📺 Remarks by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the General Debate of 80th Session of the UN General Assembly.

Key points (Unofficial translation):

• 80 years ago the most terrible war in human history came to an end. More than 70 million people fell victim to hostilities, hunger and disease. In 1945 the course of world history changed forever. We hold sacred the memory of brotherhood-in-arms with all Allies who then stood on the side of truth in the struggle against the forces of evil.

• #UNCharterIsOurRules The principles and the Charter agreed upon by the founding fathers of our Organization still serve as a bright beacon for international cooperation.

• We advocate for the unconditional observance of the principle of equality. In it lies the guarantee that all countries can take their rightful place in world affairs, regardless of their military power, population size, territory or economy.

• Russia strongly condemned the Hamas militants’ attack on peaceful Israelis on October 7, 2023. However, there is no justification for the brutal killing of Palestinian civilians, just as there is no justification for terrorism.

• The Arabic language is not banned in Israel, nor is Hebrew in Arab countries or Iran – but the Russian language is banned in Ukraine. Let me recall that Article 1 of the Charter speaks of the need to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion. Europe remains silent, obsessed with the utopian goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.

• The rights of Russians and Russian-speaking people in the territories still under the control of the Kiev regime must be fully restored. On this basis we are ready to discuss the security guarantees for Ukraine.

• Russia and the US bear a special responsibility for world affairs, for avoiding risks that could plunge humanity into a new war.

• The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (#SCO) and #BRICS play a special role as mechanisms for coordination of countries of the Global South and East.

• NATO is already cramped in Europe, and it is expanding into the Pacific Ocean, the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, undermining the universal ASEAN mechanisms and creating threats not only to China and Russia but also to other countries in the region.

• Speaking of the future, we must not forget the lessons of the past – especially when Nazism is once again raising its head in Europe, militarization is gaining momentum under the same anti-Russian slogans. This causes particular concern given that a number of political figures, now in power in Brussels and certain EU and NATO capitals, seriously discuss World War III as a possible scenario.

• We call on member states and the Secretariat’s leadership to scrupulously follow all the Charter’s principles – without exception and without double standards. Then the legacy of the UN’s founding fathers will not be wasted.

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#ГАООН80

🎙 Выступление и ответы на вопросы СМИ Министра иностранных дел России С.В.Лаврова на пресс-конференции по итогам недели высокого уровня 80-й сессии Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН (Нью-Йорк, 27 сентября 2025 года)

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💬 С.В.Лавров: Мир переживает глубокую трансформацию. В её рамках сталкиваются два магистральных процесса. Один – объективный, исторически обусловленный процесс формирования многополярного мира, прочно опирающийся на принцип суверенного равенства государств, заложенный в Уставе ООН. Второй – это группа стран, те, кто хочет сохранить однополярный мир, сохранить то, что мы привыкли называть «золотым миллиардом», сохранить уже не колониальные, а неоколониальные методы, суть которых одна и та же – жить за счёт других.

Примеров тому множеству. Не сомневаюсь, что вы как журналисты интересуетесь происходящим и тем, как страны пытаются объяснить свою позицию, и тем, как эти слова расходятся или не расходятся с делами.

Из ответов на вопросы:

#Провокации #Украина #Запад #Польша

• Мы просили опубликовать имена тех, чьи тела [в Буче] были продемонстрированы по «Би-би-си». Генеральный секретарь ООН А.Гутерреш пожимает плечами и говорит, что он не может этим заниматься. Потом сказал, что он просил, а ему отказали. Мы также обращались в Управление Верховного комиссара ООН по правам человека. Ответ получили только этим летом. Он гласит поразительные вещи. Нам сообщили (правда, устно), что юристы Секретариата вынесли вердикт о нецелесообразности разглашения сведений о жертвах в Буче в целях обеспечения безопасности их родственников.

• У киевского режима есть специальные структуры и в медийном пространстве, и в военно-технической сфере, которые занимаются провокациями «под ложным флагом». Читал, что они берут дроны нашего производства, которые там у них тоже имеются, и снаряжают их таким образом, чтобы не было сомнений, что это мы их запустили. Во всех этих «пакостях» помогают украинцам британцы, как они это делали много столетий на нашем геополитическом пространстве.

❗️ Президент России В.В.Путин не раз говорил, что мы не допустим какого-либо нарушения наших территорий, нашего воздушного пространства со стороны тех в Европе, кто откровенно готовит войну против нас.

• Когда на польской территории упали беспилотники, мы в тот же день, как только поляки стали поднимать тревогу, предложили по линии Министерства обороны России провести встречу. Нам нечего скрывать. Никогда не атакуем гражданские объекты. Инциденты случаются, но мы никогда не ведём прицельный огонь по ним. Никогда не направляем наши беспилотники или ракеты по государствам из членов Евросоюза и Североатлантического альянса, расположенным в Европе. Если бы поляки действительно хотели разобраться в этом, мы бы немедленно предложили встречу.

#Иран #СВПД

• Мы с КНР делали всё, чтобы дать шанс дипломатии [совместный проект резолюции о продлении на полгода резолюции ООН 2231 по иранской ядерной программе]. Поскольку Запад сорвал [резолюцию] и зашантажировал большинство членов СБ, чтобы они тоже поддержали его деструктивную позицию. Иран был готов и до сих пор готов к диалогу. Это сознательная операция, направленная на то, чтобы приступить к очередному этапу удушения Ирана экономически, финансово и так далее.

#РоссияСША

• Ценим, что администрация Д.Трампа с самого начала предложила возобновить наш диалог. Мы его возобновили. Не видим какого-либо отхода США от курса на проведение открытого, честного диалога с Россией, как и с КНР, как и с рядом других стран, с которыми у США возникают разногласия и противоречия, различное видение того, как дальше торговать, вести экономические дела.

#Германия #Ренацификация

• [В Германии] идёт не только процесс милитаризации, а наблюдаются явные признаки ренацификации. Как гордо объявил Канцер Германии Ф.Мерц, его цель состоит в том, чтобы «вновь» сделать Германию «главной военной машиной Европы». Когда человек в стране, совершившей преступления нацизма, фашизма, Холокоста, геноцида, говорит о том, что Германии надо «опять» стать великой военной державой, то у него атрофия исторической памяти. Это опасно.

▪️ 87 years ago — on September 30, 1938 — the leaders of Nazi Germany, Italy, UK, and France met in Munich to sign a shameful agreement on the transfer of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland region to the Third Reich.

Czechoslovakia, which was used as a bargaining chip by Britain and France to appease the Nazis, was barred from participation in that meeting.

After Czechoslovakia's fate had been decided behind the closed doors, it was presented as a fait accompli to Prague that its sovereign territory had to be ceded to Nazi Germany.

As a result of that treacherous conspiracy between the Western powers and the Nazis, Czechoslovakia lost to Germany roughly 20% of its territory — a military and industrially important region that was home to about 25% of the country’s population. By October 10, 1938, the German troops occupied the Sudetenland.

❗️ That disgraceful pact with Hitler marked the failure of the Western 'policy of appeasement' and went down to history as the #MunichConspiracy.

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In mid-September 1938, on the eve of the Munich Conference, Britain and France, having agreed to make concessions to Hitler and grant him carte blanche to seize part of Czechoslovakia’s territory, presented an ultimatum to Prague demanding that the country must surrender the Sudetenland to Germany.

That démarche by the UK and France, intended to satisfy Hitler's ambitions, was unprecedented in international relations — it was attempted, with no justification, to force an independent, sovereign state to cede part of its national territory. Moreover, France — Czechoslovakia’s ally and guarantor of its security — betrayed Prague, abandoning it to be devoured by the Nazis.

☝️ The only European power that was willing to support Czechoslovakia was the Soviet Union. Responding to Czechoslovak President Beneš’s request for help, the Soviet leadership reaffirmed that Moscow would honour its allied commitments. By late September 1938, the Red Army had concentrated 40 divisions and 20 brigades on the USSR’s western borders and placed them on combat readiness, some 330'000 reservists had been called up

Yet Poland, aligning with the Nazis, did everything possible to derail those efforts by the USSR. Warsaw refused to grant the Red Army passage through Polish territory to reach the Czechoslovak border and even prohibited transit for Soviet aircraft.

In return for supporting the Reich, Poland had hoped to receive from Hitler a share of Czechoslovakia's lands. Immediately after the Munich Conference, Polish troops occupied the Těšín District, thus becoming an active accomplice in the crime against its neighbour.

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The Munich Conspiracy radically changed the international landscape and had far-reaching implications. The Western powers — the supposed guarantors of the Versailles system — proved incapable of deterring the aggressor or preventing its criminal designs. The West-pursued 'appeasement policy' completely failed.

