Enjoy The Russian Embassy Weekly # 3️⃣8️⃣5️⃣

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#President
🌟 Greetings on Defender of the Fatherland Day
🎖Vladimir Putin is presenting the Hero of the Russian Federation medals to participants in the special military operation
🏅 Laying wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
🎙 Answers to questions from media representatives


#ForeignMinistry
🇷🇺🇺🇸Press release on Russia-US consultations
📝 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following talks with US administration officials
🎤 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions from Rossiya 1 television channel
⚡️ On February 19, a ‘Government Hour’ with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the priorities of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation was held as part of a plenary meeting of the State Duma
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comments for media members following Government Hour at the State Duma
🌎 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on the G20’s objectives in 2025, a discussion of planned results of South Africa’s Presidency and an assessment of the forum’s activities


#DefenceMinistry
⚡️Laying wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

#Embassy
🌟🇷🇺 Reception dedicated to Defender of the Fatherland Day

#WeRemember
🎖80 years ago, in February of 1945, Commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Army General Ivan Chernyakhovsky perished during the East-Prussian operation of the Red Army

Enjoy The Russian Embassy Weekly # 3️⃣8️⃣6️⃣

Main topics:

#President
🎙 Answers to questions from media representatives
🌟 Greetings to the military personnel and veterans of
the Special Operations Forces of the Russian Armed Forces
🔹Meeting of Federal Security Service Board

#ForeignMinistry
🇷🇺🇺🇸On receiving of an Agrément for the appointment of A.N. Darchiev as Ambassador of Russia to the USA
🇷🇺🇺🇸Press release on Russia-US consultations
📝 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made a working visit to Tehran
🔹On the Ukrainian crisis resolutions adopted by the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council
🔹On February 25-26, the capital of Brazil hosted this year’s first meeting of BRICS sherpas/sous-sherpas

#DefenceMinistry
⚡️SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION

#Embassy
🎖Visiting the veterans living in Washington DC area
🌟screening of the Russian science-fiction film “One Hundred Years forward” and celebrating Russian Mardi Gras

#WeRemember
🎖On February 27, 1943, Alexander Matrosov performed an immortal feat

Enjoy The Russian Embassy Weekly # 3️⃣8️⃣7️⃣

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#President
🔹 Meeting with President-elect of Abkhazia Badra Gunba
🔹Expanded meeting of the Interior Ministry Board
🔹Meeting with staff and beneficiaries of the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation

#ForeignMinistry
🔹Excerpts from Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to ‘Krasnaya Zvezda’ media holding
🔹Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman's comment on Zelensky’s voyage to Washington, D.C. (March 1, 2025)
🔹Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman's answer to a media question about Russia’s stance with respect to the Organisation of American States

#DefenceMinistry
🚀Russian Aerospace Forces successfully launch Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from Plesetsk cosmodrome
🔹Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov made a working visit to Sarov
⚡️SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION

#Embassy
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Alexander Darchiyev is appointed to the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States of America

#OTD
🚀 On March 6, 1937, world’s first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was born

#WeRemember
🎖On March 6, 1913, Legendary Soviet pilot, three-times Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR Air Force Marshal Alexander Pokryshkin was born

Enjoy The Russian Embassy Weekly # 3️⃣8️⃣8️⃣

Main topics:

#President
🔹Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council
🔹Joint news conference with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko
🔹Russian-Belarusian talks
🔹Visit to a command post of the Kursk group of forces
🔹Greetings to the women of Russia on International Women’s Day

#ForeignMinistry
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio
🔹Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the ‘New Regions of Russia’ magazine
🔹Тhe Scientific Council under the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation gathered for a meeting with invited experts in attendance
🔹Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following talks with OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioglu
🔹Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the US bloggers Mario Nawfal, Larry C. Johnson and Andrew Napolitano
🔹Foreign Ministry Statement on Kiev regime’s latest barbaric attack on Russian civilians
🔹Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a media question
🔹Joint Statement of the Beijing Meeting among China, Russia and Iran


