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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with TASS News Agency (December 28, 2025)
Key points
• Russia appreciates efforts by President of the United States Donald Trump and his team to achieve a peace settlement. We are committed to continuing to work with the American negotiators to devise lasting agreements for addressing the conflict’s root causes.
We see that Vladimir Zelensky’s regime and his European curators are not ready to engage in constructive talks. <...> Meanwhile, almost all European countries with few exceptions have been pumping the Kiev regime full of money and weapons.
• There has been a thorough effort to review the updated version of the US National Security Strategy, which is quite understandable. Its central tenets must be supported by what the US does, but even today it offers a new vision. Experts believe that this could be indicative of an effort in Washington to reconsider its international standing. <...> 👉 Speaking of Russia, one thing worth mentioning is the fact that the strategy does not contain any calls to subject our country to a system-wide containment and deterrence policy.
It may be the first time for the United States when it publicly questioned NATO’s long-standing commitment to expansionism, even if it stopped short of undertaking not to expand NATO. <...> Some of the ideas set forth in this strategy are not at odds with efforts to promote dialogue between Russia and the United States. That said, we will make our final decisions only by looking at what the US administration does on the international stage.
• The EU has been seeking to dismantle mechanisms for working with Russia. It all started somewhere around 2014, when the ruling elites in most European countries started <...> inciting Russia-hating and militarist sentiment among their people.
• In 2025, we witnessed unprecedented events with Israel carrying out a direct act of aggression against Iran together with the United States, which targeted facilities related to the Iranian nuclear programme with missile and bomb strikes despite the fact that these facilities benefit from IAEA’s guarantees. <...> We would like to note that the Iranians have been exercising maximum restraint and composure by responding to all the provocations and blackmail on behalf of the West by stating their commitment to dialogue and resolving the lingering differences by political means.
We have shared our assessment of the situation in the Gaza Strip many times. We welcomed international mediation efforts. Thanks to these efforts the hot phase of the bloodshed that lasted since October 2023 was stopped and the mass starvation of the Palestinians prevented. <...>
The main thing here is to remedy the historical injustice and provide for establishing a viable Palestinian state, which would coexist with Israel.
• Taiwan is currently used as a tool of military-strategic deterrence against the PRC. This is also a matter of pursing vested interests. <...> We believe that the Taiwan problem is an internal affair of the PRC.
• Whether leaders like Ursula von der Leyen, Friedrich Merz, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron and the like have reached a point of no return is hard to say. We do see that so far, the European war party has been investing its political capital in inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia, and is ready to go the whole nine yards. <...> Not only they do not care about the Ukrainians but they do not care about their people either.
This is the only way to explain the fact that there is still talk in Europe about sending military forces to Ukraine as part of the so-called coalition of the willing. We have said many times that in this case our Armed Forces would view them as a legitimate target.
❗️My messages for European politicians who seem to have problems getting to grips with this fact – I hope they get to read this interview – is to repeat one more time 👉 there is no need to be afraid of Russia attacking anyone. However, should anyone consider attacking Russia, they would face a devastating blow.
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Key points
• Russia appreciates efforts by President of the United States Donald Trump and his team to achieve a peace settlement. We are committed to continuing to work with the American negotiators to devise lasting agreements for addressing the conflict’s root causes.
We see that Vladimir Zelensky’s regime and his European curators are not ready to engage in constructive talks. <...> Meanwhile, almost all European countries with few exceptions have been pumping the Kiev regime full of money and weapons.
• There has been a thorough effort to review the updated version of the US National Security Strategy, which is quite understandable. Its central tenets must be supported by what the US does, but even today it offers a new vision. Experts believe that this could be indicative of an effort in Washington to reconsider its international standing. <...> 👉 Speaking of Russia, one thing worth mentioning is the fact that the strategy does not contain any calls to subject our country to a system-wide containment and deterrence policy.
It may be the first time for the United States when it publicly questioned NATO’s long-standing commitment to expansionism, even if it stopped short of undertaking not to expand NATO. <...> Some of the ideas set forth in this strategy are not at odds with efforts to promote dialogue between Russia and the United States. That said, we will make our final decisions only by looking at what the US administration does on the international stage.
