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⛓ Today the world marks International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Slavery is one of the most terrible and tragic episodes in the history of mankind. For over four centuries, the Western countries had been enriching themselves by exploiting millions of innocent men, women and children, taken by force from the African continent.
Portugal, France, Britain and the Netherlands played the predominant role in the slave trade. A mass-scale human trafficking to America began in the 17th century, with slaves reaching up to 40 percent of the population in some states by the time the US gained independence.
In the northern states, slaves were generally used as house servants or labourers, and in the South they were forced to work on plantations for growing indigo, tobacco, cotton, or rice. The US laws regarded slaves as personal estate and protected slaveholders’ rights. Thus, the exploitation of slaves played a pivot role in the emergence of the US capitalism.
The renouncing of slavery in the US was slow and painful. It was accomplished only in 1865 after the end of the bloody Civil War. However, slavery was not thoroughly eradicated, with most southern states approving laws that allowed plantation owners to attach former slaves to their estate. In addition, segregation laws were adopted in some parts of the country that deprived African Americans of a number of civil rights. These restraints were lifted only in the 1960s.
🇺🇳 According to UN data, approximately 17 million individuals were forcibly taken from Africa throughout the history of the slave trade, marking it as one of the largest crimes in human history. At the same time, an immense damage inflicted on the Africa’s economic potential is estimated at $777 trillion by the African Reparations Commission.
Today, the West prefers to hush up these tragic events. The descendants of the colonialists are yet to pay compensation for the damage inflicted; moreover, they have not even apologised for it to the peoples of Africa.
Combating neo-colonialism is a priority for Russia in fostering cooperation with the African continent. Russia supports African states in their efforts to finally complete the decolonisation process and advocates for a thorough examination of the consequences of the slave trade within leading international organisations.
Slavery is one of the most terrible and tragic episodes in the history of mankind. For over four centuries, the Western countries had been enriching themselves by exploiting millions of innocent men, women and children, taken by force from the African continent.
Portugal, France, Britain and the Netherlands played the predominant role in the slave trade. A mass-scale human trafficking to America began in the 17th century, with slaves reaching up to 40 percent of the population in some states by the time the US gained independence.
In the northern states, slaves were generally used as house servants or labourers, and in the South they were forced to work on plantations for growing indigo, tobacco, cotton, or rice. The US laws regarded slaves as personal estate and protected slaveholders’ rights. Thus, the exploitation of slaves played a pivot role in the emergence of the US capitalism.
The renouncing of slavery in the US was slow and painful. It was accomplished only in 1865 after the end of the bloody Civil War. However, slavery was not thoroughly eradicated, with most southern states approving laws that allowed plantation owners to attach former slaves to their estate. In addition, segregation laws were adopted in some parts of the country that deprived African Americans of a number of civil rights. These restraints were lifted only in the 1960s.
🇺🇳 According to UN data, approximately 17 million individuals were forcibly taken from Africa throughout the history of the slave trade, marking it as one of the largest crimes in human history. At the same time, an immense damage inflicted on the Africa’s economic potential is estimated at $777 trillion by the African Reparations Commission.
Today, the West prefers to hush up these tragic events. The descendants of the colonialists are yet to pay compensation for the damage inflicted; moreover, they have not even apologised for it to the peoples of Africa.
Combating neo-colonialism is a priority for Russia in fostering cooperation with the African continent. Russia supports African states in their efforts to finally complete the decolonisation process and advocates for a thorough examination of the consequences of the slave trade within leading international organisations.
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🕯December 3 marks the Day of the Unknown Soldier in Russia, honouring the feat of all soldiers who perished for the Motherland, yet whose names remain unknown.
#OnThisDay in 1966, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Red Army's victory over Nazi forces in the Battle of Moscow, a ceremony of the burial of the unknown soldiers' remains was held in the Alexander Garden near the walls of the Moscow Kremlin. These remains were originally located in a mass grave on the 41st kilometre of the Leningrad Highway and were discovered during construction activities on the road. Back in 1941, during the Battle of Moscow, this very place saw fierce and bloody battles between the Soviet forces and Nazi invaders.
▪️ On May 8, 1967, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden was unveiled. "Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal", — the worldwide famous words were inscribed upon the granite slab on the Tomb. Soviet newspapers noted back then: "...he [the Unknown Soldier] was slain for his Motherland, for his home — Moscow. This is all we know about him."
💬 Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky remarked:
"The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the ancient walls of the Moscow Kremlin shall serve as a monument of eternal glory to the heroes who died on the battlefield for their Motherland.
Henceforth, the ashes of the one who shielded Moscow with his chest rest here".
The Eternal Flame was set at the Tomb. In December of 1997, the Honor Guard was instituted near the Eternal Flame.
In total, approximately two million Soviet and Russian citizens were reported missing in action during the wars and conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Russian Ministry of Defence carries out on a regular basis search operations to perpetuate the memory of heroes who perished for the Motherland.
Russian diplomats abroad are engaged in extensive efforts aimed at preserving historical memory, countering attempts to distort the history of #WWII and to question the Great Victory of the Soviet people.
The Embassies of Russia all across the world ensure the maintenance, repair and restoration of Soviet monuments and war graves.
❗️ Regrettably, as part of a disgraceful campaign to distort history of #WWII, a policy of state vandalism is being pursued in certain countries of Eastern Europe, in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland in particular, with the one aim — to eradicate Russia's memorial heritage — the monuments to Soviet heroes and liberators.
By order of the official authorities, criminal acts are being perpetrated in these countries to desecrate mass graves, when the remains of fallen soldiers are barbarically exhumed for the purpose of their subsequent "reburial in accordance with European practice" in specially designated locations.
🎗 It is prohibited for Russian compatriots in Europe, under the threat (!) of criminal prosecution, to pay tribute to heroes who fought against Nazism. The Russian MFA highlights these outrageous incidents.
The memory of all who sacrificed their lives for our future is and will remain immortal.
#WeRemember
#OnThisDay in 1966, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Red Army's victory over Nazi forces in the Battle of Moscow, a ceremony of the burial of the unknown soldiers' remains was held in the Alexander Garden near the walls of the Moscow Kremlin. These remains were originally located in a mass grave on the 41st kilometre of the Leningrad Highway and were discovered during construction activities on the road. Back in 1941, during the Battle of Moscow, this very place saw fierce and bloody battles between the Soviet forces and Nazi invaders.