#DefenceMinistry
🔹As a result of decisive actions of the Sever Group of Forces 29 settlements were liberated
🔹A massive strike targeting Russia’s civil infrastructure
🔹Start of Sea Security Belt 2025 naval exercise
⚡️SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION

#OTD
🚀 March 9, 1934 marks the 91st anniversary since the birth of Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut on the Earth
🔹11th anniversary of the Crimea referendum

#WeRemember
🎖On March 9, 1944, legendary Soviet intelligence officer, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolay Kuznetsov was killed by Banderites in the Nazi-occupied Lvov Region during the Great Patriotic War

Enjoy The Russian Embassy Weekly # 3️⃣9️⃣1️⃣

Main topics:

#President
🔹Greetings to Russian Muslims
🔹Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Meeting with Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi
🇷🇺🇧🇾On April 2, the peoples of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus celebrate their Day of Unity

#ForeignMinistry
🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the No Statute of Limitations: The Front without a Frontline film project
🇷🇺🇨🇳Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi
🎙Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a media question
🇷🇺🇻🇳Russia’s Foreign Minister S.Lavrov’s opening remarks at talks with Deputy Prime Minister – Foreign Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Bui Thanh Son
🔹Moscow hosted the first Russia-Alliance of Sahel States (AES) Ministerial meeting

#DefenseMinistry
🇷🇺🇲🇲Delegation of Russian Federation Ministry of Defense led by Deputy Defense Minister Colonel General Aleksandr Fomin finishes working visit to Republic of the Union of Myanmar
🇷🇺🇮🇳Russian and Indian ships train artillery fire during INDRA NAVY 2025 exercise
⚡️SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION

#Embassy
🔹The School at the Russian Embassy in the USA participates in the traditional international action “Garden of Memory”
🔹A lecture on Eurasian integration

#OTD
🥇 “Victory Bouquet” in Washington, DC

#WeRemember
🔹On March 29, 1942 the first partisan convoy carrying food supplies reached Leningrad
🎖Alexey Fyodorov, the legendary partisan commander
🎖The famous sniper of the Great Patriotic War, Roza Shanina
🔹Liberation of Bratislava

Enjoy The Russian Embassy Weekly # 3️⃣9️⃣2️⃣

Main topics:

#President
🔹Greetings to participants of the International Forum, Memory of the Victors: 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Meeting with US President’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff
🔹Greetings to participants of the 3rd International Festival of Women’s Creativity, Creative Industries, and Family Values “Sochi Spring”

#ForeignMinistry
🔹Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with heads of diplomatic missions of Eurasian countries accredited in Moscow
🔹Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement at the opening ceremony of a TASS photo exhibition “Their Immortal Heroism”
🎙Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the ‘Newm TASS’ educational media project
🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following a meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council

#DefenseMinistry
🔹In 2025, it is planned to significantly increase supply of unmanned ground vehicles to Russian Armed Forces — Andrei Belousov
⚡️SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION

#Embassy
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian-American expert consultations in Istanbul
🔹Russian Ambassador to the US A.Darchiev attended a solemn divine service at St.Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York
🏒 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the USA on Alexander Ovechkin surpassing Wayne Gretzky’s record for the most goals scored in the NHL
🔹On the Russian manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-27 arriving at the ISS

#WeRemember
🔹In early April 1944, the Crimean strategic offensive of the Soviet forces commenced during the Great Patriotic War
🔹 Liberation of Odessa from Nazi invaders
🔹International Day of Resistance Movement against Nazis
🔹On April 11, 1944 Kerch was liberated from Nazi invaders

Enjoy The Russian Embassy Weekly # 3️⃣9️⃣3️⃣

Main topics:

