#Think4Yourself

🎬 Russian Cultural Code: Literature — an educational documentary

What is a Russian soul? This question has been pondered upon by the West for centuries. In today's world the mystery of the Russian soul — or the Russian cultural code as it is called in the digital age — still boggles the minds of foreigners.

In this film (developed by the School of Arina Sharapova, TV presenter, Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber), the key to the Russian cultural code is understanding our literature and language.

Literature unites both scholars and science enthusiasts, people of a rational mindset. It reflects the spiritual essence of our nation, its historical heritage and values. By analysing contemporary Russian literature, one can see how authors respond to modern challenges and how they are reflected in their works.

👉 Watch the documentary to better understand the Russian cultural code.

#KievRegimeCrimes

❗️ Maxim Grigoryev, the Сhairman of the International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, which includes representatives of civil society from more than 30 countries, continues recording reports of war crimes committed by the Kiev regime.

Below are first-hand accounts by those who suffered and witnessed mass atrocities perpetrated by Ukrainian neo-Nazis in Donbass and Ukraine after the special military operation started 👇

💬 Deputy Regimental Commander of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign "Shaman":

"I have never seen anything like it was near Kharkov in my life. <...>

Ukrainian troops captured 18 of our people: they were mobilised students, ballet dancers, orchestra musicians from theatres of Donetsk, steelworkers, miners, tax collectors. Non of them have ever been in military action. <...>

Those freaks (Ukrainian military) tortured our guys, cut off their ears, stabbed them in their eyes and neck.

When we got to Olkhovka, I started evacuating those who survived and were wounded. <...>

I saw a bench outside the school and two of our boys sitting there. They were wearing our uniform. I shouted to them: 'Why are you sitting there? Let's go'. Then I came up to them and noticed that they were dead, tied together like in an embrace. When we pulled them and other dead soldiers out, we saw that they had no ears and were stabbed in the neck. The forensics said that those boys had their ears cut off while they were still alive.

Ukrainian Armed Forces' mercenaries, bragged about this. We found it on the Internet. They were shooting at the legs — at guys from our regiment. I saw a video of them gouging out an eye of our fighter. They are not human. They were from the f***ing Kraken Regiment."

💬 Tamara Koryak, victim of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artyomovsk, Donetsk People's Republic:

"Ukrainian military fired at us from mortars and tanks. My daughter was wounded by shrapnel. They were shooting at our house and windows with automatic weapons. They wouldn't let us go outside. <...>

Ukrainian military purposefully shot at the houses with civilians inside. <...>

There were no Russian soldiers at that time in Artyomovsk. We saw them only on March 10, 2023. There were no military before except for the Ukrainian army.

My neighbour told me that one Ukrainian soldier at a market and asked: 'Guys, are you here to protect us?' And they answered, smiling, that they came not to protect but to wipe them out.

💬 Anatoly Kryachok, victim of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artyomovsk, Donetsk People's Republic:

I can tell you what I heard personally. A mortar crew was standing nearby. The Ukrainian gunner sent coordinates for firing to the Ukrainian military and received a response on the radio that these coordinates are the centre of the city. The commander answered: 'What do they pay you for? You're told to shoot, so shoot!'. <...>

Near my house, maybe 50 metres from it, there were mortar crews on the left and right sides of the fence, on the road next to it there was a self-propelled artillery launcher firing at the Russian Armed Forces in the direction of Kharkov-Rostov, and so on."

👉 Find out more on the Kiev regime's war crimes, documented by Maxim Grigoryev

❗️Уважаемые посетители!

⛔️ В связи с требованием норвежской стороны сократить к 17 октября 2024 г. дипломатический состав Посольства в составе консульского отдела останутся всего два дипломата. В этой ситуации Посольство принимает меры для сохранения консульского приема по всем видам услуг без отмены заявок граждан, планирующих посещение консотдела в ближайшее время. При этом возможности консотдела по организации выездных консульских приемов, индивидуального обслуживания на дому (для уязвимых групп населения) и расширению часов приема посетителей в предотпускной весенний период будут ограничены. Просим отнестись с пониманием к сложившейся ситуации и учитывать нынешние обстоятельства при планировании визитов в консульский отдел. Рекомендуем внимательно следить за сроком действия имеющихся у Вас загранпаспортов и заблаговременно подавать заявки на их обмен. Обращаем внимание на то, что некоторые документы (например, доверенности) можно оформить также у норвежского нотариуса без необходимости посещения нашего консульского отдела. Такие документы будут приниматься на территории России при условии проставления на их оригинале штампа «апостиль» в офисе губернатора. Перевод этих документов на русский язык и его нотариальное заверение может быть осуществлено в России.

