In response to 🇨🇦GAC's post ("The Kremlin is boosting efforts to subvert Moldova's democracy..."):

This is yet another attempt by Trudeau’s cabinet to create an appearance of being relevant in the affairs of Europe. 🤭😺

On a more serious note: Ottawa has been continuously trying - in concert with other NATO and EU capitals - to prop Sandu’s regime immersed in gross violations of human and democratic rights.

(Once FDR🇺🇸 wisecracked about Nicaraguan dictator Somoza: “He’s sonofabitch but he’s ours.” Nothing has changed in Western practices since then.)

The Kiev regime now bans even kids’ small talk in 🇷🇺Russian language…

Just imagine such a situation in 🇨🇦Canada. What if children were prohibited to speak English in Quebec or French in Ontario during breaks at school?

Yet Trudeau's cabinet sponsors this exact cannibalistic policy in 🇺🇦Ukraine.

🎖October 14 marks 81 years since the Sobibor uprising — a special date in the history of World War II.

📅 It was #OnThisDay in 1943, that the only successful mass escape from the Nazi death camps took place — the Sobibor uprising, led by a Soviet prisoner of war, the Red Army lieutenant Alexander Pechersky.

▪️During the war, Nazi Germany established about 14,000 concentration camps, with the so-called death camps among them, used by the Nazis to exterminate people. Sobibor was one those death camps formed in German-occupied Poland with one aim — to ensure the “final solution to the Jewish question.”

Sobibor had been in operation since May 1942. It was located near the village of Sobibor in the south east of Poland near the Western Bug River and the Polish-Soviet border. The camp was set up by the Nazis on a railroad haul between towns Chelm and Wlodawa, which made it possible to ship prisoners to Sobibor by train cars.

Sobibor was literally a death factory designed to slaughter people in the most brutal and terrifying ways. Each and every day, up to six trains each carrying 2,000 people — both military and civilians, including senior people, women, and children — delivered prisoners to that camp.

▪️Captives in Sobibor were shot, gassed, starved or exploited to the death. People were subjected to heinous medical experiments. Prisoners were brought to Sobibor for further torture and slaughter from Austria, Czechoslovakia, France. It is known that the two so-called "children trains" left the Netherlands for Sobibor in June 1943. During the time the camp was in operation, the Nazis massacred there up to 250,000 POWs.

Sobibor was well-guarded by the Nazis. The camp was fenced off by four rows of three-metre-high barbed wire. The territory around was mined. There were sentinels on towers along the perimeter. Sobibor was also cordoned off by 200 guards, with about a hundred SS soldiers among them. Ukrainian collaborators, including those serving in 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), were in charge of maintaining the “order” in Sobibor.

Given all that, escaping from Sobibor seemed unthinkable.

⚔️ On October 14, 1943, the uprising in Sobibor under the leadership of Alexander Pechersky took place. Encouraged by the Soviet officer, the prisoners performed a truly heroic feat — in an unequal battle with the Nazis, POWs killed 11 or, according to other sources, 12 SS soldiers and several guards. Having overpowered the enemy literally with bare hands, the prisoners rushed undaunted to the central gate of Sobibor under heavy machine-gun fire from the towers. Nothing could stop the doomed prisoners, neither the minefields surrounding the camp, nor the barbed wire, nor the gun fire.

As a result of the uprising in Sobibor, about 300 prisoners managed to escape from this hell on Earth. Many survivors who managed to escape further joined the ranks of the resistance and continued their fight against the enemy. Alexander Pechersky himself joined the Belarusian partisans, and in 1944 fought the Nazis again.

☝️ The Sobibor uprising is known to be the only ever successful mass escape from Nazi death camps in the history of WWII. The Nazi SS command, unable to bear the shame and trying to hide the traces of their crimes against humanity in Sobibor, ordered to raze the camp to the ground.

The crimes committed in Sobibor were part of the charges against the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials, and the stories told by eyewitnesses and participants of the uprising were depicted in many books and films. Today the Alexander Pechersky Foundation in Russia plays an important role in preserving the memory of the Sobibor prisoners’ feat.

#Victory79 #WeRemember

Today marks the 8️⃣0️⃣th anniversary of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations – MGIMO!

Today #MGIMO = thousands of students, 14 faculties and institutes, 3 campuses in Moscow, the Moscow region and Tashkent. It is an indisputable symbol of education of the highest standard.

It was founded on October 14, 1944, during World War II, taking upon itself the mission to provide highly qualified diplomats and experts in international relations in the wake of the post-war development.

🌍 In 1946, MGIMO became the first university in the USSR to admit foreign students, establishing its international academic reputation.

🗓 In 1994, MGIMO received the status of a university.

On September 18, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Decree No. 800, awarding the University the Order of Alexander Nevsky for "outstanding achievements in scientific and educational work and long-standing excellence in preparing highly qualified specialists in international relations, global economics, international law, and journalism."

