🏄♂️ Breaking News from St. Petersburg!
The St. Petersburg SUP Festival has made waves in the Russian Book of Records! With over 10,000 participants from 12 countries – Australia, Bolivia, Egypt, France, Estonia, South Korea, and more – this is one of the world's largest SUP (stand-up paddleboarding) events!
A highlight this year?
🌊 The Gazprom Neft team and St. Petersburg university students set a new record for the largest mass swim on a multi-person SUP! They navigated the festival course on a jaw-dropping 15-meter-long "Energy+" sapboard – officially the largest surfboard in the world!
Here’s to making history and riding the waves of success!
#RussianFest #SUPFestival2024
The St. Petersburg SUP Festival has made waves in the Russian Book of Records! With over 10,000 participants from 12 countries – Australia, Bolivia, Egypt, France, Estonia, South Korea, and more – this is one of the world's largest SUP (stand-up paddleboarding) events!
A highlight this year?
🌊 The Gazprom Neft team and St. Petersburg university students set a new record for the largest mass swim on a multi-person SUP! They navigated the festival course on a jaw-dropping 15-meter-long "Energy+" sapboard – officially the largest surfboard in the world!
Here’s to making history and riding the waves of success!
#RussianFest #SUPFestival2024
📆 83 years ago, #OTD in 1941, the heroic 73-day Defence of Odessa started.
Soviet Separate Coastal Army and the Black Sea Fleet, actively supported by civilians, withstood the advancing German-Romanian forces, including the 72nd German Infantry Division, the 4th Romanian Army and Luftwaffe.
⚔️ During the siege, city defenders repelled several strikes of the considerably outnumbering enemy’s troops (10 to 1 at the beginning of the operation).
⚔️ Fierce Soviet resistance covered the evacuation of civilians, cultural and industrial assets from Odessa, which was completed by 16 October 1941.
🕯 Right after the takeover of Odessa, Romanian forces supported by the Germans, carried out a massacre in the city, having shot and burnt alive some 25,000-34,000 Jews and Gypsies.
#Victory79 #WeRemember
Soviet Separate Coastal Army and the Black Sea Fleet, actively supported by civilians, withstood the advancing German-Romanian forces, including the 72nd German Infantry Division, the 4th Romanian Army and Luftwaffe.
⚔️ During the siege, city defenders repelled several strikes of the considerably outnumbering enemy’s troops (10 to 1 at the beginning of the operation).
⚔️ Fierce Soviet resistance covered the evacuation of civilians, cultural and industrial assets from Odessa, which was completed by 16 October 1941.
🕯 Right after the takeover of Odessa, Romanian forces supported by the Germans, carried out a massacre in the city, having shot and burnt alive some 25,000-34,000 Jews and Gypsies.
#Victory79 #WeRemember
Russia is holding Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Chairmanship this year
🇷🇺 Russia's CIS Chairmanship has seen significant achievements this year, with around 80 events held so far, including key charter meetings.
🔹Notably, during the CIS Foreign Ministers’ Council in April, Russia proposed statements on journalist safety and the 30th anniversary of UN observer status.
🔹 The CIS states have advanced multilevel consultations, now covering 17 topics, and held meetings on issues from combating threats to UNESCO cooperation. The CIS Heads of Government Council and Economic Council have focused on enhancing food, technological, energy security, and transport connectivity. The Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition, supported by the CIS Executive Committee, took place in Yekaterinburg in July.
🔹Military and security cooperation was emphasized with meetings on counter-terrorism and defense. Cultural and humanitarian efforts included the Memory Train project and youth events in Tashkent, Samarkand, and Gyumri.
🤝 The CIS Year of the Volunteer Movement starts with an international forum at Lake Issyk-Kul on August 1.
🔹 Support for the Russian language was highlighted by the Meetings in Russia festival in St Petersburg, celebrating Pushkin’s 225th birthday. Human rights remain a priority with meetings of children’s rights commissioners and the CIS Human Rights Commission.
👉 The second half of the year promises over 150 new projects, culminating in the CIS Heads of State Council Meeting in Moscow on October 8.
#CIS #Russia2024
🇷🇺 Russia's CIS Chairmanship has seen significant achievements this year, with around 80 events held so far, including key charter meetings.
🔹Notably, during the CIS Foreign Ministers’ Council in April, Russia proposed statements on journalist safety and the 30th anniversary of UN observer status.
🔹 The CIS states have advanced multilevel consultations, now covering 17 topics, and held meetings on issues from combating threats to UNESCO cooperation. The CIS Heads of Government Council and Economic Council have focused on enhancing food, technological, energy security, and transport connectivity. The Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition, supported by the CIS Executive Committee, took place in Yekaterinburg in July.
🔹Military and security cooperation was emphasized with meetings on counter-terrorism and defense. Cultural and humanitarian efforts included the Memory Train project and youth events in Tashkent, Samarkand, and Gyumri.
