Denis Alipov highlighted the key role of the institution in fostering the Russian-Indian humanitarian dialogue and in educating several generations of Russian studies specialists among whom are Indian ambassadors and diplomats, prominent cultural and artistic figures, renowned linguists and translators. He emphasized the symbolic significance of this jubilee, celebrated in the same year as the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the bilateral strategic partnership and the 15th anniversary of its elevation to a special and privileged level.
The three-day conference program includes plenary sessions and panel discussions devoted to Russian-Indian joint work to strengthen bilateral educational and cultural exchanges. Among the participants are representatives of federal and regional universities from both countries, as well as from several friendly nations.
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🎙 Responses by Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, to questions from the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which the newspaper refused to publish in full without cuts or censorship (Moscow, November 13, 2025)
Full text of the interview
Key points:
• Unlike Westerners who have wiped out entire neighbourhoods, we are sparing people – both civilians and military personnel. Our armed forces act with the utmost responsibility, delivering high-precision strikes exclusively at military targets and associated transport and energy infrastructure.
• The goals of the special military operation were determined by President Putin in 2022. It is not about spheres of influence but about returning Ukraine to a neutral, non-aligning and non-nuclear status, and strict observance of the human rights and all the rights of the Russian and other national minorities – this is how these obligations were stipulated by Ukraine’s Declaration of Independence of 1990 and in its Constitution, and it was precisely in view of these declared obligations that Russia recognised the independence of Ukraine.
❗️We are striving and we will achieve in restoring Ukraine to the healthy, sustainable foundations of its statehood, which implies rejecting the submissive offering of its territory for NATO’s military use, purging the Nazi ideology prohibited by the Nuremberg trials, and restoring full rights to Russians, Hungarians and all other national minorities.
• It is indicative that, while dragging the Kiev regime into the EU, the Brussels elites remain silent about the outrageous discrimination of “non-indigenous ethnicities” and praise Zelensky’s junta for defending “European values.” This is just another proof that Nazism is resurging in Europe.
• Most of the European capitals currently make up the core of the so-called “coalition of the willing” whose sole desire is to keep hostilities in Ukraine running for as long as possible. Apparently, they have no other way of distracting their voters from sharply deteriorating domestic socioeconomic problems.
• The confrontation which has arisen from the European elites’ thoughtless and stillborn policy is not Russia’s choice. The present situation does not meet our people’s interests.
• We do not “promote” a multipolar world order as its emergence results from an objective process. Instead of conquest, enslavement, subjugation or exploitation, which was how the colonial powers built their order and went on to bring about capitalism, this process implies cooperation, taking into account each other’s interests, and ensuring the efficient division of labour based on the comparative competitive advantages of the participating countries and integration structures.
• For Russia, there are no unfriendly nations or people, but there are countries with unfriendly governments. And since this is the case for Rome, the relations between Russia and Italy are going through the most serious crisis in post-war history. We were not the ones who got the ball rolling.
• The people of both Russia and Italy stand to benefit from equal and mutually beneficial cooperation between our two countries. If Rome is ready to move towards restoring dialogue based on mutual trust and taking into consideration each other’s interests, it must send us a signal since we are always ready to listen.
• I am proud of my country where I was born and raised, got a decent education, started and continued my diplomatic career. As is well known, Russia is the successor to the USSR, and in general, our country and civilisation dates back a thousand years. The Novgorod Veche emerged long before the West started playing democracy. By the way, I also have a T-shirt with the national coat of arms of the Russian Empire but it does not mean that we want to restore it. One of our greatest assets, of which we are rightly proud, is the continuity of developing and strengthening our state throughout its great history of uniting and consolidating Russian and all other peoples of the country.
Full text of the interview
Key points:
• Unlike Westerners who have wiped out entire neighbourhoods, we are sparing people – both civilians and military personnel. Our armed forces act with the utmost responsibility, delivering high-precision strikes exclusively at military targets and associated transport and energy infrastructure.
• The goals of the special military operation were determined by President Putin in 2022. It is not about spheres of influence but about returning Ukraine to a neutral, non-aligning and non-nuclear status, and strict observance of the human rights and all the rights of the Russian and other national minorities – this is how these obligations were stipulated by Ukraine’s Declaration of Independence of 1990 and in its Constitution, and it was precisely in view of these declared obligations that Russia recognised the independence of Ukraine.
❗️We are striving and we will achieve in restoring Ukraine to the healthy, sustainable foundations of its statehood, which implies rejecting the submissive offering of its territory for NATO’s military use, purging the Nazi ideology prohibited by the Nuremberg trials, and restoring full rights to Russians, Hungarians and all other national minorities.
