🎙 Address of Federation Council of Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to parliaments of foreign countries and peoples of the world on unacceptability of distorting the history of the Second World War and rehabilitating Nazism

💬 May 9, 2025 marks the 80th Anniversary of historic Victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. The war unleashed by Nazi Germany and its satellites claimed the lives of 27 million Soviet citizens. Millions of people became prisoners of Nazi death camps, lost their homes, and were deported for forced labour to Germany and other countries under its control.

The Great Victory was achieved through the unwavering determination and bravery of the Soviet people and their strong resolve to defeat Nazism which presented a threat to humanity. The Allies of the Soviet Union made an important contribution to defeating the Third Reich.

The International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg Tribunal) tried and sentenced the main war criminals of the European Axis countries. It held the Nazi regime leaders accountable for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, among others. The facts of forced displacement and extermination of the Soviet civilian population by Nazis and their accomplices, as established in the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, must be regarded as genocide committed against the peoples of the Soviet Union.

The Victory of the Soviet Union and the other Allies over Nazism paved the way for the forming a modern system of international relations were created, and the United Nations (UN) was established.
 
The principles of international law recognised by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and expressed in the verdict passed by the Nuremberg Tribunal were confirmed by UN General Assembly Resolution 95(I) of December 11, 1946.

The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation supports the adoption, on an annual basis, by the UN General Assembly of the resolution titled «Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance», as well as Resolution 79/272 of March 4, 2025 titled «Eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War», co-sponsored by 54 countries.

The Russian Federation senators express their concern over the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to include non-aligned European countries, the militarisation of the European Union, and its support for the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine. Europe was the starting point of both world wars. For this reason, it bears a unique responsibility to humanity in preventing another global conflict.

☝️ Denying the Soviet Union’s decisive role in Victory of the Anti-hitlerite Coalition over the Nazi Germany and its satellites, glorifying Nazi criminals and their accomplices, and demolishing and desecrating monuments to Soviet liberator soldiers are all immoral and blasphemous acts.

The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation calls on the parliaments of foreign countries and the peoples of the world to counter any attempts to falsify history, to rehabilitate or glorify Nazism, fascism, or militarism, to condemn the encouragement of the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine and the incitement of another world war, and to demand that those who dishonour the memory of the Soviet liberators and those who fought against Nazism be brought to justice.

❗️ Only our joint efforts can protect the truth about the Second World War, counter the rise of neo-Nazism, and avert the recurrence of brutal crimes against humanity.

❗️ On this day, 10 years ago, Ukrainian writer and opposition journalist Oles' Buzina was killed just outside his home in Kiev.

He became one of the countless victims of the criminal Kiev regime because he posed a threat to it by publicly criticising the neo-Nazi group that seized power as a result of the bloody coup in Ukraine and exposing its true essence.

Oles' Buzina called on the then leadership of Ukraine to establish a dialogue with Donbass residents and pointed out the need to secure the status of the Russian language.

His activism deeply annoyed official Kiev. He also received threats from radical nationalists for promoting an interpretation of Ukraine’s history that did not align with the hateful ideology and invented background of the Ukrainian Nazis. His active civic engagement and firm stance, his calls for respect for history and the Russian language proved unwanted in post-Maidan Ukraine and cost Oles' Buzina his life.

A few days before his death, the journalist’s personal data, including his home address, were posted on the extremist website Myrotvorets, which lists personal information about all public figures, journalists, writers, and reporters who are objectionable to the Kiev regime, a resource created literally as a practical guide for planning terrorist attacks.

Even though the UN Secretary-General, official representatives of the OSCE and the US State Department, along with many public organisations, condemned the murder, extended condolences to the victim’s family and insisted on a comprehensive inquiry, the masterminds of this crime were never found, and the suspects (who everybody knew was guilty of this crime, it's well documented) were eventually released.

⚡️ Ten years later, it is quite obvious that the situation with freedom of speech in Ukraine has degraded to a critical level.

All media outlets opposed to the Kiev regime are banned, and any manifestations of dissent are brutally suppressed and erased from the information landscape. The regime has launched a manhunt for unwanted journalists, primarily Russian, leveraging a variety of capabilities, including UAVs and high-precision weapons.

