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🔹 Meeting with heads of international news agencies on the sidelines of the 27th St Petersburg International Economic Forum
🔹 Visit to Lakhta Centre
🔹 Visit to Tsarskoye Selo State Museum and Heritage Site
🇷🇺🇧🇴 Russian-Bolivian talks
🇷🇺🇿🇼 Russia-Zimbabwe talks

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🇷🇺🇬🇼 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, African Integration and Guineans abroad of the Republic of Guinea, Morrisanda Kouyate
🇷🇺🇨🇬 On June 4, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who was on a working visit in Oyo, was received by President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso and held talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs, Francophonie and Congolese Abroad Jean-Claude Gakosso
🇷🇺🇧🇫 On June 4−5 Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov made a visit to Ouagadougou, the first in the history of bilateral relations
🇷🇺🇹🇩 On June 5, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited N’Djamena for the first time in the history of bilateral relations
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s greetings on Russian Language Day

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❓ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media questions
🇷🇺 The Russian Language Day

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🪶 225 years ago – on June 6, 1799 – Alexander Pushkin was born – the greatest poet, writer, playwright, historian, publicist, creator of the modern Russian literary language
📆 Russian sculptor Pyotr Klodt was born on June 5, 1805
✈️ Aerobatic team Russ – Russia's oldest aviation aerobatics group – turns 37 on June 3

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🔹 Presenting Hero of Labour medals and Russian Federation National Awards
🔹 Greetings to International Forum of Ministers of Education
🔹 Video address to participants in the opening ceremony of BRICS Sports Games
🔹 Visit to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna
🔹 Meeting with mega-grant recipients and leading scientists
🔹 Council for Science and Education meeting
🔹 Meeting with Foreign Ministry senior officials

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🔹 On June 10-11, as a representative of the country that chairs BRICS this year, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a meeting of the BRICS Foreign Ministers and guest countries in Nizhny Novgorod
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with senior Foreign Ministry officials, Moscow, June 14, 2024

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🔹 Russian Defence Minister presents Gold Star medals to distinguished members of special military operation
🔹 In accordance with decision of Russian President, second stage of non-strategic nuclear forces exercise begins
🔹 Northern Fleet's ships have exercise using high-precision missile weapons in Atlantic Ocean
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

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❓ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media questions
🇷🇺Russia Day reception

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🇷🇺Russia Day is a national holiday in the Russian Federation celebrated annually on June 12.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 Vladimir Putin’s visit to DPRK
🇷🇺🇰🇵 Russia-DPRK talks
🇷🇺🇰🇵 Article by Vladimir Putin in Rodong Sinmun newspaper, Russia and the DPRK: Traditions of Friendship and Cooperation Through the Years
🇷🇺🇻🇳 State visit to Vietnam
🇷🇺🇻🇳 Answers to questions from Russian journalists
🇷🇺🇻🇳 Article by Vladimir Putin for publication in Nhân Dân, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, Russia and Vietnam: Friendship Tested by Time


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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from Channel One
🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following the meeting of the CSTO Foreign Ministers Council

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📷 Photos from Special Military Operation

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📰 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov exclusively for Newsweek
🕯Memorial event “Candle of Memory”
🎙Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question
📽Screening of the movie “T-34” as part of the Great Victory movie marathon

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🏅79 years ago, on 20 June 1945, the Victory Banner was delivered to Moscow from Berlin

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🇷🇺🇨🇬 Russian-Congolese talks
🔹 Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council
🔹 Meeting on shipbuilding development

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 On June 24-25, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov paid an official visit to the Republic of Belarus on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of diplomatic relations
🇷🇺🇨🇬 Sergey Lavrov met with Minister of Foreign Affairs, Francophonie and Congolese Abroad of the Republic of the Congo Jean-Claude Gakosso
🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the Primakov Readings International Forum
🔹 Foreign Ministry statement on the terrorist attack at Sevastopol

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☎️ Phone call between Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
🎙 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of Armed Forces of Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on violations of Chemical Weapons Convention by U.S. and Ukraine

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📰Ambassador Anatoly Antonov exclusively for Newsweek
❓ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question

#OnThisDay

🏅 On June 24, 1945 — 79 years ago — Moscow’s Red Square hosted the first Victory Parade to mark the victory over Nazi Germany and the triumph of the entire Soviet nation
🇺🇳 7️9️ years ago, on June 26, 1945, The United Nations Charter was signed, which became the main result of the San Francisco Conference
⚛️ 70 years ago, on June 26, 1954 the world's first nuclear power plant was launched in Obninsk
♟ On June 25, 1975, Vladimir Kramnik was born — 14th World Chess Champion and outstanding Russian Chess Grandmaster
⛵️ The Scarlet Sails festival, commemorating school graduation for students, is held in St. Petersburg annually at the end of June

