☦️ Сегодня, 28 июля, в России отмечается #ДеньКрещенияРуси.

Именно в этот день в 988 году князь Владимир Святославович вместе со своей дружиной принял крещение в городе Корсунь (Херсонес) — центре византийских владений в Крыму.

Хотя 988 год считается официальной датой Крещения Руси и утверждения христианства в качестве государственной религии в Древней Руси, первые шаги к его распространению были сделаны значительно раньше.

Уже в 860-х годах известны отдельные случаи принятия христианства на Руси, а в 957 году в Константинополе крестилась княгиня Ольга — бабушка князя Владимира.

Принятие Русью христианства стало событием поистине эпохального исторического значения, своего рода поворотным моментом. Оно не только определило духовное развитие нашей страны, но и способствовало укреплению государственности, развитию культуры и письменности, а также расширению связей с другими христианскими государствами.

Через византийскую традицию Русь приобщилась к богатейшему духовному и культурному наследию, что во многом предопределило её дальнейший исторический путь.

💬 Официальный представитель МИД России М.В.Захарова:

Ряд отечественных и зарубежных философов усматривают в решении князя Владимира поистине цивилизационный выбор, характеризуя его как «разворот от языческого варварства к Европе».

Именно поэтому особенно печально наблюдать за теми, кто в наши дни в Старом свете буквально уничтожает христианскую религию⁦.

Апогеем того, что Запад творит со своей собственной цивилизацией, стала ситуация на Украине.

(из брифинга официального представителя МИД России от 27 июля 2026 года)

Сегодня память о Крещении князя Владимира бережно хранят священные руины древнего Херсонеса. Миллионы жителей России могут увидеть здесь уникальные археологические экспозиции под открытым небом, связанные в том числе с этими эпохальными событиями. С XIX века хранителями памяти о святом равноапостольном князе Владимире стали Свято-Владимирский собор и монастырь, возведённые на Херсонесской земле.

🏺 В 2024 году в Севастополе открылся масштабный музейно-храмовый комплекс «Новый Херсонес», ставший одним из крупнейших историко-культурных центров России. На его территории расположены Музей Античности и Византии с уникальными подлинными артефактами, обнаруженными при раскопках античного и византийского Херсонеса, а также первый в России Музей христианства, Музей Крыма и Новороссии, реконструированные Византийский квартал, амфитеатр и ландшафтный парк.

🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with TASS Director General Andrey Kondrashov (Moscow, July 29, 2026)

Key points:

• As for our “Western partners’” constant attempts to deceive Russia, our patience eventually runs out. It was no coincidence that, shortly after the start of the special military operation, President of Russia Vladimir Putin summed up our relations with the West and Europe by saying: “There is no going back to the way things were before February 2022”.

• The slogans of inflicting a “strategic defeat on our country”, of “decolonising Russia” have resurfaced in the West – once again, an explicit euphemism for breaking up our country. We see clearly what the West is plotting, and everyone needs to see this in order to understand that the situation is serious. President of Russia Vladimir Putin makes no secret of it. The entire self-proclaimed “civilised” world has risen against us.

• Now that Zelensky, while steadily retreating in Donbass and on other fronts, has turned in desperation to outright terrorist acts, and the West sees that many of his long-range weapons are reaching their targets, they have begun promoting this phase of the conflict as a “turning point” – as proof that “Ukrainian resolve can ultimately defeat Russia”.

• Russia is making daily progress on the front line – not as quickly as we might wish, but while preserving the lives of our servicemen. Ukraine (and its Western handlers) is trying to compensate for its failures on the battlefield by carrying out terrorist attacks aimed at disrupting the way of life people have grown accustomed to.

• I am very proud that our people understand the current situation correctly – as our history and those who defeated Nazism taught us. All the more so because today we are fighting the direct followers and descendants of those Nazis, with essentially the same forces aligned against us. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz openly says that Germany intends to become Europe’s leading power once again. If you are prepared to speak so openly, then be prepared for the consequences.

• Russia's national interests in foreign affairs are to remain a sovereign power and an independent civilisation, to ensure the reliable security of our borders and to make sure that no one even considers telling us how to organise life within Russia.

• Russia's principal national quality is something the West lacks. Our civilisation respects its ancestors – those who created it, built its cities and defeated its enemies.

• The West is now telling us that it will still decide when the time is right to resume negotiations. They envisage talks at one table involving Europe, the US, Zelensky and President of Russia Vladimir Putin. Before that, they insist on a truce and a ceasefire. The Western countries would then deploy multinational forces led by France and Britain and only afterwards sit down for talks. What does that mean? It is an ultimatum. The front line would be frozen, while the Nazi regime would remain in place.

• We must rely solely on ourselves, as our President has repeatedly stressed. The events unfolding now have grave consequences. But I want to reiterate: we are completing the work of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who defeated Nazism – while our former allies allowed it to survive and take root once again.

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🎙 Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev's address at the XII All-Russian Youth Educational Forum Territory of Meanings
(Solnechnogorsk, Moscow region, July 29, 2026)

💬 [...] Today I want to speak about something entirely different.

You know, we live in an extremely difficult time. That may sound commonplace, but it is true. This grave period has fallen to your lot, and you are young people. I will not even speak about us; we here are already quite grown-up people. In essence, our country is being tested for strength. It is being tested in every sense of the word.

From an economic point of view as well, because the number of sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation is beyond all limits. There is no other country in the world - and there has never been such a case in history - against which such a number of sanctions, around thirty thousand, has been introduced.

We feel political pressure from every direction, because our adversaries have always tried to destabilize our state, regardless, by the way, of what it was called - the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, or the present-day Russian Federation.

They do not like our country: large, strong, proud, self-sufficient, and impossible to command. There was a period when they apparently believed that they could, conditionally speaking, reach an arrangement with us, but in reality subordinate us to their will. I mean, first and foremost, Western countries. But they failed. And they are experiencing the bitterest disappointment.

That is why they are using every possible means, and now they are using Ukraine as a battering ram to destroy the Russian Federation. They do not conceal this. Therefore, I want to say in this hall, where different political forces are represented, where my colleagues who lead political parties are present, that we now have one common task. And it is obvious: to preserve our country.

❗️How can our country be preserved? It can be preserved in only one way: through victory in the special military operation.

And here, I am certain, the positions of all political parties, all responsible political forces, my comrades, my colleagues, and all of you absolutely coincide. [...] Taking this opportunity, I would like to thank my colleagues from other political parties for the fact that, during this difficult period, we are pursuing such a consolidated, common policy in the interests of all citizens of our country.

I am confident that today, when you speak with my colleagues, this theme will sound as a refrain. This does not mean that there should be no other questions, including difficult and acute ones. Politics consists of acute questions. But there are topics on which a nation, in order to preserve itself, must gather itself into a fist and take one common position. Only then shall we prevail.

I wish you, dear friends, esteemed young politicians, esteemed colleagues, interesting discussions. And I hope that after some time we will meet again to sum up the results of the elections to the State Duma.

But most importantly, we will meet in order to congratulate one another on victory, and it will be ours.

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