#Announcement

🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at approximately 14:00 MSK (11:00 am GMT) on March 13.

Accreditation is open until 11 am on March 12.

💬 Russia’s MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:

The Estonian Foreign Ministry yet again "excels" (no really), blinded by their hatred of Russia.

This time they went so far as to post on X (ex-Twitter) a story regarding the what they call the 80th anniversary of the Soviet (referred to as “Russian”) air attack on the positions of the German occupying forces in Tallinn. The gist of the entire message is that the Russians were targeting residential areas and cultural sites, just as they allegedly do in Ukraine today.

It is well known and documented that the current Estonian authorities identify themselves with the German Nazis. But even Joseph Goebbels would envy their rabid Russophobia.

Taken out of context by the falsifiers, this event - the air attack on the Nazi-occupied and fortified city - was actually a part of the Soviet combat operations to liberate the Baltic region from the Nazis.

It must be understood that the Baltic region had strategic importance for Hitler as a source of food and a territorial link with Northern Europe. The Soviet air strikes primarily targeted the Gestapo and Abwehr headquarters, air defence systems, the naval arsenal, gunpowder storage depots, and signal centres. While the Kallas clan (in power in Estonia) and descendants of Estonian collaborationists may regard these Nazi locations as "sacred sites and cultural landmarks", for all the normal people they are legitimate military targets.

But there is more. They illustrated the post with a photo of the city landscape after the alleged Soviet air raids. But in fact, the photo was taken on August 28, 1941 during the Soviet Baltic Fleet’s retreat known as the Tallinn Breakthrough, while the destruction in Tallinn was caused by... the advancing Nazi forces. The operation (breakthrough) to evacuate the city involved 225 combat and auxiliary ships with 40,000 troops and civilians on board. The convoy came under relentless artillery fire and was attacked by German and Finnish torpedo boats and aircraft. The Nazis sank 62 ships carrying over 4,500 civilians, while the overall number of Soviet casualties exceeded 15,000.

For some reason, the Estonian authorities chose to forget all about this. Apparently, these were the wrong city residents and sailors.

As for their false laments for the current Kiev regime, the ideological affinity between Estonia’s ruling nationalist clique and the Kiev regime is no surprise to anyone. They share the goal of glorifying Shukhevych, Bandera, and the Estonian cutthroats from the Waffen-SS as "liberator heroes".

For more information on the liberation of Tallinn from the German occupation on September 22, 1944, see here and here. These websites contain numerous archive documents that describe, among other things, how the Germans treated the local population. It is worth mentioning that the bread ration assigned by the Germans in the last months of the occupation was 800 grammes per person per week. Meanwhile, Red Army units were welcomed warmly by locals and seen as liberators, despite three years of Nazi propaganda. Local inhabitants often risked their lives to help Soviet soldiers.

It should not be forgotten that the operation to liberate Estonia involved the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps of the Red Army. These Estonians were the true patriots of their homeland, unlike Estonians of today.

🎤 On March 6, the Sirius Federal Territory hosted a gala concert titled BRICS: The Young Winds as part of the World Youth Festival. The event showcased the talents of young musicians from 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇧🇷 Brazil (Matu Miranda), 🇮🇳 India (Sayli Kamble), 🇨🇳 China (Jia Yi), 🇦🇪 UAE (Ahmed Alhosani), and 🇿🇦 South Africa (Dudu Makhoba).

The concert featured popular hits from #BRICS countries, with Russian songs translated into foreign languages and vice versa. Attended by guests and participants of the World Youth Festival, the concert was also streamed online to a multi-thousand-strong audience.

🌐 BRICS: The Young Winds represents a promising initiative aimed at fostering cultural ties among BRICS countries. It eschews enforced agendas or dubious participation criteria, relying solely on the unifying power of art.

#YoungWindsBRICS

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Project organiser: Territory of the First (Territoriya Pervyh) NGO; sponsored by the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives.