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◼️ Muscovites bring flowers to the Embassy of Iran in Russia, expressing deep condolences, through an improvised tribute, to the numerous victims of the unprovoked aggression by the US & Israel, including the children of the destroyed school in Minab, and in regards to the assassination of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei along with his family members and the country's military and political leadership.
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🇷🇺 Russian Paralympic Committee:
#TeamRussia finishes THIRD in the medal standings at the 2026 Paralympic Games!
Despite a team of just six athletes and one guide, our Paralympians delivered a phenomenal performance.
12 MEDALS:
🥇 8 gold
🥈 1 silver
🥉 3 bronze
In the overall standings, Russia finished 3rd, behind only China and the US with many more athletes on the teams.
💬 President of the Russian Paralympic Committee Pavel Rozhkov noted:
👏 Congratulations and massive respect go to our outstanding athletes: Anastasia Bagiyan and her guide Sergey Sinyakin, Varvara Voronchikhina, Ivan Golubkov, Alexei Bugaev, Dmitrii Fadeyev and Monzer Philippe Shebbo.
#TeamRussia finishes THIRD in the medal standings at the 2026 Paralympic Games!
Despite a team of just six athletes and one guide, our Paralympians delivered a phenomenal performance.
12 MEDALS:
🥇 8 gold
🥈 1 silver
🥉 3 bronze
In the overall standings, Russia finished 3rd, behind only China and the US with many more athletes on the teams.
💬 President of the Russian Paralympic Committee Pavel Rozhkov noted:
The results have surpassed all expectations! Even with a small team, Russia made a powerful statement and marked a triumphant return to the international sports arena.
👏 Congratulations and massive respect go to our outstanding athletes: Anastasia Bagiyan and her guide Sergey Sinyakin, Varvara Voronchikhina, Ivan Golubkov, Alexei Bugaev, Dmitrii Fadeyev and Monzer Philippe Shebbo.
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🇷🇺 On March 16, 2014 – 1️⃣2️⃣ years ago – the all-Crimean referendum took place.
#TogetherForever: During the vote, residents of the peninsula expressed their will to reunite with their historical homeland – Russia.
Participation in the referendum was voluntary and free.
🗳 96.77% of Crimea’s population voted in favour of joining Russia, with turnout at 83.1%. In Sevastopol, 95.6% voted in favour, with turnout reaching 89.5%.
The referendum was monitored by 135 international observers from 23 countries and 1,240 observers from Crimean organisations. The vote was covered by 623 journalists representing 169 media outlets.
💬 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (from weekly press briefing of March 12, 2026):
✍️ Based on the results of the free expression of will by the peninsula’s population, on March 18, 2014, the Republic of Crimea signed an international treaty with Russia on its accession to the Russian Federation.
Over the past 12 years, the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol have fully integrated into Russia’s political, legal and economic space. New infrastructure has been created in the region – the Crimean Bridge across the Kerch Strait, the Crimea-Kuban main gas pipeline, the Tavrida federal highway, Simferopol International Airport, as well as hundreds of healthcare, education, social and engineering facilities.
☝️ Interfaith harmony on the peninsula is carefully maintained, and the interests of all nationalities and ethnic groups are taken into account. A Crimean Tatar national-cultural autonomy has been established, ensuring the participation of its representatives in local government bodies. The Crimean Tatar language has been recognized as a state language, alongside Russian and Ukrainian.
The return of Crimea also became a key moment of consolidation for Russia and Russian society. According to sociological surveys, the overwhelming majority of Russians positively assess the reunification of Crimea with Russia. A VCIOM poll shows that 86% of respondents consider it a right and fair decision.
✅ The economic momentum achieved over these years, the unprecedented improvement in living standards, the development of infrastructure and the interfaith peace established on the peninsula once again confirm with all certainty that the choice made by the people of Crimea was the right one.
#CrimeaIsRussia
#TogetherForever: During the vote, residents of the peninsula expressed their will to reunite with their historical homeland – Russia.
Participation in the referendum was voluntary and free.
🗳 96.77% of Crimea’s population voted in favour of joining Russia, with turnout at 83.1%. In Sevastopol, 95.6% voted in favour, with turnout reaching 89.5%.
The referendum was monitored by 135 international observers from 23 countries and 1,240 observers from Crimean organisations. The vote was covered by 623 journalists representing 169 media outlets.
💬 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (from weekly press briefing of March 12, 2026):
This crucial historical and honest event became known as the “Return to the Home Harbour”. It symbolized the restoration of historical justice, the protection of people’s rights and, undoubtedly, the realization of national interests. By national interests we mean not an abstract state or society, but people – citizens who never separated themselves from the homeland they considered their true harbour, who never separated themselves from those from whom they had been forcibly divided and torn away from their great and extended family.
✍️ Based on the results of the free expression of will by the peninsula’s population, on March 18, 2014, the Republic of Crimea signed an international treaty with Russia on its accession to the Russian Federation.
Over the past 12 years, the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol have fully integrated into Russia’s political, legal and economic space. New infrastructure has been created in the region – the Crimean Bridge across the Kerch Strait, the Crimea-Kuban main gas pipeline, the Tavrida federal highway, Simferopol International Airport, as well as hundreds of healthcare, education, social and engineering facilities.
☝️ Interfaith harmony on the peninsula is carefully maintained, and the interests of all nationalities and ethnic groups are taken into account. A Crimean Tatar national-cultural autonomy has been established, ensuring the participation of its representatives in local government bodies. The Crimean Tatar language has been recognized as a state language, alongside Russian and Ukrainian.
The return of Crimea also became a key moment of consolidation for Russia and Russian society. According to sociological surveys, the overwhelming majority of Russians positively assess the reunification of Crimea with Russia. A VCIOM poll shows that 86% of respondents consider it a right and fair decision.
✅ The economic momentum achieved over these years, the unprecedented improvement in living standards, the development of infrastructure and the interfaith peace established on the peninsula once again confirm with all certainty that the choice made by the people of Crimea was the right one.
#CrimeaIsRussia
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#KievRegimeCrimes
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of March 9-15, 2026:
▪️ March 9 – a UAV strike on a bus belonging to a children’s sports school that had stopped at a civilian petrol station in Tokmak Municipal District, Zaporozhye Region. Three children and their coach were injured.
▪️ March 10 – a massive Storm Shadow missile strike on the city of Bryansk. Eight civilians were killed and another 47 were injured.
▪️ March 10 – four UAVs attacked a hospital in the DPR. Ten medical workers were killed and ten people were injured, including nine medics.
▪️ March 10 – a fixed-wing UAV strike targeted a civilian warehouse facility in Novy Oskol, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 10 – an FPV drone strike targeted a passenger minibus in the village of Chayka, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 11 – a drone strike on a civilian passenger car at the entrance to the city of Vasilievka, Zaporozhye Region. Two civilians were killed.
▪️ March 11 – an FPV drone strike on a civilian passenger car in the village of Golovchino, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 11 – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car near a hospital building in the urban-type settlement of Gornostayevka, Kherson Region.
▪️ March 13 – a drone attack on a commercial facility near the village of Butovo, Belgorod Region. Two civilians were injured.
▪️ March 13 – a UAV strike on a social facility in the village of Malomikhaylovka, Belgorod Region. Two local residents were injured.
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of March 9-15, 2026:
▪️ March 9 – a UAV strike on a bus belonging to a children’s sports school that had stopped at a civilian petrol station in Tokmak Municipal District, Zaporozhye Region. Three children and their coach were injured.
▪️ March 10 – a massive Storm Shadow missile strike on the city of Bryansk. Eight civilians were killed and another 47 were injured.
▪️ March 10 – four UAVs attacked a hospital in the DPR. Ten medical workers were killed and ten people were injured, including nine medics.