#President
🔹State Council Presidium meeting on developing infrastructure for life
🔹Visit to Bauman Moscow State Technical University
🔹Meeting on development of space activities
🔹Meeting with the Trufanov family
🇷🇺🇶🇦 Russia-Qatar talks
🇷🇺🇮🇷 Meeting with Foreign Minister of Iran Abbas Araghchi

#ForeignMinistry
🇷🇺🇺🇸 On April 17, 2025, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a telephone conversation
🇷🇺🇻🇪 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets with Foreign Minister of Venezuela Yván Gil
🎙From FM Sergey Lavrov’s answers to the media questions during his remarks at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum
🎙Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Kommersant newspaper
🔹Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 44th meeting of the Foreign Ministry’s Council of Heads of Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation
🔹Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a ceremony for opening the “Anniversary Year: From Mexico to Argentina” exhibition marking anniversaries of Russia’s diplomatic relations with several Latin American and Caribbean countries
🇷🇺🇿🇦 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at the meeting with Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa Ronald
Lamola

#DefenseMinistry
🇷🇺🇪🇬 Friendship Bridge 2025 bilateral naval exercise was held in the Mediterranean Sea from 6 to 10 April. The manoeuvers involved the Navy of the Russian Federation and the Navy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
⚡️SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION

#Embassy
🎼 Tchaikovsky concert in Washington, D.C.

#OTD
🚀On April 12, 1961, at 9.07 am Moscow Time, the Vostok spacecraft with Yury Gagarin aboard made its historic liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

#WeRemember
🔹80 years ago, on April 13, 1945, the Soviet forces liberated the capital of Austria
🔹80 years ago, on April 16, 1945, the Berlin Offensive commenced

Enjoy The Russian Embassy Weekly # 3️⃣9️⃣4️⃣

Main topics:

#President
🇷🇺🇺🇸Meeting with US President’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff
🔹Meeting with Chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov
🔹President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces Easter ceasefire
🔹Vladimir Putin congratulated Orthodox Christians and all citizens of Russia who celebrate Easter Sunday
🔹The President of Russia sent a message of condolences to Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, following the death of Pope Francis
🔹President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin & President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa spoke over the phone
🔹Russia-Oman talks
🔹Video address to participants of Eurasian Film Academy presentation
🔹Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the participants of the International Anti-Fascist Forum dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War
🔹Meeting with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia
🔹Meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission
🔹The President held a meeting on economic issues via videoconference
🔹Greetings on the 30th anniversary of the Presidential Council for Coordination with Religious Organizations

#ForeignMinistry
🔹Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s talks with Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Abbas Araghchi
🔹Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from Moscow. Kremlin. Putin TV show, Moscow, April 20, 2025
🔹Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a meeting of the Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group with ambassadors from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation member states, Moscow, April 21, 2025
🔹Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov
🔹On April 22-23, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was in Samarkand as part of an official visit to the Republic of Uzbekistan
🔹Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s video address to participants of the 4th International Youth Forum “Russia - Africa: What’s Next?” and the 1st Russia - Africa Young Diplomats Forum

#DefenseMinistry
🔹Russian and Bangladesh navies’ ships conduct exercise in Indian Ocean
⚡️SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION

#Embassy
🇷🇺🇺🇸On April 21, Russian Ambassador to the United States A.Darchiev met with American World War II veteran S.Melnikoff and President of the Greatest Generations Foundation T. Davis
🔹Ambassador of Russia to the US Alexander Darchiev visited the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, DC
🔹The Ambassador of Russia to the US Alexander Darchiev opened the traditional film marathon that is held at the Embassy on the occasion of the Victory Day on May 9 and the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory
🇷🇺🇺🇸Wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial plate “Spirit of Elba” at Arlington National Cemetery
🔹International patriotic campaign #DictantPobedy

#OTD
🔹On April 19, 1783, Empress Catherine the Great signed a manifesto on the accession of Crimea, the Taman Island and Kuban region into the Russian Empire

#WeRemember
🔹80 years ago, on April 25, 1945, Meeting of Soviet and American troops on the Elbe River