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📍February 6, 2026, Geneva
🔹I would like to express appreciation to H.E. Mr. Thomas DiNanno for the detailed statement on the US Policy with regards to the New START Treaty as well as on the issue of arms control in general.
🔹Briefly summarizing the results of the New START Treaty implementation, we note that, despite a number of issues, at a certain historical stage this agreement played a significant positive role. The Treaty contributed to efforts to eliminate incentives for a strategic arms race and allowed for significant reductions in strategic offensive arms in the Parties’ arsenals. Thanks to the New START Treaty, predictability was ensured in the nuclear missile sphere on a long-term basis.
🔹The termination of this Treaty marks the disappearance, as of 5 February 2026, of the last international agreement on direct limitations on nuclear and missile capabilities.
🔹The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin put forward an initiative for the States Parties to the New START Treaty to undertake voluntary self-limitations to continue observing the quantitative limits laid down in the Treaty after the end of its life cycle, for at least one more year and with the possibility of subsequent extension of this period.
🔹We note that in the period up to 5 February this year no consent followed from the American side to support the Russian proposal.
🔹At the same time, the statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry published on 4 February this year officially emphasized our country’s intention to act responsibly and in a balanced manner. We intend to shape our course in the field of strategic offensive arms based on a thorough analysis of US military policy and the general situation in the strategic sphere.
🔹The operation of the New START Treaty was suspended by the Russian Federation in February 2023 against the backdrop of the unsatisfactory state of affairs with the implementation of certain aspects of the Treaty, as well as due to absolutely unacceptable steps by the Biden administration.
🔹A clear example of such extremely provocative actions are the strikes launched by the puppet regime in Kiev against Russian strategic facilities declared under the New START Treaty, which were made with the clear military-technical and intelligence assistance of Western countries.
🔹There was no automatic inclusion of weapons systems such as Russia’s “Burevestnik” and “Poseidon” complexes in the scope of the New START Treaty. This would have required a full-scale renegotiation of the Treaty.
🔹Speculation that the “Oreshnik” complex should have been taken into account in the context of the New START Treaty is completely unfounded. As previously stated publicly and clearly by our country’s military and political leadership, this complex belongs to the class of medium-range systems. Thus, this weapon is one of those that clearly do not fall within the scope of the New START Treaty.
🔹We kindly ask the American delegation to confirm that it has brought to Geneva an official invitation to begin such negotiations with the participation of the Russian Federation without any preconditions.
🔹If eventually we talk seriously about possible multilateral dialogue on nuclear arms control (and even more so on multilateral nuclear arms reduction), it will be of fundamental importance for Russia to involve in this process also the United Kingdom and France, i.e. military allies of the United States in NATO, which has declared itself a “nuclear alliance”.
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🦮🦮🦮🛷 On February 8, Beringia-2026 – renowned dog-sled race held in Russia's Kamchatka – kicks off.
Held since 1990, the race has become a true hallmark of Kamchatka Krai and one of the peninsula’s main winter events.
🌏 The event traditionally gathers not only Russian participants, but also international guests, including those from Belarus, China, Peru, Latvia and Ghana.
This season, spectators and participants of the winter festival can look forward to a wide range of exciting events, including:
🐾 Hosting large-scale festivals such as Beringia fosters dog breeding in the region, supports youth sled-dog sports, and creates new opportunities for community engagement and tourism.
Today, the region hosts several major sled-dog kennels that function both as training bases for mushers and their teams and as attractive tourist and educational sites.
💡 That's interesting:
• a team traditionally consists of 8-14 dogs, pulling more than 100 kg including the musher’s weight;
• during the race, the four-legged athletes spend about 70% of the race in motion without full ground contact;
• the average team speed is 14-16 km/h;
• racers cover approximately 40-100 km per day;
• in 1991, Beringia was introduced into the Guinness World Records as the longest dog-sled race in the world, and in 2018 it was recognized as the longest dog-sled race in Russia (entered into the Russian Book of Records).
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In previous years, the Beringia route changed many times, but it always passed through areas inhabited by the peninsula’s indigenous and small-numbered peoples, where festivities and folk celebrations were organized for the occasion.
