📆 On 28 April 1945, the Red Army started the assault of Reichstag in Germany’s Berlin.
⚔️ The 3rd Strike Army of the 1st Belorussian Front was initially not supposed to storm the city’s central part, but as a result of heavy 7-day fighting, it found itself closest to the Reichstag’s district.
🌟 Prior to the assault, the military council of the 3rd Strike Army provided 9 purpose-made red banners to its divisions. One of those which became known as the Victory Banner, was handed over to the 150th Rifle Division.
All Soviet front line formations had similar self-made red banners and flags.
As a rule, they were recruited from volunteers whose only aim was to storm into the Reichstag and to hoist a red banner over it.
#Victory79
⚔️ The 3rd Strike Army of the 1st Belorussian Front was initially not supposed to storm the city’s central part, but as a result of heavy 7-day fighting, it found itself closest to the Reichstag’s district.
🌟 Prior to the assault, the military council of the 3rd Strike Army provided 9 purpose-made red banners to its divisions. One of those which became known as the Victory Banner, was handed over to the 150th Rifle Division.
All Soviet front line formations had similar self-made red banners and flags.
As a rule, they were recruited from volunteers whose only aim was to storm into the Reichstag and to hoist a red banner over it.
#Victory79
📆 121 years ago, on 29 April 1903, Nikolay Krylov was born, a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
He volunteered to join the Red Army aged 16. During WW2, he participated in the defence of Odessa and Sevastopol, the Battle of Stalingrad. In 1943 N.Krylov was sent to the Western front where his military commander talent revealed itself. He led the 5th Army of the 3rd Belorussian front which successfully attacked the enemy at Vitebsk, Orsha, Minsk during the Bagration operation. In 1945 he participated in the East Prussian Offensive.
🛡After Germany surrender the 5th Army was redeployed to the Far East where it participated in the Soviet-Japanese War and the defeat of the 3rd Japanese Army.
Upon the conclusion of WW2, N.Krylov became one of the founders of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and commanded them in 1963-1972.
#Victory79
He volunteered to join the Red Army aged 16. During WW2, he participated in the defence of Odessa and Sevastopol, the Battle of Stalingrad. In 1943 N.Krylov was sent to the Western front where his military commander talent revealed itself. He led the 5th Army of the 3rd Belorussian front which successfully attacked the enemy at Vitebsk, Orsha, Minsk during the Bagration operation. In 1945 he participated in the East Prussian Offensive.
🛡After Germany surrender the 5th Army was redeployed to the Far East where it participated in the Soviet-Japanese War and the defeat of the 3rd Japanese Army.
Upon the conclusion of WW2, N.Krylov became one of the founders of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and commanded them in 1963-1972.
#Victory79
✍🏻 Комментарий Посла России в ЮАР И.И.Рогачева «РИА Новости» (28 апреля 2024 г.)
ЧИТАТЬ ПОЛНОСТЬЮ
➡ Основные тезисы:
🇿🇦ЮАР с её уникальной природой, благоприятным климатом и рядом других достоинств остается центром притяжения для российских туристов.
📈 По итогам 2023 г. ЮАР стала наиболее популярным направлением у россиян в Африке южнее Сахары, страну посетили более 28 тыс. наших сограждан – это на 75% выше показателей 2022 г.
☝Существенным сдерживающим фактором для увеличения турпотока остается отсутствие прямых авиационных маршрутов между крупнейшими городами наших стран. Неудобства создает и то, что в ЮАР из-за санкций не работают российские банковские карты.
ЧИТАТЬ ПОЛНОСТЬЮ
➡ Основные тезисы:
🇿🇦ЮАР с её уникальной природой, благоприятным климатом и рядом других достоинств остается центром притяжения для российских туристов.
📈 По итогам 2023 г. ЮАР стала наиболее популярным направлением у россиян в Африке южнее Сахары, страну посетили более 28 тыс. наших сограждан – это на 75% выше показателей 2022 г.
☝Существенным сдерживающим фактором для увеличения турпотока остается отсутствие прямых авиационных маршрутов между крупнейшими городами наших стран. Неудобства создает и то, что в ЮАР из-за санкций не работают российские банковские карты.
Ответ Посла России в ЮАР И.И.Рогачева на вопрос «РИА Новости» (28 апреля 2024 г.)
