🎙️ Kommentar fra Russlands ambassade i Norge til «RIA Novosti» (16. april 2026)
❓Hvordan kommenterer ambassaden planene om å etablere produksjon av droner for Ukraina i Norge?
💬 Svar: Planene om å etablere «ukrainsk produksjon av droner» på norsk territorium ble først offentliggjort allerede i november 2025. Ambassaden har ikke informasjon om hvor langt planene har kommet.
Uansett går vi ut fra at Oslo, som en av de viktigste sponsorene av regimet i Kiev og ved å overføre dødelige våpen og militært utstyr til de ukrainske væpnede styrkene, bidrar til at blodsutgytelsen fortsetter og bærer direkte ansvar for de terrorhandlingene og krigsforbrytelsene som begås av ukrainske styrker, de ofrene og ødeleggelsene av sivil transport-, logistikk- og energiinfrastruktur som disse forårsaker, samt skaden som påføres økonomiske aktører i Russland og andre land, inkludert i den globale sør og øst.
Vi legger merke til at det viktigste middelet for å gjennomføre de nevnte grusomhetene i dag er droner som Kiev mottar og produserer med teknologisk og økonomisk støtte fra vestlige land, og som nå skal produseres direkte i Norge, samt tas i bruk av de lokale væpnede styrkene med sikte på bruk i tilfelle en mulig konflikt med Russland, slik man her anser det.
Vi betrakter denne beslutningen fra norske myndigheter som et entydig fiendtlig skritt, som nok en gang bekrefter at det var rettmessig å inkludere Norge i listen over uvennlige utenlandske stater, som ble vedtatt av den russiske regjeringen allerede i 2022. Vi oppfordrer Oslo til å avstå fra å følge en destruktiv og konfronterende kurs i forholdet til vårt land.
🔗 Kilder: 1, 2, 3.
❓Hvordan kommenterer ambassaden planene om å etablere produksjon av droner for Ukraina i Norge?
💬 Svar: Planene om å etablere «ukrainsk produksjon av droner» på norsk territorium ble først offentliggjort allerede i november 2025. Ambassaden har ikke informasjon om hvor langt planene har kommet.
Uansett går vi ut fra at Oslo, som en av de viktigste sponsorene av regimet i Kiev og ved å overføre dødelige våpen og militært utstyr til de ukrainske væpnede styrkene, bidrar til at blodsutgytelsen fortsetter og bærer direkte ansvar for de terrorhandlingene og krigsforbrytelsene som begås av ukrainske styrker, de ofrene og ødeleggelsene av sivil transport-, logistikk- og energiinfrastruktur som disse forårsaker, samt skaden som påføres økonomiske aktører i Russland og andre land, inkludert i den globale sør og øst.
Vi legger merke til at det viktigste middelet for å gjennomføre de nevnte grusomhetene i dag er droner som Kiev mottar og produserer med teknologisk og økonomisk støtte fra vestlige land, og som nå skal produseres direkte i Norge, samt tas i bruk av de lokale væpnede styrkene med sikte på bruk i tilfelle en mulig konflikt med Russland, slik man her anser det.
Vi betrakter denne beslutningen fra norske myndigheter som et entydig fiendtlig skritt, som nok en gang bekrefter at det var rettmessig å inkludere Norge i listen over uvennlige utenlandske stater, som ble vedtatt av den russiske regjeringen allerede i 2022. Vi oppfordrer Oslo til å avstå fra å følge en destruktiv og konfronterende kurs i forholdet til vårt land.
🔗 Kilder: 1, 2, 3.
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🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at an expanded-format meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers (April 17, 2026, Moscow)
💬 We are pleased to welcome you to Moscow for another meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers.
As the representative of the host country, I would like to thank all of you for our joint work to strengthen the Commonwealth’s potential.
I would also like to express special appreciation for your active participation in the events held in 2025 to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Today, we discussed the need to continue our joint work to preserve and strengthen the memory of the heroes of that war, of the generations who represented the peoples of the Soviet Union and became the generation of Victors.
📕 On the tables before you are documentary collections titled The Republics to the Front, 1941-1945, devoted to the contribution of each Republic of the former Soviet Union to Victory. This publication reflects new facts attesting to the crucial role of the home front in the defeat of Nazism.
This fundamental work, without exaggeration, was prepared by a team of highly qualified experts and historians from Russia and other Commonwealth states with the support of the staff of our countries’ security councils.
There is no doubt that our common efforts within the CIS to preserve the memory of our ancestors' feat – let me stress this once again – are especially in demand today.
#Victoy81
💬 We are pleased to welcome you to Moscow for another meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers.
As the representative of the host country, I would like to thank all of you for our joint work to strengthen the Commonwealth’s potential.
I would also like to express special appreciation for your active participation in the events held in 2025 to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Today, we discussed the need to continue our joint work to preserve and strengthen the memory of the heroes of that war, of the generations who represented the peoples of the Soviet Union and became the generation of Victors.