• It is indicative that, while dragging the Kiev regime into the EU, the Brussels elites remain silent about the outrageous discrimination of “non-indigenous ethnicities” and praise Zelensky’s junta for defending “European values.” This is just another proof that Nazism is resurging in Europe.
• Most of the European capitals currently make up the core of the so-called “coalition of the willing” whose sole desire is to keep hostilities in Ukraine running for as long as possible. Apparently, they have no other way of distracting their voters from sharply deteriorating domestic socioeconomic problems.
• The confrontation which has arisen from the European elites’ thoughtless and stillborn policy is not Russia’s choice. The present situation does not meet our people’s interests.
• We do not “promote” a multipolar world order as its emergence results from an objective process. Instead of conquest, enslavement, subjugation or exploitation, which was how the colonial powers built their order and went on to bring about capitalism, this process implies cooperation, taking into account each other’s interests, and ensuring the efficient division of labour based on the comparative competitive advantages of the participating countries and integration structures.
• For Russia, there are no unfriendly nations or people, but there are countries with unfriendly governments. And since this is the case for Rome, the relations between Russia and Italy are going through the most serious crisis in post-war history. We were not the ones who got the ball rolling.
• The people of both Russia and Italy stand to benefit from equal and mutually beneficial cooperation between our two countries. If Rome is ready to move towards restoring dialogue based on mutual trust and taking into consideration each other’s interests, it must send us a signal since we are always ready to listen.
• I am proud of my country where I was born and raised, got a decent education, started and continued my diplomatic career. As is well known, Russia is the successor to the USSR, and in general, our country and civilisation dates back a thousand years. The Novgorod Veche emerged long before the West started playing democracy. By the way, I also have a T-shirt with the national coat of arms of the Russian Empire but it does not mean that we want to restore it. One of our greatest assets, of which we are rightly proud, is the continuity of developing and strengthening our state throughout its great history of uniting and consolidating Russian and all other peoples of the country.
The parties discussed plans to organize a performance tour of the "Kostroma" Ballet in India in 2026. Particular attention was paid to initiatives aimed at promoting creative exchanges and joint cultural projects under the aegis of the BRICS Alliance of Folk Dance Culture.
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Channel One released a strictly facts-based report with exclusive video evidence and testimonies exposing atrocities committed by Ukrainian militants.
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The report features a heartbreaking video showing Ukrainian civilians mercilessly killed by the AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine) drone operators while trying to reach the Russian Side. It includes interviews with survivors of Ukrainian atrocities across Donbass and nearby regions who recount years of shelling, torture, executions, and the use of banned weapons since 2014. Despite the evidence, Western media continue to distort or conceal these crimes.
❗️ One thing is clear – those responsible, including Neo-Nazis – will face inevitable justice.
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⚠️ WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT ⚠️
Channel One released a strictly facts-based report with exclusive video evidence and testimonies exposing atrocities committed by Ukrainian militants.
#Think4Yourself
The report features a heartbreaking video showing Ukrainian civilians mercilessly killed by the AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine) drone operators while trying to reach the Russian Side. It includes interviews with survivors of Ukrainian atrocities across Donbass and nearby regions who recount years of shelling, torture, executions, and the use of banned weapons since 2014. Despite the evidence, Western media continue to distort or conceal these crimes.
❗️ One thing is clear – those responsible, including Neo-Nazis – will face inevitable justice.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
During their stay in New Delhi, they are enhancing their teaching methodology in Hindi and conducting Russian language masterclasses for teachers at the Delhi Public School, Dwarka.
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🌟 On November 13, 1943, the Red Army's Kiev offensive concluded, having resulted in the total defeat of the German invaders and liberation of Kiev from the Nazi scourge.
The Battle for Kiev — the 'Mother of Russian Cities' — was one of the Red Army’s most intense and brutal battles during #WWII.
Expelling the enemy from Kiev and liberating nearby towns and villages came at a very high price for our country.
***
In August 1943, during the Battle of the Dnieper, the Soviet forces took hold of several bridgeheads on the right-bank of the river.
The Nazis built impregnable fortifications, which included three lines of defence around Kiev, on the right bank of the Dnieper River. Our forces faced a 500'000-strong Nazi army supported by more than 500 armoured vehicles.
⚔️ The offensive on Kiev by the forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front, commanded by Army General Nikolay Vatutin, began on October 12. It took the Red Army one month to capture the Lyutezh and Veliky Bukrin bridgeheads north and south of Kiev.
