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🔹Address on the opening of the Army 2023 International Military Technical Forum
🔹Video address to the participants and guests of the 11th Moscow Conference on International Security


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🎙Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 11th Moscow Conference on International Security
✍️Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with The International Affairs journal

#DefenceMinistry

🪖Russian Minister of Defence General of the Army Sergei Shoigu has opened the 9th ARMY 2023 International Military-Technical Forum
🇷🇺🇨🇳Sergei Shoigu holds talks with Chinese Minister of National Defence Li Shangfu
🔹Address by Sergei Shoigu to the participants of The Second International Anti-Fascist Congress plenary session in Minsk
☢️ 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
🔹Exposition of trophies, captured during special military operation, is presented in Patriot Park

#Embassy

🎙 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions
✍️ Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
🎉 The Embassy congratulated Genokh Smelyansky on 100th anniversary

#WeRemeber

🎖On This Day in 1945, Soviet troops and Korean patriots liberated the territory of Korea, ending the Japanese colonial occupation

#OnThisDay

✈️ Legendary Soviet fighter pilot Lidiya Litvyak was born on August 18, 1921
🇷🇺On August 18, 1782 the iconic landmark of Saint Petersburg – the Bronze Horseman monument of Peter the Great – was unveiled
🚢 The Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker “Arktika” reached Earth's northernmost point - first in history – on August 17, 1977

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🔹Plenary session of the 8th Eastern Economic Forum
🇷🇺🇰🇵 Russia-North Korea talks
🇷🇺🇧🇾 Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko answered media questions

#ForeignMinistry

📰 FM Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from Izvestia on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum
🎙 Sergey Lavrov’s greetings to organisers and participants in the International Anti-Fascist Forum-2023
📰 Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions from Vesti news programme on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum

#DefenceMinistry

🔹 Russian Minister of Defence General of the Army Sergei Shoigu inspects implementation of state defence order at Progress helicopter plant in Arsenyev, Primorsky Krai, which produces Ka-52 helicopters

#Embassy

🤝🌍 Russia-Africa evening (September 12)
🔹Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answers to media questions
🔹Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemeber

🏅On September 13, 1923, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was born: partisan, saboteur, and the first woman awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) during the Great Patriotic War
🏅 On September 13, 1943, 80 years ago, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree posthumously conferring the Hero of the Soviet Union title on the leaders of Young Guard

#OnThisDay

💡 Russian electrical engineer Pavel Yablochkov was born on September 14, 1847
🚁 Nikolay Kamov – leading Soviet aircraft engineer and pioneer in helicopter designing – was born on September 14, 1902
⛸ The legendary Soviet figure skater, the incredible Irina Rodnina was born on September 12, 1949

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🔹 Opening of the Russia-Latin America Parliamentary Conference
🔹 Meeting with newly elected regional heads
🔹 Meeting with participants in the special military operation
🔹 Address on Day of Reunification of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic and the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions with Russia

#ForeignMinistry

🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov remarks at the opening ceremony of the Literary Salon: Ambassadors of Russian Culture event dedicated to Fyodor Tyutchev
📰 Sergey Lavrov’s interview with TASS News Agency
🎭 Sergey Lavrov’s greetings to the hosts, participants, and guests of the 6th BRICS+ International Festival of Theatre Schools

#DefenceMinistry

🔹 Opening statement by Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergei Shoigu at Defence Ministry Board Session
🪖 Sergei Shoigu has inspected the fulfilment of the state defence order at Tactical Missiles Corporation defence industry enterprise in Moscow region
🇷🇺🇦🇲🇦🇿🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇺🇿 Sergei Shoigu took part in a meeting of the Council of CIS Defence Ministers on military and military-technical cooperation
🌍 International anti-terrorist exercise kicks off in Primorye

#Embassy

✍️ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov exclusively for Newsweek
🔹Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions

#OnThisDay

🏅 On September 29 and 30, 1941, Nazi troops and their accomplices massacred nearly entire Jewish population of Kiev by shooting them at Baby Yar, a ravine in the northwestern part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic’s occupied capital
📆 One of the most acclaimed Soviet political cartoonist Boris Yefimov was born on September 28, 1900

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🔹 Valdai International Discussion Club meeting
🔹 Meeting with students and teachers at the Sirius Educational Centre
🔹 Meeting with finalists of the International Financial Security Olympiad

#ForeignMinistry

💬Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following the 20th Session of the Valdai International Discussion Club
🎙Sergey Lavrov’s greetings to organisers and participants in the International Forum “Russia and Ibero-America in a Turbulent World: History and Modernity”

#DefenceMinistry

🔹 Minister of Defence General of the Army Sergei Shoigu addresses special teleconference with leadership of Russian Armed Forces

#Embassy

🔹Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions
🔹Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
🔹Teacher’s Day at the Embassy’s school

#OnThisDay

🇷🇺 Soviet cosmonaut № 4 Pavel Popovich was born on October 5, 1930
📆 A brilliant Soviet and one of the most accomplished military intelligence officers in history Richard Sorge was born on October, 4, 1895
🇷🇺 The world’s first artificial satellite was launched into Earth orbit on October 4, 1957
✍️ One of the brightest Russian poets of the Silver Age of Russian poetry Sergey Yesenin was born on October 3, 1895