Within six months that followed after the Munich Conspiracy, Germany seized all of Czechoslovakia. In spring 1939, Lithuania's Klaipeda Region with the port of Memel was taken by the Nazis, while Italy occupied Albania. In that situation, the Nazi military command developed plan 'Weiss' — the invasion of Poland, whose leaders' political short-sightedness and miscalculations soon turned it into the Hitler's next victim.

👉 Thus, a war in Europe became inevitable.

The criminal deal between Britain, France, and Nazi Germany, in fact, destroyed any remaining prospects of an anti-Nazi collective security system in Europe that might have repelled the aggressor and prevented the coming catastrophe.

The crisis of 1938 was not merely a prelude to the bloodiest conflict in human history. It laid bare the dangers of closed-doors intrigues in world politics and eventually triggered World War II.

📖 Read more about the Munich Conspiracy in our in-depth historical feature.

🇷🇺 Служба внешней разведки Российской Федерации:

💬 Пресс-бюро Службы внешней разведки Российской Федерации сообщает, что, по поступающей в СВР России информации, киевский режим после организованных им провокаций с БПЛА в воздушном пространстве Польши и Румынии не оставляет попыток втянуть европейские страны НАТО в вооружённое противостояние с Москвой.

❗️ В проработке очередная провокация. На этот раз интрига должна разворачиваться вокруг заброшенной на польскую территорию диверсионно-разведывательной группы (ДРГ), якобы состоящей из военнослужащих спецподразделений России и Белоруссии.

Кандидаты для участия в инсценировке подобраны. Это воюющие на стороне ВСУ боевики из «Легиона "Свобода России"» и белорусского «полка им. К. Калиновского».

Предполагается, что после «выявления и нейтрализации» ДРГ польскими силовиками члены группы выступят перед СМИ и дадут признательные показания, изобличающие Россию и Белоруссию в попытке дестабилизации обстановки в Польше. На фоне череды происшествий с «залётами российских беспилотников» в государства Европы подобное событие не должно оставить у польского и других европейских обывателей сомне­ний в том, что за всеми враждебными акциями стоят Москва и Минск.

⚠️ Сценарий провокации разработан Главным управлением разведки МО Украины совместно с польскими спецслужбами.

Не исключается, что срежиссированная операция будет сопря­жена с имитацией атаки на объекты критической инфраструктуры Польши, дабы усилить общественный резонанс.

Цель провокации очевидна — продемонстрировать международному сообществу, что Москва раскручивает маховик эска­лации.

В Киеве рассчитывают побудить страны Европы к мак­симально жёсткому, желательно военному, ответу России. Пе­ред лицом неотвратимого поражения режим Зеленского готов, прикрываясь европейцами, пуститься во все тяжкие, даже ценой разжигания «большой войны».

🇷🇺 Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation:

💬 The press service of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation hereby informs that, according to information available to the Service, the Kiev regime, which organised the provocations with drones in the airspace of Poland and Romania, has not abandoned attempts to involve European NATO countries in an armed conflict with Moscow.

❗️ They are plotting a new provocation. This time it provides for sending a subversive reconnaissance group comprising alleged servicemen of Russian and Belarusian special operations forces to Poland.

The candidates for this hoax operation have already been selected from among members of the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Belarusian Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment, who are fighting on Ukraine’s side.

In accordance with their scenario, after this subversive reconnaissance group is apprehended by Polish security services, the detained members of the group will speak to the media, exposing Russia and Belarus’s attempts to destabilise the situation in Poland. Staged against the backdrop of “Russian drone incursions” into the airspace of European countries, this operation is designed to remove any doubt among the public in Poland and other European countries about Moscow and Minsk standing behind these hostile actions.

⚠️ The scenario of this provocation has been written by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine jointly with Polish security services.

It is possible that this orchestrated invasion will be complemented with a fake attack on Poland’s critical infrastructure to increase public outrage.

The obvious goal of this provocation is to convince the international community that Moscow is escalating tension.

Kiev hopes to encourage European countries to provide a maximally harsh, preferably armed, response to Russia. Zelensky’s regime is ready to do anything in the face of its unavoidable defeat, using Europeans as a cover, and even at the cost of a major war.

📄 The Russian Foreign Ministry has published a Report “Regarding the actions (and inaction) of the authorities of Italy, Germany and Japan, resulting in destruction and falsification of history, justification of fascism and its accomplices”.

