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⚡️ Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation:
The Head of Russia’s Investigative Committee held a meeting on current issues and listened to a report of the investigative team on the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall.
The investigators reported about their intensive efforts to reconstruct a complete picture of the crime, both its preparation and planning and the commission of a terrorist attack against unarmed civilians.
The initial results of the investigation fully confirm that the crime was planned, meticulously prepared and funded by its organisers.
❗️ Interrogations of the detained terrorists, study of their technical devices and the analysis of information on their financial transactions point 👉 to their connections with Ukrainian nationalists.
The investigators have confirmed evidence that the terrorists received substantial funds and crypto currency from Ukraine for preparing the crime.
One more suspect who took part in funding the terrorists was detained. The investigators will apply to the court for his detention as a measure of restraint.
The Head of Russia’s Investigative Committee held a meeting on current issues and listened to a report of the investigative team on the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall.
The investigators reported about their intensive efforts to reconstruct a complete picture of the crime, both its preparation and planning and the commission of a terrorist attack against unarmed civilians.
The initial results of the investigation fully confirm that the crime was planned, meticulously prepared and funded by its organisers.
❗️ Interrogations of the detained terrorists, study of their technical devices and the analysis of information on their financial transactions point 👉 to their connections with Ukrainian nationalists.
The investigators have confirmed evidence that the terrorists received substantial funds and crypto currency from Ukraine for preparing the crime.
One more suspect who took part in funding the terrorists was detained. The investigators will apply to the court for his detention as a measure of restraint.
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💔 Nearly a week has passed since the dreadful terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, but this tragedy rings fresh and continues to echo in the hearts of people from around the world.
The inflow of condolences coming from the leadership of the host countries, political parties, representatives of the diplomatic corps and public organisations continues unabated. Orthodox churches around the world are holding memorial services for the dead and prayers for the health of the injured. Russian compatriots as well as foreign citizens are carrying flowers and candles to makeshift memorials outside Russian diplomatic missions.
Thank you for your sympathy and support!
📹 The world mourns with Russia
The inflow of condolences coming from the leadership of the host countries, political parties, representatives of the diplomatic corps and public organisations continues unabated. Orthodox churches around the world are holding memorial services for the dead and prayers for the health of the injured. Russian compatriots as well as foreign citizens are carrying flowers and candles to makeshift memorials outside Russian diplomatic missions.
Thank you for your sympathy and support!
📹 The world mourns with Russia
🤝 The Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee and its contribution to the struggle against apartheid
We continue the series of joint publications with the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Russia - South Africa in the XX century: pages of common history".
The Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee was a public organization established in 1956 in the USSR to promote friendship between the peoples of the Union on the one hand and Asia and Africa on the other.
👉 The organization acted in a variety of ways: conducted mass protest actions with oppressed peoples, organized material support for activists of national liberation movements and supervised intl solidarity projects.
One high-profile campaign to support the children of anti-apartheid fighters, which was unique and truly grassroots, was the collection of gifts (approximately 20 tons) for the children of exiled ANC members.
The largest public initiative by Soviet youth to provide targeted aid to the South African liberation movement was carried out in 1985 by Soviet pupils and students from Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg).
In 1984, Irina Cheremisina, a student at the Ural State University, traveled to Moscow to obtain materials for her thesis on the SA struggle against apartheid. She made friends with South African students who were studying at the Peoples’ Friendship University.
Her friends told her about the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, a school in Tanzania where children of activists and young ANC members in exile studied.
Back home Irina decided to send humanitarian aid to Tanzania with the international friendship club. The organizers invited the whole city to participate in the collecting of gifts.
In August 1985, a 20-ton container with humanitarian aid for the College arrived in Tanzania. Gifts for South African schoolchildren were collected by 150 organisations, schools and universities in Sverdlovsk.
The materials provided by the Center for Southern Africa Studies of the Institute.
#pagesofcommonhistory
We continue the series of joint publications with the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Russia - South Africa in the XX century: pages of common history".
The Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee was a public organization established in 1956 in the USSR to promote friendship between the peoples of the Union on the one hand and Asia and Africa on the other.
👉 The organization acted in a variety of ways: conducted mass protest actions with oppressed peoples, organized material support for activists of national liberation movements and supervised intl solidarity projects.
One high-profile campaign to support the children of anti-apartheid fighters, which was unique and truly grassroots, was the collection of gifts (approximately 20 tons) for the children of exiled ANC members.
