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🏆 “Russian Will: Steeplechase” – Grand Prix (Series, “Portrait: A Hero of Our Time” Nomination)
A moving photo essay by Yekaterina Yakel (Russia) that reveals heroism not only on the battlefield, but in the quiet, determined struggle of everyday life. A soldier’s duty is fraught with danger, and the front line can leave injuries that become part of their new reality. Recovery often begins with the simplest, yet hardest step: learning to walk again, to live again.
Filmed at the Challenge for the Champion running school at the Ortho-Sport Adaptive Sports Center, the photo series introduces viewers to people who embody true resilience: Russian defenders of the Fatherland who find the courage to restart their lives and move forward after the battle ends – one step at a time.
Here, sport becomes a lifeline. It restores the body, mends the soul, but also helps veterans rediscover purpose, inner strength and a renewed sense of identity after returning home.
📸 2025 ANDREI STENIN INTERNATIONAL PRESS PHOTO CONTEST
🏆 “Russian Will: Steeplechase” – Grand Prix (Series, “Portrait: A Hero of Our Time” Nomination)
A moving photo essay by Yekaterina Yakel (Russia) that reveals heroism not only on the battlefield, but in the quiet, determined struggle of everyday life. A soldier’s duty is fraught with danger, and the front line can leave injuries that become part of their new reality. Recovery often begins with the simplest, yet hardest step: learning to walk again, to live again.
Filmed at the Challenge for the Champion running school at the Ortho-Sport Adaptive Sports Center, the photo series introduces viewers to people who embody true resilience: Russian defenders of the Fatherland who find the courage to restart their lives and move forward after the battle ends – one step at a time.
Here, sport becomes a lifeline. It restores the body, mends the soul, but also helps veterans rediscover purpose, inner strength and a renewed sense of identity after returning home.
📸 2025 ANDREI STENIN INTERNATIONAL PRESS PHOTO CONTEST
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🗓 С 26 по 28 ноября в Якутске состоялся VI Северный форум по устойчивому развитию (#СФУР), ежегодно проводимый международной неправительственной организацией Северный форум совместно с Правительством Республики Саха (Якутия) и Северо-Восточным федеральным университетом.
В ходе мероприятия представители российских регионов-членов Северного форума, бизнеса, эксперты из России, Бразилии, Дании, Индии, Камеруна, Китая, Монголии, Норвегии, США обсудили широкий круг вопросов арктической повестки дня.
Среди них перспективы международного взаимодействия, в том числе по раскрытию транспортно-логистического потенциала Северного морского пути, тематика устойчивого социально-экономического развития региона, сохранения природного наследия, культуры и традиционного образа жизни коренных народов.
В направленном организаторам и участникам форума приветствии Министра иностранных дел России С.В.Лаврова подчёркнуто неизменное стремление России к расширению взаимовыгодного и конструктивного сотрудничества в высоких широтах с заинтересованными зарубежными партнёрами, поддержанию мира и стабильности в Арктике.
Выступая на пленарной сессии СФУР, директор Департамента европейских проблем МИД России, старшее должностное лицо от России в Арктическом совете В.В.Масленников поделился оценками текущего состояния международных контактов в Арктике, отметил растущий интерес внерегиональных стран к профильному взаимодействию с Россией в Заполярье.
В ходе мероприятия представители российских регионов-членов Северного форума, бизнеса, эксперты из России, Бразилии, Дании, Индии, Камеруна, Китая, Монголии, Норвегии, США обсудили широкий круг вопросов арктической повестки дня.
Среди них перспективы международного взаимодействия, в том числе по раскрытию транспортно-логистического потенциала Северного морского пути, тематика устойчивого социально-экономического развития региона, сохранения природного наследия, культуры и традиционного образа жизни коренных народов.
В направленном организаторам и участникам форума приветствии Министра иностранных дел России С.В.Лаврова подчёркнуто неизменное стремление России к расширению взаимовыгодного и конструктивного сотрудничества в высоких широтах с заинтересованными зарубежными партнёрами, поддержанию мира и стабильности в Арктике.
