📆 151 years ago, on 1 April 1873, Sergei Rakhmaninov was born, an outstanding Russian composer, pianist and conductor.
🎼 His work combined principles of St.Petersburg and Moscow schools with Western European traditions which later gave way to his personal style. Due to this approach, Sergei Rakhmaninov is often referred to as “the most Russian composer”.
🎼 His best known works include “Aleko” opera (1892), written at the age of 19 as a graduation work at the Moscow Conservatory, “Piano Conserto No. 2”, “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”, “Prelude in C-sharp minor” and others.
S.Rakhmaninov’s music can be heard in such popular movies as “Groundhog Day” (1993), “Limitless” (2011) and “A Russian Youth” (2019).
🎧 Listen to the best of Sergei Rakhmaninov following the LINK
#OutstandingRussians #RussianCulture
🎼 His work combined principles of St.Petersburg and Moscow schools with Western European traditions which later gave way to his personal style. Due to this approach, Sergei Rakhmaninov is often referred to as “the most Russian composer”.
🎼 His best known works include “Aleko” opera (1892), written at the age of 19 as a graduation work at the Moscow Conservatory, “Piano Conserto No. 2”, “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”, “Prelude in C-sharp minor” and others.
S.Rakhmaninov’s music can be heard in such popular movies as “Groundhog Day” (1993), “Limitless” (2011) and “A Russian Youth” (2019).
🎧 Listen to the best of Sergei Rakhmaninov following the LINK
#OutstandingRussians #RussianCulture
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⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the occasion of the second anniversary of the staged Bucha massacre
💬 April 3 marks two years since the Zelensky regime and its Western handlers staged a bloody mass murder of the people in the town of Bucha, Kiev Region, allegedly by Russian servicemen, which turned out to be a botched job.
However, following the guidelines provided to them and failing to even make an attempt to double-check the facts and establish the actual state of affairs, Western politicians and the media scrambled to spread this falsehood.
This provocation was a put-up job and a staged provocation which was clear from the onset. The Russian side has refuted these allegations many times. We will now refute them once again. During the time the Russian Armed Forces were in Bucha until March 30, 2022, its residents moved freely around the town and used mobile phones and the internet.
❗️ There were no complaints about the Russian servicemen’s actions during that period, which was publicly confirmed by the mayor of the town, Anatoly Fedoruk, the day after our units left that town.
Moreover, during the time they were in Bucha, Russian servicemen brought 452 tonnes of humanitarian aid for the people in the Kiev Region’s towns and villages.
The first footage showing bodies strewn across the town appeared only after the Ukrainian armed forces and foreign journalists entered the town. Importantly, these were not criminalists or forensic experts, but biased media members, whose role was to tell the public a fabricated story and not to ask unnecessary questions.
🕯 The first findings of the forensic examination of the bodies found in Bucha, which were published in the British The Guardian on April 24, 2022, showed that most of the civilians died as a result of artillery shelling from fragments of anti-personnel 122-mm shells, which fit the D-30 howitzers in service of the Ukrainian forces, which confirms the fact that these people were killed not by bullets from small arms allegedly used by Russian servicemen, but as a result of the Ukrainian army’s artillery strikes targeting Bucha.
The propaganda-driven disinformation campaign in Bucha came as a response to our goodwill gesture to withdraw troops from the Kiev and Chernigov regions which was made in the wake of progress at the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul on March 28, 2022. Clearly, the goal of this campaign was to disrupt the dialogue between the parties and to launch a package of pre-arranged Western sanctions on Russia at the behest of London.
Subsequently, Kiev held multiple events inspired by the “Bucha massacre” in order to distract the international community’s attention from its own crimes and inconsistencies of the provocation it had staged, and to spread the fake theory about the town residents allegedly killed by the Russian military among the public in Western countries. This year, the Kiev officials’ attempts to make a big event out of this anniversary have an extra goal of preventing the international community from focusing on the challenging situation in Ukraine and on the line of contact.