The largest public initiative by Soviet youth to provide targeted aid to the South African liberation movement was carried out in 1985 by Soviet pupils and students from Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg).
In 1984, Irina Cheremisina, a student at the Ural State University, traveled to Moscow to obtain materials for her thesis on the SA struggle against apartheid. She made friends with South African students who were studying at the Peoples’ Friendship University.
Her friends told her about the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, a school in Tanzania where children of activists and young ANC members in exile studied.
Back home Irina decided to send humanitarian aid to Tanzania with the international friendship club. The organizers invited the whole city to participate in the collecting of gifts.
In August 1985, a 20-ton container with humanitarian aid for the College arrived in Tanzania. Gifts for South African schoolchildren were collected by 150 organisations, schools and universities in Sverdlovsk.
The materials provided by the Center for Southern Africa Studies of the Institute.
#pagesofcommonhistory
📹 Over 200 festival participants and 1 million viewers attended events of Spirit of Fire business and educational program
Five sessions were held as part of the business program, including the plenary session “Connecting Bridges. Intercultural Dialogue and New BRICS+ Partnerships,” and Russia – Iran Film Dialogue.
👉 Among the topics discussed were:
✅ specific ways to develop film industries in BRICS countries;
✅ issues concerning joint film production and content promotion;
✅ the practice of mutual film screenings;
✅ the creation of professional exchange programs;
✅ issues of national film distribution;
✅ measures to preserve heritage and national identity.
#BRICS #SpiritOfFire #FilmFestival
Five sessions were held as part of the business program, including the plenary session “Connecting Bridges. Intercultural Dialogue and New BRICS+ Partnerships,” and Russia – Iran Film Dialogue.
👉 Among the topics discussed were:
✅ specific ways to develop film industries in BRICS countries;
✅ issues concerning joint film production and content promotion;
✅ the practice of mutual film screenings;
✅ the creation of professional exchange programs;
✅ issues of national film distribution;
✅ measures to preserve heritage and national identity.
#BRICS #SpiritOfFire #FilmFestival
📆 133 years ago, #OTD in 1891, Russian emperor Alexander III issued an order on the construction of the Great Siberian Route, nowadays known as the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Various projects of a railway to Siberia had been considered in Russia since the late 1850s, but could not be implemented due to their high cost and harsh environment conditions. Finally, in May 1891 the construction started.
🛤 Tsarevich Nikolay, the future Emperor of Russia Nikolay II personally laid the railway’s foundation.
🇷🇺 The Trans-Siberian Railway has connected Moscow with Vladivostok since 1916 with expansion of the railway still taking place today. With total length of 9288 km it spans a record seen time zones, taking 8 days to complete the journey from Moscow to Vladivostok.
#DiscoverRussia #HistoryOfRussia #TravelRussia
Various projects of a railway to Siberia had been considered in Russia since the late 1850s, but could not be implemented due to their high cost and harsh environment conditions. Finally, in May 1891 the construction started.
🛤 Tsarevich Nikolay, the future Emperor of Russia Nikolay II personally laid the railway’s foundation.
🇷🇺 The Trans-Siberian Railway has connected Moscow with Vladivostok since 1916 with expansion of the railway still taking place today. With total length of 9288 km it spans a record seen time zones, taking 8 days to complete the journey from Moscow to Vladivostok.
#DiscoverRussia #HistoryOfRussia #TravelRussia
💬 President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
❗️ There would have been no developments similar to those that are now taking place, if the NATO countries established entirely new relations in the sphere of security following the breakup of the Soviet Union, as Russia had suggested. They would have simply heeded our interests in the sphere of security; we discussed this issue year after year and, in effect, from decade to decade.
☝🏻They simply ignored us and deployed their forces next to our borders.
Did we move towards the borders of the NATO bloc’s member countries? We did not bother anyone. They were moving towards us. Did we cross the ocean and approach US borders? No, they are the ones who are closing in on us, and they have reached our borders.
❓What are we doing? We are only defending our people on our historical territories.
❗️ There would have been no developments similar to those that are now taking place, if the NATO countries established entirely new relations in the sphere of security following the breakup of the Soviet Union, as Russia had suggested. They would have simply heeded our interests in the sphere of security; we discussed this issue year after year and, in effect, from decade to decade.
☝🏻They simply ignored us and deployed their forces next to our borders.
Did we move towards the borders of the NATO bloc’s member countries? We did not bother anyone. They were moving towards us. Did we cross the ocean and approach US borders? No, they are the ones who are closing in on us, and they have reached our borders.