Выступая на пленарной сессии СФУР, директор Департамента европейских проблем МИД России, старшее должностное лицо от России в Арктическом совете В.В.Масленников поделился оценками текущего состояния международных контактов в Арктике, отметил растущий интерес внерегиональных стран к профильному взаимодействию с Россией в Заполярье.
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🎶 28 ноября Посольство России в Норвегии совместно с Трестом «Арктикуголь» провело Зимнюю музыкальную гостиную в историческом особняке Посольства в Осло в честь 100-летия одной из главных див русской культуры, прима-балерины Большого театра, балетмейстера и хореографа Майи Михайловны Плисецкой. Вечер был посвящен жизни и творчеству блестящей балерины.
Судьба Плисецкой была тесно связана с Арктикой, с суровой и далекой землей - архипелагом Шпицберген. Именно здесь, в шахтерском посёлке Баренцбург, в возрасте семи лет она впервые вышла на сцену в самодеятельной постановке оперы «Русалка».
В ходе вечера прозвучали музыкальные и поэтические произведения в исполнении Святослава Грабовского, Ольги Лоран, Веры Оникийчук и Екатерины Петровой. В знак уважения местному культурному наследию норвежские музыканты исполнили композиции на музыку Э.Грига.
Зимняя гостиная продолжает серию культурных мероприятий в Посольстве в лучших традициях российского гостеприимства.
Судьба Плисецкой была тесно связана с Арктикой, с суровой и далекой землей - архипелагом Шпицберген. Именно здесь, в шахтерском посёлке Баренцбург, в возрасте семи лет она впервые вышла на сцену в самодеятельной постановке оперы «Русалка».
В ходе вечера прозвучали музыкальные и поэтические произведения в исполнении Святослава Грабовского, Ольги Лоран, Веры Оникийчук и Екатерины Петровой. В знак уважения местному культурному наследию норвежские музыканты исполнили композиции на музыку Э.Грига.
Зимняя гостиная продолжает серию культурных мероприятий в Посольстве в лучших традициях российского гостеприимства.
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🎶 On November 28, 2025, the Embassy of Russia in Norway together with Trust «Arcticugol» hosted Winter Musical Salon at the Embassy's historical premises in Oslo to celebrate the Centenary of one of the greatest divas of Russian culture, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater, ballet master and choreographer Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya. The evening was dedicated to the life and work of the brilliant ballerina.
Plisetskaya's destiny was closely linked to the Arctic, to the harsh and distant land of the Spitsbergen archipelago. It was there, in the mining village of Barentsburg, that at the age of seven she first appeared on stage in an amateur production of the opera "Rusalka."
Vera Anikyichuk, Svyatoslav Grabovsky, Olga Loran and Ekaterina Petrova performed songs and poetry associated with Plisetskaya. Paying tribute to Norwegian cultural legacy, local singers and musicians played music by Edvard Grieg.
Winter music and poetry salon continues a series of seasonal gatherings at the Embassy filled with Russian culture and artistic atmosphere.
Plisetskaya's destiny was closely linked to the Arctic, to the harsh and distant land of the Spitsbergen archipelago. It was there, in the mining village of Barentsburg, that at the age of seven she first appeared on stage in an amateur production of the opera "Rusalka."
Vera Anikyichuk, Svyatoslav Grabovsky, Olga Loran and Ekaterina Petrova performed songs and poetry associated with Plisetskaya. Paying tribute to Norwegian cultural legacy, local singers and musicians played music by Edvard Grieg.
Winter music and poetry salon continues a series of seasonal gatherings at the Embassy filled with Russian culture and artistic atmosphere.
