#NoStatuteOfLimitations

📺 NATO aggression against Yugoslavia of 1999 in a nutshell.

👉 Detailed recap of the atrocities by the North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation and its member-states. #NeverForget

🎙 Statement by Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Anna Evstigneeva at a UNSC Open Debate on UN Peace Operations (March 24, 2025)

💬 Anna Evstigneeva: We ended up in a situation whereby [UN] missions have been present in countries for decades, incurring billions of dollars in expense for the international community. However, not all of them can boast of success: conflicts are spiraling out, people lose hope for positive change.

Moreover, the involvement of international players in domestic political processes may give rise to legitimate concerns among host governments about the risks of interference in their internal affairs. The flip side of the coin is the fear that those governments may lose their power as soon as such 'support' missions leave the country.

⚠️ This gap between the actual results and the cost of missions is becoming an increasingly stronger irritant.

All this attests to the fact that the UN's peacekeeping and political activities need to be reconsidered, improved and brought back to realistic scenarios.

However, what we’ve mainly observed so far is attempts at self-justification – it is being said that host countries are misbehaving, that the contingents are not properly trained, that the geopolitical context is hindering all the efforts, or that it is misinformation that we should blame for everything. <...>

For our part, we are convinced that progress here is possible not until we honestly analyze why host Member-States are questioning the need to host missions, and opting for other (more effective) forms of assistance.

👉 Only based on such assessment can we find political, rather than technical, solutions to the problems that arise.

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We believe that the Organization, for nearly 80 years of its existence, has accumulated sufficient expertise and tools to assist Member-States in preventing conflicts, reaching peace deals, creating conditions for implementing these deals or in peacebuilding. And each situation should be addressed using a tailor-made solution worked out precisely for it. In this regard, much can and should be gleaned from the past.

And yet, we are convinced that advancing the continuity in providing peacekeeping assistance may result in creating a category of countries that would be permanent recipients of UN assistance. Such countries will not only become dependent on the UN but they will also be limited in their sovereignty.

There is no need to automatically transform one form of UN presence into another, such as transforming PKOs into SPMs and the like.

It is important to bear in mind that the best option here is to make sure that as soon as the mandate is fully fulfilled, all responsibility for conflict prevention and conflict management is transferred to Member-States themselves.

☝️ This is the goal we need to be focused on.

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⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry Statement in connection with media reports on the future of Zaporozhye NPP

In view of media speculations about possible transfer of the Zaporozhye NPP (ZNPP) to Ukraine or establishment of some kind of joint control over the plant with Ukraine, the United States or representatives of international organisations, we would like to make the following clarifications.

☝️ The ZNPP is a Russian nuclear facility. As a result of the referendums held at the end of September 2022, the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions joined the Russian Federation as full-fledged subjects. On October 5, 2022, President of Russia signed Executive Order No. 711 On the Specifics of Legal Regulation for the Use of Nuclear Energy in the Zaporozhye Region, which secured the status of the ZNPP as a facility under Russian jurisdiction.

The return of the plant to the Russian nuclear industry is a long-established fact that the international community only needs to recognise. The transfer of the ZNPP itself or control over it to Ukraine or any other country is impossible.

All employees of the station are citizens of the Russian Federation, one cannot play with their lives, especially given the atrocities that the Ukrainians have committed and continue to commit in our country.

❗️ Joint operation of the ZNPP with any state is not acceptable either. There are no such precedents in the world practice.

In this case, for example, it would be impossible to properly ensure nuclear and physical nuclear safety and settle issues of civil liability for nuclear damage. An important aspect is that close cooperation between Ukraine and NATO countries' intelligence agencies, which have an impressive sabotage potential, makes even a temporary admission of these states to the ZNPP impossible.

The idea of any international organisations participating in the plant's operation also seems absurd, since neither the mandate nor the competence of any of them allows them to engage in the operation of nuclear facilities.

Pursuant to international law, including key respective conventions, the primary responsibility for ensuring nuclear safety and security on their territory rests with the states themselves.

In the case of the ZNPP, it is the Russian Federation with no other option.