📕 On the tables before you are documentary collections titled The Republics to the Front, 1941-1945, devoted to the contribution of each Republic of the former Soviet Union to Victory. This publication reflects new facts attesting to the crucial role of the home front in the defeat of Nazism.
This fundamental work, without exaggeration, was prepared by a team of highly qualified experts and historians from Russia and other Commonwealth states with the support of the staff of our countries’ security councils.
There is no doubt that our common efforts within the CIS to preserve the memory of our ancestors' feat – let me stress this once again – are especially in demand today.
#Victoy81
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⚡️🚀 The Russian Space Forces conducted a successful launch
of a Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Today at 02:17 Moscow time, the combat crew of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched a medium-class Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defence.
The launch and insertion of the spacecraft into the designated orbit proceeded normally.
After liftoff, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket was tracked by ground-based automated control systems of the German Titov Main Test Space Center.
At the scheduled time, the spacecraft were placed into their target orbit and taken under control by ground-based Space Forces assets of the Aerospace Forces.
▶️ Stable telemetry communication has been established and maintained with the spacecraft, and their onboard systems are operating normally.
Video: Russian Ministry of Defence
#RussiaInSpace
of a Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Today at 02:17 Moscow time, the combat crew of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched a medium-class Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defence.
The launch and insertion of the spacecraft into the designated orbit proceeded normally.
After liftoff, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket was tracked by ground-based automated control systems of the German Titov Main Test Space Center.
At the scheduled time, the spacecraft were placed into their target orbit and taken under control by ground-based Space Forces assets of the Aerospace Forces.
▶️ Stable telemetry communication has been established and maintained with the spacecraft, and their onboard systems are operating normally.
Video: Russian Ministry of Defence
#RussiaInSpace
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🕯 On April 19, Russia will for the first time commemorate a solemn date: Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People committed by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. The atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II have no statute of limitations.
❌ Evidence of the mass killings of Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, torture, slave labour and other manifestations of the inhuman Nazi ideology attests to a genocide - deliberate, systematic and unprecedented in its scale. Documents from various archives and the Russian Investigative Committee’s database prove the direct murder (execution by firing squads, gas chambers, hanging) of more than 11 million Soviet civilians in the territories of the USSR occupied by the Nazis. Among them, 7 420 379 were intentionally exterminated (including 216 431 children), 2 164 313 were enslaved and died as forced labourers in Nazi captivity and 4 100 000 died due to harsh conditions of the occupation.
📅 April 19 has been proclaimed as the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People Perpetrated by the Nazis and Their Collaborationists during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War in accordance with Federal Law No. 74-FZ of April 21, 2025, and Federal Law No. 523–FZ of December 29, 2025.
🔗 A section dedicated to the genocide of the Soviet people on the Ministry's website with additional information can be accessed via this link
❌ Evidence of the mass killings of Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, torture, slave labour and other manifestations of the inhuman Nazi ideology attests to a genocide - deliberate, systematic and unprecedented in its scale. Documents from various archives and the Russian Investigative Committee’s database prove the direct murder (execution by firing squads, gas chambers, hanging) of more than 11 million Soviet civilians in the territories of the USSR occupied by the Nazis. Among them, 7 420 379 were intentionally exterminated (including 216 431 children), 2 164 313 were enslaved and died as forced labourers in Nazi captivity and 4 100 000 died due to harsh conditions of the occupation.
📅 April 19 has been proclaimed as the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People Perpetrated by the Nazis and Their Collaborationists during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War in accordance with Federal Law No. 74-FZ of April 21, 2025, and Federal Law No. 523–FZ of December 29, 2025.
🔗 A section dedicated to the genocide of the Soviet people on the Ministry's website with additional information can be accessed via this link
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
Genocide and the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg
The recognition of the genocide of the Soviet people is grounded in the Judgment of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, delivered on October 1, 1946.
✍️The verdict clearly and unequivocally stated:
“The crimes against the civilian population set forth above are monstrous. The evidence shows that, at any rate in the East, mass murders and atrocities were committed not only for the purpose of crushing opposition and resistance to the German occupying forces. In Poland and the Soviet Union these crimes were part of a plan to get rid of the entire local population by expelling and exterminating it in order to colonize the vacated territory with Germans.”
Although the Nuremberg Judgment did not yet employ the term “genocide”, which received formal legal recognition only in 1948 with the adoption of the UN Genocide Convention, it nonetheless established the essential elements of this crime.
❗️These included the intent to partially destroy populations of occupied territories on racial and national grounds, alongside the direct link between this intent and the crimes committed.
This interpretation was later affirmed by Raphael Lemkin, the jurist who coined the term “genocide.” He wrote:
“The main objective of the Nazis was to commit genocide against peoples in order to seize their territory for colonization. This applied to Poles, Russians, and Ukrainians.”
☝️ Thus, mass violence carried out by Nazi Germany in the occupied Soviet territories was driven from the outset by genocidal intent, allowing the destruction of the indigenous Soviet population to be quilified precisely as genocide.
#April19
Genocide and the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg
The recognition of the genocide of the Soviet people is grounded in the Judgment of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, delivered on October 1, 1946.