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🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, November 27, 2025)
🔹 #KievRegimeCrimes
🔹 Ukraine crisis
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 EU’s militarisation
🔹 Situation in Guinea-Bissau
🔹 Commemorative events in the Federal Republic of Germany
🔹 On the BRICS+ 2025 Counterterrorism Conference in Moscow
🔹 Russia–US contacts
🔹 50th anniversary of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
📰 Read
📺 Watch
#KievRegimeCrimes
The Kiev neo-Nazi regime continues to commit war crimes and acts of terrorism. Over the past week, 53 people have been affected by Ukrainian artillery shelling and UAV strikes. Seven of them were killed, 46 wounded, including 5 children.
From November 17 to 19, a group of priests from several Orthodox churches visited Washington to raise US officials’ awareness of the gross violations of believers’ rights in Ukraine and to discuss mechanisms for protecting the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
#Ukraine #West
On November 25, the bloodthirsty “coalition of the willing“ held an emergency meeting. The focus was on Ukraine’s “security guarantees” and its long-term financing, including through the “full use of frozen Russian assets.”
Supporters of the European party of war are fixated solely on causing harm to our country.
#EU #Russophobia
The European Union, originally created as an economic association of states that sought to jointly improve the well-being of their citizens, is before our eyes turning into a military-political bloc, a mere appendage of NATO pursuing a confrontational foreign policy.
Under the pretext of an invented “Russian threat,” EU governments have in recent years allocated unprecedented sums to military purposes.
Meanwhile, the European economy is experiencing prolonged stagnation, preventing EU member-state governments from increasing national budget revenues.
It is clear that cultivating the mythical “Russian threat” benefits the current EU leadership. It distracts European voters from deep internal socio-economic problems, which the European political elites apparently have no intention of resolving.
Or perhaps simply do not know how…
#Moldova
Moldova’s adjustment to NATO standards and its militarisation, together with its aggressive Russophobia, are the main guidelines of Chisinau’s foreign policy.
The most tragic aspect is that, in order to implement the so-called European integration project, representatives of the Chisinau regime are destroying ties with traditional partners in the CIS space, including Russia, which have proven their effectiveness over centuries.
This reckless policy is primarily backfiring at Moldovans. Many of them have become desperate and leave the country in search of a better life.
#Japan #Militarisation
At a time when the Japanese government is pursuing a course of remilitarisation, even raising the question of Tokyo revising its anti-nuclear commitments raises tensions in the Asia-Pacific region.
There is no doubt that practical steps in this direction, if taken, will have irreversible global consequences in the field of strategic security.
#Laos #NationalDay
On December 2, Laos celebrates a national holiday – the 50th anniversary since the Lao People’s Democratic Republic was established.
We sincerely congratulate our Lao friends on this holiday, and wish the friendly people of Laos wellbeing, prosperity, and every success. We reaffirm our commitment to further strengthening the strategic partnership between our countries in the interest of promoting peace, stability, and security in the Asia-Pacific Region.
🔹 #KievRegimeCrimes
🔹 Ukraine crisis
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 EU’s militarisation
🔹 Situation in Guinea-Bissau
🔹 Commemorative events in the Federal Republic of Germany
🔹 On the BRICS+ 2025 Counterterrorism Conference in Moscow
🔹 Russia–US contacts
🔹 50th anniversary of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
📰 Read
📺 Watch
#KievRegimeCrimes
The Kiev neo-Nazi regime continues to commit war crimes and acts of terrorism. Over the past week, 53 people have been affected by Ukrainian artillery shelling and UAV strikes. Seven of them were killed, 46 wounded, including 5 children.
From November 17 to 19, a group of priests from several Orthodox churches visited Washington to raise US officials’ awareness of the gross violations of believers’ rights in Ukraine and to discuss mechanisms for protecting the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
#Ukraine #West
On November 25, the bloodthirsty “coalition of the willing“ held an emergency meeting. The focus was on Ukraine’s “security guarantees” and its long-term financing, including through the “full use of frozen Russian assets.”
Supporters of the European party of war are fixated solely on causing harm to our country.
#EU #Russophobia
The European Union, originally created as an economic association of states that sought to jointly improve the well-being of their citizens, is before our eyes turning into a military-political bloc, a mere appendage of NATO pursuing a confrontational foreign policy.
Under the pretext of an invented “Russian threat,” EU governments have in recent years allocated unprecedented sums to military purposes.
Meanwhile, the European economy is experiencing prolonged stagnation, preventing EU member-state governments from increasing national budget revenues.
It is clear that cultivating the mythical “Russian threat” benefits the current EU leadership. It distracts European voters from deep internal socio-economic problems, which the European political elites apparently have no intention of resolving.
Or perhaps simply do not know how…
#Moldova
Moldova’s adjustment to NATO standards and its militarisation, together with its aggressive Russophobia, are the main guidelines of Chisinau’s foreign policy.
The most tragic aspect is that, in order to implement the so-called European integration project, representatives of the Chisinau regime are destroying ties with traditional partners in the CIS space, including Russia, which have proven their effectiveness over centuries.
This reckless policy is primarily backfiring at Moldovans. Many of them have become desperate and leave the country in search of a better life.
#Japan #Militarisation
At a time when the Japanese government is pursuing a course of remilitarisation, even raising the question of Tokyo revising its anti-nuclear commitments raises tensions in the Asia-Pacific region.
There is no doubt that practical steps in this direction, if taken, will have irreversible global consequences in the field of strategic security.
#Laos #NationalDay
On December 2, Laos celebrates a national holiday – the 50th anniversary since the Lao People’s Democratic Republic was established.
We sincerely congratulate our Lao friends on this holiday, and wish the friendly people of Laos wellbeing, prosperity, and every success. We reaffirm our commitment to further strengthening the strategic partnership between our countries in the interest of promoting peace, stability, and security in the Asia-Pacific Region.
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📰 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article 'The Degradation of the OSCE: The Price of Serving Western Interests'
Published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on December 3, 2025 ahead of the OSCE Ministerial in Vienna
✍️ In just a few days, on December 4-5, the OSCE Ministerial Council will gather in Vienna for an annual meeting. Russia has traditionally been active in this consultative mechanism. Considering the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, the Russian delegation will focus on the origins of the current state of affairs at the Vienna platform.
I will say right away that the situation is desperate.
The pan-European process was launched at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s to:
• overcome Europe’s division,
• alleviate military-political confrontation,
• to promote trade and economic cooperation.
After the Cold War and bloc confrontation ended, there was a chance to form pan-European architecture of equal and indivisible security. The OSCE could well have become its cornerstone. Upon its establishment in 1994, it brought together former members of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation, NATO members, as well as neutral states. At the top level, the OSCE agreed on a crucial political commitment not to strengthen one’s security at the expense of the security of others. <...>
The problem is that the OSCE participating states representing the collective West did not honour this commitment and instead opted for a European security system based on NATO. From the mid-1990s onward, they carried out NATO’s eastward expansion contrary to the assurances once given to the Soviet leadership not to do so. <...>
NATO and EU members, not Russia, dismantled the OSCE’s politico-military dimension. <...>
Despite resistance from NATO and the EU, Russia has so far managed to prevent the abolition of the consensus rule in the work of the Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC) which is the OSCE’s main platform for addressing military security issues. <...> Hope that this format would facilitate military-to-military contacts failed to materialise.
<...>
The organisation’s critical functions as envisioned by its founders include early warning and dispute resolution. The OSCE has failed to become an honest broker in resolving regional conflicts. <...>
The OSCE abandoned the principle of impartiality in the Ukraine crisis with Berlin and Paris turning a blind eye to Kiev sabotaging the 2015 Minsk Agreements and the crimes committed by Ukrainian armed formations against civilians in Donbass, starting with the 2014 “anti-terrorist operation” to this day.
