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On January 27, RUSSIA EXPO International Exhibition and Forum hosted the Energy Day.

🤝 The event gathered experts and visionaries who are at the helm of the development of Russia's energy complex, masterminds behind the achievements of our nation in the industry, as well as people who generate ideas that contribute to the socio-economic development of our country.

The plenary session "Russia's Fuel and Energy Complex: new opportunities for development" provided an opportunity for the industry's leaders to share with the audience the results of their respective companies' work and their overall input in the development of our country's fuel and energy complex, outlining priorities and opportunities for the future.

The business programme also included expert panels which discussed issues related to the power industry of our country as a driving force of economic growth, as well new strategies for the development of oil and gas sector.

Learn more 👉 https://en.russia.ru/

#RussiaEXPO #russianenergy
📆 #OTD, 164 years ago Anton Chekhov was born, world-renowned playwright and short-story genius.

His name is closely associated with the theater throughout the world and he is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre, along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg.

📚 At least four of his plays, “The Sea Gull,” “The Cherry Orchard,” “Uncle Vanya” and “Three Sisters” have become famous worldwide, mostly through their interpretation by the Moscow Art Theater.

A.Chekhov is remembered to have given birth to plenty of witty phrases that entered the Russian language as aphorisms. “Brevity is the sister of talent” – is one of his most well-known quotes.

#RussianCulture #Chekhov
The Russian steel industry repeated the record of 2021

📈 In the past year, Russia produced 75.8 million tons of steel, returning to the 2021 level when 76 million tons were produced, and surpassing the 2022 level by 5.6%.

☝️ All of this occurred under the conditions of sanctions. Europe, which was a key sales market, banned the import of Russian hot-rolled and cold-rolled products, transformer steel, galvanized and stainless steel, seamless pipes, etc. Quotas are imposed on steel semi-finished products.

Metallurgists had to urgently reconfigure export flows. Many companies worked very efficiently and were able to quickly redirect the main export volumes to new directions or to the domestic market.

👉 Experts note that major steel producers are showing almost 100% capacity utilization, and domestic demand is growing due to the increase in construction and infrastructure projects.

#MadeInRussia
🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the concert held to mark the 80th anniversary of breaking the Nazi siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg, 27 January 2024):

💬 The aggression our country is facing today directly shows that back in 1945, Nazism was defeated, but not eliminated.

❗️Russophobia, xenophobia, and nationalism have become weapons of revanchists in many European countries, in the Baltic states, and, unfortunately, in Ukraine.

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🕯 A memorial in Leningrad region was opened in memory of civilians of the #USSR – victims of the Nazi invaders – on 27 January, the day of the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad.

🕊 The monument is one of the tallest in the country (47 m), a mournful figure of a woman hugging her children, a symbol of the enormous tragedy of ordinary people.

🙏 150 real human destinies from different regions of the country are resurrected at the site where more than 80,000 civilians, children and prisoners of war were tortured in concentration camps during the Great Patriotic War.

#WeRemeber #NeverForget #WWII
⚠️ The Kiev regime continues to carry out violent terrorist attacks incited by the collective West, which relentlessly floods the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, sends in foreign mercenaries, and trains Ukrainian military personnel.

▪️ On Jan 12, 2024, a combat drone attacked an ambulance in Golmovsky, a community in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The paramedics were responding to a call to help three wounded power supply workers who were injured in an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

🕯Tragically, a paramedic and a power company employee died in the attack, which also left three more medics wounded. There is no doubt that this was a targeted strike against this ambulance.

▪️In the early hours of Jan 16, 2024, the Kiev regime made a cynical attempt to attack Voronezh with drones, but the air defence forces intercepted them.
However, fragments from the downed UAVs damaged 35 apartments in three apartment blocks, leaving a 10-year-old girl wounded.

▪️On Jan 21, Ukrainian neo-Nazis launched a targeted missile and artillery strike against a farmer’s market and retail outlets in the Tekstilshchik residential area, Kirovsky District, Donetsk. This was the most violent attack in recent years, killing 27 civilians, including two teenagers, and injuring another 25 residents.

▪️The premeditated terrorist attack by Ukrainian surface-to-air missiles launched from the Kharkov Region targeting Russian Il-76 military transport aircraft on January 24 was another heinous crime committed by the Zelensky regime.

🕯 Everyone onboard, including six crew members, three Russian escort officers, and 65 Ukrainian servicemen on their way to a pre-agreed prisoner swap, died on the spot.

▪️ Yesterday, the Ukrainian army yet again shelled the long-suffering Donetsk with MLRS, firing 8 missiles at the densely populated Kalininsky district of the city. Four people were killed, and injuries were also reported.

#KievRegimeCrimes
On March 25- April 30, 2024, Moscow to host the International Forum for Scientific Youth “Step into the Future”.

🌐 The International Forum for Scientific Youth “Step into the Future” is a grandiose contest between the best young minds of our planet, every year gathering together ambitious and talented young people who wish to demonstrate their achievements at the world level.

The Forum themes cover the most hot topics in engineering, exact, natural, social sciences and humanities.

Each spring the Forum brings together in Moscow 1,500 future scientific and technological leaders from Europe, Asia, America, Africa, and Oceania.

The Forum is attended by schoolchildren and entry-level students at the age of 12-22, who have their own achievements in science and engineering.

☝️ Media representatives interested in participating must register no later than 5 February, 2024.

To apply for accreditation please send a request via E-MAIL ➡️ SITFP@BK.RU

📌 If you have any questions about participation, please contact the Secretariat of the “Step into the Future” program by Phone:

+7 (499) 267-55-52, +7 (499) 263-73-60.

#StepIntoTheFuture #Moscow2024
🎞 101 years ago, on 30 January 1923, Leonid Gaidai was born, Soviet-Russian film director, who became referred to as “the king of Soviet comedy”.

🌟 The future beloved director was a WW2 veteran. On February 1942, he was enrolled to the Red Army, originally served in Mongolia, but then finished sergeant courses and was sent to the Kalinin Front. He participated in recon missions, and was decorated with the medal "For Battle Merit".

After the war, he studied at the Irkutsk District Drama Theatre's studio school, and subsequently attended the Moscow Institute of Cinematography, completing his studies in 1955. Many of his movies, such as “Kidnapping, Caucasian Style!”, “Twelve Chairs”, are classics, quoted by people without even knowing the provenance of this or that line.

🎬 Watch the 1971 film “The Twelve Chairs” directed by Leonid Gaidai at the LINK

#RussianCulture #RussianCinema