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✍️ Article by Vladimir Putin “Russia and Africa: Joining Efforts for Peace, Progress and a Successful Future“
🔹Greetings to participants and guests of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum
🔹Meeting with New Development Bank President Dilma Rousseff
🔹Plenary session of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum
🇷🇺🤝🌍 Russia–Africa Summit
🚢 Russian Navy Day
🔹Visit to Valaam

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🤝 On July 27, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a working lunch with 31 foreign ministers of African countries
📺 Sergey Lavrov’s video address to participants in the second Russia-Africa Media Forum of top managers of Russian leading news agencies
💐 Sergey Lavrov attended a ceremony to unveil a memorial plaque at the grave of Nikolay Girs, an outstanding Russian diplomat and foreign minister of the Russian Empire from 1882 to 1895
⚡️ Report of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation «Illegal actions by the Kiev regime targeting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), its clergy and parishioners»

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🪖Russian Defence Minister General the Army Sergei Shoigu held talks with North Korean counterpart
🇷🇺🇰🇵Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu met with head of DPRK
🇷🇺🇨🇳Detachment of Chinese Navy warships arrives in Vladivostok on business call

#Embassy

🔹Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answer to a media question
🎙 Ambassador Anataloly Antonov’s interview with Channel One’s «The Great Game with Dimitry Simes»
🔹Comments by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemeber

🕯 On July 27 Donbass observes the Day of Remembrance of the children who perished during the hostilities

#OnThisDay

📆 On July 28, Russia celebrates the Baptism of Rus
📽 A beloved Soviet writer, director and actor Vassily Shukshin was born on July 25, 1929
👩‍🚀 On July 25, 1984 Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a spacewalk

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🇷🇺🤝🌍 Joint Statement Issued following the Engagement between the President of the Russian Federation and the Leaders of the African Peace Initiative

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⚡️ Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from The International Affairs magazine on initiatives concerning Ukrainian peace settlement

#DefenceMinistry

🪖Russian Minister of Defence General of the Army Sergei Shoigu inspected forward command post of Tsentr Group of Force in special military operation zone

#Embassy

🎙 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions
✍️ Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemeber

🎖On August 1 Russia marks the Day of Remembrance for Russian Soldiers who fell in World War I
🛤 Operation Rail War started in the occupied western regions of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Belarus and Ukraine on August 3, 1943

#OnThisDay

📆 On August 2nd Russia celebrates the Airborne Forces Day
🚀 Legendary cosmonaut №5 and 11th spacefarer overall Valery Bykovsky was born on August 2, 1934

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⚡️ Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation

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⚡️ Press release on the decisions adopted by Russia, the UK and the United States regarding the de-targeting of strategic nuclear missiles

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🪖 Introductory speech of Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergei Shoigu at the Defence Ministry Board session

#Embassy

🎙 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions
✍️ Comments by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemeber

🎖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 9, 1944, the Battle of Leningrad, the longest battle in the history of the Great Patriotic War, ended with the Red Army victory

#OnThisDay

📆 The world celebrates the International Indigenous Day on August 9
🚀 On August 11, 2023 Russia launched a historic lunar mission, as its Luna-25 craft blasted off into space from Vostochny cosmodrome
🚢🌏 On August 7, 1803 the Neva and Nadezhda sloops embarked on the first Russian circumnavigation expedition

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🔹Address on the opening of the Army 2023 International Military Technical Forum
🔹Video address to the participants and guests of the 11th Moscow Conference on International Security


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🎙Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 11th Moscow Conference on International Security
✍️Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with The International Affairs journal

#DefenceMinistry

🪖Russian Minister of Defence General of the Army Sergei Shoigu has opened the 9th ARMY 2023 International Military-Technical Forum
🇷🇺🇨🇳Sergei Shoigu holds talks with Chinese Minister of National Defence Li Shangfu
🔹Address by Sergei Shoigu to the participants of The Second International Anti-Fascist Congress plenary session in Minsk
☢️ Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military-biological activity
🔹Exposition of trophies, captured during special military operation, is presented in Patriot Park

