📹Lavrov to unveil details of Intervision music contest

Russian and foreign journalists are gathering for a press conference on the preparation of the International Music Competition Intervision.

Participants:
🟠Russian top diplomat Sergey Lavrov
🟠Deputy PM Dmitry Chernyshenko
🟠Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of the Presidential Administration
🟠Konstantin Ernst, General Director of Channel One

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🚨UN commission recognizes Israel's actions in Gaza as GENOCIDE

Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip constitute genocide, according to a report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

According to the document, the Israeli authorities:

▪️destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group, including by imposing measures intended to prevent births

▪️deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians as a group, both of which are underlying acts of genocide in the Rome Statute and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (“Genocide Convention”)

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🪖📹WATCH Russian strategic Tu-160 bombers simulate cruise missile strikes at Zapad-2025 drills

🇧🇾Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin has headed to Russia to observe the active phase of the Zapad-2025 exercise. The Russia-Belarus strategic drills Zapad-2025 are set to conclude on September 16.

🟠As part of the exercises, Russia deployed its operational-tactical Iskander-M missile systems in the Kaliningrad region, capable of launching nuclear missiles.

🟠According to the Belarusian military, military representatives from 23 countries attended the drills, including three NATO members — Hungary, the US, and Turkiye.

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🟠Israel launches offensive to occupy Gaza City: What is known so far

🟠Russia, Iran, China & allies want to ban attacks on nuclear sites

🟠Gulf States question US support following Israeli bombing of Qatar

🟠How Western confiscation of Russian assets could backfire

🟠Russian strategic Tu-160 bombers take part in Zapad-2025 drills

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🚨Key statements of the head of UN commission:

🟠Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza, its actions against population are most ruthless since 1948

🟠Israeli military and political leaders, including PM Netanyahu, incited genocide in Gaza

🟠Israel responsible for failure to prevent and punish genocide against Gaza residents

🟠All countries must use all tools to stop Israel's actions in Gaza and occupied territories

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🗣Lavrov on the Intervision Music Competition:

⚫️The event is aimed at preserving traditions, including spiritual and cultural ones.

⚫️The Foreign Ministry is actively assisting in attracting foreign participants; this year, 23 foreign contestants will take part.

⚫️Symbolically, the show will open with Cuba and close with India, demonstrating its global reach.

⚫️Contestants perform songs in their national languages, as was originally agreed.

⚫️We also expect honorary guests from the participating countries at the finale.

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🗣Lavrov on Intervision: Environment of harmony, friendship and mutual respect

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🗣What has Deputy PM Dmitry Chernyshenko said about the Intervision music contest?

🟠We are very grateful to Sergey Lavrov for personally overseeing the preparation of the Intervision contest.

🟠More than 100 participants from the Youth Festival will attend Intervision, mainly taking part in flash mobs.

🟠Volunteers for the competition include representatives from four friendly countries — Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Belarus.

🟠The competition will be fair; the strongest will win. Russia will once again demonstrate its hospitality.

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🗣Lavrov: 🇨🇺Cuba to open the show and 🇮🇳India to close, which is 'emblematic'

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🗣Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Presidential Chief: We are aware that some countries tried to prevent participants from taking part or traveling to Russia

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✅Lavrov: If you like Eurovision - watch it. But preserving culture, traditions, and moral values is now in higher demand, which is encouraging. And if anyone wants to vote for men with beards in women’s dresses, we do not forbid it

🟠We are gradually moving away from the term “unfriendly countries.” It remains in use for now, but as Vladimir Putin recently said in Vladivostok: “For us, there are no unfriendly countries, only governments that are unfriendly to Russia.”

🟠If some countries form their governments without paying attention to culture and the arts, that’s their problem. Neither the US nor the UK have noscripts like “Honored” or “People’s Artist,” but Russia does, because we encourage cultural development.

🟠We do not aim to influence other governments, unlike what USAID did before its dissolution.

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🗣Lavrov: What we do is completely different from attempts to use sports, art, to use any kind of human activities to attain political games

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

🟠 The Russian army struck a fuel storage base, long-range UAV launch and storage sites, as well as Ukrainian army deployment points in 153 areas

🟠 Air defense superiority: 357 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defence systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,435 troops killed or wounded

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🇪🇺 EU to adopt package of measures against Israel

The European Commissioners will adopt a package of measures against Israel on September 17, including a suspension of "certain trade provisions of the Euro-Mediterranean agreement between the EU and Israel", European Commission Chief Spokesperson Paula Pinho said.

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🇬🇧🇵🇱 UK’s RAF jets to Poland: NATO escalation amid anti-Russia hysteria

Britain is sending RAF Typhoons to Poland under NATO’s Operation Eastern Sentry.

🟠 The jets will operate out of RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire

🟠 They will be supported by Voyager tankers

🟠 Missions will be alongside Danish F-16s, French Rafales, and German Eurofighters

The NATO operation is billed as a response to a drone incident in Poland.

No convincing evidence was presented to Russia that the UAVs that violated Poland’s airspace earlier in the month were Russian.

💬 Still, Britain’s war hawk Defense Secretary John Healey insists, “When we are threatened, we respond together.”

For Russia, this is déjà vu: two decades of warnings about NATO’s steady march eastward and military buildup, now met with yet another deployment that risks ratcheting up tensions even further.

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🇷🇺 Russian Baltic Fleet HITS HARD at Zapad-2025 drills

The Baltic Fleet carried out a coordinated cruise missile strike against mock enemy warships

The UNBREAKABLE mission involved:

🟠 Stoiky corvette

🟠 Bal coastal missile system

🟠 Su-30SM fighter jets

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