▪️ On May 8, 1967, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden was unveiled. "Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal", — the worldwide famous words were inscribed upon the granite slab on the Tomb. Soviet newspapers noted back then: "...he [the Unknown Soldier] was slain for his Motherland, for his home — Moscow. This is all we know about him."
💬 Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky remarked:
"The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the ancient walls of the Moscow Kremlin shall serve as a monument of eternal glory to the heroes who died on the battlefield for their Motherland.
Henceforth, the ashes of the one who shielded Moscow with his chest rest here".
The Eternal Flame was set at the Tomb. In December of 1997, the Honor Guard was instituted near the Eternal Flame.
In total, approximately two million Soviet and Russian citizens were reported missing in action during the wars and conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Russian Ministry of Defence carries out on a regular basis search operations to perpetuate the memory of heroes who perished for the Motherland.
Russian diplomats abroad are engaged in extensive efforts aimed at preserving historical memory, countering attempts to distort the history of #WWII and to question the Great Victory of the Soviet people.
The Embassies of Russia all across the world ensure the maintenance, repair and restoration of Soviet monuments and war graves.
❗️ Regrettably, as part of a disgraceful campaign to distort history of #WWII, a policy of state vandalism is being pursued in certain countries of Eastern Europe, in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland in particular, with the one aim — to eradicate Russia's memorial heritage — the monuments to Soviet heroes and liberators.
By order of the official authorities, criminal acts are being perpetrated in these countries to desecrate mass graves, when the remains of fallen soldiers are barbarically exhumed for the purpose of their subsequent "reburial in accordance with European practice" in specially designated locations.
🎗 It is prohibited for Russian compatriots in Europe, under the threat (!) of criminal prosecution, to pay tribute to heroes who fought against Nazism. The Russian MFA highlights these outrageous incidents.
The memory of all who sacrificed their lives for our future is and will remain immortal.
#WeRemember
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📄 Joint Ministerial Statement of the 35th APEC Ministerial Meeting 2024 (Lima, Peru)
• In reaffirming our commitment to the APEC Putrajaya Vision 2040 of an open, dynamic, resilient and peaceful Asia-Pacific community by 2040 for the prosperity of all our people and future generations, including by implementing the Aotearoa Plan of Action (APA), and under the APEC 2024 theme “Empower. Include. Grow.,” we have advanced APEC’s cooperation agenda through three thematic priorities:
✅ trade and investment for inclusive and interconnected growth;
✅ innovation and digitalization to promote transition to the formal and global economy;
✅ sustainable growth for resilient development. <...>
👉 Empower
• We commend APEC’s work this year in encouraging innovation and digitalization to promote the transition from the informal to the formal economy, including through focused discussions and policy dialogues. <...>
• We recognize the essential role of an enabling, open, fair, non-discriminatory, safer and more inclusive digital ecosystem that facilitates trade, and the importance of enhancing trust and security in the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) <...>
👉 Include
• We emphasize the importance of realizing the economic potential of all. We acknowledge the valuable contributions of persons with disabilities to economic growth in the region, while recognizing the need to provide them with more opportunities. <...>
• We acknowledge the contributions to inclusive economic growth of Indigenous Peoples as appropriate and welcome further dialogues and collaborative efforts focused on capacity-building to increase their participation in regional and global markets. <...>
• We emphasize the importance of assisting the region’s small and medium enterprises, including by embracing digital tools and fostering innovation, expanding financial inclusion initiatives, enhancing supply chain networks <...>.
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• We reiterate our commitment to working together to deliver a free, open, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent, inclusive, and predictable trade and investment environment. <...>
• As we mark the 30th anniversary of the World Trade Organization (WTO), we reiterate our support for the rules-based multilateral trading system, with the WTO at its core. We commit to work towards necessary reform of the WTO, in order to improve all its functions <...>
• We commit to safeguarding secure, resilient, inclusive, effective, sustainable, open and interconnected supply chains. <...>
👉 Strengthening APEC
• We reaffirm our commitment to strengthening APEC as an important and effective economic cooperation forum in the Asia-Pacific region, and reaffirm its voluntary, non-binding and consensus-building principles. <...>
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• In reaffirming our commitment to the APEC Putrajaya Vision 2040 of an open, dynamic, resilient and peaceful Asia-Pacific community by 2040 for the prosperity of all our people and future generations, including by implementing the Aotearoa Plan of Action (APA), and under the APEC 2024 theme “Empower. Include. Grow.,” we have advanced APEC’s cooperation agenda through three thematic priorities:
✅ trade and investment for inclusive and interconnected growth;
✅ innovation and digitalization to promote transition to the formal and global economy;
✅ sustainable growth for resilient development. <...>
👉 Empower
• We commend APEC’s work this year in encouraging innovation and digitalization to promote the transition from the informal to the formal economy, including through focused discussions and policy dialogues. <...>
• We recognize the essential role of an enabling, open, fair, non-discriminatory, safer and more inclusive digital ecosystem that facilitates trade, and the importance of enhancing trust and security in the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) <...>
👉 Include
• We emphasize the importance of realizing the economic potential of all. We acknowledge the valuable contributions of persons with disabilities to economic growth in the region, while recognizing the need to provide them with more opportunities. <...>
• We acknowledge the contributions to inclusive economic growth of Indigenous Peoples as appropriate and welcome further dialogues and collaborative efforts focused on capacity-building to increase their participation in regional and global markets. <...>
• We emphasize the importance of assisting the region’s small and medium enterprises, including by embracing digital tools and fostering innovation, expanding financial inclusion initiatives, enhancing supply chain networks <...>.
👉 Grow
• We reiterate our commitment to working together to deliver a free, open, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent, inclusive, and predictable trade and investment environment. <...>
• As we mark the 30th anniversary of the World Trade Organization (WTO), we reiterate our support for the rules-based multilateral trading system, with the WTO at its core. We commit to work towards necessary reform of the WTO, in order to improve all its functions <...>
• We commit to safeguarding secure, resilient, inclusive, effective, sustainable, open and interconnected supply chains. <...>
👉 Strengthening APEC
• We reaffirm our commitment to strengthening APEC as an important and effective economic cooperation forum in the Asia-Pacific region, and reaffirm its voluntary, non-binding and consensus-building principles. <...>
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🎙️ Intervjuet med Russlands Ambassadør i Norge Nikolay Korchunov, publisert av nyhetsbyrået «Rossija Segodnja» (30.11.2024)
🔗 Les hele intervjuet på norsk
❓De begynte å jobbe som ambassadør i Norge bare et par uker etter at det offisielle Oslo krevde at antall ansatte ved den russiske ambassaden ble redusert. Hvor konstruktive er kontaktene mellom Moskva og Oslo nå? Og er de tilstrekkelige til å løse kritiske problemer, inkludert arbeidet til ambassader?