• The EU has been seeking to dismantle mechanisms for working with Russia. It all started somewhere around 2014, when the ruling elites in most European countries started <...> inciting Russia-hating and militarist sentiment among their people.
• In 2025, we witnessed unprecedented events with Israel carrying out a direct act of aggression against Iran together with the United States, which targeted facilities related to the Iranian nuclear programme with missile and bomb strikes despite the fact that these facilities benefit from IAEA’s guarantees. <...> We would like to note that the Iranians have been exercising maximum restraint and composure by responding to all the provocations and blackmail on behalf of the West by stating their commitment to dialogue and resolving the lingering differences by political means.
We have shared our assessment of the situation in the Gaza Strip many times. We welcomed international mediation efforts. Thanks to these efforts the hot phase of the bloodshed that lasted since October 2023 was stopped and the mass starvation of the Palestinians prevented. <...>
The main thing here is to remedy the historical injustice and provide for establishing a viable Palestinian state, which would coexist with Israel.
• Taiwan is currently used as a tool of military-strategic deterrence against the PRC. This is also a matter of pursing vested interests. <...> We believe that the Taiwan problem is an internal affair of the PRC.
• Whether leaders like Ursula von der Leyen, Friedrich Merz, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron and the like have reached a point of no return is hard to say. We do see that so far, the European war party has been investing its political capital in inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia, and is ready to go the whole nine yards. <...> Not only they do not care about the Ukrainians but they do not care about their people either.
This is the only way to explain the fact that there is still talk in Europe about sending military forces to Ukraine as part of the so-called coalition of the willing. We have said many times that in this case our Armed Forces would view them as a legitimate target.
❗️My messages for European politicians who seem to have problems getting to grips with this fact – I hope they get to read this interview – is to repeat one more time 👉 there is no need to be afraid of Russia attacking anyone. However, should anyone consider attacking Russia, they would face a devastating blow.
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⚡️ Comment by Aide to the President Yury Ushakov following the telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump (December 28, 2025)
💬 Yury Ushakov: President Vladimir Putin has just finished his telephone conversation with President of the United States Donald Trump.
The conversation took place at the US President’s initiative. The US President wished to discuss the current developments in the context of the Ukrainian conflict and its potential resolution with the President of Russia.
President Trump wished to discuss these matters before his in-person meeting with Zelensky later today at Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
Logically, at the beginning of the conversation that continued for 1 hour and 15 minutes, the presidents exchanged warm Christmas and New Year greetings and, naturally, wished happiness to both nations.
The rest of the conversation was similarly friendly, good-natured and business-like, with mutual interest in making progress towards a long-term resolution of the Ukrainian conflict.
Donald Trump paid close attention to Russia’s assessment of the realistic prospects for an agreement, and to our President’s detailed rationale for the fundamental importance of continuing to build upon the Russian-American understandings established during the Anchorage summit and the numerous subsequent contacts between the two administrations.
Most significantly, the Russian and US presidents share a broadly similar view that the temporary ceasefire proposed by Ukraine and Europe – under the pretext of preparing for a referendum or other such measures – would merely prolong the conflict and risk a renewed escalation on the battlefield. <...>
Donald Trump repeatedly emphasised the necessity of ending the war as swiftly as possible and spoke of the impressive prospects for economic cooperation between the United States and both Russia and Ukraine that would open up once the hostilities are over.
He acknowledged that the Ukrainian crisis has been his most formidable foreign policy challenge, stating that he now saw renewed proof of Russia’s commitment to a political and diplomatic settlement. It is with this understanding that he intends to frame his forthcoming negotiations with Zelensky.
It is particularly noteworthy that during today’s conversation, the Russian President acceded to the American proposal to continue efforts to resolve the Ukrainian situation through two specially established working groups. One will address various security dimensions, and the other, economic matters. <...>
❗️ Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump agreed to speak again by telephone promptly after the US President’s meeting with the Ukrainian delegation at Mar-a-Lago this evening.
💬 Yury Ushakov: President Vladimir Putin has just finished his telephone conversation with President of the United States Donald Trump.
The conversation took place at the US President’s initiative. The US President wished to discuss the current developments in the context of the Ukrainian conflict and its potential resolution with the President of Russia.
President Trump wished to discuss these matters before his in-person meeting with Zelensky later today at Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
Logically, at the beginning of the conversation that continued for 1 hour and 15 minutes, the presidents exchanged warm Christmas and New Year greetings and, naturally, wished happiness to both nations.
The rest of the conversation was similarly friendly, good-natured and business-like, with mutual interest in making progress towards a long-term resolution of the Ukrainian conflict.
Donald Trump paid close attention to Russia’s assessment of the realistic prospects for an agreement, and to our President’s detailed rationale for the fundamental importance of continuing to build upon the Russian-American understandings established during the Anchorage summit and the numerous subsequent contacts between the two administrations.
Most significantly, the Russian and US presidents share a broadly similar view that the temporary ceasefire proposed by Ukraine and Europe – under the pretext of preparing for a referendum or other such measures – would merely prolong the conflict and risk a renewed escalation on the battlefield. <...>
Donald Trump repeatedly emphasised the necessity of ending the war as swiftly as possible and spoke of the impressive prospects for economic cooperation between the United States and both Russia and Ukraine that would open up once the hostilities are over.
He acknowledged that the Ukrainian crisis has been his most formidable foreign policy challenge, stating that he now saw renewed proof of Russia’s commitment to a political and diplomatic settlement. It is with this understanding that he intends to frame his forthcoming negotiations with Zelensky.
It is particularly noteworthy that during today’s conversation, the Russian President acceded to the American proposal to continue efforts to resolve the Ukrainian situation through two specially established working groups. One will address various security dimensions, and the other, economic matters. <...>
❗️ Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump agreed to speak again by telephone promptly after the US President’s meeting with the Ukrainian delegation at Mar-a-Lago this evening.
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#KievRegimeCrimes
⚡️ Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of December 22-28:
▪️ December 22 – A kamikaze drone attacked a civilian passenger car on the Shebekino–Ziborovka road in the Belgorod Region. One civilian was injured.
▪️ December 22 – A UAV strike targeted a civilian passenger car in the city of Grayvoron, Belgorod Region.
▪️ December 23 – A fixed-wing UAV Chaklun-V struck an apartment building in Donetsk, DPR.
▪️ December 23 – An FPV drone attacked a civilian passenger car in the Bondarenkov hamlet, Belgorod Region.
▪️ December 23 – A UAV attack targeted a petrol station in Gorlovka, DPR.
▪️ December 24 – A munition was dropped from a UAV onto a civilian vehicle in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region. One civilian was injured.
▪️ December 25 – Artillery shelling of the Vinogradovo electrical substation in the Kherson Region left 60,000 residents without power.
▪️ December 25 – A UAV attack targeted a private residential house in the Shakhovka hamlet, Belgorod Region.
▪️ December 27 – A UAV strike hit a civilian passenger car in Gorlovka, DPR. One civilian was injured.
▪️ December 28 – Artillery shelling of a market in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
⚡️ Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of December 22-28:
▪️ December 22 – A kamikaze drone attacked a civilian passenger car on the Shebekino–Ziborovka road in the Belgorod Region. One civilian was injured.
▪️ December 22 – A UAV strike targeted a civilian passenger car in the city of Grayvoron, Belgorod Region.
▪️ December 23 – A fixed-wing UAV Chaklun-V struck an apartment building in Donetsk, DPR.
▪️ December 23 – An FPV drone attacked a civilian passenger car in the Bondarenkov hamlet, Belgorod Region.
▪️ December 23 – A UAV attack targeted a petrol station in Gorlovka, DPR.
▪️ December 24 – A munition was dropped from a UAV onto a civilian vehicle in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region. One civilian was injured.
▪️ December 25 – Artillery shelling of the Vinogradovo electrical substation in the Kherson Region left 60,000 residents without power.
▪️ December 25 – A UAV attack targeted a private residential house in the Shakhovka hamlet, Belgorod Region.
▪️ December 27 – A UAV strike hit a civilian passenger car in Gorlovka, DPR. One civilian was injured.
▪️ December 28 – Artillery shelling of a market in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
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🇷🇺 Ambassador Oleg Stepanov's New Year Address (December 29, 2025)
🎙Dear compatriots! Dear friends!
The year 2025 is coming to an end. A difficult year. A year of challenges. A year of change. We see how rapidly the world is changing, going through a period of upheaval.
