#Announcement

🎙 On May 27, Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing in Makhachkala (Republic of Dagestan) on current foreign policy issues:

🕤 9.30 am MSK
🕢 7.30 am GMT
🕢 8.30 am CEST
🕝 2.30 pm CST (Beijing)

For accreditation inquiries, please contact the MFA Press Centre. Accredited journalists will receive details on the technical aspects of submitting questions.

The Russia's Foreign Ministry’s Spokeswoman will answer media questions received by the call centre.

🚀 В Русском доме в Нью-Дели состоится Международная конференция в онлайн-формате, посвященная «Афанасьевским чтениям».

🌐 Тема конференции — «Переводы «Хождения за три моря» Афанасия Никитина» — откроет широкую дискуссию о значении этого уникального памятника русской литературы, его интерпретациях и переводах на другие языки.

📅 Дата и время: 27 мая 2025 г., в 13:00.
➡️ Ссылка на подключение: https://meet.google.com/rhv-mqxa-btb

💎 Не упустите возможность стать частью важного события!

#Русскийдом #культура #Индия

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🚀 The Russian House in New Delhi will host an International Conference in an online format dedicated to the Afanasy Readings.

🌐 The conference theme is “Translations of Afanasy Nikitin’s Journey Beyond Three Seas” — it will open a broad discussion about the significance of this unique monument of Russian literature, its interpretations and translations into other languages.

📅 Date and time: May 27, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
➡️ Link to join: https://meet.google.com/rhv-mqxa-btb

💎 Don’t miss the opportunity to become part of an important event!

#RussianHouse #culture #India

📄 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.

🎙 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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🗓 On May 29, the United Nations and the entire international community will mark the International Day of UN Peacekeepers.

On this day, 77 years ago, the UN Security Council established the first peacekeeping mission – UN Truce Supervision Organisation designed to monitor the ceasefire after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War – which operates to this day.

🕊 Peacekeeping is a key area of UN work. Peacekeepers, including Russian troops, helped to settle multiple conflicts and restore peace in dozens of countries affected by violence and destruction.

🇷🇺 UN peacekeeping is an area of focus for Russia. As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia is active in drafting mandates for UN peacekeeping operations, putting missions in a constructive and respectful frame of mind for cooperation with host countries.

❗️ As of today, Russia participates in seven UN peacekeeping missions from Western Sahara and South Sudan to the Middle East and Cyprus. The UN contingent includes 65 citizens of the Russian Federation, including 15 women. Russia is also among top ten contributors to budgets of peacekeeping operations.

Our country attaches much importance to training peacekeepers, including foreign specialists. Domodedovo, Moscow Region, is where the UN-accredited All-Russia Peacekeepers Training Centre of the Russian Interior Ministry is based, drilling law enforcement officers for participation in UN peacekeeping missions. Since 2000, over 350 individuals from about 50 countries have completed the course of training at the centre.

🇷🇺🇺🇸📞 On May 28, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The Minister informed Marco Rubio about implementing the May 19 agreements between President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of the United States Donald Trump, as well as about the preparation by the Russian side of specific proposals for the next round of direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Istanbul.

For his part, Marco Rubio emphasised Donald Trump's intention to quickly bring the Ukraine conflict to an end and expressed Washington's readiness to help the sides to bring their positions closer together.

🤝 They reaffirmed their mutual commitment to continue constructive and reciprocally respectful dialogue between the foreign policy agencies of Russia and the United States.

📄 Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov, and Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan to congratulate them on the Day of the Eurasian Economic Union (May 29, 2025).

✍️ Vladimir Putin: Please accept my heartfelt greetings on the Day of the Eurasian Economic Union.

Integration processes within #EAEU have gathered substantial momentum and have been quite fruitful. We created a common market, which provides for the free movement of goods, services, capital and labour.

There is an ongoing effort to harmonise our national regulations in key sectors, while we succeed in undertaking joint economic and infrastructure projects.

I am certain that we will keep doing everything to step up our constructive multi-faceted cooperation for the benefit of our peoples and to ensure well-being and stability across the Eurasian space.

I wish you good health and success, and happiness and prosperity to your fellow citizens.