airport.
In public, Germany’s allies voice their “full solidarity” with Berlin, supposedly the “victim of a Russian provocation”. Behind the scenes, however, the picture is very different.
According to reliable information available to the SVR, intelligence services in NATO countries that examined the circumstances of the incident informed their governments that there was not the slightest evidence of Russian involvement. On the contrary, they pointed to numerous indications of a “Ukrainian connection”. Government bodies were advised to refrain from unequivocal accusations against Moscow, particularly in public.
However, this cautious stance among Germany’s allies did not suit the German leadership. Despite warnings from NATO intelligence services, the German authorities chose to make sweeping accusations against Russia.
👉 Their main objective was to justify the “massive spending” on Germany’s militarisation envisaged in the 2027 budget.
Subsequent developments showed that German voters were not so easily deceived. The results of the September 6 elections in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt demonstrated that the authorities’ anti-Russian provocation had failed.
🗳 The upcoming September 20 elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin will be another test for Friedrich Merz.
The Press Bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (#SVR) reports that, according to information received by the SVR, many in the West are merely pretending to believe the German leadership’s unsubstantiated claims blaming Russia for the recent “drone incident” at Leipzig Airport.
In public, Germany’s allies voice their “full solidarity” with Berlin, supposedly the “victim of a Russian provocation”. Behind the scenes, however, the picture is very different.
According to reliable information available to the SVR, intelligence services in NATO countries that examined the circumstances of the incident informed their governments that there was not the slightest evidence of Russian involvement. On the contrary, they pointed to numerous indications of a “Ukrainian connection”. Government bodies were advised to refrain from unequivocal accusations against Moscow, particularly in public.
However, this cautious stance among Germany’s allies did not suit the German leadership. Despite warnings from NATO intelligence services, the German authorities chose to make sweeping accusations against Russia.
👉 Their main objective was to justify the “massive spending” on Germany’s militarisation envisaged in the 2027 budget.
Subsequent developments showed that German voters were not so easily deceived. The results of the September 6 elections in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt demonstrated that the authorities’ anti-Russian provocation had failed.
🗳 The upcoming September 20 elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin will be another test for Friedrich Merz.
🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the roundtable discussion “The Ukraine Crisis: The West’s Legal Aggression” (Moscow, September 15, 2026)
Key points:
• The history of the Ukrainian crisis is a textbook example of how the West and its puppets consistently disregard their international obligations, to put it mildly.
• Even the most fundamental human right – the right to life – is not respected in Ukraine. You regularly see footage of “human catchers” rounding up young men, and also not-so-young men, on the streets of Ukrainian cities. I have no doubt that they will soon start going after women as well.
• The West is fond of interpreting the UN Charter, but only selectively and in its own interests, cherry-picking the specific principles and articles that suit its political plans at any given moment.
• “Legal aggression” against Russia has a long history. The European Court of Human Rights was regularly used for this purpose even before the events in Ukraine. Since 2014, however, this aggression has become systematic. It began with attempts to delegitimise the historic choice made by the people of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya.
• In January 2024, the International Court of Justice delivered its final judgment – it recognised that Russia had not financed terrorism; that the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics were not terrorist organisations; that there was no discrimination against Crimean Tatars or Ukrainians in Crimea; and that the ban on the extremist organisation Mejlis was lawful.
• Ukraine’s second case against Russia also failed. It was filed in February 2022, when Kiev accused us of abusing the Genocide Convention by defending the people of Donbass against genocide. In February 2024, the Court ruled that Russia’s actions had not violated the Genocide Convention. Full stop. All accusations against Russia were dismissed.
• In 2016, Ukraine initiated arbitration proceedings under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in an attempt to challenge Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, restored in accordance with the freely expressed will of the peninsula’s residents. On June 15, 2026, the arbitral tribunal to which Ukraine had brought its case upheld Russia’s position in its final award.