Multiple requests that Russia sent to international organisations, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, to establish the circumstances of the incident and to provide an accurate list of the persons whose bodies were found on the streets of Bucha, as well as other information, remain unanswered.
☝️ This shows that the organisers of this heinous act have things to hide.
Once again, we demand that international agencies stop covering up for the Kiev regime and ensure a thorough investigation that will finally reveal the names of the victims, the time and the cause of their death, the signs of the bodies having been moved from one place to another, and the individuals responsible for this terrifying crime by the Kiev authorities.
💬 April 3 marks two years since the Zelensky regime and its Western handlers staged a bloody mass murder of the people in the town of Bucha, Kiev Region, allegedly by Russian servicemen, which turned out to be a botched job.
However, following the guidelines provided to them and failing to even make an attempt to double-check the facts and establish the actual state of affairs, Western politicians and the media scrambled to spread this falsehood.
This provocation was a put-up job and a staged provocation which was clear from the onset. The Russian side has refuted these allegations many times. We will now refute them once again. During the time the Russian Armed Forces were in Bucha until March 30, 2022, its residents moved freely around the town and used mobile phones and the internet.
❗️ There were no complaints about the Russian servicemen’s actions during that period, which was publicly confirmed by the mayor of the town, Anatoly Fedoruk, the day after our units left that town.
Moreover, during the time they were in Bucha, Russian servicemen brought 452 tonnes of humanitarian aid for the people in the Kiev Region’s towns and villages.
The first footage showing bodies strewn across the town appeared only after the Ukrainian armed forces and foreign journalists entered the town. Importantly, these were not criminalists or forensic experts, but biased media members, whose role was to tell the public a fabricated story and not to ask unnecessary questions.
🕯 The first findings of the forensic examination of the bodies found in Bucha, which were published in the British The Guardian on April 24, 2022, showed that most of the civilians died as a result of artillery shelling from fragments of anti-personnel 122-mm shells, which fit the D-30 howitzers in service of the Ukrainian forces, which confirms the fact that these people were killed not by bullets from small arms allegedly used by Russian servicemen, but as a result of the Ukrainian army’s artillery strikes targeting Bucha.
The propaganda-driven disinformation campaign in Bucha came as a response to our goodwill gesture to withdraw troops from the Kiev and Chernigov regions which was made in the wake of progress at the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul on March 28, 2022. Clearly, the goal of this campaign was to disrupt the dialogue between the parties and to launch a package of pre-arranged Western sanctions on Russia at the behest of London.
Subsequently, Kiev held multiple events inspired by the “Bucha massacre” in order to distract the international community’s attention from its own crimes and inconsistencies of the provocation it had staged, and to spread the fake theory about the town residents allegedly killed by the Russian military among the public in Western countries. This year, the Kiev officials’ attempts to make a big event out of this anniversary have an extra goal of preventing the international community from focusing on the challenging situation in Ukraine and on the line of contact.
Multiple requests that Russia sent to international organisations, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, to establish the circumstances of the incident and to provide an accurate list of the persons whose bodies were found on the streets of Bucha, as well as other information, remain unanswered.
☝️ This shows that the organisers of this heinous act have things to hide.
Once again, we demand that international agencies stop covering up for the Kiev regime and ensure a thorough investigation that will finally reveal the names of the victims, the time and the cause of their death, the signs of the bodies having been moved from one place to another, and the individuals responsible for this terrifying crime by the Kiev authorities.
Sanctions you say? Russia becomes G20’s fifth fastest-growing economy
📈 The Russian economy grew by 3.6% last year, fully compensating for the 2022 decline of 1.2%.
According to official data from various governments analysed by Sputnik media agency, in 2023, Russia entered the top 5 of growing economies in the Group of 20, which includes the 19 biggest economies in the world, as well as the EU and the African Union.
☝️ This success is even more telling considering the fact that the economies of European nations that imposed sanctions on Moscow stagnated.
🇷🇺 In his latest address to the Parliament, President Vladimir Putin touted Russia as “the largest economy in Europe when it comes to the gross domestic product in purchasing power parity.”