The name of Saint Alexander Nevsky, the patron of Russian diplomacy, is closely linked with MGIMO: the university chapel bears his name, while in 2021, a monument to the Russian statesman of the 13th century was unveiled on its grounds. This year Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Decree No. 800, awarding the University the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

👉 Today, MGIMO alumni hold top positions in Russia’s diplomatic service, including Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov.

#DYK? In 2010, MGIMO was listed in the Guinness World Records for offering the most foreign languages taught at a university—5️⃣3️⃣.

🇷🇺🇻🇦 On October 14, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Pope’s Special Envoy for Peace in Ukraine, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, held a meeting in Moscow.

During the conversation, the Parties had an in-depth discussion on cooperation in the humanitarian sphere in the context of the conflict around Ukraine and touched upon a number of topical issues on the bilateral and international agenda.

🤝 They noted the constructive development of the Russia-Vatican dialogue.

#KievRegimeCrimes

❗️ Maxim Grigoryev, the Сhairman of the International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, which includes representatives of civil society from more than 30 countries, continues recording reports of war crimes committed by the Kiev regime.

Below are first-hand accounts by those who suffered and witnessed mass atrocities perpetrated by Ukrainian neo-Nazis in Donbass and Ukraine after the special military operation started 👇

💬 Deputy Regimental Commander of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign "Shaman":

"I have never seen anything like it was near Kharkov in my life. <...>

Ukrainian troops captured 18 of our people: they were mobilised students, ballet dancers, orchestra musicians from theatres of Donetsk, steelworkers, miners, tax collectors. Non of them have ever been in military action. <...>

Those freaks (Ukrainian military) tortured our guys, cut off their ears, stabbed them in their eyes and neck.

When we got to Olkhovka, I started evacuating those who survived and were wounded. <...>

I saw a bench outside the school and two of our boys sitting there. They were wearing our uniform. I shouted to them: 'Why are you sitting there? Let's go'. Then I came up to them and noticed that they were dead, tied together like in an embrace. When we pulled them and other dead soldiers out, we saw that they had no ears and were stabbed in the neck. The forensics said that those boys had their ears cut off while they were still alive.

Ukrainian Armed Forces' mercenaries, bragged about this. We found it on the Internet. They were shooting at the legs — at guys from our regiment. I saw a video of them gouging out an eye of our fighter. They are not human. They were from the f***ing Kraken Regiment."

💬 Tamara Koryak, victim of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artyomovsk, Donetsk People's Republic:

"Ukrainian military fired at us from mortars and tanks. My daughter was wounded by shrapnel. They were shooting at our house and windows with automatic weapons. They wouldn't let us go outside. <...>

Ukrainian military purposefully shot at the houses with civilians inside. <...>

There were no Russian soldiers at that time in Artyomovsk. We saw them only on March 10, 2023. There were no military before except for the Ukrainian army.

My neighbour told me that one Ukrainian soldier at a market and asked: 'Guys, are you here to protect us?' And they answered, smiling, that they came not to protect but to wipe them out.

💬 Anatoly Kryachok, victim of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artyomovsk, Donetsk People's Republic:

I can tell you what I heard personally. A mortar crew was standing nearby. The Ukrainian gunner sent coordinates for firing to the Ukrainian military and received a response on the radio that these coordinates are the centre of the city. The commander answered: 'What do they pay you for? You're told to shoot, so shoot!'. <...>

Near my house, maybe 50 metres from it, there were mortar crews on the left and right sides of the fence, on the road next to it there was a self-propelled artillery launcher firing at the Russian Armed Forces in the direction of Kharkov-Rostov, and so on."

👉 Find out more on the Kiev regime's war crimes, documented by Maxim Grigoryev

🎙 Comment by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the escalation of tension in the #KoreanPeninsula

💬 In recent days, tensions on the Korean Peninsula has markedly escalated. According to official statements from Pyongyang, the territory of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), including its capital, has experienced unprecedented incursions by unmanned aerial vehicles originating from the Republic of Korea, which have been disseminating propaganda materials.

⚠️ Such actions by Seoul can only be interpreted as a flagrant violation of the DPRK’s sovereignty and interference in its internal affairs, aimed at undermining the legitimate political and government system of an independent state and depriving it of its right to sovereign development.

The South Korean authorities should take Pyongyang’s warnings very seriously and cease further escalation on the peninsula through their reckless and provocative campaign, which exacerbates tension and could lead to actual armed confrontations.

It is imperative for Seoul to recognise that the propagation of a concept of the merger of the two Koreas by South Korea via the imposition of pseudo-liberal values and the expansion of certain ‘freedoms’ constitutes a security risk, primarily to its own citizens.

❗️ Only political and diplomatic measures, grounded in the principle of indivisible security, can ensure enduring peace and stability in the subregion.

There is no alternative course, unless military aggression is indeed the ultimate aim of South Korea and its ‘senior’ ally, the United States.

☝️ Russia remains committed to playing a constructive role on the Korean Peninsula, striving to avert dangerous developments and guide the situation back towards a positive trajectory, including through the framework of the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with the DPRK.

