⚡️ Main foreign policy results in 2023

Per tradition, at the end of each year we summarize the outcomes of the Russia's foreign policy, implemented by the MFA and determined by President Vladimir Putin.

👉 Points 1-7

8️⃣ Russia maintained an intensive political dialogue with India, including in the context of the country's chairmanship of the #SCO and the #G20, reinforcing the Russian-Indian special and privileged strategic partnership.

9️⃣ President Vladimir Putin's meeting with Chairman of State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong-un at the Vostochny Cosmodrome brought Russian-North Korean relations to a new level.

1️⃣0️⃣ Important joint steps were taken to expand Russian-Iranian relations. In particular, the parties signed an agreement on the construction of the Rasht-Astara railway, and the foreign ministers signed a Declaration on the Ways and Means to Counter, Mitigate and Redress the Adverse Impacts of Unilateral Coercive Measures.

1️⃣1️⃣ The launch of the mechanism of regular dialogue at the level of foreign ministers accelerated cooperation between the Caspian states.

1️⃣2️⃣ Relations with Türkiye reached a strategic level in the field of peaceful nuclear energy: in particular, Russia began supplying nuclear fuel to the Akkuyu nuclear power plant.

1️⃣3️⃣ Russia gained a stronger foothold in the Middle East. Relations with the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, primarily the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. There was progress in relations with the League of Arab States.

1️⃣4️⃣ The second Russia-Africa Summit held in St Petersburg in July marked the culmination of collaborative efforts to significantly enhance ties in this promising area of Russia's foreign policy.

1️⃣5️⃣ The expansion of traditional partnerships with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean was central to the agenda of the successful political dialogue with regional states at the highest and high levels.

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🎄 Σε λίγο μαζί με όλο τον κόσμο θα γιορτάσουμε την άφιξη του νέου έτους 2024.

325 χρόνια πριν στη Ρωσία συνέβη ένα πραγματικό θαύμα της Πρωτοχρονιάς: μετά τις 31 Δεκεμβρίου του 7207 ήρθε η 1η Ιανουαρίου του 1700!

Αυτό έγινε χάρη στον Μέγα Πέτρο, ο οποίος, βασιζόντας στις παραδόσεις των ορθόδοξων λαών της Ευρώπης, μετέφερε την αρχή του έτους από την 1η Σεπτεμβρίου στην 1η Ιανουαρίου και διέταξε να μετρηθούν τα χρόνια όχι από τη κοσμογονία της Γένεσης, αλλά από τη Γέννηση του Χριστού.

🤔 Φανταστείτε ότι τώρα θα μπορούσαμε να γιορτάσουμε τον ερχομό του 7532...

🥳 Καλή Πρωτοχρονιά, Ελλάδα! Χρόνια πολλά!

🎙 New Year Address to the Nation by President Vladimir Putin

💬 We are bidding farewell to 2023.

The main thing which has united us is the destiny of the Motherland. There is a deep understanding of the utmost importance of the historic period which Russia is going through, those large-scale objectives which society is facing and the colossal responsibility for the Motherland which every one of us feels.

Work for the collective good has united society. We are united in our thoughts, tasks and in combat, whether at work or on days off, displaying the main traits of the Russian people – solidarity, mercy and firmness.

I would like to address our military personnel – everyone who is on duty, who is on the front lines fighting for truth and justice. You are our heroes. Our hearts are with you. We are proud of you and we admire your courage.

I am well aware that now you feel the love of those nearest and dearest to you, the powerful, sincere support of millions of Russian citizens, the support of the entire people.

We have proved over and over again that we are able to tackle the most difficult tasks and we will never back down as there is no force that can divide us, make us forget the memory and the faith of our fathers, or stop our development.

The upcoming year of 2024 has been declared the Year of the Family in our country. And a truly big family is definitely a family where children grow up, where parents are given attention, and treated with warm-heartedness and care, and where everyone loves and respects each other.

I would like to convey my very best wishes for the new year to all Russian families. After all, the history of our huge, wonderful and beloved Motherland is shaped by the history of each family. We – the multinational people of Russia – decide and create its fate.

We are one country, one big family. We will ensure the steady development of the Motherland, the well-being of our citizens, and we will become even stronger.

Happy New Year, friends! Happy 2024!

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📺 55 χρόνια πριν τα Σοβιετικά παιδιά έλαβαν ένα υπέροχο δώρο Πρωτοχρονιάς: στις οθόνες της χώρας βγήκε το κινούμενο σχέδιο "Ο Τρελολύκος και ο Πονηρολαγός!" («Λοιπόν, περίμενε εσύ!» στα ρωσικά) για την κωμική καταδίωξη του Λαγού από τον Λύκο. Σε κάθε επεισόδιο όλες οι προσπάθειες του αρπακτικού να πιάσει το θήραμα καταλήγουν σε αποτυχία. Ως αποτέλεσμα, ο Λύκος φωνάζει την απειλητική φράση: «Λοιπόν, περίμενε εσύ!»

