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🎖 On May 5, the Foreign Ministry hosted a number of commemorative events devoted to the 78th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.
🏵 According to the established tradition, baskets with flowers were laid near the memorial plaques at the ministry’s central building. The plaques bear the names of employees who lost their lives during the war and while performing their official duties, and who fell victim to political reprisals. The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Council of Veterans, the Association of Russian Diplomats, the Council of Young Diplomats, and Foreign Ministry staff, including from its various departments.
Deputy FM Sergey Vershinin and Chairman of the Council of Veterans Valery Morozov addressed those present with welcome remarks from the ministry’s leadership. They highlighted the contribution of the ministry’s employees to the common victory and the importance of countering attempts to falsify the historical truth about World War II.
🏵 Accompanied by the ministry’s employees, representatives from the Council of Veterans laid a wreath and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall. Deputy FM Alexander Pankin attended the ceremony.
After a three year break, the ministry’s assembly hall hosted a grand meeting at which Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov gave a speech on behalf of the ministry’s leadership. He emphasised that owing to the courage and valour of Red Army soldiers and the selfless labour of home front workers, our country crushed Hitler’s war machine and saved humanity from Nazi insanity.
“We look to the achievements of the soldiers-liberators in our current struggle for truth and justice, for a free future, and against Western attempts to weaken Russia as much as possible and inflict a strategic defeat on us,” he said.
☝️ He emphasised the efforts of veterans to preserve the best traditions of Smolensky Square and pass on their priceless professional experience to the young diplomats.
🏵 According to the established tradition, baskets with flowers were laid near the memorial plaques at the ministry’s central building. The plaques bear the names of employees who lost their lives during the war and while performing their official duties, and who fell victim to political reprisals. The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Council of Veterans, the Association of Russian Diplomats, the Council of Young Diplomats, and Foreign Ministry staff, including from its various departments.
Deputy FM Sergey Vershinin and Chairman of the Council of Veterans Valery Morozov addressed those present with welcome remarks from the ministry’s leadership. They highlighted the contribution of the ministry’s employees to the common victory and the importance of countering attempts to falsify the historical truth about World War II.
🏵 Accompanied by the ministry’s employees, representatives from the Council of Veterans laid a wreath and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall. Deputy FM Alexander Pankin attended the ceremony.
After a three year break, the ministry’s assembly hall hosted a grand meeting at which Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov gave a speech on behalf of the ministry’s leadership. He emphasised that owing to the courage and valour of Red Army soldiers and the selfless labour of home front workers, our country crushed Hitler’s war machine and saved humanity from Nazi insanity.
“We look to the achievements of the soldiers-liberators in our current struggle for truth and justice, for a free future, and against Western attempts to weaken Russia as much as possible and inflict a strategic defeat on us,” he said.
☝️ He emphasised the efforts of veterans to preserve the best traditions of Smolensky Square and pass on their priceless professional experience to the young diplomats.
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🦠 On May 5, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the past three years, the pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge to the entire world, shedding light on many issues and vulnerabilities. While the global crisis required the highest degree of cohesion, mutual assistance, coordination and rejection of selfish practices, some countries preferred to look for scapegoats and politicise the situation.
Pure opportunistic reasons were behind the failure, during the years of the pandemic, to address the issue of WHO registering Russian vaccines that have proven their effectiveness and saved millions of lives all over the world.
At the same time, more facts have been uncovered recently suggesting that American pharmaceutical companies and others filling the markets with their vaccines engaged in corruption.
There are reasonable questions, reinforced by growing evidence of various side effects from their use, about whether the WHO decisions to expedite their global certification had been justified.
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👉 Russia is ready to provide assistance and cooperate with all countries based on the principles of solidarity, equality and respect for international law in the search for mutually acceptable solutions to achieve progress in sustainable development and expand international cooperation in the field of global health to prevent future pandemics.
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Over the past three years, the pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge to the entire world, shedding light on many issues and vulnerabilities. While the global crisis required the highest degree of cohesion, mutual assistance, coordination and rejection of selfish practices, some countries preferred to look for scapegoats and politicise the situation.
Pure opportunistic reasons were behind the failure, during the years of the pandemic, to address the issue of WHO registering Russian vaccines that have proven their effectiveness and saved millions of lives all over the world.
At the same time, more facts have been uncovered recently suggesting that American pharmaceutical companies and others filling the markets with their vaccines engaged in corruption.
There are reasonable questions, reinforced by growing evidence of various side effects from their use, about whether the WHO decisions to expedite their global certification had been justified.
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👉 Russia is ready to provide assistance and cooperate with all countries based on the principles of solidarity, equality and respect for international law in the search for mutually acceptable solutions to achieve progress in sustainable development and expand international cooperation in the field of global health to prevent future pandemics.
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✉️ President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the leaders and citizens of foreign states - Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, South Ossetia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and to the people of Georgia and Moldova - on the 78th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
In his greetings, the President of Russia noted that on this remarkable day, we pay tribute and express deep gratitude to the people whose unparalleled feats on the battlefield and selfless work on the home front contributed to crushing the Nazi invaders and protecting the freedom of their motherland.
💬 “Our moral duty today is to reverently safekeep the traditions of friendship and mutual help inherited from our fathers and grandfathers, to prevent the distortion of historical truth about the Great Patriotic War, along with the justification of Nazis, their henchmen and present-day ideological successors,” the messages read.
The Russian leader stressed that the spiritual legacy of the Great Victory would continue to be instrumental in the strengthening and fruitful development of relations between our countries and nations.
❗️ Vladimir Putin offered words of genuine gratitude to all Great Patriotic War veterans and home front workers, wishing them good health, high spirits and a long and happy life.
In his greetings, the President of Russia noted that on this remarkable day, we pay tribute and express deep gratitude to the people whose unparalleled feats on the battlefield and selfless work on the home front contributed to crushing the Nazi invaders and protecting the freedom of their motherland.
💬 “Our moral duty today is to reverently safekeep the traditions of friendship and mutual help inherited from our fathers and grandfathers, to prevent the distortion of historical truth about the Great Patriotic War, along with the justification of Nazis, their henchmen and present-day ideological successors,” the messages read.
The Russian leader stressed that the spiritual legacy of the Great Victory would continue to be instrumental in the strengthening and fruitful development of relations between our countries and nations.
❗️ Vladimir Putin offered words of genuine gratitude to all Great Patriotic War veterans and home front workers, wishing them good health, high spirits and a long and happy life.
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📅 On May 9, 1945, at 12:43 am, the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was signed, ending the Great Patriotic War and World War II in Europe.
Following a successful assault on Berlin by the Red Army, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The noscript of Reich President and command of the armed forces of the Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Dönitz.
Desperate to surrender to the British-American troops, on May 5, German delegation arrived in the French city of Reims, where the headquarters of the Western Allies command was located.
📜 In the Article 4 of the Reims Instrument of Surrender of Nazi Germany stated that this document did not rule out the signing of another, definitive act at the request of one of the coalition members.
Thus, the document was recognised by the Soviet Union only as a preliminary instrument, and a new signing ceremony was proposed to be held in the capital of Nazi Germany, liberated by the Red Army - Berlin.
🕕 By midnight, all representatives and the press gathered in the hall where the signing ceremony of the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was to take place.
At 12:43 am, the ceremony ended.
🎙 On May 9, 1945, at 2:10 am Moscow time, announcer Yury Levitan read out the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany and the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declaring May 9 Victory Day. On the evening of May 9, Joseph Stalin addressed the Soviet people; after his address, Yury Levitan read out the order on the complete victory over Nazi Germany and on an artillery salute with thirty volleys from a thousand guns at 10:00 pm.
From that moment on, the Soviet Union and later Russia, as well as some former Soviet republics have celebrated Victory Day on May 9. On this date, we commemorate all those who defended Moscow, defeated the invaders at Stalingrad, broke through the siege of Leningrad, and liberated Belarus, Ukraine and Europe. These were the people who took Berlin at the cost of their lives.
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Following a successful assault on Berlin by the Red Army, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The noscript of Reich President and command of the armed forces of the Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Dönitz.
Desperate to surrender to the British-American troops, on May 5, German delegation arrived in the French city of Reims, where the headquarters of the Western Allies command was located.
📜 In the Article 4 of the Reims Instrument of Surrender of Nazi Germany stated that this document did not rule out the signing of another, definitive act at the request of one of the coalition members.
Thus, the document was recognised by the Soviet Union only as a preliminary instrument, and a new signing ceremony was proposed to be held in the capital of Nazi Germany, liberated by the Red Army - Berlin.
🕕 By midnight, all representatives and the press gathered in the hall where the signing ceremony of the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was to take place.
At 12:43 am, the ceremony ended.
🎙 On May 9, 1945, at 2:10 am Moscow time, announcer Yury Levitan read out the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany and the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declaring May 9 Victory Day. On the evening of May 9, Joseph Stalin addressed the Soviet people; after his address, Yury Levitan read out the order on the complete victory over Nazi Germany and on an artillery salute with thirty volleys from a thousand guns at 10:00 pm.
From that moment on, the Soviet Union and later Russia, as well as some former Soviet republics have celebrated Victory Day on May 9. On this date, we commemorate all those who defended Moscow, defeated the invaders at Stalingrad, broke through the siege of Leningrad, and liberated Belarus, Ukraine and Europe. These were the people who took Berlin at the cost of their lives.
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🌟 Happy #VictoryDay!
Today marks the 78th Anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism.
#LestWeForget
#Victory78 #VDay78 #May9
Today marks the 78th Anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism.
#LestWeForget
#Victory78 #VDay78 #May9
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9 мая 2023 г. по случаю 78-летия Победы над фашизмом на кладбище Вестре Гравлюнд в Осло состоялась торжественная церемония возложения венков у памятника павшим советским воинам с участием Посла России Т.О.Рамишвили, Посла Белоруссии Д.Л.Мирончика, Посла Казахстана А.К.Турсунова, старшей советницы Посольства Сербии И.Зарин, российского военного атташе А.Андреева.
По окончании церемонии были возложены цветы к расположенному на этом же кладбище монументу югославским партизанам, погибшим в Норвегии.
#Победа78 #ДеньПобеды78 #ВОВ #Россия #Норвегия
#Помним #78Победе #Russlad #Norge #Kazakhstan #Srbija #Victory78
По окончании церемонии были возложены цветы к расположенному на этом же кладбище монументу югославским партизанам, погибшим в Норвегии.
#Победа78 #ДеньПобеды78 #ВОВ #Россия #Норвегия
#Помним #78Победе #Russlad #Norge #Kazakhstan #Srbija #Victory78
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9. mai 2023 i anledning 78-årsdagen av Seieren over fascismen fant det sted høytidelig seremoni med kransenedleggelse ved minnesmerket over falne sovjetiske soldater på Vestre gravlund i Oslo med deltakelse av Russlands ambassаdør T.Ramishvili, Hviterusslands ambassadør D.L.Mironchik, Kazakhstans ambassadør A.K.Tursunov, 1. ambassaderåd ved Serbias Ambassade I.Žarin, Russlands militær attaché A.Andreev.
Etter seremonien la man ned blomster til minnesmerke på samme gravlund over falne jugoslaviske partisaner.
#Victory78
Etter seremonien la man ned blomster til minnesmerke på samme gravlund over falne jugoslaviske partisaner.
#Victory78
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