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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in family photo ceremony together with heads of delegations of the BRICS and partner countries

📍 Rio de Janeiro, April 29
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🚢 The barque Kruzenshtern arrived in Cape Town

⚓️ The Russian sail training vessel Kruzenshtern entered the port of Cape Town as part of its four-month training voyage around Africa.

🌍 The voyage is taking place within the framework of the Grand African Expedition organized by the Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries and is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

👨‍✈️ On board were over 140 cadets, as well as 13 trainees from Cuba, Morocco, Egypt, and Kazakhstan, who are mastering sail handling, ship operations and safety procedures.

📍 After departing from Kaliningrad, the vessel sailed through the Baltic and North Seas, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, made a stopover in Morocco and has now arrived in the Republic of South Africa.

➡️ The next destination is Mauritius.

📸 Photo: Consulate General of Russia in Cape Town
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🎷From Russia with Resonance: Igor Butman Quartet’s Triumph at CTIJF 2025

🗞️✍🏻By Gillian Schutte

Among the many great performances at the 2025 Cape Town International Jazz Festival, the Igor Butman Quartet carved out a space entirely their own — a realm defined by dazzling virtuosity and the profound art of musical conversation. This performance stood among the most outstanding of the festival.

🎶For Igor Butman, Russia’s world-renowned tenor saxophonist, playing at this iconic gathering fulfilled a long-held dream. Speaking ahead of his set, he described the opportunity to perform at the CTICC as a ‘dream come true.’ That sense of awe and gratitude infused the evening — a set that transcended technical brilliance and became a living testament to music’s universal spirit.

At 63, Butman performed with stamina and expressive breadth that defied expectation. His saxophone tone shifted seamlessly between mischievous play, aching nostalgia, and jubilant celebration — sometimes all within a single phrase.

⭐️He was joined by a trio of fellow maestros: Oleg Akkuratov (piano and vocals), Nikolay Zatolochny (double bass), and Eduard Zizak (drums). Together they fashioned a music of dialogue — listening, teasing, provoking, and elevating one another’s ideas with intuitive mastery.

The set opened with Falling Out, a spirited, mock-argument between piano and saxophone — a musical skirmish that established the night’s ethos of lively, unfolding conversation.

A soulful rendering of Mississippi Dreams revealed the group’s lyrical tenderness. Akkuratov’s velvet-fingered piano wove meditative, resonant lines across the soundscape, while Zatolochny’s bass shaped the harmonic ground with understated authority.

In a moving gesture of connection to the Cape Town audience, Akkuratov also sang Malaika, the beloved Swahili love song. His careful pronunciation and heartfelt delivery created a rare moment of unguarded communion, a bridge between continents built through pure feeling.

🎺The Igor Butman Quartet achieved a luminous artistry rarely encountered: transforming a concert into a living act of conversation — playful, profound, and intellectually exhilarating.

💫Among the many voices and visions at the 2025 Cape Town International Jazz Festival, the Igor Butman Quartet lit up a space with world-class artistry that will not be easily forgotten.

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📑 The quarterly report on the crimes committed by the Kiev regime in January — March 2025 has been compiled by Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large on the crimes committed by the Kiev regime, Rodion Miroshnik, and has been presented on April 28, 2025, during the Ambassador's briefing.

During the first three months of 2025, the armed formations of the Kiev regime systematically shelled objects of civilian infrastructure on the territory of the Russian Federation, deliberately targeting civilians.

During this period, at least 22,221 munitions were fired at civilian targets. In total, since February 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have fired at least 251,865 munitions of various calibres and modifications at Russian civilian sites.

❗️ A sharp increase in the number of Ukrainian shelling attacks was recorded in the last weeks of March. This is how Kiev reacted to the start of the negotiating process between Moscow and Washington. The number of attacks during this period reached 300 per 24 hours, or more than 2,000 per week, which is approximately 25% higher than the weekly figures for January and February.

The increase in the number of civilian victims documented in the second half of March is directly linked to Kiev’s attempts to oppose the search for a peaceful settlement and to the thwarting of the agreement on a 30-day moratorium on strikes on energy facilities. The Ukrainian side deliberately carried out a number of targeted attacks on crowded places resulting in numerous civilian victims.