❓Есть ли в ЮАР интерес к опыту РФ в области энергетики?
💬 И.И.Рогачев: Южно-Африканская Республика проявляет интерес к опыту России в сфере энергетики, особенно к атомным технологиям, передаче электроэнергии на большие расстояния. В контексте глобальных усилий по сокращению выбросов углекислого газа стремление к диверсификации энергетического баланса и переходу к более чистым источникам энергии делает российский опыт для ЮАР особенно востребованным.
☝Это стремление южноафриканцев обусловлено желанием укрепить свою энергетическую безопасность, решить проблему веерных отключений электроэнергии, а также уменьшить зависимость от угольных электростанций, которые сегодня являются основным источником электроэнергии в стране.
🇷🇺🤝🇿🇦 Россия готова выступить в роли надежного партнера для обмена знаниями и технологиями. Мы – государственные и бизнес-структуры – можем предложить различные решения в рамках надлежащих тендерных процедур, в соответствии с принципами открытости и прозрачности во всех аспектах деятельности.
❓Есть ли в ЮАР интерес к опыту РФ в области энергетики?
💬 И.И.Рогачев: Южно-Африканская Республика проявляет интерес к опыту России в сфере энергетики, особенно к атомным технологиям, передаче электроэнергии на большие расстояния. В контексте глобальных усилий по сокращению выбросов углекислого газа стремление к диверсификации энергетического баланса и переходу к более чистым источникам энергии делает российский опыт для ЮАР особенно востребованным.
☝Это стремление южноафриканцев обусловлено желанием укрепить свою энергетическую безопасность, решить проблему веерных отключений электроэнергии, а также уменьшить зависимость от угольных электростанций, которые сегодня являются основным источником электроэнергии в стране.
🇷🇺🤝🇿🇦 Россия готова выступить в роли надежного партнера для обмена знаниями и технологиями. Мы – государственные и бизнес-структуры – можем предложить различные решения в рамках надлежащих тендерных процедур, в соответствии с принципами открытости и прозрачности во всех аспектах деятельности.
✍🏻 Комментарий Посла России в ЮАР И.И.Рогачева информагентству ТАСС (29 апреля 2024 г.)
ЧИТАТЬ ПОЛНОСТЬЮ
Основные тезисы:
🌎 Интегрируя африканскую повестку в деятельность объединения, ЮАР проявляет себя в качестве одного из лидеров стран Глобального Юга.
XV саммит БРИКС стал в известным смысле историческим. Присоединение новых участников БРИКС не только усилило совокупный потенциал государств в политической, экономической и гуманитарных сферах, но и повысило значимость объединения как проводника интересов стран Глобального Юга и Востока.
✊Государства-участники БРИКС проводят независимую суверенную внешнюю политику. Это краеугольный камень выстраивания прагматичных отношений на основе взаимного учёта интересов, солидарности и консенсуса. Это и есть пример демократии в ее исконном виде.
❗На ЮАР и на ряд других представителей развивающегося мира, отказывающихся от послушного следования в фарватере политики Запада, оказывается сильное давление. Пример в отношении ЮАР – угрозы США об исключении Южной Африки из программы преференциальной торговли в рамках Закона о росте и возможностях Африки, появление в Конгрессе США законопроекта о пересмотре двусторонних отношений.
Все это отражает суть подхода Вашингтона и его союзников к укреплению независимых центров силы в мировой политике, которым, в частности, является ЮАР.
ЧИТАТЬ ПОЛНОСТЬЮ
Основные тезисы:
🌎 Интегрируя африканскую повестку в деятельность объединения, ЮАР проявляет себя в качестве одного из лидеров стран Глобального Юга.
XV саммит БРИКС стал в известным смысле историческим. Присоединение новых участников БРИКС не только усилило совокупный потенциал государств в политической, экономической и гуманитарных сферах, но и повысило значимость объединения как проводника интересов стран Глобального Юга и Востока.
✊Государства-участники БРИКС проводят независимую суверенную внешнюю политику. Это краеугольный камень выстраивания прагматичных отношений на основе взаимного учёта интересов, солидарности и консенсуса. Это и есть пример демократии в ее исконном виде.