Full report available on the Russian MFA website (PDF).

✍️ In the year marking the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism (World War II), not only in Russia but across the world many are rightly asking: to what extent have the lessons of the struggle against Nazism, fascism and militarism truly been learned?

Public opinion – both in countries friendly and unfriendly to Russia – that remembers the horrors of that time is witnessing the dangerous attempts of certain present-day leaders and political elites to distort objective reality, destroy and rewrite the history of World War II, revise its outcomes, whitewash war criminals who devised and implemented the theory of racial superiority, and glorify collaborators who aided the Nazis.

🤐 In a number of states, the information regarding the crimes of Hitlerism is being deliberately silenced, while the glorification of Nazism and rewriting of WWII history have been elevated to the level of official policy.

Particularly alarming is the fact that these destructive processes are advancing most rapidly in Germany, Italy and Japan – the very founders of the aggressive Axis bloc, which during World War II was opposed by the Anti-Hitler Coalition. <...>

Revisionist tendencies are gaining ground in Germany. The false thesis about the “equal responsibility of two totalitarian regimes” for unleashing WWII has long become a cornerstone of Germany’s remembrance culture, while the results of the post-war settlement are now the main target of official propaganda. <...>

Germany’s process of atonement for the crimes of the Nazi regime is largely limited to the theme of the Holocaust, while the memory of Soviet victims is deliberately ignored. <...>

🇷🇺🇧🇾 It is therefore not surprising that, in this atmosphere, German law-enforcement authorities saw no violation of the law in the actions of the leadership of the former Nazi concentration camp museum Dachau, which ordered staff to remove ribbons in the national colours of Russia and Belarus from wreaths laid during a commemorative ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of Victory. <...>

The revanchist core of Japan’s modern policy is clearly reflected in Tokyo’s persistent imposition of false interpretations of events of the mid-20th century that determined the fate of humanity. <...>

Since the coming to power in October 2022 of the centre-right government in Italy led by Giorgia Meloni, there has been a noticeable trend towards greater tolerance by the authorities for the increased apologetics in some parts of society for the “values” and “achievements” of the fascist regime, as well as public reproduction of symbols and rituals of the fascist Ventennio. <...> During her time in office, the Prime Minister herself has never once made a statement of firm and unequivocal condemnation of fascism. <...>

❌ Since 2022, Germany, Italy and Japan have consistently voted against the annually tabled resolution introduced by Russia and other co-sponsors at the UN General Assembly “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”.

❗️ This is the first time in history that members of Hitler’s wartime Axis coalition have openly voted against a document condemning the glorification of Nazism and all forms of racial discrimination.

The fact that these states – directly responsible for the deaths of tens of millions – now vote against a resolution calling for the prevention of Nazism's revival raises serious questions about the ideological processes under way in these countries and in the West at large. It is also evident that these states have chosen to ignore the obligations and pledges they assumed when joining the United Nations.

🎙 President Vladimir Putin's remarks at the Plenary Session of the 22nd annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club (Sochi, October 2, 2025):

💬 President Putin: This year’s Valdai Club report is devoted to a multipolar, polycentric world. The topic has long been on the agenda, but now it requires special attention. <...>

Let me try to explain what makes the present situation unique.

First, today’s world offers a much more open – indeed, one might say creative – space for foreign policy.

Second, multipolar space is highly dynamic. As I have said, change occurs rapidly, sometimes suddenly, almost overnight.

Third, and of particular importance, is the fact that this new space is more democratic. It opens opportunities and pathways for a wide range of political and economic players.

Next. The cultural, historical, and civilisational specificities of different countries now play a greater role than ever before. It is necessary to seek points of contact and convergence of interests.

The fifth point: any decisions are only possible through agreements that satisfy all interested parties or the overwhelming majority.

Finally, the opportunities and dangers of a multipolar world are inseparable from one another. Naturally, the weakening of the dictate that characterised the previous period and the expansion of freedom for all is undeniably a positive development. At the same time, under such conditions, it is much more difficult to find and establish this very solid balance, which in itself is an obvious and extreme risk.

International relations are undergoing a radical transformation. Paradoxically, multipolarity has become a direct consequence of attempts to establish and preserve global hegemony, a response by the international system and history itself to the obsessive desire to arrange everyone into a single hierarchy, with Western countries at the top. <...>

❗️ Western countries succumbed to the temptation of absolute power.

<...>

Some, in their arrogance, saw themselves entitled to lecture the rest of the world.