▪️ Civilian sites in the Belgorod Region, the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Kherson, Kursk and Zaporozhye regions, as well as the Lugansk People’s Republic, were most frequently shelled during the above-mentioned period.

• From January 1, 2025 to March 31, 2025, there were at least 1,489 verified civilian victims resulting from the Ukrainian forces’ attacks:

🔻 1,197 people, including 63 minors, wounded;
🔻 292 civilians, including five children, killed.

• At least 21,002 civilian victims caused by the Ukrainian formations’ attacks since the beginning of the conflict:

🔻 14,287 people, including 880 minors, wounded;
🔻 6,715 people, including 218 children, killed.

During this period, victims of numerous murders committed by Ukrainian militants in the Kursk Region’s villages of Russkoe Porechnoye, Makhnovka, and Cherkasskoe Porechnoye were found. The bodies of civilians were discovered in the town of Chasov Yar, DPR, who had been killed by the Ukrainian military while attempting to evacuate from the war zone. Moreover, fresh burials of civilians with signs of violent death have been found in the village of Dvurechnaya, Kharkov Region, which was liberated from Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

During the first three months of 2025, the Ukrainian Armed Forces intensively used various types of UAVs to attack objects of civilian infrastructure, and to kill and maim civilians. <...> 409 civilians were hurt in Ukrainian drone attacks. Twenty-three people, including three children, were killed, and 386 people, including 24 minors, were wounded. <...> The Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out barrages of targeted strikes on medical personnel, rescue and emergency workers.

Since the beginning of the year, the AFU militants have intensified a targeted manhunt for media teams covering the special military operation and the Kiev regime’s criminal acts against civilians on the frontline territories. A premeditated attack on a group of journalists in the Kremennaya District, LPR, is a compelling example. A US-made HIMARS MLRS was used to kill three Russian journalists on the spot. All in all, over the past three months, 13 Russian media workers fell victim to criminal actions of the Ukrainian armed forces. Six of them died.

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⚡️ By the decision of the President of the Russian Federation and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, and for humanitarian reasons, the Russian side is declaring a ceasefire from midnight on May 8 to midnight on May 11 (00:00 on May 8 — 00:00 on May 11) during the days marking the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

❗️ All military actions will be halted during this period.

Russia believes that the Ukrainian side should demonstrate similar restraint.

In the event of violations of the ceasefire by the Ukrainian side, the Russian Armed Forces will respond in an adequate and effective manner.

The Russian side once again reaffirms its readiness for peace talks without preconditions, aimed at addressing the root causes of the Ukraine crisis and engaging constructively with international partners.
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🌟 On April 30, 1945, just 10 days before Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered, Red Army soldiers Rakhimzhan Koshkarbayev and Grigory Bulatov raised the first Red Banner on the facade of the Reichstag during the Battle of Berlin.

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On April 28, fierce fighting for the Reichstag was in full swing, which the Nazis had turned into a fully-fledged stronghold defended by more than a thousand soldiers, including SS troops, supported by artillery and armor.

The distance between the former Himmler's house and the Reichstag was less than 500 metres.

It took Bulatov and Koshkarbayev 7 hours to cover the distance under constant heavy fire — they carried a makeshift flagpole with a simple scarlet cloth with them.

Later after the battle, Koshkarbayev recalled:
“The artillery fire began, and with the very first fires, Bulatov and I dashed toward the Reichstag. I lifted him up by the legs, and together, on the second floor, we raised our flag.”


According to the 150th Division's combat log, at 14:25 Bulatov and Koshkarbayev "crawled to the central part of the building and placed a red flag on the steps of the main entrance".

It was the first of the banners the liberators raised over the Reichstag.

🎖 Rakhimzhan Koshkarbayev and Grigory Bulatov were awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the courage and heroism during the assualt on the Reichstag. Monuments to Koshkarbayev have been erected in his home region of Akmola in Kazakhstan and in the republic's capital, Astana, and to Bulatov in Kirov.

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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following BRICS Ministerial Meeting, Rio de Janeiro (April 29, 2025)

💬 I would like to once again thank our Brazilian friends for their traditional hospitality and the excellent organisation of the BRICS Ministerial Meeting, as well as for holding the additional meeting between BRICS participants and their partner countries.