⚡️ Main outcomes of the Russia and United States expert groups meeting (March 25, 2025)

1. In line with the agreement reached by the presidents of Russia and the United States, the Russian and American sides agreed to provide for the implementation of the Black Sea Initiative, which includes ensuring safe navigation, eliminating the use of force, and preventing the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea, while adopting appropriate control measures by inspecting such vessels.

2. The United States will help restore Russia's access to the world market for agricultural and fertiliser exports, lower maritime insurance costs, and enhance access to ports and payment systems for such transactions.

Note:

Clauses 1 & 2 will come into force following:

the removal of sanctions imposed on Rosselkhozbank (Russian Agricultural Bank) and other financial institutions involved in ensuring international food trade (including fish and fish products) and fertilisers, their reconnection to SWIFT, and opening of relevant correspondent accounts;

the removal of restrictions imposed on trade finance operations;

the removal of sanctions imposed on companies producing and exporting food (including fish and fish products) and fertilisers, as well as restrictions banning insurance companies from working with food cargoes (including fish and fish products) and fertilisers;

the removal of restrictions on servicing ships in ports and sanctions against ships flying the flag of Russia, if they are involved in food trade (including fish and fish products) and fertilisers;

the removal of restrictions on supplies to the Russian Federation of agricultural machinery and other goods used in the production of food (including fish and fish products) and fertilisers.

3. Russia and the United States agreed to develop measures for implementing the agreement between the two countries' presidents to ban strikes against energy facilities of Russia and Ukraine for 30 days starting on March 18, 2025, with an option to extend the agreement or to withdraw from it in the event of non-compliance by either party.

4. Russia and the United States welcome the good offices of third countries with a view toward supporting the implementation of the energy and maritime agreements.

5. Russia and the United States will continue working toward achieving a durable and lasting peace.

#RussiaUnitedStates

🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, March 20, 2025)

🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Kiev regime crimes
🔹 Attacks by the Kiev regime on Russian energy infrastructure
🔹 Western special services’ involvement in anti-Russia activities
🔹 Militarisation of Germany
🔹 Situation in Yemen
🔹 NATO aggression against Yugoslavia

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#West #KievRegime

The Brits quickly hushed up the fact that the “peacekeeping intervention” is stalling, shifting the focus to what they can do better: blowing smoke about the increasing unity of the West in putting pressure to bear on Russia and further military assistance to Kiev.

Not all EU and NATO member countries are ready to follow the proposed course of tightening sanctions against Russian assets.

Brussels seems to be still unable to comprehend which specific functions are required of the EU in the context of new dynamics regarding the Ukraine crisis.

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Ukraine has become a bridgehead for carrying out a wide range of cyberspace operations against Russia. Entire units of special services and military departments from NATO countries are permanently stationed in Kiev and Lvov to coordinate the Zelensky regime’s actions in the digital environment.

Over 200'000 attacks were committed by the hacker community against Russian infrastructure facilities in 2023. The fact that the West does not denounce, and even encourages such malicious actions is quite telling.

#Germany #EUwarmongering

Friedrich Merz, chairman of the CDU/CSU and aspirant to the chancellorship, is urging preparation for confrontation with our country “in the coming years and decades.”

Hotheads in Berlin and other European capitals must recognise that the Russian Federation will respond promptly and decisively to any militaristic ambitions to pre-empt threats to its own security.

#MiddleEast #Yemen

Over the past few days, the Americans have delivered missile and bomb attacks on the provinces of Sanaa, Sadah, Marib, Al Bayda, Dhamar and Hajjah, targeting not only military facilities but also civilian infrastructure.

We presented our views on the situation in Yemen in a statement following the March 15 telephone conversation between Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

We again call on parties to stop using force to resolve the conflict. We believe that only political and diplomatic methods can help find a durable stabilisation solution in Yemen and around it.

🎙 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Channel One (Moscow, March 25, 2025)

💬 Sergey Lavrov: Before proceeding to the political part of our conversation, I would like <…> to all those who remembered my birth anniversary, those who did not just call to congratulate me, but put their hearts into reciting my modest poems, adding some of their lyrical, humorous and many other ‘finds.’

Key talking points

• We will need clear-cut guarantees [regarding any agreements]. Given the disappointing experiences of our past agreements with Kiev, the guarantees can only exist in the form of a directive coming from Washington to Zelensky and his team to do so and so and not otherwise. I think our US partners are receptive of this signal.

• Europe, led by Germany - starting with Ursula von der Leyen and everyone else on that list - is beginning to seriously ponder remilitarisation that will set them back outlandish amounts running into hundreds of billions of euros in a situation where its economy and social sphere are circling the drain after the Biden administration let them off the leash and sent them to wage war against the Russian Federation.

• Europe is not only disregarding Donald Trump and his team’s assessment that territorial issues must be resolved outside NATO’s influence – it is actively encouraging Zelensky’s stance.

• We sensed before the Riyadh meeting that the Americans wanted to place Russians and Ukrainians in adjacent rooms, engaging in shuttle diplomacy to ultimately produce a coordinated document. However, we have reiterated what our presidents discussed – our unequivocal stance, which has been agreed by our presidents, is that progress must be reliable and there must not be any unsubstantiated documents.

• Zelensky knows that his days are numbered, and that his positive image he has been cultivating among the people has long since faded, with the exception of those (quite numerous) who hold radical, far-right and revenge-seeking Bandera views.

• The fact that we have resumed dialogue [with the USA] despite all our differences signals a return to normalcy. We need this kind of dialogue, especially since it is not limited to Ukraine.

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🎙 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Vesti news programme (Moscow, March 26, 2025)

❓ Question: What core geopolitical principles were established by the decisions of the Yalta Conference?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: The principles were straightforward. I recently addressed this topic and even authored an article <...> The legal embodiment of Yalta and Potsdam resides in the United Nations Charter. Who could possibly oppose its principles? <...>

The imperative remains to uphold equality and the right of nations to self-determination. This very principle underpinned the decolonisation process that unfolded fifteen years after the UN establishment and the Charter’s ratification. African peoples will ultimately conclude that those governing them from metropolitan capitals – through “overseers on the ground” – fail to represent their interests. <...>

Plainly, Ukraine’s current leadership – manipulated by Western puppeteers – fails to represent vast swathes of its population. Crimea, Donbass, and Novorossiya constitute settled matters, particularly given how referenda outcomes in these territories have been enshrined in our Constitution.

The principle of territorial integrity, already addressed, demands reciprocity: respect your people if you expect your borders to be respected. Do not prohibit native languages, historical memory, or ancestral child-rearing traditions. This, too, resonates with the UN Charter, which mandates respect for human rights irrespective of race, sex, language, or religion. <...>

Ursula von der Leyen, alluding to President Donald Trump’s return to power in the United States, recently claimed European values (democracy, human rights, rule of law) face grave peril. This comes from an official who wilfully ignores laws exterminating the Russian language, media, culture, and the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church – sister institution to Russia’s Orthodox Church – enacted by the Nazi regime of Vladimir Zelensky and his predecessor Petr Poroshenko.

Western hypocrisy reveals one truth: refusal to accept the emergent multipolar era. All nations must stand equal, mutual respect must prevail, and competition must be honourable. When the Soviet Union dissolved, the West lectured us about a new epoch and “end of history.” We are all on the same page now: globalisation, fair competition, and presumption of innocence. These principles now lie discarded.

In recent pronouncements by Ursula von der Leyen and other European Union leaders (I do not intend to offend all, but the majority), it is conspicuously evident that, irrespective of circumstances, “the way we interpret democracy is how it must be.” In Ukraine, it is permissible to prohibit the Russian language. In Switzerland, envisage a ban on French, or in Ireland, English (currently, the English and the Irish are at odds there). Were the English language to be banned in Ireland, one would witness an outcry reaching the heavens. Numerous analogous examples abound.

It was determined that in Romania, Călin Georgescu would not run for the presidency, notwithstanding the Constitutional Court of the country having cleared him of all suspicions. Yet the Central Electoral Commission declared: “We do not care about the Constitutional Court; the President has ordered us not to allow ‘this one’ to proceed because he does not denounce Vladimir Putin and Russia.”

The genetic inclination of the West to perpetually perceive itself as a hegemon thus continues to undermine the foundations of the Yalta-Potsdam system. This is a profoundly just system.

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#Arctic4You

🎙 Remarks by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at a plenary session of the VI International Arctic Forum "The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue".

💬 Vladimir Putin: Russia is the largest Arctic power.

We have consistently advocated for equitable cooperation in the region, encompassing scientific research, biodiversity protection, climate issues, emergencies response, and, of course, the economic and industrial development of the Arctic. We are prepared to collaborate not only with Arctic states but with all who, like us, share responsibility for ensuring a stable and sustainable future for the planet and are capable of adopting balanced decisions for decades to come. <...>

The role and importance of the Arctic for Russia and for the entire world are obviously growing. Regrettably, the geopolitical competition and fighting for positions in this region are also escalating. <...>

As to Greenland, this is an issue that concerns two specific nations and has nothing to do with us. But at the same time, of course, we are concerned about the fact that NATO countries are increasingly often designating the Far North as a springboard for possible conflicts and are practicing the use of troops in these conditions, including by their “new recruits” – Finland and Sweden, with whom, incidentally, until recently we had no problems at all. <...>

Russia has never threatened anyone in the Arctic. However, we are closely monitoring developments in the region, formulating an appropriate response strategy, enhancing the combat capabilities of the Armed Forces, and modernising military infrastructure facilities.

☝️ We will not tolerate any encroachments on our country’s sovereignty and will steadfastly safeguard our national interests. By upholding peace and stability in the Arctic region, we will ensure its long-term socio-economic development, improve the quality of life for its residents, and preserve its unique natural environment.

Key points:

• Over the past decade, cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route – spanning from the Kara Gates Strait to the Bering Strait – has substantially increased. In 2014, a mere four million tonnes of cargo were transported via this corridor. By last year, that figure had risen to nearly 38 million tonnes – five times the Soviet-era record.

• The Northern Sea Route is poised to become a pivotal segment of the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor, stretching from St Petersburg through Murmansk to Vladivostok.

• Cargo shipments along the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor are set to increase on the back of growing minerals production and the advanced processing of these resources right here in the Arctic, and due to rising international transits.

• Russia already operates the world’s biggest icebreaker fleet. We must consolidate our leadership in this sector by building new-generation icebreakers, including nuclear icebreakers. Today, only Russia has them – no other country has a nuclear icebreaker fleet.

• Plans are in place to increase the capacity and turnover of our northern ports through the introduction of innovative and environmentally friendly solutions, including unmanned and automated cargo handling equipment. <...> I would like to add that our partners from Belarus, China, the United Arab Emirates and other countries are showing keen interest in [the Murmansk transport hub] and in the development of the Arctic transport infrastructure in general.

• The regions of Siberia, the Urals, and Russia’s North-West will receive direct access to the North, to the Arctic ports, which will lessen the load on the Trans-Siberian Railway and promote effective use of sea transport. In addition, there will be new points of access to the Arctic from the North-South corridor, which connects us with Central Asia and the Gulf states.

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#See4Yourself #Think4Yourself

🎙 Yegor Yakovlev, a prominent Russian historian and creator of Russia’s largest scientific and educational historical project, "Digital History," explains in his lecture how history is often being manipulated becoming a powerful tool that serves one's political agenda and goals. This is particularly evident in the West, with certain academicians and media pushing and shaping anti-historical and anti-factual narratives that serve the Western neoliberal elites' agenda.

Yakovlev highlights several common techniques of historical falsification:

🔻 Distorting facts to fit a particular narrative;
🔻 Selective omission of inconvenient events;
🔻 Unjustly equating historical events;
🔻 Manipulating timelines to downplay certain events.

Through concrete examples Yegor Yakovlev challenges widespread fakes about Russia’s and Soviet Union’s history, including:

• The Kiev regime and Western ridiculous ahistorical attempts to label the 1932-1933 famine in the USSR as a genocide against the Ukrainian people by Soviet leadership;

• The selective focus on the Non-Aggression Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany while ignoring the Munich Betrayal, which in fact boosted Nazi Germany's expansionist policies, as well as constant Soviet attempts at creating an anti-Hitlerite coalition throughout the 1930s;

• The heinous false narrative that equates the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany as equal aggressors in the outbreak of WWII, which distorts historical reality;

• Attempts to deny the Siege of Leningrad being a genocide, manipulating the timeline, facts & context of the events.

