📆 24 мая в России и за её пределами торжественно отмечается День славянской письменности и культуры. Этот праздник посвящён памяти святых равноапостольных братьев Мефодия и Кирилла, выдающихся просветителей славян. Кирилл и Мефодий почитаются как создатели первой славянской азбуки, а их подвижническая деятельность заложила фундамент для развития славянской, в том числе русской, письменности и литературы.

В России этот праздник впервые отмечался в 1863 году — в год тысячелетия создания славянской азбуки братьями-просветителями. Тогда же Святейший Синод постановил ежегодно чтить их память. В Советском Союзе идея возрождения праздника возникла в 1986 году, а в 1991 году он обрёл статус государственного.

🌍 Славянские языки обладают богатой тысячелетней историей и сложной географией распространения. Сегодня на языках славянской группы говорят более 400 миллионов человек по всему миру, по разным подсчётам в эту группу входят от десяти до восемнадцати языков, из которых наиболее распространённым является русский язык.

🎙 М.В.Захарова:
Этот праздник широко отмечается и в нашей стране, и за рубежом. Он напоминает нам об общих истоках славянских языков, является ярким свидетельством неразрывной исторической связи и культурного единства славянских народов.

(из брифинга официального представителя МИД России от 20 мая 2025 года)

🌍 African nations are displaying a strong interest in the XIII international Meeting of High Representatives For Security Issues to be held at the "Russia" National Centre in Moscow on May 27−29, 2025.

Forty-five delegations from over 40 countries of Africa, as well as several Africa-based international organisations, including the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority for Development, have confirmed their intention to participate in the forum that will be chaired by Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu.

🤝 In a separate briefing to be held on the sidelines of the 13th meeting, participants will discuss ways to further intensify relations between Russia and African countries even further, particularly in light of decisions approved by the Russia-Africa summits.

The Press Service of the Executive Office of the Security Council of Russia:

“Large-scale geopolitical changes have directly affected the interests of states of the Global South and East. We hear an increasingly audible voice of African countries, which seek to conduct their foreign policy in the interests of their people and are ready to defend their right to freely choose their path of development. Russia has always rendered assistance to its African partners in their striving to defend their sovereignty, national interests and legitimate place in the system of international relations.”

#RussiaAfrica

⚡ Foreign Ministry statement on Kiev’s latest drone attack targeting Russian civilians (May 23, 2025)

The Kiev regime is relentless in its terror attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure in numerous Russian regions, including Moscow.

According to the Defence Ministry, from May 20 to 8 am on May 23, the number of aerial attacks amounted to multiples of what it used to be with 788 strikes by fixed-wing UAVs and Western-made missiles targeting Russian territory outside the area of the special military operation. Our air defence forces destroyed 776 drones and missiles, though unfortunately, 12 UAVs made it through our defences and hit their targets.

Casualties have been reported. On May 22, an attack on the village of Panteleymonovka, the Donetsk People’s Republic, wounded eight people. On the same day, a drone strike in the Vasilyevsky Municipal District, Zaporozhye Region, killed a woman born in 1990 and injured four children aged 10, 9, 8, and 1.

On the night of May 23, a downed UAV triggered fire in an industrial zone of Yelets, Lipetsk Region, injuring eight people. Additionally, the Ukrainian forces launched two HIMARS missiles on civilian targets in the city of Lgov, Kursk Region, also resulting in casualties, including two children.

Notably, even after the Ukrainian forces had been ousted from the Kursk Region, they keep trying to infiltrate our territory and launch drone, long-range artillery, and missile attacks.

Under these circumstances, the President was compelled to make a decision on establishing a security buffer zone on adjacent territory in order to minimise the ability of the Ukrainian forces to infiltrate and to attack our border regions using various munitions.

The latest barbaric terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime were carried out in an attempt to thwart direct Russia-Ukraine talks facilitated by the US Administration, which are designed to settle the conflict definitively. They also appear intended to derail the implementation of initial agreements reached in Istanbul on May 16, including a massive prisoner exchange.

These attacks are part of the strategy pursued by Ukraine’s party of war, which also includes violations of energy and Easter ceasefires that Russia has strictly observed, as well as the unilateral ceasefire declared by us during the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory celebrations.