✍️The verdict clearly and unequivocally stated:
“The crimes against the civilian population set forth above are monstrous. The evidence shows that, at any rate in the East, mass murders and atrocities were committed not only for the purpose of crushing opposition and resistance to the German occupying forces. In Poland and the Soviet Union these crimes were part of a plan to get rid of the entire local population by expelling and exterminating it in order to colonize the vacated territory with Germans.”
Although the Nuremberg Judgment did not yet employ the term “genocide”, which received formal legal recognition only in 1948 with the adoption of the UN Genocide Convention, it nonetheless established the essential elements of this crime.
❗️These included the intent to partially destroy populations of occupied territories on racial and national grounds, alongside the direct link between this intent and the crimes committed.
This interpretation was later affirmed by Raphael Lemkin, the jurist who coined the term “genocide.” He wrote:
“The main objective of the Nazis was to commit genocide against peoples in order to seize their territory for colonization. This applied to Poles, Russians, and Ukrainians.”
☝️ Thus, mass violence carried out by Nazi Germany in the occupied Soviet territories was driven from the outset by genocidal intent, allowing the destruction of the indigenous Soviet population to be quilified precisely as genocide.
#April19
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
📄 As part of our continued publication of archival materials ahead of April 19, the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, we present further evidence exposing the scale and intent of Nazi crimes.
The “Directives on Economic Policy” of the agricultural group of the “Ost” Economic Staff, discovered in 1945 among German High Command papers, significantly expand our understanding of Operation Barbarossa. This document set out in detail how the occupied territories of the USSR were to be systematically exploited.
Introduced at the Nuremberg Trials (document EC-126), U.S. prosecutor Whitney Harris described it as:
Drafted under the leadership of Herbert Backe, the plan envisioned the seizure of grain and food supplies from the USSR to feed Germany and the Wehrmacht, while deliberately depriving large regions, especially the forest and non–black-earth zones, of sustenance.
✍️ The document explicitly acknowledged the consequences:
❗️Nazi planners calculated that 20-30 million people could perish from famine as a result of this policy. The aim was not only economic exploitation, but also to cause depopulation and clear the land for German colonization.
Statements by Nazi leaders confirm this intent. On June 10, 1941, Heinrich Himmler declared that the campaign in the East aimed at reducing the Slavic population by 30 million.
Adolf Hitler himself argued that, just as Indigenous populations in North America had been decimated, “the same will happen in the East.”
Modern historians identify these directives as the foundation of the “Hunger Plan”, a system designed to achieve economic self-sufficiency for the Third Reich through mass starvation.
▪️These policies were not theoretical. Between 2.5 and 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war died from hunger.
▪️ Starvation was deliberately used against civilians in occupied territories, including cities such as Kiev and Kharkov, and reached its most extreme form during the siege of Leningrad, where hundreds of thousands perished.
⚠️ The document stands as direct evidence that Nazi Germany pursued not only military conquest but also a coordinated policy of mass extermination.
#April19
📄 As part of our continued publication of archival materials ahead of April 19, the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, we present further evidence exposing the scale and intent of Nazi crimes.
The “Directives on Economic Policy” of the agricultural group of the “Ost” Economic Staff, discovered in 1945 among German High Command papers, significantly expand our understanding of Operation Barbarossa. This document set out in detail how the occupied territories of the USSR were to be systematically exploited.
Introduced at the Nuremberg Trials (document EC-126), U.S. prosecutor Whitney Harris described it as:
“a premeditated plan to murder millions of innocent people by starvation… on a scale beyond human imagination.”
Drafted under the leadership of Herbert Backe, the plan envisioned the seizure of grain and food supplies from the USSR to feed Germany and the Wehrmacht, while deliberately depriving large regions, especially the forest and non–black-earth zones, of sustenance.
✍️ The document explicitly acknowledged the consequences:
“Many tens of millions of people in this territory will become superfluous and will die or be forced to migrate to Siberia.”
❗️Nazi planners calculated that 20-30 million people could perish from famine as a result of this policy. The aim was not only economic exploitation, but also to cause depopulation and clear the land for German colonization.
Statements by Nazi leaders confirm this intent. On June 10, 1941, Heinrich Himmler declared that the campaign in the East aimed at reducing the Slavic population by 30 million.
Adolf Hitler himself argued that, just as Indigenous populations in North America had been decimated, “the same will happen in the East.”
Modern historians identify these directives as the foundation of the “Hunger Plan”, a system designed to achieve economic self-sufficiency for the Third Reich through mass starvation.
▪️These policies were not theoretical. Between 2.5 and 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war died from hunger.
▪️ Starvation was deliberately used against civilians in occupied territories, including cities such as Kiev and Kharkov, and reached its most extreme form during the siege of Leningrad, where hundreds of thousands perished.
⚠️ The document stands as direct evidence that Nazi Germany pursued not only military conquest but also a coordinated policy of mass extermination.
