The delegates have been offered a diverse programme featuring sports and wellness activities, including yoga sessions, as well as musical and gastronomic events, lectures, creative projects and excursions.
The Festival has become a unique platform for communication, sharing experiences and building international connections, bringing participants together through sport, the arts and collaborative creativity.
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🇷🇺🇮🇳 On September 7, Mr. Maxim Kozlov, Russian Consul General in Kolkata, took part in the inaugural ceremony of the traditional "India Global Grand Trade Fair 2026", organized by one of the oldest and leading chambers of commerce and industry in India - Bharat Chamber of Commerce (founded in Kolkata in 1900).
📢Held at Science City Exhibition Ground in Kolkata, this fair which is one of the largest in the eastern region of India, is attended by more than 500 companies and entrepreneurs from 20 Indian states and 10 foreign countries this year.
✨The representatives of the Government of West Bengal as well as Kolkata consular corps, including Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Thailand and others, also attended the event.
🎥Video highlights of the event:
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📢Held at Science City Exhibition Ground in Kolkata, this fair which is one of the largest in the eastern region of India, is attended by more than 500 companies and entrepreneurs from 20 Indian states and 10 foreign countries this year.
✨The representatives of the Government of West Bengal as well as Kolkata consular corps, including Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Thailand and others, also attended the event.
🎥Video highlights of the event:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1437971308225970/?referral_source=external_link&surface_type=tab&in_reels_tab_context=TRUE
Over nearly a century of its history, the theatre has come a long way — from the first touring performances in courtyards and schools to the famous building on Sadovaya-Samotechnaya Street in Moscow. During these years, more than 100 plays have been created here, many entered the golden fund of world puppetry.
Before the play and during the intermission, guests can visit the museum of dolls from around the world, which is located in the theater lobby. First exhibits became the dolls and props of Ivan Zaitsev, the last wandering puppeteer of Russia. The theater is decorated with a unique clock - at noon, you can see owls, goat kids, and cats peeking out of the small windows to music.
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🎙 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question on foreign media insinuations regarding an allegedly deliberate strike by Russian forces on a passenger train that carried several former and current Western politicians and officials (September 15, 2026)
❓ Question: The Ukrainian and foreign media write that the Russian Armed Forces have allegedly intentionally attacked, as part of the September 13 strikes on targets in Western Ukraine, the trains in which former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former CIA Director David Petraeus and officials of several other Western countries travelled from Kiev. Could you comment on this situation?
💬 Maria Zakharova: Yes, we know about these reports, as well as about a rather strange reaction to them from Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga and several European politicians and diplomats.
We would like to say in this connection that unlike the Ukrainian military, Russia's Armed Forces do not wage war on civilians, target civilian vehicles, or open fire on helpless people – women, senior citizens and children.
Regarding the strikes mentioned in the media, our military did deliver them on September 13, but they targeted exclusively military facilities and the Kiev regime’s transport and logistics infrastructure used for military purposes, including in Western Ukraine.
Judging by the monitoring data, these strikes were highly effective and resultative. We have issued numerous warnings that the railway junctions, depots and rolling stock, primarily train engines, which are being actively used to transport Western weapons for the AFU, are legitimate military targets.
We will not comment on the cheap publicity stunt involving certain political individuals who were in the vicinity of the targeted train with military cargo. The goal of this information ballyhoo to try to get more military supplies for Zelensky’s regime by intimidating ordinary Europeans with a mythical “Russian threat at the NATO’s gate”.
☝️ It should be noted that in May we repeatedly recommended – and even sent respective notes to the diplomatic corps in Moscow and through our embassies abroad – that foreign citizens, including diplomats and their families, leave Kiev in connection with the transition of the Russian Armed Forces to systematic and consistent strikes against Ukraine’s defence facilities and command and decision-making centres in the capital and other cities of Ukraine.
👉 I would like to remind you that such strikes are delivered in response to AFU’s terrorist attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Russia.
We have also long been drawing the attention of all kinds of Western “political tourists” and VIPs that Zelensky’s regime is cynically using them as a human shield for its military trains.
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❓ Question: The Ukrainian and foreign media write that the Russian Armed Forces have allegedly intentionally attacked, as part of the September 13 strikes on targets in Western Ukraine, the trains in which former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former CIA Director David Petraeus and officials of several other Western countries travelled from Kiev. Could you comment on this situation?
💬 Maria Zakharova: Yes, we know about these reports, as well as about a rather strange reaction to them from Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga and several European politicians and diplomats.
We would like to say in this connection that unlike the Ukrainian military, Russia's Armed Forces do not wage war on civilians, target civilian vehicles, or open fire on helpless people – women, senior citizens and children.
Regarding the strikes mentioned in the media, our military did deliver them on September 13, but they targeted exclusively military facilities and the Kiev regime’s transport and logistics infrastructure used for military purposes, including in Western Ukraine.
Judging by the monitoring data, these strikes were highly effective and resultative. We have issued numerous warnings that the railway junctions, depots and rolling stock, primarily train engines, which are being actively used to transport Western weapons for the AFU, are legitimate military targets.