Without a doubt, Russia will deliver a matching response to barrages of terrorist attacks carried out by the Kiev regime.

Unlike the Ukrainian side, our targets will be strictly limited to military facilities and defence industry plants.

☝️ To reiterate, our fundamental commitment to a constructive search for a peaceful settlement through dialogue remains unchanged.

✍️ 24 мая в начальной общеобразовательной школе при Посольстве России в Австралии прошел тематический урок, приуроченный ко Дню славянской письменности и культуры.

🎓 Ученики познакомились с историей жизни создателей первой славянской азбуки - святых равноапостольных братьев Кирилла и Мефодия, а также ответили на вопросы викторины, посвященной интересным фактам о славянских языках.

📜 Это праздник напоминает нам о важности понимания истоков родной письменности и символизирует духовное единство славянских народов.

#ДеньСлавянскойПисьменности

🌍 May 25 is African Liberation Day or #AfricaDay.

On this day in 1963, the first conference of 32 independent African states took place in Addis Ababa, marking the birth of the Organisation of African Unity — the predecessor of today's African Union (since 2002).

This was how the first stage in the decolonisation process on the African continent reached its culminating point.

👉 Read our feature article on Africa Day

Long before arrival of Europeans, African societies had well-developed, self-sufficient economic and social systems, as well as their own forms of governance.

Everything changed during the Age of Discovery, when the Portuguese and Spanish were the first to establish trade routes along Africa’s west coast in the 15th century.

⛓ The main tool for generating maximum returns was the slave trade, which began in the 7th and 6th centuries BC and brought about a boom with the discovery of the New World, when colonisers needed free labour.

Apart from the slave trade, the colonisers (Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium) ruthlessly exploited natural resources. They exported Africa's gold, ivory and other valuable goods.

According to official UN data, approximately 17 million individuals were forcibly taken from Africa (and reached their destination) throughout the history of the slave trade. At least as many died in transit. Some researchers estimate the total number of lives lost to be close to 50 million people... At the same time, Africa’s economic potential was severely damaged, $777 trillions were extracted by the colonial powers.

With the outbreak of World War II, Africa found itself at the centre of global change, sparking the emergence and strengthening of national liberation movements across the continent.

After years of struggle, Ghana became the first African country to gain independence in 1957, inspiring other nations and national liberation movements.

The Soviet Union was proactive in assisting African states in their struggle for independence and in helping establish these young nations.

📃 It was the Soviet Union that initiated the adoption of the 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, which proclaimed the need to end colonialism and discrimination in all its forms.

In fact, the USSR helped build 37 African economies by signing bilateral economic and technical cooperation agreements with them. Soviet military advisors and experts worked in Angola, Ethiopia, Egypt, Mozambique and several other African countries at different times.

Today, Africa is the fastest-growing macro-region on the planet. African countries are experiencing explosive economic growth. According to projections, by 2050, Africans will make up around 40% of the world’s population.

💬 Maria Zakharova:

"During the Soviet era, our country made a substantial contribution to liberating African nations from colonial dependence, selflessly and consistently assisting the continent’s young states in strengthening their sovereignty, developing their economies and training local personnel.

Today, our relations are moving along an upward trajectory. Building a truly strategic partnership with Africa is one of Russia’s foreign policy priorities."

(From Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s briefing on May 20, 2025)

☝️ African Liberation Day is an important symbol of solidarity and unity for all African nations. It commemorates the long and arduous path that Africans have travelled in the struggle for their independence and the right to self-determination.

Unfortunately, Western powers not only continue to exploit the African nations by siphoning off their resources and helping their corporations earn hefty profits, but also seek to erase or rewrite their own unsightly record there.

The descendants of colonisers are trying to pretend that they have nothing to do with the suffering many generations of Africans have had to endure, including racism, slave trade and punitive operations.

❗️ But Africa remembers it all.

#AfricaDay

🇷🇺 The Prosecutor-General’s Office of the Russian Federation:

⚡️ The Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic sentenced 25-year-old citizen of the Commonwealth of Australia Caleb John List in absentia, finding him guilty of serving as a mercenary in an armed conflict under Article 359.3 of the Russian Federation’s Criminal Code.