The most recent victims who died at the hands of the Kiev regime militants this year include Alexander Martemyanov, Alexander Fedorchak, Andrei Panov, and Anna Prokofyeva. Other victims – Anton Voloshin, Igor Kornelyuk, Anatoly Klyan, Andrey Stenin, Darya Dugina, Oleg Klokov, Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin), Rostislav Zhuravlev, Boris Maksudov, Semyon Yeryomin, Valery Kozhin, Nikita Tsitsagi, and Yulia Kuznetsova – will also remain in our hearts forever. Ukraine uses terrorist methods to carry out its criminal plans, while its Western handlers and biased human rights organisations continue to deliberately ignore these atrocities.

🎙️Interview of Russia’s Ambassador to Sweden Sergey Belyaev with SwebbTV (April 12,2025)

Key points:

#Sanctions
🔹 If we speak about our economy, you know, I just today saw the statistics about the most rapidly developing countries in the world. And within 10 best economies in the world, there are 5 from BRICS countries.India, Indonesia, China, Russia and Brazil.
🔹When sanctions were launched, and of course it was harmful for the economy. But from the other point of view, it helped to develop internal investments.And when European companies went out, came companies from, for example, China. Other developing countries, rapidly developing countries of Asia. And also Russian companies.
🔹 We do understand that maybe the aim of the sanctions was to influence also the Russian society. But the very specific feature of Russia is that if and when we are under pressure, and especially pressure from abroad, the society unites. And that's why we see that really about 80% of people support the President, support the government.

#ModernRussia
🔹 In Russia we are now a really democratic country, state of law. And we do not have any ideology on the basis of our state.President Putin has really a very strong support of the people. And I'm sure that the same situation will continue in the Russian future also.
🔹Our main goal, the main task for our state is to improve the level of life of our people. So that people will be protected and that they will live better and better. It's funds of the state that are used for this.

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#Opinion by Russia's MFA spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova

💬 The Ukrainian social media is packed with the obituaries of Ukrainian military personnel killed on April 13 in the strike on a venue in Sumy that brought together commanders from Ukrainian Seversk Tactical Group.

Here is an account of the death of Ukrainian fighter Vladimir Zherebtsov. Here’s an obituary for Ukrainian army colonel Yury Yula.

Here’s the statement by the mayor of the Ukrainian city Konotop Artyom Semenikhin containing direct accusation of Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Vladimir Artyukh who convened a meeting of Ukrainian combatants with the participation of women and children.

Semenikhin openly demanded resignation of General Artyukh, who uses terrorist “civilian human shield” tactics to protect his thugs.

This Kiev regime’s war crime was so obvious even to the Ukrainian people and the Kiev-controlled media that voices of outrage were heard among Zelensky’s inner circle as well. Verkhovnaya Rada Deputy Maryana Bezuglaya publicly demanded to find out who, fearing a Russian strike on a legitimate target, ordered to use women and children as human shields during the military event.

Zelensky confirmed every accusation coming his way by firing Head of the Sumy Military Administration Artyukh yesterday, thus shifting the responsibility for this hideous war crime, which this time was directed against his own citizens, onto him.

Does UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres know about all this? The day that followed the attack on a perfectly legitimate target, he was “deeply alarmed and shocked” by Russia’s Sunday missile strike on Sumy and accused our country of “attacking civilians.”

I also have a question for Kallas and Merz who deliberately went ahead with verbal manipulations and poured dirt over Russia on Sunday and Monday. How are you now going to justify what your underling did?

For some reason, representatives of our embassies in Sweden and Lithuania were summoned to the local foreign ministries. Apparently, poisoned by the fumes of competitive Russophobia, they were trying to take advantage of anything they could lay their hands on to further damage relations with our country which, as is, are unlikely to get revived for many years to come.

When the Ukrainians attacked civilians on the Crimean Bridge, when SBU terrorists blew up Russian journalists in the Moscow suburbs and in St Petersburg, when drones attacked the Moscow Kremlin, and when Ukrainian punishers committed genocide and mass murder in the Kursk Region and buried old people alive in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, these Euro peacemakers kept silent, and all the UN Secretariat did was diplomatically “call for peace.”

