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🗓 On January 13, 2026, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Mr. Dmitry Polyanskiy presented the letter of credentials to the OSCE Secretary General H.E. Feridun Sinirlioğlu.
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🎙Read excerpts from the statement by Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE D.Polyanskiy «To the presentation of the priorities of the Swiss Chairmanship of the OSCE in 2026» (special meeting of the OSCE PC, January 15, 2026)
💬 In the context of a deep geopolitical crisis and the erosion of international law, the survival of the OSCE depends on the actions of the Swiss Chairmanship. There is hope that Bern, by demonstrating sound pragmatism and political restraint, can return the Organization from the marginal state into which it has fallen due to the irresponsibility of some States that have replaced dialogue with demagoguery.
☝️A key condition for the work of the OSCE Chairmanship is the promotion of a balanced agenda with strict adherence to the consensus principle. This will allow preserving the remaining tools of work. If Switzerland becomes a true "honest broker," capable of reviving dialogue between parties with differing views, this will be a step towards eliminating the root causes of conflicts in the OSCE region.
⚠️ If Bern allows NATO countries to subjugate the OSCE to their narrow interests, this will finally destroy its foundation. The forced "Ukrainization" of the agenda has already driven the organization into an "artificial coma," alienating key players, including Russia. It is unacceptable to repeat the mistakes of previous chairmanships that ignored the crimes of the Kiev regime.
❗️It is necessary to restore the OSCE's profile in the sphere of transnational threats: combating terrorism, drug trafficking, and in the field of cybersecurity. It is important to hold corresponding high-level conferences. It is also required to revive the work of the second "basket" (economic and environmental dimension), depoliticize the third “basket” (human dimension), and raise all acute issues, including discrimination against Russian-speaking populations and problems in the West.
🇨🇭The success of the Swiss OSCE Chairmanship will be measured not by revolutionary projects, but by the revival of crisis communication mechanisms in Vienna. To achieve this, it is necessary to strictly adhere to the foundational principles and mandate, avoid double standards, and take into account the interests of all parties, including Russia. It is extremely important not to ignore the risks of a major war in Europe and to reaffirm commitment to the principle of indivisible security.
💬 In the context of a deep geopolitical crisis and the erosion of international law, the survival of the OSCE depends on the actions of the Swiss Chairmanship. There is hope that Bern, by demonstrating sound pragmatism and political restraint, can return the Organization from the marginal state into which it has fallen due to the irresponsibility of some States that have replaced dialogue with demagoguery.
☝️A key condition for the work of the OSCE Chairmanship is the promotion of a balanced agenda with strict adherence to the consensus principle. This will allow preserving the remaining tools of work. If Switzerland becomes a true "honest broker," capable of reviving dialogue between parties with differing views, this will be a step towards eliminating the root causes of conflicts in the OSCE region.
⚠️ If Bern allows NATO countries to subjugate the OSCE to their narrow interests, this will finally destroy its foundation. The forced "Ukrainization" of the agenda has already driven the organization into an "artificial coma," alienating key players, including Russia. It is unacceptable to repeat the mistakes of previous chairmanships that ignored the crimes of the Kiev regime.
❗️It is necessary to restore the OSCE's profile in the sphere of transnational threats: combating terrorism, drug trafficking, and in the field of cybersecurity. It is important to hold corresponding high-level conferences. It is also required to revive the work of the second "basket" (economic and environmental dimension), depoliticize the third “basket” (human dimension), and raise all acute issues, including discrimination against Russian-speaking populations and problems in the West.
🇨🇭The success of the Swiss OSCE Chairmanship will be measured not by revolutionary projects, but by the revival of crisis communication mechanisms in Vienna. To achieve this, it is necessary to strictly adhere to the foundational principles and mandate, avoid double standards, and take into account the interests of all parties, including Russia. It is extremely important not to ignore the risks of a major war in Europe and to reaffirm commitment to the principle of indivisible security.
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Starting from 1940, there was the resistance movement operating in Poland against the Nazis — 'Armia Krajowa' (included the supporters of Jozef Pilsudski, whose tactics eventually resulted in Poland's losing its sovereignty), and 'Armia Ludowa', which later together with the 1st Polish Army formed 'Wojsko Polskie' — the Polish Army. It represented broader working class people in Poland as a whole, in contrast to 'Armia Krajowa' militants and bandits, who were subordinate to the so-called 'Polish Government in Exile' in London and were responsible for numerous barbaric crimes against civilians.