❗На ЮАР и на ряд других представителей развивающегося мира, отказывающихся от послушного следования в фарватере политики Запада, оказывается сильное давление. Пример в отношении ЮАР – угрозы США об исключении Южной Африки из программы преференциальной торговли в рамках Закона о росте и возможностях Африки, появление в Конгрессе США законопроекта о пересмотре двусторонних отношений.
Все это отражает суть подхода Вашингтона и его союзников к укреплению независимых центров силы в мировой политике, которым, в частности, является ЮАР.
📆 541 years ago, on 30 April 1472, the Assumption (Dormition) Cathedral in Moscow was founded, which became a place of crucial importance for Russian identity. Its origins date back to the XIV century, and are closely connected with the rise of the Moscow Principality of Russia.
In 1326, the leading Russian church prelate, Metropolitan Peter of Vladimir, made the Moscow Kremlin his de facto residence. Concurrently, Great Prince Ivan Kalita launched the construction of the cathedral dedicated to the Feast of the Dormition, which symbolized the continuity with the great Dormition Cathedral in the town of Vladimir (the latter started to lose its political significance).
⛪️ By the mid-XV century the cathedral dilapidated and Great Prince of Russia Ivan III, who had consolidated all Russian principalities under the power of Moscow ordered the construction of a new one. A renowned architect Aristotele Fioravanti of Bologna was invited to Russia to design and to build it.
👑 For 6 centuries the Cathedral was national and religious centre of Russia. It is known as the place of coronation of Russian rulers (even after the capital was relocated to St.Petersburg) including the first and the last Russian Tsars from the Romanov dynasty.
Take a virtual tour of the Assumption Cathedral, Russia’s most elevated monument, at the link.
#RussianHistory
In 1326, the leading Russian church prelate, Metropolitan Peter of Vladimir, made the Moscow Kremlin his de facto residence. Concurrently, Great Prince Ivan Kalita launched the construction of the cathedral dedicated to the Feast of the Dormition, which symbolized the continuity with the great Dormition Cathedral in the town of Vladimir (the latter started to lose its political significance).
⛪️ By the mid-XV century the cathedral dilapidated and Great Prince of Russia Ivan III, who had consolidated all Russian principalities under the power of Moscow ordered the construction of a new one. A renowned architect Aristotele Fioravanti of Bologna was invited to Russia to design and to build it.
👑 For 6 centuries the Cathedral was national and religious centre of Russia. It is known as the place of coronation of Russian rulers (even after the capital was relocated to St.Petersburg) including the first and the last Russian Tsars from the Romanov dynasty.
Take a virtual tour of the Assumption Cathedral, Russia’s most elevated monument, at the link.
#RussianHistory
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
The Primakov Centre:
🎙 The Primakov Readings Forum Youth Session 2024 will be held in Moscow on 22−27 June (see the programme).
This year's forum is titled 'Russia in Changing World Order: Challenges and Opportunities'. Graduate and postgraduate students, representatives of higher education institutions and research institutes, community-based and non-profit organisations, as well as independent experts aged from 21 to 35 years, who specialise in the issues of world economy and politics, international relations and security, international law, sociology and demography, and modern and contemporary history are invited to participate.
Based on the results of the applications process, a list of participants, who will have the opportunity to present a report at one of the panels of the Primakov Readings Youth Session will be determined.
📚 Choose one of the following topics:
• BRICS+: Trends in Political and Economic Development
• Greater Eurasia: Challenges and Prospects for Cooperation
• The Global South on the Threshold of Change (marking the 95th anniversary of Evgeniy Primakov)
• Africa in the New Global Context: Challenges and Horizons of Development
• Technology and the Transformation of the World Order: Between Risks and Opportunities
👨💻 Write a 4-5 page report;
✍️ Get a letter of recommendation from your supervisor;
📨 Submit your application by May 5.
👉 For further details, please visit the official website
🎙 The Primakov Readings Forum Youth Session 2024 will be held in Moscow on 22−27 June (see the programme).
This year's forum is titled 'Russia in Changing World Order: Challenges and Opportunities'. Graduate and postgraduate students, representatives of higher education institutions and research institutes, community-based and non-profit organisations, as well as independent experts aged from 21 to 35 years, who specialise in the issues of world economy and politics, international relations and security, international law, sociology and demography, and modern and contemporary history are invited to participate.