👉 Watch, learn & educate oneself to avoid being misled by Western and Neo-Nazi propaganda and fabrications that distort historical truth.

✍️ President Vladimir Putin sends his greetings to Russia’s Muslims on Eid al-Fitr

💬 Please accept my heartfelt greetings on Eid al-Fitr.

This holiday, which marks the ending of the holy month of Ramadan, is one of the oldest and most cherished holidays for Muslims around the world. It represents striving for personal growth, benevolence and compassion.

It is good to see that Russian Muslims highly value the rich spiritual and historical legacy of their ancestors, respecting customs, covenants and traditions of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, and cultivating those in the younger generation. This is why Eid al-Fitr is so widely celebrated around Russia by religious communities and families alike.

☝️ The enormous constructive contribution of Muslim organisations to the development of Russia’s public and cultural life, to highly relevant charity, educational and patriotic projects and initiatives, deserves most sincere respect. Of course, I want to specifically praise the effective assistance you offer to participants and veterans of the special military operation, their families and loved ones.

I wish you good health and success in your endeavours.

☪️ We wish happy Eid al-Fitr to all those celebrating, including our dear colleagues and partners!

May you be blessed by happiness and virtue!

#Victory80

📽 On March 27, 2025, the State Protocol Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, together with the Ministry of Culture and the Russian State Film Fund, hosted a special screening of the restored 1944 film Once There Was a Girl for the diplomatic corps at the Illyuzion movie theatre in Moscow. The showing took place as part of this year’s events to mark the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

🎙 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin welcomed 150 ambassadors and senior diplomats from 50 countries, along with their families. In his opening remarks, he thanked the diplomats for showing interest in the film screening, and emphasised that the event was essentially aimed to preserve the historical truth of the wartime events.

Foreign diplomats praised both the restoration efforts by Russian State Film Fund specialists and the film, which is set in the besieged Leningrad and tells the story of Nasten'ka (aka lil' Anastasia), a seven-year-old girl who endures unimaginable hardships such as hunger, bombings, and the loss of her mother – and yet, just like the city, remains unbroken and keeps on living, dreaming, and believing.

☝ In a departure from the tradition for hosting such events for diplomatic corps, the audience members were greeted with tea and sushki (Russian pretzels). In his remarks, Alexander Pankin noted that this was done to reflect the reality of what Leningrad residents had to go through daily, surviving on just hot water and a small piece of bread.

🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, March 20, 2025)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov's schedule
🔹 Murder of Russian media representatives
🔹 Kiev regime crimes
🔹 Third anniversary of the Bucha provocation
🔹 The West's lies regarding Minsk Agreements
🔹 France’s plans to build another naval base on the island of Mayotte
🔹 On the situation with an Italian journalist Andrea Lucidi in Estonia
🔹 VI International Arctic Forum "The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue"
🔹 Artek’s upcoming centenary

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#CrimesAgainstJournalists

On March 24, Izvestiya’s frontline correspondent Alexander Fedorchak, Zvezda TV channel cameraman Andrey Panov, and Alexander Sirkeli, the crew’s driver, were killed in the Lugansk People’s Republic following a targeted artillery strike carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

On the same day, TASS correspondent Mikhail Skuratov was on an editorial assignment in the Kursk Region’s Sudzha District where the Ukrainian Banderites wounded him.

On March 26, 2025, Channel One’s car with a camera crew in it ran up against a landmine planted by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Belgorod Region. This terrorist attack claimed the life of Anna Prokofyeva, who was a young talented journalist, while cameraman Dmitry Volkov suffered severe wounds.

#KievRegimeCrimes

The Investigative Committee of Russia reports that 167 peaceful residents were killed and 500 more injured in the Kursk Region from 2022 until 2025. The crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have impacted 43'000 people. Several thousand civilian infrastructure facilities have been destroyed and damaged.