On August 1, 1944, 'Armia Krajowa' (AK) initiated an uprising in Warsaw as part of the so-called 'Operation Storm' or 'Burza' against the Nazi occupants. The AK's principal aim was to liberate Poland and, most importantly, independently of the advancing Soviet forces. The uprising was poorly prepared and ultimately was doomed to defeat.
At the very moment the order to start the uprising was issued, the Nazi troops launched a counter-offensive against the Red Army. As a result, the Red Army’s attempts to immediately cross the Vistula River were unsuccessful.
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The launch of the Soviet offensive in the Vistula–Oder direction was initially scheduled for January 20, 1945. However, on January 6, after the Allies suffered a major losses in the Ardennes and had to ask Moscow for help, Winston Churchill appealed to Joseph Stalin for assistance and requested the Soviet leadership to launch the offensive toward the Vistula river as soon as possible. The Soviet leadership responded to the Allies' request and commanded the start of the operation on January 12.
Poland was regarded by Hitler’s command, not without reason, as the Reich’s principal external defensive line. The Nazi leaders understood that any Wehrmacht's retreat westwards would open a direct path for the Red Army to Berlin. Thus, the Germans were determined to hold their positions at any costs and prepared to mount the fiercest resistance.
The enemy had concentrated in Poland formidable forces — around 30 divisions of 560'000 soldiers and officers, supported by 5'000 artillery weapons, 1'220 tanks and other armoured vehicles. Between the Vistula and the Oder, the Nazis constructed seven defensive lines, arranged in depth over a span of 300 to 500 kilometres.
Warsaw became the primary objective of the Red Army' offensive. By January 14, the Soviet forces had already approached the Polish capital. According to the Soviet military command directives, that were the units of the Polish Army that were suggested to be the first to enter the city — Polish patriots, our comrades, and brothers-in-arms of Soviet soldiers who fought side-by-side with the Red Army to liberate their Homeland and later advanced on Berlin, forging our common Victory over Nazism together.
On January 16, Soviet units, advanced rapidly to Warsaw from the north, crossed the Vistula River and tied down the German garrison inside the city. The enemy was encircled from all directions: the 2nd Guards Tank Army pinned down the Nazis to the west, while units of the Polish Army severed lines of communication from the south. With all retreat routes cut off, the Germans, recognising the further resistance was hopeless and pointless, started surrendering en masse.
On January 17, the city was fully liberated.
The success of the Warsaw operation enabled the Red Army to substantially advance towards Berlin and to liberate a large part of Polish territory. Escaping, with the help of the Soviet soldiers-liberators, the Nazi enslavement, the Polish people regained their freedom.
🎖 #WeRemember: Overall, more than 600'000 Red Army soldiers and officers perished fighting for the liberation of Poland from Nazi occupation.
By early February 1945, the 1st Belorussian Front had reached the Oder River. Preparations for the final battle of #WW2 were underway — the road to Berlin was open.
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🔴 #LIVE: News conference of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov on the Russian diplomacy outcomes in 2025
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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his annual news conference on the Russian diplomacy outcomes in 2025 (January 20, 2026)
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We are witnessing tectonic shifts affecting the entire global order.
It is telling that the West, which over the past decade actively sought to oppose international law in its original, principled interpretation with its own concept of a so-called “rules-based world order”, has now largely dropped this term from its vocabulary.
All Western European countries are currently trying to make sense of what is happening in the world in the context of the course announced and pursued by the US President, a course that formally fits into the “rules-based order”. The difference is that these “rules” are no longer written by the “collective West”, but by its single representative. For Europe, this has come as a profound shock. We are observing the situation closely.
👉 It is clear that the developments we are witnessing, as well as the actions announced by President Trump on the international stage, reflect an intensifying competitive struggle.
We have repeatedly spoken about recent trends in global economic development. China, operating within the very rules that the West – led by the US – laid down as the foundation of the globalization model promoted worldwide until recently, has outperformed its Western competitors in trade, the economy, investment and infrastructure projects. China's economic and financial indicators speak for themselves.
We see attempts to counter this situation through sanctions, tariffs and duties. The US seeks to negotiate, yet this is happening in the absence of any common criteria that until recently underpinned the work of the #IMF, the #WorldBank and the #WTO. All those rules on which a Western-friendly world order was supposed to be based have effectively been cast aside.