@MID_Russia

⛔️ О временной приостановке приема по консульским вопросам⛔️

Уважаемые полярники!

По требованию норвежской стороны дипломатический состав российских загранучреждений в Норвегии сокращается с 17 октября 2024 г. При этом в составе Генерального консульства на Шпицбергене остается только один дипломат. В этой связи по причинам технического характера с 15 октября 2024 г. функционал Генконсульства будет временно ограничен.
Проведение консульского приема в Баренцбурге и выездных консульских обслуживаний в Лонгиербюене и Пирамиде временно приостановлено до дальнейшего уведомления. В случаях, не терпящих отлагательств, а также за разъяснениями и консультациями вы можете обратиться по телефону дежурного: (+47) 906 72 380 или по электронной почте: spitsbergen@mid.ru.
Предпринимаются все усилия для полноценного возобновления консульского приема, о чем будет сообщено дополнительно.
Благодарим за понимание. 🇷🇺


@MID_Russia

❗️Уважаемые посетители!

⛔️Информируем вас, что в связи с требованием норвежской стороны к 17 октября 2024 г. сократить дипломатический состав Генконсульства, консульский прием граждан не будет осуществляться с 14 октября 2024 г. до дальнейшего уведомления. Проведение выездных консульских обслуживаний временно приостановлено.

🗂️Подать заявление на получение российской визы возможно через Российский визовый центр в Киркенесе.

🗓️ О возобновлении консульского приема в Генконсульстве будет сообщено дополнительно.

@MID_Russia
@RusEmbNo



❗️Kjære besøkende!

⛔️ Vi gjør dere oppmerksom på at i forbindelse med krav fra norsk side om redusering av diplomater ved Russlands generalkonsulat i Kirkenes vil det ikke ytes konsulære tjenester f.o.m. 14. oktober og inntil videre. Konsulære reiser til andre byer er også midlertidig suspendert.

🗂️ Det er fortsatt mulig å søke om russisk visum gjennom Det russiske visumsenteret i Kirkenes.

🗓️ Om gjenopptakelse av normalt arbeid vil det bli kunngjort senere.

Industrial production across the #Eurasian Economic Union in Jan-Aug 2024 increased by 4,5% as compared to the same period of 2023.

📈The growth has been observed in all countries of the #EAEU:

🇦🇲 in Armenia – by 13.7%
🇧🇾 in Belarus – by 7.1%
🇷🇺 in Russia – by 4.5%
🇰🇿 in Kazakhstan – by 3.0%
🇰🇬 in Kyrgyzstan – by 0.7%

🗓 11 октября в Москве прошли первые межведомственные консультации государств-членов #ОДКБ по международной информационной безопасности (#МИБ).

Обсуждены современные вызовы и угрозы в области информационной безопасности, сотрудничество на международных тематических площадках, прежде всего в #ООН, #СНГ, #ШОС, #МСЭ.

Рассмотрены вопросы выработки новых норм международного права, борьбы с преступлениями в контексте использования информационно-коммуникационных технологий, обмена информацией о национальных стратегиях, законодательстве и терминологии в сфере информбезопасности.

🤝 Консультации продемонстрировали заинтересованность государств-членов в продолжении дискуссии по проблематике МИБ в рамках ОДКБ.

🎖October 14 marks 81 years since the Sobibor uprising — a special date in the history of World War II.

📅 It was #OnThisDay in 1943, that the only successful mass escape from the Nazi death camps took place — the Sobibor uprising, led by a Soviet prisoner of war, the Red Army lieutenant Alexander Pechersky.

▪️During the war, Nazi Germany established about 14,000 concentration camps, with the so-called death camps among them, used by the Nazis to exterminate people. Sobibor was one those death camps formed in German-occupied Poland with one aim — to ensure the “final solution to the Jewish question.”

Sobibor had been in operation since May 1942. It was located near the village of Sobibor in the south east of Poland near the Western Bug River and the Polish-Soviet border. The camp was set up by the Nazis on a railroad haul between towns Chelm and Wlodawa, which made it possible to ship prisoners to Sobibor by train cars.