Based on the results of the applications process, a list of participants, who will have the opportunity to present a report at one of the panels of the Primakov Readings Youth Session will be determined.
📚 Choose one of the following topics:
• BRICS+: Trends in Political and Economic Development
• Greater Eurasia: Challenges and Prospects for Cooperation
• The Global South on the Threshold of Change (marking the 95th anniversary of Evgeniy Primakov)
• Africa in the New Global Context: Challenges and Horizons of Development
• Technology and the Transformation of the World Order: Between Risks and Opportunities
👨💻 Write a 4-5 page report;
✍️ Get a letter of recommendation from your supervisor;
📨 Submit your application by May 5.
👉 For further details, please visit the official website
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
📅 In the early hours of May 1, 1945, the #VictoryBanner was raised atop of the Reichstag during the Battle of Berlin. It became a symbol of the triumph of the Soviet Union & its peoples in the fight against Nazism.
Before the storming, a decision was made for a group of Soviet fighters to hoist the flag over the Reichstag that would embody the final collapse of Nazism.
🚩 A total of 9 banners were promptly made, designed after the state flag of the USSR. Ultimately, a battle flag of the 150th Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Idritsa Rifle Division, 79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belarusian Front, became the Victory Banner.
The order of events:
• A Red Army unit broke into the Reichstag through breaches in the walls, with a fierce close combat unleashing. The Nazis took advantage of effectively advancing inside the building they new well, throwing grenades at Soviet soldiers & firing back with machine-guns: they basically had nothing to lose.
• Lieutenant R.Koshkarbayev & private G.Bulatov placed a makeshift red flag to the column on the steps of the Reichstag main entrance.
• Staff sergeants G.Zagitov, A.Lisimenko & A.Bobrov as well as Sergeant M.Minin supported by Captain S.Neustroyev’s battalion were the 1st to hoist a red banner on the roof of the Reichstag atop of the Goddess of Victory sculpture.
• The 3rd red banner was raised on the western facade of the roof by the scouts of the 674th Regiment led by Lieutenant S.Sorokin.
• Finally, the Red Banner №5 was raised over the dome of the captured Reichstag by the 756th Rifle Regiment’s scouts, Sergeant M.Yegorov & Junior Sergeant M.Kantariya, led by deputy battalion commander Lieutenant A.Berest, covered by riflemen from I.Sayanov’s squad. That flag ultimately became the Victory Banner.
📃 By a Presidential Executive Order of April 15, 1996, the Red Banner hoisted atop of the Reichstag by Yegorov & Kantariya was declared the symbol of the Russian people’s victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
#Victory79
Before the storming, a decision was made for a group of Soviet fighters to hoist the flag over the Reichstag that would embody the final collapse of Nazism.
🚩 A total of 9 banners were promptly made, designed after the state flag of the USSR. Ultimately, a battle flag of the 150th Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Idritsa Rifle Division, 79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belarusian Front, became the Victory Banner.
The order of events:
• A Red Army unit broke into the Reichstag through breaches in the walls, with a fierce close combat unleashing. The Nazis took advantage of effectively advancing inside the building they new well, throwing grenades at Soviet soldiers & firing back with machine-guns: they basically had nothing to lose.
• Lieutenant R.Koshkarbayev & private G.Bulatov placed a makeshift red flag to the column on the steps of the Reichstag main entrance.
• Staff sergeants G.Zagitov, A.Lisimenko & A.Bobrov as well as Sergeant M.Minin supported by Captain S.Neustroyev’s battalion were the 1st to hoist a red banner on the roof of the Reichstag atop of the Goddess of Victory sculpture.
• The 3rd red banner was raised on the western facade of the roof by the scouts of the 674th Regiment led by Lieutenant S.Sorokin.
• Finally, the Red Banner №5 was raised over the dome of the captured Reichstag by the 756th Rifle Regiment’s scouts, Sergeant M.Yegorov & Junior Sergeant M.Kantariya, led by deputy battalion commander Lieutenant A.Berest, covered by riflemen from I.Sayanov’s squad. That flag ultimately became the Victory Banner.
