🌐 Сегодня в России отмечается День дипломатического работника.
В наш профессиональный праздник рассказываем об истории резиденции Посла России в Лондоне.
Особняк был построен в неоготическом стиле ещё в середине 19 века. Он располагается на участке, который когда-то был частью территории Кенсингтонского дворца и принадлежал королевской семье.
Здание несколько раз меняло владельцев, пока в 1929 году не было передано в аренду Советскому Союзу южноафриканским предпринимателем Льюисом Ричардсоном. С тех пор вот уже почти столетие особняк служит интересам отечественной дипломатии.
Здесь бывали Уинстон Черчилль, Майя Плисецкая и Юрий Гагарин, а в его интерьерах встречаются подлинные шедевры Ивана Айвазовского, Бориса Кустодиева и других известных художников и скульпторов.
Подробнее об истории резиденции российского Посла в Лондоне читайте тут.
#ДеньДипломата #ДДР2026
В наш профессиональный праздник рассказываем об истории резиденции Посла России в Лондоне.
Особняк был построен в неоготическом стиле ещё в середине 19 века. Он располагается на участке, который когда-то был частью территории Кенсингтонского дворца и принадлежал королевской семье.
Здание несколько раз меняло владельцев, пока в 1929 году не было передано в аренду Советскому Союзу южноафриканским предпринимателем Льюисом Ричардсоном. С тех пор вот уже почти столетие особняк служит интересам отечественной дипломатии.
Здесь бывали Уинстон Черчилль, Майя Плисецкая и Юрий Гагарин, а в его интерьерах встречаются подлинные шедевры Ивана Айвазовского, Бориса Кустодиева и других известных художников и скульпторов.
Подробнее об истории резиденции российского Посла в Лондоне читайте тут.
#ДеньДипломата #ДДР2026
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✉️ President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to current and former staff of the Foreign Ministry on Diplomatic Worker's Day.
💬 The history of the Russian Foreign Ministry contains many distinguished chapters. Our diplomats have always served the Motherland with dignity and integrity, demonstrating genuine patriotism, dedication to duty, civic courage, and a high level of professionalism.
Amid increasing global turbulence and the tense, volatile situation unfolding in a number of regions, the active, constructive, and unifying role of Russian diplomacy is especially needed.
It is essential to make consistent and comprehensive use of all foreign policy instruments and opportunities so as to reliably safeguard Russia's national security, defend its legitimate interests, and create favourable conditions for the country's steady and comprehensive development.
Further strengthening friendly relations with our closest allies and neighbours within the CIS, as well as advancing Eurasian integration processes, remain unconditional priorities.
At the same time, deepening cooperation with countries of the Global Majority for the sake of building a just, genuinely democratic, multipolar world order grounded in international law and the principle of equal and indivisible security remains highly relevant.
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#DiplomatsDay
💬 The history of the Russian Foreign Ministry contains many distinguished chapters. Our diplomats have always served the Motherland with dignity and integrity, demonstrating genuine patriotism, dedication to duty, civic courage, and a high level of professionalism.
Amid increasing global turbulence and the tense, volatile situation unfolding in a number of regions, the active, constructive, and unifying role of Russian diplomacy is especially needed.
It is essential to make consistent and comprehensive use of all foreign policy instruments and opportunities so as to reliably safeguard Russia's national security, defend its legitimate interests, and create favourable conditions for the country's steady and comprehensive development.
Further strengthening friendly relations with our closest allies and neighbours within the CIS, as well as advancing Eurasian integration processes, remain unconditional priorities.
At the same time, deepening cooperation with countries of the Global Majority for the sake of building a just, genuinely democratic, multipolar world order grounded in international law and the principle of equal and indivisible security remains highly relevant.
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#DiplomatsDay
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🌐 Today Russia marks Diplomatic Worker's Day.
On this occasion, we turn to the history of the residence of the Russian Ambassador in London.
The mansion, built in the mid-19th century in the neo-Gothic style, stands on land that once formed part of the Kensington Palace estate and belonged to the Royal Family.
Over the years, the property passed through several hands before being leased to the Soviet Union in 1929 by the South African entrepreneur Lewis Richardson. For almost a century since, it has been serving the purposes of Russian diplomacy.
The residence has welcomed a lot of distinguished guests, including Winston Churchill, Maya Plisetskaya and Yuri Gagarin. Its interiors house genuine masterpieces by Ivan Aivazovsky, Boris Kustodiev and other renowned Russian artists.
More information on the history of the Russian Ambassador's residence can be found here.
On this occasion, we turn to the history of the residence of the Russian Ambassador in London.
The mansion, built in the mid-19th century in the neo-Gothic style, stands on land that once formed part of the Kensington Palace estate and belonged to the Royal Family.
Over the years, the property passed through several hands before being leased to the Soviet Union in 1929 by the South African entrepreneur Lewis Richardson. For almost a century since, it has been serving the purposes of Russian diplomacy.
The residence has welcomed a lot of distinguished guests, including Winston Churchill, Maya Plisetskaya and Yuri Gagarin. Its interiors house genuine masterpieces by Ivan Aivazovsky, Boris Kustodiev and other renowned Russian artists.
More information on the history of the Russian Ambassador's residence can be found here.
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🗓 10 февраля в резиденции Посла Российской Федерации в Лондоне состоялся культурный вечер с участием российских и зарубежных музыкантов по случаю Дня дипломатического работника.
В своем выступлении Посол России в Великобритании Андрей Келин подчеркнул, что в условиях кризиса безопасности в Европе и усиливающейся турбулентности в международных отношениях на отечественную дипломатию возлагается особая ответственность. Отметил приоритетность защиты прав соотечественников и продвижения объективного образа России за рубежом, а также выстраивания справедливого многополярного миропорядка.
Мероприятие прошло в тёплой и дружеской атмосфере. Cреди гостей были послы и сотрудники дипмиссий дружественных государств, а также российские журналисты, аккредитованные в Соединённом Королевстве.
#ДеньДипломата #ДДР2026
В своем выступлении Посол России в Великобритании Андрей Келин подчеркнул, что в условиях кризиса безопасности в Европе и усиливающейся турбулентности в международных отношениях на отечественную дипломатию возлагается особая ответственность. Отметил приоритетность защиты прав соотечественников и продвижения объективного образа России за рубежом, а также выстраивания справедливого многополярного миропорядка.
Мероприятие прошло в тёплой и дружеской атмосфере. Cреди гостей были послы и сотрудники дипмиссий дружественных государств, а также российские журналисты, аккредитованные в Соединённом Королевстве.
#ДеньДипломата #ДДР2026
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Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with the online project “Empatia Manuchi” (Manuchi's Empathy) (February 11, 2026)
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Key outtakes:
• Russia's legitimate interest lies in ensuring its own security. Like any normal country, we are interested in ensuring the continuity of our history and the development of our people in the most favourable external conditions – ones that enable economic growth, fulfilment of social objectives and a steady improvement in the well-being of our citizens.
• Despite the constitutional guarantees of linguistic rights, over the past ten years approximately a dozen laws have been adopted in Ukraine – their passage began long before the special military operation – that effectively eradicate the Russian language from all spheres of public life. I have repeatedly cited this example in interviews and during negotiations: Ukraine is the only country where an entire language has been banned. In no other conflict do the parties prohibit each other’s languages.
• There are very few sober voices in Europe calling for a serious approach to Ukrainian conflict resolution. Not in order to satisfy Zelensky, preserve his hold on power and allow him to continue his "performances" on the international stage, but in order for Europe to create a new security architecture and ensure peace – taking into account not only the legitimate interests of the Ukrainian people (which the Zelensky clique by no means represents), but also those of Russia.
• When the West speaks of security guarantees today, it is not referring to guarantees that include Russia, but to guarantees directed against Russia. I repeat: the Kiev regime says it will not recognize anything de jure, yet claims it is willing to halt hostilities de facto– on the understanding that Europeans will provide ironclad security guarantees, ratified by their parliaments, and deploy troops.
• There is plenty that can be criticized about the UN: its inflated staffing, for instance. Not to the scale of the EU or the European Commission, where matters have gone beyond reasonable bounds, but still significant. At the UN, at least certain limits of propriety are observed.
• In the late Soviet period, despite our objections, permanent contracts were introduced at the UN. Previously, appointments had to be renewed every five years. Now they are indefinite. Once a person secures a permanent contract, they settle in New York – their children study there, roots are put down. This inevitably makes the UN and its Secretariat a highly politicized instrument.