🤝 The CIS Year of the Volunteer Movement starts with an international forum at Lake Issyk-Kul on August 1.
🔹 Support for the Russian language was highlighted by the Meetings in Russia festival in St Petersburg, celebrating Pushkin’s 225th birthday. Human rights remain a priority with meetings of children’s rights commissioners and the CIS Human Rights Commission.
👉 The second half of the year promises over 150 new projects, culminating in the CIS Heads of State Council Meeting in Moscow on October 8.
#CIS #Russia2024
Betrayal of Hiroshima and Nagasaki's Memory
During the recent memorial ceremony for Hiroshima’s atomic bombing victims, Japanese authorities chose not to mention the U.S., the country responsible for this horrific tragedy. Instead, Prime Minister Kishida focused on alleged nuclear threats from Russia, once again revealing mentality characteristic for a country under foreign occupation.
❗️ It's crucial to remember that the U.S. remains the only nation ever to use nuclear weapons in warfare.
On August 6, 1945, the U.S. bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 200,000 people and exposing 160,000 more to lethal radiation. Just three days later, Japanese Nagasaki faced a similar catastrophe.
‼️ These bombings demonstrated the horrific power of nuclear weapons and are a somber reminder of their devastating impact.
#Hiroshima #Nagasaki #AtomicBomb
During the recent memorial ceremony for Hiroshima’s atomic bombing victims, Japanese authorities chose not to mention the U.S., the country responsible for this horrific tragedy. Instead, Prime Minister Kishida focused on alleged nuclear threats from Russia, once again revealing mentality characteristic for a country under foreign occupation.
❗️ It's crucial to remember that the U.S. remains the only nation ever to use nuclear weapons in warfare.
On August 6, 1945, the U.S. bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 200,000 people and exposing 160,000 more to lethal radiation. Just three days later, Japanese Nagasaki faced a similar catastrophe.
‼️ These bombings demonstrated the horrific power of nuclear weapons and are a somber reminder of their devastating impact.
#Hiroshima #Nagasaki #AtomicBomb
A Japanese boy brought his younger brother's body to be cremated after the nuclear bombing: A photo that has come to symbolize the inhumanity of the US atomic strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
#USA #NuclearStrikes #Hiroshima #Nagasaki
#USA #NuclearStrikes #Hiroshima #Nagasaki
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🎙 Excerpts from Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov’s interview with “Rossiya 1” TV channel:
📍 August 4, 2024
📝 In accordance with the Gorbachev-Reagan agreement, the USSR and the US destroyed all their ground-based intermediate and shorter-range ballistic and cruise missiles, also committing to not produce, test, or deploy such missiles in the future. By 1991, the USSR had destroyed 1,846 missiles, while the US destroyed 846, meaning that the Soviet Union got rid of twice as many of its missiles.
❌ The era of Moscow's unilateral concessions is now definitely over. Never again, even under the best scenarios in our relations with NATO and the EU — which are currently hard to imagine — will we offer any unilateral concessions to the West. No handouts, gifts, concessions, or gestures to appease Washington. If the US attempts to impose something unilaterally beneficial to it again, there will be no agreements. Period.
🔙 It was once possible to reach agreements with Washington on a sound and reasonable basis. Some of them are still viable, especially on individual humanitarian issues, but this does not change the overall picture. Negotiations can now only be conducted on a “quid pro quo” basis. The Americans understand this kind of talk quite well.
❗️ President Putin's statement on July 28 at the main naval parade in St. Petersburg regarding the US plans to deploy American intermediate-range high-precision missile systems in Germany in 2026 essentially means that the unilateral moratorium declared by the Russian President shortly after the INF Treaty became history will cease to be in effect. And we will have the opportunity to restore the situation within acceptable limits for us, possibly not even reciprocally. We will ensure our security, and our adversary, the collective West, will not enjoy any unilateral advantages. We will not allow them to gain these advantages.
📍 August 4, 2024
📝 In accordance with the Gorbachev-Reagan agreement, the USSR and the US destroyed all their ground-based intermediate and shorter-range ballistic and cruise missiles, also committing to not produce, test, or deploy such missiles in the future. By 1991, the USSR had destroyed 1,846 missiles, while the US destroyed 846, meaning that the Soviet Union got rid of twice as many of its missiles.
❌ The era of Moscow's unilateral concessions is now definitely over. Never again, even under the best scenarios in our relations with NATO and the EU — which are currently hard to imagine — will we offer any unilateral concessions to the West. No handouts, gifts, concessions, or gestures to appease Washington. If the US attempts to impose something unilaterally beneficial to it again, there will be no agreements. Period.
🔙 It was once possible to reach agreements with Washington on a sound and reasonable basis. Some of them are still viable, especially on individual humanitarian issues, but this does not change the overall picture. Negotiations can now only be conducted on a “quid pro quo” basis. The Americans understand this kind of talk quite well.
