💧Today is World Water Day

🇺🇳 Established #OTD by the United Nations General Assembly in 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣2️⃣ to highlight the importance of fresh water and advocate sustainable management of freshwater resources with this year’s theme being Groundwater

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💧Сегодня Всемирный день водных ресурсов

🇺🇳 Учрежден Генеральной Ассамблеей ООН в 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣2️⃣ году с целью подчеркнуть важность пресной воды и отстаивать устойчивое управление пресноводными ресурсами, темой этого года являются подземные воды

#WorldWaterDay

#OTD in 1956, on the basis of an Agreement, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research was established

⚛️ Based in Dubna the Institute is an important scientific pillar in such spheres as nuclear science, theoretical and high energy physics

🧐 #DYK? that scientists from over 18 countries work in the Institute

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📌 В этот день в 1956 году, на основе Соглашения, был создан Объединенный институт ядерных исследований

⚛️ Институт, базирующийся в наукограде Дубна, является важным научным столпом в таких областях как ядерная физика, теоретическая физика и физика высоких энергий

🧐 #DYK? в Институте работают ученые из более чем 18 стран

🚀 Today is International Day of Human Space Flight (Cosmonautics Day)

🧑‍🚀 An anniversary dedicated to the first manned space flight made #OTD in 1961 by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

🧐#DYK? Gagarin’s flight lasted for 1 hour and 48 minutes

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🚀 Сегодня Международный день полёта человека в космос (День космонавтики)

🧑‍🚀 Праздник посвящен первому полету человека в космос, совершенному 12 апреля 1961 года советским космонавтом Юрием Алексеевичем Гагариным

🧐 #DYK? Полет Гагарина продолжался 1 час 48 минут

#OTD in 1️⃣9️⃣3️⃣7️⃣ Soviet and Russian diplomat Oleg Sokolov was born

🇷🇺 Ambassador to Philippines and South Korea, he served as Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna from 1995 to 1999

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🔵 20 апреля 1937 года родился советский и российский дипломат Олег Михайлович Соколов

🇷🇺 Чрезвычайный и Полномочный Посол в Республике Филиппины и Республике Корея, он занимал пост Постоянного представителя Российской Федерации при международных организациях в Вене с 1995 по 1999 гг.

#WeRemember

📅 #OTD in 1945, the #RedArmy liberated the prisoners of the women's concentration camp #Ravensbrück.

The prisoners, who survived inhuman medical experiments & other atrocities of the SS, greeted the Soviet liberators with joy.

🕯 "Never forget the black night of Ravensbrück!"

🗓 #OTD 210 years ago, on November 26, 1812, the last major battle of the Patriotic War of 1812 between the Russian army and the retreating army of Napoleon began on the Berezina River (the right tributary of the Dnieper). The Russian commanders’ plan was to cut off the enemy’s retreat.

The plan included launching a simultaneous and decisive offensive with all forces deployed on the flanks of the main Russian army in order to defeat the troops guarding Napoleon’s rear and cut off his retreat to the west. At the same time, the main Russian army group led by Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov was to pursue the Grande Armée of the Emperor of France Napoleon from the east.

⚔️ By the end of the three-day battle, Napoleon realised that his artillery and supply train were beyond saving. Less than half of the 85,000-90,000 men were eventually transported to the right bank of the Berezina. Russian troops surrounded the French General Louis Partouneaux’s division (some 4,000 men) in the vicinity of Borisov and forced them to surrender. In total, according to historians, the losses of the French army reached ~50,000 men, including those who drowned in the river, died in the stampede at the crossings, froze to death and were taken prisoner.

The Battle of Berezina broke the Emperor of France. Less than two weeks after the battle ended, Napoleon abandoned his guard and fled to Paris. Only a few dozen thousands of the 500,000 strong army that invaded Russia in June 1812 managed to leave our country six months later.

❗️ It was after Berezina that the French realised the scale of their defeat in Russia. The elimination of what Napoleon once called his “grand” army shocked the people of France so deeply that the expression “C'est la Bérézina” (this is Berezina) became idiomatic in the French language to denoting a complete failure, collapse, or catastrophe. No less important were the impressions of the survivors, that radically changed how other Europeans perceived that war.

🕯 #OTD in 1943, Nazi invaders destroyed the Belarusian village #Khatyn, burned alive & shot almost all of its inhabitants - 149 people, including 75 children.

☝️ #WeRemember how much grief Nazism brought to our peoples. The lessons of #WWII shall not be subject to oblivion!