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🔹 Meeting of the CIS Heads of State Council
🔹 Plenary session of Russian Energy Week
🎓 Video address on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Education

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🤝 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in a regular meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council
🎙 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at a joint news conference with Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit
📝 Article by Sergey Lavrov

#DefenceMinistry

☢️ Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on the U.S. military-biological activity

#Embassy

🔹 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions

#OnThisDay

📆 Expo-58 took place in Brussels on October 12, 1958 – first World's Fair held after the Second World War
🏅 On October 9, Russia marks the Day of Victory over the Nazis in the Battle of the Caucasus, one of the longest and bloodiest series of operations during the Great Patriotic War

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🔹 Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian-Chinese talks
🎙 News conference following the visit to China
📺 Interview with Rossiya TV channel

#ForeignMinistry

🇷🇺🇨🇳 On October 16, Beijing hosted talks between Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi
🇷🇺🇰🇵 On Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s official visit to the DPRK
📺 Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the 60 Minutes show

#DefenceMinistry

🇷🇺🇧🇾 Opening address of Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu to Russia-Belarus Defence Ministry Board Session

#Embassy

🔹 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions
🔹 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemeber

🏅 On October 20, 1944, the Red Army and the Yugoslav Partisans liberated Belgrade from the Nazi invaders
🤝 The Moscow Conference opened on October 19, 1943, bringing together for the first time during World War II the foreign ministers of the USSR, the United States and the United Kingdom for a trilateral meeting
🎖The name of real-life superhero Sergeant Yakov Pavlov, born on October 17, 1917, became synonymous with heroism and resistance versus the Nazis

#OnThisDay

✈️ A prominent Soviet-Russian aircraft designer Mikhail Simonov was born on October 19, 1929
🚢 Frigate "Pallada" set off from Kronstadt on a round-the-world voyage with a diplomatic mission on October 19, 1852
⚔️ The Battle of Borodino Museum-Panorama was opened on October 18, 1962 to mark the 150th anniversary of the greatest battle of the Napoleonic Wars

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🔹 Meeting with members of the Security Council and Government, and heads of security agencies
🔹 Meeting on economic issues

#ForeignMinistry

📑 Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with heads of diplomatic missions of Arab countries and a representative of the League of Arab States
🎙 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the opening of the forum Strengthening Traditional Spiritual and Moral Values to Guarantee Unity among Compatriots
📺 Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from the show Moscow. Kremlin. Putin, Moscow

#DefenceMinistry

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergei Shoigu spoke on global security cooperation at Beijing Xiangshan Forum
☢️ Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov

#Embassy

🔹 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions
🇷🇺 Anatoly Antonov’s congratulations on National Unity Day
📺 Anatoly Antonov’s interview with Channel One’s «The Great Game with Dimitry Simes»

#WeRemember

🏅 On November 1, 1944, the Battle for the Arctic ended
🏅 The heroic defenсe of Sevastopol commenced on October 30, 1941

#OnThisDay

✍️ Samuil Marshak - a household name among Soviet writers - was born on November 3, 1887
🚀 On November 3, 1957 the Soviet Sputnik-2 launched into space, carrying aboard the first living being to orbit Earth - Laika the Space Dog
🎖 Three brave pilots – Valentina Grizodubova, Polina Osipenko and Marina Raskova – became the first women to receive the title Hero of the Soviet Union on November 2, 1938
🚢 A legendary Russian battlecruiser Varyag was launched on October 31, 1899

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🇷🇺🇰🇿 Media statements by presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Meeting with Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Zhang Youxia
🏥 Vladimir Putin visited the Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Centre for Children's Haematology, Oncology and Immunology

#ForeignMinistry

🎙 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the ambassadorial roundtable discussion of settlement in Ukraine
🎓 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to participants’ questions at the federal educational marathon "Knowledge. First"
📺 Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions for the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin programme
💬 Sergey Lavrov’s video address at the 5th International Municipal BRICS+ Forum

#DefenceMinistry

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Chinese delegation arrived in Moscow and visited Russian Defence Ministry

#Embassy

🔹 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions
🔹Comments by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemeber

🏅 On November 6, 1943, the Red Army and its forces under the command of Army General Nikolai Vatutin liberated Kiev from the Nazi invaders

#OnThisDay

♟♟ A Soviet chess Grandmaster, 8th World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal was born on November 9, 1936
🎼 An outstanding Russian composer Aleksandra Pakhmutova was born on November 9, 1929
🖼 On November 8, 1945 the State hermitage museum resumed its museum duties after a 4 year hiatus due to the Nazi invasion and Siege of Leningrad
🚙 The Moscow Automotive Plant issued its first cars under the make KIM on November 6, 1930

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🔹Plenary session of the United Cultures Forum
📺 Video address to participants of 100 Days Before the Games of the Future event

#Government

🌐 The Russian Delegation led by Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Alexei Overchuk arrived in San Francisco to participate in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit and Leaders’ Week