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🎙 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions
✍️ Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
🎉 The Embassy congratulated Genokh Smelyansky on 100th anniversary

#WeRemeber

🎖On This Day in 1945, Soviet troops and Korean patriots liberated the territory of Korea, ending the Japanese colonial occupation

#OnThisDay

✈️ Legendary Soviet fighter pilot Lidiya Litvyak was born on August 18, 1921
🇷🇺On August 18, 1782 the iconic landmark of Saint Petersburg – the Bronze Horseman monument of Peter the Great – was unveiled
🚢 The Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker “Arktika” reached Earth's northernmost point - first in history – on August 17, 1977

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🎖Celebrating the 80th anniversary of victory in the Battle of Kursk
🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦BRICS Summit

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🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the news conference following the BRICS Summit, Johannesburg, August 24, 2023
🎙Sergey Lavrov’s message of greetings to the organisers and participants of the 8th International Youth Forum Eurasia Global

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🏅 The Embassy of Russia in the USA has joined the commemorative events, dedicated to the anniversary of the Victory in the Battle of Kursk
🇷🇺 National Flag Day
🌐 APEC 2023
🔹Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemeber

⚔️The Battle of Kursk, one of the greatest military engagements in human history, ended on August 23, 1943
🎖On August 23, 1942, the German Nazi invaders subjected Stalingrad to massive aerial bombardment for the first time
📑On August 23, 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Nonaggression Pact in Moscow

#OnThisDay

⚽️ On August 21, 1955, the friendly football game, named the “Match of the century”, between the USSR and reigning world champion West Germany took place in Moscow
🚢 Soviet ice-breaker “Georgiy Sedov” set sail for the Northern Land - an archipelago separating the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea on August 25, 1930
📽 A brilliant Soviet-Russian filmmaker Georgiy Daneliya was born on August 25, 1930

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📚 Vladimir Putin held an open lesson, Talking of What Matters

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🎓 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the Knowledge Day ceremony at Primakov School
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at a meeting with students and faculty of MGIMO University

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu discusses grain deal and situation in Syria with Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs
☢️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ensured the safe rotation of International Atomic Energy Agency mission observers at the Zaporozhye NPP

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🎙 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov‘s answers to a media question
🔹 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
📝 The Knowledge Day ceremony took place at Russian Embassy on September 1
🎼 On September 1st, the Embassy of Russia in the USA hosted a gala evening dedicated to the art of Sergei V. Rachmaninoff

#WeRemeber

🏅 On August 28, 1941, the Soviet Navy’s Baltic Fleet commenced the Tallinn Breakthrough — one of the largest maritime operations during the Great Patriotic War

#OnThisDay

🔹 On August 30, 1935 in Donbass Alexey Stakhanov mined a record 102 tonnes of coal in 5 h 45 min − 14 times his required quota
🚢 On August 30, 1873 world's northernmost uninhabited archipelago in the Arctic Ocean – Franz Josef Land - was discovered

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🔹Plenary session of the 8th Eastern Economic Forum
🇷🇺🇰🇵 Russia-North Korea talks
🇷🇺🇧🇾 Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko answered media questions

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📰 FM Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from Izvestia on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum
🎙 Sergey Lavrov’s greetings to organisers and participants in the International Anti-Fascist Forum-2023
📰 Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions from Vesti news programme on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum

#DefenceMinistry

🔹 Russian Minister of Defence General of the Army Sergei Shoigu inspects implementation of state defence order at Progress helicopter plant in Arsenyev, Primorsky Krai, which produces Ka-52 helicopters

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🤝🌍 Russia-Africa evening (September 12)
🔹Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answers to media questions
🔹Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemeber

🏅On September 13, 1923, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was born: partisan, saboteur, and the first woman awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) during the Great Patriotic War
🏅 On September 13, 1943, 80 years ago, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree posthumously conferring the Hero of the Soviet Union title on the leaders of Young Guard

#OnThisDay

💡 Russian electrical engineer Pavel Yablochkov was born on September 14, 1847
🚁 Nikolay Kamov – leading Soviet aircraft engineer and pioneer in helicopter designing – was born on September 14, 1902
⛸ The legendary Soviet figure skater, the incredible Irina Rodnina was born on September 12, 1949