🇷🇺 The Russian community in Canada, through its unity, lives by mutual support, preserving and defending its spiritual and cultural identity.
🇷🇺 This year, we solemnly marked the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. A sacred milestone in our great history, reaffirming the historic role of our Motherland as a guardian of peace on Earth. This is the destiny we have been entrusted with. This is Russia’s true nature.
❗️As our President clearly and succinctly stated: “Russia’s borders end nowhere.” As our Motherland lives in the heart of every one of us. And you, dear compatriots, are the clearest example of that.
🇨🇦 The political reality is such that today, being a Russian in Canada is not easy. And yet, in many ways, this country is deeply similar to Russia. Its vast spaces, love of the land, work ethic, openness, and yes, even the passion for hockey, are things Russians and Canadians share alike. That is why the “Russian world” feels natural here. It serves as a unifying link, a bridge of connection between our peoples. For the natural desire of all people is to live in peace, harmony, and good neighborliness. And no artificial barriers can stand in the way of that.
Dear friends!
🎄The New Year is a joyful celebration of kindness and hope. I wish that harmony and joy reign in your families in the coming year.
🎁 May you, your children and grandchildren, your loved ones and family enjoy strong health and unwavering confidence in the future.
Happy Holidays! Happy New Year 2026!
🎙Dear compatriots! Dear friends!
The year 2025 is coming to an end. A difficult year. A year of challenges. A year of change. We see how rapidly the world is changing, going through a period of upheaval.
🇷🇺 The Russian community in Canada, through its unity, lives by mutual support, preserving and defending its spiritual and cultural identity.
❗️As our President clearly and succinctly stated: “Russia’s borders end nowhere.” As our Motherland lives in the heart of every one of us. And you, dear compatriots, are the clearest example of that.
🇨🇦 The political reality is such that today, being a Russian in Canada is not easy. And yet, in many ways, this country is deeply similar to Russia. Its vast spaces, love of the land, work ethic, openness, and yes, even the passion for hockey, are things Russians and Canadians share alike. That is why the “Russian world” feels natural here. It serves as a unifying link, a bridge of connection between our peoples. For the natural desire of all people is to live in peace, harmony, and good neighborliness. And no artificial barriers can stand in the way of that.
Dear friends!
🎄The New Year is a joyful celebration of kindness and hope. I wish that harmony and joy reign in your families in the coming year.
🎁 May you, your children and grandchildren, your loved ones and family enjoy strong health and unwavering confidence in the future.
Happy Holidays! Happy New Year 2026!
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🇷🇺 Новогоднее обращение Посла России в Канаде О.В.Степанова (29 декабря 2025 г.)
🎙Уважаемые соотечественники! Дорогие друзья!
Уходит 2025 год. Год непростой, год вызовов, год перемен. Мы видим, как стремительно меняется мир, проходящий период потрясений.
🇷🇺 Русская община Канады – благодаря сплочённости – живет взаимной поддержкой, хранит и отстаивает свою духовную и культурную идентичность.
🇷🇺 В уходящем году мы широко отпраздновали 80-летие Победы в Великой Отечественной войне. Священная дата нашей великой истории, подтвердившая историческую роль Отечества как хранителя мира на Земле. Таково наше извечное предназначение. Такова настоящая Россия.
❗️Наш Президент сказал четко и емко: «Границы России нигде не заканчиваются». Потому что наша Родина – в сердце каждого из нас. И вы, дорогие соотечественники, – ярчайший тому пример.
🇨🇦 Политические реалии таковы, что сегодня в Канаде быть русским непросто. Но в глубине своей эта страна во многом похожа на Россию. Бескрайние просторы, любовь к земле, трудолюбие, открытость, да и увлечение хоккеем тоже, – все это и про нас, и про канадцев. Поэтому «Русский мир» здесь очень органичен. Он служит объединяющим звеном, мостиком связей между нашими народами. Ведь естественное желание людей – жить в мире, согласии и добрососедстве. И никакие искусственные преграды не способны этому помешать.
Дорогие друзья!
🎄Новый Год – это светлый праздник добра и надежд. Хочу пожелать, чтобы в наступающем году в ваших семьях царили гармония и радость.
