RUSSIAN EMBASSY WEEKLY_325.pdf
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🔹Meeting of the Council of Legislators
🔹Vladimir Putin's address to the CIS Heads of Government Council meeting participants
🔹Vladimir Putin submitted documents to Central Election Commission
🔹Expanded meeting of Defence Ministry Board
🔹Presenting Gold Star medals to Heroes of Russia
#Government
🇷🇺🇨🇳Mikhail Mishustin meets with President of China Xi Jinping
#ForeignMinistry
📺Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Channel One’s Bolshaya Igra (Great Game) political talk show
🎙Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at the plenary meeting of the 6th session of the Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum
#Embassy
🔹 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question
🎼 On December 19, a festive concert dedicated to the musical art of outstanding Russian composer Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky was held at the Russian Embassy in the USA
#WeRemember
#OnThisDay
📆 On December 18, 1916 the world's most accomplished designer of hydrofoil ships and ground-effect vehicles Rostislav Alexeyev was born
✈️ On December 18, 1981, the Tupolev Tu160 aka White Swan performed its maiden flight
🛰 On December 21, 1966, the Soviet space probe Luna13 blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
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🔹Vladimir Putin talked by telephone with 8 year-old Kristina Sin from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a participant in the New Year Tree of Wishes charity campaign
🔹Meeting with residents of Anadyr
🔹Meeting with business leaders from the Far Eastern Federal District
#Government
🔹 Mikhail Mishustin presented the Government awards for 2023 in the field of mass media
#ForeignMinistry
📞 Sergey Lavrov spoke over the phone with Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China Wang Yi
#Embassy
💐 On January 11, Minister Counselor of the Russian Embassy in the USA and a representative of the Defense Attaché Office paid tribute to the memory of the Soviet pilots who perished 79 years ago in Elizabeth City (North Carolina) while ferrying to the USSR the PBY «Catalina» as part of the project «Zebra»
🔹 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
📰 Russian Press Day
#OnThisDay
⚛️ The legendary Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov was born on January 12, 1903
🚀 The father of spaceflight - Sergey Korolev - was born on January 12, 1907
#WeRemember
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RUSSIAN EMBASSY WEEKLY_328.pdf
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#President
🔹Meeting with Government members
🔹Meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui
#ForeignMinistry
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions during a news conference on Russia’s foreign policy performance in 2023
🇷🇺🇰🇵 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Choe Son-hui
🇷🇺🇸🇾 Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic Faisal Mekdad
#DefenceMinistry
☢️ Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military-biological activity
#Embassy
📰 Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov exclusively for Izvestia
📰 Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov exclusively for TASS news agency
🎥 The Russian Embassy in the USA hosted the premiere screening of "Challenge" movie
#WeRemember
#OnThisDay
🎭 Konstantin Stanislavsky, a luminary in the world of theatre, was born on January 17, 1863
📺 A brilliant actor, People's Artist of the USSR, Vasily Lanovoy was born on January 16, 1934
🚀 On January 16, 1969, the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 spacecraft with Soviet cosmonauts Shatalov, Volynov, Yeliseyev and Khrunov performed world's first docking of two manned spacecraft
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🗓 On January 27, 1944, the 872-day siege of Leningrad was finally lifted, marking the end of one of the most tragic episodes of the Great Patriotic War which claimed the lives of over a million Leningraders.
The blockade began on September 8, 1941, when Nazi troops isolated the city from the rest of the country by land. From the north, it was cut off from the main forces by Finnish troops allied with the Nazi Germany. In addition to the Finns, soldiers from Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands & Norway took part in the offensive, as well as volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France & Czechoslovakia.
Despite the cold, hunger & horrors of war, the Leningraders selflessly defended their city from total destruction during these 872 days and even in these dire circumstances continued producing goods & various machinery to supply the war effort against the Nazis. The incredible resilience and bravery of Leningrad residents shattered all the plans and ambitions of the Nazi invaders.
⚔️ A year after the breakthrough, Soviet Army managed to finally lift the siege of the city on January 27, 1944. After the success of the Iskra Operation, the situation in the city improved dramatically, but the threat remained. At the end of 1943, the Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive Operation was planned, during which Soviet soldiers liberated the Leningrad, Novgorod and part of the Kalinin (now Tver) regions, and pushed back the enemy to the borders of Estonia and Latvia.
