😍 Tokarevsky Lighthouse in Vladivostok

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🌅 Mikhailovskoye Park on an early spring morning, Russia

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), has proposed to Elon Musk a joint Russia-US mission to Mars in 2029.

“Our minds and technologies should serve the glory of humanity, not its destruction,” wrote the RDIF chief on social media X.

🎊 He also noted that 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the first international spaceflight: the Apollo-Soyuz mission.

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⏳ Putin's offer for the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) near Kursk to lay down their arms remains valid, but time for Kyiv is "shrinking like shagreen leather," TASS reports, citing Peskov.

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🇷🇺 Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov has been solo crossing the South Atlantic in a rowing boat for exactly 100 days.

🤯 No one has ever followed this unique route from South America to Australia.

🏁 There are 3,270 miles (6,100 km) left to the estimated finishing point in Western Australia.

🗓 Konyukhov started on December 5 of last year from the Drake Passage. In 68 days, he reached the longitude of Cape Agulhas in South Africa and set a world record. The traveler also celebrated his 73rd birthday during the solo crossing.

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😀 In Yakutsk, the team of the Opera and Ballet Theater launched a flash mob dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.

📰 The initiator was the popular blogger Alexey Basylaev, who, with the support of the theater's director Vladislav Levotkin and the Yakutsk city administration represented by Lyubov Syrovatkina, organized a performance for local residents at the city's bus station.

😀 People were thrilled by what they saw, warmly welcoming the performers—singing along to the songs and applauding the folk dances.

👏 Basylaev thanked the artists for their skill, as their talent united people of all ages and nationalities, who also joined in singing military songs.

🇷🇺 The Yakut team considers such an initiative very patriotic and calls on all theaters in Russia to participate in the flash mob, so that military songs in memory of the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War can be heard in every corner of Russia.

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🇷🇺🛬 The best viewpoint for watching planes in Sochi

Now is the perfect time to watch airplanes in Sochi. The airport is undergoing modernization, and the right runway is closed for repairs. Therefore, all landings and takeoffs are taking place on the left runway, where the viewing platform is located.

📍Coordinates of the location: 43.438108, 39.922109

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⚡️ Putin, Lukashenko, Rahmon, and Aliyev agreed to meet on May 9 in Moscow

The presidents of Russia, Belarus, and Tajikistan had a phone conversation with the president of Azerbaijan. It was a warm, friendly discussion during which the leaders addressed a number of pressing issues regarding the further development of interstate relations.

The leaders agreed to meet on May 9 in Moscow for the solemn events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

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✨ How beautiful the sunsets are in Nizhny Novgorod

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 On March 15, at the initiative of the American side, a phone call took place between S.V. Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State M. Rubio, during which the American side informed of the decision to commence a military operation against Houthi forces in the Red Sea region.

In response to the arguments presented by the American representative, S.V. Lavrov emphasized the necessity of an immediate cessation of the use of force by all parties and the importance of them engaging in a political dialogue to find a solution that precludes further bloodshed.

Specific aspects of implementing the understandings reached during the February 18 meeting of high-ranking Russian and U.S. officials in Riyadh were also discussed.

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🤯 Alaska and Hawaii were once governed by a city in Siberia.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Yes, it sounds like a fiction, but it's a fact. The Russian-American Company managed lands across the ocean from Irkutsk. They organized expeditions and engaged in trade relations.

📆 The company was established in 1799 by order of Paul I. The goal was to harvest fur. However, the activities quickly expanded beyond fur trading. Russian settlements in Alaska grew, trading posts were established, and forts were built. Furs, gold, and tea flowed through Irkutsk.

In 1812, the Russians founded a fortified settlement called Fort Ross in Northern California. The decision to create it was made by Alexander Baranov to supply Alaska with goods.

🏰 And then — Hawaii. In 1816, the company representative Georg Scheffer attempted to take control of the island of Kauai. The local chief even agreed to recognize the Russian tsar. A fort was built on the island, which still exists today. But after a couple of years, the activities were scaled back (politics is a delicate matter), and Hawaii never became Russian.

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