🎁 Крепчайшего здоровья и уверенности в завтрашнем дне вам, вашим детям и внукам, вашим близким и родным.
С Праздником! С Новым 2026 Годом!
🎙Уважаемые соотечественники! Дорогие друзья!
Уходит 2025 год. Год непростой, год вызовов, год перемен. Мы видим, как стремительно меняется мир, проходящий период потрясений.
🇷🇺 Русская община Канады – благодаря сплочённости – живет взаимной поддержкой, хранит и отстаивает свою духовную и культурную идентичность.
❗️Наш Президент сказал четко и емко: «Границы России нигде не заканчиваются». Потому что наша Родина – в сердце каждого из нас. И вы, дорогие соотечественники, – ярчайший тому пример.
🇨🇦 Политические реалии таковы, что сегодня в Канаде быть русским непросто. Но в глубине своей эта страна во многом похожа на Россию. Бескрайние просторы, любовь к земле, трудолюбие, открытость, да и увлечение хоккеем тоже, – все это и про нас, и про канадцев. Поэтому «Русский мир» здесь очень органичен. Он служит объединяющим звеном, мостиком связей между нашими народами. Ведь естественное желание людей – жить в мире, согласии и добрососедстве. И никакие искусственные преграды не способны этому помешать.
Дорогие друзья!
🎄Новый Год – это светлый праздник добра и надежд. Хочу пожелать, чтобы в наступающем году в ваших семьях царили гармония и радость.
🎁 Крепчайшего здоровья и уверенности в завтрашнем дне вам, вашим детям и внукам, вашим близким и родным.
С Праздником! С Новым 2026 Годом!
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🗓 On December 29, President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree establishing April 19 as the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, perpetrated by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
The draft law to introduce this Day of Remembrance was developed by Russia's State Duma Committee on Defence in November 2025. The authors of the initiative proposed commemorating the victims on April 19, as on this date in 1943 the first legal act was issued that officially documented the Nazis’ policy of exterminating civilians in the occupied territories – Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 39 “On punishment measures for Nazi villains guilty of killing and torturing the Soviet civilian population and captured Red Army soldiers, for spies, traitors to the motherland from among Soviet citizens and for their accomplices”.
Decree No. 39 laid the legal foundations for bringing to justice Nazi criminals and their accomplices, including Italian, Romanian, Hungarian and Finnish military personnel. Materials collected during investigations conducted on the basis of Decree No. 39 formed a key part of the evidentiary base at the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Khabarovsk Trial, and other judicial proceedings against war criminals from the Axis powers.
💬 Speaking at a meeting of Pobeda (Victory) Organizing Committee on July 2, 2020, Vladimir Putin noted:
🕯 Losses caused by the actions of the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War amounted to no fewer than 27 million Soviet citizens, while the total estimated demographic losses of the USSR approached 50 million people.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
The draft law to introduce this Day of Remembrance was developed by Russia's State Duma Committee on Defence in November 2025. The authors of the initiative proposed commemorating the victims on April 19, as on this date in 1943 the first legal act was issued that officially documented the Nazis’ policy of exterminating civilians in the occupied territories – Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 39 “On punishment measures for Nazi villains guilty of killing and torturing the Soviet civilian population and captured Red Army soldiers, for spies, traitors to the motherland from among Soviet citizens and for their accomplices”.
Decree No. 39 laid the legal foundations for bringing to justice Nazi criminals and their accomplices, including Italian, Romanian, Hungarian and Finnish military personnel. Materials collected during investigations conducted on the basis of Decree No. 39 formed a key part of the evidentiary base at the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Khabarovsk Trial, and other judicial proceedings against war criminals from the Axis powers.
💬 Speaking at a meeting of Pobeda (Victory) Organizing Committee on July 2, 2020, Vladimir Putin noted:
“The Nazis planned to colonize the Soviet land, to kill or turn into slaves and to take away the languages and culture of all who lived here – the Slavs and people of other ethnicities. These crimes of the Nazis and their minions and the genocide against the peoples of the Soviet Union do not have a statute of limitations. This assessment must remain firm in our legislation and in the international law system”.