The court established that, in February 2022, List had arrived in Ukraine via Poland and voluntarily joined the International Legion. He received military training at Yavorov military base where he acquired skills of handling weapons, learned the strategy and tactics of combat operations and obtained the required material support. Following the training course, List was issued firearms, ammunition, uniform and specialised equipment.

From May 2023 through February 2025, he served as an operator with a territorial defence battalion of the 127th Separate Territorial Defence Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was involved in combat operations against service personnel of the Russian Armed Forces.

For these actions, he received over 2.9 million roubles.

❗️ From the state prosecutor’s point of view, the court sentenced List to 14 years in absentia. He is to serve the prison time at a maximum-security penitentiary.

📄 Russia's Foreign Ministry's report on the "Situation in several European countries with the desecration and destruction of monuments dedicated to those who fought against Nazism during World War II"

Full text of the report

Since the end of the World War II, approximately 4'000 monuments to Soviet soldiers have been erected in Europe. A total of more than one million Red Army soldiers are buried in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. In general, the peoples of the USSR and Europe paid a much higher price for the Victory over Nazism, measured in tens of millions of lives.

The Soviet army liberated Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria (the eastern part of the country and Vienna), Romania, Yugoslavia and a number of other European countries from Nazism.

The majority of Soviet monuments were erected specifically in these countries. There are also monuments to the Soviet soldier in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, and France.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, many memorials ended up on the territory of states bordering Russia that emerged from the former Soviet republics. In several of these countries, the chosen course toward reviving Nazism and rewriting history has had a serious impact on the memorial legacy of the Great Patriotic War.

❌ Decommunization, the destruction of monuments to our common history and culture, the desecration of the graves of fallen Soviet soldiers, neo-Nazi torch marches, the glorification of Nazis and their collaborators, the physical elimination of ideological opponents — many of these practices, and often all of them at once, have become commonplace in Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, as well as in Poland, the Czech Republic and a number of other European countries.

These very countries are the focus of this report. Under the guise of "decommunization" laws and by dismantling monuments to Soviet soldiers, the governments of these countries are attempting to "reinforce an anti-Russian front".

At the same time, monuments to Nazi criminals are being erected, their protection is being enshrined in law, and rare acts of activists opposing Nazi memorials are harshly prosecuted. The key objective of such steps is the complete erasure of historical memory.

This report has been prepared as part of the Russia's Foreign Ministry's efforts to draw attention to the manifestations of various forms of Nazi glorification, neo-Nazism, racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance in foreign countries.

The report focuses on the actions of certain countries, primarily the Baltic states, Poland, and Ukraine, which, using Russia’s special military operation aimed at denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, as well as the protection of the peaceful population of Donbass, as a pretext, have sharply escalated a long-standing practice of destroying Soviet, Russian, and often their own memorial heritage on their territories.

👉 Detailed account of the unlawful actions by authorities of Ukraine, the Baltic states, Bulgaria, Moldova, Poland, Finland, Germany, and the Czech Republic, targeting Russian and Soviet monuments.

🎙 Address by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to participants of the 13th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues (May 28, 2025)

💬 Vladimir Putin: I am pleased to welcome you to Moscow for the 13th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues.

Over the past nearly fifteen years, your Forum has convincingly affirmed its significant status and authority. I know that in these days, participants of the Meeting — representatives of delegations from many states — can expect a substantial programme, with the main discussion dedicated to the prospects of establishing a new global security architecture.

☝️ As for Russia, our approaches remain principled and unchanged. I have said it before and will reiterate: we are convinced that the new security architecture must be equal and indivisible — that is, all states must receive firm guarantees of their own security, but not at the expense of the security and interests of other countries.

It is vital to make our continent a space of peace and stability, an example of sustainable economic, social, and cultural development. We believe that the foundation for creating such a universal security system could be the existing and well-established multilateral cooperation formats, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Eurasian Economic Union, the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and others.

Your current meeting is widely attended by states of the Global South and East. It is they, in essence, who form the global majority, seek to influence regional and international processes more actively, and uphold the principle of sovereign equality and the right to their own development model.

Undoubtedly, in building joint efforts, it is necessary to rely on positive historical experience, on the lessons of the past. This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the end of #WWII, which fundamentally influenced the development of the international community.

