Владимир Путин принимает участие в памятных мероприятиях, приуроченных к 82-й годовщине полного освобождения Ленинграда от фашистской блокады

Президент возложил цветы к мемориалу «Рубежный камень» на Невском пятачке. В этом месте – на небольшом трёхкилометровом участке фронта к югу от Ленинграда – Красная армия с первых дней блокады сдерживала численно превосходящие силы противника, не позволяя им приблизиться к городу.

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2️⃣7️⃣ января мы вспоминаем освобождение Красной Армией узников нацистского лагеря смерти Аушвиц-Биркенау (Освенцим). В этот день во многих государствах, включая Канаду, проходят памятные церемонии, звучат призывы хранить память и извлекать уроки из прошлого. Эти уроки на деле означают готовность властей ряда стран откровенно поговорить о трудных, неудобных и намеренно отодвигаемых фактах.

📄 Именно поэтому в этот день мы вновь обращаемся к докладу Дешена — документу, фиксирующему факты послевоенного укрытия на территории Канады нацистских преступников и их пособников. Его рассекречивание — вопрос исторической честности, который нельзя откладывать бесконечно. Признание прошлого — моральный долг Оттавы перед жертвами, выжившими и будущими поколениями.

🇨🇦 Канада, как государство-участник антигитлеровской коалиции, чьи сыны и дочери внесли значимый вклад в разгром нацизма, несёт особую ответственность за приверженность принципам транспарентности и исторической правды. Перед собой и мировым сообществом.

🕯27 января служит напоминанием о необходимости нравственной оценки прошлого и принятия исторической ответственности. Только такой подход позволяет достойно почтить память жертв Второй мировой войны и Холокоста и не допустить повторения подобных трагедий в будущем.

#НиктоНеЗабыт #НичтоНеЗабыто

📅 On January 27, we commemorate the liberation of the prisoners of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army. On this day, remembrance ceremonies are held in many countries, including Canada, accompanied by calls to preserve historical memory and draw lessons from the past. In practice, these lessons require a willingness on the part of national authorities to speak openly about difficult, uncomfortable, and deliberately overlooked facts.

📄Hence, today we once again draw attention to the Deschênes Report — a document recording evidence of the postwar sheltering of Nazi war criminals and their collaborators on Canadian soil. Its declassification is a matter of historical integrity that cannot be postponed indefinitely. Acknowledging the past is a moral duty for Ottawa — to the victims, to the survivors, and to future generations.

🇨🇦 As a member of the anti-Hitler coalition, whose sons and daughters made a significant contribution to the defeat of Nazism, Canada bears a special responsibility to uphold the principles of transparency and historical truth both to itself and to the international community.

🕯January 27 serves as a reminder of the need for moral reflection on the past and the acceptance of historical responsibility. Only such an approach makes it possible to truly honor the memory of the victims of the Second World War and the Holocaust, and to prevent such tragedies from ever happening again.

#WeRemember

🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC Open Debate on the Situation in the Middle East (New York, January 28, 2026)

💬 Vassily Nebenzia: Recent developments in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone give us grounds for cautious optimism and offer hope for a definitive transition from the logic of confrontation and violence to diplomacy and economic revival.

We welcome the return to Israel of the body of the last hostage, Ran Gvili, which was made possible owing to the Palestinians disclosing the information on its whereabouts.

The wounds inflicted on the Israeli nation on October 7, 2023, may still be fresh, but let us hope that this symbolic event, which marked the final reunification of all families with their loved ones, is set to pave the way for restoring relations between the two peoples. <...>

We note the long-awaited start of the second phase of President Trump's peace plan, which was announced by the US on January 14. The launch of the work of transitional bodies in the enclave – first and foremost that of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), headed by experienced official of the Palestinian Administration (PA) Ali Shaath – lays the groundwork for rebuilding the Gaza Strip.

❗️ We stand convinced that the peace initiative will hardly succeed until the interests and rights of the Palestinian people are fully respected and transitional structures coordinate closely with the PA. We emphasize that any plans for the forcible displacement of Gazans are inadmissible, no matter what plausible pretexts these plans may be furnished with. <...>

We believe that further implementation of Trump’s plan will require mediators to focus on finding a comprehensive negotiated solution to the problem of disarming Palestinian groups and withdrawing Israeli forces from Gaza. Attempts at a military solution are doomed to failure.