🕯 Losses caused by the actions of the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War amounted to no fewer than 27 million Soviet citizens, while the total estimated demographic losses of the USSR approached 50 million people.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
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✉️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin extended his holiday greetings on Christmas and the upcoming New Year 2026 to Heads of foreign states and governments:
Among them were:
🤝 President of the Republic of Abkhazia – Badra Gunba;
🇦🇲 President of the Republic of Armenia – Vahagn Khachaturyan;
🇦🇲 Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia – Nikol Pashinyan;
🇦🇿 President of the Republic of Azerbaijan – Ilham Aliyev;
🇧🇾 President of the Republic of Belarus – Alexander Lukashenko;
🇧🇷 President of the Federative Republic of Brazil – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva;
🇨🇳 President of the People’s Republic of China – Xi Jinping;
🇨🇺 President of the Republic of Cuba – Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez;
🇪🇹 President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia – Taye Atske Selassie;
🇪🇹 Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia – Abiy Ahmed;
🇭🇺 Prime Minister of Hungary – Viktor Orban;
🇮🇳 President of the Republic of India – Droupadi Murmu;
🇮🇳 Prime Minister of the Republic of India – Narendra Modi;
🇮🇩 President of the Republic of Indonesia – Prabowo Subianto;
🇰🇿 President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev;
🇰🇬 President of the Kyrgyz Republic – Sadyr Zhaparov;
🇰🇵 Chairman of State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – Kim Jong-un;
🇱🇦 President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party – Thongloun Sisoulith;
🇲🇳 President of Mongolia – Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh;
🇲🇲 Chairman of the State Administration Council and Prime Minister of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar – Min Aung Hlaing;
🇳🇮 Co-presidents of the Republic of Nicaragua – Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo;
🇷🇸 President of the Republic of Serbia – Aleksandar Vucic;
🇸🇰 Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic – Robert Fico;
🇿🇦 President of the Republic of South Africa – Cyril Ramaphosa;
🤝 President of the Republic of South Ossetia – Alan Gagloyev;
🇹🇯 President of the Republic of Tajikistan – Emomali Rahmon;
🇹🇲 President of Turkmenistan – Serdar Berdimuhamedov;
🇹🇲 National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov;
🇹🇷 President of the Republic of Turkiye – Recep Tayyip Erdogan;
🇺🇸 President of the United States of America – Donald Trump;
🇺🇿 President of the Republic of Uzbekistan – Shavkat Mirziyoyev;
🇻🇪 President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela – Nicolas Maduro;
🇻🇳 General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam – To Lam;
🇻🇳 President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – Luong Cuong;
🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV.
Greetings were also sent to a number of former heads of foreign states and governments, including Raul Castro, Robert Kocharyan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Serzh Sargsyan, and Gerhard Schroeder.
Among them were:
🤝 President of the Republic of Abkhazia – Badra Gunba;
🇦🇲 President of the Republic of Armenia – Vahagn Khachaturyan;
🇦🇲 Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia – Nikol Pashinyan;
🇦🇿 President of the Republic of Azerbaijan – Ilham Aliyev;
🇧🇾 President of the Republic of Belarus – Alexander Lukashenko;
🇧🇷 President of the Federative Republic of Brazil – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva;
🇨🇳 President of the People’s Republic of China – Xi Jinping;
🇨🇺 President of the Republic of Cuba – Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez;
🇪🇹 President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia – Taye Atske Selassie;
🇪🇹 Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia – Abiy Ahmed;
🇭🇺 Prime Minister of Hungary – Viktor Orban;
🇮🇳 President of the Republic of India – Droupadi Murmu;
🇮🇳 Prime Minister of the Republic of India – Narendra Modi;
🇮🇩 President of the Republic of Indonesia – Prabowo Subianto;
🇰🇿 President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev;
🇰🇬 President of the Kyrgyz Republic – Sadyr Zhaparov;
🇰🇵 Chairman of State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – Kim Jong-un;
🇱🇦 President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party – Thongloun Sisoulith;
🇲🇳 President of Mongolia – Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh;
🇲🇲 Chairman of the State Administration Council and Prime Minister of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar – Min Aung Hlaing;
🇳🇮 Co-presidents of the Republic of Nicaragua – Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo;
🇷🇸 President of the Republic of Serbia – Aleksandar Vucic;
🇸🇰 Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic – Robert Fico;
🇿🇦 President of the Republic of South Africa – Cyril Ramaphosa;
🤝 President of the Republic of South Ossetia – Alan Gagloyev;
🇹🇯 President of the Republic of Tajikistan – Emomali Rahmon;
🇹🇲 President of Turkmenistan – Serdar Berdimuhamedov;
🇹🇲 National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov;
🇹🇷 President of the Republic of Turkiye – Recep Tayyip Erdogan;
🇺🇸 President of the United States of America – Donald Trump;
🇺🇿 President of the Republic of Uzbekistan – Shavkat Mirziyoyev;
🇻🇪 President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela – Nicolas Maduro;
🇻🇳 General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam – To Lam;
🇻🇳 President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – Luong Cuong;
🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV.