The experience of uniting states in the fight against evil, against Nazism and militarism, the understanding of the colossal price humanity paid for peace and freedom, for the right of peoples to choose their own path of development, laid the foundations of the post-war world order and led to the creation of the UN — a universal, legitimate organisation based on the principles of international law, which has helped overcome many geopolitical challenges.

Today, it is especially important to preserve the truth about the events of those years, to counter attempts to rewrite history, to cast doubt on the decisive contribution of the peoples of the Soviet Union to the Victory over Hitler’s Germany, and to glorify Nazi criminals and their accomplices.

Just recently, on May 9, we solemnly marked the Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The celebrations in Moscow became yet another symbol of unity around the ideals of the Great Victory, demonstrating once again the commitment of our friends and partners to shaping a safer world, to constructive cooperation, and to jointly addressing global challenges.

I am convinced that this latest meeting of high representatives overseeing security issues will contribute to the development of new important approaches to strengthening international peace and stability and will help advance dialogue for the benefit of all countries and peoples.

I wish you success.

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement on the second round of the resumed direct Russian-Ukrainian talks (Moscow, May 28, 2025)

💬 As you know, with support from the United States, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye, it became possible to pave the way for the resumption of direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations. The first round was held on May 16 in Istanbul.

Pursuant to the agreements reached, the parties have exchanged 1,000 prisoners of war each. In addition, Moscow and Kiev agreed in Istanbul to prepare documents setting out the parties’ respective stances on achieving a sustainable settlement.

❗️ As agreed, the Russian side promptly drafted a memorandum that sets out our views on all aspects of reliably overcoming the root causes of the crisis. Our delegation, led by Vladimir Medinsky, is ready to present this memorandum to the Ukrainian delegation and provide the necessary clarifications during a second round of resumed direct talks in Istanbul next Monday, June 2.

I would like to once again express my gratitude to our Turkish partners for providing a hospitable venue for the talks, which Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan confirmed yesterday during his visit to Moscow.

☝️ We hope that all parties that are genuinely interested in the success of the peace process rather than just claim to be in favour of the initiative will support the new round of direct Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul.

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 13th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues (Moscow, May 28, 2025)

Key talking points:

💬 Global South and East countries are becoming increasingly vocal when discussing and addressing the most urgent and key challenges the world is facing today. This reflects a tectonic shift in international politics, which took place over the past years and continues to this day. It primarily consists of an accelerated emergence of a multipolar world order, as well as new centres of development across the Eurasian continent, Africa and Latin America taking on a bigger role in the global distribution of power.

• #BRICS exemplifies constructive multilateral cooperation among major international actors and their partners representing various continents, cultures and religions. It has firmly established itself as one of the pillars of a multipolar world order and a champion of the Global Majority on the international stage.

• Upholding international law and seeking guidance from the principles of equality and neighbourly relations, as well as mutual respect and taking into account each other’s interests guarantees peace and stability.

• The conflict in Ukraine (and more fundamentally, the profound security crisis across Europe) was triggered precisely by NATO’s aggressive eastward expansion over decades that was in direct contravention of the solemn assurances by American and European leaders to both Soviet and Russian leadership regarding the alliance’s non-expansion.

• The alliance [NATO] is now taking steps to operate outside its area of responsibility, seeking to move into the Asia-Pacific region — the Indo-Pacific, as they call it — threatening to undermine the #ASEAN-centric security architecture that has developed there over decades and allowed the countries in the region and their partners in different parts of the world to successfully cooperate. This causes deep concern for the future of ASEAN and the future well-being of its member states.

• We advocate for the creation, under current conditions, of a global security architecture rooted in the objective trends of multipolarity, the emergence of new growth centres, and one that guarantees equal conditions for the peaceful development of all states without exception. <...> The foundation for this already exists – the UN Charter. What is required is for all to adhere to it in good faith.

• A crucial step towards the goal of global security is the formation of an architecture of equal and indivisible security on the Eurasian continent — the most expansive and resource-rich region, the stability of which underpins the resilience of a multipolar world.

• Russia does not seek to impose anything on anyone and is ready to engage in mutually respectful dialogue with everyone. We will keep perfecting the existing security mechanisms and put them to use as part of our engagement with the #CSTO, #CIS, and the #SCO.

