#OTD in 1845 by the order of Emperor Nicholas I the Russian Geographical Society was founded.

177 years later, the Society successfully continues its faithful mission - to gather and guide Russian young people to a comprehensive study of the vast and beautiful Russian land.

🔷 Министр иностранных дел ЛНР Владислав Дейнего дал обширное интервью американскому журналисту Джону Марку Дугану.

В ходе беседы был затронут большой круг вопросов, связанных с конфликтом на Донбассе:
• предпосылки возникновения конфликта:
- евроинтеграционнае стремления, представляющие реальную угрозу для экономики Украины,
- евромайдан, осень-зима 2013 — 2014 года;
• истоки конфликта:
- вооружённый переворот в Киеве,
- захват власти украинскими радикальными националистами,
- официально заявленные агрессивные намерения в отношении русскоговорящего населения Украины, в первую очередь — Крыма и Донбасса;
• нападение вооруженных радикальных националистов на мирных граждан:
- Корсунь-Шевченковский 20.02.2014,
- Одесса 02.05.2014,
- Мариуполь 09.05.2014,
- авиаудар по центру Луганска 02.06.2014;
• фактический отказ государства Украина от выполнения функций государства по отношению к территории и населению Луганской Народной Республики;
• развязывание вооружёнными формированиями Украины активной фазы вооружённой агрессии на Донбассе;
• попытки мирного урегулирования конфликта:
- «нормандская четвёрка» и Минская Контактная группа,
- явные подтверждения изначального отсутствия у украинской стороны намерений следовать обязательствам, подписанным в рамках Минских переговоров;
• откровенный саботаж Украиной Минских переговоров в конце 2021 — начале 2022 года;
• признание ЛНР Российской Федерацией;
• причины специальной военной операции России по защите народа Донбасса, денацификации и демилитаризации Украины: критическое усиление украинской агрессии с 17 февраля 2022 года.

⚡️The expanded business programme of the VII Eastern Economic Forum is published

EEF-2022 business programme is divided into 6 thematic blocks: 🔹Russia's Place in the World: Diamonds are Made under Pressure;
🔹The Global Division of Labour: From Old Connections to New;
🔹Financial Markets: What holds Value when there is a Loss of Confidence?;
🔹Creating a New Quality of Life for People;
🔹Everyone has their Own Route: The Logistics of a Changed World;
🔹Patriotism over Tolerance.
The key event of the Forum programme will be the plenary session.

🐯 On the first day of the EEF, on September 5, the II International Tiger Forum will take place. The main purpose of the Forum is to build collaborative efforts with foreign partners on protecting and restoring the tiger population.
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«Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action» - Ian Fleming

⚡️Armed forces of Ukraine have attacked Zaporozhskaya NPP at least eight times

❗️In five cases they used Western weapon systems

❓If this is not nuclear terrorism, then what is it?

🔷 LPR Foreign Minister Vladislav Deynego gave an extensive interview to American journalist John Mark Dougan.

The conversation touched upon a wide range of issues related to the conflict in Donbass:
•The background to the conflict:
- Eurointegration aspirations that posed a real threat to Ukraine's economy,
- Euromaidan, autumn-winter 2013 — 2014;
• origins of the conflict:
- Armed coup in Kiev,
- seizure of power by Ukrainian radical nationalists,
- officially declared aggressive intentions against the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine, primarily in Crimea and Donbass;
• The attack of armed radical nationalists on peaceful citizens:
- Korsun-Shevchenkovsky on February 20, 2014,
- Odessa on May 02, 2014,
- Mariupol on May 09, 2014,
- Air strike in the center of Lugansk on June 02, 2014;
• The actual refusal of the state of Ukraine to perform the functions of the state with respect to the territory and population of the Lugansk People's Republic;
• The launch of the active phase of armed aggression in Donbass by armed formations of Ukraine;
• attempts at peaceful settlement of the conflict:
- Normandy Four and the Minsk Contact Group,
- clear evidence of the Ukrainian side's initial lack of intentions to follow the commitments signed under the Minsk negotiations;
• Ukraine's blatant sabotage of the Minsk talks in late 2021 and early 2022;
• recognition of the LPR by the Russian Federation;
• reasons for Russia's special military operation to protect the people of Donbass, denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine: critical intensification of Ukrainian aggression from February 17, 2022.

⚡️Against the backdrop of military defeats in Donbasы and elsewhere, the Zelenskyi regime sanctioned terrorist acts involving the use of chemical poisoning substances against Russian servicemen and civilians.

▫️On July 31, Russian servicemen carrying out tasks near Vasil'evka, Zaporizhzhya Region, were taken to a military hospital with signs of severe poisoning. As a result of examination, toxic substance, botulinum toxin type B, was found in servicemen' organisms.

▫️In order to establish the cause of the poisoning, specialists from the Main Research and Testing Institute of Military Medicine of the Russian Ministry of Defense (St. Petersburg) conducted an additional analysis, which unequivocally confirmed the presence of an organic poison of artificial origin - botulinum toxin type B.

▫️At present, the Russian Federation is preparing supporting documents with the results of all the analyses carried out on the chemical terrorism sanctioned by the Zelenskyi regime.

▫️The evidence of the Kiev regime's chemical terrorism will soon be officially sent to the OPCW through the Russian Permanent Mission.