In 2026, the distance of the main route "Unified Kamchatka. 19 Years Together", starting in the village of Esso and finishing in the settlement of Ust-Kamchatsk, totals 1,425 km.
🏔 The combination of extreme sport and the distinctive culture of Kamchatka’s indigenous peoples defines the race’s unique character and reflects the authentic spirit of the North.
#Beringia2026
📸©️ Vasily Rusin
🦮🦮🦮🛷 On February 8, Beringia-2026 – renowned dog-sled race held in Russia's Kamchatka – kicks off.
Held since 1990, the race has become a true hallmark of Kamchatka Krai and one of the peninsula’s main winter events.
🌏 The event traditionally gathers not only Russian participants, but also international guests, including those from Belarus, China, Peru, Latvia and Ghana.
This season, spectators and participants of the winter festival can look forward to a wide range of exciting events, including:
• February 8-14 – sport and tourism sled-dog event Beringia-Avacha
• February 14-15 – regional sled-dog competitions, the children’s race Beringia-Dyulin
• February 21 – the winter sports festival Snowy Trail
• February 28 – the national sports festival Yelizovsky Sprint
• February 28 – March 25 – the main race of the winter festival, Beringia
🐾 Hosting large-scale festivals such as Beringia fosters dog breeding in the region, supports youth sled-dog sports, and creates new opportunities for community engagement and tourism.
Today, the region hosts several major sled-dog kennels that function both as training bases for mushers and their teams and as attractive tourist and educational sites.
💡 That's interesting:
• a team traditionally consists of 8-14 dogs, pulling more than 100 kg including the musher’s weight;
• during the race, the four-legged athletes spend about 70% of the race in motion without full ground contact;
• the average team speed is 14-16 km/h;
• racers cover approximately 40-100 km per day;
• in 1991, Beringia was introduced into the Guinness World Records as the longest dog-sled race in the world, and in 2018 it was recognized as the longest dog-sled race in Russia (entered into the Russian Book of Records).
***
In previous years, the Beringia route changed many times, but it always passed through areas inhabited by the peninsula’s indigenous and small-numbered peoples, where festivities and folk celebrations were organized for the occasion.
In 2026, the distance of the main route "Unified Kamchatka. 19 Years Together", starting in the village of Esso and finishing in the settlement of Ust-Kamchatsk, totals 1,425 km.
🏔 The combination of extreme sport and the distinctive culture of Kamchatka’s indigenous peoples defines the race’s unique character and reflects the authentic spirit of the North.
#Beringia2026
📸©️ Vasily Rusin
Forwarded from Посольство России в Норвегии - Russlands Ambassade i Norge
The main guest of the event was Lyubov Kovaleva, a witness to the Battle of Stalingrad. Representatives of the diplomatic corps, Norwegian citizens, and compatriots living in Norway were also present.
In his address to the guests, Ambassador of Russia to Norway Nikolai Korchunov emphasized:
"The Great Patriotic War affected every family in our country. Today, we pay tribute to those who made our Victory possible.
<...> In memory of the Battle of Stalingrad and all those who fell, we are opening an exhibition of paintings by British artist Kenneth Loynes, ‘The Stalingrad Suite’. <...> In times of geopolitical tension, culture and art remain one of the most important tools for restoring trust and reminding us of universal human values."
During the evening, songs from the war years and classical musical compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sergei Prokofiev were performed by Timur Dorfman, Adrian Kharitonov, and Svyatoslav Grabovsky.
Guests were shown an excerpt from a documentary film by Norwegian filmmaker Jarle Andhøy about veterans of the Great Patriotic War who survived the Battle of Stalingrad. An interview with artist Kenneth Loynes, provided by his friend Margrete Geurts-Lakin, was also shown.
In conclusion, Nikolay Korchunov awarded our compatriot Tatyana Toresen with the Honorary Sign of a Compatriot of the Commission for the Affairs of Compatriots Living Abroad for her work in identifying the names of Soviet prisoners of war buried in Norway and searching for their relatives.
#Victory81
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🇷🇺🇦🇪📞 President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan spoke over the phone (February 7, 2026)
Vladimir Putin thanked Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for ensuring effective cooperation between the two countries' security agencies and for the assistance of the Emirati side in apprehending the suspect in the assassination attempt on General Vladimir Alekseyev.