#StrongRussia
📈 The Russian economy grew by 3.6% last year, fully compensating for the 2022 decline of 1.2%.
According to official data from various governments analysed by Sputnik media agency, in 2023, Russia entered the top 5 of growing economies in the Group of 20, which includes the 19 biggest economies in the world, as well as the EU and the African Union.
☝️ This success is even more telling considering the fact that the economies of European nations that imposed sanctions on Moscow stagnated.
🇷🇺 In his latest address to the Parliament, President Vladimir Putin touted Russia as “the largest economy in Europe when it comes to the gross domestic product in purchasing power parity.”
#StrongRussia
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🚀 Russia has successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome
🇷🇺 Roscosmos has released footage of the rocket carrying a Resurs-P satellite to boost high-resolution multispectral imaging.
📹 @RT_com
#RussiaInSpace #SpaceExploration
🇷🇺 Roscosmos has released footage of the rocket carrying a Resurs-P satellite to boost high-resolution multispectral imaging.
📹 @RT_com
#RussiaInSpace #SpaceExploration
⚡️⚡️ Another criminal attack by neo-Nazi Ukrainian forces on Russia’s Belgorod hit a neighbourhood that had already suffered from shelling – it did not even have time to be repaired.
❗️ The Kiev regime continues to cynically shell peaceful Belgorod. The photos show another "precise" strike by Banderites’ artillery whose purpose is nothing less than the destruction of civilians.
#KievRegimeCrimes
❗️ The Kiev regime continues to cynically shell peaceful Belgorod. The photos show another "precise" strike by Banderites’ artillery whose purpose is nothing less than the destruction of civilians.
#KievRegimeCrimes
📆 On 2 April 1833, the first complete edition of Alexander Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” novel in verse was published in Russia.
✍️ It took Pushkin 7 years, 4 months and 17 days to write the novel.
For most of Russians at the time it became, as literary critic V.Belinsky put it, “encyclopedia of Russian life” giving a true-to-life picture of Russian society in the known period.
Almost the entire work is made up of 389 fourteen-line stanzas with an unusual rhyme scheme which became known as the “Onegin stanza”.
🌐 The novel was translated in about 40 languages with several versions in some of them.
📚 Check out the English version (translated by Charles Johnston) of Alexander Pushkin masterpiece at the LINK
#RussianCulture
✍️ It took Pushkin 7 years, 4 months and 17 days to write the novel.
For most of Russians at the time it became, as literary critic V.Belinsky put it, “encyclopedia of Russian life” giving a true-to-life picture of Russian society in the known period.
Almost the entire work is made up of 389 fourteen-line stanzas with an unusual rhyme scheme which became known as the “Onegin stanza”.
🌐 The novel was translated in about 40 languages with several versions in some of them.
📚 Check out the English version (translated by Charles Johnston) of Alexander Pushkin masterpiece at the LINK
#RussianCulture
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⚡️ Information about the new season of the VYZOV Prize for future technologies
We are pleased to inform you that the VYZOV Foundation has started accepting applications for the VYZOV Prize for future technologies.
🏆 This VYZOV Prize is designed to recognize fundamental breakthroughs, ideas, and inventions that are changing the landscape of modern science and the lives of every single person. The Prize aspires to encourage the new generation to pursue science and technology.
"Vyzov" means "challenge" in Russian.
There are 5️⃣ categories of the Prize – four of them are focused on Russia-based scientists.
👉 We want to draw your attention to the Discovery category, created in 2024 and open to scientists based in any country, without restrictions on nationality. The Prize is given to currently active scientists, for achievements made preferably (but not exclusively) during the last 10 years.
VYZOV Foundation allows 3️⃣ ways to be nominated:
🔍 self-nomination;
🔍 nomination by any colleague;
🔍 nomination by any scientific/ organization (university, research institute, etc).
Each Award amounts to 🔟 million Russian rubles (equivalent to ca 110 thousand US dollars).
