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▪️ October 25 will mark 40 years since the US invasion of Grenada. On October 25-27, 1983, the US armed forces carried out operation Urgent Fury, having landed an impressive military contingent in that Caribbean state.
The formal pretext for the invasion was declared to be to ensure the safety of 630 American students studying at St George's University. It was argued that their safety could have been jeopardized following the country's military coup.
👉 In fact, Washington feared the emergence of a "second Cuba" in the Caribbean region and took advantage of the political tensions in Grenada to forcefully remove the leftist forces from power.
However, the Americans did not have an easy time. Grenada's security forces put up fierce resistance.
The civil infrastructure of the island - hospitals, schools and kindergartens - were damaged during the air raids. The Soviet Embassy was also shelled, and one of our diplomats was seriously wounded.
The US actions in Grenada were condemned by the majority of the international community, both members of the socialist camp led by the USSR and China, and many US allies – Britain, France, and Mexico. Latin American countries actively protested against the attack.
❌ The 1983 invasion of Grenada is a blatant example of US neocolonial policies, Washington's violations of international law, encroachment on the sovereignty and territorial inviolability of independent states.
The formal pretext for the invasion was declared to be to ensure the safety of 630 American students studying at St George's University. It was argued that their safety could have been jeopardized following the country's military coup.
👉 In fact, Washington feared the emergence of a "second Cuba" in the Caribbean region and took advantage of the political tensions in Grenada to forcefully remove the leftist forces from power.
However, the Americans did not have an easy time. Grenada's security forces put up fierce resistance.
The civil infrastructure of the island - hospitals, schools and kindergartens - were damaged during the air raids. The Soviet Embassy was also shelled, and one of our diplomats was seriously wounded.
The US actions in Grenada were condemned by the majority of the international community, both members of the socialist camp led by the USSR and China, and many US allies – Britain, France, and Mexico. Latin American countries actively protested against the attack.
❌ The 1983 invasion of Grenada is a blatant example of US neocolonial policies, Washington's violations of international law, encroachment on the sovereignty and territorial inviolability of independent states.
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🇷🇺🇹🇷📞 During the phone conversation President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued to discuss the acute crisis in the Middle East.
Deep concern was expressed over the growing number of civilian casualties and the catastrophic deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and it was underscored that striking residential areas, religious and social facilities was unacceptable.
The Presidents reviewed the active efforts undertaken by Russia at the UN Security Council, as well as the corresponding political and diplomatic steps taken by Türkiye to stop the bloodshed and ensure the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid to those in need.
☝️ It was emphasised that Russia and Türkiye have practically overlapping positions, focused on implementing the well-known two-state solution, which provides for the creation of an independent Palestine coexisting with Israel in peace and security.
In addition, issues related to the accelerating pace of mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation in various fields were touched upon.
🤝 Vladimir Putin congratulated Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the upcoming centenary of the Republic of Türkiye and wished all its citizens well-being and prosperity.
#RussiaTürkiye
Deep concern was expressed over the growing number of civilian casualties and the catastrophic deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and it was underscored that striking residential areas, religious and social facilities was unacceptable.
The Presidents reviewed the active efforts undertaken by Russia at the UN Security Council, as well as the corresponding political and diplomatic steps taken by Türkiye to stop the bloodshed and ensure the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid to those in need.
☝️ It was emphasised that Russia and Türkiye have practically overlapping positions, focused on implementing the well-known two-state solution, which provides for the creation of an independent Palestine coexisting with Israel in peace and security.
In addition, issues related to the accelerating pace of mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation in various fields were touched upon.
🤝 Vladimir Putin congratulated Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the upcoming centenary of the Republic of Türkiye and wished all its citizens well-being and prosperity.
#RussiaTürkiye
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following a ministerial meeting of the 3+3 Consultative Regional Platform for the South Caucasus
📍 Tehran, October 23, 2023
💬 The first meeting in this format took place in Moscow at the deputy ministerial level back in December 2021. During that meeting, Russia, as the host, presented its vision of practical cooperation projects in various areas, including the economy, energy, trade, transport, ICT, natural resources, humanitarian affairs, education, culture, and tourism.
Agreements have been reached on all these areas of focus. The parties have agreed that participating countries would appoint special representatives to formulate national ideas within each of these areas.
• We paid close attention to the geopolitical situation in the region and expressed satisfaction with the normalisation processes between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran, and Armenia and Türkiye.
• Currently, it remains to make some practical steps in order to achieve full normalisation of relations [between Yerevan and Baku], primarily, the preparation of a peace treaty, border delimitation, and the establishment of unobstructed transport and economic connections.
• Russia is not against any contacts that Armenians and Azerbaijanis consider useful. But experts are well aware that only the Russian Federation has all the necessary materials for discussing and agreeing on delimitation, including maps dating back to the Soviet times.
❗️ Russia does not accept any manifestations of terrorism and violence that go against international humanitarian law, including the indiscriminate use of force. We believe that taking people hostage and blockading areas with civilians should be avoided.
• Our country is still ready to help in every way to stop the bloodshed and to move on to discussions of a long-term solution based on the UN Security Council resolution. We do have good relations with Israel and Palestine.
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📍 Tehran, October 23, 2023
💬 The first meeting in this format took place in Moscow at the deputy ministerial level back in December 2021. During that meeting, Russia, as the host, presented its vision of practical cooperation projects in various areas, including the economy, energy, trade, transport, ICT, natural resources, humanitarian affairs, education, culture, and tourism.
Agreements have been reached on all these areas of focus. The parties have agreed that participating countries would appoint special representatives to formulate national ideas within each of these areas.
• We paid close attention to the geopolitical situation in the region and expressed satisfaction with the normalisation processes between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran, and Armenia and Türkiye.
• Currently, it remains to make some practical steps in order to achieve full normalisation of relations [between Yerevan and Baku], primarily, the preparation of a peace treaty, border delimitation, and the establishment of unobstructed transport and economic connections.
• Russia is not against any contacts that Armenians and Azerbaijanis consider useful. But experts are well aware that only the Russian Federation has all the necessary materials for discussing and agreeing on delimitation, including maps dating back to the Soviet times.
❗️ Russia does not accept any manifestations of terrorism and violence that go against international humanitarian law, including the indiscriminate use of force. We believe that taking people hostage and blockading areas with civilians should be avoided.
• Our country is still ready to help in every way to stop the bloodshed and to move on to discussions of a long-term solution based on the UN Security Council resolution. We do have good relations with Israel and Palestine.
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📹 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address to participants in the No Statute of Limitations international forum (October 24, 2023)
▫️ Seventy-seven years ago, on October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg delivered a historic verdict, condemning the main Nazi war criminals and legally securing the defeat of the Hitler regime.
▫️ The Nuremberg Trials opened a new page in the development of international law. The foundation of the modern system of international criminal justice was laid then.
▫️ It is generally recognised that the Nazi atrocities have no statute of limitations. Our country continues ambitious work to investigate newly discovered facts of criminal acts committed by the Nazi invaders.
▫️ The fact that a number of European countries, primarily Ukraine and the Baltic states, are systematically destroying historical memory, causes particular concern. It has gone so far that honours are now bestowed without hesitation to former Nazis.
▫️ I would like to remind representatives of the criminal Kiev regime and its Western patrons that, according to the materials of the Nuremberg Trials, almost 200,000 civilians were tortured to death, shot and poisoned in Kiev alone. Many of them were killed by the SS.
▫️ In 1942, the Nazi criminal Reichskommissar Erich Koch wrote in the address to the heads of the German media that Ukraine was nothing but an object of exploitation, that it should pay the expenses of the war, and its population, being second-rate people, should be utilised for the tasks of the war, even if they have to be caught with a lasso.
▫️ The “historical West” led by the US is de facto sharing a similar sentiment and is ready to contain Russia to the last Ukrainian.
▫️ Against this backdrop, the fight against falsifying the results of the Second World War and spreading a misanthropic ideology are among the key priorities of Russian diplomacy.
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▫️ Seventy-seven years ago, on October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg delivered a historic verdict, condemning the main Nazi war criminals and legally securing the defeat of the Hitler regime.
▫️ The Nuremberg Trials opened a new page in the development of international law. The foundation of the modern system of international criminal justice was laid then.
▫️ It is generally recognised that the Nazi atrocities have no statute of limitations. Our country continues ambitious work to investigate newly discovered facts of criminal acts committed by the Nazi invaders.
▫️ The fact that a number of European countries, primarily Ukraine and the Baltic states, are systematically destroying historical memory, causes particular concern. It has gone so far that honours are now bestowed without hesitation to former Nazis.
▫️ I would like to remind representatives of the criminal Kiev regime and its Western patrons that, according to the materials of the Nuremberg Trials, almost 200,000 civilians were tortured to death, shot and poisoned in Kiev alone. Many of them were killed by the SS.
▫️ In 1942, the Nazi criminal Reichskommissar Erich Koch wrote in the address to the heads of the German media that Ukraine was nothing but an object of exploitation, that it should pay the expenses of the war, and its population, being second-rate people, should be utilised for the tasks of the war, even if they have to be caught with a lasso.
▫️ The “historical West” led by the US is de facto sharing a similar sentiment and is ready to contain Russia to the last Ukrainian.
▫️ Against this backdrop, the fight against falsifying the results of the Second World War and spreading a misanthropic ideology are among the key priorities of Russian diplomacy.
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📰 Article by the Deputy Head of the Russian Delegation to the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of ICTs for Criminal Purposes, Ernest Chernukhin with the International Affairs journal.
✍️ Future UN Convention on Countering the Use of ICTs for Criminal Purposes is doomed to success
The absence of relevant universal international legal treaties in this area has led to a huge wave of crime in the information space, with serious damage to the economic activity of states and the well-being of millions of people.
It is against this background that the work of the UN Ad Hoc Committee for the Elaboration of a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Criminal Purposes is taking place.
The Convention should be based on the principles of state sovereignty protection, equality of parties and non-interference in the internal affairs of states. It should also provide for a broad scope and criminalization.
At the same time, the US, the EU and their allies, at all stages of the discussions, strongly opposed the establishment of such a specialized UN body.
The hidden reason for rejecting the very idea of a UN treaty was the 2001 Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, developed at the instigation of the United States, known as the Budapest Convention, whereby Washington undermines state sovereignty and controls the Member States information space.
⚠️ By giving the ICC broad powers to conduct ICT investigations and create an attribution mechanism, Washington plans to use it to deliver verdicts and assign responsibility. That is why the West is trying to bracket out extensive criminalization in the future UN treaty, assuming that all these "complex" acts, including ICT terrorism, will not be considered in the UN, but in the US-controlled ICC.
☝️ Based on this, we can conclude that there is no alternative to a future comprehensive convention under the auspices of the UN.
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✍️ Future UN Convention on Countering the Use of ICTs for Criminal Purposes is doomed to success
The absence of relevant universal international legal treaties in this area has led to a huge wave of crime in the information space, with serious damage to the economic activity of states and the well-being of millions of people.
It is against this background that the work of the UN Ad Hoc Committee for the Elaboration of a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Criminal Purposes is taking place.
The Convention should be based on the principles of state sovereignty protection, equality of parties and non-interference in the internal affairs of states. It should also provide for a broad scope and criminalization.
At the same time, the US, the EU and their allies, at all stages of the discussions, strongly opposed the establishment of such a specialized UN body.
The hidden reason for rejecting the very idea of a UN treaty was the 2001 Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, developed at the instigation of the United States, known as the Budapest Convention, whereby Washington undermines state sovereignty and controls the Member States information space.
⚠️ By giving the ICC broad powers to conduct ICT investigations and create an attribution mechanism, Washington plans to use it to deliver verdicts and assign responsibility. That is why the West is trying to bracket out extensive criminalization in the future UN treaty, assuming that all these "complex" acts, including ICT terrorism, will not be considered in the UN, but in the US-controlled ICC.
☝️ Based on this, we can conclude that there is no alternative to a future comprehensive convention under the auspices of the UN.
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📅 On October 28, 1944, the Red Army successfully completed the East Carpathian Strategic Offensive Operation and liberated the entire territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
Soviet Ukraine was among the first regions to take the blow from the Wehrmacht on June 22, 1941. Immediately following the Nazi invasion, the partisan movement set up the headquarters which inflicted serious damage to the enemy.
During the years of the German occupation, the Nazis established a large number of concentration camps, prisons and ghettos on the territory of Ukraine. Several million people were killed by the invaders and their henchmen. Over two million Ukrainians were deported to serve as forced labourers in Germany. About 700 cities and 28,000 villages were destroyed, and more than 16,000 industrial enterprises were ruined.
🕯 The population of Ukraine suffered not only from Nazi invaders but also from the criminal activities of tens of thousands of local nationalists who chose to collaborate and serve the Reich, zealously carrying out ethnic cleansing and brutally murdering communists, Jews and civilians, including the elderly and children.
The forces that are currently in power in Ukraine hail the Nazi collaborators as “heroes” and “fighters for independence” . Some Western countries even go as far as to give them standing ovation in parliament.
The liberation of Ukraine took 680 days. It included 15 major offensive operations, involving nearly half of all personnel and equipment of the Soviet army. Over three million Soviet soldiers and officers lost their lives in the fight against the invaders.
🎖 Millions of Ukrainians fought the Nazis in the ranks of the Red Army. Their contribution to the Victory cannot be overestimated. Some 2.5 million Ukrainian soldiers received orders and medals, including 2021 people who were bestowed the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
❗️ The liberation of Ukraine from the Nazi invaders was a landmark event in the Great Patriotic War, opening the road to Berlin for the Red Army.
#Victory78
Soviet Ukraine was among the first regions to take the blow from the Wehrmacht on June 22, 1941. Immediately following the Nazi invasion, the partisan movement set up the headquarters which inflicted serious damage to the enemy.
During the years of the German occupation, the Nazis established a large number of concentration camps, prisons and ghettos on the territory of Ukraine. Several million people were killed by the invaders and their henchmen. Over two million Ukrainians were deported to serve as forced labourers in Germany. About 700 cities and 28,000 villages were destroyed, and more than 16,000 industrial enterprises were ruined.
🕯 The population of Ukraine suffered not only from Nazi invaders but also from the criminal activities of tens of thousands of local nationalists who chose to collaborate and serve the Reich, zealously carrying out ethnic cleansing and brutally murdering communists, Jews and civilians, including the elderly and children.
The forces that are currently in power in Ukraine hail the Nazi collaborators as “heroes” and “fighters for independence” . Some Western countries even go as far as to give them standing ovation in parliament.
The liberation of Ukraine took 680 days. It included 15 major offensive operations, involving nearly half of all personnel and equipment of the Soviet army. Over three million Soviet soldiers and officers lost their lives in the fight against the invaders.
❗️ The liberation of Ukraine from the Nazi invaders was a landmark event in the Great Patriotic War, opening the road to Berlin for the Red Army.
#Victory78
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⚓️ October 30 marks the Foundation Day of the Russian Navy.
#OnThisDay in 1696, the Boyar Duma approved Peter the Great’s edict on the foundation of the regular Navy – “Sea-going ships shall set sail.”
A small vessel, found by 16-year-old Peter the Great in the village of Izmailovskoye and restored at his request, became the “grandfather” of the Russian Navy. Although this was not the first Russian warship, it was the vessel that sparked the Russian Tsar’s interest in shipbuilding.
The Azov Fleet became the first regular unit of the Russian Navy. Established in Voronezh, the fleet defended Russia’s southern borders. Voronezh was also home to Russia’s first Admiralty and navigation school. A white flag with a St Andrew’s Cross, now the official Russian naval pennant, was also hoisted for the first time in that city.
In 1702, during the Great Northern War, the Baltic Fleet was established, while the Caspian Flotilla was founded in 1722, following the successful Persian campaign. In 1783, the Black Sea Fleet was established, after Crimea became part of the Russian Empire.
The first Soviet shipbuilding programme was approved in 1926. The existing fleets were reinforced and the Pacific Fleet and the Northern Fleet were established in 1935 and 1937, respectively.
🎖 During the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Navy fought enemy naval forces, protected sea-going and inland shipping and supported coastal operations involving Red Army units. Seventy-eight ships that distinguished themselves in battle received Guards status and over 500 sailors became Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Today, the Russian Navy consists of strategic nuclear naval forces and general-purpose naval forces. It operates surface and submarine units, naval aviation and coastal troops. The latter include coastal missile and artillery units and the marine corps.
🚢 We are proud of the heroic history of the Russian Navy, and we cherish the memory of our shipbuilders and naval commanders!
#OnThisDay in 1696, the Boyar Duma approved Peter the Great’s edict on the foundation of the regular Navy – “Sea-going ships shall set sail.”
A small vessel, found by 16-year-old Peter the Great in the village of Izmailovskoye and restored at his request, became the “grandfather” of the Russian Navy. Although this was not the first Russian warship, it was the vessel that sparked the Russian Tsar’s interest in shipbuilding.
The Azov Fleet became the first regular unit of the Russian Navy. Established in Voronezh, the fleet defended Russia’s southern borders. Voronezh was also home to Russia’s first Admiralty and navigation school. A white flag with a St Andrew’s Cross, now the official Russian naval pennant, was also hoisted for the first time in that city.
In 1702, during the Great Northern War, the Baltic Fleet was established, while the Caspian Flotilla was founded in 1722, following the successful Persian campaign. In 1783, the Black Sea Fleet was established, after Crimea became part of the Russian Empire.
The first Soviet shipbuilding programme was approved in 1926. The existing fleets were reinforced and the Pacific Fleet and the Northern Fleet were established in 1935 and 1937, respectively.
🎖 During the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Navy fought enemy naval forces, protected sea-going and inland shipping and supported coastal operations involving Red Army units. Seventy-eight ships that distinguished themselves in battle received Guards status and over 500 sailors became Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Today, the Russian Navy consists of strategic nuclear naval forces and general-purpose naval forces. It operates surface and submarine units, naval aviation and coastal troops. The latter include coastal missile and artillery units and the marine corps.
🚢 We are proud of the heroic history of the Russian Navy, and we cherish the memory of our shipbuilders and naval commanders!
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🎖 #OTD in 1908, Dmitry Ustinov was born – the legendary People’s Commissar of Armaments during the Great Patriotic War & World War II – it was he who ensured that the Soviet military industrial complex was evacuated during the first months of the war, and surpassed the Axis potential, contributing greatly to the Victory over Nazism.
He gained this high post at the age of only 32, having risen from a fitter to People’s Commissar of Armaments. He was appointed to that post on June 9, 1941, less than two weeks before Nazi Germany’s treacherous attack on the Soviet Union. The first few months of the war were especially difficult. Ustinov worked 20 hours a day to evacuate defence plants from the endangered areas and to launch military production in besieged Moscow and Leningrad.
📈 The young commissar was assigned a vital and seemingly insurmountable task – to prevail over the German military machine, which the whole of Europe was supplying with weapons. Ustinov worked selflessly to attain that goal. During the war, the Soviet Union produced nearly twice as many weapons as Germany and the countries it occupied.
Ustinov greatly contributed to the production of artillery guns and rifles and to the challenging scientific and technological task of creating new armaments. During his term in office, the manufacturing of artillery guns increased fivefold and of rifles, by 22 times.
After the war, Ustinov was appointed Minister of the Defence Industry of the USSR contributing immensely to strengthening the defence capabilities of our country. In 1976, he received the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
🕯 Dmitry Ustinov died in 1984 and was the last person whose ashes were interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
#FacesOfVictory
He gained this high post at the age of only 32, having risen from a fitter to People’s Commissar of Armaments. He was appointed to that post on June 9, 1941, less than two weeks before Nazi Germany’s treacherous attack on the Soviet Union. The first few months of the war were especially difficult. Ustinov worked 20 hours a day to evacuate defence plants from the endangered areas and to launch military production in besieged Moscow and Leningrad.