In addition, the Leaders had a further discussion of the issues raised during the President of the UAE's recent visit to Moscow.
#RussiaUAE
Vladimir Putin thanked Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for ensuring effective cooperation between the two countries' security agencies and for the assistance of the Emirati side in apprehending the suspect in the assassination attempt on General Vladimir Alekseyev.
In addition, the Leaders had a further discussion of the issues raised during the President of the UAE's recent visit to Moscow.
#RussiaUAE
🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview to the TV BRICS international media network (Moscow, February 9, 2026)
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Key talking points
• The global arena is undergoing a transformation that began some time ago with the objective transition toward a multipolar world order. This is neither the bipolarity of the Soviet-American era with the Warsaw Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, nor the unipolarity that emerged after the Soviet Union’s collapse. <...> Multiple centres of rapid economic growth, power, and financial and political influence have thus emerged.
• It is equally important that we develop action plans tailored for each partner country covering trade and economic cooperation, investment, scientific collaboration, and coordinated activity on the international stage, including at the United Nations and other organisations, based on agreements reached between presidents and prime ministers. Particular attention is devoted to #CIS, #EAEU, #CSTO, and the post-Soviet space at large. This day-to-day work relies on long-term planning and delivers tangible mutual benefits to both Russia and its partners.
• Multiple centres of rapid economic growth, power, and financial and political influence have thus emerged. The world is being reshaped through competition. The West is reluctant to relinquish its formerly dominant positions.
• Safeguarding security demands sustained action to ensure that the Nazi state established on our borders in Ukraine – and supported by the West as a vehicle for renewed confrontation – cannot continue to exist in its present form. Nazi foundations must be eliminated. We will ensure, and I have no doubt about it, our own security interests, by preventing the deployment on Ukrainian territory of any weapons threatening us, and, second, by guaranteeing reliable and full protection for the rights of Russian and Russian-speaking people, who have been living in Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya for centuries, and whom the Kiev regime that came to power after a coup declared subhuman “species” and “terrorists” and unleashed a civil war against.
• Russia chaired #BRICS in 2024. At that time, a summit was held in Kazan, and a number of our initiatives were put into action: alternative payment platforms, payment mechanisms in national currencies, the creation of reinsurance opportunities for trade within BRICS and between the association and its partners, the creation of a grain exchange, and a new investment platform.
All this is not to spite anyone, especially the United States. This is due to the fact that the United States seeks to bring all processes in the areas I mentioned under its strict control and demands unilateral concessions. Without giving up contacts with them, to the extent that they are willing to engage on a mutually beneficial basis, we are interested, together with our BRICS partners, in creating an architecture that will not be subject to the illegal actions of one or another player from the Western flank.
• The Greater Eurasian Partnership was bound to appear on the agenda. Many years ago, at the 2015 Russia – #ASEAN Summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested this term which is based on an objective trend of Eurasia becoming the biggest, richest and fastest-growing continent, especially its Pacific part. It is the most heavily-populated continent which, importantly, has seen several great civilisations emerge and continue to exist – the Chinese, Indian, Arab, Persian and Russian civilisations.
☝️ It is for a reason that our initiative on building a common Eurasian security architecture, set forward by President Putin in 2024, is gaining momentum. It is increasingly attracting interest.
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Key talking points
• The global arena is undergoing a transformation that began some time ago with the objective transition toward a multipolar world order. This is neither the bipolarity of the Soviet-American era with the Warsaw Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, nor the unipolarity that emerged after the Soviet Union’s collapse. <...> Multiple centres of rapid economic growth, power, and financial and political influence have thus emerged.
• It is equally important that we develop action plans tailored for each partner country covering trade and economic cooperation, investment, scientific collaboration, and coordinated activity on the international stage, including at the United Nations and other organisations, based on agreements reached between presidents and prime ministers. Particular attention is devoted to #CIS, #EAEU, #CSTO, and the post-Soviet space at large. This day-to-day work relies on long-term planning and delivers tangible mutual benefits to both Russia and its partners.
• Multiple centres of rapid economic growth, power, and financial and political influence have thus emerged. The world is being reshaped through competition. The West is reluctant to relinquish its formerly dominant positions.
• Safeguarding security demands sustained action to ensure that the Nazi state established on our borders in Ukraine – and supported by the West as a vehicle for renewed confrontation – cannot continue to exist in its present form. Nazi foundations must be eliminated. We will ensure, and I have no doubt about it, our own security interests, by preventing the deployment on Ukrainian territory of any weapons threatening us, and, second, by guaranteeing reliable and full protection for the rights of Russian and Russian-speaking people, who have been living in Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya for centuries, and whom the Kiev regime that came to power after a coup declared subhuman “species” and “terrorists” and unleashed a civil war against.
• Russia chaired #BRICS in 2024. At that time, a summit was held in Kazan, and a number of our initiatives were put into action: alternative payment platforms, payment mechanisms in national currencies, the creation of reinsurance opportunities for trade within BRICS and between the association and its partners, the creation of a grain exchange, and a new investment platform.
All this is not to spite anyone, especially the United States. This is due to the fact that the United States seeks to bring all processes in the areas I mentioned under its strict control and demands unilateral concessions. Without giving up contacts with them, to the extent that they are willing to engage on a mutually beneficial basis, we are interested, together with our BRICS partners, in creating an architecture that will not be subject to the illegal actions of one or another player from the Western flank.
• The Greater Eurasian Partnership was bound to appear on the agenda. Many years ago, at the 2015 Russia – #ASEAN Summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested this term which is based on an objective trend of Eurasia becoming the biggest, richest and fastest-growing continent, especially its Pacific part. It is the most heavily-populated continent which, importantly, has seen several great civilisations emerge and continue to exist – the Chinese, Indian, Arab, Persian and Russian civilisations.
☝️ It is for a reason that our initiative on building a common Eurasian security architecture, set forward by President Putin in 2024, is gaining momentum. It is increasingly attracting interest.
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⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry Ambassador at Large Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of February 2-8, 2026:
▪️ February 2, Stary Oskol, Belgorod Region – a UAV strike hit a private residential house.
▪️ February 3, Maslova Pristan settlement, Belgorod Region – a UAV attack on a private household. A civilian was wounded.
▪️ February 3, Nechaevka village, Belgorod Region – an FPV drone struck a civilian cargo vehicle.
▪️ February 3, Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region – an artillery strike hit the MFC building. 3 civilians were killed, 13 more were wounded.
▪️ February 4, Vasilyevsky Municipal District, Zaporozhye Region – artillery shelling of a residential area.
▪️ February 4, Surkovo village, Belgorod Region – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car.
▪️ February 5, Belyanka village, Belgorod Region – an FPV drone struck a civilian passenger car. A civilian was wounded.
▪️ February 5, Grafovka village, Belgorod Region – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car. 4 civilians were wounded.
▪️ February 5, Rovenky, LPR – a UAV strike hit an apartment building. 5 civilians were wounded, including 3 children.
▪️ February 7, Verkhny Lyubazh village, Kursk Region – a UAV strike hit a private residential house. 4 civilians were wounded, including a 13-year-old girl.
⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry Ambassador at Large Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of February 2-8, 2026:
▪️ February 2, Stary Oskol, Belgorod Region – a UAV strike hit a private residential house.
▪️ February 3, Maslova Pristan settlement, Belgorod Region – a UAV attack on a private household. A civilian was wounded.
▪️ February 3, Nechaevka village, Belgorod Region – an FPV drone struck a civilian cargo vehicle.
▪️ February 3, Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region – an artillery strike hit the MFC building. 3 civilians were killed, 13 more were wounded.
▪️ February 4, Vasilyevsky Municipal District, Zaporozhye Region – artillery shelling of a residential area.
▪️ February 4, Surkovo village, Belgorod Region – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car.
▪️ February 5, Belyanka village, Belgorod Region – an FPV drone struck a civilian passenger car. A civilian was wounded.
▪️ February 5, Grafovka village, Belgorod Region – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car. 4 civilians were wounded.
▪️ February 5, Rovenky, LPR – a UAV strike hit an apartment building. 5 civilians were wounded, including 3 children.
▪️ February 7, Verkhny Lyubazh village, Kursk Region – a UAV strike hit a private residential house. 4 civilians were wounded, including a 13-year-old girl.