• Ukraine lost every one of the said cases. They were brought in bad faith from the outset. Both the Kiev regime and its Western handlers knew that their claims were unfounded and, in some instances, had no connection whatsoever to the subject matter of the respective conventions.
• Russia is, of course, not the only country facing the West’s “legal aggression” – any country in the world could become a target. Any state’s gold and foreign exchange reserves held in Western depositories could be frozen.
☝️ Protecting the international justice system and international law as a whole from bad-faith politicisation serves the interests of all sensible states that have their national interests in mind.
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Key points:
• The history of the Ukrainian crisis is a textbook example of how the West and its puppets consistently disregard their international obligations, to put it mildly.
• Even the most fundamental human right – the right to life – is not respected in Ukraine. You regularly see footage of “human catchers” rounding up young men, and also not-so-young men, on the streets of Ukrainian cities. I have no doubt that they will soon start going after women as well.
• The West is fond of interpreting the UN Charter, but only selectively and in its own interests, cherry-picking the specific principles and articles that suit its political plans at any given moment.
• “Legal aggression” against Russia has a long history. The European Court of Human Rights was regularly used for this purpose even before the events in Ukraine. Since 2014, however, this aggression has become systematic. It began with attempts to delegitimise the historic choice made by the people of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya.
• In January 2024, the International Court of Justice delivered its final judgment – it recognised that Russia had not financed terrorism; that the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics were not terrorist organisations; that there was no discrimination against Crimean Tatars or Ukrainians in Crimea; and that the ban on the extremist organisation Mejlis was lawful.
• Ukraine’s second case against Russia also failed. It was filed in February 2022, when Kiev accused us of abusing the Genocide Convention by defending the people of Donbass against genocide. In February 2024, the Court ruled that Russia’s actions had not violated the Genocide Convention. Full stop. All accusations against Russia were dismissed.
• In 2016, Ukraine initiated arbitration proceedings under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in an attempt to challenge Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, restored in accordance with the freely expressed will of the peninsula’s residents. On June 15, 2026, the arbitral tribunal to which Ukraine had brought its case upheld Russia’s position in its final award.
• Ukraine lost every one of the said cases. They were brought in bad faith from the outset. Both the Kiev regime and its Western handlers knew that their claims were unfounded and, in some instances, had no connection whatsoever to the subject matter of the respective conventions.
• Russia is, of course, not the only country facing the West’s “legal aggression” – any country in the world could become a target. Any state’s gold and foreign exchange reserves held in Western depositories could be frozen.
☝️ Protecting the international justice system and international law as a whole from bad-faith politicisation serves the interests of all sensible states that have their national interests in mind.
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🎙 Remarks and answers to questions by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the session “A New Global Architecture: An Open Dialogue with Sergey Lavrov” during the Federal Educational Marathon “Znanie. Pervye” (Yekaterinburg, September 16, 2026)
💬 Sergey Lavrov: The philosophy of equality, which is becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s world, is particularly characteristic of #BRICS, the latest Summit of which has just taken place in New Delhi.
The countries within this group represent a wide range of civilisations, yet demonstrate #unity in their pursuit of greater opportunities for shared development – to ensure their peoples’ prosperity and security, without harming anyone else or advancing at anyone else’s expense.
☝️ Russia is fully committed to this approach, which also characterises other groupings of a new type, including the #SCO, #CIS, #EAEU and #CSTO.
👉 Unfortunately, the objective process of strengthening multipolarity faces aggressive resistance from our Western colleagues and their elites.
They continue to view these developments as a threat to the dominance they enjoyed for five hundred years – through slavery and colonialism. They are trying to preserve their slipping supremacy by resorting to the most unscrupulous methods, including unlawful ones: unilateral sanctions, direct pressure, interference in domestic affairs and instigation of conflicts.
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Key points:
• The adaptation of international relations to multipolar realities is an objective process. The #GlobalMajority wants it to succeed, although it will take time and may span an entire historical era.