💬 Nikolay Korchunov:
I motsetning til mange andre land ble historien til de russisk-norske forhold inntil nylig ikke overskygget av noen tragiske sider. Landene våre har aldri vært i krig med hverandre.
Russland var den første staten som anerkjente Norges selvstendighet i 1905. Historiens første kvinnelige ambassadør var den befullmektigede representanten for Sovjetunionen i Norge, Alexandra Kollontaj. Sovjetunionen og Norge kjempet i fellesskap mot tysk nazisme. Den Røde armés offensiv i nordøst-Norge i oktober 1944, som kostet mange sovjetiske soldater livet, markerte starten på landets frigjøring fra nazistenes okkupasjon.
Dessverre må jeg begynne i den nye jobben som ambassadør når bilaterale forhold er på sitt laveste punkt. Russland er ikke initiativtakeren til deres forverring. Norge har selv valgt veien for å stoppe politisk dialog, innskrenke handels- og økonomiske bånd, industrisamarbeid og mellomregionale og grenseoverskridende kontakter. Av alvorlig bekymring er økningen i konfrontasjonen, usikkerheten i forhold og mangelen på dialog om alle relevante spørsmål, inkludert innen sikkerhetspolitikk.
Under disse forholdene ser jeg som hovedoppgave å hindre en ytterligere forverring av bilaterale forhold. Veien til deres normalisering ligger i en gradvis gjenoppretting av forskjellige forbindelser. Dette er ikke en lett oppgave, først og fremst på grunn av manglende tillit til hverandre.
Geografien kan imidlertid ikke endres. Våre land forblir naboer. Vi håper at sunn fornuft vil seire og at Russland og Norge vil gå tilbake til samhandling og løsning av felles problemer.
🔗 Les hele intervjuet på norsk
🔗 Publisert av RIA Novosti 30. November 2024 (les på russisk)
🔗 Les hele intervjuet på norsk
❓De begynte å jobbe som ambassadør i Norge bare et par uker etter at det offisielle Oslo krevde at antall ansatte ved den russiske ambassaden ble redusert. Hvor konstruktive er kontaktene mellom Moskva og Oslo nå? Og er de tilstrekkelige til å løse kritiske problemer, inkludert arbeidet til ambassader?
💬 Nikolay Korchunov:
I motsetning til mange andre land ble historien til de russisk-norske forhold inntil nylig ikke overskygget av noen tragiske sider. Landene våre har aldri vært i krig med hverandre.
Russland var den første staten som anerkjente Norges selvstendighet i 1905. Historiens første kvinnelige ambassadør var den befullmektigede representanten for Sovjetunionen i Norge, Alexandra Kollontaj. Sovjetunionen og Norge kjempet i fellesskap mot tysk nazisme. Den Røde armés offensiv i nordøst-Norge i oktober 1944, som kostet mange sovjetiske soldater livet, markerte starten på landets frigjøring fra nazistenes okkupasjon.
Dessverre må jeg begynne i den nye jobben som ambassadør når bilaterale forhold er på sitt laveste punkt. Russland er ikke initiativtakeren til deres forverring. Norge har selv valgt veien for å stoppe politisk dialog, innskrenke handels- og økonomiske bånd, industrisamarbeid og mellomregionale og grenseoverskridende kontakter. Av alvorlig bekymring er økningen i konfrontasjonen, usikkerheten i forhold og mangelen på dialog om alle relevante spørsmål, inkludert innen sikkerhetspolitikk.
Under disse forholdene ser jeg som hovedoppgave å hindre en ytterligere forverring av bilaterale forhold. Veien til deres normalisering ligger i en gradvis gjenoppretting av forskjellige forbindelser. Dette er ikke en lett oppgave, først og fremst på grunn av manglende tillit til hverandre.
Geografien kan imidlertid ikke endres. Våre land forblir naboer. Vi håper at sunn fornuft vil seire og at Russland og Norge vil gå tilbake til samhandling og løsning av felles problemer.
🔗 Les hele intervjuet på norsk
🔗 Publisert av RIA Novosti 30. November 2024 (les på russisk)
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Николай Корчунов: полный запрет на въезд россиян в Норвегию малореален
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3 декабря отмечается День атомного ледокольного флота России. В этот день в 1959 году был введен в эксплуатацию первый в мире атомный ледокол «Ленин».
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«Росатом» завершил вывоз отработавшего ядерного топлива с бывшей береговой базы ВМФ «Гремиха» в Мурманской области
Последний – одиннадцатый – комплект отработавших выемных частей (ОВЧ) реактора на жидкометаллическом теплоносителе был разобран и отправлен на переработку. Он входил в состав стенда-прототипа реакторной установки.
Процесс разборки и вывоза всех ОВЧ занял более десятилетия. Специальная технология, созданная на производственном объединении «Маяк», позволяет полностью перерабатывать разобранные кассеты с отработавшим уран-бериллиевым топливом от реакторов атомных подводных лодок на жидкометаллическом теплоносителе.
Директор по государственной политике в области радиоактивных отходов, отработавшего ядерного топлива (ОЯТ) и вывода из эксплуатации ядерно и радиационно опасных объектов госкорпорации «Росатом» Василий Тинин: «Специалистами “Росатома” решена сложнейшая проблема ликвидации отработавшего уран-бериллиевого топлива – одного из самых сложных в переработке видов ОЯТ, имеющих обогащение выше 90 % и представляющих серьезную угрозу для человека и хрупкой природы Северо-запада России. Впервые в мире продемонстрирована технология разборки уран-бериллиевых активных зон на составные части, их транспортировка и переработка».
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Последний – одиннадцатый – комплект отработавших выемных частей (ОВЧ) реактора на жидкометаллическом теплоносителе был разобран и отправлен на переработку. Он входил в состав стенда-прототипа реакторной установки.