🎖 The courage & heroism of Leningrad defenders were highly appreciated by the Motherland. Many units & formations were awarded the honourable title of “Guards”, orders & the honorary title of “Leningrad”. On the Leningrad, Volkhov & Karelian fronts, 486 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, including eight people who received it twice. 350,000+ servicemen on the Leningrad front alone received orders & medals.
#WeRemember and pay tribute to the heroes who stopped the Nazi plague that crippled Europe and threatened humankind.
The blockade began on September 8, 1941, when Nazi troops isolated the city from the rest of the country by land. From the north, it was cut off from the main forces by Finnish troops allied with the Nazi Germany. In addition to the Finns, soldiers from Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands & Norway took part in the offensive, as well as volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France & Czechoslovakia.
Despite the cold, hunger & horrors of war, the Leningraders selflessly defended their city from total destruction during these 872 days and even in these dire circumstances continued producing goods & various machinery to supply the war effort against the Nazis. The incredible resilience and bravery of Leningrad residents shattered all the plans and ambitions of the Nazi invaders.
⚔️ A year after the breakthrough, Soviet Army managed to finally lift the siege of the city on January 27, 1944. After the success of the Iskra Operation, the situation in the city improved dramatically, but the threat remained. At the end of 1943, the Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive Operation was planned, during which Soviet soldiers liberated the Leningrad, Novgorod and part of the Kalinin (now Tver) regions, and pushed back the enemy to the borders of Estonia and Latvia.
🎖 The courage & heroism of Leningrad defenders were highly appreciated by the Motherland. Many units & formations were awarded the honourable title of “Guards”, orders & the honorary title of “Leningrad”. On the Leningrad, Volkhov & Karelian fronts, 486 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, including eight people who received it twice. 350,000+ servicemen on the Leningrad front alone received orders & medals.
#WeRemember and pay tribute to the heroes who stopped the Nazi plague that crippled Europe and threatened humankind.
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🕯 President of Russia Vladimir Putin is taking part in the events to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege.
The President laid flowers at the Landmark Stone monument at the Nevsky Pyatachok military-historical complex. From the first days of the siege, the Red Army fighters held back the superior enemy forces in that area, a small three-kilometre stretch of the frontline south of Leningrad, preventing the Nazis and their allies from approaching the city.
The President visited the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery, where he honoured the memory of the fallen Leningrad residents and defenders of the city by laying a wreath at the Motherland monument. About half a million people are buried in mass graves at the Piskarevskoye cemetery. The words of poet Olga Berggolts, ”No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten“ are carved on the memorial wall behind the Motherland monument.
Leningrad is the only city in world history with a population of several million people that was able to withstand almost 900 days of encirclement. The siege by Nazi Germany lasted 872 days from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944. The ring was broken on January 18, 1943, and on January 27, 1944, a ceremonial salute was fired to mark the end of the blockade.
By that time there were no more than 800,000 inhabitants left in the Northern Capital out of the three million who had lived in Leningrad and its suburbs before the siege.
#Victory79 #WeRemember
The President laid flowers at the Landmark Stone monument at the Nevsky Pyatachok military-historical complex. From the first days of the siege, the Red Army fighters held back the superior enemy forces in that area, a small three-kilometre stretch of the frontline south of Leningrad, preventing the Nazis and their allies from approaching the city.
The President visited the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery, where he honoured the memory of the fallen Leningrad residents and defenders of the city by laying a wreath at the Motherland monument. About half a million people are buried in mass graves at the Piskarevskoye cemetery. The words of poet Olga Berggolts, ”No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten“ are carved on the memorial wall behind the Motherland monument.
Leningrad is the only city in world history with a population of several million people that was able to withstand almost 900 days of encirclement. The siege by Nazi Germany lasted 872 days from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944. The ring was broken on January 18, 1943, and on January 27, 1944, a ceremonial salute was fired to mark the end of the blockade.
By that time there were no more than 800,000 inhabitants left in the Northern Capital out of the three million who had lived in Leningrad and its suburbs before the siege.
#Victory79 #WeRemember
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❗️ All this happened against the backdrop of terrible exhaustion from hunger and constant shelling by the enemy.