#April19
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◼️ Today our country marks for the first time Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
It was established b the Executive Order of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin of December 29, 2025, and the basic details of commemorating the genocide victims were determined by Federal Law No. 74-FZ. The date of 19 April was not chosen by chance. On this day in 1943, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued its Decree No. 39
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
The genocide of the Soviet people means the actions committed in 1941-45 with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, ethnic, racial and national groups that inhabited the USSR.
The top echelon of Nazi Germany regarded the territory of the Soviet Union up to the Urals as its Lebensraum, which historically was intended to be settled with representatives of the Aryan race and, therefore to be cleansed from those, whom the Hitlerite elite labeled as “subhumans”: Slavs, Jews, Gypsies and Asians.
With these purposes in view, even before invading the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany planned a system of extermination practices to radically reduce the Soviet population as early as during the war.
The orchestrated famine strategy was an important part of the Nazi genocide programme (https://t.me/MID_Russia/77695) that was to lead to the death of 30 million Soviet citizens as early as in the winter of 1941-42.
▪️ Although it has not been implemented in full, it still caused enormous victims, including: among those who died were over three million Soviet prisoners of war, about a million of residents in the besieged Leningrad, a great number of civilian population starving in the occupied areas, women and children forcefully imprisoned in the Nazi transfer camps.
▪️ Jews and Gypsies were subject to total extermination.
▪️ Soviet female labourers (Ostarbeiter) were subject to forced abortions.
▪️ Soviet children having signs of Aryan origin were kidnapped in the occupied territories for subsequent Germanisation, which also constitutes a conventional form of genocide.
From the very beginning of the war, the Nazis developed the so-called General Plan ‘Ost’ with the aim of colonising the occupied territories. Under the plan, millions of Germans were to be resettled in the conquered lands. New, German towns and villages were to be built for them.
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A horrifying estimate of 13.7 million people fell victim to the Hitler’s policy of destroying “subnormal” as he thought Soviet people, with another five million citizens to a willfully implemented famine strategy.
The facts of genocide in the occupied lands of former USSR have been confirmed judicially in all the constituent entities of Russia, where Nazis and their collaborators committed crimes against civilian population during the Great Patriotic War.
❗️ Russia’s diplomatic service will seek to ensure that the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators against the citizens of the Soviet Union are recognised by the international community as genocide against the Soviet people. The relevant qualification has been recorded in some documents adopted in the CIS and the CSTO.
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the video address on Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People:
For further perusal:
👉 On the Nazi's genocide of millions of Soviet citizens
👉 Archival documents on heinous Nazi crimes in the concentration camps
👉 On the Khatyn' massacre
👉 How the West created and supported Ukrainian Nazi collaborators complicit in the genocide
👉 Section on the genocide of the Soviet people on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website (in Russian)
It was established b the Executive Order of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin of December 29, 2025, and the basic details of commemorating the genocide victims were determined by Federal Law No. 74-FZ. The date of 19 April was not chosen by chance. On this day in 1943, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued its Decree No. 39
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
The genocide of the Soviet people means the actions committed in 1941-45 with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, ethnic, racial and national groups that inhabited the USSR.
The top echelon of Nazi Germany regarded the territory of the Soviet Union up to the Urals as its Lebensraum, which historically was intended to be settled with representatives of the Aryan race and, therefore to be cleansed from those, whom the Hitlerite elite labeled as “subhumans”: Slavs, Jews, Gypsies and Asians.
With these purposes in view, even before invading the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany planned a system of extermination practices to radically reduce the Soviet population as early as during the war.
The orchestrated famine strategy was an important part of the Nazi genocide programme (https://t.me/MID_Russia/77695) that was to lead to the death of 30 million Soviet citizens as early as in the winter of 1941-42.
▪️ Although it has not been implemented in full, it still caused enormous victims, including: among those who died were over three million Soviet prisoners of war, about a million of residents in the besieged Leningrad, a great number of civilian population starving in the occupied areas, women and children forcefully imprisoned in the Nazi transfer camps.
▪️ Jews and Gypsies were subject to total extermination.
▪️ Soviet female labourers (Ostarbeiter) were subject to forced abortions.
▪️ Soviet children having signs of Aryan origin were kidnapped in the occupied territories for subsequent Germanisation, which also constitutes a conventional form of genocide.
From the very beginning of the war, the Nazis developed the so-called General Plan ‘Ost’ with the aim of colonising the occupied territories. Under the plan, millions of Germans were to be resettled in the conquered lands. New, German towns and villages were to be built for them.
***
A horrifying estimate of 13.7 million people fell victim to the Hitler’s policy of destroying “subnormal” as he thought Soviet people, with another five million citizens to a willfully implemented famine strategy.
The facts of genocide in the occupied lands of former USSR have been confirmed judicially in all the constituent entities of Russia, where Nazis and their collaborators committed crimes against civilian population during the Great Patriotic War.
❗️ Russia’s diplomatic service will seek to ensure that the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators against the citizens of the Soviet Union are recognised by the international community as genocide against the Soviet people. The relevant qualification has been recorded in some documents adopted in the CIS and the CSTO.
