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🎙 Statement by President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the SCO Plus meeting (Bishkek, September 1, 2026)
💬 SCO Plus meetings have become a good tradition. In my view, this once again confirms that the international community’s interest in our organisation’s multifaceted activities continues to grow.
Russia is open to honest, mutually beneficial cooperation based on equality and mutual benefit, while respecting each other’s interests and values, cultures and traditions.
I consider the theme proposed by the Kyrgyz Chairmanship for today’s meeting highly relevant: “The UN as a Key Element of a Just World Order: The Contribution of SCO Plus Countries to Building a Multipolar World”.
☝️ There is no doubt that the UN plays, and must continue to play, a central role in world affairs.
Let me recall that last year the UN marked its anniversary: eight decades ago, our countries and peoples, having defeated Nazism and militarism in World War II – and today, September 1, marks the day in 1939 when that terrible war began – were able to unite, find a balance of interests and agree on the fundamental rules of interstate relations.
These principles were enshrined in the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnectedness. Since then, the UN has served as a unique platform for dialogue, diplomacy and cooperation.
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🇺🇳 The UN’s potential remains far from fully realised.
It is important to make efforts to improve its effectiveness, broaden representation in its bodies, including the Security Council, by giving a greater role to countries of the Global South and East, and generally adapt the organisation to changing realities and the fundamental shifts taking place in global politics and the economy.
We are witnessing the emergence of a new, genuinely just #MultipolarWorld. This process is objective and, frankly, as everyone already understands, irreversible. Many states seek to determine their own destiny, firmly defend their legitimate interests and actively participate in international affairs.
Against this backdrop, the UN’s unifying and constructive role is very much in demand. The world organisation must undoubtedly retain its function as the principal mechanism for reconciling interests. That is precisely what it was created to be from the outset – a mechanism for reconciling interests.
The UN cannot be an organisation that advances the interests of one country or a group of countries.I repeat: the UN must remain the primary mechanism for balancing interests, not least because no comparable mechanism exists anywhere else in the world.
❗️ The UN Charter must continue to serve as a key source of international law.
At the same time, alongside the UN, the architecture of a #MultipolarWorld naturally incorporates new multilateral regional structures that have emerged and gained strength in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Our Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is an example.
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💬 SCO Plus meetings have become a good tradition. In my view, this once again confirms that the international community’s interest in our organisation’s multifaceted activities continues to grow.
Russia is open to honest, mutually beneficial cooperation based on equality and mutual benefit, while respecting each other’s interests and values, cultures and traditions.
I consider the theme proposed by the Kyrgyz Chairmanship for today’s meeting highly relevant: “The UN as a Key Element of a Just World Order: The Contribution of SCO Plus Countries to Building a Multipolar World”.
☝️ There is no doubt that the UN plays, and must continue to play, a central role in world affairs.
Let me recall that last year the UN marked its anniversary: eight decades ago, our countries and peoples, having defeated Nazism and militarism in World War II – and today, September 1, marks the day in 1939 when that terrible war began – were able to unite, find a balance of interests and agree on the fundamental rules of interstate relations.
These principles were enshrined in the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnectedness. Since then, the UN has served as a unique platform for dialogue, diplomacy and cooperation.
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🇺🇳 The UN’s potential remains far from fully realised.
It is important to make efforts to improve its effectiveness, broaden representation in its bodies, including the Security Council, by giving a greater role to countries of the Global South and East, and generally adapt the organisation to changing realities and the fundamental shifts taking place in global politics and the economy.
We are witnessing the emergence of a new, genuinely just #MultipolarWorld. This process is objective and, frankly, as everyone already understands, irreversible. Many states seek to determine their own destiny, firmly defend their legitimate interests and actively participate in international affairs.
Against this backdrop, the UN’s unifying and constructive role is very much in demand. The world organisation must undoubtedly retain its function as the principal mechanism for reconciling interests. That is precisely what it was created to be from the outset – a mechanism for reconciling interests.
The UN cannot be an organisation that advances the interests of one country or a group of countries.I repeat: the UN must remain the primary mechanism for balancing interests, not least because no comparable mechanism exists anywhere else in the world.
❗️ The UN Charter must continue to serve as a key source of international law.
At the same time, alongside the UN, the architecture of a #MultipolarWorld naturally incorporates new multilateral regional structures that have emerged and gained strength in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Our Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is an example.
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📃 Following the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Bishkek Declaration on the 25th Anniversary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was signed (Bishkek, September 1, 2026)
🤝 We, the Leaders of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO), gathered for a regular meeting of the Council of Heads of State and marking the 25th anniversary of the SCO, reaffirm our firm commitment to the goals and principles enshrined in the SCO Charter, as well as to further strengthening good-neighbourliness, friendship and effective multifaceted cooperation, and declare:
Since its establishment, the Organisation has successfully passed through a historic stage of institutional and conceptual development and established itself as a widely recognised and dynamically developing multilateral association, the role of which in international and regional affairs continues to grow steadily.