⚔️ What is unfolding is a game of “might makes right”. We are all witnessing this.
We can discuss how conceptual approaches to world order are changing and how concrete processes are developing in the course of an interactive dialogue. However, the consequences of this line are felt not only by countries of the Global South and East – crisis tendencies are also accumulating within Western societies themselves.
Greenland is a clear example. It is on everyone’s lips, and the debates unfolding around it would have been difficult to imagine not so long ago – including discussions about the prospects for NATO’s continued existence as a unified Western military-political bloc.
As for Greenland, our position is simple: if Western countries choose to deal with one another “by mob rules”, that is their choice and their right.
🇷🇺 For our part, Russia will conduct relations with all our partners – both from the Global Majority and from among Western countries – who are genuinely interested in engaging with Russia and discussing concrete, mutually beneficial projects ☝️ on the basis of equality.
📺 Watch the news conference in full
🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his annual news conference on the Russian diplomacy outcomes in 2025 (January 20, 2026)
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We are witnessing tectonic shifts affecting the entire global order.
It is telling that the West, which over the past decade actively sought to oppose international law in its original, principled interpretation with its own concept of a so-called “rules-based world order”, has now largely dropped this term from its vocabulary.
All Western European countries are currently trying to make sense of what is happening in the world in the context of the course announced and pursued by the US President, a course that formally fits into the “rules-based order”. The difference is that these “rules” are no longer written by the “collective West”, but by its single representative. For Europe, this has come as a profound shock. We are observing the situation closely.
👉 It is clear that the developments we are witnessing, as well as the actions announced by President Trump on the international stage, reflect an intensifying competitive struggle.
We have repeatedly spoken about recent trends in global economic development. China, operating within the very rules that the West – led by the US – laid down as the foundation of the globalization model promoted worldwide until recently, has outperformed its Western competitors in trade, the economy, investment and infrastructure projects. China's economic and financial indicators speak for themselves.
We see attempts to counter this situation through sanctions, tariffs and duties. The US seeks to negotiate, yet this is happening in the absence of any common criteria that until recently underpinned the work of the #IMF, the #WorldBank and the #WTO. All those rules on which a Western-friendly world order was supposed to be based have effectively been cast aside.
⚔️ What is unfolding is a game of “might makes right”. We are all witnessing this.
We can discuss how conceptual approaches to world order are changing and how concrete processes are developing in the course of an interactive dialogue. However, the consequences of this line are felt not only by countries of the Global South and East – crisis tendencies are also accumulating within Western societies themselves.
Greenland is a clear example. It is on everyone’s lips, and the debates unfolding around it would have been difficult to imagine not so long ago – including discussions about the prospects for NATO’s continued existence as a unified Western military-political bloc.
As for Greenland, our position is simple: if Western countries choose to deal with one another “by mob rules”, that is their choice and their right.
🇷🇺 For our part, Russia will conduct relations with all our partners – both from the Global Majority and from among Western countries – who are genuinely interested in engaging with Russia and discussing concrete, mutually beneficial projects ☝️ on the basis of equality.
📺 Watch the news conference in full
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🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (January 21, 2026)
💬 Vladimir Putin: As far as the US “Peace Council” initiative is concerned, we have indeed received a personal message from President Trump inviting us to join a new international structure being established on his initiative.
In this regard, I would like first of all to thank the US President for this proposal.
We have always supported and continue to support any efforts aimed at strengthening international stability.
We also note the contribution of the current US Administration to efforts to find solutions for settling the Ukrainian crisis.
As for our participation in the “Peace Council”, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been instructed to review the documents received, consult our strategic partners on this matter, and only after that will we be able to provide a response to the invitation conveyed to us.
The proposal made to us primarily concerns settlement in the Middle East and the search for possible ways to address the urgent problems facing the Palestinian people and to resolve the acute humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
In this context, I would like to stress the main point. The key issue is that the entire process should contribute to a long-term settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, based on the relevant UN decisions.
Even before we decide on the issue of our participation in the composition and work of the “Peace Council”, taking into account Russia’s special relations with the Palestinian people, we could, I believe, allocate 1 billion US dollars to the “Peace Council” from Russian assets that were frozen under the previous US Administration.