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🇷🇺🇨🇳Conversation with Member of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Wang Yi
🔹 Visit to Aeroscan
🔹 State Council Presidium extended meeting
🔹 Visit to the Vozvrashcheniye Centre
🔹 Visiting the Intelligent Electronics – Valdai Innovative Scientific and Technological Centre

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🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the UN Security Council meeting “Upholding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter through effective multilateralism: maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine”
🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the BRICS Ministerial Meeting on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly
🌏 Sergey Lavrov took part in the ministerial meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia
🎙 Sergey Lavrov’s address at the Preparatory Ministerial Meeting for the Summit of the Future
🤝 Sergey Lavrov had a conversation with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the High-Level Week of the UNGA78
⚡️ Sergey Lavrov's statement at the General Debate at the 78th session of the UN General Assembly
💬 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions during a news conference following the High-Level Week of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly

#Embassy

🔹Ambassador Anatoly Antonov visited three Russians in MDC Brooklyn on September 21
🔹Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemeber

🏅 On September 19, 1943, a large-scale partisan operation to blow up railway communications behind the German lines began in the occupied Soviet territory under the code name Concert
🏅 On September 18, 1918, legendary Soviet pilot Viktor Talalikhin was born

#OnThisDay

🎼 The first Russian conservatory was opened in St. Petersburg on September 20, 1862
🇷🇺 The epic Millennium of Russia monument was unveiled in Veliky Novgorod on September 20, 1862

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🔹 Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian-Chinese talks
🎙 News conference following the visit to China
📺 Interview with Rossiya TV channel

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 On October 16, Beijing hosted talks between Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi
🇷🇺🇰🇵 On Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s official visit to the DPRK
📺 Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the 60 Minutes show

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 Opening address of Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu to Russia-Belarus Defence Ministry Board Session

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🔹 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions
🔹 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemeber

🏅 On October 20, 1944, the Red Army and the Yugoslav Partisans liberated Belgrade from the Nazi invaders
🤝 The Moscow Conference opened on October 19, 1943, bringing together for the first time during World War II the foreign ministers of the USSR, the United States and the United Kingdom for a trilateral meeting
🎖The name of real-life superhero Sergeant Yakov Pavlov, born on October 17, 1917, became synonymous with heroism and resistance versus the Nazis

#OnThisDay

✈️ A prominent Soviet-Russian aircraft designer Mikhail Simonov was born on October 19, 1929
🚢 Frigate "Pallada" set off from Kronstadt on a round-the-world voyage with a diplomatic mission on October 19, 1852
⚔️ The Battle of Borodino Museum-Panorama was opened on October 18, 1962 to mark the 150th anniversary of the greatest battle of the Napoleonic Wars

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🇷🇺🇰🇿 Media statements by presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Meeting with Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Zhang Youxia
🏥 Vladimir Putin visited the Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Centre for Children's Haematology, Oncology and Immunology

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🎙 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the ambassadorial roundtable discussion of settlement in Ukraine
🎓 Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to participants’ questions at the federal educational marathon "Knowledge. First"
📺 Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions for the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin programme
💬 Sergey Lavrov’s video address at the 5th International Municipal BRICS+ Forum

#DefenceMinistry

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Chinese delegation arrived in Moscow and visited Russian Defence Ministry

#Embassy

🔹 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions
🔹Comments by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemeber

🏅 On November 6, 1943, the Red Army and its forces under the command of Army General Nikolai Vatutin liberated Kiev from the Nazi invaders

#OnThisDay

♟♟ A Soviet chess Grandmaster, 8th World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal was born on November 9, 1936
🎼 An outstanding Russian composer Aleksandra Pakhmutova was born on November 9, 1929
🖼 On November 8, 1945 the State hermitage museum resumed its museum duties after a 4 year hiatus due to the Nazi invasion and Siege of Leningrad
🚙 The Moscow Automotive Plant issued its first cars under the make KIM on November 6, 1930