Children's diaries have a unique place in commemorating the resilience of ordinary people whose will to live triumphed over the oppression of the Third Reich. During this difficult time, some of the city’s children documented on paper the terrible events they witnessed day by day.
🕯 The most famous of these diaries was Tanya Savicheva's notebook, where six out of nine pages chronicle the dates of her relatives' deaths: her mother, grandmother, sister, brother and two uncles. Tragically, Tanya herself died during evacuation in the Gorky Region on July 1, 1944, at the age of 14.
Keeping a diary helped these children cope with anxiety, fear and loss. Under the onslaught of hunger, constant shelling and bombing, and the death of loved ones, a piece of paper and a pencil provided solace and support. These written accounts offer invaluable insights into the experiences of people during those terrible 872 days of the Siege.
📚 Today, on the 80th Anniversary of the lifting of the Siege, we share excerpts from the diaries of children who witnessed those tragic events.
#WeRemember
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🕯 January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established on November 1, 2005 by the decision of the United Nations General Assembly, which Russia co-authored.
On this day, commemorative events are held around the world to highlight the importance of combating neoNazism, xenophobia, racism and other forms of intolerance.
The date itself was not chosen at random - on January 27, 1945, during the Vistula-Oder Operation, the Soviet soldiers liberated the Auschwitz (Oswiecim) concentration camp. According to the available data, at least 1.3 million people passed through the camp during its existence, and some 1.1 million of them were... exterminated.
❗️ The slogan on the camp’s gate, “Work Sets You Free” (in German: “Arbeit macht frei”) underlines the utter inhumanity of the Nazi criminals and their boundless cynicism.
On that day the Red Army soldiers saved more than 7,000 prisoners left in the camp.
During World War II, ~20 million people, including approximately 7.4 million Soviet citizens, were murdered as a result of the aggression in the territories occupied by the Nazi Germany. Approximately 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis solely because of their ethnicity...
The UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/60/7 states: "The Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities, will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice".
#WeRemember
On this day, commemorative events are held around the world to highlight the importance of combating neoNazism, xenophobia, racism and other forms of intolerance.
The date itself was not chosen at random - on January 27, 1945, during the Vistula-Oder Operation, the Soviet soldiers liberated the Auschwitz (Oswiecim) concentration camp. According to the available data, at least 1.3 million people passed through the camp during its existence, and some 1.1 million of them were... exterminated.
❗️ The slogan on the camp’s gate, “Work Sets You Free” (in German: “Arbeit macht frei”) underlines the utter inhumanity of the Nazi criminals and their boundless cynicism.
On that day the Red Army soldiers saved more than 7,000 prisoners left in the camp.
During World War II, ~20 million people, including approximately 7.4 million Soviet citizens, were murdered as a result of the aggression in the territories occupied by the Nazi Germany. Approximately 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis solely because of their ethnicity...
The UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/60/7 states: "The Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities, will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice".
#WeRemember
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🗓 On January 27, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko took part in a ceremony for unveiling a memorial to the USSR civilians who fell victim of the Nazi genocide during the Great Patriotic War. The event is timed to the 80th Anniversary of breaking the Siege of Leningrad.
💬 President Putin: January 27 is one of the most important dates in our shared national history. On this day in 1944, Red Army soldiers completely lifted the Siege of Leningrad. A year later, in 1945, they liberated Auschwitz.
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For eight decades now, our pain for the victims, for the shattered destinies, and for everyone who endured incredible ordeals has not subsided. Our compassion is passed on from generation to generation and has #NoStatuteOfLimitation, just like the crimes of Hitler’s fanatics and their accomplices, those who cold-bloodedly planned and cruelly carried out the genocide of the Soviet people.
🕯 The massacres of unarmed and defenceless elderly people, women, children, and disabled were deliberate, systemic punitive acts.
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We are witnessing a disturbing trend where the outcomes of the Nuremberg trials, which unequivocally condemned Nazism, are being revised. Some countries not only rewrite history and exonerate the executioners: revanchists and neo-Nazis have embraced the Nazi ideology and methods.
• Tens of thousands of people in the Baltic states are labelled “subhuman,” stripped of basic rights and persecuted.
