☝️ How Russia 🇷🇺 is actually addressing the issue of hunger in the world, without any “deals.”

#RussiaHelps #FoodSecurity

📆 #OnThisDay in 1945, the Allied Soviet, US, British and French forces held a joint parade in Berlin. The anti-Hitler coalition allies marched through the defeated Nazi stronghold of Berlin.

The initiative for this celebration came from the Soviet Union, whose leaders suggested organising a joint Allied military pass-by in Berlin after its own Victory Parade in Moscow in June. It was arranged that it would take place on Alexanderplatz near the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate after the downfall of militarist Japan, their last enemy.

👉 Originally it was assumed that the parade would be reviewed by all the commanders-in-chief of the Allied forces in Germany. On the eve of the event, however, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (USA), Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (GB), and Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (France) refused to attend, sending their representatives instead. This was a clear attempt to belittle the Soviet Union’s role in gaining a victory over the hydra of German Nazism and Japanese militarism.

The Berlin parade involved all branches of the land forces. It was decided to do without Air Force and Navy units because they were deployed far from Berlin. Soviet generals primarily sought to invite officers and men who had particularly distinguished themselves during the assault on Berlin.

The parade began at 11 am on the dot. The stands were filled with Soviet military leaders, generals and admirals of the British, US, and French armies and navies, and a group of US congressmen. Nearly 20,000 Berliners assembled around the parade ground. After reviewing the troops, Marshal Georgy Zhukov delivered a speech praising the historic achievements of the Soviet and Allied forces. Next there was a pass-by of the foot columns.

☝️ The memorable Victory Parade near the Brandenburg Gate was the last symbolic act involving the anti-Hitler coalition Allies. This joint military holiday became a prologue to the Cold War that was about to begin by the West's initiative.

⚡️ Russia's position at the seventy-eighth session of the UN General Assembly:

Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention

📃 We support the strengthening of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention, the 1925 Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

We are gravely concerned over the growing tendency of Euro-Atlantic allies, led by the United States, to "privatize" specialized international organizations, of which the unacceptable situation in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is a graphic example.

❗️ Since 2018, in the vein of the anti-Russian and anti-Syrian rhetoric, NATO and EU countries have completely abandoned the practice of attaining consensus on key issues on the OPCW's agenda, as enshrined in Article VIII of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and replaced it with voting on the basis of bloc discipline.

These consistent efforts resulted in vesting the Technical Secretariat with "attribution" functions in violation of the CWC-established procedure for introducing amendments to the Convention (Article XV). While pursuing its goal of toppling the legitimate government of Bashar al-Assad, undesirable for Washington, the "collective West" has virtually undermined the integrity of the Convention and ruined the technical nature of the OPCW's work.

🎙 Remarks by the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov at the Regional seminar "Strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime"

📍 Bishkek, September 7, 2023

💬 It cannot but cause concern that in recent decades a certain group of countries, or to be precise, the States which are the NATO members and their partners, have been trying to usurp the right to interpret the issue of compliance by other State Parties with their obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). They also have been trying to use the provisions of the Treaty to put pressure on objectionable countries and justify the interference in their internal affairs.

Similarly, the NPT is being seen as a pretext for restricting states' access to nuclear technology.

These factors do not contribute to maintaining the spirit of constructive interaction and the advance of an interested dialogue among States.

Under such circumstances, ensuring the sustainability of the NPT is one of the priorities for maintaining stability on a global scale.

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The situation that led to the suspension of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) due to the destructive policy of the United States and its significant violation of this agreement cannot but cause concern.

Nuclear disarmament in the NPT is incorporated in the context of general and complete disarmament, but now we are witnessing an increase in spending on conventional weapons in most States. The US accounts for 40% of all military spending in the world and if we add up the budgets of the armies of NATO countries and their closest allies, we get about two-thirds of global military spending. And this cannot be ignored when talking about the renunciation of nuclear weapons.

Bearing that in mind, there has been no reduction in the nuclear potential of NATO. On the contrary, the so-called non-strategic nuclear weapons of the United States are located on the territory of the alliance States, and vital Russian facilities are within their reach.

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Some results of the SPbU online Russian language course in South Africa

✍️ Online Russian language courses in South Africa have been held by the St Petersburg University Language Testing Centre with the support of the Russian Embassy since 2022.

✅ The courses have been in high demand and positively reviewed by students, which speaks of the promising future of this project.

📊 For the first half of 2023 alone, 980 registered for participation in the course. Among them were mostly people of school and retirement age, people with law, economic and technical qualification.

☝️The enrolment for the new academic year will be opened soon. The classes will start in October 2023 and be held in the morning and evening time for 1.5 hours.

#RussianLanguageCourse #SouthAfrica

🎤📰📹 September 8 marks International #JournalistsSolidarityDay. Today, the world commemorates journalists and media specialists who lost their lives in the line of duty. Words of support are also being offered to those who continue to be attacked and repressed for their work as journalists.

Unfortunately, we are marking this date – intended to raise global awareness of the difficult and sometimes dangerous conditions in which journalists have to work and to remind of the importance of mutual support and unity of media professionals – amid a dismal situation with the protection of media rights and freedom of expression.

☝️ Russian media and journalists have long been targets of systematic harassment in the countries of the collective West, but they have come under truly unprecedented pressure in recent months.

❗️ There has been no appropriate reaction from relevant international organisations to the policy of those “advanced democracies’” to cleanse the information landscape from Russian broadcasters and create unbearable conditions for our correspondents; in fact, they prefer to turn a blind eye to these gross violations of media rights and outright censorship.

It is regrettable that UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and other international organisations prefer to ignore the situation instead of taking effective measures to ensure the safety of journalists.

👉 We recommend checking out this list of politically motivated repressions against Russian media, which is far from complete, on the Russian Foreign Ministry website

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In spite of everything, on this day we would like to congratulate all correspondents, editors, photographers and other media workers who are faithful to the ideals of journalistic solidarity and who are always ready to help their colleagues, even if their opinions differ.

For our part, we will continue to defend the rights of our journalists and ensure that those who have illegally usurped the power to set rules and punish dissenters are held accountable.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin's address on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Donbass

Key points:

🕯September 8, 1943, marks a landmark date in the history of our country. Eighty years ago today, the legendary unconquered Donbass – Russia’s centuries-old stronghold – was liberated and cleansed from Nazi occupiers.

🔹Breaking through the defence line appeared impossible, but the Red Army soldiers accomplished this task, performed feats beyond human capabilities, and travelled a heroic and sacrificial path, thus solidifying the triumph of Soviet troops at the Kursk Bulge.

☝️ Nine years ago, on these frontlines that are sacred for us, Donbass militia members, descendants of the Great Patriotic War soldiers followed their example. It multiplied their courage and fortitude in yet another confrontation with Nazism.

🇷🇺 That is what Russia is: a nation united by its history, unbreakable through its spiritual traditions, and loyal to the legacy and memory of its ancestors.