📃 By a Presidential Executive Order of April 15, 1996, the Red Banner hoisted atop of the Reichstag by Yegorov & Kantariya was declared the symbol of the Russian people’s victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
#Victory79
🇷🇺The #Russian Defence Ministry inaugurates an exhibition of trophy weapons and hardware captured in Rabotino and Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye Region), and Avdeyevka (Donetsk People's Republic) during the special military operation.
3 dozens of pieces of NATO military hardware produced by the #USA, #UK, #Germany, #France, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Turkey, Australia are displayed in the open area at the Victory Museum in #Moscow.
No Western ‘wonder weapon’ will change the situation on the battlefield. The enemy will be defeated!
3 dozens of pieces of NATO military hardware produced by the #USA, #UK, #Germany, #France, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Turkey, Australia are displayed in the open area at the Victory Museum in #Moscow.
No Western ‘wonder weapon’ will change the situation on the battlefield. The enemy will be defeated!
Forwarded from Russian Mission Geneva
📸 The iconic WWII photo “Victory Banner over the Reichstag” is widely known across the world as a symbol of the Soviet Victory over Nazi Germany. The photo was taken on May 2, 1945, by a Soviet photographer Evgeniy Khaldei after the last German troops defending the Reichstag had surrendered.
🇷🇺 What is less known, is that the Victory Banner featured in the photo was initially raised over the Reichstag on May 1 by three Soviet soldiers - Aleksei Berest, Mikhail Egorov and Meliton Kantaria - while the fierce battle for the Reichstag was still underway. On May 2, after the fighting had ceased, the red banner was relocated to the top of the building, marking the historic Victory. Shortly thereafter, the banner was taken down and transported to Moscow, where it was kept at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR for eternal preservation.
🌟 Today, visitors of the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation can only view one of the four official replicas of the Victory Banner. The original is stored in a special glass capsule in an underground vault of the museum to protect it from damage.
🇷🇺 In 2007, the Russian legislation conferred upon the Victory Banner the status of a state relic of the Russian Federation and the official symbol of the Victory of the Soviet people and its Armed Forces over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
🇷🇺 In 2007, the Russian legislation conferred upon the Victory Banner the status of a state relic of the Russian Federation and the official symbol of the Victory of the Soviet people and its Armed Forces over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
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🕯 May 2 marks 10 years since the tragic events in Odessa, which culminated in the bone-chilling massacre in the House of Trade Unions.
On that day, Ukrainian radical nationalists intentionally set fire to the building where an opposition group against the new authorities had taken refuge. As a result, 48 people were burned alive, poisoned by carbon monoxide or died after falling from the windows of the upper floors.
The world watched the developments practically in real time, with the terrible footage of charred corpses circulating online.
☝️ It is outrageous that the incident was never fully investigated. For appearance sake, the Kiev authorities found a scapegoat – former public security police chief Dmitry Fuchedzhi. No other perpetrators of the crime have been punished.
Russian Foreign Ministry special envoy Rodion Miroshnik:
💬 This tragedy had dispelled the last doubts of those who still believed that it was possible to come to an agreement with this regime and live in one country and obey their laws. This tragedy had pushed thousands and thousands of residents of Donbass to the ballots to vote for secession from such a Ukraine.
❗️ We will never forget the tragedy in Odessa. We will insist that everyone involved in this brutal crime be identified and held responsible.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
On that day, Ukrainian radical nationalists intentionally set fire to the building where an opposition group against the new authorities had taken refuge. As a result, 48 people were burned alive, poisoned by carbon monoxide or died after falling from the windows of the upper floors.
The world watched the developments practically in real time, with the terrible footage of charred corpses circulating online.
☝️ It is outrageous that the incident was never fully investigated. For appearance sake, the Kiev authorities found a scapegoat – former public security police chief Dmitry Fuchedzhi. No other perpetrators of the crime have been punished.
Russian Foreign Ministry special envoy Rodion Miroshnik:
💬 This tragedy had dispelled the last doubts of those who still believed that it was possible to come to an agreement with this regime and live in one country and obey their laws. This tragedy had pushed thousands and thousands of residents of Donbass to the ballots to vote for secession from such a Ukraine.
❗️ We will never forget the tragedy in Odessa. We will insist that everyone involved in this brutal crime be identified and held responsible.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations