1️⃣Giant Veggies & Farming Battles😎

The 8th All-Russian "AgroBattle-2025" festival in Stavropol brought together farmers growing record-breaking produce. A farmer from Kaluga stole the show with a 133 kg watermelon—a new national record—plus a giant 56-kg zucchini!

Meanwhile, Alexander Chusov from Moscow grew a 969 kg pumpkin, beating his own previous record. Though the winner had hoped for over a ton, his pumpkin still earned a spot in the Russian Record Book! 🎃

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2️⃣ "Intervision-2025": A Global Music Celebration 🍬

✨ On September 20th, Moscow's "Live Arena" hosted "Intervision-2025," a spectacular music competition that featured 23 countries showcasing their cultural diversity. The event was held on one of the world's most technologically advanced stages, a venue renowned not just in Russia, but globally.

✨ A breathtaking visual feature of the show was the use of magnificent, giant AR avatars, which represented each nation and shared the stage with the live performers.

✨ A defining trend of this year's contest was a powerful return to national traditions and values. In a bold move away from globalized pop, every artist performed their song in their native state language—a diverse spectrum including Vietnamese, Kyrgyz, Arabic, and Swahili.

✨ The winner was Duc Phuc from Vietnam, with Nomad (Kyrgyzstan) and Dana Al-Mir (Qatar) as the runners-up. The contest culminated in a moving grand finale, where all the contestants came together for a multilingual performance of the song "A Million Voices." This powerful moment of unity provided a fitting conclusion to "Intervision-2025." The event ended with the official announcement that Saudi Arabia will be the next host.

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4️⃣Russia's Chelyabinsk Joins International Effort to Save the Great Bustard The Chelyabinsk region will participate in an international project to help restore the population of the Great Bustard,a bird listed as critically endangered in Russia. The initiative will include habitat monitoring and the creation of a new breeding center, with support from partners in Kazakhstan and several Arab countries. 🐦‍⬛️This effort follows a recent success in conservation: the first successful hatching of a Great Bustard chick at the Rare Species Center of 🪿 the Moscow Zoo.

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🌏🇷🇺 Kamchatka is bear country🐻

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