📆 November 9 is the International Day against Fascism, Racism and Antisemitism in many countries around the world.

#OTD in 1938 in Germany, the Nazis carried out a pogrom Kristallnacht, or the "Night of Broken Glass" – the first mass act of physical violence against the Jewish people. According to various estimates, more than 30 thousand Jews were sent to concentration camps and about 200 synagogues were destroyed. Only the Great Victory of Soviet soldiers over Nazi Germany was able to stop the series of fascist crimes.

❗️ However, already at the beginning of the 21st century, the international community again faced manifestations of racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, religious intolerance, the growth of neo-Nazi and radical nationalist sentiments. In a number of Western countries, as well as in Ukraine and the Baltics, it has become the norm to falsify history and justify the atrocities of the Nazis.

📝 Since 2005, Russia has annually submitted a draft resolution to the UN General Assembly on combating the glorification of Nazism. On May 5, 2014, the President of the Russian Federation signed a law introducing punishment for the rehabilitation of Nazism.

📆 #OTD, 156 years ago, on November 18, 1868, on the initiative of outstanding Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev, the Russian Chemical Society was founded.

🟣In its likeness, in 1872, the Physical Society was formed at St. Petersburg University, and in 1878, two scientific groups merged, which resulted in the creation of the Russian Society of Physics and Chemistry.

🇷🇺 Today, the successor of that organization is considered to be the Russian Chemical Society named after Dmitri Mendeleev, headed by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Aslan Tsivadze, which is engaged in the popularization of science and holds numerous conferences and forums.

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📆 #OTD, on November 26, the World Information Day is marked.

🌐 It was established in 1994 on the initiative of the International Informatization Academy, which has consultative status with the UN ECOSOC. The date is no coincidence: it was on November 26, 1992 that the first International Informatization Forum was held.

🟣The World Information Day is aimed at reminding people of the importance of information in the modern world, its impact on social processes and the need to protect it.

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