• The root cause of the Ukrainian crisis – created, financed and carried out by the West, which organized a coup d’état through the hands of Ukrainian neo-Nazis – was never seriously considered by the UN, not even remotely. When the then Ukrainian president Poroshenko declared that “our children will go to bright kindergartens and schools, while the children in Donbass will rot in basements”, when, for many years, Crimea was subjected to a water and energy blockade – they kept their silence. Today, they lament the suffering of Ukraine’s energy sector. Yet none of them lifted a finger when, following the coup, the Ukrainian putschists openly proclaimed that they would strangle Crimea – energetically, economically, in terms of food supplies and water deliveries.
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Key outtakes:
• Russia's legitimate interest lies in ensuring its own security. Like any normal country, we are interested in ensuring the continuity of our history and the development of our people in the most favourable external conditions – ones that enable economic growth, fulfilment of social objectives and a steady improvement in the well-being of our citizens.
• Despite the constitutional guarantees of linguistic rights, over the past ten years approximately a dozen laws have been adopted in Ukraine – their passage began long before the special military operation – that effectively eradicate the Russian language from all spheres of public life. I have repeatedly cited this example in interviews and during negotiations: Ukraine is the only country where an entire language has been banned. In no other conflict do the parties prohibit each other’s languages.
• There are very few sober voices in Europe calling for a serious approach to Ukrainian conflict resolution. Not in order to satisfy Zelensky, preserve his hold on power and allow him to continue his "performances" on the international stage, but in order for Europe to create a new security architecture and ensure peace – taking into account not only the legitimate interests of the Ukrainian people (which the Zelensky clique by no means represents), but also those of Russia.
• When the West speaks of security guarantees today, it is not referring to guarantees that include Russia, but to guarantees directed against Russia. I repeat: the Kiev regime says it will not recognize anything de jure, yet claims it is willing to halt hostilities de facto– on the understanding that Europeans will provide ironclad security guarantees, ratified by their parliaments, and deploy troops.
• There is plenty that can be criticized about the UN: its inflated staffing, for instance. Not to the scale of the EU or the European Commission, where matters have gone beyond reasonable bounds, but still significant. At the UN, at least certain limits of propriety are observed.
• In the late Soviet period, despite our objections, permanent contracts were introduced at the UN. Previously, appointments had to be renewed every five years. Now they are indefinite. Once a person secures a permanent contract, they settle in New York – their children study there, roots are put down. This inevitably makes the UN and its Secretariat a highly politicized instrument.
• The root cause of the Ukrainian crisis – created, financed and carried out by the West, which organized a coup d’état through the hands of Ukrainian neo-Nazis – was never seriously considered by the UN, not even remotely. When the then Ukrainian president Poroshenko declared that “our children will go to bright kindergartens and schools, while the children in Donbass will rot in basements”, when, for many years, Crimea was subjected to a water and energy blockade – they kept their silence. Today, they lament the suffering of Ukraine’s energy sector. Yet none of them lifted a finger when, following the coup, the Ukrainian putschists openly proclaimed that they would strangle Crimea – energetically, economically, in terms of food supplies and water deliveries.
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🗓 On 10 February, a cultural evening featuring Russian and international musicians was held at the residence of the Russian Ambassador in London to celebrate Diplomatic Worker's Day.
In his speech, Ambassador Andrei Kelin emphasised that amid the current security crisis in Europe and mounting turbulence in international relations, Russian diplomacy carries a special responsibility. He highlighted the priority of protecting the rights of Russian compatriots abroad, promoting an objective image of Russia overseas, as well as shaping a fair multipolar world order.
The event took place in a warm and cordial atmosphere. Guests included heads and members of diplomatic missions from friendly nations, as well as Russian journalists accredited in the United Kingdom.
In his speech, Ambassador Andrei Kelin emphasised that amid the current security crisis in Europe and mounting turbulence in international relations, Russian diplomacy carries a special responsibility. He highlighted the priority of protecting the rights of Russian compatriots abroad, promoting an objective image of Russia overseas, as well as shaping a fair multipolar world order.
The event took place in a warm and cordial atmosphere. Guests included heads and members of diplomatic missions from friendly nations, as well as Russian journalists accredited in the United Kingdom.
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