▪️ March 10 – a fixed-wing UAV strike targeted a civilian warehouse facility in Novy Oskol, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 10 – an FPV drone strike targeted a passenger minibus in the village of Chayka, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 11 – a drone strike on a civilian passenger car at the entrance to the city of Vasilievka, Zaporozhye Region. Two civilians were killed.
▪️ March 11 – an FPV drone strike on a civilian passenger car in the village of Golovchino, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 11 – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car near a hospital building in the urban-type settlement of Gornostayevka, Kherson Region.
▪️ March 13 – a drone attack on a commercial facility near the village of Butovo, Belgorod Region. Two civilians were injured.
▪️ March 13 – a UAV strike on a social facility in the village of Malomikhaylovka, Belgorod Region. Two local residents were injured.
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#NoStatuteOfLimitations
On March 16, 1968, soldiers of the United States Army carried out a massacre in the rural community of My Lai (Sơn Mỹ) in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province, carrying out one of the most horrific massacres of civilians during the Vietnam War.
American soldiers brutally killed more than 500 civilians, including 173 children and 182 women (17 of them pregnant).
On the morning of March 16, Charlie Company entered the village as part of a search-and-destroy mission. They had been instructed to treat anyone remaining in the area as Viet Cong fighters. Despite facing no resistance, US troops opened fire on unarmed villagers, including women and children. As they advanced, they threw grenades into huts, tortured people, and executed them on the spot. One notorious episode involved Lt William Calley, who ordered dozens of villagers to be herded into an irrigation ditch and machine-gunned.
Initially, Washington presented the events as a "major victory", claiming hundreds of enemy combatants killed. Testimonies from witnesses to these atrocities were ignored for a long time while the American military machine attempted to conceal its crimes in Vietnam.
Only in November 1969 did journalist Seymour Hersh publish his investigation, while photographs taken by Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle revealed the truth to the world. The images showed murdered civilians — peasants, women, and children with gunshot wounds to the head, mutilated bodies — while nearby American soldiers laughed and set homes on fire.
An international scandal erupted. Yet only one person was ultimately convicted — Lt William Calley. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but was pardoned after just three and a half years of house arrest. He lived to the age of 80, dying in April 2024 in the state of Florida.
❗️ My Lai massacre remains a grim reminder of how the United States wages its wars. The mass killings of civilians perpetrated by US forces abroad often goes unnoticed — or is dismissed as "collateral damage"...
On March 16, 1968, soldiers of the United States Army carried out a massacre in the rural community of My Lai (Sơn Mỹ) in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province, carrying out one of the most horrific massacres of civilians during the Vietnam War.
American soldiers brutally killed more than 500 civilians, including 173 children and 182 women (17 of them pregnant).
On the morning of March 16, Charlie Company entered the village as part of a search-and-destroy mission. They had been instructed to treat anyone remaining in the area as Viet Cong fighters. Despite facing no resistance, US troops opened fire on unarmed villagers, including women and children. As they advanced, they threw grenades into huts, tortured people, and executed them on the spot. One notorious episode involved Lt William Calley, who ordered dozens of villagers to be herded into an irrigation ditch and machine-gunned.
Initially, Washington presented the events as a "major victory", claiming hundreds of enemy combatants killed. Testimonies from witnesses to these atrocities were ignored for a long time while the American military machine attempted to conceal its crimes in Vietnam.
Only in November 1969 did journalist Seymour Hersh publish his investigation, while photographs taken by Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle revealed the truth to the world. The images showed murdered civilians — peasants, women, and children with gunshot wounds to the head, mutilated bodies — while nearby American soldiers laughed and set homes on fire.
An international scandal erupted. Yet only one person was ultimately convicted — Lt William Calley. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but was pardoned after just three and a half years of house arrest. He lived to the age of 80, dying in April 2024 in the state of Florida.
❗️ My Lai massacre remains a grim reminder of how the United States wages its wars. The mass killings of civilians perpetrated by US forces abroad often goes unnoticed — or is dismissed as "collateral damage"...