When the gunmen get-together was liquidated, everyone started blaming Russia at once... When it became clear that the local authorities purposely used children as a shield to protect these ghouls, everyone went silent.

If you think of it, after these publications and dismissals, they should now kneel in repentance before the whole world.

The above facts not only prove, but demonstrate with disarming directness that the Kiev regime uses women and children as human shields, and then cast these staged performances as acts of alleged Russian aggression. The Ukrainian Nazi militants are, in fact, taking their own fellow citizens hostage. The blood of civilian victims is on the hands of Zelensky and his henchmen, as well as the conniving Western mob.

The hoax in Bucha and the unrelenting attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces on Russian energy facilities even during the negotiated moratorium demonstrably show that this hideous circus has quite a few bloody tricks up its sleeve.

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🎞️Donbass: Echoes of War

History repeats itself; this phrase now echoes around Donbass, a region that suffered at the hands of the fascists during the course of World War II. Here, fierce battles were waged, daring resistance groups emerged, and great feats of courage unfolded on the front lines.

During the liberation of Mariupol in 1943 and the battle for 'Azovstal' in 2022, the tactic of using human shields and utilising residential buildings as firing points were used by the fascists then, and by the Armed Forces of Ukraine today.

Explore how the harrowing past and the present day events are inextricably intertwined on this heroic land.

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⚡️ 17 апреля Верховный Суд Российской Федерации огласил решение о приостановлении запрета деятельности Движения талибов (ДТ), включённого в единый федеральный список организаций, в том числе иностранных и международных организаций, признанных в соответствии с законодательством Российской Федерации террористическими.

Вердикт вынесен по итогам судебного рассмотрения в соответствии с положениями Федерального закона от 28 декабря 2024 года №513-ФЗ «О внесении изменений в отдельные законодательные акты Российской Федерации».

Снятие террористического статуса с ДТ, которое после краха прозападного режима А.Гани в 2021 году сформировало афганское правительство, открывает дорогу к налаживанию полноценного партнёрства с Кабулом, осуществляемого в интересах российского и афганского народов.

Россия нацелена на выстраивание взаимовыгодных связей с Афганистаном во всех областях, включая борьбу с наркотиками и терроризмом.

🤝 Российская сторона признательна за проводимые властями этого государствавоенно-силовые операции на своей территории против афганского крыла ИГИЛ – «Вилаят Хорасан», исповедующего ультрарадикальную идеологию «глобального джихада».

Отдельный акцент в Москве намерены сделать на наращивании торговых, деловых и инвестиционных связей с Кабулом. Очевидно, что Афганистан, обладая уникальным геостратегическим положением, способен в будущем стать связующим звеном в реализации крупных энергетических и инфраструктурных проектов.

Принятие Верховным Судом Российской Федерации решения о приостановке террористического статуса ДТ не влечёт за собой изменения международных обязательств Российской Федерации по соблюдению санкционного режима Совета Безопасности ООН в отношении связанных с ДТ физических и юридических лиц, а также других групп и предприятий.

📄 Из политической декларации, принятой по итогам третьей встречи национальных координаторов Группы друзей в защиту Устава ООН (Москва, 15 апреля 2025 года):

1. Мы, национальные координаторы членов Группы друзей в защиту Устава Организации Объединённых Наций, встретились в Москве, Российская Федерация, с целью обсуждения путей и средств наращивания наших общих усилий, направленных на сохранение, продвижение и защиту верховенства и законной силы Устава Организации Объединённых Наций, как его буквы, так и духа, а также для дальнейшего совершенствования нашей координации по вопросам, представляющим общий интерес и вызывающим общую озабоченность.

2. Мы вновь подтверждаем нашу полную приверженность Уставу Организации Объединённых Наций и Декларации о принципах международного права, касающихся дружественных отношений и сотрудничества между государствами в соответствии с Уставом Организации Объединённых Наций.

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4. Мы отмечаем, что в этом году отмечается 80‑я годовщина Победы во Второй мировой войне, и осуждаем попытки переписывания истории, прославления нацизма или осквернения памяти тех, кто сражался в рядах антигитлеровской коалиции, подчёркивая, что Победа над нацизмом заложила основу для создания Организации Объединённых Наций 80 лет назад, и обращая внимание на неразрывную связь между этими двумя годовщинами.