👉 Applications are accepted from March 3 to May 20, 2024.
More information and nomination forms can be found HERE
🤝 VYZOV Foundation encourages scientists from all over the world to apply to push the boundaries of science and technology for a brighter future together!
We are pleased to inform you that the VYZOV Foundation has started accepting applications for the VYZOV Prize for future technologies.
🏆 This VYZOV Prize is designed to recognize fundamental breakthroughs, ideas, and inventions that are changing the landscape of modern science and the lives of every single person. The Prize aspires to encourage the new generation to pursue science and technology.
"Vyzov" means "challenge" in Russian.
There are 5️⃣ categories of the Prize – four of them are focused on Russia-based scientists.
👉 We want to draw your attention to the Discovery category, created in 2024 and open to scientists based in any country, without restrictions on nationality. The Prize is given to currently active scientists, for achievements made preferably (but not exclusively) during the last 10 years.
VYZOV Foundation allows 3️⃣ ways to be nominated:
🔍 self-nomination;
🔍 nomination by any colleague;
🔍 nomination by any scientific/ organization (university, research institute, etc).
Each Award amounts to 🔟 million Russian rubles (equivalent to ca 110 thousand US dollars).
👉 Applications are accepted from March 3 to May 20, 2024.
More information and nomination forms can be found HERE
🤝 VYZOV Foundation encourages scientists from all over the world to apply to push the boundaries of science and technology for a brighter future together!
Zelensky has signed a law reducing the mobilization age from 27 to 25
In mid-March, US Senator Lindsey Graham, while on a visit in Kiev, urged Ukrainian lawmakers to quickly pass the bill to significantly lower the draft age, adding that Ukrainians ‘should be serving – not at 25 or 27.’
💬 "We need more people in the line," Graham said.
Days later, Admiral Rob Bauer, Chair of the NATO Military Committee, who also was in Kiev, said: “You need people to replace the dead and wounded. And that means only one thing – mobilization.”
Lately, cases of physical violence against Ukrainian enlistment officers who catch conscripts in the streets, raid public spaces and round up men to send them to the frontline have become more frequent in the country. On March 21, a man in Novovolynsky, Volyn Region, attacked military enlistment officers, who were going to forcibly recruit him, with a knife.
A court in Lvov sentenced a person who said that he would rather assume criminal liability, instead of going to war and killing Russians, to three years in prison.
The number of draft-dodgers has now soared greatly, almost ten times over.
According to the Prosecutor-General’s Office of Ukraine, over 9,000 criminal cases have been opened against them; over 2,600 of these have been submitted to courts. At the instigation of the Kiev regime, a real hunt has been launched against Ukrainian men. Border guards are authorised to use drones and to shoot to kill draft-dodgers trying to cross the border.
In mid-March, US Senator Lindsey Graham, while on a visit in Kiev, urged Ukrainian lawmakers to quickly pass the bill to significantly lower the draft age, adding that Ukrainians ‘should be serving – not at 25 or 27.’
💬 "We need more people in the line," Graham said.
Days later, Admiral Rob Bauer, Chair of the NATO Military Committee, who also was in Kiev, said: “You need people to replace the dead and wounded. And that means only one thing – mobilization.”
Lately, cases of physical violence against Ukrainian enlistment officers who catch conscripts in the streets, raid public spaces and round up men to send them to the frontline have become more frequent in the country. On March 21, a man in Novovolynsky, Volyn Region, attacked military enlistment officers, who were going to forcibly recruit him, with a knife.
A court in Lvov sentenced a person who said that he would rather assume criminal liability, instead of going to war and killing Russians, to three years in prison.
The number of draft-dodgers has now soared greatly, almost ten times over.
According to the Prosecutor-General’s Office of Ukraine, over 9,000 criminal cases have been opened against them; over 2,600 of these have been submitted to courts. At the instigation of the Kiev regime, a real hunt has been launched against Ukrainian men. Border guards are authorised to use drones and to shoot to kill draft-dodgers trying to cross the border.