• As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia is aware of the responsibility it has for international relations in all their aspects on the international stage, including in terms of promoting peace, strategic stability, conflict settlement and a unifying agenda.

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#Анонс

⚡️ Российское военно-историческое общество и Союз писателей России при поддержке Министерства культуры Российской Федерации объявляют Международный конкурс синопсисов (сценариев) на создание художественного сериала о вкладе народов СССР в Великую Победу среди стран СНГ.

Конкурс проводится в память о единстве всего советского народа, победившего в Великой Отечественной войне.

📄 Участникам предлагается написать сценарий для сериала (4-8 серий) в жанре военной драмы о «Вкладе народов СССР в Победу в Великой Отечественной войне». Принять участие в конкурсе может любой желающий.

Конкурс пройдёт в 2 этапа:

• С 25 апреля по 3 сентября 2025 года — приём заявок конкурсантов.

• С 4 сентября по 4 ноября 2025 года — рассмотрение заявок экспертами, подведение итогов и награждение победителей.

👉 Подробнее о положении о конкурсе и подаче заявок

On 2️⃣9️⃣ May we celebrate the Day of the Eurasian Economic Union (#EAEU)

✍️ On that day in 2014, the Treaty on the EAEU was signed.

The Member-States of the Eurasian Economic Union are
the Republic of Armenia 🇦🇲,
the Republic of Belarus 🇧🇾,
the Republic of Kazakhstan 🇰🇿,
the Kyrgyz Republic 🇰🇬 and
the Russian Federation 🇷🇺

The EAEU provides for free movement of goods, services, capital and labor, pursues coordinated, harmonised and single policy in the sectors determined by the Treaty and international agreements within the Union.

Over 1️⃣0️⃣ years the EAEU has emerged as a significant player on the global stage and a key platform for interaction between the states of Greater Eurasia.

🎉 Happy EAEU Day!
 
@MidRusEvrazes

@EECommission

🗓 May 29, by decision of the Heads of States of the Eurasian Economic Union, is celebrated annually as #EAEUDay.

January 1 marked 1️⃣0️⃣ years since the Treaty on the EAEU (signed on May 29, 2014) came into force, launching the Union as a regional integration association.

Over this time, the EAEU has proven to be a successful project of regional integration based on equality and consideration of each member’s interests. The Union has become an independent and self-sufficient centre of the emerging #MultipolarWorld.

The member-states of the Union — the EAEU "Five" — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia — have achieved significant progress: the Union's internal market is functioning and improving, mutual trade is demonstrating sustainable growth, cooperation is becoming closer in such areas as transportation, logistics, industry, agriculture, energy and food security.

📈 Economic indicators speak for themselves: according to estimates available, the combined GDP of the EAEU member-states has increased from 1.6 to 2.5 trillion dollars over the 10 years of the Union's development.

In 2024, the growth of the GDP (on average in the Union) was recorded as 4.4%, thus, outpacing the global average growth of 3.3%. Trade with third countries has increased by 60%, while the share of the national currencies in mutual trade within the EAEU has reached 90%.

The Eurasian Economic Union has firmly established itself as a major actor in global economic affairs with an extensive network of partnerships. Today, free trade agreements of the EAEU with Vietnam 🇻🇳, Iran 🇮🇷, and Serbia 🇷🇸 are already in force, with the two non-preferential agreements have been signed with China 🇨🇳. Active efforts are being made to align the Union with China’s Belt and Road initiative.

The EAEU maintains close cooperation with the Union's observer-states, such as Uzbekistan 🇺🇿, Cuba 🇨🇺, and Iran 🇮🇷. The trade talks the EAEU is holding with Indonesia 🇮🇩, the UAE 🇦🇪, and Mongolia 🇲🇳 are nearing completion.

📰 An excerpt form the interview by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexei Overchuk for 'Rossiyskaya Gazeta' (May 28, 2025):

💬 <...> “We consider the EAEU to be the economic nucleus of Northern Eurasia — an area that has achieved a high level of socio-economic development and largely resolved issues of food and energy security.

This makes the EAEU "Five" an attractive partner for the Global South countries, many of which are still fighting the implications of their colonial dependence on Western Europe. <...>

Eurasia holds a vast creative potential, with nations both in the North and South committed to progress. Many of these countries are naturally seeking cooperation with Russia.”