❓What are we doing? We are only defending our people on our historical territories.
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🎙 Briefing by MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, March 27, 2024)
🔹 Crocus City Hall terrorist attack
🔹 Reproachful statements by Estonian foreign minister
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 The UK Foreign Office replies to Russia’s request concerning the Skripals
🔹 Neo-colonial practices of the Western countries concerning Kyrgyzstan
🔹 Influx of Ukrainian food into Romania that fails to meet EU standards
🔹 210th anniversary of the Russian Army’s Foreign Campaign
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#CrocusCityHall
• Ignoring this “dancing on the graves” organised by Ukrainian propagandists, people from all continents are extending their heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the victims, wishing a speedy recovery to the injured and strongly condemning this terrible attack against innocent civilians.
🕯 The Foreign Ministry’s Telegram channel features images capturing impromptu memorials, videos, summary clips, and more.
• We thank those who have not remained indifferent.
#KievRegimeCrimes
❗️ In the past, the Ukrainian special services, such as the Security Service of Ukraine and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, have repeatedly admitted publicly to preparing and committing high-profile terrorist attacks against Russia and its citizens.
🔹 Crocus City Hall terrorist attack
🔹 Reproachful statements by Estonian foreign minister
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 The UK Foreign Office replies to Russia’s request concerning the Skripals
🔹 Neo-colonial practices of the Western countries concerning Kyrgyzstan
🔹 Influx of Ukrainian food into Romania that fails to meet EU standards
🔹 210th anniversary of the Russian Army’s Foreign Campaign
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📺 Watch in full
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#CrocusCityHall
• Ignoring this “dancing on the graves” organised by Ukrainian propagandists, people from all continents are extending their heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the victims, wishing a speedy recovery to the injured and strongly condemning this terrible attack against innocent civilians.
🕯 The Foreign Ministry’s Telegram channel features images capturing impromptu memorials, videos, summary clips, and more.
• We thank those who have not remained indifferent.
#KievRegimeCrimes
❗️ In the past, the Ukrainian special services, such as the Security Service of Ukraine and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, have repeatedly admitted publicly to preparing and committing high-profile terrorist attacks against Russia and its citizens.
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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with Izvestia MIC (March 28, 2024)
Key talking points:
• The West tries hard to convince everyone that ISIS is behind [the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack] & there is apparently no point in suspecting anyone else, above all... Ukraine. They mention that country directly & regularly to the point of becoming obsessive.
• We will wait for the investigation to complete before drawing final conclusions. <...> The West is suspiciously assertive as it tries to convince us, not only publicly but also in their contacts with our diplomatic missions, that we should not suspect Ukraine, without explaining why.
• The US sent us these signals [regarding talks on strategic stability]. <...> We explained that it was impossible to talk about strategic stability in a situation when we were declared a strategic enemy that needed to be “strategically defeated.”
• The irreparable confidence of the US in its own righteousness, omnipotence and impunity has led to the fact that the US foreign policy is now led by people who do not know how to do diplomacy.
• You know that European ambassadors have refused to attend a meeting with me. <...> We have notified them that, from now on, we will consider every request for meetings with Russian authorities at all levels, on a case-by-case basis to decide if we want to hold such meetings or not.
• Globalisation, which the Americans forced on everyone based on their own terms, has shown that nobody can set it hopes or rely on the US. It can weaponize the dollar, terminate contracts regardless of the presumption of innocence and the inviolability of property.
• If [the West] comes to its senses & sees that it is no longer possible to act as the neo-colonial power, & that there are new centres of power it must respect, it will be able to join these processes [of regionalisation of global development and revival of the global process] on the basis of equality, respect for each other and a balance of interests.
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Key talking points:
• The West tries hard to convince everyone that ISIS is behind [the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack] & there is apparently no point in suspecting anyone else, above all... Ukraine. They mention that country directly & regularly to the point of becoming obsessive.
• We will wait for the investigation to complete before drawing final conclusions. <...> The West is suspiciously assertive as it tries to convince us, not only publicly but also in their contacts with our diplomatic missions, that we should not suspect Ukraine, without explaining why.
• The US sent us these signals [regarding talks on strategic stability]. <...> We explained that it was impossible to talk about strategic stability in a situation when we were declared a strategic enemy that needed to be “strategically defeated.”
