Only three days left until the festive event — the 4th annual cycling rally dedicated to the 79th anniversary of Russia-India diplomatic relations!
It is organized by the Russian Embassy in India jointly with the Confederation of Indian Cyclists and the Delhi Cyclists Club.
Meet up at the Embassy’s Main Gate at 7 AM, flag off time is scheduled for 7:30 AM.
🚴♂️ In keeping with the established tradition, the ride will follow the route along the picturesque streets in the center of New Delhi from the Embassy to the India Gate.
Unforgettable friendly atmosphere, music, refreshments and Russian snacks as well as gift T-shirts and souvenirs from the organizers are waiting for you.
Let’s gather and spread the love for sports and friendly relations between Russia and India!
#RussiaIndia
#DruzhbaDosti
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April 15 marks Universal Day of Culture
On this day in 1935, Washington, D.C. saw the signing of the first-ever international treaty “On the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments,” better known as the Roerich Pact or Pax Cultura (“Peace through Culture”).
The idea of protecting cultural heritage in both peacetime and wartime was proposed by Russian artist, scholar, and philosopher Nicholas Roerich. The Pact bearing his name became the only agreement in the field of cultural protection adopted by part of the international community before World War II.
Within the framework of the treaty, a distinctive flag was approved to identify protected sites, which gained worldwide recognition as the Banner of Peace – a white field bearing three amaranth circles touching one another. According to Roerich, this symbol represents the past, present, and future within the circle of Eternity, or the unity of art, science, and religion within the ring of Culture.
Temples, museums, cathedrals, universities, libraries, and other cultural institutions displaying the Banner of Peace were to be regarded by all parties to the agreement as internationally neutral territory.
The Roerich Pact became a somewhat of an ideological foundation of #UNESCO, laying the groundwork for the Organization’s core principle of promoting peace through culture, and played a key role in the development of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
🇷🇺 Today, 34 sites located in Russia are included in UNESCO’s World Cultural and Natural Heritage List.
On this day in 1935, Washington, D.C. saw the signing of the first-ever international treaty “On the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments,” better known as the Roerich Pact or Pax Cultura (“Peace through Culture”).
The idea of protecting cultural heritage in both peacetime and wartime was proposed by Russian artist, scholar, and philosopher Nicholas Roerich. The Pact bearing his name became the only agreement in the field of cultural protection adopted by part of the international community before World War II.
Within the framework of the treaty, a distinctive flag was approved to identify protected sites, which gained worldwide recognition as the Banner of Peace – a white field bearing three amaranth circles touching one another. According to Roerich, this symbol represents the past, present, and future within the circle of Eternity, or the unity of art, science, and religion within the ring of Culture.
Temples, museums, cathedrals, universities, libraries, and other cultural institutions displaying the Banner of Peace were to be regarded by all parties to the agreement as internationally neutral territory.
The Roerich Pact became a somewhat of an ideological foundation of #UNESCO, laying the groundwork for the Organization’s core principle of promoting peace through culture, and played a key role in the development of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
🇷🇺 Today, 34 sites located in Russia are included in UNESCO’s World Cultural and Natural Heritage List.
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April 15 marked Universal Day of Culture
On this day in 1935, Washington, D.C. saw the signing of the first-ever international treaty “On the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments,” better known as the Roerich Pact or Pax Cultura (“Peace through Culture”).
The idea of protecting cultural heritage in both peacetime and wartime was proposed by Russian artist, scholar, and philosopher Nicholas Roerich. The Pact bearing his name became the only agreement in the field of cultural protection adopted by part of the international community before World War II.
Within the framework of the treaty, a distinctive flag was approved to identify protected sites, which gained worldwide recognition as the Banner of Peace – a white field bearing three amaranth circles touching one another. According to Roerich, this symbol represents the past, present, and future within the circle of Eternity, or the unity of art, science, and religion within the ring of Culture.
Temples, museums, cathedrals, universities, libraries, and other cultural institutions displaying the Banner of Peace were to be regarded by all parties to the agreement as internationally neutral territory.
The Roerich Pact became a somewhat of an ideological foundation of #UNESCO, laying the groundwork for the Organization’s core principle of promoting peace through culture, and played a key role in the development of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
🇷🇺 Today, 34 sites located in Russia are included in UNESCO’s World Cultural and Natural Heritage List.
On this day in 1935, Washington, D.C. saw the signing of the first-ever international treaty “On the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments,” better known as the Roerich Pact or Pax Cultura (“Peace through Culture”).
