📆On the occasion of the 162nd anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Nesterov, a renowned Russian artist we bring you a set of his works reflecting the milestones of his career.
👨🎨Mikhail Nesterov came from a merchant’s family. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture with V.Perov, A.Savrasov and I.Pryanishnikov and later at the St.Petersburg Academy of Arts under professor P.Tchistyakov.
🖼First he tried himself in the genres of historic and everyday scenes, but later, in the 1890s, he became interested in religious themes wherein the influence of modern style revealed.
✍️ In 1886, his wife Maria died while giving birth to their daughter Olga. “The death of Masha made me an artist”, Nesterov wrote later. His paintings, which according to his own judgment had lacked feelings, now obtained them.
👨🎨Mikhail Nesterov came from a merchant’s family. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture with V.Perov, A.Savrasov and I.Pryanishnikov and later at the St.Petersburg Academy of Arts under professor P.Tchistyakov.
🖼First he tried himself in the genres of historic and everyday scenes, but later, in the 1890s, he became interested in religious themes wherein the influence of modern style revealed.
✍️ In 1886, his wife Maria died while giving birth to their daughter Olga. “The death of Masha made me an artist”, Nesterov wrote later. His paintings, which according to his own judgment had lacked feelings, now obtained them.
Vladimir #Putin on International Children’s Day:
💬 This holiday is filled with warmth, joy and sincere emotions, and is widely celebrated in our country, where good traditions of continuity between generations and true family values are honoured and treasured.
👨👩👧👦 What can be more important for any child than a close-knit and friendly family, loving parents, relatives, and care taken by their teachers, educators, and mentors who are ready to offer advice, help, and support, including in a difficult situation in life if that happens.
I would like to wish all children happiness and joy.
🌟 May your friends always be loyal and reliable. My friends, go for it, follow your dreams, aspire to and reach new heights of knowledge, and you will succeed.
💬 This holiday is filled with warmth, joy and sincere emotions, and is widely celebrated in our country, where good traditions of continuity between generations and true family values are honoured and treasured.
👨👩👧👦 What can be more important for any child than a close-knit and friendly family, loving parents, relatives, and care taken by their teachers, educators, and mentors who are ready to offer advice, help, and support, including in a difficult situation in life if that happens.
I would like to wish all children happiness and joy.
🌟 May your friends always be loyal and reliable. My friends, go for it, follow your dreams, aspire to and reach new heights of knowledge, and you will succeed.
🇷🇺The 7th BRICS International Festival of Theatre Schools will be held in Moscow on 1–8 June 2024.
The Festival will officially open on 1 June in front of the main entrance to the All-Russian Exhibition Centre.
Representatives of each country will then perform their own unique productions for the Festival over the course of 6️⃣ days.
The Institute of Theatre Arts named after People’s Artist of the USSR Joseph Kobzon has been organizing and hosting the BRICS International Festival of Theatre Schools since 2017. As a form of public diplomacy, the Festival aims to establish and develop friendly relations among young students.
🌐 The Festival is known around the world as the first innovative platform for theatre universities from different countries for intercultural exchange in dramatic art and public diplomacy. Representatives of theatre schools, different nationalities and cultures, as well as students and specialists will get together to learn about actors’ skills in any director’s focus and reading.
🎣 Alexander Pushkin’s ‘The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish’ was chosen as the play for the performance at the 7th BRICS International Festival of Theatre Schools. The delegations have been preparing for the meeting for a year and will come to Moscow to show off their theatrical productions, which will culminate with a single major final performance in the ‘Let's Play Together!’ format. This performance will be the final event of the Festival, which will officially close on 8 June.
The Festival will officially open on 1 June in front of the main entrance to the All-Russian Exhibition Centre.
Representatives of each country will then perform their own unique productions for the Festival over the course of 6️⃣ days.
The Institute of Theatre Arts named after People’s Artist of the USSR Joseph Kobzon has been organizing and hosting the BRICS International Festival of Theatre Schools since 2017. As a form of public diplomacy, the Festival aims to establish and develop friendly relations among young students.
🌐 The Festival is known around the world as the first innovative platform for theatre universities from different countries for intercultural exchange in dramatic art and public diplomacy. Representatives of theatre schools, different nationalities and cultures, as well as students and specialists will get together to learn about actors’ skills in any director’s focus and reading.