📈 The young commissar was assigned a vital and seemingly insurmountable task – to prevail over the German military machine, which the whole of Europe was supplying with weapons. Ustinov worked selflessly to attain that goal. During the war, the Soviet Union produced nearly twice as many weapons as Germany and the countries it occupied.
Ustinov greatly contributed to the production of artillery guns and rifles and to the challenging scientific and technological task of creating new armaments. During his term in office, the manufacturing of artillery guns increased fivefold and of rifles, by 22 times.
After the war, Ustinov was appointed Minister of the Defence Industry of the USSR contributing immensely to strengthening the defence capabilities of our country. In 1976, he received the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
🕯 Dmitry Ustinov died in 1984 and was the last person whose ashes were interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
#FacesOfVictory
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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Russian President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to President of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the centenary of the Turkish Republic.
The message reads, in part:
✉️ Over the past century, your country has overcome numerous challenges, achieving generally recognised success in the economy, social sphere and other sectors. Turkiye is a highly respected country on the global stage, and rightfully so.
#RussiaTurkiye relations are developing in the spirit of friendship and neighbourliness, which was fully confirmed at our recent meeting in Sochi. The two countries efficiently cooperate in a wide range of areas, with major joint projects implemented on a regular basis. Moscow and Ankara successfully coordinate their efforts to resolve pressing issues on the regional and global agendas.
🤝 I am confident that we will continue to consistently expand the scope of bilateral ties for the benefit of our friendly nations, aiming to build a more just and democratic world order.
The message reads, in part:
✉️ Over the past century, your country has overcome numerous challenges, achieving generally recognised success in the economy, social sphere and other sectors. Turkiye is a highly respected country on the global stage, and rightfully so.
#RussiaTurkiye relations are developing in the spirit of friendship and neighbourliness, which was fully confirmed at our recent meeting in Sochi. The two countries efficiently cooperate in a wide range of areas, with major joint projects implemented on a regular basis. Moscow and Ankara successfully coordinate their efforts to resolve pressing issues on the regional and global agendas.
🤝 I am confident that we will continue to consistently expand the scope of bilateral ties for the benefit of our friendly nations, aiming to build a more just and democratic world order.
✍Ambassador's Opinion
"The World Order as It Should Be"
On October 5, 2023, the leading experts on global politics from Russia and around the world convened at the Valdai discussion club meeting to exchange opinions on the changes and challenges that the current international order is going through.
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"The World Order as It Should Be"
On October 5, 2023, the leading experts on global politics from Russia and around the world convened at the Valdai discussion club meeting to exchange opinions on the changes and challenges that the current international order is going through.
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Dear friends, we are glad to represent our fifth issue of the Public Diplomacy Journal under the brand of the Meeting Russia program ❗️
Topic: "Small Towns of Our Large Country" 🇷🇺
In this issue:
✅ Natalia Burlinova, President of Creative Diplomacy, describes her impressions of Kolomna following her weekend in the town
✅ Alla Shelyapina, Creative Diplomacy’s manager of work with compatriots, offers an exciting story of Tashtagol – a Siberian town where skiers ski in swimming suits and scientists still hope to find Yeti
✅ Young researcher Alexander Tkalenko writes of Rybinsk and its journey “forward into the Past”
✅ Olga Tipaylova, Creative Diplomacy’s translator and editor, expresses anxiety over Russia’s regional disproportions, and cautious optimism about the potential of the regions and the state’s domestic policy (essay “Russia beyond large cities”);
📖 Ms. Tipaylova also invites the readers to the Russian classic novels in which the action takes place in Russian towns far from Moscow or Saint Petersburg (essay “Small towns in big literature”).