• We envisage a #MultipolarWorld as one in which small and medium-sized countries are free from blackmail, threats and sanctions, where all such countries are respected and can choose their own partners.
• For us, the Ukrainian conflict resolution requires achieving the objectives set at the beginning of the special military operation, which are aimed at eliminating the root causes of the crisis. These include plans to bring NATO and its military infrastructure right up to Russia’s borders, as well as Ukraine's official state policy, enshrined in law, of eradicating everything Russian.
• I would welcome nationally minded political forces coming to power in European countries. What the Brussels bureaucracy is doing – appropriating powers and rights that essentially belong to national governments – violates, first and foremost, the EU’s own rules.
• We did not sever our relations with Europe – Europe did. We now have all the markets and partners we need. Despite the hybrid war against Russia, things are progressing as well as can be expected under the circumstances.
• As in previous years, we are seeing particularly pronounced attempts by the West to interfere directly in our citizens’ exercise of their voting rights and in the election campaign. This is especially evident abroad, but such attempts are also taking place within Russia.
• If and when European countries wish to resume a serious dialogue, we will first listen to what they have in mind and what they can offer, and then decide whether it is acceptable to us.
• If Europe, which speaks daily about preparing for war against Russia, attacks the Russian Federation, it will be an entirely different war. And it will be a very short one.
❗️ I hope this warning has been heard in European capitals and by the institutions now attempting to speak for a united Europe.
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💬 Sergey Lavrov: The philosophy of equality, which is becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s world, is particularly characteristic of #BRICS, the latest Summit of which has just taken place in New Delhi.
The countries within this group represent a wide range of civilisations, yet demonstrate #unity in their pursuit of greater opportunities for shared development – to ensure their peoples’ prosperity and security, without harming anyone else or advancing at anyone else’s expense.
☝️ Russia is fully committed to this approach, which also characterises other groupings of a new type, including the #SCO, #CIS, #EAEU and #CSTO.
👉 Unfortunately, the objective process of strengthening multipolarity faces aggressive resistance from our Western colleagues and their elites.
They continue to view these developments as a threat to the dominance they enjoyed for five hundred years – through slavery and colonialism. They are trying to preserve their slipping supremacy by resorting to the most unscrupulous methods, including unlawful ones: unilateral sanctions, direct pressure, interference in domestic affairs and instigation of conflicts.
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Key points:
• The adaptation of international relations to multipolar realities is an objective process. The #GlobalMajority wants it to succeed, although it will take time and may span an entire historical era.
• We envisage a #MultipolarWorld as one in which small and medium-sized countries are free from blackmail, threats and sanctions, where all such countries are respected and can choose their own partners.
• For us, the Ukrainian conflict resolution requires achieving the objectives set at the beginning of the special military operation, which are aimed at eliminating the root causes of the crisis. These include plans to bring NATO and its military infrastructure right up to Russia’s borders, as well as Ukraine's official state policy, enshrined in law, of eradicating everything Russian.
• I would welcome nationally minded political forces coming to power in European countries. What the Brussels bureaucracy is doing – appropriating powers and rights that essentially belong to national governments – violates, first and foremost, the EU’s own rules.
• We did not sever our relations with Europe – Europe did. We now have all the markets and partners we need. Despite the hybrid war against Russia, things are progressing as well as can be expected under the circumstances.
• As in previous years, we are seeing particularly pronounced attempts by the West to interfere directly in our citizens’ exercise of their voting rights and in the election campaign. This is especially evident abroad, but such attempts are also taking place within Russia.
• If and when European countries wish to resume a serious dialogue, we will first listen to what they have in mind and what they can offer, and then decide whether it is acceptable to us.
• If Europe, which speaks daily about preparing for war against Russia, attacks the Russian Federation, it will be an entirely different war. And it will be a very short one.
❗️ I hope this warning has been heard in European capitals and by the institutions now attempting to speak for a united Europe.