Αυτό το πραγματικά εμβληματικό κινούμενο σχέδιο μεγάλωσε ολόκληρες γενιές Σοβιετικών και Ρώσων παιδιών.

Παρά την ομοιότητα μερικών ιδεών με το αμερικανικό "Tom and Jerry", ο δημιουργός του σεναρίου το είδε για πρώτη φορά μόνο το 1987.

55 χρόνια πριν τα Σοβιετικά παιδιά έλαβαν ένα υπέροχο δώρο Πρωτοχρονιάς: στις οθόνες της χώρας βγήκε το κινούμενο σχέδιο "Ο Τρελολύκος και ο Πονηρολαγός!" («Λοιπόν, περίμενε εσύ!» στα ρωσικά) για την κωμική καταδίωξη του Λαγού από τον Λύκο. Σε κάθε επεισόδιο όλες οι προσπάθειες του αρπακτικού να πιάσει το θήραμα καταλήγουν σε αποτυχία. Ως αποτέλεσμα, ο Λύκος φωνάζει την απειλητική φράση: «Λοιπόν, περίμενε εσύ!»

Αυτό το πραγματικά εμβληματικό κινούμενο σχέδιο μεγάλωσε ολόκληρες γενιές Σοβιετικών και Ρώσων παιδιών.

Παρά την ομοιότητα μερικών ιδεών με το αμερικανικό "Tom and Jerry", ο δημιουργός του σεναρίου το είδε για πρώτη φορά μόνο το 1987.

🎙 Address by Russia's President Vladimir Putin on the start of Russia's BRICS Chairmanship

💬 On January 1, Russia was passed the baton of the #BRICS chairmanship, an association which, according to the decision adopted by the 15th BRICS Summit in August 2022, now includes 10 countries.

Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates joined BRICS as new full members which is a strong indication of the growing authority of the association and its role in international affairs.

BRICS is attracting an ever increasing number of supporters and like-minded countries that share its underlying principles, namely, sovereign equality, respect for the chosen path of development, mutual consideration of interests, openness, consensus, the aspiration to form a multipolar international order and a fair global financial and trade system, and pursuit of collective solutions to top challenges of our time.

The Russian 2024 BRICS Chairmanship under the motto Strengthening Multilateralism for Equitable Global Development and Security will act precisely in this manner and focus on positive and constructive cooperation with all countries concerned.

🔸 We will spare no effort to <...> facilitate the harmonious integration of new participants in all formats of its activities.

🔸 We will start working on the modalities of a new category of BRICS partner country.

🔸 Russia will continue to promote all aspects of the BRICS partnership in three key areas: politics and security, economy and finance, and cultural and humanitarian contacts.

🔸 Our priorities include promoting cooperation in science, high technology, healthcare, environmental protection, culture, sports, youth exchanges, and civil society.

🔸 In total, over 200 events of different levels and types will be held in many Russian cities as part of the chairmanship.

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🇷🇺 Russia assumes CIS chairmanship on January 1, 2024

The Concept for Russia’s chairmanship of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in 2024 has been published.

Russia will chair the Commonwealth of Independent States under the Concept of the Further Development of the CIS, endorsed by a CIS Heads of State Council resolution on December 18, 2020; the Economic Development Strategy of the CIS for the Period up to 2030 adopted by a resolution of the CIS Heads of Government on May 29, 2020, and other CIS fundamental programme documents.

Russia’s chairmanship of the CIS will be aimed at ensuring the continuity of its activities and reaching a number of goals, in part,

👉 to continue strengthening the CIS as an integration association;
👉 increase its international status;
👉 enhancing the CIS’s role as a representative venue for multilateral political dialogue on a broad range of issues;
👉 deepening its economic integration with a view to creating a common economic space;
👉 upgrading the mechanisms for countering, through cooperation, traditional and new challenges and threats to the security of the CIS member-states;
👉 promoting cooperation in the military area and on border security; expanding cultural and humanitarian interaction;
👉 aligning CIS activities with other integration associations with a view to creating a Greater Eurasian Partnership that unites the potential of all states and organisations of the region; and improving the CIS’s contractual and legal foundation and cooperation institutions.

An meaningful part of Russia’s chairmanship will be a support for measures to counter the falsification of history and attempts to rehabilitate Nazism, and to preserve the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War, including the genocide of the Soviet peoples.

In this context, special attention will be paid to preparations for holding the Year of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in the CIS in 2025 – the Year of Peace and Unity in the Fight against Nazism.

💬 Μαρία Ζαχάροβα, η Εκπρόσωπος του Υπουργείου Εξωτερικών της Ρωσίας:

Με φόντο τη βαρβαρότητα του ναζιστικού καθεστώτος του Κιέβου, το Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο στη σύνοδό του στις 14-15 Δεκεμβρίου τ.ε. αποφάσισε να ξεκινήσει τις διαπραγματεύσεις για την ένταξη της Ουκρανίας στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση. Έτσι, δεν είναι το Κίεβο που ανεβαίνει προς την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, αλλά η ΕΕ κατέρχεται στο επίπεδο του ναζιστικού καθεστώτος του Κιέβου.