By the way, the remaining funds from our assets frozen in the US could also be used for the restoration of territories affected by hostilities after the conclusion of a peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine. This possibility is also being discussed with representatives of the US Administration.
☝️ I plan to discuss all these issues with President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas, as well as with US representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who are also arriving in Moscow on January 22 to continue the dialogue on Ukrainian settlement.
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❌ What is happening with Greenland does not concern us at all.
However, we do have experience in resolving similar issues with the US. In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States. If my memory serves me right, the area of Alaska is about 1 million 717 thousand square kilometres, slightly more. The US bought Alaska from us for 7.2 million US dollars.
The area of Greenland is slightly more than, I believe, 2 million 166 thousand square kilometres. That is, the difference is roughly 449-450 thousand square kilometres. If we compare this with the cost of the US acquisition of Alaska, the price for Greenland would be somewhere around 200-250 million US dollars.
If we compare this with gold prices of that period, the figure would probably be closer to one billion. But I think the US could handle that amount as well.
Most importantly, Denmark and the US also have their own experience in this regard. If I am not mistaken, in 1917 Denmark sold, and the US purchased, the Virgin Islands. So such experience also exists.
By the way, Denmark has always treated Greenland as a colony and treated it rather harshly, if not brutally. However, this is a separate issue and is hardly relevant to the current discussion.
👉 In any case, this definitely does not concern us. I think they will sort it out between themselves.
💬 Vladimir Putin: As far as the US “Peace Council” initiative is concerned, we have indeed received a personal message from President Trump inviting us to join a new international structure being established on his initiative.
In this regard, I would like first of all to thank the US President for this proposal.
We have always supported and continue to support any efforts aimed at strengthening international stability.
We also note the contribution of the current US Administration to efforts to find solutions for settling the Ukrainian crisis.
As for our participation in the “Peace Council”, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been instructed to review the documents received, consult our strategic partners on this matter, and only after that will we be able to provide a response to the invitation conveyed to us.
The proposal made to us primarily concerns settlement in the Middle East and the search for possible ways to address the urgent problems facing the Palestinian people and to resolve the acute humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
In this context, I would like to stress the main point. The key issue is that the entire process should contribute to a long-term settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, based on the relevant UN decisions.
Even before we decide on the issue of our participation in the composition and work of the “Peace Council”, taking into account Russia’s special relations with the Palestinian people, we could, I believe, allocate 1 billion US dollars to the “Peace Council” from Russian assets that were frozen under the previous US Administration.
By the way, the remaining funds from our assets frozen in the US could also be used for the restoration of territories affected by hostilities after the conclusion of a peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine. This possibility is also being discussed with representatives of the US Administration.
☝️ I plan to discuss all these issues with President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas, as well as with US representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who are also arriving in Moscow on January 22 to continue the dialogue on Ukrainian settlement.
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❌ What is happening with Greenland does not concern us at all.
However, we do have experience in resolving similar issues with the US. In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States. If my memory serves me right, the area of Alaska is about 1 million 717 thousand square kilometres, slightly more. The US bought Alaska from us for 7.2 million US dollars.
The area of Greenland is slightly more than, I believe, 2 million 166 thousand square kilometres. That is, the difference is roughly 449-450 thousand square kilometres. If we compare this with the cost of the US acquisition of Alaska, the price for Greenland would be somewhere around 200-250 million US dollars.
If we compare this with gold prices of that period, the figure would probably be closer to one billion. But I think the US could handle that amount as well.
Most importantly, Denmark and the US also have their own experience in this regard. If I am not mistaken, in 1917 Denmark sold, and the US purchased, the Virgin Islands. So such experience also exists.
By the way, Denmark has always treated Greenland as a colony and treated it rather harshly, if not brutally. However, this is a separate issue and is hardly relevant to the current discussion.
👉 In any case, this definitely does not concern us. I think they will sort it out between themselves.
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🎙Read excerpts from the statement by Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE D.Polyanskiy «On ongoing attempts by some participating States to undermine efforts of finding a long-term and sustainable peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis» (meeting of the OSCE PC, January 22, 2026)
💬 Everything we heard today at the OSCE Permanent Council confirms that the European sponsors of the Kievregime remain interested in continuing the armed confrontation between Ukraine and Russia. What happens to Ukraine itself is of little concern to Berlin, Paris, London, or "collective Brussels" in general - the West has long since sacrificed it, writing it off as a "used resource" along with its population.
⚡️The Kiev regime under Zelensky's leadership is cynically and deliberately pursuing a terrorist policy against Russia's civilian population. Its provocations know no bounds: it attempted to attack the Presidential state residence, and on New Year's Eve deliberately struck civilians with drones in the village of Khorly, Kherson region, killing 29 people. This campaign of terror continues, with another 75 civilians becoming victims just in the past week.
☝️Criticism of Russia's strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure is false. Russia's actions are exclusively retaliatory. The Kiev regime was the first to violate the "energy truce" by launching systematic attacks on Russian facilities and openly declared this its strategy. Russia stated it would respond. Now Ukraine is suffering the consequences of its own aggressive policy, and its leadership is using the suffering of its citizens merely to beg for more aid from the West.
💥 The Kiev regime's large-scale terrorist activity against peaceful Russian citizens would be impossible without massive weapons supplies from foreign sponsors of the war, primarily from Europe. Therefore, remember that by writing another check to Zelensky and his accomplices, you are increasing the suffering of ordinary Ukrainians.
🇷🇺 Russia remains consistently ready for a diplomatic settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, but only on the basis of serious negotiations that address its root causes. We will not allow this process to be replaced by unscrupulous schemes to artificially prop up the Kiev regime. We will not accept any pseudo-peace plans that imply the militarization of Ukraine, the preservation of its Russophobic essence, or the entrenchment of Western military presence.
⚠️ The OSCE is experiencing an existential crisis, and Europe is sliding toward a military catastrophe. We must find the strength to stop this degradation and use the potential of the Organization itself for this purpose. This requires an honest analysis of the causes of the crisis and an understanding of when and why the European security architecture collapsed. Without this, we will only continue endless mutual recriminations.
🇪🇺 For now, the logic of escalation prevails over problem analysis. The "war party" in Europe, invested in the Ukrainian "anti-Russia" project, has been dismantling all mechanisms of interaction with our country since 2014. Russia has repeatedly attempted to bring the situation back to a civilized path, but the West demonstratively rejected all our proposals on security guarantee treaties. Europe had opportunities to resolve the Ukrainian crisis - in February 2014, with the Minsk agreements, and in December 2021. Each time, it chose confrontation, sabotaging peace initiatives and betraying trust. Now we are reaping the bitter fruits of this course.
❗️It is urgently necessary to restore the quality of dialogue in the OSCE: stop turning it into a propaganda platform, balance the agenda, and return unconditional respect for the principle of consensus. The Organization's ability to make a positive contribution or fade into political oblivion depends on this.
💬 Everything we heard today at the OSCE Permanent Council confirms that the European sponsors of the Kievregime remain interested in continuing the armed confrontation between Ukraine and Russia. What happens to Ukraine itself is of little concern to Berlin, Paris, London, or "collective Brussels" in general - the West has long since sacrificed it, writing it off as a "used resource" along with its population.
⚡️The Kiev regime under Zelensky's leadership is cynically and deliberately pursuing a terrorist policy against Russia's civilian population. Its provocations know no bounds: it attempted to attack the Presidential state residence, and on New Year's Eve deliberately struck civilians with drones in the village of Khorly, Kherson region, killing 29 people. This campaign of terror continues, with another 75 civilians becoming victims just in the past week.
☝️Criticism of Russia's strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure is false. Russia's actions are exclusively retaliatory. The Kiev regime was the first to violate the "energy truce" by launching systematic attacks on Russian facilities and openly declared this its strategy. Russia stated it would respond. Now Ukraine is suffering the consequences of its own aggressive policy, and its leadership is using the suffering of its citizens merely to beg for more aid from the West.
💥 The Kiev regime's large-scale terrorist activity against peaceful Russian citizens would be impossible without massive weapons supplies from foreign sponsors of the war, primarily from Europe. Therefore, remember that by writing another check to Zelensky and his accomplices, you are increasing the suffering of ordinary Ukrainians.
🇷🇺 Russia remains consistently ready for a diplomatic settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, but only on the basis of serious negotiations that address its root causes. We will not allow this process to be replaced by unscrupulous schemes to artificially prop up the Kiev regime. We will not accept any pseudo-peace plans that imply the militarization of Ukraine, the preservation of its Russophobic essence, or the entrenchment of Western military presence.