We will not comment on the cheap publicity stunt involving certain political individuals who were in the vicinity of the targeted train with military cargo. The goal of this information ballyhoo to try to get more military supplies for Zelensky’s regime by intimidating ordinary Europeans with a mythical “Russian threat at the NATO’s gate”.
☝️ It should be noted that in May we repeatedly recommended – and even sent respective notes to the diplomatic corps in Moscow and through our embassies abroad – that foreign citizens, including diplomats and their families, leave Kiev in connection with the transition of the Russian Armed Forces to systematic and consistent strikes against Ukraine’s defence facilities and command and decision-making centres in the capital and other cities of Ukraine.
👉 I would like to remind you that such strikes are delivered in response to AFU’s terrorist attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Russia.
We have also long been drawing the attention of all kinds of Western “political tourists” and VIPs that Zelensky’s regime is cynically using them as a human shield for its military trains.
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🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the roundtable discussion “The Ukraine Crisis: The West’s Legal Aggression” (Moscow, September 15, 2026)
Key points:
• The history of the Ukrainian crisis is a textbook example of how the West and its puppets consistently disregard their international obligations, to put it mildly.
• Even the most fundamental human right – the right to life – is not respected in Ukraine. You regularly see footage of “human catchers” rounding up young men, and also not-so-young men, on the streets of Ukrainian cities. I have no doubt that they will soon start going after women as well.
• The West is fond of interpreting the UN Charter, but only selectively and in its own interests, cherry-picking the specific principles and articles that suit its political plans at any given moment.
• “Legal aggression” against Russia has a long history. The European Court of Human Rights was regularly used for this purpose even before the events in Ukraine. Since 2014, however, this aggression has become systematic. It began with attempts to delegitimise the historic choice made by the people of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya.
• In January 2024, the International Court of Justice delivered its final judgment – it recognised that Russia had not financed terrorism; that the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics were not terrorist organisations; that there was no discrimination against Crimean Tatars or Ukrainians in Crimea; and that the ban on the extremist organisation Mejlis was lawful.
• Ukraine’s second case against Russia also failed. It was filed in February 2022, when Kiev accused us of abusing the Genocide Convention by defending the people of Donbass against genocide. In February 2024, the Court ruled that Russia’s actions had not violated the Genocide Convention. Full stop. All accusations against Russia were dismissed.
• In 2016, Ukraine initiated arbitration proceedings under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in an attempt to challenge Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, restored in accordance with the freely expressed will of the peninsula’s residents. On June 15, 2026, the arbitral tribunal to which Ukraine had brought its case upheld Russia’s position in its final award.
• Ukraine lost every one of the said cases. They were brought in bad faith from the outset. Both the Kiev regime and its Western handlers knew that their claims were unfounded and, in some instances, had no connection whatsoever to the subject matter of the respective conventions.
• Russia is, of course, not the only country facing the West’s “legal aggression” – any country in the world could become a target. Any state’s gold and foreign exchange reserves held in Western depositories could be frozen.
☝️ Protecting the international justice system and international law as a whole from bad-faith politicisation serves the interests of all sensible states that have their national interests in mind.
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Key points:
• The history of the Ukrainian crisis is a textbook example of how the West and its puppets consistently disregard their international obligations, to put it mildly.
• Even the most fundamental human right – the right to life – is not respected in Ukraine. You regularly see footage of “human catchers” rounding up young men, and also not-so-young men, on the streets of Ukrainian cities. I have no doubt that they will soon start going after women as well.
• The West is fond of interpreting the UN Charter, but only selectively and in its own interests, cherry-picking the specific principles and articles that suit its political plans at any given moment.
• “Legal aggression” against Russia has a long history. The European Court of Human Rights was regularly used for this purpose even before the events in Ukraine. Since 2014, however, this aggression has become systematic. It began with attempts to delegitimise the historic choice made by the people of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya.
• In January 2024, the International Court of Justice delivered its final judgment – it recognised that Russia had not financed terrorism; that the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics were not terrorist organisations; that there was no discrimination against Crimean Tatars or Ukrainians in Crimea; and that the ban on the extremist organisation Mejlis was lawful.
• Ukraine’s second case against Russia also failed. It was filed in February 2022, when Kiev accused us of abusing the Genocide Convention by defending the people of Donbass against genocide. In February 2024, the Court ruled that Russia’s actions had not violated the Genocide Convention. Full stop. All accusations against Russia were dismissed.
• In 2016, Ukraine initiated arbitration proceedings under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in an attempt to challenge Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, restored in accordance with the freely expressed will of the peninsula’s residents. On June 15, 2026, the arbitral tribunal to which Ukraine had brought its case upheld Russia’s position in its final award.
• Ukraine lost every one of the said cases. They were brought in bad faith from the outset. Both the Kiev regime and its Western handlers knew that their claims were unfounded and, in some instances, had no connection whatsoever to the subject matter of the respective conventions.
• Russia is, of course, not the only country facing the West’s “legal aggression” – any country in the world could become a target. Any state’s gold and foreign exchange reserves held in Western depositories could be frozen.
☝️ Protecting the international justice system and international law as a whole from bad-faith politicisation serves the interests of all sensible states that have their national interests in mind.
Read in full
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🔴 #LIVE: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the International Festival of Youth – 2026 closing ceremony
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