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Topic: "Small Towns of Our Large Country" 🇷🇺
In this issue:
✅ Natalia Burlinova, President of Creative Diplomacy, describes her impressions of Kolomna following her weekend in the town
✅ Alla Shelyapina, Creative Diplomacy’s manager of work with compatriots, offers an exciting story of Tashtagol – a Siberian town where skiers ski in swimming suits and scientists still hope to find Yeti
✅ Young researcher Alexander Tkalenko writes of Rybinsk and its journey “forward into the Past”
✅ Olga Tipaylova, Creative Diplomacy’s translator and editor, expresses anxiety over Russia’s regional disproportions, and cautious optimism about the potential of the regions and the state’s domestic policy (essay “Russia beyond large cities”);
📖 Ms. Tipaylova also invites the readers to the Russian classic novels in which the action takes place in Russian towns far from Moscow or Saint Petersburg (essay “Small towns in big literature”).
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Small Cities of Our Large Country: Russia from old towns on the Volga to "an island in the green sea of Taiga”
Meeting Russia Journal #5 is ready! This issue is your “gateway” to Russia’s historical towns.
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📅 #OTD in 1944, the Battle for the Arctic ended. The Red Army prevented the Nazis’ efforts to envelop Soviet territory from the north and block military supply routes.
👉 The enemy wanted to destroy bases of the Soviet Navy’s Northern Fleet and to seize the coast of the Kola Peninsula. The Nazis believed that, by seizing Murmansk and the Kirov Railway, they would thwart Lend Lease shipments to central Soviet regions.
Although the enemy’s high command had deployed 97,000 German and Finnish service personnel, who outnumbered Red Army units totalling 57,000 officers and soldiers, the Arctic blitzkrieg failed completely. Units of the Red Army’s Northern, and later Karelian, Front retained control over naval bases and prevented the enemy from reaching the strategically important railway.
▪️ Al that time, the Nazis did not abandon attempts to seize Murmansk or to raze it to the ground. Luftwaffe aircraft conducted 792 air strikes and dropped 185,000 bombs.
Although Murmansk was destroyed almost completely, it did not surrender. During the war, the city handled 1.2 million tonnes of Lend Lease shipments. Hitler deployed elite Luftwaffe, U-boat and Kriegsmarine (surface warship) units to thwart these deliveries.
🤝 Royal Navy warships helped Soviet sailors in their efforts to ensure safe deliveries. They escorted freighters from North Atlantic ports to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. In 1941-1944, about 1,400 warships sailed along the extremely dangerous Arctic convoy routes.
Finland withdrew from the war following the defeat of its forces in the Vyborg offensive operation. In the autumn of 1944, this created favourable conditions for a Soviet offensive. During the Petsamo-Kirkenes offensive, Red Army units defeated the enemy in the Soviet Arctic and started liberating Norway from German occupation.
🎖 On December 5, 1944, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR instituted the Medal for the Defence of the Soviet Arctic, with about 353,000 people receiving this decoration.
👉 The enemy wanted to destroy bases of the Soviet Navy’s Northern Fleet and to seize the coast of the Kola Peninsula. The Nazis believed that, by seizing Murmansk and the Kirov Railway, they would thwart Lend Lease shipments to central Soviet regions.
Although the enemy’s high command had deployed 97,000 German and Finnish service personnel, who outnumbered Red Army units totalling 57,000 officers and soldiers, the Arctic blitzkrieg failed completely. Units of the Red Army’s Northern, and later Karelian, Front retained control over naval bases and prevented the enemy from reaching the strategically important railway.
▪️ Al that time, the Nazis did not abandon attempts to seize Murmansk or to raze it to the ground. Luftwaffe aircraft conducted 792 air strikes and dropped 185,000 bombs.
Although Murmansk was destroyed almost completely, it did not surrender. During the war, the city handled 1.2 million tonnes of Lend Lease shipments. Hitler deployed elite Luftwaffe, U-boat and Kriegsmarine (surface warship) units to thwart these deliveries.
🤝 Royal Navy warships helped Soviet sailors in their efforts to ensure safe deliveries. They escorted freighters from North Atlantic ports to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. In 1941-1944, about 1,400 warships sailed along the extremely dangerous Arctic convoy routes.