⚠️ The OSCE is experiencing an existential crisis, and Europe is sliding toward a military catastrophe. We must find the strength to stop this degradation and use the potential of the Organization itself for this purpose. This requires an honest analysis of the causes of the crisis and an understanding of when and why the European security architecture collapsed. Without this, we will only continue endless mutual recriminations.
🇪🇺 For now, the logic of escalation prevails over problem analysis. The "war party" in Europe, invested in the Ukrainian "anti-Russia" project, has been dismantling all mechanisms of interaction with our country since 2014. Russia has repeatedly attempted to bring the situation back to a civilized path, but the West demonstratively rejected all our proposals on security guarantee treaties. Europe had opportunities to resolve the Ukrainian crisis - in February 2014, with the Minsk agreements, and in December 2021. Each time, it chose confrontation, sabotaging peace initiatives and betraying trust. Now we are reaping the bitter fruits of this course.
❗️It is urgently necessary to restore the quality of dialogue in the OSCE: stop turning it into a propaganda platform, balance the agenda, and return unconditional respect for the principle of consensus. The Organization's ability to make a positive contribution or fade into political oblivion depends on this.
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🎙Read excerpts from the statement by Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE D.Polyanskiy «In the response to the Address by the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, H.E.
Mr. Pere Joan Pons Sampietro» (meeting of the OSCE PC, January 22, 2026)
💬 Bias, discrimination, double standards, and manifestations of Russophobia, coupled with a lack of readiness for substantive dialogue on urgent issues of equal and indivisible security, have led what was once an effective mechanism of inter-parliamentary cooperation into a dead end.
ℹ️ The Assembly could have been preserved from a complete loss of relevance through practical measures undertaken by its members to prevent further escalation of the military and political crisis in Europe.
❌ The unwillingness of Western states to reassess the range of factors that resulted in a profound imbalance of the security architecture once again underscores the soundness and consistency of the decision adopted in 2024 by the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to suspend its participation in the Assembly’s activities.
Mr. Pere Joan Pons Sampietro» (meeting of the OSCE PC, January 22, 2026)
💬 Bias, discrimination, double standards, and manifestations of Russophobia, coupled with a lack of readiness for substantive dialogue on urgent issues of equal and indivisible security, have led what was once an effective mechanism of inter-parliamentary cooperation into a dead end.
ℹ️ The Assembly could have been preserved from a complete loss of relevance through practical measures undertaken by its members to prevent further escalation of the military and political crisis in Europe.
❌ The unwillingness of Western states to reassess the range of factors that resulted in a profound imbalance of the security architecture once again underscores the soundness and consistency of the decision adopted in 2024 by the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to suspend its participation in the Assembly’s activities.
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🎙Read excerpts from the statement by Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE D.Polyanskiy «On continuing violations of human rights of Russian and Russian-speaking population in Latvia» (meeting of the OSCE PC, January 22, 2026)
🇱🇻 Latvia's continuing violations of its obligations in the area of democratic freedoms and human rights, including with regard to national minorities, are of particular concern. The Latvian authorities are consistently pursuing a course to abolish everything Russian. At the same time, Riga does not particularly taking into account the fact that such "cancel culture" primarily affects its own population, history, and traditions, which are inextricably linked to our country.
🔻Let us recall that Latvia, along with Canada, Lithuania, and Estonia, contrary to the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, as well as numerous international acts, including the UN General Assembly resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism adopted annually, continues to demonstratively honor SS criminals. The "Forest Brothers," many of whom are former legionaries of the "Waffen-SS," are in a privileged position, unlike the veterans of the Great Patriotic War who fought against the Nazis.
🔻The apogee of the revanchist aspirations of the Latvian leadership was the legislative consolidation of bans on celebrating Victory Day – May 9 – and displaying symbols of the Victory over Nazism, as well as holding events near Soviet military memorial sites. The unleashed "war on monuments," the blasphemous exhumation of burials, and the desecration of memorials to soldier-liberators have become everyday reality in Latvia.
🔻Over the past few years, Latvian authorities, under contrived pretexts, have been persecuting well-known human rights defenders and public figures. There are hundreds of such politically motivated criminal cases. The crowning ,,achievement’’ of these odious Russophobic repressions was the arrest in December 2025 of the prominent historian and human rights activist Viktor Gushchin. What made him so displeasing to Riga? The answer is obvious. Not only is the detainee an ethnic Russian, but he is also an active fighter against the falsification of history and a defender of the rights of compatriots.