The idea of protecting cultural heritage in both peacetime and wartime was proposed by Russian artist, scholar, and philosopher Nicholas Roerich. The Pact bearing his name became the only agreement in the field of cultural protection adopted by part of the international community before World War II.
Within the framework of the treaty, a distinctive flag was approved to identify protected sites, which gained worldwide recognition as the Banner of Peace – a white field bearing three amaranth circles touching one another. According to Roerich, this symbol represents the past, present, and future within the circle of Eternity, or the unity of art, science, and religion within the ring of Culture.
Temples, museums, cathedrals, universities, libraries, and other cultural institutions displaying the Banner of Peace were to be regarded by all parties to the agreement as internationally neutral territory.
The Roerich Pact became a somewhat of an ideological foundation of #UNESCO, laying the groundwork for the Organization’s core principle of promoting peace through culture, and played a key role in the development of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
🇷🇺 Today, 34 sites located in Russia are included in UNESCO’s World Cultural and Natural Heritage List.
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#Victory81
🌟 On April 16, 1945, the Berlin Offensive — one of the Red Army’s key strategic operations during World War II — commenced.
The operation resulted in the complete defeat of the enemy’s Berlin group of forces and, with Hitler’s war machine being completely crushed. The Soviet forces took the capital of the Third Reich — #Berlin. The Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was signed — the document that heralded the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.
By spring 1945, the Red Army successfully carried out a series of offensive operations aimed at liberating the countries and peoples of Central and Eastern Europe from the Nazi invaders. Hitler’s troops and their henchmen were expelled from Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Poland; Vienna and the capital of modern Slovakia, Bratislava, saved from the Nazi plague.
Nevertheless, #WWII was far from end. The final battle for the liberation of Europe from the Nazi plague, the Battle of Berlin, was coming.
By mid-April, 1945, the Soviet forces — having liberated Poland from the Nazis — consolidated positions along the Oder and Neisse rivers and started preparations to launch the offensive on Berlin. Mere dozens of kilometres separated the Red Army from the capital of Hitler’s Germany. The enemy installed deeply echeloned defences and deployed elite Wehrmacht units against the Soviet forces.
To attack Berlin, the Soviet Supreme High Command deployed forces from the 1st Belorussian Front (commanded by Marshal Georgy Zhukov); the 2nd Belorussian Front (Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky); and the 1st Ukrainian Front (Marshal Ivan Konev).
⚔️ The Berlin Offensive began at 5:00 AM on April 16 with a massive artillery fire. Following this, 143 powerful spotlights were activated to blind and disorient the enemy. Infantry and armoured units then launched their assault.
Enemy resistance intensified as Soviet forces advanced. Fierce fighting erupted at the Seelow Heights — a critical defensive point just 60 kilometres away from Berlin — where the Wehrmacht’s 9th Army, blocking the direct route to the Reich’s capital, was destroyed.
Within several days, the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts breached the Oder-Neisse defensive line of the Nazis, advanced 30 kilometres towards Berlin, and started encircling the city to destroy its garrison.
• April 20: Red Army units reached Berlin. Soviet long-range artillery started shelling, with brutal tank battles erupting on the city’s outskirts.
• April 25: The 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts linked up west of the city, completing the encirclement of the enemy’s Berlin group of Nazi troops.
• April 29: Fierce fighting started in the heart of Berlin, where Germany’s highest governmental and military authorities were located.
• During the storming of the Reichstag on the night of April 30 - May 1, the legendary #VictoryBanner was raised — a symbol of the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazism.
• May 2: Berlin’s garrison surrendered. By May 5, the Nazi resistance was crushed. A total of 134'000 German soldiers and officers were captured.
✍️ On the night of May 8–9, Marshal Zhukov and the Allied representatives accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender at Karlshorst.
World War II on the European theatre of operations had ended.
The Berlin Operation saw the Red Army not only crush the last major and most elite Wehrmacht force but also liberate approximately 200'000 prisoners from Nazi concentration camps within the combat zone. Over 600 Soviet soldiers were awarded the title #HeroOftheSovietUnion for their valour.
The operation resulted in the complete defeat of the enemy’s Berlin group of forces and, with Hitler’s war machine being completely crushed. The Soviet forces took the capital of the Third Reich — #Berlin. The Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was signed — the document that heralded the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.