🎣 Alexander Pushkin’s ‘The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish’ was chosen as the play for the performance at the 7th BRICS International Festival of Theatre Schools. The delegations have been preparing for the meeting for a year and will come to Moscow to show off their theatrical productions, which will culminate with a single major final performance in the ‘Let's Play Together!’ format. This performance will be the final event of the Festival, which will officially close on 8 June.
📆Today Russia observes Northern Fleet Day. It commemorates the forming of Northern military flotilla based in Murmansk on 1 June 1933, though the history of Russian Northern Fleet starts as early as 1733.
🛳 In 1733, the Arkhangelsk dockyard was founded by the order of Russian empress Anna Ioannovna. It were Arkhangelsk-built ships that formed the backbone of Russia’s first warship unit in the North. The Arkhangelsk squadron’s areas of responsibility were the White Sea and the coast of the Kola peninsula.
☝️Today’s Northern Fleet consists of nuclear-powered missile and torpedo submarines, missile-carrying and antisubmarine aviation, missile, aircraft-carrying and anti-submarine ships. The flagship of the Russian Northern Fleet - heavy battlecruiser Pyotr Veliky.
#RussianNavy #RussianArmy #military #army #RussianHistory #HistoryofRussia #navy #NorthernFleet #RussianMilitaryGlory #defense
🛳 In 1733, the Arkhangelsk dockyard was founded by the order of Russian empress Anna Ioannovna. It were Arkhangelsk-built ships that formed the backbone of Russia’s first warship unit in the North. The Arkhangelsk squadron’s areas of responsibility were the White Sea and the coast of the Kola peninsula.
☝️Today’s Northern Fleet consists of nuclear-powered missile and torpedo submarines, missile-carrying and antisubmarine aviation, missile, aircraft-carrying and anti-submarine ships. The flagship of the Russian Northern Fleet - heavy battlecruiser Pyotr Veliky.
#RussianNavy #RussianArmy #military #army #RussianHistory #HistoryofRussia #navy #NorthernFleet #RussianMilitaryGlory #defense
📆#OTD in 1988 the INF Treaty between the USSR and the US entered into force. It was signed in December 1987 in Washington by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president Ronald Reagan.
✍️Under the INF Treaty, the parties eliminated two classes of nuclear armaments: land-based intermediate-range and shorter range missiles. The missile launchers and all the associated support facilities and equipment were also destroyed.
❌In 2019, the US unilaterally withdrew from the Treaty under a far-fetched pretext terminating it for all the parties. A great blow was dealt to the arms control system, which took decades to build. The USA is to be held responsible for the far-reaching negative consequences for the entire architecture of global security and strategic stability.
🇷🇺For its part, Russia did its best to save the Treaty as well as to ensure predictability in the missile area after its termination. President of Russia Vladimir Putin announced a moratorium on the deployment of land-based intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles as long as US weapons of similar classes were not deployed.
⚠️The US and other NATO countries were directly urged to announce a reciprocal moratorium but the Russian proposal was declined.
#Russia #USA #armscontrol #globalsecurity
✍️Under the INF Treaty, the parties eliminated two classes of nuclear armaments: land-based intermediate-range and shorter range missiles. The missile launchers and all the associated support facilities and equipment were also destroyed.
❌In 2019, the US unilaterally withdrew from the Treaty under a far-fetched pretext terminating it for all the parties. A great blow was dealt to the arms control system, which took decades to build. The USA is to be held responsible for the far-reaching negative consequences for the entire architecture of global security and strategic stability.
🇷🇺For its part, Russia did its best to save the Treaty as well as to ensure predictability in the missile area after its termination. President of Russia Vladimir Putin announced a moratorium on the deployment of land-based intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles as long as US weapons of similar classes were not deployed.
⚠️The US and other NATO countries were directly urged to announce a reciprocal moratorium but the Russian proposal was declined.
#Russia #USA #armscontrol #globalsecurity
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks during Business Council meeting on #BRICS issues (Moscow, May 31, 2024)
💬 We have agreed to focus our today’s meeting on a most pressing issue – interaction within the BRICS association.
BRICS is a unique interstate format where representatives of various countries of various religions, civilizations and cultures communicate, work and elaborate joint decisions, which are subsequently implemented. All this is done on the basis of equality, mutual respect, openness and search for a balance of interests.