Процесс разборки и вывоза всех ОВЧ занял более десятилетия. Специальная технология, созданная на производственном объединении «Маяк», позволяет полностью перерабатывать разобранные кассеты с отработавшим уран-бериллиевым топливом от реакторов атомных подводных лодок на жидкометаллическом теплоносителе.
Директор по государственной политике в области радиоактивных отходов, отработавшего ядерного топлива (ОЯТ) и вывода из эксплуатации ядерно и радиационно опасных объектов госкорпорации «Росатом» Василий Тинин: «Специалистами “Росатома” решена сложнейшая проблема ликвидации отработавшего уран-бериллиевого топлива – одного из самых сложных в переработке видов ОЯТ, имеющих обогащение выше 90 % и представляющих серьезную угрозу для человека и хрупкой природы Северо-запада России. Впервые в мире продемонстрирована технология разборки уран-бериллиевых активных зон на составные части, их транспортировка и переработка».
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🕯 On December 3, Russia commemorates the Day of the Unknown Soldier, established to immortalise the heroic deeds of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the Motherland and remain unidentified.
This day holds special importance for many Russians, symbolising national pride and mourning.
The date was not chosen by chance: on December 3, 1966, a solemn burial ceremony for the remains of an unknown soldier took place in the Alexander Garden near the Kremlin Wall.
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🕯 On December 3, Russia commemorates the Day of the Unknown Soldier, established to immortalise the heroic deeds of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the Motherland and remain unidentified.
This day holds special importance for many Russians, symbolising national pride and mourning.
The date was not chosen by chance: on December 3, 1966, a solemn burial ceremony for the remains of an unknown soldier took place in the Alexander Garden near the Kremlin Wall.
👉 Learn more
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🇷🇺 Fundamentals of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence
I. General Provisions
1. These Fundamentals are a strategic planning document in the area of ensuring defence that reflects official views on the essence of nuclear deterrence, identifies military risks and threats intended to be neutralized by the implementation of nuclear deterrence, as well as defines the principles of nuclear deterrence and the conditions for the transition of the Russian Federation to the employment of nuclear weapons.
2. Assured deterrence of a potential adversary from aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies is one of the highest state priorities. Deterrence of aggression is ensured by the totality of the military might of the Russian Federation, including nuclear weapons.
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II. The Essence of Nuclear Deterrence
9. The Russian Federation exercises nuclear deterrence toward a potential adversary, defined as individual states and military coalitions (blocs, alliances), that consider the Russian Federation as a potential adversary and possess nuclear and (or) other types of weapons of mass destruction or significant combat capabilities of general purpose forces.
Nuclear deterrence is also exercised toward states that provide territory, air and (or) sea space under their control, as well as resources for preparing and committing aggression against the Russian Federation.
10. Aggression by any state from a military coalition (bloc, alliance) against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies is considered as the aggression by this coalition (bloc, alliance) as a whole.
11. Aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies by any non-nuclear state with the participation or support of a nuclear state is considered as their joint attack.
III. Conditions for the Transition of the Russian Federation to the Employment of Nuclear Weapons
18. The Russian Federation reserves the right to employ nuclear weapons in response to the employment of nuclear and (or) other types of weapons of mass destruction against itself and (or) its allies, as well as in the event of aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) the Republic of Belarus as participants in the Union State with the employment of conventional weapons, which creates a critical threat to their sovereignty and (or) territorial integrity.
19. The conditions that enable the possibility of nuclear weapons employment by the Russian Federation are as follows:
a) receipt of reliable data on the launch of ballistic missiles attacking the territories of the Russian Federation and (or) its allies;
b) employment of nuclear or other types of weapons of mass destruction by an adversary against the territories of the Russian Federation and (or) its allies, against facilities and (or) military formations of the Russian Federation located outside its territory;
c) actions by an adversary affecting elements of critically important state or military infrastructure of the Russian Federation, the disablement of which would disrupt response actions by nuclear forces;
d) aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) the Republic of Belarus as participants in the Union State with the employment of conventional weapons, which creates a critical threat to their sovereignty and (or) territorial integrity;
e) receipt of reliable data on the massive launch (take-off) of air and space attack means (strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, unmanned, hypersonic and other aerial vehicles) and their crossing of the state border of the Russian Federation.
20. The decision to employ nuclear weapons is made by the President of the Russian Federation.
21. The President of the Russian Federation may, if necessary, inform the military-political leadership of other states and (or) international organizations about the readiness of the Russian Federation to employ nuclear weapons or of the decision taken to employ nuclear weapons, as well as of the fact of their employment. <...>
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I. General Provisions
1. These Fundamentals are a strategic planning document in the area of ensuring defence that reflects official views on the essence of nuclear deterrence, identifies military risks and threats intended to be neutralized by the implementation of nuclear deterrence, as well as defines the principles of nuclear deterrence and the conditions for the transition of the Russian Federation to the employment of nuclear weapons.
2. Assured deterrence of a potential adversary from aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies is one of the highest state priorities. Deterrence of aggression is ensured by the totality of the military might of the Russian Federation, including nuclear weapons.
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II. The Essence of Nuclear Deterrence
9. The Russian Federation exercises nuclear deterrence toward a potential adversary, defined as individual states and military coalitions (blocs, alliances), that consider the Russian Federation as a potential adversary and possess nuclear and (or) other types of weapons of mass destruction or significant combat capabilities of general purpose forces.
Nuclear deterrence is also exercised toward states that provide territory, air and (or) sea space under their control, as well as resources for preparing and committing aggression against the Russian Federation.
10. Aggression by any state from a military coalition (bloc, alliance) against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies is considered as the aggression by this coalition (bloc, alliance) as a whole.
11. Aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies by any non-nuclear state with the participation or support of a nuclear state is considered as their joint attack.
III. Conditions for the Transition of the Russian Federation to the Employment of Nuclear Weapons
18. The Russian Federation reserves the right to employ nuclear weapons in response to the employment of nuclear and (or) other types of weapons of mass destruction against itself and (or) its allies, as well as in the event of aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) the Republic of Belarus as participants in the Union State with the employment of conventional weapons, which creates a critical threat to their sovereignty and (or) territorial integrity.
