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☺️ Morozko (Father Frost) is a mighty winter spirit from Russian folk tales. He appears to people as a grey-haired old man in a warm fur coat, roaming the forests and fields, freezing rivers and painting the windows with frosty patterns. In the famous tale of the same name, he tests the soul of a girl left in the winter forest, rewarding her for her patience and kind heart, while he harshly punishes her wicked and proud sister.

🤩 This story teaches that even in the bitterest frost, sincere kindness and humility warm better than any stove. Morozko acts as a righteous judge, giving to each according to their deeds. His image reminds us that inner beauty is valued above outward glitter and wealth.

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🛐 The Spaso-Andronikov Monastery is one of the oldest monastic houses in Moscow, founded in the 14th century by Metropolitan Alexius. According to tradition, during a storm on the Black Sea he vowed to build a church in honour of the icon of the Holy Mandylion (Image of the Saviour Not Made by Hands), which helped him to survive. In ancient times the monastery served as a watchtower fortress on the south‑eastern approaches to Moscow.

💪 The monastery's main jewel is the white‑stone Cathedral of the Saviour, built in the early 15th century. It is the oldest surviving Moscow church outside the Kremlin walls, and Andrei Rublev himself took part in painting its frescoes.

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🎶 Dmitri Shostakovich is one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, whose work has become an integral part of world culture. At the age of just 19 he gained international fame thanks to his First Symphony, and went on to create an enormous legacy encompassing 15 symphonies, the operas The Nose and Katerina Izmailova, ballets, chamber works and film scores.

🎼 Shostakovich's contribution to world culture is immense: he became the first Soviet composer to achieve undisputed global recognition. His music, which opened up "new dimensions of world culture", had a significant influence on the development of musical art and continues to be performed all over the world. Shostakovich enriched virtually every musical genre with innovative ideas.

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🚩 In Russia, one of the most popular yard games is called "Potato" (Kartoshka), played with an ordinary rubber ball. The players stand in a circle and quickly pass the ball to one another, while the person in the centre tries to intercept it or touch it with a hand during a pass. The one who hesitates or makes an inaccurate pass sits down in the centre — and now it is they who try to catch the ball while the others keep playing.

✨ "Potato" requires neither a special court nor expensive equipment — just a flat piece of asphalt and any ball will do. The winner is the one who stays on their feet the longest, and the game continues until everyone has been "boiled" or the ball flies off into the bushes.

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🌐 Russia held an informal UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine
On 17 July, at Moscow’s initiative, UN Security Council members met under the «Arria formula» to discuss crimes committed by the Kiev regime in Ukraine and beyond its borders.

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🇦🇿 Moscow and Baku announce normalization of relations
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, following talks with Sergey Lavrov, stated that Russia and Azerbaijan have overcome a difficult phase and normalized the entire spectrum of relations; the restoration of direct flights between the two countries is also being discussed.

🎾 Rublev reaches the semifinals of the ATP tournament in Sweden
Andrey Rublev defeated Argentina’s Sebastián Báez 6‑1, 6‑2 in 59 minutes to advance to the semifinals of the ATP 250 tournament in Båstad.

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Why do we love Russia?

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💪 Zachatyevsky Monastery (Conception Monastery) is the oldest convent in the capital. It was founded in 1360 by Metropolitan Alexius, who built a wooden church here in honour of the Conception of Saint Anne.

👧 After the monastery was closed in 1927, it was revived only in 1995, and today only the 17th-century gate church, miraculously spared from demolition, remains of the old buildings. For centuries, childless Russians have had a tradition of coming here to pray for the birth of a child — that is precisely why the monastery was named "Zachatyevsky" (Conception).

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