▫️Given the evidence of State terrorism by the Kiev regime, an additional investigation is under way regarding the poisoning with chemical substances of the head of the provisional administration of Kherson Region, Vladimir Sal'do.

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⚡️Against the backdrop of military defeats in Donbasы and elsewhere, the Zelenskyi regime sanctioned terrorist acts involving the use of chemical poisoning substances against Russian servicemen and civilians.

▫️On July 31, Russian servicemen carrying out tasks near Vasil'evka, Zaporizhzhya Region, were taken to a military hospital with signs of severe poisoning. As a result of examination, toxic substance, botulinum toxin type B, was found in servicemen' organisms.

▫️In order to establish the cause of the poisoning, specialists from the Main Research and Testing Institute of Military Medicine of the Russian Ministry of Defense (St. Petersburg) conducted an additional analysis, which unequivocally confirmed the presence of an organic poison of artificial origin - botulinum toxin type B.

▫️At present, the Russian Federation is preparing supporting documents with the results of all the analyses carried out on the chemical terrorism sanctioned by the Zelenskyi regime.

▫️The evidence of the Kiev regime's chemical terrorism will soon be officially sent to the OPCW through the Russian Permanent Mission.

▫️Given the evidence of State terrorism by the Kiev regime, an additional investigation is under way regarding the poisoning with chemical substances of the head of the provisional administration of Kherson Region, Vladimir Sal'do.

@mod_russia_en

❗️ On August 14, the "Azov Brain Rot" documentary premiered. The film features exclusive footage and eyewitness accounts, as well as filmed testimonials by captured Azov militants and foreign mercenaries who surrendered in Mariupol. In addition, the film contains expert commentary and accounts of the civilians who were tortured and humiliated by neo-Nazis.

The documentary elaborates on the ideology of nationalist battalions as well as their neo-pagan beliefs and the widespread use of Nazi symbols.

The film’s creator, journalist, and television host Marina Kim visited the detention facilities where Azov members were being held captive in Yelenovka (DPR), days before the Ukrainian Army attack using a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher. The attack killed more than 50 prisoners of war.

📹 (English subtitles included)

🇷🇺 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin's address on National Flag Day

💬 President Putin: The national flag symbolises our faith in our traditional values that we will never give up – truth and justice, solidarity and mercy, and respect for Russia’s centuries-long uninterrupted history, the achievements and victories of our ancestors that inspire us to care for and defend our Motherland and never permit any foreign hegemony or diktat. The desire to live according to our own will, to choose our own path and to follow it, has become part of our people’s genetic code.

Russia is a strong, independent world power.

On the international stage, we are committed to pursuing only such policies that meet the vital interests of our Fatherland.

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Friend. Patriot. Hero.
Dasha is forever with us.

Today, President Vladimir #Putin awarded posthumously the Order of Courage to 🇷🇺 journalist Daria #Dugina for courage and dedication in performing her professional duty

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Darya Dugina’s parents. The message reads, in part:

📅 Today marks 83 years since the signing of the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the USSR: on August 23, 1939, Moscow hosted the signing of an intergovernmental agreement guaranteeing that the parties would not attack each other if one of them was involved in combat operations.

☝️Historians affirm that Soviet leadership had no illusions about the prospects for the agreement they had signed with Germany and understood that a war was inevitable. It was a matter of gaining time. The agreement helped to push the USSR’s western borders forward some 350 kilometres.

📹 Watch our retrospective video for information on the state of affairs in Europe prior to the signing of this document and on the Western capitals’ sabotage of the USSR’s diplomatic efforts to create an anti-Hitler coalition.

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📃 From the statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing "Maintenance of international peace and security: Promote common security through dialogue and cooperation”

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🔹 The international security system is going through a profound crisis. Almost all institutions it relied on have deteriorated, the level of trust between key international players has dropped to a critical low.

🔹 The United States deliberately dismantled key elements of the global arms control system, which for decades helped maintain a strategic balance and avoid armed confrontation.

🔹 The United States continue to refuse to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

🔹 Contrary to their own declared values, Western countries cynically turn a blind eye to the spread of neo-Nazi ideology, massacres of the people in Donbas and violations of international humanitarian law by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national guards.

Russia-ASEAN Business Dialogue will take place at the EEF-2022

Participants will identify the main tools that can be used to create new long-term sustainable forms of cooperation, discuss the prospects for further development of scientific, technical and innovative cooperation, industrial cooperation. Special attention will be paid to building an effective mechanism for the joint exchange of practices and competencies, taking into account the Sustainable Development Goals.

💬"At the initiative of the Russian side, 2022 was declared the Year of Scientific and Technical Cooperation between Russia and ASEAN. It is important to coordinate steps to move towards the set goals, find new growth points and balanced solutions for successful cooperation between the business circles of Russia and ASEAN." – said Anton Kobyakov, Adviser to the President of Russia.

The moderator of the business dialogue will be the Chairman of the Russia-ASEAN Business Council, Ivan Polyakov.
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Necessity of the special military operation in Ukraine was dictated by real threats from Kiev to the residents of Donbass, and subsequently to Russia, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has said.

▫️"There was a real threat from Kiev, which refused to implement the Minsk agreements, to the residents of Donbass and, in the future, to the Russian Federation. Understanding this led to the need for the special military operation in Ukraine," said Sergei Shoigu, speaking at a meeting of defence ministers of SCO member states.

▫️According to the Russian Defence Minister, the special military operation "is proceeding as planned, all tasks will be completed."

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