#ПесниПобеды

🎖 В преддверии 80-летия Победы советского народа в Великой Отечественной войне мы вспоминаем Песни Победы — легендарную музыку военных лет, ставшей путеводной звездой для целого поколения советских людей от мала до велика — всех тех, кто и на передовой, и в тылу приближали общую Победу над нацизмом.

Песни Победы стали верным товарищем, союзником советских воинов, их грозным оружием в борьбе с врагом, не позволявшим агрессору сломить дух защитников нашей Родины. Фронтовая музыка помогала красноармейцам преодолевать тяготы и лишения, дарила надежду и вселяла веру в скорую Победу.

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▪️ Вероломное нападение гитлеровской Германии на СССР 22 июня 1941 года — страшная дата в истории нашей страны, оставившая глубокий шрам в памяти целых поколений. Миллионы людей, вставших на защиту Отечества в тот роковой день, шли на смертный бой, музыкальным символом, воплощением которого стала легендарная песня «Священная война» за авторством Александра Васильевича Александрова.

«Песня, сражающаяся за жизнь» — так окрестили современники «Священную войну» — самую суровую и яркую музыкальную композицию, служившую всенародным гимном борьбы с нацистскими захватчиками.

🎶 Текст песни #СвященнаяВойна основан на стихотворении Василия Лебедева-Кумача с одноимённым названием. Лирическое произведение было опубликовано на второй день войны, 24 июня 1941 года, на страницах всесоюзных газет «Известия» и «Красная звезда». На стихотворение обратил внимание Александров, руководивший на тот момент Краснознамённым ансамблем песни и пляски Красной армии. Композитор написал к тексту «Священной войны» музыку, ставшую бессмертной.

Уже 26 июня, на четвёртые сутки ожесточённых боёв с фашистами, «Священная война» прозвучала на Белорусском вокзале, откуда на передовую отправлялись красноармейцы.

С октября 1941 года и на протяжении всей войны композиция исполнялась по всесоюзному радио СССР каждое утро в 6:00 после боя курантов. Призыв «Вставай, страна огромная…» прозвучал в каждом доме огромной страны, вдохновил на боевые и трудовые подвиги целое поколение будущих победителей.

#Победа80

🕯 Russia has received the news of the passing of Pope Francis with profound sorrow.

The late pontiff will be remembered as an eminent religious and global leader, a champion of humanist ideals and moral principles in international affairs, whose unwavering dedication to peace and justice earned him the well-deserved respect of hundreds of millions – both Catholics and followers of other faiths.

During his pontificate, Russia and the Holy See consistently advanced constructive dialogue, intensifying joint efforts to safeguard traditional spiritual and ethical values and to forge a just world order ensuring harmonious and equitable coexistence among all nations and peoples.

Russia trusts that Pope Francis’ spiritual legacy will guide his successors who share his commitment to reinforcing global peace, security, and stability.

Russia extends its deepest condolences to the Holy See and to every Catholic holding the memory of Francis in their hearts.

◾️ Today a great Russian artist of worldwide renown, People's artist of Russia Zurab Tsereteli passed away.

Among his many works of art — Good defeats Evil at the UN Headquarters. It depicts a retelling of the Saint George and the Dragon tale.

Rest in peace, Zurab Konstantinovich.

🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, April 17, 2025)

🔹 Ukraine crisis
🔹 Kiev regime crimes
🔹 Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime’s “anti-terrorist operation” against Donbass (2014)
🔹 Situation in and around Gagauzia
🔹 On Estonia’s plans to sink civilian ships in the Baltic
🔹 Violations of the rights of Russian citizens in Estonia and Finland
🔹 UNESCO
🔹 United Action and Remembrance Day on the genocide against the Soviet nation by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War

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#KievRegimeCrimes

We once again underscore the Kiev regime’s failure to adhere to the 30-day moratorium on strikes against the fuel and energy complex facilities.

AFU have conducted nearly daily UAV attacks targeting Russian fuel and energy infrastructure. Since the declared “energy truce,” over 80 such attacks have been recorded.

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For several days now the collective West has been raging about the high-precision strike the Russian Armed Forces carried out with a high-explosive missile at the building where commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Western instructors were gathering in Sumy on April 13. The Westerners began to push a hastily concocted propaganda fake about the Russian missile that allegedly killed women and children.

Does the UN Secretary-General António Guterres know about what is happening in Ukraine now with these resignations, with the obituaries for Ukrainian military personnel, with the use of civilian population as a human shield in a military gathering?

#NATO #Militarism #Russophobia

Paris and London still fail to achieve consensus on their delusional proposal to deploy a “multinational peacekeeping contingent” comprising NATO member-state units to Ukraine.

Media reports suggest that aside from France and Britain, only the rabidly Russophobic Baltic regimes (note: not their populations, often kept ignorant by those in power) are prepared to join this reckless venture, which risks direct military confrontation between the Alliance and Russia.

Most coalition members doubt the feasibility of such an intervention without US backing. Washington continues to avoid entanglement in these Allied escapades, likely recognising the real consequences they would entail.

#Estonia #Baltic #Piracy

Starting from April 14, 2025, legal amendments came into effect in Estonia, enabling its Navy to use force against foreign ships.

If Russian ships are affected by any of these actions, our country will respond to the risks and threats posed by Estonia, a NATO member state, accordingly.

Russia firmly condemns these pirate-like aspirations because the mandate of the Estonian Navy transcends and violates international law.

#UNESCO #Journalists #DoubleStandards

The subject of protecting journalists’ safety was once again resonantly raised during the 221st session of the UNESCO Executive Board, where participants highlighted the UNESCO leadership’s recent action – or rather inaction – in this field.

We have repeatedly indicated our resolve to compel UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay to fulfil her mandate in good faith before it ends.

The heated debates on this issue at the Executive Board meeting clearly demonstrated that the disagreements over the UNESCO Secretariat’s policy on the track of (not) protecting the safety of journalists are becoming fundamental.

This trend became especially pronounced after Audrey Azoulay’s notorious report she delivered last year, which failed to mention Russian frontline reporters and other media workers who died at the hands of Kiev regime militants in 2022 and 2023.

В ЕЭК открылась фотовыставка, посвященная 80-летию Победы

Выставка разделена на две большие экспозиции и охватывает основные этапы Великой Отечественной войны – от вторжения нацистской Германии в СССР в 1941 году до победных боёв в Берлине в 1945 году.
Основная часть выставки включает в себя фронтовые фотографии, отобранные сотрудниками Комиссии в государственных архивах стран Евразийского экономического союза. Современные аудиовизуальные эффекты – проецирование на стены черно-белых кадров, художественный свет, музыкальное сопровождение – придают экспозиции неповторимую атмосферу. Внимание посетителей также привлекают подборки пожелтевших от времени газет и солдатских писем.
«Мы отдаем дань глубокого уважения мужеству и великому ратному подвигу наших отцов, дедов и прадедов во имя Победы над фашизмом, – подчеркнул, открывая выставку, Председатель Коллегии Евразийской экономической комиссии Бакытжан Сагинтаев. – Каждый экспонат нашей выставки имеет особую ценность, потому что за портретами и фамилиями героев – уникальные истории их подвигов».
В другой части выставки, которая называется «Наши герои», представлены около 600 фотографий родственников сотрудников ЕЭК, принявших участие в Великой Отечественной войне. Информация по каждому ветерану дополнительно изучена через открытые архивные источники: созданы и обновлены биографические справки, восстановлены сведения о наградах и воинских званиях.
С этой экспозицией можно также ознакомиться на сайте ЕЭК в разделе «Наши герои».

📄 Russia's Foreign Ministry Report by «Eighty Years After the Great Victory: Europe has Once Again Fallen in the Shadow of Nazism»

In May of 1945, amidst the wave of universal jubilation, it seemed that Nazism had been eradicated forever. The world, Europe, and especially the Soviet people paid the highest possible price for the Victory over the "brown plague."

However, as life has shown, only the visible part of this sinister iceberg was destroyed in that war. The roots and the breeding ground remained, and today Nazism is once again rearing its head in Europe.

🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪 After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and Western European countries <...> actively indulged revanchist sentiments in the newly formed States, especially in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, where today the whitewashing of Nazism has been elevated to the rank of State ideology. <...>

🇵🇱 In Poland the task of falsifying the history of World War II to suit the political situation is being actively pursued. The decisive contribution of the Soviet Union and the Red Army to the Victory over Hitler's Germany and the liberation of Europe from Nazism is denied.

Warsaw and the Baltic "troika" became the main driving forces behind anti-Russian initiatives by the collective West. <...>

The West is trying in every possible way to whitewash the darker chapters of its own past.

🇫🇷 In France, which was designated as one of the "victors" after the war, significantly more Frenchmen fought on the side of the German army than participated in the Resistance and fought on the side of the Allied forces. <...>

🇫🇮 In Finland, the country's participation in the Great Patriotic War as an ally of Nazi Germany is portrayed in muted terms. <...>

🇧🇪 In Belgium there is a tendency to hush up the fact that during the years of fascist occupation, Belgians actively joined the ranks of collaborators. <...>

🇮🇹 Despite the fact that Italy's current 1947 Constitution prohibits the re‑establishment of the fascist party in any form, the ideas of anti-fascism were gradually eroded in the post-war period, and Italians' attitude towards the period of Benito Mussolini's dictatorship is far from unequivocally negative. <...>

🇬🇧 In the United Kingdom, there is an established practice of juggling the concepts of "Nazism" and "Fascism" for opportunistic interests – to describe any "undesirable" phenomena in the country or on the international stage, or to characterize public and political figures. <...>

🇩🇪 The desire to turn a blind eye to its Nazi past is already becoming commonplace in modern Germany as well. Active attempts are being made in various forms to blur this "burden."

The strengthening of Russia's position in international affairs became a consolidating factor for European countries around the goal of inflicting maximum damage on our country's authority. And the Special Military Operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine and to protect the civilian population of Donbass became the trigger for a massive Russophobic information attack. <...>

❗️ The European bureaucracy nurtured the Nazi regime in Kiev in order to unite Europe under racist and Nazi banners for a war against Russia. The explicit ignoring of gross human rights violations in Ukraine is evidence of the European Union's indulgence of neo-Nazi ideas. <...>

☝️ Russia, as the country that suffered the most from the horrors of World War II and the Great Patriotic War, and that bore immense sacrifices to restore peace on the continent, will never allow the lessons of the past to be forgotten. <...>

A key priority for Russia remains the preservation of the memory of the genocide committed against the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War. <...>

☝️ For the sake of our shared future, everything must be done to prevent the rehabilitation of Nazism and the glorification of Nazi criminals, so that the people of Europe are never again forced to ask, “For whom the bell tolls?”, fully understanding what the answer will be if this mission fails.