By spring 1945, the Red Army successfully carried out a series of offensive operations aimed at liberating the countries and peoples of Central and Eastern Europe from the Nazi invaders. Hitler’s troops and their henchmen were expelled from Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Poland; Vienna and the capital of modern Slovakia, Bratislava, saved from the Nazi plague.
Nevertheless, #WWII was far from end. The final battle for the liberation of Europe from the Nazi plague, the Battle of Berlin, was coming.
By mid-April, 1945, the Soviet forces — having liberated Poland from the Nazis — consolidated positions along the Oder and Neisse rivers and started preparations to launch the offensive on Berlin. Mere dozens of kilometres separated the Red Army from the capital of Hitler’s Germany. The enemy installed deeply echeloned defences and deployed elite Wehrmacht units against the Soviet forces.
To attack Berlin, the Soviet Supreme High Command deployed forces from the 1st Belorussian Front (commanded by Marshal Georgy Zhukov); the 2nd Belorussian Front (Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky); and the 1st Ukrainian Front (Marshal Ivan Konev).
⚔️ The Berlin Offensive began at 5:00 AM on April 16 with a massive artillery fire. Following this, 143 powerful spotlights were activated to blind and disorient the enemy. Infantry and armoured units then launched their assault.
Enemy resistance intensified as Soviet forces advanced. Fierce fighting erupted at the Seelow Heights — a critical defensive point just 60 kilometres away from Berlin — where the Wehrmacht’s 9th Army, blocking the direct route to the Reich’s capital, was destroyed.
Within several days, the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts breached the Oder-Neisse defensive line of the Nazis, advanced 30 kilometres towards Berlin, and started encircling the city to destroy its garrison.
• April 20: Red Army units reached Berlin. Soviet long-range artillery started shelling, with brutal tank battles erupting on the city’s outskirts.
• April 25: The 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts linked up west of the city, completing the encirclement of the enemy’s Berlin group of Nazi troops.
• April 29: Fierce fighting started in the heart of Berlin, where Germany’s highest governmental and military authorities were located.
• During the storming of the Reichstag on the night of April 30 - May 1, the legendary #VictoryBanner was raised — a symbol of the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazism.
• May 2: Berlin’s garrison surrendered. By May 5, the Nazi resistance was crushed. A total of 134'000 German soldiers and officers were captured.
✍️ On the night of May 8–9, Marshal Zhukov and the Allied representatives accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender at Karlshorst.
World War II on the European theatre of operations had ended.
The Berlin Operation saw the Red Army not only crush the last major and most elite Wehrmacht force but also liberate approximately 200'000 prisoners from Nazi concentration camps within the combat zone. Over 600 Soviet soldiers were awarded the title #HeroOftheSovietUnion for their valour.
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Its founder and original host was People's Artist of the USSR, documentary director Alexander Zguridi. Later Doctor of Biological Sciences Nikolay Drozdov joined.
With the film crew, he traveled to almost every corner of the Earth - climbing mountains, scuba diving, walking through jungles and deserts, and even escaping from rhinoceros, crocodile, shark and elephant.
#Russia
#Television
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#Announcement
⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large on the #KievRegimeCrimes – Rodion Miroshnik – will hold a briefing and present a consolidated report on the Kiev regime’s crimes committed in the first quarter of 2026 at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Press centre at 10:00 am on April 24.
The briefing will be held online.
👉 Accreditation is open until 3:00 pm on April 22.
⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large on the #KievRegimeCrimes – Rodion Miroshnik – will hold a briefing and present a consolidated report on the Kiev regime’s crimes committed in the first quarter of 2026 at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Press centre at 10:00 am on April 24.
The briefing will be held online.
👉 Accreditation is open until 3:00 pm on April 22.
The event, hosted by the Mangalmay Institute of Management and Technology (Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh), brought together representatives of academic and business communities, young researchers and entrepreneurs, and students.
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In his remarks, focused on cooperation among BRICS countries, the diplomat emphasized the importance of joint efforts by the member states to engage youth in the BRICS agenda. He highlighted the value of youth forums, dialogues, and programs across all areas of cooperation.
Among the most promising formats, he named the BRICS Youth Summit and the BRICS Youth Council, the BRICS Young Scientist Forum and the BRICS Young Innovator Prize, as well as the BRICS Youth Energy Summit and the BRICS Young Diplomats Forum.
He also noted the contribution of educational, cultural, and humanitarian initiatives, including the BRICS International School and the program "BRICS People Choosing Life" implemented by the "BRICS. World of Traditions" organization.
#BRICS
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