🇷🇺Russian Language Cultural Festival organized by 🇷🇺Russian House in Colombo🇱🇰. It was a great time! Thank you, dear colleagues and friends who participated in this event!

#UNGA78

🇺🇳 The High-Level Week of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly has concluded!

The Russian delegation, led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, took part in 35+ bilateral and multilateral meetings, voicing Russia's principled positions on important issues regarding the international and regional agenda.

📹 #ICYMI

👉 Day 1
👉 Day 2
👉 Day 3

FM Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the UN Security Council meeting.
FM Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the General Debate of 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.
FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions.

One of the main cultural events of this autumn is to be held in Saint Petersburg!
IX St. Petersburg Cultural Forum will start on November 16. Find out more at is.gd/KAZF2n

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message to the newly elected President of Maldives Dr. Mohamed Muizzu.
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Great news! Rosatom has officially handed over uranium to the Bangladeshi authorities to fuel the country’s first nuclear power plant, constructed by Russia in Ruppur. The 1st of 2 units of the 2400 MW Rooppur NPP is expected to be operational next year.
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🇨🇦 “If the Canadian parliamentary speaker does not know about Hitler, he is an idiot; if he knows about him and invited a Waffen-SS Nazi to the Parliament, he is a scoundrel,” Vladimir Putin said

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#CancelNaziCanada

❗️Putin: Russia's response to a possible nuclear strike on its territory will result in absolutely unacceptable levels of damage for any potential aggressor, there will be no chance for the enemy to survive

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🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin outlines six principles that Russia adheres to and calls on other countries to observe as well

▪️Strive to live in an open, interconnected world without artificial barriers

▪️Preserve the world’s national and cultural diversity without imposing on people how to live their lives

▪️Maximum representativeness and collective decisions: those directly affected by an issue agree on what to do and how to do it

▪️Universal security and peace for all without looking at others as outcasts and savages

▪️Justice for all: attempts to limit development should be seen as an act of aggression

▪️Equality

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💬 “They would rather print the money”

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin says that the US government, in the wake of a government shutdown, has two choices: cut their aid to Ukraine or cut social spending.

💰 The Russian president added that the US already printed a lot of money during the COVID epidemic and will print more, increasing inflation and food prices.

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❗️🇷🇺 More key points of Vladimir Putin's speech at plenary session of Valdai Discussion Club

▪️Russia had a budget surplus in the third quarter – about 660bln rubles (about $600 million)

▪️Main European economies are stagnating, with exception of Italy and Spain, where there is growth due to rising property prices

▪️Spending on defense and security in Russia has roughly doubled - now about 6% of GDP

▪️Putin denies a statement that Russia betrayed Armenia, says West should not talk about betrayal

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🇷🇺 Putin: Russia stands for equality of all countries; no one should be dependent on others

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H.E. Mr. Levan Dzhagaryan, Russian Ambassador to Sri Lanka, participated in the Bangladesh film Festival in Colombo

On the sidelines of the reception on occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Korea H.E. Mr. Levan Dzhagaryan met and had a small talk with H.E. Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa, former President of D.S.R. of Sri Lanka

🎙 Statement by the State Duma on the Canadian authorities’ encouragement of Ukrainian Nazism and neo-fascism

❌ Members of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation express their utmost indignation and outrage at the cynical manner in which the memory of those who fought for the anti-Nazi coalition was offended during the September 22, 2023, sitting of the House of Commons of the Canadian Parliament.

Canadian legislators considered a standing ovation a proper way to honour in the Canadian Parliament a Nazi veteran, 98-year-old SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka, who served the bloody Third Reich during World War II as member of the Galicia Waffen-SS Division. This outrageous incident coincided with the reception by the Canadian authorities of collaborationist Yaroslav Hunka’s ideological descendant – the leader of the current Ukrainian regime Vladimir Zelensky as part of yet another world tour he undertook to raise funds for the bloodshed he brought on the Ukrainian nation.

More than 45,000 Canadian nationals died courageously in World War II, and the Canadian Parliament and Government have now desecrated their graves with their shameful actions. They committed a flagrant violation of international law by trying to rehabilitate war criminals, sadists and killers, including Ukrainian military personnel who served the SS, and have the blood of tens of thousands of civilians in the Soviet Union, Poland, Slovakia and other countries on their hands. The Nuremberg Trials were explicit in condemning these crimes which have no statute of limitations.

❗️No one can be allowed to cast into oblivion the sacred memory of the tens of millions of World War II victims who died at the hands of Nazis and their accomplices like Yaroslav Hunka.

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We appreciate the balanced position of Sri Lanka in the international relations. We are glad to see that this year Sri Lanka is hosting the high-ranking meetings in relation with the chairmanship of that country in the IORA and hope that this event will be fruitful for the whole region.
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IORA Ministerial meeting in Colombo. The Russian🇷🇺 delegation is headed by H.E. Mr. Levan Dzhagaryan, Russian Ambassador to Sri Lanka🇱🇰.

We are witnessing the emergence of a new and fairer multipolar order that reflects the world’s cultural and civilisational diversity. The future world is taking shape in the midst of a battle. The global majority, representing 85 percent of the world's population, advocates a more equitable distribution of global resources and respect of cultural diversity, as well as consistent democratisation of international affairs. On the other hand, a select group of Western nations led by the United States is endeavouring to hinder progress through neo-colonial methods and to maintain its waning dominance.

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ВНИМАНИЮ ГРАЖДАН РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ, ПЛАНИРУЮЩИХ ПОЕЗДКУ В ШРИ-ЛАНКУ!

В ряде отечественных СМИ появилась недостоверная информация об отмене консульского сбора за оформление въездной визы для граждан Российской Федерации, прибывающих в Шри-Ланку.
В Правительстве островного государства действительно изучаются меры стимулирования туристического потока из ряда стран, включая Россию. Однако до сих пор постановления руководящих органов страны об обнулении консульского сбора не принято, стоимость ланкийской визы по-прежнему составляет 60 долларов США с человека.
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