🎙 Интервью Посла России в Великобритании Андрея Келина ведущему телеканала «Россия 24» Александру Кареевскому (10 апреля 2026 года)
Основные тезисы:
• Не исключаем, что в Лондоне всё же смогут пойти на эскалацию [в отношении наших торговых судов в Ла-Манше]. Это вопрос политических установок, нежели рациональных расчётов. Любые попытки [захвата кораблей, действующих в интересах России,] считаем неприемлемыми и недопустимыми, они будут иметь и правовые, и политические последствия.
• Главный интерес англичан – сохранение в лице киевского режима надёжного антироссийского форпоста. Поэтому в мирном урегулировании они не заинтересованы.
• Сейчас британцы вместе с норвежцами наращивают военное присутствие в Северной Атлантике и Арктике, и к этому почему-то намерены подключить украинцев. [Поэтому] здесь стоит ожидать провокаций. Ответственность [за них] будет нести Лондон.
• В Британии осознали ошибочность «брекзита», и [отсюда] возникла идея экономического сближения с Евросоюзом <...> В Брюсселе понимают, что Лондон больше заинтересован в сближении с ЕС и делают всё, чтобы заставить его платить за любые уступки.
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Основные тезисы:
• Не исключаем, что в Лондоне всё же смогут пойти на эскалацию [в отношении наших торговых судов в Ла-Манше]. Это вопрос политических установок, нежели рациональных расчётов. Любые попытки [захвата кораблей, действующих в интересах России,] считаем неприемлемыми и недопустимыми, они будут иметь и правовые, и политические последствия.
• Главный интерес англичан – сохранение в лице киевского режима надёжного антироссийского форпоста. Поэтому в мирном урегулировании они не заинтересованы.
• Сейчас британцы вместе с норвежцами наращивают военное присутствие в Северной Атлантике и Арктике, и к этому почему-то намерены подключить украинцев. [Поэтому] здесь стоит ожидать провокаций. Ответственность [за них] будет нести Лондон.
• В Британии осознали ошибочность «брекзита», и [отсюда] возникла идея экономического сближения с Евросоюзом <...> В Брюсселе понимают, что Лондон больше заинтересован в сближении с ЕС и делают всё, чтобы заставить его платить за любые уступки.
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A smile that changed the world
🚀 Today we mark 65 years since humanity first ventured into space. On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin set off aboard Vostok 1 and orbited the Earth.
Overnight, he became the most famous man on the planet. Yet it wasn’t only the achievement people remembered. It was his smile — open, calm, unmistakably human. At a time of Cold War tension and rivalry, it travelled further than any spacecraft.
Shortly after returning home, Gagarin embarked on an international tour, with Britain among his stops. In Manchester and London, he was greeted with warmth and curiosity, but it was his ease with people, his natural charm, that left the strongest impression.
In 2011, the United Nations formally recognised 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight — a fitting tribute to a journey that belongs to all humanity.
Today, Cosmonautics Day is not only about rockets, milestones and space. It is about that first step into the unknown — and the simple, powerful reminder that even the greatest leaps can begin with a human smile.
#Gagarin65 #FirstInSpace
🚀 Today we mark 65 years since humanity first ventured into space. On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin set off aboard Vostok 1 and orbited the Earth.
Overnight, he became the most famous man on the planet. Yet it wasn’t only the achievement people remembered. It was his smile — open, calm, unmistakably human. At a time of Cold War tension and rivalry, it travelled further than any spacecraft.
Shortly after returning home, Gagarin embarked on an international tour, with Britain among his stops. In Manchester and London, he was greeted with warmth and curiosity, but it was his ease with people, his natural charm, that left the strongest impression.
In 2011, the United Nations formally recognised 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight — a fitting tribute to a journey that belongs to all humanity.
Today, Cosmonautics Day is not only about rockets, milestones and space. It is about that first step into the unknown — and the simple, powerful reminder that even the greatest leaps can begin with a human smile.
#Gagarin65 #FirstInSpace
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🧑🚀 A few months after his historic flight, Yuri Gagarin arrived in Britain — and stepped into a different kind of orbit.
From 11 to 15 July 1961, crowds filled the streets of London and Manchester, eager to catch a glimpse of the world’s first spaceman. Newspapers followed his every move, and he was even invited to Buckingham Palace, where he met the Queen.
In Manchester, on a typically rainy day, Gagarin visited the Metropolitan-Vickers engineering works, invited by trade union members. Seeing people waiting for him in the downpour, he asked for the roof of his Rolls-Royce to be lowered, saying: “Surely the least I can do is get wet too.” It was a small gesture, but one many remembered — simple, genuine, and deeply human.
His visit to Britain felt like a shared celebration, showing that even at the height of the Cold War, human achievement could bring people together.
Traces of that visit remain today. At the Science Museum in London, visitors can see a monument marking the first human journey into space, alongside a bronze bust of Gagarin presented in 2017. At Manchester Airport, a commemorative plaque recalls his 1961 visit. Further north, on the Orkney Islands, stands the “Gagarin Stone”, unveiled in 2008 along the Milestones Trail leading to Skara Brae — part of a series marking defining moments in human history.
🎞 Curious to see it for yourself? Watch rare footage from his visit to London.
#Gagarin65 #FirstInSpace
From 11 to 15 July 1961, crowds filled the streets of London and Manchester, eager to catch a glimpse of the world’s first spaceman. Newspapers followed his every move, and he was even invited to Buckingham Palace, where he met the Queen.
In Manchester, on a typically rainy day, Gagarin visited the Metropolitan-Vickers engineering works, invited by trade union members. Seeing people waiting for him in the downpour, he asked for the roof of his Rolls-Royce to be lowered, saying: “Surely the least I can do is get wet too.” It was a small gesture, but one many remembered — simple, genuine, and deeply human.
His visit to Britain felt like a shared celebration, showing that even at the height of the Cold War, human achievement could bring people together.
Traces of that visit remain today. At the Science Museum in London, visitors can see a monument marking the first human journey into space, alongside a bronze bust of Gagarin presented in 2017. At Manchester Airport, a commemorative plaque recalls his 1961 visit. Further north, on the Orkney Islands, stands the “Gagarin Stone”, unveiled in 2008 along the Milestones Trail leading to Skara Brae — part of a series marking defining moments in human history.
🎞 Curious to see it for yourself? Watch rare footage from his visit to London.
#Gagarin65 #FirstInSpace
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