⚡️ Christian icons filled with explosives – Intercepted from Ukraine and headed for Orthodox Churches in Russia.
Russia's Federal Security Service has reported that it and the Federal Customs Service have blocked a route for smuggling explosives from Ukraine through EU countries to Russia.
During an inspection of a car at a checkpoint in the Pskov region, explosives, including foreign ones, were found in Orthodox icons and church utensils.
☝🏼 According to FSB, “In total, from the cargo traveling along the route Ukraine - Romania - Hungary - Slovakia - Poland - Lithuania - Latvia - Russia, 27 improvised explosive devices camouflaged in icons and ready for use, 70 kg of industrially produced high-power plastic explosives, 91 electric detonators were recovered.”
❗️ Not a single security service of the EU countries found the dangerous cargo (or maybe they didn't want to?)
Ukraine is a terrorist state, and the West is its accomplice.
Russia's Federal Security Service has reported that it and the Federal Customs Service have blocked a route for smuggling explosives from Ukraine through EU countries to Russia.
During an inspection of a car at a checkpoint in the Pskov region, explosives, including foreign ones, were found in Orthodox icons and church utensils.
☝🏼 According to FSB, “In total, from the cargo traveling along the route Ukraine - Romania - Hungary - Slovakia - Poland - Lithuania - Latvia - Russia, 27 improvised explosive devices camouflaged in icons and ready for use, 70 kg of industrially produced high-power plastic explosives, 91 electric detonators were recovered.”
❗️ Not a single security service of the EU countries found the dangerous cargo (or maybe they didn't want to?)
Ukraine is a terrorist state, and the West is its accomplice.
🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin on the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall:
💬 It is important to identify not only the actual perpetrators but also all the links in the chain of ultimate criminal beneficiaries of this atrocity. We will definitely get our hands on them.
☝🏼 And here is what I would like to say in this regard. Those who use this weapon – and this is a weapon used against Russia, it is already obvious today – must understand that it is double-edged. <…>
❗️ Those criminal networks do not have reliable assets. They would do anything for money guided solely by financial considerations regardless of any religious or political ideas. Selling anything is as easy: they can buy or sell any information, so we are sure to get to the ultimate customer.
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💬 It is important to identify not only the actual perpetrators but also all the links in the chain of ultimate criminal beneficiaries of this atrocity. We will definitely get our hands on them.
☝🏼 And here is what I would like to say in this regard. Those who use this weapon – and this is a weapon used against Russia, it is already obvious today – must understand that it is double-edged. <…>
❗️ Those criminal networks do not have reliable assets. They would do anything for money guided solely by financial considerations regardless of any religious or political ideas. Selling anything is as easy: they can buy or sell any information, so we are sure to get to the ultimate customer.
READ IN FULL
📆 100 years ago, #OTD in 1924, Roza Shanina was born, legendary Soviet female solo sniper, one of the first female snipers to be awarded the Order of Glory.
🌟 Roza volunteered for the military having lost her brothers in the war. After graduating from Central Women’s Sniper Training School with honours she joined a female sniper platoon of the 184th Rifle Division in April 1944.
She was described as the “unseen terror of East Prussia” being credited with 59 confirmed kills in less than a year.
She hoped to go to university or devote herself to raising orphans after the war.
🕯 But on 28 January 1945, she sacrificed her life shielding a wounded officer with her body in Eastern Prussia. At that time, she was only 20.
#Victory79 #WeRemember
🌟 Roza volunteered for the military having lost her brothers in the war. After graduating from Central Women’s Sniper Training School with honours she joined a female sniper platoon of the 184th Rifle Division in April 1944.
She was described as the “unseen terror of East Prussia” being credited with 59 confirmed kills in less than a year.
She hoped to go to university or devote herself to raising orphans after the war.
🕯 But on 28 January 1945, she sacrificed her life shielding a wounded officer with her body in Eastern Prussia. At that time, she was only 20.
#Victory79 #WeRemember