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Unfortunately, the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains catastrophic given total devastation and restrictions on the delivery of supplies. Persistent bans on carrying out humanitarian operations and importing essential goods and equipment for clearing rubble are seriously exacerbating the plight of Gazans. <...>

It is precisely based on the acute needs and pressing demands of the Palestinians that we announced our readiness to provide US$1 billion from Russian assets frozen by the previous US administration for projects to rebuild and reconstruct the Gaza Strip.

☝️ We call on Israel to refrain from actions that undermine the humanitarian response and to ensure safe and unhindered access for humanitarian agencies to address one of the most acute crises of our time. <...>

👉 Our country's position on the Palestinian-Israeli settlement is principled and not subject to circumstantial changes. We reaffirm our support for the two-state formula and a just solution to the Palestinian issue on the basis of a universally recognized legal framework.

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🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with Turkish media (Moscow, January 29, 2026)

Key points:

• Do we view the Ukrainian conflict as a broader confrontation between Russia and the West? The answer is yes. Ukraine is a pawn – a tool used by the West to build up a bulwark directly on Russia's borders in order to create direct threats to our security.

• Ukraine’s Declaration of Independence clearly proclaimed a policy of non-alignment with military blocs, neutrality and renunciation of nuclear weapons. It was precisely on the basis of this policy, declared by the Ukrainian leadership after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, that Russia – as well as the majority of other world countries – recognized Ukraine.

• The situation in Ukraine was a “battle” that had been prepared in advance. It was financed, including by the Americans. As the then US Deputy Secretary of State Nuland – the “architect” of Ukraine policy – recently admitted once again, already after leaving the State Department, they spent 5 billion US dollars on preparing Ukraine for a coup and turning it into an “anti-Russia”.

• The Zelensky regime is, in many ways, a repetition of history – but not as a farce, because too many people have been killed for that, sacrificed by Zelensky and his “masters”, his Western patrons.

• We have stated this repeatedly, and President Vladimir Putin has often recalled it: the ceasefire that Zelensky is once again seeking – for at least 60 days, preferably longer – is unacceptable to us. This is because all previous periods associated with diplomatic efforts during the special military operation ended the same way: any ceasefire was immediately used to pump Ukraine full of new weapons, to give this regime a breather, to once again round up as many people as possible on the streets of Ukrainian cities and shove them to the frontline as “cannon fodder”, and, overall, to gain time to regroup and continue the war against Russia.

• Honest security guarantees were formulated in Istanbul in April 2022 following several rounds of negotiations, excellently organized by our Turkish friends. It was clearly spelled out what security guarantees meant – no foreign military bases on Ukrainian territory, no exercises involving foreign forces unless such exercises were approved by all guarantor states – everything was detailed and specific. In other words, everything was ready, but Boris Johnson said “no”.

• We have not seen the document that Zelensky constantly refers to as a “20-point plan”. As we understand it, Ukrainians and Europeans have “reworked” it compared to the original US plan and are now trying to “sell” their own “vision” of this “peace” to the US administration.

• We do not draw a distinction between the foreign policies of independent states that defend their national interests and the #MultipolarWorld. On the contrary, a multipolar world can only take shape if it is founded on the positions of precisely such self-respecting states – with their own national interests and with common sense underlying their actions – states that, while defending their own interests, respect the interests of others.

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🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to media questions regarding the negotiations on Ukrainian conflict resolution (January 29, 2026)

💬 Sergey Lavrov: Unlike the Ukrainians and the Americans, we do not comment publicly on negotiations that are meant to be conducted in confidential silence.

Those who try to make various statements about what is being discussed are simply acting in a manner that is inconsistent with proper negotiating practice and basic standards of conduct.

Russia’s package of proposals was presented by Vladimir Putin in June 2024 and has been reaffirmed repeatedly. Our negotiators will continue their contacts in whatever format is required. They know their job, and when there is something tangible to report, the media will be duly informed.

❗️ The political issues of the conflict resolution were outlined by the Russian President and remain unchanged.