Sobibor was literally a death factory designed to slaughter people in the most brutal and terrifying ways. Each and every day, up to six trains each carrying 2,000 people — both military and civilians, including senior people, women, and children — delivered prisoners to that camp.

▪️Captives in Sobibor were shot, gassed, starved or exploited to the death. People were subjected to heinous medical experiments. Prisoners were brought to Sobibor for further torture and slaughter from Austria, Czechoslovakia, France. It is known that the two so-called "children trains" left the Netherlands for Sobibor in June 1943. During the time the camp was in operation, the Nazis massacred there up to 250,000 POWs.

Sobibor was well-guarded by the Nazis. The camp was fenced off by four rows of three-metre-high barbed wire. The territory around was mined. There were sentinels on towers along the perimeter. Sobibor was also cordoned off by 200 guards, with about a hundred SS soldiers among them. Ukrainian collaborators, including those serving in 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), were in charge of maintaining the “order” in Sobibor.

Given all that, escaping from Sobibor seemed unthinkable.

⚔️ On October 14, 1943, the uprising in Sobibor under the leadership of Alexander Pechersky took place. Encouraged by the Soviet officer, the prisoners performed a truly heroic feat — in an unequal battle with the Nazis, POWs killed 11 or, according to other sources, 12 SS soldiers and several guards. Having overpowered the enemy literally with bare hands, the prisoners rushed undaunted to the central gate of Sobibor under heavy machine-gun fire from the towers. Nothing could stop the doomed prisoners, neither the minefields surrounding the camp, nor the barbed wire, nor the gun fire.

As a result of the uprising in Sobibor, about 300 prisoners managed to escape from this hell on Earth. Many survivors who managed to escape further joined the ranks of the resistance and continued their fight against the enemy. Alexander Pechersky himself joined the Belarusian partisans, and in 1944 fought the Nazis again.

☝️ The Sobibor uprising is known to be the only ever successful mass escape from Nazi death camps in the history of WWII. The Nazi SS command, unable to bear the shame and trying to hide the traces of their crimes against humanity in Sobibor, ordered to raze the camp to the ground.

The crimes committed in Sobibor were part of the charges against the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials, and the stories told by eyewitnesses and participants of the uprising were depicted in many books and films. Today the Alexander Pechersky Foundation in Russia plays an important role in preserving the memory of the Sobibor prisoners’ feat.

#Victory79 #WeRemember

🎙Из выступления Постоянного представителя В.А.Небензи на заседании Совета Безопасности ООН по ситуации на Ближнем Востоке, включая палестинский вопрос (Нью-Йорк, 16 октября 2024 г.)

💬В условиях непрекращающихся уже более года бомбежек ВВС Израиля гуманитарное положение в анклаве действительно ужасает. Количество убитых, раненых и изувеченных гражданских лиц, среди которых женщины и дети, потрясает.

👉Только за последние сутки было убито 55 палестинцев, более 329 ранены.

Масштабы голода шокируют – все население Газы нуждается в срочной продовольственной помощи. Массовые перемещения людей и приказы об эвакуации стали обыденностью, в то время как бежать, по сути, уже некуда. В разных районах сектора обстрелам подвергаются школы, больницы, лагеря беженцев. Американские СМИ приводят комментарии врачей-добровольцев, работающих в больницах Газы, согласно свидетельствам которых практически ежедневно они сталкиваются со случаями огнестрельных ранений в голову у несовершеннолетних от 2 до 12 лет.

Получается, что флаг ООН не только не защищает мирное население, гумработников и гражданские социальные объекты, но и, как будто, становится прямой мишенью для ЦАХАЛ.

❗️Все гуманитарщики «в один голос» говорят, что «безопасных мест в Газе нет». И это не фигура речи, а горькая действительность.

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Краткие тезисы:

🔸Социально-экономический урон, который нанесен сектору за прошедший год, просто колоссален. По оценкам ООН, ВВП анклава снизился настолько, что до предкризисного уровня экономика будет восстанавливаться почти 70 лет, а на восстановление критически важных объектов инфраструктуры потребуется по меньшей мере 80 лет.

🔸Беспрепятственная доставка гумпомощи палестинцам в текущих условиях имеет чрезвычайно важное значение, однако и здесь мы наблюдаем серьезные проблемы и чинимые Израилем ограничения, а сами гуманитарщики регулярно подвергаются обстрелам и задержаниям. В общей сложности убито более 300 гумработников, что уже охарактеризовало 2023 г. в качестве самого смертоносного для гуманитарщиков года за всю историю.

