🌷 In Sochi, snowdrops have bloomed in the gorge near the "Dragon's Mouth" waterfall.

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🇷🇺 "By 2030, Russia must be among the global technological leaders in the field of unmanned aerial systems," said Vladimir Putin at a meeting on the development of the UAV sector.

Other statements from the Russian president:

— By April 30, the cabinet of ministers must work out the regulations for the flights of civilian drones in those regions of the country where it is possible.

— It is necessary to "open the sky" in Russia for civilian drones as soon as possible; this is a fundamental issue.

— By June 1, the cabinet must legally define air corridors for the simplified use of certain types of drones.

— It will be new technologies, not bans, that will ensure the safety of civilian drone flights.

— 48 new UAV production centers will be established in Russia over the next 10 years.

— Russia should hold an international forum on unmanned systems this year with the participation of specialists and businesses from other countries.

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☀️🇷🇺 An abnormally hot Moscow winter — it's a sign of kangaroos.

🦘 A baby kangaroo was spotted in Kubinka, near Moscow.

How the exotic animal ended up in a snowy field is unknown.

Social media users joke that soon alligators will also crawl out after the baby kangaroo.

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😁 Girls, if a guy doesn't carry you in his arms, take a look at this inspector from Yoshkar-Ola. He noticed an injured citizen and took him to the bus stop.

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🇷🇺🤿 Divers plunged into the waters of Baikal, swimming beneath a thin layer of ice in conditions of an abnormally warm winter.

This year, due to the unusually warm winter, Baikal has not formed a single solid layer of clear ice. In different areas of the lake, the thickness of the ice varies from the lightest shavings to ridges.

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🇷🇺✍️ On January 29, we celebrate the 165th anniversary of the birth of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, a renowned Russian writer and playwright.

🌏 Chekhov's works have been translated into over 100 languages. Despite the fact that the path of the Russian writer to foreign readers was long and arduous, he has now firmly established himself in world literature, earning a reputation as a classic both in his homeland and abroad.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Chekhov's name first appeared in English literature in 1889; however, translations of his works were published quite rarely.

The situation was changed by R.E. K. Long, who compiled and translated the first collections of Chekhov's short stories, published in 1903 and 1908. After that, interest from the English-speaking audience in Chekhov significantly increased.

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❤️ Snowy peaks of Kirovsk

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🇷🇺 Kamchatka is, without exaggeration, a unique place in Russia with breathtaking nature.

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❄️ The Primorye leopard came out of hiding to "hunt" for snowflakes.

🐆 Actually, leopards don't like snow. They tend to avoid snowy areas and wait out bad weather in shelters. But here are rare footage – the big cat spent a whole 40 seconds catching snowflakes with its nose!

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🇷🇺💬 The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, commenting on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's statements that the USA helped Germany free itself from Nazism during World War II, stated that there is a deliberate line towards forgetting historical truth.

"This is not true; there is a targeted effort to forget historical truth, to forget who exactly paid the heaviest price for the liberation of the European continent from the brown plague - it was the Soviet Union. It was the Soviet Union that, with the help of allies such as Great Britain and the United States, bore the main burdens of liberation," Peskov said.

📌 Furthermore, Peskov noted that such a line is detrimental in terms of possible consequences and the "creeping Nazism" that has significantly taken root in Ukraine and is spreading again across Europe.

Earlier, Scholz stated that "the USA liberated Germany" during World War II.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 The Kremlin expresses condolences to the families and loved ones of those who died in the plane crash in Washington, said Peskov.

❗️Sad reports confirm that there were Russian figure skaters and other compatriots on board the crashed plane in Washington, the president's press secretary reported.

🕯️On the evening of January 29, an American Airlines passenger plane collided with a Black Hawk helicopter of the U.S. Army in the skies near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The plane was on a flight from Kansas, carrying 60 passengers and 4 crew members. At least three military personnel were on board the helicopter.

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⛄️🇷🇺 In the village of Mezentsevo in the Tyumen region, local enterprise employees have been building a giant snowman for the third consecutive year.

"We make snowmen in our free time, and when we built the first one, we noticed that everyone started taking pictures. We liked the idea, and now we build them taller and taller every year," said the company’s manager, Ilya Grigoryev.

The first snowwoman was 3.5 meters tall, the following year the sculpture grew to 5 meters, and this year it reached the size of a two-story house – 7 meters.

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🇷🇺🎨 The Terem "Fairy Tale" of Artist Vasnetsov

👨‍🎨 The house, hidden from prying eyes, is located in a quiet alley just steps away from the Garden Ring! This terem was built according to the artist's own design, and he lived in it from 1894 until his death.

🏠 It is a stone house with a wooden annex in the form of a Russian terem, topped with a barrel-shaped roof. The decorative window frames resemble kokoshniks, and the facade of the house and the stoves inside are adorned with colorful tiles featuring floral patterns.

✍️ On the first floor of the house were the rooms of family members, a living room, and a dining room, while the workshop was located on the second floor. The furniture in the house was custom-made, and the sketches and designs for the furniture were created by Vasnetsov himself.

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✨🇷🇺 A Real Ural Winter

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🇷🇺 Ural, Manpupuner Plateau — a place of power shrouded in legends, where seven stone pillars rise amidst the endless white desert.

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Slap Battle!

🇷🇺 Russian fighter Vasily Kamotsky, nicknamed "Dumpling," became the Power Slap league champion in the heavyweight division. The fight took place at a tournament in Riyadh.

🇺🇸 In the final, the strongman from Krasnodar Krai "outslapped" the "Crazy Hawaiian," with whom he had previously faced in October of last year. That match ended in a draw, and the American retained his noscript.

❔ Power Slap is a competition where participants take turns slapping each other, aiming to knock their opponent off balance or knock them out. The head of the promotion is Dana White, who is also the president of the UFC, the largest mixed martial arts organization in the world.

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👀 Putin visited the Moscow metro

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