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the video address on Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People:
Preserving the memory of the millions of victims of the genocide of the Soviet people is our sacred duty. We will not allow those atrocities to be lost to oblivion, no matter how hard those who today seek once again to push Europe down the well-trodden path of racial superiority may try.
For further perusal:
👉 On the Nazi's genocide of millions of Soviet citizens
👉 Archival documents on heinous Nazi crimes in the concentration camps
👉 On the Khatyn' massacre
👉 How the West created and supported Ukrainian Nazi collaborators complicit in the genocide
👉 Section on the genocide of the Soviet people on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website (in Russian)
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🎙 Video address by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the occasion of Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People committed by Nazis and their accomplices during 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War (Moscow, April 19, 2026)
💬 Friends,
This year will be the first time that we mark a mournful date, namely, Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People committed by Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. This new commemorative day - April 19 - was established in December 2025. Events in memory of the victims of Nazis and the immortal feat of the Soviet people will take place at Russian missions abroad as well.
April 19 was chosen for a reason. On that day in 1943, Decree No. 39 of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet “On measures of punishment for German Nazi perpetrators guilty of killings and torture of Soviet civilian population and captured Red Army soldiers, for spies, traitors to the Motherland from among Soviet citizens, and for their accomplices” was issued.
The decree became the first document to provide a legal qualification of the systematic policy pursued by the Nazis and collaborationists to exterminate the civilian population, and laid the groundwork for bringing them to justice. Among the first trials subsequently organised against German war criminals were the Krasnodar and Kharkov trials. Their outcomes significantly influenced the work of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal.
The evidence presented in the materials of the Nuremberg Tribunal and their legal assessments made it possible to speak of genocide of peoples in the territories occupied by Germany, primarily the territory of the USSR. The enemy was open about it waging a war of extermination against our Fatherland. As early as September 16, 1941, by order of the Chief of Staff of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, General Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, German troops were instructed to show no mercy to civilians. The atrocities reached an unprecedented scale.
▪️ The total number of civilian victims in the USSR during the occupation amounted to around 14 million people.
These crimes have no statute of limitations.
The outcomes of the Nuremberg Tribunal laid the foundation for drafting the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The very term “genocide” gained currency in 1944 to define a policy of obliteration of national, racial, and religious groups.
The facts of genocide in the occupied territories of the former USSR have been confirmed in court in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation where, during the Great Patriotic War, crimes against the civilian population were committed by German Nazis and their accomplices from among those in other countries who stood under Nazi banners. Russian diplomacy will seek recognition by the international community of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices against citizens of the Soviet Union as genocide of the Soviet people. The qualification to this end has been enshrined in a number of documents adopted within the CIS and the CSTO.
In Russia, rehabilitation of Nazism, including actions that desecrate the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide, has been criminalised.
We will continue to resolutely defend historical truth and counter attempts to whitewash Nazi criminals and their acolytes, and to revise the internationally recognised outcomes of the Second World War. The majority of states stand in solidarity with us. There is clear broad support for Russian thematic initiatives, primarily at the UN, where Russian draft resolutions on combatting the glorification of Nazism are adopted annually.
Preserving the memory of millions of victims of the genocide of the Soviet people is our sacred duty.
We will not allow these atrocities to be consigned to oblivion, no matter how hard those who today seek once again to steer Europe down the well-trodden path of racial superiority may try.
💬 Friends,
This year will be the first time that we mark a mournful date, namely, Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People committed by Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. This new commemorative day - April 19 - was established in December 2025. Events in memory of the victims of Nazis and the immortal feat of the Soviet people will take place at Russian missions abroad as well.
April 19 was chosen for a reason. On that day in 1943, Decree No. 39 of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet “On measures of punishment for German Nazi perpetrators guilty of killings and torture of Soviet civilian population and captured Red Army soldiers, for spies, traitors to the Motherland from among Soviet citizens, and for their accomplices” was issued.
The decree became the first document to provide a legal qualification of the systematic policy pursued by the Nazis and collaborationists to exterminate the civilian population, and laid the groundwork for bringing them to justice. Among the first trials subsequently organised against German war criminals were the Krasnodar and Kharkov trials. Their outcomes significantly influenced the work of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal.
The evidence presented in the materials of the Nuremberg Tribunal and their legal assessments made it possible to speak of genocide of peoples in the territories occupied by Germany, primarily the territory of the USSR. The enemy was open about it waging a war of extermination against our Fatherland. As early as September 16, 1941, by order of the Chief of Staff of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, General Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, German troops were instructed to show no mercy to civilians. The atrocities reached an unprecedented scale.
▪️ The total number of civilian victims in the USSR during the occupation amounted to around 14 million people.
These crimes have no statute of limitations.
The outcomes of the Nuremberg Tribunal laid the foundation for drafting the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The very term “genocide” gained currency in 1944 to define a policy of obliteration of national, racial, and religious groups.