The purpose of cooperation is understandable: to provide for the creation of favourable conditions for the economic growth of member countries, to resolve social problems and to develop innovatory human potential. No doubt that the interests of all member countries coincide in this matter and meet the hopes of other Global Majority countries, which has been confirmed by doubling our association membership in 2023 (from five to 10). This is also confirmed by the fact that over 30 states have applied for rapprochement with BRICS in one form or another.
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The BRICS Summit is scheduled for October 2024 in Kazan. As early as next week we will hold a meeting of the BRICS Council of Foreign Ministers in Nizhny Novgorod to be attended by both full-fledged members and invited countries representing a variety of integration entities in the Global Majority as well as other partners in the BRICS+ format.
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☝️ We are going to give priority attention to strengthening contacts with business circles. It is because these issues just cannot be solved efficiently without you.
We will encourage a direct dialogue between entrepreneurs within BRICS. The Business Council and the Women’s Business Alliance set up at Russia’s initiative are already operating. We will support your participation in these organisations in every way possible, especially this year when Russia holds the presidency.
Read in full
#BRICS2024
💬 We have agreed to focus our today’s meeting on a most pressing issue – interaction within the BRICS association.
BRICS is a unique interstate format where representatives of various countries of various religions, civilizations and cultures communicate, work and elaborate joint decisions, which are subsequently implemented. All this is done on the basis of equality, mutual respect, openness and search for a balance of interests.
The purpose of cooperation is understandable: to provide for the creation of favourable conditions for the economic growth of member countries, to resolve social problems and to develop innovatory human potential. No doubt that the interests of all member countries coincide in this matter and meet the hopes of other Global Majority countries, which has been confirmed by doubling our association membership in 2023 (from five to 10). This is also confirmed by the fact that over 30 states have applied for rapprochement with BRICS in one form or another.
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The BRICS Summit is scheduled for October 2024 in Kazan. As early as next week we will hold a meeting of the BRICS Council of Foreign Ministers in Nizhny Novgorod to be attended by both full-fledged members and invited countries representing a variety of integration entities in the Global Majority as well as other partners in the BRICS+ format.
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☝️ We are going to give priority attention to strengthening contacts with business circles. It is because these issues just cannot be solved efficiently without you.
We will encourage a direct dialogue between entrepreneurs within BRICS. The Business Council and the Women’s Business Alliance set up at Russia’s initiative are already operating. We will support your participation in these organisations in every way possible, especially this year when Russia holds the presidency.
Read in full
#BRICS2024
Memory of Russian volunteers participants of the second Anglo-Boer war honoured in Midrand
🕊Memory of Russian volunteers who had participated in the second Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902) was honoured on May 31, 2024, in Midrand, as part of the event to commemorate the anniversary of the Treaty of Vereeniging.
The ceremony was attended by Russia’s Ambassador to South Africa Ilya Rogachev.
✅The event was initiated by Afrikaans Cultural Council for the Klipriver area. Head of the parish father Daniil (Lugovoy) served a lity followed by the participants’ laying wreaths to the chapel of Saint Prince Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles, in memory of fallen Russian volunteers.
🕊Memory of Russian volunteers who had participated in the second Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902) was honoured on May 31, 2024, in Midrand, as part of the event to commemorate the anniversary of the Treaty of Vereeniging.
The ceremony was attended by Russia’s Ambassador to South Africa Ilya Rogachev.
✅The event was initiated by Afrikaans Cultural Council for the Klipriver area. Head of the parish father Daniil (Lugovoy) served a lity followed by the participants’ laying wreaths to the chapel of Saint Prince Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles, in memory of fallen Russian volunteers.
⚡️ Russia develops the world's first ground-based FPV kamikaze drone
❗️Russia has created the world's first ground-based kamikaze robot, designed to hit enemy manpower and equipment, as well as fortifications, the press service of Rostec State Corporation said.
👉The multi-functional robot complex named "Depesha" is mounted on a tracked platform and controlled by an operator using a joystick and an FPV helmet. The Buggy robot has a wheeled platform and is controlled by a joystick and a tablet. Both robots can be used as ground-based kamikaze drones to attack enemy targets by detonating a payload that the robot carries to the target," the report said.
☝️The most important features of the machines include compactness, maneuverability, and payload. Depesha has a payload of 150 kilograms and the Buggy drone has 250 kilograms, making them reliable assistants for soldiers on the front line.