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6. Мы подчёркиваем, что продолжающийся кризис многосторонности во многом коренится в попытках некоторых членов ООН подменить международное право так называемым «миропорядком, основанным на правилах», что подрывает целостность Устава Организации Объединённых Наций и препятствует подлинной многосторонности.

7. Мы приветствуем появление новых центров силы на Глобальном Юге, которые играют всё возрастающую роль в международных отношениях и стремятся к построению подлинно демократического и многополярного мира. Полицентричная модель развития значительно расширяет возможности суверенных государств для взаимовыгодного и равноправного сотрудничества.

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12. Мы вновь подтверждаем, что эффективность Организации Объединённых Наций в успешном решении современных и возникающих вызовов зависит от политической воли её членов и их способности достигать консенсуса, и, таким образом, мы подчёркиваем важность возобновления практики подлинного взаимодействия, которая лежит в основе истинной многосторонности, обеспечивая справедливое включение голосов развивающихся стран в процессы принятия решений.

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25. Мы вновь подтверждаем нашу решимость продвигать глобальную кампанию в пользу полного, немедленного и безоговорочного отказа от применения всех односторонних принудительных мер, которая пользуется поддержкой подавляющего большинства международного сообщества. В этом контексте мы также выражаем нашу решимость объединить усилия, ведущие к учреждению «Международного дня борьбы с односторонними принудительными мерами», который будет служить, среди прочего, важной датой для повышения осведомлённости о негативных последствиях таких незаконных мер.

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⚡️ On April 17, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation suspended the terrorist status of the Taliban movement.

This ruling opens the way for the establishment of a full-fledged partnership with Kabul in the interests of Russian and Afghan peoples.

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🎥 Belarus: A Land Unbroken — an RT Doc Film.

Synopsis: During the Great Patriotic War Soviet Belarus, a part of the USSR, was under Nazi occupation from 1941 to 1944.

The fraternal Belarusian people, among the first to confront the Nazi invasion in June 1941, endured immense suffering and hardship. After seizing the territory of the Byelorussian SSR, the Hitlerites imposed a brutal and oppressive occupation regime.

🕯 The Nazis killed people of all nationalities through punitive operations, ghettos, and encircling concentration camps. During the Great Patriotic War, one in every three people in Belarus died.

But the citizens of the Soviet Union endured all the horrors of war and never lost faith in Victory. The resistance movement in Belarus was one of the largest. Even children and teenagers joined the partisans to fight for their homeland.

The occupation ended in 1944, when the Red Army, together with the partisans, launched Operation Bagration — the largest military operation in history. As a result of their combined efforts, Belarus was liberated.

📺 In this documentary, the filmmakers spoke to representatives from the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Belarus, leading experts, frontline veterans, home front workers, and descendants of the heroes who defended the Brest Fortress.

Historians featured in the film shed light on the Nazi war crimes committed on Belarusian soil and highlight the courage and sacrifice of the Soviet soldiers who liberated Belarus from occupation.

#Victory80

🗓 On April 19, 1783, Empress Catherine the Great signed a manifesto on the accession of Crimea, the Taman Island and Kuban region into the Russian Empire.

Prince Grigory Potemkin, Governor-General of Novorossiya, played one of the key roles in the accession and development of Crimea. In June 1783, on top of Mount Aq Qaya, he personally received the oath of allegiance to Russia from the Crimean nobility and the common people.

The results of the 2014 all-Crimean referendum once again confirmed the desire of Crimeans to remain part of our country and led to the long-awaited reunification of Crimea with Russia.

#CrimeaIsRussia

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⚡️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces Easter ceasefire

During a meeting at the Kremlin with the Chief of the General Staff of Russia's Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov President Vladimir Putin declared that the Russian Side is ceasing all military action starting April 19, 06:00 pm MSK to April 21, 00:00 am MSK

💬 President Putin: Guided by humanitarian motives, the Russian Side announces an Easter ceasefire from 06:00 pm today to 00:00 am Monday. I hereby order all military operations ceased for this period. We assume that the Ukrainian Side will follow our example. At the same time, our forces should be prepared to repel possible ceasefire violations and provocations by the enemy, as well as any aggressive acts on their part.