• The Kiev regime glorifies Hitler's followers and members of the SS and uses terror against dissenters. Barbaric shelling of peaceful cities and towns persists, and the killing of the elderly, women and children continues.
• Some European countries endorse Russophobia as a state policy.
❗️ We will do everything in our power to halt and eradicate Nazism.
The followers of Nazi executioners are doomed. Nothing can deter the desire of millions of people in Russia and across the planet for true freedom, justice, peace, and security.
#Victory79 #WeRemember
💬 President Putin: January 27 is one of the most important dates in our shared national history. On this day in 1944, Red Army soldiers completely lifted the Siege of Leningrad. A year later, in 1945, they liberated Auschwitz.
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For eight decades now, our pain for the victims, for the shattered destinies, and for everyone who endured incredible ordeals has not subsided. Our compassion is passed on from generation to generation and has #NoStatuteOfLimitation, just like the crimes of Hitler’s fanatics and their accomplices, those who cold-bloodedly planned and cruelly carried out the genocide of the Soviet people.
🕯 The massacres of unarmed and defenceless elderly people, women, children, and disabled were deliberate, systemic punitive acts.
<...>
We are witnessing a disturbing trend where the outcomes of the Nuremberg trials, which unequivocally condemned Nazism, are being revised. Some countries not only rewrite history and exonerate the executioners: revanchists and neo-Nazis have embraced the Nazi ideology and methods.
• Tens of thousands of people in the Baltic states are labelled “subhuman,” stripped of basic rights and persecuted.
• The Kiev regime glorifies Hitler's followers and members of the SS and uses terror against dissenters. Barbaric shelling of peaceful cities and towns persists, and the killing of the elderly, women and children continues.
• Some European countries endorse Russophobia as a state policy.
❗️ We will do everything in our power to halt and eradicate Nazism.
The followers of Nazi executioners are doomed. Nothing can deter the desire of millions of people in Russia and across the planet for true freedom, justice, peace, and security.
#Victory79 #WeRemember
RUSSIAN EMBASSY WEEKLY_329.pdf
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#President
🔹Unveiling a memorial to USSR civilians who fell victim of Nazi genocide during Great Patriotic War
🔹Ceremony for pouring the first concrete into the foundation of power unit of El-Dabaa NPP
🔹Launching the Year of the Family in Russia
🔹Meeting with students that participated in the special military operation
🔹Greetings to participants and guests of the commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 79th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau (Oswiecim) concentration camp liberation by the Red Army
#ForeignMinistry
🎙 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine
📺 Sergey Lavrov’s interview with CBS TV channel
🎙 Sergey Lavrov’s statement at the UN Security Council Ministerial Meeting on the Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question
📰 Press release on Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with Permanent Representatives of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) nations to the UN
#DefenceMinistry
#Embassy
🔹 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answers to media questions
🔹 Comments by the Russian Embassy in the United States
🖼🎞 On the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the blockade a solemn event was held at the Russian Embassy in the United States
#WeRemember
#OnThisDay
🎸 Soviet singer and poet Vladimir Vysotsky was born on January 25, 1938
📆 On January 25, 1755, Russian Empress Elizabeth signed a decree to establish the first Russian university – Moscow State University
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RUSSIAN EMBASSY WEEKLY_330.pdf
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🔹Meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State
🔹Meeting with Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill
🔹Closing ceremony of the 2nd Congress of the Movement of the First
🔹Meeting on creating a network of up-to-date campuses
🔹Meeting with activists participating in the Everything for Victory! forum
#ForeignMinistry
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the embassy roundtable discussion of a settlement in Ukraine
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a BRICS sherpa and sous-sherpa meeting
🎙 Press release on Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with ambassadors of the CIS member states
#Embassy
🔹 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answers to media questions
🔹 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
#WeRemember
#OnThisDay
📆 February 2 marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Valery Chkalov - the legendary flying ace and one of the most influential pioneers of aviation
♟ Soviet-Russian grandmaster, 10th World Chess Champion Boris Spassky was born January 30, 1937
🎞 Legendary Russian-Soviet film studio “Mosfilm” was founded on January 30, 1924
✉️ Russia's first urban postal network was established in St.Petersburg on January 29, 1833
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