🌐 On September 11-14, St Petersburg hosted the X International Forum of United Cultures which became the most representative in its history.

🟣The theme of the event was “Culture of the XXI century: Sovereignty or Globalism”.

👥 It was attended by representatives from 80 countries. Its programme included 10 thematic areas, particularly, “Artificial Intelligence and National Sovereignty”, “Cultural Heritage”, “Cinema”, “Theatre” and others.

🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking at the plenary session of the event underscored that the Forum of United Cultures is one of the meaningful responses to the complex challenges that countries and peoples face today.

🤝 As part of the business programme, the 9th Meeting of the BRICS Culture Ministers took place which resulted in the adoption of a ministerial declaration with key initiatives and plans for the near future.

🇮🇳 The Indian delegation was headed by Arunish Chawla, Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, who emphasized that promotion of creative industries will facilitate global interaction.

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🇷🇺 🤝 🇮🇳 On September 18-19, Mumbai hosted the Russian-Indian business seminar which brought together the leading business representatives of Russia and the state of Maharashtra.

👥 Consul General of Russia in Mumbai Ivan Fetisov, Counsellor of the Russian Embassy in India Igor Ten, Head of the Mumbai office of the Trade Representation of Russia in India Mamed Akhmedov and Head of the Representative Office of the Russian Export Center in India Timur Vekilov shared their experience and expertise in the matter of building the bilateral trade and economic partnership.

💬 Among the speakers from the Indian side were representatives of the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO), the Indian Chamber of International Business (ICIB), as well as large trade, financial, consulting and logistics organisations.

🗣 During the event, Kamal Puggal, Deputy Commissioner of Customs, Administrative General, Mumbai Airport Customs, and Representative of the Russian Federal Customs Service in India Igor Ten made a joint report on additional simplified customs mechanisms for Russian-Indian trade, provided for by the new bilateral agreement on mutual recognition of the status of Authorized Economic Operators.

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⚡️ Russian MFA in cooperation with the Rosatom State Corporation has issued handbook "Back Home to Russia. 40th Anniversary of the launch of the Zaporozhskaya nuclear power plant (ZNPP) Unit 1"

The copies of the handbook were circulated during the 68th session of the IAEA General Conference, opened on September 16 in Vienna.

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ℹ️ The history of the Zaporozhskaya NPP (ZNPP) dates back to 1977 when the Council of Ministers of the #USSR adopted a decision on its construction. Site works began in 1979. In 1984, Unit 1 of the plant was put into operation. In 1985-1987, another three units were put into operation, and in 1988 an expansion project was approved for the construction of two more reactors.

🇷🇺 At the ZNPP site, six Soviet-design power units with VVER reactors were constructed and put into operation. Atomenergoproekt (Moscow) acted as chief designer of the project, Kurchatov Institute (Moscow) – was its scientific coordinator, Gidropress (Podolsk, Moscow region) supplied the reactor installations.

The equipment for the power plant was manufactured by enterprises in Leningrad (reactor vessels were manufactured by the Izhora Plants) and Volgodonsk (earthquake-resistant refuelling machines).

☝️ Thus, the Russian Federation is the owner of the project and technologies, and has the whole set of documentation, regarding Zaporozhskaya Nuclear power plant.

As a result of the referendum held in late September 2022, the Zaporozhskaya region,where the ZNPP is located, has joined the Russian Federation. The plant has come under Russian jurisdiction.

Before the ZNPP came under Russian jurisdiction, Ukrainian authorities had carried out a number of questionable experiments involving the use in the plant's reactors of nuclear fuel that was neither in compliance with its engineering design nor initially agreed upon with the Russian organization that had designed the ZNPP.

⚛️ Maintenance and repair at the plant are being carried out in 2024 as scheduled (as previously in 2023). The plant equipment damaged as a result of shellings by the AFU was repaired. <...> Measures were also undertaken to ensure uninterrupted water supply to essential consumers of the systems of the ZNPP power units, as the dam of the Kakhovskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant had been destroyed as a result of Ukrainian shellings. Now the water level in the said pond is stable.

Currently, the Zaporozhskaya NPP operates all standard radiation monitoring systems, except for three of them, which were destroyed by the armed forces of Ukraine, and two, which are situated on the right bank of the river Dnepr,
controlled by Ukraine.

The Russian Side has undertaken compensating measures. Radiation and technological monitoring of basic equipment and technological systems of power units, radiation-dosimetry monitoring of staff exposure, environment radiation monitoring, etc. are ensured. Radiation monitoring data are automatically transmitted to the IAEA Secretariat.

☝️ Russia takes all possible measures to ensure reliability and protection of the ZNPP, its robust operation, to curb threats to its security posed by Ukraine, strengthen its nuclear safety in accordance with national legislation and obligations undertaken, including Convention on Nuclear Safety and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities.

The very fact of return of the plant to the Russian nuclear community represents a significant contribution to the nuclear safety and nuclear security of this NPP which is the largest in Europe.

❌ The primary threat to the ZNPP’s security comes from Ukraine that regularly attacks the plant and its infrastructure, and resorts to all kinds of provocations, including against staff of the ZNPP and family members, living in the city of Energodar.

🇷🇺 On September 20, the Russian Embassy in India hosted a meeting of the Women's International Club Delhi dedicated to traditional textile crafts of Russia.

🇷🇺 The most famous of them — Pavlovo-Posad printed shawls, Orenburg down shawls, Vologda lace — were presented to the guests of the Russian Ambassador's spouse Diana Alipova.

🟣The club members got acquainted with the technology of making Russian shawls, peculiarities of artists' work.

🤔 Did you know?

* To check the quality of an Orenburg shawl, you have to put it through a ring. A really thin and airy product will pass even through a small hole. The finest Indian pashminas have a similar property.

* Till the second half of the 20th century, the pattern on Pavlovo-Posad shawls was applied with the help of wooden moulds, the analogues of which are widely used nowadays in India for decorating fabrics.

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