Finland withdrew from the war following the defeat of its forces in the Vyborg offensive operation. In the autumn of 1944, this created favourable conditions for a Soviet offensive. During the Petsamo-Kirkenes offensive, Red Army units defeated the enemy in the Soviet Arctic and started liberating Norway from German occupation.
🎖 On December 5, 1944, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR instituted the Medal for the Defence of the Soviet Arctic, with about 353,000 people receiving this decoration.
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🇷🇺🇧🇾📞 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko discussed preparations for the next meeting of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, scheduled for November 23, 2023 in Minsk.
They also reviewed topical issues of furthering bilateral interaction and advancing the Union State’s integration, including energy, transport and cutting-edge technology.
The Presidents reaffirmed their mutual commitment to close long-term cooperation aimed at deepening Russian-Belarusian strategic partnership and allied relations.
Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko discussed preparations for the next meeting of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, scheduled for November 23, 2023 in Minsk.
They also reviewed topical issues of furthering bilateral interaction and advancing the Union State’s integration, including energy, transport and cutting-edge technology.
The Presidents reaffirmed their mutual commitment to close long-term cooperation aimed at deepening Russian-Belarusian strategic partnership and allied relations.
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📆 November 2 was declared the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists at the 68th session of the UN General Assembly in 2013.
Representatives of the Russian media working abroad, in particular in Western countries, are facing unprecedented pressure, threats and harassment for their professional activities.
🕯 We remember the names of those who have perished, including Igor Kornelyuk, Anton Voloshin, Anatoly Klyan, Darya Dugina, Oleg Klokov, Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) and Rostislav Zhuravlyov, who died in the line of duty.
There is no excuse for the silence of the concerned international organisations, which were initially designed to provide unbiased protection of the rights of media representatives. Today, we would like to point out again the unacceptability of applying double standards in the assessment of crimes against journalists.
Those responsible must receive the punishment they deserve.
Representatives of the Russian media working abroad, in particular in Western countries, are facing unprecedented pressure, threats and harassment for their professional activities.
🕯 We remember the names of those who have perished, including Igor Kornelyuk, Anton Voloshin, Anatoly Klyan, Darya Dugina, Oleg Klokov, Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) and Rostislav Zhuravlyov, who died in the line of duty.
There is no excuse for the silence of the concerned international organisations, which were initially designed to provide unbiased protection of the rights of media representatives. Today, we would like to point out again the unacceptability of applying double standards in the assessment of crimes against journalists.
Those responsible must receive the punishment they deserve.
We would prefer 🇨🇦Canada calls on the United States to ratify the Treaty.
⚡Russia is disappointed by Canada’s vote against the UN General Assembly Third Committee resolution on combating glorification of Nazism.
We are deeply concerned that consecutive Canadian Cabinets for decades have been harbouring Nazi henchmen, Yaroslaw Hunka among them, and turning a blind eye on continued praising their memory in Canada.
☝By following this precarious and disturbing suit the Trudeau regime violates international obligations including the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal and commits a sacrilegious act with regard to the memory of those Canadians who lost theit life fighting alongside allied Russia against Nazism.
We are deeply concerned that consecutive Canadian Cabinets for decades have been harbouring Nazi henchmen, Yaroslaw Hunka among them, and turning a blind eye on continued praising their memory in Canada.
☝By following this precarious and disturbing suit the Trudeau regime violates international obligations including the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal and commits a sacrilegious act with regard to the memory of those Canadians who lost theit life fighting alongside allied Russia against Nazism.
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🇷🇺 Today Russia and its people celebrate National #UnityDay!
This day symbolizes the unity of our multiethnic diverse peoples and their devotion to the Motherland.
❗️ Happy #UnityDay!
#UnityDay2023 #TogetherForever
This day symbolizes the unity of our multiethnic diverse peoples and their devotion to the Motherland.
❗️ Happy #UnityDay!
#UnityDay2023 #TogetherForever