19. The conditions that enable the possibility of nuclear weapons employment by the Russian Federation are as follows:
a) receipt of reliable data on the launch of ballistic missiles attacking the territories of the Russian Federation and (or) its allies;
b) employment of nuclear or other types of weapons of mass destruction by an adversary against the territories of the Russian Federation and (or) its allies, against facilities and (or) military formations of the Russian Federation located outside its territory;
c) actions by an adversary affecting elements of critically important state or military infrastructure of the Russian Federation, the disablement of which would disrupt response actions by nuclear forces;
d) aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) the Republic of Belarus as participants in the Union State with the employment of conventional weapons, which creates a critical threat to their sovereignty and (or) territorial integrity;
e) receipt of reliable data on the massive launch (take-off) of air and space attack means (strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, unmanned, hypersonic and other aerial vehicles) and their crossing of the state border of the Russian Federation.
20. The decision to employ nuclear weapons is made by the President of the Russian Federation.
21. The President of the Russian Federation may, if necessary, inform the military-political leadership of other states and (or) international organizations about the readiness of the Russian Federation to employ nuclear weapons or of the decision taken to employ nuclear weapons, as well as of the fact of their employment. <...>
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📄 On 7 November 2024, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted Resolution No. 1510 "On conducting an experiment on testing the rules and conditions for entry into and exit from the Russian Federation of foreign citizens and stateless persons" (hereinafter referred to as "the experiment").
The purpose the experiment is to create a public "Digital Profile of a Foreign Citizen" information resource, a set of information submitted to public information systems by foreign citizens, authorized bodies and organizations participating in the experiment, in the volume and order stipulated by the Experiment Rules.
The experiment will be conducted in two stages.
1️⃣ 1 December 2024 to 30 June 2025
The first one, provides for collecting biometric personal data of foreign citizens (a photographic image of the person's face and finger papillary patterns) at air checkpoints on the state border of the Russian Federation – Moscow air zone at international airports (Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo), as well as Zhukovsky (Moscow region) and at the Mashtakovo automobile checkpoint (Orenburg region).
2️⃣ 30 June 2025 to 30 June 2026
The second stage will be held from 30 June 2025 to 30 June 2026. During this stage, in addition to fulfilling the above-mentioned requirements, foreign citizens planning to enter the Russian Federation visa-free, must register in the integrated identification and authentication system and submit an application to enter into and stay (reside) in the Russian Federation using the mobile application of the Integrated Portal of Public and Municipal Services (Functions) federal state information system.
The experiment will involve all foreign citizens and stateless persons crossing the state border of the Russian Federation at the resolution-specified checkpoints throughout its implementation period, with the exception of:
- citizens of the Republic of Belarus;
- children under 6 years of age;
- heads and staff of diplomatic missions and consular offices of foreign states in the Russian Federation, as well as their family members;
- officials of international organizations (missions of international organizations) and their family members;
- holders of diplomatic and service passports entering or leaving the Russian Federation due to performing official duties or as part of official delegations, as well as their family members.
Meanwhile, the procedure for processing and issuing Russian visas to foreign citizens, including single electronic visa, remains the same.
👉 The full text of the Resolution
The purpose the experiment is to create a public "Digital Profile of a Foreign Citizen" information resource, a set of information submitted to public information systems by foreign citizens, authorized bodies and organizations participating in the experiment, in the volume and order stipulated by the Experiment Rules.
The experiment will be conducted in two stages.
1️⃣ 1 December 2024 to 30 June 2025
The first one, provides for collecting biometric personal data of foreign citizens (a photographic image of the person's face and finger papillary patterns) at air checkpoints on the state border of the Russian Federation – Moscow air zone at international airports (Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo), as well as Zhukovsky (Moscow region) and at the Mashtakovo automobile checkpoint (Orenburg region).
2️⃣ 30 June 2025 to 30 June 2026
The second stage will be held from 30 June 2025 to 30 June 2026. During this stage, in addition to fulfilling the above-mentioned requirements, foreign citizens planning to enter the Russian Federation visa-free, must register in the integrated identification and authentication system and submit an application to enter into and stay (reside) in the Russian Federation using the mobile application of the Integrated Portal of Public and Municipal Services (Functions) federal state information system.
The experiment will involve all foreign citizens and stateless persons crossing the state border of the Russian Federation at the resolution-specified checkpoints throughout its implementation period, with the exception of:
- citizens of the Republic of Belarus;
- children under 6 years of age;
- heads and staff of diplomatic missions and consular offices of foreign states in the Russian Federation, as well as their family members;
- officials of international organizations (missions of international organizations) and their family members;
- holders of diplomatic and service passports entering or leaving the Russian Federation due to performing official duties or as part of official delegations, as well as their family members.
Meanwhile, the procedure for processing and issuing Russian visas to foreign citizens, including single electronic visa, remains the same.
👉 The full text of the Resolution
🇷🇺🇳🇴 Ambassadens kommentar til Aftenposten i forbindelse med artikkelen om «Russlands hybridkrigføring» (3. desember 2024)
💬 Anklager om at Russland driver «hybridkrigføring» er absurde. Selv etter sabotasjen av gassrørledningene «Nord Stream», da russisk undervannsinfrastruktur ble sprengt, fortsetter noen å «måle andre med samme mål som seg selv».
Under påskudd av å bekjempe den «russiske trusselen» forsøker man å rettferdiggjøre uvennlige handlinger mot Russland, avbryter mellommenneskelige kontakter og undergraver OSSEs forpliktelser innenfor den menneskelige dimensjon.
Hvis Vesten ønsket det, ville det være lett for dem å bli overbevist om hvor latterlige anklagene er. Når det gjelder dataangrepene som er tilskrevet Russland, har vi for eksempel gjentatte ganger foreslått til den norske siden å samarbeide med Det russiske nasjonale koordineringssenter for datahendelser. Dessverre ble disse forslagene ignorert.
❗️Det ser ut til at «hybridkrigføring» er blitt en integrert del av nemlig Vestens politikk overfor Moskva (ulovlige økonomiske sanksjoner, bruk av Russlands midler i utlandet, stenging av grenser, press på vårt land på den internasjonale arenaen, forsøk på å undergrave Russlands forhold til andre ikke-vestlige land, spredning av desinformasjon for å diskreditere den russiske staten, påvirkning for å skape indre ustabilitet i Russland, påvirkning av den offentlige opinionen, bruk av cyberrommet til å blande seg inn i Russlands indre anliggender, osv).