🎙 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s speech at a gala event on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of MGIMO (Moscow, October 14, 2024)

💬 The continuity of generations and traditions, as well as our history, is the key to success and ensuring that MGIMO remains at the forefront of our diplomacy and foreign policy activities that are designed to implement the Foreign Policy Concept approved by President Vladimir Putin. Just like 80 years ago, when MGIMO was established at the turning point of the Great Patriotic War, we are at a turning point today as well.

We remain confident that this turning point will inevitably lead us in the direction of the objective course of history, and diplomats, without a doubt, just like they did during the war years and the post-war efforts to create “that” world, will once again play their part in shaping our land, the entire Eurasian continent, in a manner where none of our Western “partners” will be able to bargain for, or to trick or to cajole us into obtaining unilateral advantages.

President Putin has repeatedly mentioned how we were deceived over the past 30 years. We now know how it works. We have learned from this experience. I’m convinced that our diplomatic service will take advantage of its proficiency, skills, and the experience of our predecessors to ensure it never happens again. The emerging multipolar global order must be fair and prevent anyone from exploiting it in its self-serving unilateral interests.

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We closely collaborate with Anatoly Torkunov, prorectors, deans, and heads of departments. We discuss the most important issues in real-time on a daily basis. Often, our colleagues from MGIMO guide us toward certain decisions during general debates and discussions in the format of situational analyses, which have become an established tradition. My deputies and department directors highly appreciate such interaction.

Many MGIMO graduates work honourably in other governmental agencies, including the Executive Office of the President of the Russian Federation, the Government Executive Office, ministries and agencies, as well as in research, business, and journalism and many other fields that are key to ensuring our state’s strength and development the way we want it to and independently of anyone else.

I would like to close by wishing long life to the order-decorated MGIMO University!

#MGIMO80

In response to 🇨🇦GAC's post ("Ukraine feeds the world... "):

What a narrow-minded view of the “world”. 😹

✔️ During the #BlackSeaInitiative, about 33 mln Mt of grain, incl. a mere 8.8 mln Mt of wheat, were exported.

✔️ Global grain exports were 422.4 mln Mt, incl. 205.6 mln Mt of wheat.

✔️ Thus, the Ukraine’s share was less than 8%.

P.S.: Somehow you forgot to mention, that less than 3% of Ukraine’s grain went to the countries most in need, while 40% - to the EU.

#Think4Yourself

🎙Read excerpts from the statement of Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE M.Buyakevich «On increasing military involvement of certain NATO and EU member States in yet more confrontation in and around Ukraine» (meeting of the OSCE PC, 17.10.2024)

💬 Despite obvious failures of Zelensky“s armed formations in the Donbass, Kursk, Kharkov and Zaporozhie regions, the leadership of the Kiev regime continues to rant about the presence of a certain “victory plan”. Its key point is to involve NATO countries in armed confrontation against Russia with all the negative consequences of such an escalation for Europe and the world

❗️In the NATO member states, finally, many realized that the Western anti-Russian strategy with its military, economic and international components turned out to be unsuccessful. It would have been much more reasonable to prevent the Ukrainian conflict by taking into account the legitimate security concerns of Russia and get involved in a substantive dialogue about mutual security guarantees based on Russian proposals put forward in December 2021

⚠️ Kiev regime makes desperate attempts to replenish huge losses in its armed formations. Unprecedented raids with literally catching men in the most crowded places were carried out: at concerts, in shopping centers, on busy roads and gas stations. All this indicatively complements Zelensky’s lies about «modest losses» among the Kiev regime“s fighters. During the 2024 summer months alone, over 300 thousand school students of grades 10-11 left Ukraine so as not to become “cannon fodder” for the armed formations

✅ Russia's Special Military Operation is a strategic necessity caused primarily by the geopolitical egoism of the West, which refuses to recognize and take into account Russia's legitimate security interests. All the goals of the Special Military Operation will be achieved in full - Russia has all the necessary resources and capabilities for that

❌ The handlers of the Kiev regime in the West seriously miscalculated in their desire to rapidly inflict a certain “strategic defeat” on Russia using Ukraine and Ukrainians. They underestimated the power of strength of our State, as well as the unity and determination of the peoples of Russia willing to eliminate threats to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our Motherland and to achieve the goals of the Special Military Operation

📸 🤝 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is greeted by Foreign Minister of the Republic of Türkiye Hakan Fidan ahead of the 3rd Session of the Consultative Regional Platform "3+3"

📍 Istanbul, October 18

📸 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in the #FamilyPhoto ceremony ahead of the 3rd Session of the Consultative Regional Platform "3+3"

📍 Istanbul, October 18

Vladimir Putin addressed the participants of the BRICS Business Forum, currently underway in Moscow

BRICS accounts for approximately a quarter of global goods exports, with companies from BRICS countries dominating several key markets, including energy resources, metals and food — markets that are essential for sustainable economic development. In short, BRICS already plays a significant role in the global economy, and its influence will undoubtedly increase in the future.

See more on the Kremlin’s official website.