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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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🔹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
🎄Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!

#WeRemember

🏅 On December 18, 1941 Dmitry Lavrinenko, the most successful tank operator of the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War, was killed on the approaches to Volokolamsk

#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

🏅 On January 10, 1943, the Red Army began Operation (Offensive) Koltso - the final stage of the Battle of Stalingrad

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🇷🇺Vladimir Putin has been sworn in as President of Russia
🔹Victory Parade on Red Square
🔹Laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
🔹Reception in honour of the heads of state invited to attend Victory Day celebrations
🔹Meeting with President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez
🔹Russia-Laos talks
🔹Russian-Bissau-Guinean talks
🔹Beginning of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting in expanded format

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🔹Mikhail Mishustin appointed Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

#ForeignMinistry

🇷🇺🇸🇱Acting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Sierra Leone Timothy Musa Kabba
🔹Acting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the ceremony to lay wreaths at the memorial plaques at the Foreign Ministry
🔹Foreign Ministry statement on the Russian Armed Forces’ exercises held to practice for the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons

#Embassy

📰 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov for Newsweek
❓ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answers to media questions
🎭 This Victory Day
🎞 «Hot Snow»
🌟 Immortal Regiment
🏅Great Victory Day

#WeRemember

📆 On May 9, 1945, at 12:43 am (Moscow time), the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was signed, putting an end to the Great Patriotic War and WWII in Europe
🇷🇺 80 years ago, the Red Army launched its Crimean offensive, liberating German-occupied Sevastopol, the symbol of Russian naval glory and the main base of the Black Sea Fleet

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📆 On May 8, 1967, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow was unveiled — memorial dedicated to the Soviet heroes who perished fighting Nazis.
🎼 Outstanding composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, born May 7, 1840