Greetings were also sent to a number of former heads of foreign states and governments, including Raul Castro, Robert Kocharyan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Serzh Sargsyan, and Gerhard Schroeder.
🇷🇺 Уважаемые соотечественники!
Сообщаем, что в связи с государственными праздниками Посольство Российской Федерации в Канаде и Консульский отдел Посольства будут закрыты с 31 декабря 2025 года по 9 января 2026 года включительно.
❗️Приём посетителей возобновится 12 января 2026 года.
🎄Поздравляем с наступающими праздниками и желаем всего наилучшего!
Сообщаем, что в связи с государственными праздниками Посольство Российской Федерации в Канаде и Консульский отдел Посольства будут закрыты с 31 декабря 2025 года по 9 января 2026 года включительно.
❗️Приём посетителей возобновится 12 января 2026 года.
🎄Поздравляем с наступающими праздниками и желаем всего наилучшего!
🇷🇺 Dear Compatriots,
Please be informed that, due to public holidays, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Canada and the Consular Section of the Embassy will be closed from December 31, 2025, through January 9, 2026.
❗️Regular operations will resume on January 12, 2026.
🎄We extend our warm wishes for the upcoming holiday season!
Please be informed that, due to public holidays, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Canada and the Consular Section of the Embassy will be closed from December 31, 2025, through January 9, 2026.
❗️Regular operations will resume on January 12, 2026.
🎄We extend our warm wishes for the upcoming holiday season!
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🎄 С Наступающим Новым Годом!
☃️ Happy New Year!
🎁 Bonne année!
☃️ Happy New Year!
🎁 Bonne année!
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🎄 President of Russia Vladimir Putin’s New Year Address to the Nation
💬 Esteemed citizens of Russia, dear friends,
In these final moments before the New Year, we feel time itself moving forward. The future lies ahead of us – and what it will become largely depends on us.
We rely on our own strength. On those who stand beside us, who are dear and close to our hearts, and we are always ready to lend a shoulder in return. This mutual support gives us confidence that all we have planned – our hopes and aspirations – will definitely come true.
Of course, each of us has our own dreams – personal, special and distinct in their own way. Yet they are inseparable from the destiny of our Fatherland, from a sincere wish to be of benefit to it. For together we are the people of Russia.
The labour, successes and achievements of each of us form new chapters in Russia's thousand-year history. And the strength of our unity determines the sovereignty and security of the Fatherland, its development and its future.
The New Year is, above all, faith in all that is good – in kindness and good fortune. It is a unique and magical holiday, when hearts open to love, friendship and compassion, to attentiveness and generosity.
We seek to bring joy and warmth through our care to those who need support and attention. And, of course, through word and deed, to stand by our heroes – the participants in the special military operation.
You have taken upon yourselves the responsibility to fight for your home country, for truth and justice. Millions of people across Russia, I assure you, stand by your side on this New Year’s night. They are thinking of you, sharing your trials, and believing in you. We are united by a sincere, selfless and devoted love for Russia.
💪 I congratulate all our soldiers and commanders on the coming New Year! We believe in you and in our Victory!
***
Dear friends, in just a few moments we will hear the chimes of the Kremlin Clock, and the New Year will commence. We welcome it together with those closest to us – with our children, parents, friends and comrades-in-arms. Even those who are far away right now – you are still with us in spirit.
I wish everyone good health and happiness, mutual understanding and well-being. And, without fail, love – the kind that inspires.
