🗣What has Deputy PM Dmitry Chernyshenko said about the Intervision music contest?

🟠We are very grateful to Sergey Lavrov for personally overseeing the preparation of the Intervision contest.

🟠More than 100 participants from the Youth Festival will attend Intervision, mainly taking part in flash mobs.

🟠Volunteers for the competition include representatives from four friendly countries — Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Belarus.

🟠The competition will be fair; the strongest will win. Russia will once again demonstrate its hospitality.

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🗣Lavrov: 🇨🇺Cuba to open the show and 🇮🇳India to close, which is 'emblematic'

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🗣Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Presidential Chief: We are aware that some countries tried to prevent participants from taking part or traveling to Russia

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✅Lavrov: If you like Eurovision - watch it. But preserving culture, traditions, and moral values is now in higher demand, which is encouraging. And if anyone wants to vote for men with beards in women’s dresses, we do not forbid it

🟠We are gradually moving away from the term “unfriendly countries.” It remains in use for now, but as Vladimir Putin recently said in Vladivostok: “For us, there are no unfriendly countries, only governments that are unfriendly to Russia.”

🟠If some countries form their governments without paying attention to culture and the arts, that’s their problem. Neither the US nor the UK have titles like “Honored” or “People’s Artist,” but Russia does, because we encourage cultural development.

🟠We do not aim to influence other governments, unlike what USAID did before its dissolution.

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🗣Lavrov: What we do is completely different from attempts to use sports, art, to use any kind of human activities to attain political games

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

🟠 The Russian army struck a fuel storage base, long-range UAV launch and storage sites, as well as Ukrainian army deployment points in 153 areas

🟠 Air defense superiority: 357 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defence systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,435 troops killed or wounded

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🇪🇺 EU to adopt package of measures against Israel

The European Commissioners will adopt a package of measures against Israel on September 17, including a suspension of "certain trade provisions of the Euro-Mediterranean agreement between the EU and Israel", European Commission Chief Spokesperson Paula Pinho said.

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🇬🇧🇵🇱 UK’s RAF jets to Poland: NATO escalation amid anti-Russia hysteria

Britain is sending RAF Typhoons to Poland under NATO’s Operation Eastern Sentry.

🟠 The jets will operate out of RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire

🟠 They will be supported by Voyager tankers

🟠 Missions will be alongside Danish F-16s, French Rafales, and German Eurofighters

The NATO operation is billed as a response to a drone incident in Poland.

No convincing evidence was presented to Russia that the UAVs that violated Poland’s airspace earlier in the month were Russian.

💬 Still, Britain’s war hawk Defense Secretary John Healey insists, “When we are threatened, we respond together.”

For Russia, this is déjà vu: two decades of warnings about NATO’s steady march eastward and military buildup, now met with yet another deployment that risks ratcheting up tensions even further.

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🇷🇺 Russian Baltic Fleet HITS HARD at Zapad-2025 drills

The Baltic Fleet carried out a coordinated cruise missile strike against mock enemy warships

The UNBREAKABLE mission involved:

🟠 Stoiky corvette

🟠 Bal coastal missile system

🟠 Su-30SM fighter jets

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🚨🇾🇪🔊 "Our air defense systems caused a great confusion for the enemy aircraft and forced some of their combat formations to leave our airspace before carrying out their operations, the aggression deep into the country was stopped, thanks God," spokesman for Yemen's armed forces, Yahua Saree, said.

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🇩🇪🔊EU's hidden goal was always supranational control - German MEP

The EU started out as a sort of harmless trade union with the goal of liberalizing trade among the members, says German MEP Christine Anderson.

🔍But behind the scenes it was always the idea to upgrade it into “a supranational government.”

Sovereign rights were relinquished, step by step, to the point where today the “people of Europe are no longer sovereign, no longer deciding their own political fate.”

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📄 ‘We have a deal on TikTok’ – Trump

The US President also said he plans to talk to Chinese President Xi on Friday to confirm the deal.

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🇫🇷🔊French politician blasts EU’s ‘Orwellian’ media scheme

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s new media literacy program is a chilling step toward state-controlled propaganda, warns Florian Philippot, firebrand leader of France’s The Patriots party, on X.

✍️In a fiery X post, he slammed the initiative—unveiled during von der Leyen’s State of the Union address to the European Parliament—as an “absolute scandal.”

He accused the EU of funneling taxpayer money into a sinister plot designed to tighten its grip on public narratives.

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🚨 Putin visits the 'Mulino' training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region as part of the Zapad-2025 exercises

Highlights of Putin's speech:

🟠 The goal of the "Zapad-2025" exercises is to practice the defense of the Union State of Russia and Belarus against any aggression
During the Zapad-2025 drills, over 247 ships were used, including surface, submarine, and support vessels

🟠 The exercises are taking place at 41 training grounds, with 100,000 servicemen participating, and around 10,000 weapon systems and units are involved

🟠 Moreover, all of this is modern equipment used in practical combat operations, and the plans for the exercises are based on the experience gained during the special military operation

🟠 There are 10,000 pieces of various equipment, including 333 aircraft: tactical aviation, strategic aviation, and military transport aviation. More than 247 ships are also being used: surface ships, submarines, and support vessels

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📹 Putin tries on new thermal ballistic goggles

They were developed at the request of the assault units of the Russian Armed Forces and help in detecting mines.

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