These unique FPV kamikaze robots can be used to:
✅Strike the enemy's manpower, fortifications such as pillboxes, fortified firing points, and strongholds;
✅Overcome and clear defensive barriers, such as dragon's teeth, allowing for the passage of armored vehicles;
✅Lay land mines;
✅Quickly and discreetly deliver food, ammunition, and fuel to the front line;
✅Evacuate wounded soldiers.
The robots are currently undergoing extensive testing in the special military operation zone.
@SputnikInt
❗️Russia has created the world's first ground-based kamikaze robot, designed to hit enemy manpower and equipment, as well as fortifications, the press service of Rostec State Corporation said.
👉The multi-functional robot complex named "Depesha" is mounted on a tracked platform and controlled by an operator using a joystick and an FPV helmet. The Buggy robot has a wheeled platform and is controlled by a joystick and a tablet. Both robots can be used as ground-based kamikaze drones to attack enemy targets by detonating a payload that the robot carries to the target," the report said.
☝️The most important features of the machines include compactness, maneuverability, and payload. Depesha has a payload of 150 kilograms and the Buggy drone has 250 kilograms, making them reliable assistants for soldiers on the front line.
These unique FPV kamikaze robots can be used to:
✅Strike the enemy's manpower, fortifications such as pillboxes, fortified firing points, and strongholds;
✅Overcome and clear defensive barriers, such as dragon's teeth, allowing for the passage of armored vehicles;
✅Lay land mines;
✅Quickly and discreetly deliver food, ammunition, and fuel to the front line;
✅Evacuate wounded soldiers.
The robots are currently undergoing extensive testing in the special military operation zone.
@SputnikInt
🌐 Tourism industry creative arts and ads international competition "Travel More!"
🤝"Travel More!" invites legal entities as well as individuals from BRICS countries to participate in the competition.
📍Mission of "Travel More!" is to collect the best practices and promotion ideas in Russia and beyond, to inspire people go travel and to expose Russia for visitors from all around the world.
☝️Foreign nationals may apply in the “Around the World” category until 4 June 2024. The organising committee accepts advertising videos and branded materials for evaluation. The results will be announced on the margins of the forum “Let’s Travel!”
👉Applications are accepted via the website
#russia #russian #discoverrussia #visitrussia
🤝"Travel More!" invites legal entities as well as individuals from BRICS countries to participate in the competition.
📍Mission of "Travel More!" is to collect the best practices and promotion ideas in Russia and beyond, to inspire people go travel and to expose Russia for visitors from all around the world.
☝️Foreign nationals may apply in the “Around the World” category until 4 June 2024. The organising committee accepts advertising videos and branded materials for evaluation. The results will be announced on the margins of the forum “Let’s Travel!”
👉Applications are accepted via the website
#russia #russian #discoverrussia #visitrussia
🇷🇺Russia's Progress MS-27 cargo spacecraft docks at International Space Station
The Progress MS-27 cargo spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) after a May 30 launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome and a two-day flight, a broadcast by Russian state space corporation Roscosmos showed on Saturday.
🚀The spacecraft docked with the Poisk (Search) module of the Russian segment of the ISS. Previously, the Progress MS-25, which had been part of the station since December 3, 2023, and was sunk in a non-waterway area of the Pacific Ocean on May 28, made room for a new truck.
The Progress MS-27 with a total mass of 7.4 tonnes delivered more than 2.5 tonnes of cargo to the station, including 1.3 tonnes of dry cargo for station systems and the ISS crew. In addition, the ship is carrying 754 kilograms (1,662 lbs) of propellant to fuel the station, 420 kilograms of drinking water and 40 kilograms of nitrogen to replenish the ISS atmosphere.
@sputnik_africa
The Progress MS-27 cargo spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) after a May 30 launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome and a two-day flight, a broadcast by Russian state space corporation Roscosmos showed on Saturday.
🚀The spacecraft docked with the Poisk (Search) module of the Russian segment of the ISS. Previously, the Progress MS-25, which had been part of the station since December 3, 2023, and was sunk in a non-waterway area of the Pacific Ocean on May 28, made room for a new truck.
The Progress MS-27 with a total mass of 7.4 tonnes delivered more than 2.5 tonnes of cargo to the station, including 1.3 tonnes of dry cargo for station systems and the ISS crew. In addition, the ship is carrying 754 kilograms (1,662 lbs) of propellant to fuel the station, 420 kilograms of drinking water and 40 kilograms of nitrogen to replenish the ISS atmosphere.
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