This Ukrainisation has affected the economic dimension as well. The OSCE has discarded previous achievements on combatting corruption, advancing the digital economy, and building transport infrastructure. It has reached the point where, contrary to the spirit and letter of Helsinki, unilateral coercive measures are being justified at the Vienna venue. <...>
The situation with the human dimension, i.e. the third basket, which the West used to interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union and modern-day Russia, is not any better. Urgent tasks such as promoting intercultural dialogue, combatting manifestations of neo-Nazism, Islamophobia, and Christianophobia, and protecting the rights of ethnic minorities and believers have been wiped out from the agenda. <...>
The OSCE is also looking the other way when it comes to censoring Russian media in the West even though its documents clearly state that each participating state must ensure free access to information.
Using the visa lever, Russian civil society representatives are prevented from attending the OSCE events. Clearly, the organisers fear hearing the truth about what is actually happening in our country.
***
I’d like to close by reiterating that there is no cause for optimism.
Preventing the OSCE’s collapse, at least now, is still possible. To achieve this, all participating states must return to observing the Helsinki principles of equal and mutually respectful dialogue.
Read in full ( Telegraph | Website )
Published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on December 3, 2025 ahead of the OSCE Ministerial in Vienna
✍️ In just a few days, on December 4-5, the OSCE Ministerial Council will gather in Vienna for an annual meeting. Russia has traditionally been active in this consultative mechanism. Considering the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, the Russian delegation will focus on the origins of the current state of affairs at the Vienna platform.
I will say right away that the situation is desperate.
The pan-European process was launched at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s to:
• overcome Europe’s division,
• alleviate military-political confrontation,
• to promote trade and economic cooperation.
After the Cold War and bloc confrontation ended, there was a chance to form pan-European architecture of equal and indivisible security. The OSCE could well have become its cornerstone. Upon its establishment in 1994, it brought together former members of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation, NATO members, as well as neutral states. At the top level, the OSCE agreed on a crucial political commitment not to strengthen one’s security at the expense of the security of others. <...>
The problem is that the OSCE participating states representing the collective West did not honour this commitment and instead opted for a European security system based on NATO. From the mid-1990s onward, they carried out NATO’s eastward expansion contrary to the assurances once given to the Soviet leadership not to do so. <...>
NATO and EU members, not Russia, dismantled the OSCE’s politico-military dimension. <...>
Despite resistance from NATO and the EU, Russia has so far managed to prevent the abolition of the consensus rule in the work of the Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC) which is the OSCE’s main platform for addressing military security issues. <...> Hope that this format would facilitate military-to-military contacts failed to materialise.
<...>
The organisation’s critical functions as envisioned by its founders include early warning and dispute resolution. The OSCE has failed to become an honest broker in resolving regional conflicts. <...>
The OSCE abandoned the principle of impartiality in the Ukraine crisis with Berlin and Paris turning a blind eye to Kiev sabotaging the 2015 Minsk Agreements and the crimes committed by Ukrainian armed formations against civilians in Donbass, starting with the 2014 “anti-terrorist operation” to this day.
This Ukrainisation has affected the economic dimension as well. The OSCE has discarded previous achievements on combatting corruption, advancing the digital economy, and building transport infrastructure. It has reached the point where, contrary to the spirit and letter of Helsinki, unilateral coercive measures are being justified at the Vienna venue. <...>
The situation with the human dimension, i.e. the third basket, which the West used to interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union and modern-day Russia, is not any better. Urgent tasks such as promoting intercultural dialogue, combatting manifestations of neo-Nazism, Islamophobia, and Christianophobia, and protecting the rights of ethnic minorities and believers have been wiped out from the agenda. <...>
The OSCE is also looking the other way when it comes to censoring Russian media in the West even though its documents clearly state that each participating state must ensure free access to information.
Using the visa lever, Russian civil society representatives are prevented from attending the OSCE events. Clearly, the organisers fear hearing the truth about what is actually happening in our country.
***
I’d like to close by reiterating that there is no cause for optimism.
Preventing the OSCE’s collapse, at least now, is still possible. To achieve this, all participating states must return to observing the Helsinki principles of equal and mutually respectful dialogue.
Read in full ( Telegraph | Website )
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