These countries were able to take part in today’s meeting following the Kazan Summit. Held as part of Russia’s chairmanship, it made a historical decision to create this partner category, which includes Belarus, Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda and Uzbekistan. <...>

🌐 We spoke out in favour of further enhancing the contribution by #BRICS and the countries of the Global Majority in general to addressing the key challenges the world is facing today. We noted that collective actions by our group can play an important role in achieving sustainable development goals, ensuring security and fostering economic growth.

At the meeting, we paid special attention to the need to continue our efforts to promote reform within international financial institutions, primarily by revising IMF quotas, which must reflect the role of the Global South and East in the global financial system and economy. <...>

There was quite a lengthy discussion on the latest regional and international developments, including the multiple crisis situations around the world. The deteriorating situation in the Palestinian territories and across the Middle East in general, as well as in many regions of the African continent is a matter of special concern. <...>

We reaffirmed our support for reforming the UN Security Council, including our support for India and Brazil becoming permanent members of the UN Security Council, while also addressing the issue of Africa’s representation.

👉 Much has been said about the Ukraine situation. Once again, we offered a detailed insight into our principled approaches to settling this conflict by addressing its root causes.

Excerpts from the Q&A session:

• Our proposal, which President Vladimir Putin has made public, is to initiate direct talks without any preconditions. In the current situation, a ceasefire is a preliminary condition that will be used to provide assistance to the Kiev regime and reinforce its combat capabilities.

• Certainly, it is imperative that all parties have a clear understanding of the evolving dynamics between Moscow and Washington. <...> We advocate for an honest and equal dialogue aimed at building a balance of interests. The United States has reciprocated with similar signals. Russia and the US are working together across multiple domains. In fact, they continue to cooperate literally as we speak.

National currencies account for over 65% of trade between BRICS countries, while the share of the US dollar has diminished to one third. Other tasks stipulate the creation of payment instruments and platforms, including discussing the possibility of creating a cross-border payment system and an electronic depository and clearance system (BRICS Clear), and a unified mechanism for exchanging trade and economic information.

The International Criminal Court has completely discredited itself. It is being steered by Western countries. It protects some countries from criticism even though they openly violate international law, and adopts measures aimed at punishing other countries, up to and including arrest warrants, in the absence of factual proof.

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Учебный барк «Крузенштерн» прибыл в Кейптаун: экскурсия, торжественный приём и культурная программа на борту

Кейптаун, 30 апреля 2025 года

🚢 В рамках Большой африканской экспедиции Росрыболовства, приуроченной к 80-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне, российское парусное учебное судно «Крузенштерн» совершило заход в порт Кейптауна. При содействии Генерального консульства Российской Федерации в Кейптауне на борту судна была организована масштабная культурная программа.

⚓️ Для всех желающих — российских граждан, заинтересованных жителей ЮАР, а также учащихся морских учебных заведений — была проведена экскурсия по барку. Гости познакомились с устройством судна, бытом курсантов и историей одного из крупнейших действующих парусников в мире.

🎖 Кульминацией визита стали торжественная церемония и приём, состоявшиеся на палубе. В мероприятии приняли участие представители командования ВМС ЮАР, консульского корпуса, политических и культурных кругов, а также южноафриканские СМИ. Курсанты «Крузенштерна» выстроились в почётный караул, прозвучали приветственные речи и был поднят флаг Российской Федерации. В память о подвиге Советского народа была проведена акция «Георгиевская ленточка».

🎨 Отдельное внимание гостей привлекла художественная выставка детских рисунков «Добрые руки людей планеты Земля: добро возвращается», оформленная на палубе судна. Экспозиция стала частью благотворительной инициативы фонда «Линия жизни» для поддержки тяжело больных детей.

👨‍✈️ В настоящий момент на борту проходят практику более 140 курсантов, в том числе из дружественных государств. С начала маршрута судно прошло через Балтийское и Северное моря, сделало остановку в Марокко и прибыло в Южно-Африканскую Республику. Следующим пунктом экспедиции станет остров Маврикий.
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