• The irreparable confidence of the US in its own righteousness, omnipotence and impunity has led to the fact that the US foreign policy is now led by people who do not know how to do diplomacy.
• You know that European ambassadors have refused to attend a meeting with me. <...> We have notified them that, from now on, we will consider every request for meetings with Russian authorities at all levels, on a case-by-case basis to decide if we want to hold such meetings or not.
• Globalisation, which the Americans forced on everyone based on their own terms, has shown that nobody can set it hopes or rely on the US. It can weaponize the dollar, terminate contracts regardless of the presumption of innocence and the inviolability of property.
• If [the West] comes to its senses & sees that it is no longer possible to act as the neo-colonial power, & that there are new centres of power it must respect, it will be able to join these processes [of regionalisation of global development and revival of the global process] on the basis of equality, respect for each other and a balance of interests.
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🎙 Excerpts from the interview with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for Izvestia MIC (March 28, 2024)
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#MiddleEastSettlement
• Creating the state of Palestine within the 1967 borders in line with the UNSC resolutions is the only way to bring a lasting solution to this issue.
• Most importantly, the bloodshed should be stopped. The adoption of this resolution (UNSC 2728) is a good development. The Americans let it pass realising that if they veto this resolution, calling for a ceasefire, they would lose face in their relations with the Global Majority.
#Moldova
• Moldovan President Sandu is openly seeking to break off relations with Russia. <...> Sandu has been turned into a instrument for developing the geopolitical space first by the EU and then NATO. <...> NATO has turned Ukraine into a tool of aggression. Now, they plan to do the same with Moldova.
#Armenia
• The Armenian leadership is deliberately aiming at breaking off relations with Russia. <...> The goal of those who are trying to tempt the Armenian leadership to the side of the West is simple – to disrupt stability in the South Caucasus and to turn it into a zone of Western domination.
#MultipolarWorld
• We have already dispelled all the far-fetched aspirations that Russia can be isolated by holding the Games of the Future and the World Youth Festival.
• We are paying more attention to our common Eurasian continent, where we have CSTO, EAEU, and SCO. These organisations are establishing partner relations with other organisations in that part of the world, like ASEAN, the Arab League, and the GCC. At the same time, we are developing ties with the African Union. <...> We are doing the same in Latin America. We have many partners there.
• Today, we see the regionalisation of global development. Every region and every country would like to be able to rely on its neighbours, to see what they can do together, among themselves, without depending on the logistics, financial and other instruments which the West still controls.
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#MiddleEastSettlement
• Creating the state of Palestine within the 1967 borders in line with the UNSC resolutions is the only way to bring a lasting solution to this issue.
• Most importantly, the bloodshed should be stopped. The adoption of this resolution (UNSC 2728) is a good development. The Americans let it pass realising that if they veto this resolution, calling for a ceasefire, they would lose face in their relations with the Global Majority.
#Moldova
• Moldovan President Sandu is openly seeking to break off relations with Russia. <...> Sandu has been turned into a instrument for developing the geopolitical space first by the EU and then NATO. <...> NATO has turned Ukraine into a tool of aggression. Now, they plan to do the same with Moldova.
#Armenia
• The Armenian leadership is deliberately aiming at breaking off relations with Russia. <...> The goal of those who are trying to tempt the Armenian leadership to the side of the West is simple – to disrupt stability in the South Caucasus and to turn it into a zone of Western domination.
#MultipolarWorld
• We have already dispelled all the far-fetched aspirations that Russia can be isolated by holding the Games of the Future and the World Youth Festival.
• We are paying more attention to our common Eurasian continent, where we have CSTO, EAEU, and SCO. These organisations are establishing partner relations with other organisations in that part of the world, like ASEAN, the Arab League, and the GCC. At the same time, we are developing ties with the African Union. <...> We are doing the same in Latin America. We have many partners there.
• Today, we see the regionalisation of global development. Every region and every country would like to be able to rely on its neighbours, to see what they can do together, among themselves, without depending on the logistics, financial and other instruments which the West still controls.
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🎈 As part of the solemn ceremony at the Crocus City Hall foreign and Russian diplomats released white balloons into the sky, commemorating the victims of the terrorist attack of March 22, 2024.
#WeMourn #ForeverInOurHearts
#WeMourn #ForeverInOurHearts
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📹 #HapenningNow
💐🕯 Members of the diplomatic corps, heads of foreign missions in Moscow, Russian diplomats, volunteers and just Muscovites — all paid tribute to the victims of the March 22, 2024, horrific and heinous terrorist attack in a wreath and flower-laying solemn ceremony at Crocus City Hall.