❗️ President Putin's statement on July 28 at the main naval parade in St. Petersburg regarding the US plans to deploy American intermediate-range high-precision missile systems in Germany in 2026 essentially means that the unilateral moratorium declared by the Russian President shortly after the INF Treaty became history will cease to be in effect. And we will have the opportunity to restore the situation within acceptable limits for us, possibly not even reciprocally. We will ensure our security, and our adversary, the collective West, will not enjoy any unilateral advantages. We will not allow them to gain these advantages.
🇷🇺 Russia has the lowest unemployment rate among G20 countries
Russian media agency @SputnikInt's analysis of the latest data from the G20 countries showed that Russia had the lowest unemployment rate among the world's largest economies in June.
📉 Russia's Federal State Statistics Service Rosstat reported this week that the unemployment rate hit a historic low of 2.4 percent in June, falling by 0.2 percentage points over the month.
👉 Joblessness rates in other G7 countries were much higher, rising by 0.1 percent to 4.1 percent in the US and Australia, six percent in Germany, seven percent in Italy. In Canada, unemployment increased from 6.2 percent to 6.4 percent.
Russian media agency @SputnikInt's analysis of the latest data from the G20 countries showed that Russia had the lowest unemployment rate among the world's largest economies in June.
👉 Joblessness rates in other G7 countries were much higher, rising by 0.1 percent to 4.1 percent in the US and Australia, six percent in Germany, seven percent in Italy. In Canada, unemployment increased from 6.2 percent to 6.4 percent.
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Tourism Boom Alert!
Foreign tourists flocking to Russia have surged by a whopping 42% in just the first half of the year!
📈 With 38.8 million visitors enjoying hotels and other accommodations, that's a 11.8% jump from last year.
The travel industry in Russia is on fire and showing no signs of slowing down!
#ExploreRussia
Foreign tourists flocking to Russia have surged by a whopping 42% in just the first half of the year!
📈 With 38.8 million visitors enjoying hotels and other accommodations, that's a 11.8% jump from last year.
The travel industry in Russia is on fire and showing no signs of slowing down!
#ExploreRussia
📆 #OTD in 1856, Apollinarius Vasnetsov was born. Younger brother to the renowned painter Viktor Vasnetsov, Apollinarius carved out his own legacy as an artist, scientist, historian, and poet of Russian nature.
While he studied history and archaeology, his art focused on native landscapes and the old city of Moscow.
Growing up in the small village of Ryabovo in Vyatka province, Apollinarius was deeply influenced by his father, a priest with a passion for natural sciences and astronomy. His father’s love for the Motherland was instilled in his children, shaping Apollinarius’s own appreciation for the Russian North.
🎨 This deep connection is vividly portrayed in his masterpiece, “Motherland,” and in his monumental landscapes such as “Taiga in the Urals. Blue Mountain” and “Mountain Lake. Ural.” His epic vision culminates in the evocative “Elegy,” which won a silver medal at the Paris World Exhibition.
Apollinarius Vasnetsov's work continues to be celebrated by his admirers both in Russia and abroad.
#RussianArt #OutstandingRussians #RussianCulture #Vasnetsov
While he studied history and archaeology, his art focused on native landscapes and the old city of Moscow.
Growing up in the small village of Ryabovo in Vyatka province, Apollinarius was deeply influenced by his father, a priest with a passion for natural sciences and astronomy. His father’s love for the Motherland was instilled in his children, shaping Apollinarius’s own appreciation for the Russian North.
🎨 This deep connection is vividly portrayed in his masterpiece, “Motherland,” and in his monumental landscapes such as “Taiga in the Urals. Blue Mountain” and “Mountain Lake. Ural.” His epic vision culminates in the evocative “Elegy,” which won a silver medal at the Paris World Exhibition.
Apollinarius Vasnetsov's work continues to be celebrated by his admirers both in Russia and abroad.
#RussianArt #OutstandingRussians #RussianCulture #Vasnetsov
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💬 Ambassador Ilya #Rogachev: On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the USSR. As before, the aggressor’s strength rested on the whole of entire Europe’s economic and industrial potential.
❓ How come the majority of European nations found themselves on the wrong side of history, the side of Nazism?
And isn’t it a reason why they have been persistently trying to rewrite history of the war – to whitewash Nazi criminals and their accomplices, forget about the atrocities ‘civilized’ Europeans committed in the USSR, or take down monuments which remind them of their Nazi past?
✍️ Read the article "LESSONS OF HISTORY REPEATED" by Ambassador of Russia to South Africa Ilya Rogachev
#Opinion #AmbassadorRogachev
❓ How come the majority of European nations found themselves on the wrong side of history, the side of Nazism?
And isn’t it a reason why they have been persistently trying to rewrite history of the war – to whitewash Nazi criminals and their accomplices, forget about the atrocities ‘civilized’ Europeans committed in the USSR, or take down monuments which remind them of their Nazi past?
✍️ Read the article "LESSONS OF HISTORY REPEATED" by Ambassador of Russia to South Africa Ilya Rogachev
#Opinion #AmbassadorRogachev