💬 Anklager om at Russland driver «hybridkrigføring» er absurde. Selv etter sabotasjen av gassrørledningene «Nord Stream», da russisk undervannsinfrastruktur ble sprengt, fortsetter noen å «måle andre med samme mål som seg selv».
Under påskudd av å bekjempe den «russiske trusselen» forsøker man å rettferdiggjøre uvennlige handlinger mot Russland, avbryter mellommenneskelige kontakter og undergraver OSSEs forpliktelser innenfor den menneskelige dimensjon.
Hvis Vesten ønsket det, ville det være lett for dem å bli overbevist om hvor latterlige anklagene er. Når det gjelder dataangrepene som er tilskrevet Russland, har vi for eksempel gjentatte ganger foreslått til den norske siden å samarbeide med Det russiske nasjonale koordineringssenter for datahendelser. Dessverre ble disse forslagene ignorert.
❗️Det ser ut til at «hybridkrigføring» er blitt en integrert del av nemlig Vestens politikk overfor Moskva (ulovlige økonomiske sanksjoner, bruk av Russlands midler i utlandet, stenging av grenser, press på vårt land på den internasjonale arenaen, forsøk på å undergrave Russlands forhold til andre ikke-vestlige land, spredning av desinformasjon for å diskreditere den russiske staten, påvirkning for å skape indre ustabilitet i Russland, påvirkning av den offentlige opinionen, bruk av cyberrommet til å blande seg inn i Russlands indre anliggender, osv).
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🇷🇺🇳🇴 Посольство России в Норвегии:
Комментарий Посольства газете «Афтенпостен» в связи с обвинениями России в ведении «гибридной войны» (опубликован 3 декабря 2024 года)
💬 Обвинения России в ведении «гибридной войны» абсурдны.
Даже после диверсий на «Северных потоках», когда была взорвана российская подводная инфраструктура, кое-кто продолжает «судить по себе».
Под предлогом борьбы с «российской угрозой» делаются попытки оправдать недружественные действия против нашей страны, прерываются контакты между людьми, подрываются принятые в ОБСЕ обязательства в области человеческого измерения.
При желании на Западе могли бы легко убедиться в нелепости предъявляемых обвинений. Так, в части приписываемых российской стороне кибератак мы неоднократно предлагали норвежским властям взаимодействовать с российским Национальным координационным центром по компьютерным инцидентам. К сожалению, эти предложения были проигнорированы.
❗️Судя по всему, «гибридные войны» стали неотъемлемой частью именно политики Запада в отношении Москвы: нелегитимные экономические санкции, распоряжение российскими капиталами за рубежом, закрытие границ, оказание давления на нашу страну на международной арене, попытки подрыва взаимоотношений России с другими – незападными странами, распространение дезинформации с целью дискредитации российского государства, создание в России внутренней нестабильности, влияние на общественное мнение, использование киберпространства для вмешательства во внутренние дела и др.
Комментарий Посольства газете «Афтенпостен» в связи с обвинениями России в ведении «гибридной войны» (опубликован 3 декабря 2024 года)
💬 Обвинения России в ведении «гибридной войны» абсурдны.
Даже после диверсий на «Северных потоках», когда была взорвана российская подводная инфраструктура, кое-кто продолжает «судить по себе».
Под предлогом борьбы с «российской угрозой» делаются попытки оправдать недружественные действия против нашей страны, прерываются контакты между людьми, подрываются принятые в ОБСЕ обязательства в области человеческого измерения.
При желании на Западе могли бы легко убедиться в нелепости предъявляемых обвинений. Так, в части приписываемых российской стороне кибератак мы неоднократно предлагали норвежским властям взаимодействовать с российским Национальным координационным центром по компьютерным инцидентам. К сожалению, эти предложения были проигнорированы.
❗️Судя по всему, «гибридные войны» стали неотъемлемой частью именно политики Запада в отношении Москвы: нелегитимные экономические санкции, распоряжение российскими капиталами за рубежом, закрытие границ, оказание давления на нашу страну на международной арене, попытки подрыва взаимоотношений России с другими – незападными странами, распространение дезинформации с целью дискредитации российского государства, создание в России внутренней нестабильности, влияние на общественное мнение, использование киберпространства для вмешательства во внутренние дела и др.
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🔔 An experiment on testing the rules and conditions for entry into and exit from Russia of foreign citizens and stateless persons was launched on December 1st in order to create a state information resource "Digital Profile of a Foreign Citizen".
The Russian Government adopted a respective resolution on November 7th.
The information on how the experiment will be conducted and which categories of foreigners will be affected by it is in our files.
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The Russian Government adopted a respective resolution on November 7th.
The information on how the experiment will be conducted and which categories of foreigners will be affected by it is in our files.
Download full PDF
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🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin's remarks at the Plenary Session of the Russia Calling! forum (December 4, 2024)
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Key points:
• Our entrepreneurs, companies and entire industries faced serious challenges in 2022 as a result of actions taken by, let me put it mildly, some countries or more precisely, their leading elites. These countries have shown themselves to be unreliable partners. Many industrial and logistics chains, as well as cooperative ties that took decades to develop, have been endangered or even disrupted.
• We often hear people from the political, military, or economic fields say that these countries set the task of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia, including in the economy and technology, to drastically weaken our country’s manufacturing industry, finance and services, to create an insurmountable shortage of goods on our market, to destabilise the labour market, and to lower the living standards of our citizens. It is obvious that these plans have failed to materialise. Following a challenging period, the Russian economy has not only fully recovered, but is also living through qualitative structural changes, which is vitally important and, perhaps, is the most important outcome of our work in the economy over the past two to three years.
• Russia’s technological, production and logistics potential is making strides. Ties with promising partners are getting stronger.
📈 Last year, Russia’s gross domestic product grew by 3.6 percent, which is a well-known fact, and increased by 4.1 percent in January-October of this year. The growth mainly comes from the manufacturing industries and sectors with high added value.
💼 Russia has a record-low unemployment rate of just 2.3 percent. Compared to the majority of the world’s leading and developing economies, this figure is minimal.
• Russia’s leadership in financial technologies positions us well to forge flexible partnerships with foreign counterparts, promote integration projects, and leverage the complementary strengths of our respective economies. I am also referring to the investment platform we are developing with our BRICS partners. This work is in its early stages but all the parties involved agree on its potential benefits and good prospects. It is expected to become an important instrument for supporting our economies and providing financial resources to the countries of the Global South and East.