🔻And what about the shameful institution of non-citizenship? Just think about it: about 165 thousand residents of the country (almost 9% of the population) belong to this category. Latvian authorities do not recognize them as belonging to national minorities and, accordingly, have excluded them from the scope of application of the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Non-citizens living in the country are in a discriminatory position. All of them are deprived of a whole range of social, economic, and political rights.
🔻Latvian authorities continue to position the Russian language as one of their main threats. In the
,,Guidelines for State Language Policy for 2021-2027’’ among the main tasks is the fight against the consequences of the "Soviet occupation" in the linguistic behavior of society. Hence the squeezing out of the Russian language from all spheres of public life in the country. From January 1, 2026, Russian-language television and radio broadcasting in state media is not allowed. In addition, the VAT on the sale of books in Russian is multiplied. And this despite the fact that the country is carrying out strict censorship of the information space (blocking TV channels, websites, and Russian information resources).
❗️All the above-mentioned facts, which are hard to dispute, indicate not just the indulgence of Latvian authorities toward neo-Nazis, but also the adoption of a course to implement their ideology in life. This is served by the policy of racial discrimination against the Russian and Russian-speaking population of Latvia. We call on the relevant OSCE executive structures to finally assess the ongoing repressions and respond to the large-scale discrimination against the Russian and Russian-speaking population in Latvia.
🇱🇻 Latvia's continuing violations of its obligations in the area of democratic freedoms and human rights, including with regard to national minorities, are of particular concern. The Latvian authorities are consistently pursuing a course to abolish everything Russian. At the same time, Riga does not particularly taking into account the fact that such "cancel culture" primarily affects its own population, history, and traditions, which are inextricably linked to our country.
🔻Let us recall that Latvia, along with Canada, Lithuania, and Estonia, contrary to the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, as well as numerous international acts, including the UN General Assembly resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism adopted annually, continues to demonstratively honor SS criminals. The "Forest Brothers," many of whom are former legionaries of the "Waffen-SS," are in a privileged position, unlike the veterans of the Great Patriotic War who fought against the Nazis.
🔻The apogee of the revanchist aspirations of the Latvian leadership was the legislative consolidation of bans on celebrating Victory Day – May 9 – and displaying symbols of the Victory over Nazism, as well as holding events near Soviet military memorial sites. The unleashed "war on monuments," the blasphemous exhumation of burials, and the desecration of memorials to soldier-liberators have become everyday reality in Latvia.
🔻Over the past few years, Latvian authorities, under contrived pretexts, have been persecuting well-known human rights defenders and public figures. There are hundreds of such politically motivated criminal cases. The crowning ,,achievement’’ of these odious Russophobic repressions was the arrest in December 2025 of the prominent historian and human rights activist Viktor Gushchin. What made him so displeasing to Riga? The answer is obvious. Not only is the detainee an ethnic Russian, but he is also an active fighter against the falsification of history and a defender of the rights of compatriots.
🔻And what about the shameful institution of non-citizenship? Just think about it: about 165 thousand residents of the country (almost 9% of the population) belong to this category. Latvian authorities do not recognize them as belonging to national minorities and, accordingly, have excluded them from the scope of application of the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Non-citizens living in the country are in a discriminatory position. All of them are deprived of a whole range of social, economic, and political rights.
🔻Latvian authorities continue to position the Russian language as one of their main threats. In the
,,Guidelines for State Language Policy for 2021-2027’’ among the main tasks is the fight against the consequences of the "Soviet occupation" in the linguistic behavior of society. Hence the squeezing out of the Russian language from all spheres of public life in the country. From January 1, 2026, Russian-language television and radio broadcasting in state media is not allowed. In addition, the VAT on the sale of books in Russian is multiplied. And this despite the fact that the country is carrying out strict censorship of the information space (blocking TV channels, websites, and Russian information resources).
❗️All the above-mentioned facts, which are hard to dispute, indicate not just the indulgence of Latvian authorities toward neo-Nazis, but also the adoption of a course to implement their ideology in life. This is served by the policy of racial discrimination against the Russian and Russian-speaking population of Latvia. We call on the relevant OSCE executive structures to finally assess the ongoing repressions and respond to the large-scale discrimination against the Russian and Russian-speaking population in Latvia.
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