Over the past quarter-century, a solid legal foundation for the SCO’s activities and effective mechanisms of cooperation have been established, while strategic directions for its further development have been defined.
The Member States will continue their efforts to further consolidate the SCO in implementing the tasks and achieving the goals set out in the SCO Development Strategy until 2035.
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Key provisions:
✍️ The Member States
• Reaffirm their unwavering commitment to the universal norms and principles of international law enshrined in the UN Charter and stress the need to strengthen the UN’s role as a guarantor of international peace and security, sustainable development, and the establishment of a representative, democratic and just #MultipolarWorld. They are making a growing contribution to collective efforts to improve the global system of governance.
• Advocate ensuring sustainable international peace and call for joint efforts to counter traditional and emerging security challenges and threats.
• Expressing concern over growing information security risks, strongly oppose the militarisation of the information and communications technology (ICT) sphere and the creation of threats to critical information infrastructure.
• Reaffirm the need to ensure the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence technologies, including the inadmissibility of their use to deliberately cause harm to human life and health, as well as to the national security, territorial integrity and sovereignty of states.
• Oppose unilateral coercive measures that run counter to the UN Charter and other norms of international law, as well as the rules and principles of the World Trade Organization, and which undermine international security interests, including food, energy and humanitarian security, and adversely affect the global economy.
• Support reform of the international financial architecture aimed at increasing the representation and strengthening the role of developing countries in the governing bodies of international financial institutions, including the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund.
• Underscoring the significance of the 200th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s birth and the 100th anniversary of Chingiz Aitmatov’s birth, support initiatives to hold SCO events in 2028 dedicated to the memory of these outstanding writers, who made an invaluable contribution to world literature, the advancement of humanistic values and the strengthening of cultural and humanitarian ties between peoples.
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🤝 We, the Leaders of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO), gathered for a regular meeting of the Council of Heads of State and marking the 25th anniversary of the SCO, reaffirm our firm commitment to the goals and principles enshrined in the SCO Charter, as well as to further strengthening good-neighbourliness, friendship and effective multifaceted cooperation, and declare:
Since its establishment, the Organisation has successfully passed through a historic stage of institutional and conceptual development and established itself as a widely recognised and dynamically developing multilateral association, the role of which in international and regional affairs continues to grow steadily.
Over the past quarter-century, a solid legal foundation for the SCO’s activities and effective mechanisms of cooperation have been established, while strategic directions for its further development have been defined.
The Member States will continue their efforts to further consolidate the SCO in implementing the tasks and achieving the goals set out in the SCO Development Strategy until 2035.
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Key provisions:
✍️ The Member States
• Reaffirm their unwavering commitment to the universal norms and principles of international law enshrined in the UN Charter and stress the need to strengthen the UN’s role as a guarantor of international peace and security, sustainable development, and the establishment of a representative, democratic and just #MultipolarWorld. They are making a growing contribution to collective efforts to improve the global system of governance.
• Advocate ensuring sustainable international peace and call for joint efforts to counter traditional and emerging security challenges and threats.
• Expressing concern over growing information security risks, strongly oppose the militarisation of the information and communications technology (ICT) sphere and the creation of threats to critical information infrastructure.
• Reaffirm the need to ensure the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence technologies, including the inadmissibility of their use to deliberately cause harm to human life and health, as well as to the national security, territorial integrity and sovereignty of states.
• Oppose unilateral coercive measures that run counter to the UN Charter and other norms of international law, as well as the rules and principles of the World Trade Organization, and which undermine international security interests, including food, energy and humanitarian security, and adversely affect the global economy.
• Support reform of the international financial architecture aimed at increasing the representation and strengthening the role of developing countries in the governing bodies of international financial institutions, including the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund.
• Underscoring the significance of the 200th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s birth and the 100th anniversary of Chingiz Aitmatov’s birth, support initiatives to hold SCO events in 2028 dedicated to the memory of these outstanding writers, who made an invaluable contribution to world literature, the advancement of humanistic values and the strengthening of cultural and humanitarian ties between peoples.
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📣👩🏫 On September 1, all the gathered: teachers, students, and their parents – solemnly celebrated Knowledge Day at the school at the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Chennai!
📯 The ceremony commenced with the hoisting of the national flag, followed by the rendition of the Russian anthem, after which the students took part in an entertainment program prepared by the teachers.
🗣️ Consul General Valerii Khodzhaev wished all schoolchildren success and an unceasing thirst for new knowledge during this academic year.
#KnowledgeDay
#1September
📯 The ceremony commenced with the hoisting of the national flag, followed by the rendition of the Russian anthem, after which the students took part in an entertainment program prepared by the teachers.
🗣️ Consul General Valerii Khodzhaev wished all schoolchildren success and an unceasing thirst for new knowledge during this academic year.
#KnowledgeDay
#1September
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The meeting focused on prospects for strengthening inter-party and inter-parliamentary ties, expanding collaboration within international platforms, and unlocking the potential of bilateral cooperation, with an emphasis on trade and economic partnership and people-to-people contacts.