• Despite the political pressure, many of our partners, including those from Western Europe and the United States, have not left the Russian market. Some of these companies continue to operate as before, probably about half of them; others have transferred management to the persons and entities they control. About one quarter of those companies have really left, while some continue to procedure to exit the Russian economy.
• Russia has not pivoted now to the Global South or East, no. Russia has engaged in this policy for a long time now, since the 2000s, mindful of the global development and global economic trends. We have been doing that for a long time now in an orderly and consistent manner.
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Our relations with China are not impacted by events that are taking place, for example, in Ukraine. China has long ago become our largest trade and economic partner, even before that.
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Key points:
• Our entrepreneurs, companies and entire industries faced serious challenges in 2022 as a result of actions taken by, let me put it mildly, some countries or more precisely, their leading elites. These countries have shown themselves to be unreliable partners. Many industrial and logistics chains, as well as cooperative ties that took decades to develop, have been endangered or even disrupted.
• We often hear people from the political, military, or economic fields say that these countries set the task of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia, including in the economy and technology, to drastically weaken our country’s manufacturing industry, finance and services, to create an insurmountable shortage of goods on our market, to destabilise the labour market, and to lower the living standards of our citizens. It is obvious that these plans have failed to materialise. Following a challenging period, the Russian economy has not only fully recovered, but is also living through qualitative structural changes, which is vitally important and, perhaps, is the most important outcome of our work in the economy over the past two to three years.
• Russia’s technological, production and logistics potential is making strides. Ties with promising partners are getting stronger.
📈 Last year, Russia’s gross domestic product grew by 3.6 percent, which is a well-known fact, and increased by 4.1 percent in January-October of this year. The growth mainly comes from the manufacturing industries and sectors with high added value.
💼 Russia has a record-low unemployment rate of just 2.3 percent. Compared to the majority of the world’s leading and developing economies, this figure is minimal.
• Russia’s leadership in financial technologies positions us well to forge flexible partnerships with foreign counterparts, promote integration projects, and leverage the complementary strengths of our respective economies. I am also referring to the investment platform we are developing with our BRICS partners. This work is in its early stages but all the parties involved agree on its potential benefits and good prospects. It is expected to become an important instrument for supporting our economies and providing financial resources to the countries of the Global South and East.
• Despite the political pressure, many of our partners, including those from Western Europe and the United States, have not left the Russian market. Some of these companies continue to operate as before, probably about half of them; others have transferred management to the persons and entities they control. About one quarter of those companies have really left, while some continue to procedure to exit the Russian economy.
• Russia has not pivoted now to the Global South or East, no. Russia has engaged in this policy for a long time now, since the 2000s, mindful of the global development and global economic trends. We have been doing that for a long time now in an orderly and consistent manner.
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Our relations with China are not impacted by events that are taking place, for example, in Ukraine. China has long ago become our largest trade and economic partner, even before that.
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🗓 On December 4, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired a regular, 27th, meeting of the Russian Federation Interagency Commission for the Council of Europe (CE).
The Commission analysed the CE’s current anti-Russia activities, primarily its continued course for stepping up a legal aggression against the Russian Federation via the creation of illegitimate, pseudo-legalistic mechanisms for bringing Russia to “account” in connection with the special military operation. Additional measures have been outlined to neutralise unfriendly actions undertaken against Russia.
❌ The Commission reaffirmed the Russian Federation’s refusal to participate in the Council of Europe multilateral conventions that no longer meet its interests, up to denouncing the relevant agreements.
The Commission analysed the CE’s current anti-Russia activities, primarily its continued course for stepping up a legal aggression against the Russian Federation via the creation of illegitimate, pseudo-legalistic mechanisms for bringing Russia to “account” in connection with the special military operation. Additional measures have been outlined to neutralise unfriendly actions undertaken against Russia.
❌ The Commission reaffirmed the Russian Federation’s refusal to participate in the Council of Europe multilateral conventions that no longer meet its interests, up to denouncing the relevant agreements.
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🗓 On December 5, Russia marks the Day of Military Glory. #OnThisDay in 1941, the Red Army launched its counteroffensive against Nazi invaders that heralded an incipient turn of the tide in the Great Patriotic War.
By early December 1941, the Soviet group comprised 1.1 million officers and soldiers, over 7'500 artillery systems, 774 tanks and 1'000 aircraft prior to the counteroffensive. The Germans had a marked advantage, including 50% more service personnel, 80% more artillery systems and 50% more tanks.
Contrary to the predictions of the German high command that considered a large-scale Soviet counteroffensive to be impossible, it took the Red Army just 11 days to defeat the Wehrmacht’s Army Group Centre. The Soviet forces advanced 65-125 km along the entire line of contact, hurled the enemy back by 100-250 km and stopped it 150-400 km from Moscow by April 20, 1942.
The enemy was expelled from the Moscow, Tula and Ryazan regions, as well as from numerous districts of the Kalinin and Smolensk regions.
❗️ German troops’ morale was undermined. During the counteroffensive near Moscow, Soviet defenders managed to dispel the myth of the Wehrmacht’s invincibility and to inflict the first major defeat on Hitler during World War II.
Over 500'000 enemy officers and men were killed, wounded or went missing in action during the operation. The Nazis lost 1'300 tanks and 2'500 artillery systems.
The Soviet counteroffensive during the Battle of Moscow came to symbolise heroism and fortitude and had tremendous strategic significance for the entire course of the Great Patriotic War. The Red Army’s success helped strengthen the Anti-Hitler Coalition and forced the governments of Japan and Turkiye to refrain from entering the war on the side of Germany.
🎖 ~ One million defenders defenders of the Soviet capital received the Medal for the Defence of Moscow, and 110 people became Heroes of the Soviet Union.
In May 1965, ahead of the 20th Victory Day anniversary, Moscow was awarded the honorary noscript of the Hero City.
#Victory80
By early December 1941, the Soviet group comprised 1.1 million officers and soldiers, over 7'500 artillery systems, 774 tanks and 1'000 aircraft prior to the counteroffensive. The Germans had a marked advantage, including 50% more service personnel, 80% more artillery systems and 50% more tanks.