🎙 From a briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (May 20, 2025):

💬 “Today, the EAEU stands as a paradigm of successful integration, where cooperation is built on principles of equality, trust, and respect, with due consideration for the interests of each member state.

We extend our congratulations ahead of EAEU Day and express gratitude to our colleagues from member states and the Eurasian Economic Commission for their productive collaboration. We remain committed to unlocking further economic potential and deepening integration for the benefit of our nations’ citizens and businesses.”

🎙 Интервью заместителя Министра иностранных дел России А.А.Панкина программе «Евразийский диалог» по случаю Дня Евразийского экономического союза (29 мая 2025 года)

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Ключевые тезисы:

🗓 29 мая 2014 года был подписан основополагающий для Евразийского экономического союза документ, а именно — Договор о ЕАЭС. Он очертил контуры евразийской интеграции, преимущества которой сегодня прекрасно осознают все страны-члены Объединения. Это доказано и статистикой, и поступательной динамикой его развития.

• #ЕАЭС — безусловно, экономический союз. Приоритет в его деятельности — это укрепление благосостояния населения и создание наиболее благоприятных условий для бизнеса. С этой целью ЕАЭС и создавался.

• За 10 лет своего функционирования Союз продемонстрировал немало достижений: совокупный ВВП Объединения возрос до 2,6 триллионов долларов. Товарооборот с внешними странами почти достиг отметки в триллион — 923 миллиарда долларов. В рамках ЕАЭС действуют четыре свободы передвижения: товаров, услуг, капитала, рабочей силы. Целый ряд функций по регулированию (в сфере таможенного администрирования, внешней торговли, технических регламентов) передан наднациональному органу — Евразийской экономической комиссии.

• Осуществляется координация национальных политик в области обеспечения продовольственной, энергетической безопасности, цифровизации, промышленности, устранения всевозможных барьеров. Решения в рамках ЕАЭС служат на благо и на пользу всех, кто участвует в их принятии, и не в ущерб кому-либо из государств-членов.

• Однако помимо достижений есть и проблемы. Их никто не скрывает, т.к. они устраняются в ходе взаимодействия на основе равноправного диалога и консенсуса, который достигается путём компромиссов. <...> Уважение, взаимопонимание и равенство в ЕАЭС — это не просто слова — страны-участницы идут на уступки, соизмеряя интересы, делают исключения друг для друга.

🌐 У ЕАЭС есть целый план разноуровневой, разноскоростной международной деятельности, предусматривающий в т.ч. выход на партнёров, которые стремятся к наращиванию углублённой кооперации путём создания зон свободной торговли. Действуют уже три таких соглашения с Вьетнамом, Сербией, Ираном соответственно, а также непреференциальное торговое соглашение с Китаем. Ожидаем в этом году подписания аналогичных соглашений с ОАЭ и с Монголией. На финальной стадии — согласование документа с Индонезией. Ведутся переговоры с Египтом.

• Большое евразийское партнёрство (БЕП) — это флагманская внешнеполитическая инициатива, выдвинутая Президентом Российской Федерации. Это замах на «интеграцию интеграций». Построение БЕП — это долгий, нелёгкий, разноскоростной путь в разных направлениях.

• В Большой Евразии существует целый ряд интеграционных объединений. <...> На арабском Востоке, в Южной и Юго-Восточной Азии функционируют различные группировки, но в целом полной сопряжённости между ними нет. Проект БЕП как раз нацелен на то, чтобы обеспечить связуемость, «бесшовность» в развитии торговли, взаимных инвестициях, транспортировке грузов, в сфере оказания услуг и т.д на пространстве Большой Евразии.

❗️Russian Embassy's Comment on another anti-Russian propaganda story by ABC News

The assumption pushed by the ABC's recent "masterpiece of journalism" is that Mariupol residents are being forced to become Russian citizens.

What a shame that Australia's national public broadcaster relies on biased data and neglects basic fact-checking.