#RussiaIndia
#DruzhbaDosti
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🔴 #LIVE: Remarks by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova at the panel session “Digital Sovereignty of the Global South: New Partnership Opportunities” on the sidelines of the 11th Eastern Economic Forum (#EEF)
📍 Vladivostok, September 2
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📍 Vladivostok, September 2
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🎙 Answers by President of Russia Vladimir Putin to media questions following his working visit to Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek, September 1, 2026)
Key points:
#RussiaUS
• Contacts between Russia and the US have always existed, even during the most difficult periods of the Cold War, and they continue today.
• Direct contacts are maintained between the Heads of the intelligence services. Quite recently, we returned a US citizen to the American Side who had been serving a prison sentence in Russia.
• We are absolutely comfortable working with people we know well and generally trust. They are close to President Trump, sincere people who are trying to give our work concrete substance. And President Trump trusts them, which is very important. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are therefore always welcome guests in Russia, and we are pleased to work with them.
#UkrainianCrisis #NATO
• We believe that negotiations – any negotiations – should above all have concrete substance. If someone is capable of making a positive contribution to a negotiating process that is currently, to a certain extent, frozen, we have no objection. What is needed here are specialists, military experts and diplomats.
• The collective West was given a very apt description back in Soviet times – the sharks of imperialism. If anyone tries to drag us down the food chain and devour us, they may well get their teeth knocked out. Russia is ready to do that, despite the rapidly growing appetites – and teeth – of these sharks.
• Despite everything, Russian forces continue to increase the pace of their advance in the special military operation zone.
• Strikes continue against Ukrainian military facilities, industrial enterprises, ports and logistics infrastructure used in the interests of the Ukrainian armed forces – in response, as is well known, to the Kiev regime’s continuing attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure, fuel and energy facilities and oil refineries.
❗️ Any military facilities in Ukraine are legitimate targets for us – British or otherwise.
• The Russian Armed Forces have been instructed to prepare and carry out large-scale strikes against Ukraine’s energy facilities. They strike ours – they will get a response.
#Germany #Leipzig
• As for the actions of the German authorities, they are primarily driven by Germany’s domestic political situation.
• Chancellor Merz is in a difficult domestic political position and does not enjoy the confidence of his citizens. It is clear why: he is not defending Germany’s national interests, but trading them away. There are obvious economic failures – businesses are closing, people are losing their jobs and living standards are falling.
• [Germany's recent move] is yet another mistake – a serious one – and, in my view, one that clearly runs counter to the interests of the German people.
#Japan
• We have not taken a single step toward worsening Russia-Japan relations. We treated them with great care. Everything happening now in Russia-Japan relations, including their deterioration, is entirely of the Japanese government’s making.
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Key points:
#RussiaUS
• Contacts between Russia and the US have always existed, even during the most difficult periods of the Cold War, and they continue today.
• Direct contacts are maintained between the Heads of the intelligence services. Quite recently, we returned a US citizen to the American Side who had been serving a prison sentence in Russia.
• We are absolutely comfortable working with people we know well and generally trust. They are close to President Trump, sincere people who are trying to give our work concrete substance. And President Trump trusts them, which is very important. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are therefore always welcome guests in Russia, and we are pleased to work with them.
#UkrainianCrisis #NATO
• We believe that negotiations – any negotiations – should above all have concrete substance. If someone is capable of making a positive contribution to a negotiating process that is currently, to a certain extent, frozen, we have no objection. What is needed here are specialists, military experts and diplomats.
• The collective West was given a very apt description back in Soviet times – the sharks of imperialism. If anyone tries to drag us down the food chain and devour us, they may well get their teeth knocked out. Russia is ready to do that, despite the rapidly growing appetites – and teeth – of these sharks.
• Despite everything, Russian forces continue to increase the pace of their advance in the special military operation zone.
• Strikes continue against Ukrainian military facilities, industrial enterprises, ports and logistics infrastructure used in the interests of the Ukrainian armed forces – in response, as is well known, to the Kiev regime’s continuing attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure, fuel and energy facilities and oil refineries.
❗️ Any military facilities in Ukraine are legitimate targets for us – British or otherwise.
• The Russian Armed Forces have been instructed to prepare and carry out large-scale strikes against Ukraine’s energy facilities. They strike ours – they will get a response.
#Germany #Leipzig
• As for the actions of the German authorities, they are primarily driven by Germany’s domestic political situation.
• Chancellor Merz is in a difficult domestic political position and does not enjoy the confidence of his citizens. It is clear why: he is not defending Germany’s national interests, but trading them away. There are obvious economic failures – businesses are closing, people are losing their jobs and living standards are falling.
• [Germany's recent move] is yet another mistake – a serious one – and, in my view, one that clearly runs counter to the interests of the German people.
#Japan
• We have not taken a single step toward worsening Russia-Japan relations. We treated them with great care. Everything happening now in Russia-Japan relations, including their deterioration, is entirely of the Japanese government’s making.
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