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⚡️ The International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis has published a report “Heirs of Goebbels: Falsification of the Events in Bucha and Bloody Staged Performances of the Kiev Regime”, presenting its findings on the Bucha hoax, and how the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors through mainstream media support falsified the events of what occurred in Bucha in 2022.
The Tribunal brings together civil society representatives from 35 countries. Drawing on Ukrainian media reports, memorial records and eyewitness testimony, the publication debunks the claim that the individuals commemorated at the Bucha memorial were civilians killed by Russia's Armed Forces.
Key findings:
▪️ Military personnel presented as civilian victims
The report identifies Ukrainian servicemen and combatants listed among the memorial’s “civilian victims”.
Examples include Evgeny Petrash, a serviceman of Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov battalion; Andrey Vaskevich, an Azov company commander; Ruslan Belous and Roman Dovgalyuk, military pilots whose aircraft was downed near Berezovka. Other entries include a sniper of Ukraine's 80th separate air assault brigade Oleg Tsimbal, members of territorial defence units, airborne formations and military intelligence.
▪️ Discrepancies in the location and cause of death
A number of people commemorated at the Bucha memorial died elsewhere. Ukrainian sources place the deaths of a number of servicemen near Vorzel, Moshchun, Kopylov and other settlements.
The report also cites 68-year-old Galina Semenyuk, who died of cancer but somehow appears on the memorial. Such cases highlight the need to establish each person’s circumstances of death before presenting the entire list as “civilian victims killed by the Russian military”.
▪️ Witness accounts of shelling and manipulated coverage
The publication includes 16 witness accounts from Avdeevka, Ugledar, Dzerzhinsk and other towns and cities. Witnesses recount Ukrainian attacks on residential areas followed by the arrival of journalists, coverage blaming Russia, and pressure on residents to repeat that account.
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The Tribunal’s conclusion is unequivocal: the material it has collected points to blatant falsification of events in Bucha by the Kiev regime with Western support, alongside a broader practice of killing civilians to produce footage blaming Russia.
☝️ The cases presented in this publication form only part of the evidence assembled by the Tribunal.
📄 Full report (PDF)
#BuchaHoax
The Tribunal brings together civil society representatives from 35 countries. Drawing on Ukrainian media reports, memorial records and eyewitness testimony, the publication debunks the claim that the individuals commemorated at the Bucha memorial were civilians killed by Russia's Armed Forces.
Key findings:
▪️ Military personnel presented as civilian victims
The report identifies Ukrainian servicemen and combatants listed among the memorial’s “civilian victims”.
Examples include Evgeny Petrash, a serviceman of Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov battalion; Andrey Vaskevich, an Azov company commander; Ruslan Belous and Roman Dovgalyuk, military pilots whose aircraft was downed near Berezovka. Other entries include a sniper of Ukraine's 80th separate air assault brigade Oleg Tsimbal, members of territorial defence units, airborne formations and military intelligence.
▪️ Discrepancies in the location and cause of death
A number of people commemorated at the Bucha memorial died elsewhere. Ukrainian sources place the deaths of a number of servicemen near Vorzel, Moshchun, Kopylov and other settlements.
The report also cites 68-year-old Galina Semenyuk, who died of cancer but somehow appears on the memorial. Such cases highlight the need to establish each person’s circumstances of death before presenting the entire list as “civilian victims killed by the Russian military”.
▪️ Witness accounts of shelling and manipulated coverage
The publication includes 16 witness accounts from Avdeevka, Ugledar, Dzerzhinsk and other towns and cities. Witnesses recount Ukrainian attacks on residential areas followed by the arrival of journalists, coverage blaming Russia, and pressure on residents to repeat that account.
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The Tribunal’s conclusion is unequivocal: the material it has collected points to blatant falsification of events in Bucha by the Kiev regime with Western support, alongside a broader practice of killing civilians to produce footage blaming Russia.
☝️ The cases presented in this publication form only part of the evidence assembled by the Tribunal.
📄 Full report (PDF)
#BuchaHoax