🌟 87 years ago, #OTD In 1937, the famous ruby stars were lit over the Kremlin in Moscow – the same ones that can be seen today. They replaced the previous stainless steel stars decorated with Ural semi-precious stones which lost their luster.
✨ The new stars shined for real. Specially designed lamps with double filaments were installed in each, so if one burns out, the lamp continues to be illuminated. At the base of each star a bearing was mounted, so the huge objects - each weighing a ton - could rotate like weather vanes.
The Kremlin stars have been extinguished only twice. During the Great Patriotic War the lights were turned off so Nazi planes couldn’t detect the Kremlin. The second time: Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov asked special permission to turn them off so he could film a scene from his “The Barber of Siberia” movie in the Kremlin.
#moscow #kremlin #russia
✨ The new stars shined for real. Specially designed lamps with double filaments were installed in each, so if one burns out, the lamp continues to be illuminated. At the base of each star a bearing was mounted, so the huge objects - each weighing a ton - could rotate like weather vanes.
The Kremlin stars have been extinguished only twice. During the Great Patriotic War the lights were turned off so Nazi planes couldn’t detect the Kremlin. The second time: Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov asked special permission to turn them off so he could film a scene from his “The Barber of Siberia” movie in the Kremlin.
#moscow #kremlin #russia
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🇷🇺 Today #Russia and its people celebrate national #UnityDay!
The day symbolizes the unity of our multiethnic peoples, celebrates our diversity in unity and our unerring devotion to the Motherland.
❗️ Happy #UnityDay!
#UnityDay2024 #TogetherForever
The day symbolizes the unity of our multiethnic peoples, celebrates our diversity in unity and our unerring devotion to the Motherland.
❗️ Happy #UnityDay!
#UnityDay2024 #TogetherForever
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🚀 Soyuz-2.1b rocket blasted off from Vostochny Cosmodrome carrying a pair of Ionosphere-M heliogeophysical satellites and 53 other Russian and foreign satellites.
Nine minutes and 24 seconds after liftoff, the Fregat upper stage with the satellites was placed into low-Earth orbit.
🌠 Another minute later, Fregat activated its main engine to insert the devices into orbit.
Video by @Roscosmos
#Russia #SpaceExploration #RussiainSpace
Nine minutes and 24 seconds after liftoff, the Fregat upper stage with the satellites was placed into low-Earth orbit.
🌠 Another minute later, Fregat activated its main engine to insert the devices into orbit.
Video by @Roscosmos
#Russia #SpaceExploration #RussiainSpace
The UN Charter must be observed in whole, not only the part you want to emphasize – Lavrov
💬 FM Lavrov: The West prefers to talk about Ukraine, recalling only the principle of territorial integrity and formulating it as if there are no other principles in the UN Charter. But there is also the principle of self-determination of peoples.
☝️ The UN General Assembly has decided that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states whose governments respect the principle of self-determination of peoples and therefore represent the entire population living on a given territory must be respected.
❓Did the racist regime that settled in Kiev after the coup in 2014 represent the South-East of Ukraine, Crimea, which refused to recognise the putschists ten years ago?
#UnitedNations #Russia #Ukraine #UNCharter
💬 FM Lavrov: The West prefers to talk about Ukraine, recalling only the principle of territorial integrity and formulating it as if there are no other principles in the UN Charter. But there is also the principle of self-determination of peoples.
☝️ The UN General Assembly has decided that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states whose governments respect the principle of self-determination of peoples and therefore represent the entire population living on a given territory must be respected.
❓Did the racist regime that settled in Kiev after the coup in 2014 represent the South-East of Ukraine, Crimea, which refused to recognise the putschists ten years ago?
#UnitedNations #Russia #Ukraine #UNCharter
🤍💙❤️ National #UnityDay celebrated in Russia’s Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions
🤝 National cultures festival "We Are Together" has been held in the #Lugansk People's Republic with representatives of national-cultural societies and public organizations of the LPR participating.
In the #Donetsk People's Republic, about 200 teenagers received their first passports within the framework of the "We are citizens of Russia!" program. Ceremonial presentations took place in 15 cities, including Donetsk and Yasinovataya.
🇷🇺 Various events have been held in the #Kherson and #Zaporozhye regions, including quizzes, master classes and distribution of patriotic symbols. In Berdyansk, activists unfurled a huge tricolor on the coast of the Sea of Azov, despite the stormy weather.
#Russia #Donbass #TogetherForever #UnityDay2024
🤝 National cultures festival "We Are Together" has been held in the #Lugansk People's Republic with representatives of national-cultural societies and public organizations of the LPR participating.
In the #Donetsk People's Republic, about 200 teenagers received their first passports within the framework of the "We are citizens of Russia!" program. Ceremonial presentations took place in 15 cities, including Donetsk and Yasinovataya.
🇷🇺 Various events have been held in the #Kherson and #Zaporozhye regions, including quizzes, master classes and distribution of patriotic symbols. In Berdyansk, activists unfurled a huge tricolor on the coast of the Sea of Azov, despite the stormy weather.
#Russia #Donbass #TogetherForever #UnityDay2024
🎙️ Russia’s President Putin: The West is hypocritically trying to convince us all that everything humanity has been striving for since World War II is under threat.
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☝️ But in reality, something completely different is under threat. What is under threat is precisely this monopoly of the West which it acquired for a time at the end of the XX century after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
🔗 Read Vladimir Putin’s statement and answers to questions at the plenary serssion of the Valdai International Discussion Club
#Russia #Putin #PresidentialQuotes
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☝️ But in reality, something completely different is under threat. What is under threat is precisely this monopoly of the West which it acquired for a time at the end of the XX century after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
🔗 Read Vladimir Putin’s statement and answers to questions at the plenary serssion of the Valdai International Discussion Club
#Russia #Putin #PresidentialQuotes
🎙️ Russia’s President Putin: The West is hypocritically trying to convince us all that everything humanity has been striving for since World War II is under threat.
<…>
But in reality, something completely different is under threat. What is under threat is precisely this monopoly of the West which it acquired for a time at the end of the XX century after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
🔗 Read Vladimir Putin’s statement and answers to questions at the plenary serssion of the Valdai International Discussion Club
#Russia #Putin #PresidentialQuotes
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But in reality, something completely different is under threat. What is under threat is precisely this monopoly of the West which it acquired for a time at the end of the XX century after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
🔗 Read Vladimir Putin’s statement and answers to questions at the plenary serssion of the Valdai International Discussion Club
#Russia #Putin #PresidentialQuotes