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on Independence Day
🔹 SCO Heads of State Council Meeting
🎙 Answers to Russian media questions
🇷🇺🇭🇺 Talks with Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban

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🔹 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s greetings to the organisers and participants in the 2nd International High-Level Conference, World Treasury of Mother Tongues: Nourish and Cherish. Context, Policy and Practice of Preserving Indigenous Languages
🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions of the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin TV programme
🇷🇺🇧🇾Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's greetings to Foreign Minister of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov on Independence Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Hero City of Minsk from Nazi invaders

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🔹 Russian Defenсe Minister Andrei Belousov participates in meeting of CIS Council of Defence Ministers in Minsk
🔹 CIS defence ministers adopt decisions on joint military systems
🇷🇺🇺🇿Working meeting takes place between representatives of financial and economic bloc of Ministries of Defence of Russian Federation and Republic of Uzbekistan
🔹 Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov participates in a meeting on bringing personnel of the Russian Armed Forces up to strength
🇷🇺🇻🇪A detachment of Northern Fleet ships arrived in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

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❓ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answers to a media question

#OnThisDay

🎭 On July 1, 1783, the then largest theatre in Russia, Bolshoi Kamenny, opened its doors in St Petersburg
🏛 135 years ago, on July 1, 1889, the legendary Vera Mukhina was born — one of the most prolific architects of the XX century
🖼 Russian painter Konstantin Makovsky was born on July 2, 1839
🎼 A great Russian musician Mitrofan Pyatnitsky was born on July 3, 1864

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia-India talks
🧱 10th BRICS Parliamentary Forum

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🇷🇺🇨🇺🇺🇸Statement by the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation "On removing the Republic of Cuba from the US State Department’s list of states sponsors of terrorism

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🔹 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address to participants in the Forum of BRICS Sister Cities and Municipalities
🇷🇺🇮🇳Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov comment on the outcomes of the Russia-India summit

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian Minister of Defense Andrey Belousov's Phone Call With Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III
🧪 Briefing by Ministry of Defence of Russia on Ukraine's violation of obligations under Chemical Weapons Convention

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❓ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answers to a media question

#OnThisDay

🚀The Phobos-2 spacecraft was launched to Mars on July 12, 1988
🏅 On July 12, 1943, the Battle of Prokhorovka took place, the largest tank engagement in human history fought as part of the wider Battle of Kursk
🎖 The heroic defence of Kiev from the Nazis commenced on July 11, 1941
🏆 On July 10, 1998, the World Youth Games kicked off in Moscow
🔹A brilliant Russian general of Georgian descent Pyotr Bagration was born on July 10, 1765 (1769)
🚞The 50th anniversary of Baikal-Amur Mainline railway — monumental feat of engineering – is celebrated on July 8
⚛️Nobel laureate for superfluidity research Pyotr Kapitsa was born on July 8, 1894

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🇷🇺🇸🇦 Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Crown Prince, Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud had a telephone conversation on July 17, 2024.s
🔹 Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council
🔹 Meeting on economic issues

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🔹 Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the UN Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order (New York, July 16, 2024)
🔹 Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a UN Security Council Open Debate on the Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question (New York, July 17, 2024)
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's answer to a question from Rossiya 1 television channel (New York, July 16-17 2024)
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following his visit to the United States within the framework of Russia’s UN Security Council Presidency

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian Deputy Defence Minister Lieutenant General Andrei Bulyga holds talks with Chinese counterpart Major General Zhang Fang
🇷🇺🇰🇵 North Korean leader meets with Russian military delegation
🇷🇺🇨🇳Opening ceremony of Maritime Interaction 2024 International Naval Exercise takes place in China

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📰 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov exclusively for the Schiller Institute (July 18 2024)
❓ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answers to a media question"
💬 Comment from the Russian Embassy in the USA
🎥 Children's film screening of the Soviet movie "The Tale of Tsar Saltan"

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 On July 16, 2001, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of China Jiang Zemin signed the Treaty of Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation
🥇 On July 19, 1980, the XXII Summer Olympics kicked off in Moscow
🔹 On July 18, 1909 — 115 years ago — a statesman, politician, outstanding diplomat and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrey Gromyko was born
📝A poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1932
🌏 On July 17, 1846, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, a renowned explorer, naturalist, discoverer, member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, was born
🏅 On July 17, 1942, the Battle of Stalingrad commenced, one of the largest and most significant clashes in human history, which had a major impact on the course of World War II and the Great Patriotic War
⚡️ On July 17, 1945, a conference of the heads of government of the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain opened in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam

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🇷🇺🇸🇾 Meeting with President of Syria Bashar al-Assad
🎙 Address by the President at the Main Naval Parade to mark Russia’s Navy Day
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Greetings on the opening of the 6th Russia–China Energy Business Forum

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🎙 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a meeting with directors of Russian non-profit organisations
🎙 Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at the meeting with Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Lao PDR Saleumxay Kommasith
🔹 On July 26, Vientiane hosted Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s annual meeting with the Foreign Ministers representing the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

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🔹 Russian Defence Minister commends servicemen and veterans on Russia's Navy Day
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian Aerospace Forces and Air Force of China's PLA perform joint air patrol

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❓ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answers to a media questions

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⚡️On July 28, Russia celebrates Navy Day
🏅 The Battle of the Caucasus, one of the most important battles of the Great Patriotic War, commenced on July 25, 1942
🧑🏻‍🚀 On July 25, 1984, 4️0️ years ago, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman cosmonaut to perform a spacewalk
👑The first Russian Tsar of the Romanov dynasty Mikhail Fyodorovich (1613-1645) was born on July 22, 1596

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🔹 Meeting with Russian citizens returning to the Motherland following a prisoner swap

🇷🇺🇮🇩 Russian-Indonesian talks

🇷🇺🇻🇪 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to Nicolas Maduro on the occasion of his re-election as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

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🇷🇺🇶🇦 On July 30, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi, Qatar's Minister of State at the Foreign Ministry, now staying on a working visit in Moscow

🇷🇺🇮🇷 Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Acting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Bagheri Kani

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🇷🇺🇮🇩 Russia's Defence Minister Andrei Belousov holds talks with President-elect and Minister of Defence of the Republic of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto

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📰 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov exclusively for TASS

❓ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answers to a media questions

❗️Statements of the Russian Embassy in the USA

🎥 Screening of the Soviet feature film "My Beloved" took place on August 2 in the cinema hall of the Embassy.

#OnThisDay

🧑🏻‍🚀 9️0️ years ago, on August 2, 1934, one of the Soviet space pioneers, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Valery Bykovsky, was born

🕯 The Russian Day of Remembrance of Victims of World War I is observed on 1 August

🏞 On August 1, 1939, the grand opening of VDNH took place in Moscow

🏅 On July 30, 1942, the Rzhev–Sychyovka offensive operation (The Battle of Rzhev) commenced

🖼 All time best Russian maritime painter Ivan Aivazovsky was born on July 29, 1817view

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❗️ Statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Situation in Kursk Region during the Operational Meeting (August 12,2024)
⚡️ Statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Situation in Kursk Region during the Meeting with Government Members (August 7, 2024)
🎙 Address on the Opening of the Army 2024 International Military-Technical Forum
🇷🇺🇻🇳 Telephone conversation with To Lam, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

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🇷🇺🇯🇴 Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of Jordan Ayman Safadi
☢️ Russian Foreign Ministry’s Statement on 79th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

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🎙 Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov addresses opening ceremony of ARMY 2024 International Military and Technical Forum
🚢 Northern Fleet Arctic group sails off to Arctic Ocean

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☢️ Statement by General Director of the ROSATOM Alexei Likhachev regarding the attack on Zaporizhzhya
nuclear power plant (August 12, 2024)
🇷🇺🇺🇳 Telephone conversation between Alexei Likhachev, General Director of the ROSATOM, and Rafael Grossi, IAEA Director General (August 9, 2024)


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❓ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answers to a media questions
❗️ The Embassy's comment on the arrest of Russian citizen Pavel Kublitsky in the United States
📖 A meeting with a descendant of the famous military historian and representative of the Russian Diaspora Valeriy Tomich (1914-2013) took place at the Russian Embassy in the United States.


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✈️112th anniversary of Russian Air Force
🎼 On August 9, 1942, Dmitry Shostakovich’s famous Symphony No.7 "Leningrad" was performed in Leningrad during the most dire times of Nazi siege
🚤 August 9 marks the Day of Military Glory of Russia, commemorating the first ever major naval victory of the Russian fleet in the Battle of Gangut
⛪️ On August 9-11, Suzdal celebrates its 1000th anniversary
🏅 On August 9, 1944, the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk offensive of the Red Army in Karelia ended after Soviet troops finally cleared the fascist invaders from the Leningrad Region and the Karelian-Finnish SSR
🌍 On August 7, 1802, ships "Nadezhda" and "Neva" under the command of Ivan Kruzenshtern and Yuri Lisyansky set sails on the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth
👨‍🚀 On August 6, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut № 2 Gherman Titov went into space
👨‍🎨 180 years ago, on August 5, 1844, famous Russian artist Ilya Repin was born