According to the Russia's Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador at large Rodion Miroshnik, in the past seven days, from March 17 to 23, 16 Russian civilians were killed in the zone of contact, and 134 more injured, including 4 minors, following attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On March 25-26, Ukrainian UAVs hit energy facilities in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. An attempted attack on a gas reservoir was thwarted in Crimea.

#BuchaHoax

April 3 marks the third anniversary of the day when Zelensky’s regime and its Western curators staged a bloody provocation in Bucha and the world was shown "evidence" of the alleged murders of innocent civilians, aimed at denigrating the Russian Armed Forces in the eyes of the international community.

The main goal of the war party campaign was clear: to torpedo the understandings reached during the negotiations in Istanbul, aimed at a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.

Russia has provided multiple refutations of numerous fakes about Bucha. We constantly recall that while this settlement was controlled by the Russian military, the civilians were allowed to move around freely, use mobile communications, and receive humanitarian aid. Our units left Bucha on March 30, 2022.

We know that the Kiev regime is preparing an international conference on Bucha this May with the assistance of Great Britain. We are certain that this provocation is yet another attempt to dust off old narratives and repackage false claims about the alleged involvement of the Russian Armed Forces in the events in Bucha. The goal remains the same: to torpedo efforts for a peaceful settlement.

#France #Mayotte #Colonialism

We have taken note of the statement made by French Minister of the Overseas Manuel Valls in the National Assembly on March 12 regarding the plans to submit a draft law to Parliament on the construction of a second French naval base on the island of Mayotte.

Russia has consistently opposed the unjustified militarisation of any territories, recognising the dangerous consequences this poses for peace and security in certain regions.

We believe that the existing military base in Dzaoudzi on the island of Mayotte is intended not as much for defence against hypothetical external threats (as Paris tries to convince everyone), but rather for control over the illegally held overseas territory – one of the last remnants of the colonial era.

#HistoryOfDiplomacy

📅 March 31, 1872, is the birthday of Alexandra Kollontai, a brilliant statesperson and the first female ambassador in our country (2nd in world history).

Alexandra Kollontai was born into a wealthy noble family. Her father, Mikhail Kollontai, was Major General of the General Headquarters of the Russian Army. Alexandra received extraordinary home schooling and was fluent in French, German, English and Finnish since childhood. She became passionate about social and political issues at a young age, eagerly reading works by Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Alexander Herzen and Western socialists.

After the October Revolution in 1917, by then prominent revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai was appointed People’s Commissar for Social Welfare of the RSFSR, and became the world’s first female cabinet minister.

☝️ Kollontai was a champion of women’s rights, advocating for women’s economic independence, access to education for women, and equality in marriage. Her activism resulted in pregnant women and mothers becoming ennoscriptd to maternity leave from work, and the launch of daycare facilities.

Alexandra Kollontai’s appointment as the Minister Plenipotentiary of Soviet Russia to Norway in 1922 became an international sensation. No other European country had previously given a woman an opportunity to hold such a high diplomatic post. While serving in Norway, Alexandra Kollontai secured recognition of the Soviet state by Oslo. The Soviet Union and Norway signed a trade agreement and organised supply of 400,000 tonnes of Norwegian herring to the USSR. Kollontai’s successful diplomatic career continued in Sweden. As a Soviet Minister Plenipotentiary, she facilitated the improvement of USSR-Sweden relations in 1930-1945.

❗️ In September 1944, at the age of 72, Kollontai received an assignment to ensure that Finland withdraw from the war. Alexandra Kollontai was to play a key role in the talks. The Soviet diplomat’s professional competence and personal contacts led to Finland closing the Moscow Armistice with the Soviet Union on September 19, 1944. Finland broke off its alliance with Germany.

Alexandra Kollontai’s diplomatic strategies were guided by deep understanding of people and their motives rather than strict protocols. She was known for her humanism, flexibility and ability to reach compromise even in highly tense situations. Thanks to her talent of persuasion and ability to find common ground with people of all walks of life, she succeeded in changing the Western world’s view of the Soviet Union, and in showcasing the achievements of the new Soviet society.

Alexandra Kollontai was a testament to the fact that a woman can be a successful diplomat even in a conservative international environment. She symbolised the change in women’s social status around the world, and became a role model for many future female diplomats.