The facts of genocide in the occupied territories of the former USSR have been confirmed in court in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation where, during the Great Patriotic War, crimes against the civilian population were committed by German Nazis and their accomplices from among those in other countries who stood under Nazi banners. Russian diplomacy will seek recognition by the international community of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices against citizens of the Soviet Union as genocide of the Soviet people. The qualification to this end has been enshrined in a number of documents adopted within the CIS and the CSTO.
In Russia, rehabilitation of Nazism, including actions that desecrate the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide, has been criminalised.
We will continue to resolutely defend historical truth and counter attempts to whitewash Nazi criminals and their acolytes, and to revise the internationally recognised outcomes of the Second World War. The majority of states stand in solidarity with us. There is clear broad support for Russian thematic initiatives, primarily at the UN, where Russian draft resolutions on combatting the glorification of Nazism are adopted annually.
Preserving the memory of millions of victims of the genocide of the Soviet people is our sacred duty.
We will not allow these atrocities to be consigned to oblivion, no matter how hard those who today seek once again to steer Europe down the well-trodden path of racial superiority may try.
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◼️ Сегодня в нашей стране впервые отмечается День памяти жертв геноцида советского народа, совершённого нацистами и их пособниками в период Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 годов.
Он установлен в соответствии с подписанным Президентом России В.В.Путиным 29 декабря 2025 года Федеральным законом №523-ФЗ, а основные параметры увековечения памяти жертв геноцида определены №74-ФЗ. Выбор даты 19 апреля не случаен. В этот день в 1943 году вышел Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР № 39.
#БезСрокаДавности
Под геноцидом советского народа понимаются действия, совершённые в 1941-45 годы с намерением уничтожить полностью или частично этнические, расовые и национальные группы, населявшие СССР.
Верхушка нацистской Германии видела в территории Советского Союза вплоть до Урала своё «жизненное пространство», которое в исторической перспективе планировалось заселить представителями арийской расы и, соответственно, очистить от тех, кто в глазах гитлеровских элит маркировался как «недочеловеки»: славян, евреев, цыган, азиатов.
С этими целями ещё до вторжения в Советский Союз нацистская Германия запланировала систему истребительных практик для радикального сокращения советского населения уже в ходе войны.
Важной частью нацистской геноцидной программы стала стратегия организованного голода, которая должна была привести к смерти 30 миллионов советских граждан уже зимой 1941-42 года.
▪️ Хотя она не реализовалась в полном объёме, тем не менее обернулась колоссальными жертвами: были убиты более трёх миллионов советских военнопленных, около миллиона жителей в блокадном Ленинграде, значительное число гражданских лиц, голодавших на оккупированных территориях, женщины и дети, насильно заключенные в нацистские пересыльные лагеря.
▪️ Граждане еврейской и цыганской национальности подлежали тотальному уничтожению.
▪️ По отношению к советским девушкам-остарбайтерам санкционировалась политика принудительных абортов.
▪️ На оккупированных территориях происходило похищение советских детей с признаками «арийского происхождения» для их последующей германизации, что также является одной из конвенциональных форм геноцида.
С целью колонизации захваченных территорий нацисты с первых дней войны разрабатывали так называемый Генеральный план «Ост», согласно которому на покоренные земли предстояло переселить миллионы немцев. Для них предполагалось построить новые, уже немецкие города и посёлки.
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Жертвами беспощадной политики истребления «неполноценных», по мнению Гитлера, советских людей стали порядка 13,7 миллионов мирных жителей, ещё не менее пяти миллионов человек стали жертвами стратегии сознательно организованного голода.
Факты геноцида на оккупированных территориях бывшего СССР подтверждены в судебном порядке во всех субъектах Российской Федерации, где в годы Великой Отечественной фашистами и их пособниками совершались преступления против мирного населения.
❗️ Российская дипломатия будет добиваться, чтобы преступления нацистов и их подручных против граждан Советского Союза были признаны международным сообществом в качестве геноцида советского народа. Соответствующая квалификация уже закреплена в ряде документов, принятых в рамках СНГ и ОДКБ. В России предусмотрена уголовная ответственность за реабилитацию нацизма, включая действия, оскверняющие День памяти жертв геноцида.
💬 С.В.Лавров в видеообращении по случаю Дня памяти жертв геноцида советского народа:
Читайте подробнее:
👉 Раздел, посвящённый геноциду советского народа, на веб-портале МИД России
👉 Подробнее о геноциде советского народа и отдельных его аспектах
👉 О геноцидальной стратегии голода в отношении советского народа
👉 Архивные документы о чудовищных преступлениях гитлеровских оккупантов и их пособников в концлагерях
👉 Проект «Маршруты памяти» по местам военных преступлений гитлеровских захватчиков
Он установлен в соответствии с подписанным Президентом России В.В.Путиным 29 декабря 2025 года Федеральным законом №523-ФЗ, а основные параметры увековечения памяти жертв геноцида определены №74-ФЗ. Выбор даты 19 апреля не случаен. В этот день в 1943 году вышел Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР № 39.
#БезСрокаДавности
Под геноцидом советского народа понимаются действия, совершённые в 1941-45 годы с намерением уничтожить полностью или частично этнические, расовые и национальные группы, населявшие СССР.
