Вторые Внешнеполитические встречи памяти Виталия Чуркина: открыт приём заявок!💥

✊Фонд объявляет конкурс на участие во II Молодёжном форуме, нацеленном на сохранение памяти о выдающемся дипломате современности — Виталии Ивановиче Чуркине (1952-2017) — и подготовку специалистов-международников, способных грамотно, но твёрдо отстаивать свою позицию.

📆Даты проведения: 20-23 февраля 2024 года.
📍Место: Москва, Россия.

🇷🇺🇬🇧Рабочие языки: русский и английский (с синхронным переводом).

Кто может участвовать?

На программу приглашаются представители регионов России, стран ближнего зарубежья, Азии, Африки, Ближнего Востока, Латинской Америки, а также других заинтересованных государств:

⚪️исследователи в области международных отношений, политологи, экономисты, юристы, историки;

⚪️студенты, магистранты, аспиранты профильных вузов;

⚪️журналисты-международники;

⚪️представители общественных организаций, занимающихся вопросами международного сотрудничества, публичной дипломатии;

⚪️молодые дипломаты и представители государственных структур.

🔔Окончание приёма заявок: 21 января, 23:59 по московскому времени.

👉Подробнее об участии в конкурсе — на сайте Фонда!

#ВстречипамятиЧуркина

Call for applications to join the Second Foreign Policy Meetings in memory of Vitaly Churkin!💥

✊The Fund announces a competition for participation in the 2nd Youth Forum aimed at preserving the memory of an outstanding diplomat of our time Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin (1952-2017) and training experts in international relations, who would be capable to stand their ground in a wise but steadfast way.

📆Date: 20-23 February 2024.
📍Location: Moscow, Russia.

🇷🇺🇬🇧Working languages: Russian and English (simultaneous interpreting).

Eligibility

Representatives of Russian regions, post-Soviet states, countries of Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, as well as other interested parties are welcomed to take part in the programme. We are waiting for:

⚪researchers in the field of international relations, political scientists, economists, lawyers, and historians;

⚪undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students from relevant universities;

⚪international journalists;

⚪representatives of community-based organisations dealing with international cooperation and public diplomacy;

⚪young diplomats and representatives of government agencies.

🔔Applications deadline is 21 January 2024, 23:59 (MSK).

👉Visit the Fund's website for more details on the participation in the competition!

#MeetingsInMemoryOfChurkin

🏅 #OTD in 1943, the Red Army began Operation (Offensive) Koltso — the final stage of the Battle of Stalingrad. The coordinated actions of the Red Army resulted in the encirclement and defeat of the Wehrmacht.

Operation Ring was part of a large-scale Soviet counteroffensive near Stalingrad, which followed 125 days of the heroic defence of the city. The Red Army launched an attack on November 19, and by the end of the year the 6th Army, commanded led by Friedrich Paulus, was trapped between the Don and Volga rivers.

The encircled enemy force retained its combat strength with 250,000 troops, 4,130 artillery guns and mortars, 300 tanks and 100 planes, but the troops’ morale, psychological and physical condition were in a desperate state. Nevertheless, Berlin ordered Paulus to stand to the end.

On January 8, the command of the Don Front issued an ultimatum to the occupying army, proposing that it put an end to the futile resistance and accept the capitulation terms. But Paulus rejected the offer of the Soviet command.

🌟 In the morning of January 10, Soviet troops launched a coordinated attack from nearly all directions, gradually tightening the knot. Aware of their dire situation, German units started surrendering en masse.

On January 31, Field Marshal Paulus and the generals and officers of his headquarters capitulated. The last remnants of German resistance were liquidated on February 2.

The Operation Koltso resulted in the defeat of 22 German divisions and 149 separate units, lead to the capture of over 91,000 troops, including 24 generals.

🎖 The victory in the Battle of Stalingrad marked a turning point in the Great Patriotic War, enhancing the international prestige of the Soviet army and strengthening the anti-Hitler coalition. The Soviet command seized the strategic initiative, creating conditions for the liberation of the Soviet Union from Nazi occupation.