Everything else I leave to the conscience of our Ukrainian and American colleagues, who in recent days have been making numerous public statements. For example, I heard that Marco Rubio, having been invited to the Senate, claimed that the issue of security guarantees had already been resolved. We are unaware of the guarantees they were discussing, but it appears these were guarantees to the very Ukrainian regime that pursues a Russophobic, neo-Nazi policy.

If the goal is to preserve this regime on some part of the territory of former Ukraine and to continue using it as a bulwark for threats against the Russian Federation, then it should be obvious that such “security guarantees” are hardly capable of ensuring genuine security.

Security guarantees were agreed upon in Istanbul in April 2022. Moreover, the core draft of those guarantees was proposed by the Ukrainian side itself. We supported that draft. You know what happened next – when the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson prohibited Ukraine from signing the agreement, which had already received preliminary approval.

Those guarantees provided for a collective and indivisible system of security, including the security of both Russia and the entire region in which Ukraine is located. That is why we will look at substantive proposals, not to be distracted by the political games that the media gets so excited about.

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On the Policy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople towards Ukraine

Message by Russian Foreign Minister’s Special Representative for International Cooperation in Ensuring the Right to Freedom of Religion Mikhail Melekh

It is hard to recall any other force besides the Patriarchate of Constantinople that has been capable of creating an atmosphere of acute distrust, mutual recriminations, and discord within global Orthodoxy.

The concepts of 'tomos' and 'autocephaly' have settled as a heavy burden on the souls of many—even those who, before 2019, were not at all interested in inter-church relations and did not even know the meaning of these terms. In the context of the Ukrainian religious crisis, they have become common nouns.

The primary causes of this tragedy have been well-known since the creation of man: the thirst for money and the pursuit of power. They detrimentally affect primarily the proud and the weak in spirit. In the case of Patriarch Bartholomew, these are the kickbacks received for the tomos and the heresy of "Eastern Papism."

❗️However, this narrative is not entirely about church affairs.

There is no doubt that the concept of a controlled church in Ukraine originated in the minds of Western political strategists. The handwriting is all too recognizable: accumulating opposition (in our case, schismatic) assets and setting in motion mechanisms for managing them, forming a pseudo-patriotic (nationalist) agenda, creating conditions for strengthening their position through generous financial, administrative, and media support. Concurrently — bribery, blackmail, elimination of dissenters, and other components of democracy export.

The so-called "Orthodox Church of Ukraine," hastily assembled by former President Poroshenko from among previously banned marginal individuals, would not have lasted long on its own. It urgently needed to be given at least some legitimacy.

And here Constantinople enters the game. Following the example of many of his predecessors, Patriarch Bartholomew formalized a tomos in 2019 for considerable monetary reward from the West and immersed himself in a years-long process of justifying his step, dragging several local churches into the adventure. <...>

It seems not without reason that the discussion regarding the creation of a Constantinopolitan exarchate in Ukraine has recently resumed. After all, it is obvious that the "Orthodox Church of Ukraine" project is unviable. What has emerged is an overly uncontrollable, willful, and immensely hungry beast. <...>

It would seem high time to slow down, attempt to preserve the remnants of dignity, and carefully step aside. The whole world already sees what is happening to the rights of believers on this land. But something new must be invented, because even with great desire, it is now difficult for Bartholomew to break free from the Ukrainian "mutual responsibility" with thieves and murderers.

To some extent, one might even sympathize with him, if not for the blood and suffering of thousands of believers and clergy of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, deprived of their churches, desecrated, beaten, and maimed. Furthermore, the Patriarchate of Constantinople objectively serves as a compliant instrument in the hands of the pseudo-liberal Western mainstream. And one directed against all of global Orthodoxy. <...>

In the actions of the head of Phanar, one sees neither spirituality nor love. Only bare politics and tactical calculation.

It is hard to imagine how many people, realizing this fact, will now lose trust in the Church, pass by a church without entering, consider it impossible to speak with a clergyman, or not partake in church sacraments. Because lies breed suspicion, fear, and even greater lies.

The Ukrainian issue will be resolved one way or another!

👉 But studying this chapter of world history, descendants will be astonished at the price millions of Orthodox believers had to pay for the weakness of one man.

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