Верхушка нацистской Германии видела в территории Советского Союза вплоть до Урала своё «жизненное пространство», которое в исторической перспективе планировалось заселить представителями арийской расы и, соответственно, очистить от тех, кто в глазах гитлеровских элит маркировался как «недочеловеки»: славян, евреев, цыган, азиатов.
С этими целями ещё до вторжения в Советский Союз нацистская Германия запланировала систему истребительных практик для радикального сокращения советского населения уже в ходе войны.
Важной частью нацистской геноцидной программы стала стратегия организованного голода, которая должна была привести к смерти 30 миллионов советских граждан уже зимой 1941-42 года.
▪️ Хотя она не реализовалась в полном объёме, тем не менее обернулась колоссальными жертвами: были убиты более трёх миллионов советских военнопленных, около миллиона жителей в блокадном Ленинграде, значительное число гражданских лиц, голодавших на оккупированных территориях, женщины и дети, насильно заключенные в нацистские пересыльные лагеря.
▪️ Граждане еврейской и цыганской национальности подлежали тотальному уничтожению.
▪️ По отношению к советским девушкам-остарбайтерам санкционировалась политика принудительных абортов.
▪️ На оккупированных территориях происходило похищение советских детей с признаками «арийского происхождения» для их последующей германизации, что также является одной из конвенциональных форм геноцида.
С целью колонизации захваченных территорий нацисты с первых дней войны разрабатывали так называемый Генеральный план «Ост», согласно которому на покоренные земли предстояло переселить миллионы немцев. Для них предполагалось построить новые, уже немецкие города и посёлки.
***
Жертвами беспощадной политики истребления «неполноценных», по мнению Гитлера, советских людей стали порядка 13,7 миллионов мирных жителей, ещё не менее пяти миллионов человек стали жертвами стратегии сознательно организованного голода.
Факты геноцида на оккупированных территориях бывшего СССР подтверждены в судебном порядке во всех субъектах Российской Федерации, где в годы Великой Отечественной фашистами и их пособниками совершались преступления против мирного населения.
❗️ Российская дипломатия будет добиваться, чтобы преступления нацистов и их подручных против граждан Советского Союза были признаны международным сообществом в качестве геноцида советского народа. Соответствующая квалификация уже закреплена в ряде документов, принятых в рамках СНГ и ОДКБ. В России предусмотрена уголовная ответственность за реабилитацию нацизма, включая действия, оскверняющие День памяти жертв геноцида.
💬 С.В.Лавров в видеообращении по случаю Дня памяти жертв геноцида советского народа:
Сберечь память о миллионных жертвах геноцида советского народа – наш священный долг. Предать забвению эти злодеяния мы не позволим, как бы ни старались те, кто сегодня вознамерился в очередной раз направить Европу по наезженной колее расового превосходства.
Читайте подробнее:
👉 Раздел, посвящённый геноциду советского народа, на веб-портале МИД России
👉 Подробнее о геноциде советского народа и отдельных его аспектах
👉 О геноцидальной стратегии голода в отношении советского народа
👉 Архивные документы о чудовищных преступлениях гитлеровских оккупантов и их пособников в концлагерях
👉 Проект «Маршруты памяти» по местам военных преступлений гитлеровских захватчиков
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks during the 9th Ministerial Meeting of Russia and Central Asia (Moscow, April 17, 2026)
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I am pleased to welcome you to Moscow. We began our joint work yesterday at the CIS Foreign Ministers Council, and today we are holding the ninth meeting of Foreign Ministers of Russia and Central Asia. This in itself underscores the relevance of this six-party dialogue mechanism. In our view, it is developing successfully and dynamically, to the benefit of all participants.
In October 2025, the Second Russia – Central Asia Summit was held in the welcoming city of Dushanbe. During the summit, our leaders approved a Joint Action Plan for 2025-2027 and put forward a number of important initiatives. Our task now is to translate these decisions into concrete steps. The Action Plan serves as a framework document, outlining the key areas of our cooperation: trade, economic and investment ties, transport, energy, healthcare, environmental protection, security, cultural and humanitarian engagement, and migration.
Specific projects and initiatives are currently being developed within the six-party working groups established by the relevant agencies of Russia and your countries. As we noted today during the #CIS meeting, our relations are grounded in equality, mutual respect, and careful consideration of each other’s interests. They truly deserve the highest recognition as an example of a modern and forward-looking model of international partnership.
Our leaders maintain close and regular communication, both bilaterally and within integration frameworks such as the #CIS, the #EAEU, the #CSTO, and the #SCO. Active contacts are also sustained among heads of government, deputy prime ministers, and the leadership of parliaments, ministries, and agencies.
Despite the current geopolitical turbulence – which we examined in detail during today’s CIS meetings – we have succeeded in maintaining a consistently high level of trade turnover. In 2025, it continued to grow, approaching the $50 billion mark.
