🎹 🎻 Glimpses of the Christmas concert for the Russian compatriots.

🎅 We thank little bright stars from the Academy for Musical Excellence, Father Frost and Snow Maiden, who made that evening special.

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Discover the Magic of Russian Holidays! 🎉

📅 When:Friday, December 27, at 4:00 PM
📍 Where: Russian House in New Delhi, 1st floor (Russian Language Institute)

Join us for an exciting interactive session, “Holidays in Russia,” led by volunteers from the "Ambassadors of the Russian Language in the World" program. Here's what awaits you:
✨ A deep dive into Russia’s vibrant holiday traditions
🎤 Fun quizzes and trivia challenges
🎶 A hands-on lesson in playing traditional Russian spoons and much more!

🌟 This is your chance to practice your Russian language skills while immersing yourself in the rich culture of Russia.

📌 Registration is required! Sign up now: https://forms.gle/R1g8B9Q715NeMQne9

We can’t wait to see you there—let’s celebrate together! 😊

🌐 On December 26, the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council Meeting was held in the Leningrad Region.

💬 President Putin: I am delighted to welcome you all at the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council Meeting. <...>

This year marks the tenth anniversary of signing the Treaty on Establishing the Eurasian Economic Union. In May, Moscow hosted a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, dedicated to this anniversary date.

Our association has asserted itself as an independent and self-sufficient centre of an emerging multipolar world, and it continues to develop dynamically.

The Eurasian Economic Union’s activities help expand trade and investment exchanges, boost business contacts and deepen cooperation ties. Most importantly, integration collaboration brings real benefits to every member of our association. It helps facilitate stable and sustained economic growth in the five member states and in the entire Eurasian region. This improves living standards of our countries’ citizens and their well-being.

🇷🇺 Russia values mutually beneficial multi-faceted cooperation with #EAEU partners, and we are sincerely interested in invigorating joint work to comprehensively strengthen our integration association.

I am convinced that all colleagues, who are present here, share this commitment. I therefore hope that our meeting will be productive and truly business-like.

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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Russian and international news media (Moscow, December 26, 2024)

❓ Question: Talks are the top priority, no question about it. Many opinions are heard coming from the diplomatic circles, experts, and other sources. To put it in plain terms, they are trying hard to see both of us make peace. The question is, though, who are we supposed to talk to in Kiev? President-elect Trump’s presumptive special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg has come up with an initiative. What’s your take on the situation?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: Much has been said on this subject. President Putin has repeatedly addressed this issue, including during the Direct Line and during the Valdai International Discussion Club meeting before that, as well as other events.

☝️ Empty talk is not for us.

Everything we have heard so far was rhetoric about the need to come up with some kind of a ceasefire. However, not much is done to hide the fact that the purpose of a ceasefire is to buy time and to flood Ukraine with weapons, to help it get back in shape, to carry out additional mobilisation, and so on.

Ceasefire [temporary measures] is a road leading nowhere.

We need binding legal agreements that will lay out the conditions for ensuring Russia’s security and the legitimate security interests of our neighbours. However, they should exist in an international legal context that would preclude chances of violating these agreements.

These agreements must address Ukraine crisis’ root causes. The two main ones include, first, the violation of the commitments not to expand NATO to the east and the aggressive absorption by NATO of the geopolitical space all the way up to our borders. This is what they had in store for Ukraine. They keep talking about it to this day.

The second root cause includes the Kiev regime’s absolutely racist actions following the coup. The extermination of everything Russian, including language, mass media, culture, and even the use of the Russian language in everyday life, was officially greenlighted and then codified into law. That includes outlawing the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

We are told that Russia is allegedly putting forward preliminary conditions. In fact, these are not preconditions, but demands to act in line with previous agreements.

As it turns out, they lied to us when they assured us that NATO would not expand eastward. They lied to us when they emphasised their commitment to a settlement based on the UN Charter fully forgetting that this Charter stipulates more than the principle of territorial integrity and also includes the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples. It took the General Assembly quite a while to consider the relationship between these principles before it resolved by consensus in its wisdom that the territorial integrity of all states whose governments abide by the principle of self-determination and, therefore, represent the entire population living within the borders of the territory in question must be respected.

How can Kiev’s Nazi regime represent the interests of the residents of Crimea, Donbass, or Novorossiya, whom it declared terrorists right after the coup and launched a military “anti-terrorist operation” against them?

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As President Putin said, we are willing to consider serious and concrete proposals. I hope that the Trump Administration, including Mr Kellogg, will look into the root causes of the conflict.

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Key talking points:

• Russia and China have a real stabilising effect on international relations.

• The Americans prefer to get rid of competitors; it is their policy. Now they are “taking out” Russia, and beginning to do the same with regard to China.

• We are fully aware that the US relies on a bipartisan consensus with regard to Russia. This is not a friendly, but, to put it bluntly, Russophobic consensus.

• We receive signals from the overwhelming majority of Latin American countries expressing their interest in strengthening partnership with Russia.

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✉️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin extended condolences to President of India Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on the passing of former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh (December 27, 2024)

Excerpt:

✍️ President Putin: Manmohan Singh was an outstanding statesman.

As Prime Minister and when serving in other high-ranking positions, he accomplished a lot in promoting India’s economic development and asserting its interests on the world stage.

He also made a major personal contribution to strengthening friendly ties between our two countries by elevating them to the level of a special privileged strategic partnership.

🕯 I had the occasion of talking with this remarkable man several times. We will cherish the memory of him.

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