⚡️Le 6 juin, jour de l'anniversaire du grand poète russe Alexandre Pouchkine, est célébrée la Journée de la langue russe.

📍Créée par la décision du Département de l'information de l'ONU en 2010.

📍La Journée est inscrite au Calendrier des Journées et semaines internationales de l'ONU dans le cadre du Programme pour le développement du multilinguisme et de la diversité culturelle.

📍Elle est célébrée sur la plateforme #UNESCO chaque année depuis 2023. Il s'agit d'une initiative conjointe des Délégations de la Russie, de l'Arménie, de l'Azerbaïdjan, de la Biélorussie, du Kazakhstan, du Kirghizistan, de l'Ouzbékistan, du Tadjikistan et du Turkménistan.

📍Le russe est l'une des six langues officielles de l'ONU et de l'UNESCO et est utilisé comme langue de travail par la plupart des organisations internationales.

📍 Le russe est l'une des langues les plus répandues au monde. Il est parlé par plus de 258 millions de personnes.

📢Today, 6 June, #UNESCO Headquarters hosts big celebrations to mark #RussianLanguageDay

On the programme:

🕙10:00 (Paris time) Seminar for translators of international organisations and linguists;

🕕18:00 (Paris time) Official Opening Ceremony of Russian Language Day;

🕖19:00 (Paris time) Gala concert by WORLD JAZZ STARS 🎷
📺Watch online at https://webcast.unesco.org/events/2025-06-RLD/.

📢Aujourd'hui, le 6 juin, le siège de #UNESCO accueille les grandes célébrations de la Journée de la langue russe

Au programme:

🕙10h00 (heure de Paris) Séminaire pour les interprètes des organisations internationales et les linguistes;

🕕18h00 (heure de Paris) Cérémonie d'ouverture officielle de la Journée de la langue russe;

🕖19h00 (heure de Paris) Grand concert par les STARS DU JAZZ MONDIAL🎷
📺à suivre en ligne sur https://webcast.unesco.org/events/2025-06-RLD/. 

📆On 6 June, on the occasion of #RussianLanguageDay, the Seminar ‘Russian Speech Culture as a Source of Humour in Contemporary Public Discourse’ was held at the #UNESCO Headquarters and online.

✍️About 100 translators from international organisations, philologists and linguists improved their skills of translation from/into Russian and learnt best practices and developments presented by Ms Anzhelika Antonova, Director of the St. Petersburg Higher School of Translation of the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University.

📆Le 6 juin, à l'occasion de la Journée de la langue russe, le séminaire «La culture verbale russe, source d'humour dans le discours public russe contemporain» s'est tenu au siège de #UNESCO et en ligne.

✍️100 traducteurs d'organisations internationales, philologues et linguistes ont amélioré leurs compétences en matière de traduction de/vers le russe et ont appris les meilleures pratiques et développements présentés par Mme Anzhelika Antonova, directrice de l'École supérieure de traduction de Saint-Pétersbourg de l'Université pédagogique Herzen.

🔴 #LIVE: Russian Language Day in the #UNESCO Headquarters. Among the speakers is the Permanent Representative of Russia H.E. Rinat Alyautdinov, Permanent Delegates of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

⚡️ Special guest - International Jazz Icon IGOR BUTMAN with his Quartet (concert at 7 p.m. Paris time)

Watch live the official opening ceremony and the concert online:

🔴 official UNESCO channel

🎙️Rinat Alyautdinov, PermDel of 🇷🇺 opened the Ceremony on the occasion of #RussianLanguageDay:

📍The celebration of Russian Language Day at #UNESCO is a joint initiative of the Delegations of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

📍Russian is an official language of the United Nations and UNESCO. Its role in the development of scientific, cultural and educational exchanges and contacts between people is indeed great.

📍We make a significant contribution to achieving UNESCO goals in the sphere of multilingualism, share Russian experience in preserving linguistic diversity, digitalisation of languages, ensuring access to education in one's native language, preserving traditional cultural values.

📍As Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, noted in his address:

Further strengthening of the position of the Russian language in the world remains among the unconditional priorities of our humanitarian foreign policy.

📚🎥Учащиеся московской Школы № 1529 (входит в Сеть Ассоциированных школ #ЮНЕСКО) поздравили гостей ЮНЕСКО видеороликом с цитатами А.С.Грибоедова на разных языках мира.

📚🎥Pupils of Moscow School No. 1529 (part of #UNESCO Associated Schools Network) congratulated UNESCO guests with a video featuring quotes from A.Griboyedov in different languages.

🎙️Rinat Alyautdinov, Délégué permanent🇷🇺 a ouvert la Cérémonie à l'occasion de la Journée de la langue russe:

📍La célébration de la Journée de la langue russe à #UNESCO est une initiative conjointe des Délégations de 🇦🇲, 🇦🇿, 🇷🇺, 🇧🇾, 🇰🇿, 🇰🇬, 🇺🇿, 🇹🇯 et 🇹🇲.

📍Le russe est une langue officielle de l’ONU et de l'UNESCO. Son rôle dans le développement des échanges scientifiques, culturels et éducatifs et des contacts entre les peuples est vraiment considérable.

📍Nous contribuons de manière significative à la réalisation des objectifs de l'UNESCO dans le domaine du multilinguisme, nous partageons l'expérience russe en matière de préservation de la diversité linguistique, de numérisation des langues, de garantie de l'accès à l'éducation dans la langue maternelle, de préservation des valeurs culturelles traditionnelles.

🌐The events devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme, a unique body within the United Nations system, which is focused on the study of water resources and management, education and capacity-building, were held at #UNESCO Headquarters.

🇷🇺The Russian IHP Committee, established in 1992, is one of the Programme's oldest partners. It has accumulated solid expertise in the field of hydrology.

📆As part of the IHP anniversary celebrations, an international scientific and practical Conference in memory of the outstanding Russian scientist Dr. Vinogradov will be held in St. Petersburg on October 13-19.

It will be devoted to "hydrology of a new generation." The concept and program of the event can be found at: https://vinogradovconference.ru/eng

Dr. Artur Chilingarov (1939–2024) - one of the most famous Russian explorers of the Arctic and Antarctic, a prominent Russian oceanographer, professor at the #UNESCO International Chair, Hero of the Soviet Union, and Hero of the Russian Federation.

🔹Dr. Chilingarov led the Arctic deep-sea expedition «Arctic-2007», during which he dived to the geographic North Pole in the deep-sea submersibles «MIR-1» and «MIR-2», becoming the first person in the world to reach the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. The depth of the dive was 4,302 meters.

🎖️For his courage and heroism in extreme conditions and the successful completion of the deep-sea expedition, Dr. Chilingarov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

Dr. Klepikov (1956-2025) was a researcher of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, a polar explorer who studied the currents of the Kara Sea and organized the work of the first Soviet deep-sea oceanographic stations in Antarctica.

🔹Dr. Klepikov made a significant contribution to the work of the #UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, studying the Southern Ocean, modeling ocean circulation, climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic, and their consequences.

🌐On the sidelines of the 33rd Session of the Assembly of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Deputy Head of the Russian 🇷🇺 Delegation R. B. Shakirov, Deputy Director of the Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, held a meeting with A. Karsi, Head of Division at the #UNESCO Secretariat.

🔹The main focus of the discussion was the implementation of the Russian scientific program “Multiple Effects of Gas Hydrates in the World Ocean”, which has been included in the implementation plan of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2024–2033).

July 7️⃣ is the World Kiswahili Language Day, proclaimed by UNESCO General Conference in 2021.

📍Kiswahili, spoken by over 200 million people, is one of 10 most widely spoken languages in the world. It serves as a language of interethnic communication in many countries in eastern, central and southern Africa, as well as the Middle East. Kiswahili language is one of the official languages of the African Union, the Southern African Development Community and the East African Community.

🇷🇺Russia in #UNESCO stands for promotion of multilingualism and contributes to the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032.

🎙Speech by the Permanent Delegate of Russia 🇷🇺 R.Alyautdinov on the inclusion of the "Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash Cave" on the #UNESCO World Heritage List

📍On behalf of the Russian Federation, I now would like to express gratitude for the worldwide recognition of the outstanding universal value of the masterpieces of the Shulgan-Tash Cave.

📍Over 200 colorful paintings created 16,000 years ago can rightfully be considered our common heritage.

📍This is a reminder of the unity of the spiritual origins of humanity, which is manifested in the diversity of equal cultures of different people.

📍We thank the World Heritage Center and ICOMOS for their constructive interaction and look forward to continued cooperation.

Kirill Rynza, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the Russian Delegation to UNESCO, in an interview to Russia Today in connection with the US withdrawal from UNESCO:

💬 The US withdrawal from #UNESCO will have both political and financial consequences:

📍 the opinion of an entire region will not be taken into account when making decisions. And it's not just the US. In May this year, Nicaragua left UNESCO because of the Secretariat's biased position;

📍 Washington's astronomical debt of more than $600 million to the Organization will not be reimbursed. Despite the claim of UNESCO Director-General A.Azoulay that some financial stability is provided by the Secretariat, the US withdrawal will affect the viability of a number of projects and programmes.

👆We warned the Secretariat leadership and Member states in 2023 that Washington's return to the Organisation in violation of the rules of procedure is yet another illustration of the so-called ‘rules-based order’ - it is a road to nowhere.

Kirill Rynza, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the Russian Delegation to UNESCO, in interview to RT in connection with A.Azoulay's statement on the US withdrawal from UNESCO:

💬Surprised by remarks of A.Azoulay, who 2 years ago campaigned for US return to #UNESCO bypassing rules of procedure, without fixing Washington's financial obligations, that US decision was ‘expected’ and ‘it will have no financial consequences’.

📍 Disagree with assertion of Ms.Azoulay that UNESCO today is a ‘forum for consensus decisions’. There was no spirit of consensus either when decision on US return was taken in 2023, or on a number of politicised decisions that were brought to agenda by Western countries.

📍 Consequtive withdrawals of 2 states from UNESCO in one year (Nicaragua and USA) are indicative of a serious systemic crisis and the Secretariat's inability to deal with it

👆We expect that new DG, whose election will take place in October, will make every effort to change current situation and focus on statutory activities