The Presidential Executive Order
No 159 On the Specifics of the Legal Status of Certain Categories of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons in the Russian Federation, Amending and Invalidating Certain Presidential Executive Orders (dated March 20, 2025) states:

<…> to protect the rights and freedoms of individuals and citizens, and in accordance with Article 80 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and Article 3 of Federal Law No 115-FZ On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation (dated July 25, 2002), Ukrainian citizens currently residing in the Russian Federation, who lack legal grounds for their stay or residence, must either leave the Russian Federation independently or, by September 10, 2025, regularise their legal status in accordance with Presidential Executive Order No 1126
On Temporary Measures to Regulate the Legal Status of Certain Categories of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons in the Russian Federation in Connection with the Implementation of the Expulsion Regime (dated December 30, 2024).

Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions joined the Russian Federation as full-fledged subjects as a result of the referenda held in full conformity with the norms and principles of international law. The residents of these territories, including citizens of Ukraine, have made a conscious and free choice in favour of Russia and, accordingly, must comply with the Russian law.

☝️The requirement for Ukrainian citizens to regularise their legal status by September 10, 2025, only confirms that a special legal regime has been in effect for them for a long time, providing for a whole range of exceptions and concessions. Forcing people to become Russian citizens has never been on the agenda.

The same cannot be said about the criminal case opened in September 2024 by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation under Section 3 Article 322 of the Russian Criminal Code against US citizen Kathryn Diss, ABC correspondent and author of this piece of anti-Russian propaganda, who had illegally crossed the state border of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region.

📰 Interview with Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova for 'Zapiski Sledovatelya' Journal No. 2/2025, published by Russia's Investigative Committee (May 30, 2025)

✍️ The Legal Front of Memory

Key talking points:

• Combating manifestations of racism, xenophobia, aggressive nationalism and neo-Nazism, and countering attempts to rewrite history and distort the outcomes of #WWII are among Russia’s priorities on the human rights track.

• Today we see increasingly frequent attempts to rewrite the history and results of WWII, to erase the memory of heroic anti-fascist fighters, to destroy monuments built in their honour, and to ban the wearing of military decorations that are strongly associated with Victory.

• History is being falsified in an openly hostile manner, which includes glorifying Nazi collaborators and disrespecting the memory of Soviet soldiers and civilians who died in the fight against fascism, questioning the Red Army’s liberation mission in Eastern Europe <...> The decisions of the Yalta and Potsdam conferences and the Nuremberg Tribunal verdicts are also being questioned.

• This tendency to rewrite history and glorify Nazi henchmen has become part of the Kiev regime’s state ideology and policy. The neo-Nazi elites are trying to cement Ukraine’s independence by denying its Soviet past, praising the Waffen-SS Galicia Division <...>

• In line with efforts to combat the glorification of Nazism and the distortion of history, every year since 2005, Russia has submitted a resolution on combatting glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, to the UN General Assembly. On December 17, 2024, during the plenary session of the 79th #UNGA in New York, 119 countries voted in support of this document.

• Russia and a group of like-minded countries submitted a draft resolution on the 80th Anniversary of the end of World War II to the ongoing 79th UN General Assembly, which was adopted on March 4. <...> Our partners’ unified stance on this matter constitutes a substantive contribution to countering the rewriting of history.

• It is a matter of principle for us that the international community recognise the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis in the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War as the genocide of the Soviet people.

• The actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Nazi-affiliated armed groups reveal signs of genocidal intent. They wanted to eliminate Russians and Russian speakers in #Donbass <...>, adepts of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and people in this region in general as an ethnic, religious and national entity.

• Ukraine initiated proceedings in the UN International Court of Justice in February 2022, right after the start of the special military operation, as per the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. However, it turned to the Kiev regime’s disadvantage.

• The International Court of Justice issued its preliminary objections under this case on February 2, 2024. In this document, it rejected all the claims made by Ukraine alleging that Russia violated the Convention. The court went on to rule that further proceedings will focus on whether Ukraine itself committed acts of genocide in Donbass. Therefore, the Kiev regime filed the lawsuit only to become a defendant in this case.

• On November 18, 2024, Russia submitted its main pleading document, the Counter-Memorial, as part of these proceedings. In fact, this is the first time since the Nuremberg Trials that Russia de facto assumed the role of the prosecution in an international tribunal. But there are even more parallels with the Nuremberg Trials — just as during these trials, we are dealing with a Nazi regime which was targeting civilians with mass atrocities on racial, ethnic and national grounds.

Read the interview in full