🔸Не выдерживают никакой критики законопроекты Кнессета о запрете деятельности БАПОР на территории Израиля и об отзыве иммунитетов и привилегий у его сотрудников. Агентство является «фундаментом» гуманитарного «крыла» ООН в Палестине и обладает уникальными возможностями в сфере предоставления социальных, образовательных и медицинских услуг.

🔸Израиль, безусловно, имеет право на обеспечение безопасности, однако путь к этой цели, вне всякого сомнения, лежит исключительно через всеобъемлющий процесс ближневосточного урегулирования и исправление исторической несправедливости в отношении Палестины путем создания независимого палестинского государства в соответствии с решениями СБ и ГА ООН.

🔸Нынешняя катастрофическая ситуация может и должна быть урегулирована исключительно политико-дипломатическими методами. Для этого необходимо обеспечить выполнение профильных решений СБ ООН, немедленно остановить кровопролитие в регионе и самое главное – гарантировать реализацию законного права палестинцев на собственное государство в границах 1967 г. со столицей в Восточном Иерусалиме.

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🎙 Statement by Vladimir Ermakov, Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation, Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, at the General Debate in the First Committee of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly

📍 New York, 15 October 2024

Key talking points

• The situation with international security and strategic stability, far from stabilizing, has continued to deteriorate. <...>

• There seems to be hardly any mutual willingness to engage in political and diplomatic work towards de-escalation and settlement of interstate dispute based on equality, mutual respect for the core interests of the parties and the principle of indivisible security.

• There is no political will to jointly address the root causes of fundamental contradictions, which is essential for a reliable and long-term decrease in conflict potential.

• The situation is deteriorating on a global scale. And the underlying reason is the struggle over a future model of the world order, which has dramatically intensified. The objectively imminent transition to multipolarity is being fiercely hampered by the US-led West unwilling to give up its hegemonic ambitions. <...>

• This is most evident in the extremely dangerous course taken by the US and its accomplices, which is to further escalate the Ukraine crisis with a view to inflict a "strategic defeat" on Russia and suppress its input into establishing a just world order.

❗️ The West is blatantly and cynically blocking any prospects for a comprehensive and lasting settlement of the conflict around Ukraine.

• The West aims to ensure an uncontested military superiority that would underpin the diktat of force.

• The disruption of the existing arms control and nuclear non-proliferation system affects the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

• NPT's key problem is that for a long time, Western countries have used it to achieve their political goals which have nothing to do with nuclear non-proliferation, i.e.: exerting political pressure or justifying for direct military interventions against "out-of-favour" countries and the overall tightening of the control over the nuclear programmes of the states that are not part of the Western bloc.

• Crises in international affairs, exacerbated by negative trends in international security, directly affect the functioning of international institutions in the field of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation.

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#SCO #RussiaPakistan

🗓 On October 16, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin took part in the SCO Heads of Government Council Meeting.

💬 Mikhail Mishustin: I would like to congratulate our Pakistani friends and partners on assuming the chairmanship of the SCO Heads of Government Council for the first time and thank them for their warm welcome and excellent organisation of our events in Islamabad.

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Pressure is mounting on Russia, but those who impose sanctions on us will not attain their goals. We are focused on realising our potential and supporting the key spheres of the national economy and relevant enterprises.

📈 Thanks to the development of the real economy sectors, Russia’s GDP increased by 4.2% in the first eight months of 2024. Investment in fixed assets grew by nearly 11 percent in the first six months of this year.

We are working actively to strengthen cooperation with the friendly countries that share our values. Last year, Russia’s trade with the SCO member states reached a record high volume of 30 trillion roubles (approximately $330 billion) and has grown by 5.5% in the first six months of the year.

It is particularly important to promote economic cooperation between the SCO states with a focus on the implementation of President Vladimir Putin’s Greater Eurasian Partnership initiative.

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation unites 10 member states and 16 observer nations. It geographically encompasses nearly the entire Eurasian continent. Our nations are home to almost half of the global population and contribute approximately 30% of the world's GDP. This remarkable potential must be harnessed for the common good and in the interests of each member state.

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🤝 I am confident that the SCO possesses every opportunity to emerge as one of the formidable centres of the equitable multipolar world currently taking shape. Together, we have the capability to achieve this – fostering economic prosperity for our nations and citizens.

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