#ForeignMinistry

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Press release on the 90th anniversary of restoring diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States
🇷🇺🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇿 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with the ambassadors of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan, who are accredited in Moscow
📺 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the RT channel

#DefenceMinistry

🤝 Russian Deputy Defence Minister Aleksandr Fomin takes part in 10th ADMM-Plus in Jakarta, Republic of Indonesia

#Embassy

🔹 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
🔹 On November 16 the Russian Embassy in the USA joined the 5th anniversary educational campaign “EcoDictation”
🔹 «Geographical Dictation»

#OnThisDay

📆 A legendary Soviet robotic lunar rover Lunokhod-1 began its mission on the Moon on November, 17 1970
🪐 A Soviet space probe Venera-3 was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome towards Venus on November 16, 1965
🚎 The first trolleybus route was opened in Moscow on November 15, 1933
🚀 On November 15, 1988, legendary Soviet spaceplane Buran performed its historic spaceflight

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🔹Extraordinary G20 Summit
🔹Extraordinary BRICS summit
🔹CSTO summit
🔹Artificial Intelligence Journey 2023 conference
📺 Video address to the participants in the start of the 100-day countdown to the World Youth Festival

#ForeignMinistry

🇷🇺 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 41st meeting of the Council of the Heads of Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
🤝 Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with the ministerial committee on Gaza

#DefenceMinistry

🪖 Russian Defenсe Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu arrived in Minsk to participate in meeting of Council of Defence Ministers and Foreign Ministry, Committee of Secretaries of Security Council of CSTO member-states

#Embassy

🔹 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question

#WeRemember

🏅 On November 24, 1944, the Baltic Strategic Offensive concluded
🏅 On November 22, 1941, the first supply lorries drove across the ice of Ladoga Lake into besieged Leningrad

#OnThisDay

⚔️ Russian military genius Alexander Suvorov was born on November 24, 1730
🇷🇺 A Soviet cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov was born on November 23, 1935
🚀 On November 20, 1998, a Proton-K rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome successfully propelled the Russian-made Zarya functional cargo block (FCB) into space, marking the inception of the International Space Station (ISS)

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🔹Results of the Year with Vladimir Putin
🔹Ceremony for raising naval flags on nuclear-powered submarines Emperor Alexander III and Krasnoyarsk

#ForeignMinistry

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions during the Government Hour in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
🇷🇺🇧🇾 Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting of the Collegiums of the Foreign Ministries of Russia and Belarus

#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

🔹 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question
🔹 Head of the Embassy’s consular department Nadezhda Shumova exclusively for TASS news agency

#OnThisDay

🇷🇺 Thirty years ago, on December 12, 1993 at a nationwide referendum and approved the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the country’s fundamental law
✈️ 🚂 The extraordinary engineer, designer and talented inventor Yakov Gakkel was born on December 12, 1874
🇷🇺 On December 14, 1958 the Soviet expedition reached the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility for the first time in history

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🔹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

🏅 On January 18, 1943 the Siege of Leningrad was broken as the result of Operation Iskra (Spark)

#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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🔹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 address on Russia’s CIS chairmanship in 2024
📺 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

🏅 A choir cathedral dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade was held in Kronstadt's St. Nicholas Sea Cathedral

#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

🏅 The day of complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade
🏅 International Holocaust Remembrance Day

#OnThisDay

🎸 Soviet singer and poet Vladimir Vysotsky was born on January 25, 1938
⚡️ On January 24, 1720, Peter the Great approved the first Russian Naval regulations
📆 On January 25, 1755, Russian Empress Elizabeth signed a decree to establish the first Russian university – Moscow State University

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🔹Greetings on Diplomatic Worker’s Day
✍️Interview to Tucker Carlson
🔹Meeting of the Council for Science and Education
🔹Gala evening on the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences

#ForeignMinistry

⚡️ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s greetings on Diplomatic Worker’s Day
🎙 Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Chairperson of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova and the heads of certain Russian regions
💬 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the Business Council meeting
🤝 Sergey Lavrov held a meeting in Moscow with the chairs of the CSTO Member States’ parliamentary committees/commissions, in charge of international relations, defence and security, as well as with the ambassadors of the CSTO Member States to the Russian Federation

#DefenceMinistry

🔹Аs a result of the negotiation process, 100 Russian servicemen, who were in mortal danger in captivity, were returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime

#Embassy

🔹Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to media question
🔹Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
🔹Ambassador Anatoly Antonov and Embassy diplomats paid tribute to the memory of the Russian Empire statesman and diplomat Alexander Bodisko
🔹Diplomatic Worker’s Day

#OnThisDay

📆 Ahead of the Diplomats Day (celebrated on February 10), we cherish the memory of Alexander Gorchakov, an outstanding Russian diplomat and statesman who served as the last Chancellor of the Russian Empire
🧬 Russian Science Day is celebrated in Russia on February 8
🎆 10 years ago, on February 7, 2014 one of the most awesome sports events took place - the XXII Winter Olympics in Sochi kicked off with a spectacular opening ceremony