As I have already noted, cultural and humanitarian cooperation continues to develop. Through our joint efforts, and at the initiative of President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the International Organisation of the Russian Language was established. The Russian language remains a key means of communication not only between Russia and the Central Asian states, but also among the peoples of the broader post-Soviet space. Our approaches to international issues are closely aligned and, in most cases, coincide.
We greatly appreciate that, despite unprecedented external pressure, the Central Asian countries remain committed to their allied obligations, thereby contributing to the dynamic development of our friendly and mutually beneficial relations, both bilaterally and within multilateral frameworks, including the Russia – Central Asia mechanism.
I hope that today we will be able to make a tangible contribution to the implementation of the decisions adopted at the second Russia – Central Asia Summit in Dushanbe.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I am pleased to welcome you to Moscow. We began our joint work yesterday at the CIS Foreign Ministers Council, and today we are holding the ninth meeting of Foreign Ministers of Russia and Central Asia. This in itself underscores the relevance of this six-party dialogue mechanism. In our view, it is developing successfully and dynamically, to the benefit of all participants.
In October 2025, the Second Russia – Central Asia Summit was held in the welcoming city of Dushanbe. During the summit, our leaders approved a Joint Action Plan for 2025-2027 and put forward a number of important initiatives. Our task now is to translate these decisions into concrete steps. The Action Plan serves as a framework document, outlining the key areas of our cooperation: trade, economic and investment ties, transport, energy, healthcare, environmental protection, security, cultural and humanitarian engagement, and migration.
Specific projects and initiatives are currently being developed within the six-party working groups established by the relevant agencies of Russia and your countries. As we noted today during the #CIS meeting, our relations are grounded in equality, mutual respect, and careful consideration of each other’s interests. They truly deserve the highest recognition as an example of a modern and forward-looking model of international partnership.
Our leaders maintain close and regular communication, both bilaterally and within integration frameworks such as the #CIS, the #EAEU, the #CSTO, and the #SCO. Active contacts are also sustained among heads of government, deputy prime ministers, and the leadership of parliaments, ministries, and agencies.
Despite the current geopolitical turbulence – which we examined in detail during today’s CIS meetings – we have succeeded in maintaining a consistently high level of trade turnover. In 2025, it continued to grow, approaching the $50 billion mark.
As I have already noted, cultural and humanitarian cooperation continues to develop. Through our joint efforts, and at the initiative of President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the International Organisation of the Russian Language was established. The Russian language remains a key means of communication not only between Russia and the Central Asian states, but also among the peoples of the broader post-Soviet space. Our approaches to international issues are closely aligned and, in most cases, coincide.
We greatly appreciate that, despite unprecedented external pressure, the Central Asian countries remain committed to their allied obligations, thereby contributing to the dynamic development of our friendly and mutually beneficial relations, both bilaterally and within multilateral frameworks, including the Russia – Central Asia mechanism.
I hope that today we will be able to make a tangible contribution to the implementation of the decisions adopted at the second Russia – Central Asia Summit in Dushanbe.
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🗓 On April 17, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in a meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers in Moscow.
A broad range of issues related to integration within the Commonwealth, as well as current international matters, was discussed. Plans were outlined to further strengthen foreign policy coordination.
👉 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at an expanded-format meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers
👉 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a joint news conference following CIS Ministerial
FM Sergey Lavrov presented Russia’s approaches on a number of major international and regional issues, including the continuing tensions in the Middle East and the crisis around Ukraine.
✅ The Ministers adopted statements on the situation in the Persian Gulf and on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. They also agreed on decisions to declare 2028 the Year of Social Development and Quality of Life in the CIS and regarding the Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS, which marks its 20th anniversary this year.
The participants reviewed the implementation in 2025 of the Plan of Multi-Level Inter-Ministry Consultations within the Commonwealth and the Programme of Action to Intensify Partnership among the Foreign Ministries of the CIS Member States.
A number of the approved documents will be submitted for consideration by the CIS Council of Heads of State and the CIS Council of Heads of Government.
🇹🇲 The next meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers will be held in Turkmenistan on October 7, on the eve of the Summit of the Commonwealth Heads of State.
A broad range of issues related to integration within the Commonwealth, as well as current international matters, was discussed. Plans were outlined to further strengthen foreign policy coordination.
👉 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at an expanded-format meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers
👉 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a joint news conference following CIS Ministerial
FM Sergey Lavrov presented Russia’s approaches on a number of major international and regional issues, including the continuing tensions in the Middle East and the crisis around Ukraine.
✅ The Ministers adopted statements on the situation in the Persian Gulf and on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. They also agreed on decisions to declare 2028 the Year of Social Development and Quality of Life in the CIS and regarding the Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS, which marks its 20th anniversary this year.
The participants reviewed the implementation in 2025 of the Plan of Multi-Level Inter-Ministry Consultations within the Commonwealth and the Programme of Action to Intensify Partnership among the Foreign Ministries of the CIS Member States.
A number of the approved documents will be submitted for consideration by the CIS Council of Heads of State and the CIS Council of Heads of Government.
🇹🇲 The next meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers will be held in Turkmenistan on October 7, on the eve of the Summit of the Commonwealth Heads of State.