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🔻On the 27 of May in 1703, the foundation stone of the Peter and Paul Fortress took place on Zayachy Island, thus marking the beginning of St. Petersburg.

🔻Initially, the fortress was called Zankht-Peter-Burkh, and the construction was headed by the Tsar’s associate Alexander Menshikov.

🔻Many historians believe that the initial project was drawn by Peter I with his own hand, and the mathematical part was carried out by the French engineer Joseph Lambert de Guerin.  

🔻In 1803, Emperor Alexander I held a solemn celebration of the centenary of St. Petersburg.

🔻In 1924, a museum was opened in the fortress, and since 1993 it has been considered a historical and cultural reserve.

📍Geoposition: St. Petersburg, Russia

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German philosopher Walter Schubart in his book 'Europa und die Seele des Ostens' (1938) about the Russians:

🔻“Western European man views life as a slave whose neck he has stepped on... He does not look with devotion at the sky, but, full of lust for power, looks down at the earth with evil, hostile eyes.

🔻Russian people are obsessed not with the will to power, but with a feeling of reconciliation and love.

🔻An Englishman wants to see the world as a factory, a Frenchman as a salon, a German as a barracks, a Russian as a church.

🔻The West is driven by unbelief, fear and selfishness; The Russian soul is driven by faith, peace and brotherhood.

🔻Russians were Christians before they were converted to Christianity. Therefore, Christianity spread in Russia not by the sword but by itself, easily and quickly.

🔻This is where the Russian national idea comes from: the salvation of humanity will come from Russia."

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🇷🇺 Эксперты в спорах с американцами: Данила Багров, молодой (Сергей) Лавров.
🇬🇧 Experts in disputing with Americans: Danila Bagrov, young (Sergey) Lavrov.

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A subsidiary of Rosatom has started building West Africa's largest solar power plant in Mali.

Built in Sanankoroba near the country's capital Bamako, the 200-megawatt solar power plant will cover 314 hectares, cost USD 217 million and take one year to be completed. After 10 years, the plant will be Mali's property with no debt traps or strings attached.

Only half of Mali's population has electricity, and this plant will account for 10% of their entire production.

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• Лоджии Рафаэля
  [lo-dzhi-i ra-fa-e-lya]

🔻Commissioned by Empress Catherine II in the late 1780s, the Raphael Loggias are the exact copy of the Gallery in the Papal Palace in Vatican City.

🔻The frescoes of the open loggias of the Papal Palace were painted after Raphael's sketches. Their copies, made in Italy by a group of artists under the supervision of Christopher Unterberger, took their place in the gallery of a separate building erected by Giacomo Quarenghi.

🔻The Loggias vaults are decorated with scenes from biblical stories, the walls are covered with paintings with ornamentation motifs, known as 'grotesques'.

📍Geoposition : St.Petersburg, Russia

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😎 Dmitry Medvedev said that all Western military equipment and specialists fighting against Russia will be destroyed not only in Ukraine, but also in other countries if attacks are carried out on Russian territory from there.