Others were content to play along with the powerful as obedient bargaining chips, eager to avoid unnecessary trouble in exchange for a modest but guaranteed bonus. There are still many such politicians in the old part of the world, in Europe.

Those who dared object and tried to defend their own interests, rights, and views, were at best dismissed as eccentrics and told, in effect: “You will not succeed, so give up and accept that compared to our power, you are nonentity.”

As for the truly stubborn, they were “educated” by the self-proclaimed global leaders, who no longer even bothered to hide their intent. The message was clear: resistance was pointless.

☝️ But this did not bring anything good.

Not a single global problem was resolved.

<...>

The subordination of the majority to the minority inherent in international relations during the period of Western domination, is giving way to a multilateral and more cooperative approach. <...> the fundamentally new global atmosphere, increasingly shaped by the countries of the global majority, gives reason to hope that all actors will, in one way or another, have to take each other’s interests into account when addressing regional and global challenges.. <...>

The global balance cannot be built without Russia. Those who tried to destroy all of this have begun to realise it.

<...>

If anyone still feels tempted to challenge us militarily – let them try. Russia has proven time and again: when threats arise to our security, to the peace and tranquillity of our citizens, to our sovereignty and the very foundations of our statehood, we respond swiftly.

🇷🇺 Through all its trials, Russia has proved one thing: it was, is, and always will be. <...>

In today’s multipolar world, that very harmony and balance can only be achieved through a joint, common effort. And I want to assure you today that Russia is ready for this work.

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🇷🇺 Excerpts and key points from Russia's President Vladimir Putin's answers to questions at the plenary session of the 22nd annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club

📍October 2, 2025, Sochi

💬 President Vladimir Putin:

• Modern institutions experienced degradation precisely during the period when certain countries, or the collective West, sought to exploit the post-Cold War situation by declaring themselves victors. In this context, they began imposing their will on everyone – this is the first point. Second, all others gradually, at first mutedly, then more actively, began to resist this.

• What was the OSCE created for? To resolve complex situations in Europe. And what did it all boil down to? The entire activity of the OSCE reduced to becoming a platform for discussing, for example, human rights in the post-Soviet space.

• We gradually came to realise that we needed to create institutions where issues are resolved not as our Western colleagues attempted to resolve them, but genuinely based on consensus, genuinely based on aligning positions. This is how the #SCO – the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation – emerged. This is how #BRICS emerged

• We are fighting this war and producing our own military equipment. But on the other side of the line, we are effectively at war with the collective might of NATO. They are no longer even hiding this fact. We see this in the direct involvement of NATO instructors and representatives from Western countries in the hostilities. A command centre has been established in Europe for the purpose of coordinating our adversary’s war effort: providing the Armed Forces of Ukraine with intelligence, satellite imagery, weapons, and training. And I must reiterate: these foreign personnel are not only involved in training; they are directly participating in operational planning and combat operations themselves.

❓ Yet if we are combating the entire NATO alliance, advancing thus with unwavering confidence, and are deemed a “paper tiger” – what does that make NATO itself? What manner of entity is it then?

• In September, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to about 44'700 people, nearly half of them irretrievable losses. In the same period, they forcibly mobilised slightly more than 18'000 people. Approximately 14'500 people have returned to the army from hospitals. If we add up these figures and subtract the total from the number of casualties, we will see that Ukraine lost 11'000 in one month. In other words, the number of its troops on the frontline was not replenished and is decreasing.

• They say: the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – an atrocity, colluding with Hitler, the Soviet Union conspired with Hitler. Well, no, not at all. And you yourselves had conspired with Hitler shortly before and carved up Czechoslovakia. As though that never occurred. Propagandistically – yes, one can hammer these false equivalences into people’s heads, but in essence, we know how it truly was. That was the first act of the Ballet de la Merlaison.

• They began not merely equating Stalin’s and Hitler’s regimes – they attempted to erase the very outcomes of the Nuremberg Trials. Bizarre, given that these were participants in a shared struggle, and the Nuremberg Trials were collective, held precisely so that nothing similar would recur. Yet they began doing that. They started tearing down monuments to Soviet soldiers and so forth, those who fought against Nazism.

• The situation in Gaza is one of the most tragic events in recent history. It is also well known that the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has publicly admitted – and he often reflects Western views – that Gaza has become the largest children’s cemetery in the world. What could be more tragic? What could be more painful?