Contrary to the predictions of the German high command that considered a large-scale Soviet counteroffensive to be impossible, it took the Red Army just 11 days to defeat the Wehrmacht’s Army Group Centre. The Soviet forces advanced 65-125 km along the entire line of contact, hurled the enemy back by 100-250 km and stopped it 150-400 km from Moscow by April 20, 1942.
The enemy was expelled from the Moscow, Tula and Ryazan regions, as well as from numerous districts of the Kalinin and Smolensk regions.
❗️ German troops’ morale was undermined. During the counteroffensive near Moscow, Soviet defenders managed to dispel the myth of the Wehrmacht’s invincibility and to inflict the first major defeat on Hitler during World War II.
Over 500'000 enemy officers and men were killed, wounded or went missing in action during the operation. The Nazis lost 1'300 tanks and 2'500 artillery systems.
The Soviet counteroffensive during the Battle of Moscow came to symbolise heroism and fortitude and had tremendous strategic significance for the entire course of the Great Patriotic War. The Red Army’s success helped strengthen the Anti-Hitler Coalition and forced the governments of Japan and Turkiye to refrain from entering the war on the side of Germany.
In May 1965, ahead of the 20th Victory Day anniversary, Moscow was awarded the honorary noscript of the Hero City.
#Victory80
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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:
🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC Briefing on Ukraine (December 4, 2024)
💬 Today, in this Chamber, we once again have to listen to hackneyed and many times debunked falsehoods about Ukrainian children allegedly abducted by Russia.
Obviously, the US and its satellites have decided to take this narrative out of mothballs in order to shift the focus away from the recent escalatory steps they have taken to exacerbate the Ukrainian conflict and expand its geography, which potentially may end up in a direct confrontation between nuclear powers. I am referring to the authorization to use long-range ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles to strike within our territory, which fundamentally changes the nature of the conflict.
❗️ Nonetheless, they will have to talk about this at the meeting that we requested for December 20.
The problems having to do with the child protection in Ukraine began shortly after the anti-constitutional Maidan coup of February 2014, when the nationalist and neo-Nazi regime came to power in Kiev with the help of the West and turned against the country's Russian-speaking population, including children. Not only were those children and their parents denied the right to speak and be educated in their native language, but also there were attempts to deprive them of their national, confessional and historical identity and to remold their brain.
Moreover, the new authorities do not scruple and will not scruple to use any means to attain their goals. If you need evidence, just visit the Alley of Angels in Donetsk; there is a monument there to the Donbass children who died at the hands of the nationalists. According to approximate estimates, over 24,000 people – Donbass children – have been affected by Ukrainian bombing and shelling since 2014.
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By levelling accusations that Russia is allegedly abducting Ukrainian children, Kiev and its Western patrons are deliberately using a bait-and-switch tactic. The Russian authorities are evacuating children from areas of hostilities in full compliance with their obligations under international humanitarian law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The absolute majority of children arrived in Russia together with their parents or other relatives, they were fleeing Ukraine’s shelling.
☝️ If for whatever reason a family is separated, then the Office of Children's Rights Commissioner has a clear algorithm how to reunite children with their relatives. This has been carried out since the beginning of the special military operation, consistently and openly. All incoming requests are promptly processed. People are assisted when they are submitting documents. Russia has been doing this work in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross, Qatar and the Vatican.
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All the information I’ve just told you is publicly available. However, these facts are being consistently ignored, since they are inconvenient for the collective West and its Ukrainian underlings. But we’ve got used to that, because the US and its satellites are not interested in the truth, the only thing they are interested in is accusations against Russia, and no one is going to prove the veracity of these accusations.
👉 The main and, essentially, the only threat to Ukrainian children comes from what is being done by the Kiev regime. The regime treats them as nothing but rising “cannon fodder” that the Ukrainian expired ringleader will use when he runs out of older Ukrainians to be forcibly sent to die for Western geopolitical interests in a senseless meat grinder.
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🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC Briefing on Ukraine (December 4, 2024)
💬 Today, in this Chamber, we once again have to listen to hackneyed and many times debunked falsehoods about Ukrainian children allegedly abducted by Russia.
Obviously, the US and its satellites have decided to take this narrative out of mothballs in order to shift the focus away from the recent escalatory steps they have taken to exacerbate the Ukrainian conflict and expand its geography, which potentially may end up in a direct confrontation between nuclear powers. I am referring to the authorization to use long-range ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles to strike within our territory, which fundamentally changes the nature of the conflict.
❗️ Nonetheless, they will have to talk about this at the meeting that we requested for December 20.
The problems having to do with the child protection in Ukraine began shortly after the anti-constitutional Maidan coup of February 2014, when the nationalist and neo-Nazi regime came to power in Kiev with the help of the West and turned against the country's Russian-speaking population, including children. Not only were those children and their parents denied the right to speak and be educated in their native language, but also there were attempts to deprive them of their national, confessional and historical identity and to remold their brain.
Moreover, the new authorities do not scruple and will not scruple to use any means to attain their goals. If you need evidence, just visit the Alley of Angels in Donetsk; there is a monument there to the Donbass children who died at the hands of the nationalists. According to approximate estimates, over 24,000 people – Donbass children – have been affected by Ukrainian bombing and shelling since 2014.
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By levelling accusations that Russia is allegedly abducting Ukrainian children, Kiev and its Western patrons are deliberately using a bait-and-switch tactic. The Russian authorities are evacuating children from areas of hostilities in full compliance with their obligations under international humanitarian law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The absolute majority of children arrived in Russia together with their parents or other relatives, they were fleeing Ukraine’s shelling.
☝️ If for whatever reason a family is separated, then the Office of Children's Rights Commissioner has a clear algorithm how to reunite children with their relatives. This has been carried out since the beginning of the special military operation, consistently and openly. All incoming requests are promptly processed. People are assisted when they are submitting documents. Russia has been doing this work in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross, Qatar and the Vatican.
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All the information I’ve just told you is publicly available. However, these facts are being consistently ignored, since they are inconvenient for the collective West and its Ukrainian underlings. But we’ve got used to that, because the US and its satellites are not interested in the truth, the only thing they are interested in is accusations against Russia, and no one is going to prove the veracity of these accusations.
👉 The main and, essentially, the only threat to Ukrainian children comes from what is being done by the Kiev regime. The regime treats them as nothing but rising “cannon fodder” that the Ukrainian expired ringleader will use when he runs out of older Ukrainians to be forcibly sent to die for Western geopolitical interests in a senseless meat grinder.
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