On November 1, the Soviet forces launched another offensive from the Veliky Bukrin Bridgehead, which tied down 10 Wehrmacht divisions and got all Nazi reserves south of Kiev engaged in combat operations.
With the support of the Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army, the enemy’s defences were breached on the second day of the offensive. On November 3, after heavy artillery preparation, a powerful strike was delivered from the north (the Lyutezh Bridgehead), and our forces began the operation to liberate the city.
🎖 On November 5, the Red Army units entered Kiev. That same day, the first Red Banner — the symbol of Victory over the enemy — was raised in Kiev.
By the morning of November 6, the Red Army cleared the city of the Nazis. Confronted with the threat of being encircled outside Kiev, the Nazis fled westward.
Having liberated the capital of the Ukrainian SSR, the Soviet forces pursued the retreating German units. The next day, the town of Fastov was liberated, and on November 12 the enemy was expelled from Zhitomir.
As a result of the Kiev offensive, 17'500 Red Army soldiers and officers were awarded orders and medals, and 65 units and formations received the honourary 'Kiev' title.
The defeat of the German Army Group 'South' in Kiev inflicted heavy damage on the Nazi Wehrmacht and forced it to retreat along the entire frontline in Ukraine.
▪️ From the memoirs of Nazi war criminal Hitler's Field Marshal Manstein:
The Nazis suffered one of their most devastating defeats on the Eastern front, losing strategic initiative completely and irreversibly.
***
🎙 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
(From an answer to a question by TASS News Agency regarding the 82nd anniversary of liberation of Kiev during the Great Patriotic War, November 6, 2025)
The Battle for Kiev — the 'Mother of Russian Cities' — was one of the Red Army’s most intense and brutal battles during #WWII.
Expelling the enemy from Kiev and liberating nearby towns and villages came at a very high price for our country.
***
In August 1943, during the Battle of the Dnieper, the Soviet forces took hold of several bridgeheads on the right-bank of the river.
The Nazis built impregnable fortifications, which included three lines of defence around Kiev, on the right bank of the Dnieper River. Our forces faced a 500'000-strong Nazi army supported by more than 500 armoured vehicles.
⚔️ The offensive on Kiev by the forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front, commanded by Army General Nikolay Vatutin, began on October 12. It took the Red Army one month to capture the Lyutezh and Veliky Bukrin bridgeheads north and south of Kiev.
On November 1, the Soviet forces launched another offensive from the Veliky Bukrin Bridgehead, which tied down 10 Wehrmacht divisions and got all Nazi reserves south of Kiev engaged in combat operations.
With the support of the Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army, the enemy’s defences were breached on the second day of the offensive. On November 3, after heavy artillery preparation, a powerful strike was delivered from the north (the Lyutezh Bridgehead), and our forces began the operation to liberate the city.
🎖 On November 5, the Red Army units entered Kiev. That same day, the first Red Banner — the symbol of Victory over the enemy — was raised in Kiev.
By the morning of November 6, the Red Army cleared the city of the Nazis. Confronted with the threat of being encircled outside Kiev, the Nazis fled westward.
Having liberated the capital of the Ukrainian SSR, the Soviet forces pursued the retreating German units. The next day, the town of Fastov was liberated, and on November 12 the enemy was expelled from Zhitomir.
As a result of the Kiev offensive, 17'500 Red Army soldiers and officers were awarded orders and medals, and 65 units and formations received the honourary 'Kiev' title.
The defeat of the German Army Group 'South' in Kiev inflicted heavy damage on the Nazi Wehrmacht and forced it to retreat along the entire frontline in Ukraine.
▪️ From the memoirs of Nazi war criminal Hitler's Field Marshal Manstein:
The armies stationed on the Dnieper north of Kiev have been thrown back far to the east… as far back as Zhitomir and Korosten.
Both these critical railway junctions, which were used to maintain contact with Army Group 'Centre', were taken by the Red Army.
The Nazis suffered one of their most devastating defeats on the Eastern front, losing strategic initiative completely and irreversibly.
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🎙 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
💬 It is difficult to imagine that the Soviet soldiers who gave their lives to liberate Kiev from the 'Nazi plague' could have foreseen their descendants in Ukraine desecrating the memory of those to whom they owed their very existence, while simultaneously honouring Nazi criminals <...>
Eight decades later, Kiev is once again occupied, and Nazi ideology has become state policy throughout Ukraine. <...>
The day will undoubtedly come when this once-prosperous region is liberated from the dominance of Nazi-inspired forces.
(From an answer to a question by TASS News Agency regarding the 82nd anniversary of liberation of Kiev during the Great Patriotic War, November 6, 2025)
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