#ForeverInOurHearts
💐🕯 Members of the diplomatic corps, heads of foreign missions in Moscow, Russian diplomats, volunteers and just Muscovites — all paid tribute to the victims of the March 22, 2024, horrific and heinous terrorist attack in a wreath and flower-laying solemn ceremony at Crocus City Hall.
#ForeverInOurHearts
The Russian Embassy in South Africa wishes a very happy Easter to all Christians who celebrate it today!
🙏❤️May this day fill your hearts with love and happiness!
#HappyEaster2024 #easter2024
🙏❤️May this day fill your hearts with love and happiness!
#HappyEaster2024 #easter2024
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US congressman urged to finish Gaza and Ukraine conflicts with nuclear strikes – The Washington Post
🇺🇸 US lawmaker Tim Walberg (Rep) suggested that nukes should be dropped on Gaza when answering a question about the United States’ plan to build a floating pier off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid.
💬 Walberg claimed the US “shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid.” It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick,” he said.
“The same should be in Ukraine,” the politician added. “Defeat Putin quick,” Walberg continued.
“Instead of 80 per cent in Ukraine being used for humanitarian purposes, it should be 80 to 100 per cent to wipe out Russia – if that’s what we want to do,” he said.
The world’s most 'peace-loving nation'?
🇺🇸 US lawmaker Tim Walberg (Rep) suggested that nukes should be dropped on Gaza when answering a question about the United States’ plan to build a floating pier off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid.
💬 Walberg claimed the US “shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid.” It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick,” he said.
“The same should be in Ukraine,” the politician added. “Defeat Putin quick,” Walberg continued.
“Instead of 80 per cent in Ukraine being used for humanitarian purposes, it should be 80 to 100 per cent to wipe out Russia – if that’s what we want to do,” he said.
The world’s most 'peace-loving nation'?
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⚡️ The brutal terrorist attack committed in Krasnogorsk on March 22, which shocked the whole world, is far from the first act of terrorism targeting our country in recent time. The investigative actions carried out by the competent authorities in Russia indicate that the trails of all these crimes lead to Ukraine.
Other barbaric bomb attacks took the lives of journalists Darya Dugina and Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky), seriously injured writer Yevgeny “Zakhar” Prilepin and killed his driver, Alexander Shubin; five people were killed by an explosion of the Crimean Bridge, and 42 were wounded in an explosion in a café in St Petersburg. The killing and mutilation of civilians, including children, was accompanied by raids by the terrorist organisation known as Russian Volunteer Corps.
❗️ In this regard, the Russian Foreign Ministry has put forward a demand for the Ukrainian authorities, under the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism to immediately arrest and extradite every person implicated in the above terrorist acts.
One of the demands is to arrest head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasily Malyuk, who cynically admitted on March 25 that Ukraine was behind the bombing of the Crimean Bridge in October 2022 and revealed details of the organisation of other attacks in the Russian Federation.
☝️ The fight against international terrorism is the responsibility of every state. The Russian side demands that the Kiev regime immediately cease any support for terrorist activities, extradite the perpetrators and compensate for the damage caused to the victims. Ukraine’s violation of its obligations under the antiterrorist conventions will entail international legal liability.
Other barbaric bomb attacks took the lives of journalists Darya Dugina and Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky), seriously injured writer Yevgeny “Zakhar” Prilepin and killed his driver, Alexander Shubin; five people were killed by an explosion of the Crimean Bridge, and 42 were wounded in an explosion in a café in St Petersburg. The killing and mutilation of civilians, including children, was accompanied by raids by the terrorist organisation known as Russian Volunteer Corps.
❗️ In this regard, the Russian Foreign Ministry has put forward a demand for the Ukrainian authorities, under the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism to immediately arrest and extradite every person implicated in the above terrorist acts.
One of the demands is to arrest head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasily Malyuk, who cynically admitted on March 25 that Ukraine was behind the bombing of the Crimean Bridge in October 2022 and revealed details of the organisation of other attacks in the Russian Federation.
☝️ The fight against international terrorism is the responsibility of every state. The Russian side demands that the Kiev regime immediately cease any support for terrorist activities, extradite the perpetrators and compensate for the damage caused to the victims. Ukraine’s violation of its obligations under the antiterrorist conventions will entail international legal liability.