May our traditions, our faith and our memory unite all generations and support us always in every endeavour. Together we are one big family – strong and united. And therefore we will continue to work and to create, to achieve our goals and to move only forward – for the sake of our children and grandchildren, for the sake of our great Russia.
🎉 Happy New Year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣, dear friends!
💬 Esteemed citizens of Russia, dear friends,
In these final moments before the New Year, we feel time itself moving forward. The future lies ahead of us – and what it will become largely depends on us.
We rely on our own strength. On those who stand beside us, who are dear and close to our hearts, and we are always ready to lend a shoulder in return. This mutual support gives us confidence that all we have planned – our hopes and aspirations – will definitely come true.
Of course, each of us has our own dreams – personal, special and distinct in their own way. Yet they are inseparable from the destiny of our Fatherland, from a sincere wish to be of benefit to it. For together we are the people of Russia.
The labour, successes and achievements of each of us form new chapters in Russia's thousand-year history. And the strength of our unity determines the sovereignty and security of the Fatherland, its development and its future.
The New Year is, above all, faith in all that is good – in kindness and good fortune. It is a unique and magical holiday, when hearts open to love, friendship and compassion, to attentiveness and generosity.
We seek to bring joy and warmth through our care to those who need support and attention. And, of course, through word and deed, to stand by our heroes – the participants in the special military operation.
You have taken upon yourselves the responsibility to fight for your home country, for truth and justice. Millions of people across Russia, I assure you, stand by your side on this New Year’s night. They are thinking of you, sharing your trials, and believing in you. We are united by a sincere, selfless and devoted love for Russia.
💪 I congratulate all our soldiers and commanders on the coming New Year! We believe in you and in our Victory!
***
Dear friends, in just a few moments we will hear the chimes of the Kremlin Clock, and the New Year will commence. We welcome it together with those closest to us – with our children, parents, friends and comrades-in-arms. Even those who are far away right now – you are still with us in spirit.
I wish everyone good health and happiness, mutual understanding and well-being. And, without fail, love – the kind that inspires.
May our traditions, our faith and our memory unite all generations and support us always in every endeavour. Together we are one big family – strong and united. And therefore we will continue to work and to create, to achieve our goals and to move only forward – for the sake of our children and grandchildren, for the sake of our great Russia.
🎉 Happy New Year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣, dear friends!
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#CSTO2026
🇷🇺 On January 1, Russia is assuming the chairmanship of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (#CSTO)
❗️President of Russia Vladimir Putin recently presented the priorities of Russia’s chairmanship:
🔹 to consolidate the CSTO member states, shaping favourable conditions for their safe and steady development;
🔹 to improve the performance of the CSTO bodies;
🔹 to strengthen the role of interparliamentary cooperation in collective security;
🔹 to develop collective security resources with due consideration for the anticipated changes in global military and political affairs and in the CSTO collective security regions;
🔹 to expand cooperation in military medicine and biological threat protection;
🔹 to enhance the coordination of efforts to counter international terrorism and extremism, illegal drug and arms trafficking;
🔹 to advance the CSTO’s potential in combating transnational organised crime, the legalisation of criminal income, and the funding of terrorism;
🔹 to intensify cooperation in international cybersecurity;
🔹 to enhance efforts against illegal migration;
🔹 to prepare for the 2️⃣5️⃣th anniversary of the CSTO and the 3️⃣5️⃣th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty, both marked in 2027.
***
👩🏻💻The official website of Russia’s CSTO chairmanship will be launched on January 1, with regular CSTO news and updates.
📹 We are also presenting a video marking the start of Russia’s CSTO chairmanship. We thank our colleagues from the Mir International Television and Radio Company for producing the video.
🇷🇺 On January 1, Russia is assuming the chairmanship of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (#CSTO)
❗️President of Russia Vladimir Putin recently presented the priorities of Russia’s chairmanship:
🔹 to consolidate the CSTO member states, shaping favourable conditions for their safe and steady development;
🔹 to improve the performance of the CSTO bodies;
🔹 to strengthen the role of interparliamentary cooperation in collective security;
🔹 to develop collective security resources with due consideration for the anticipated changes in global military and political affairs and in the CSTO collective security regions;
🔹 to expand cooperation in military medicine and biological threat protection;
🔹 to enhance the coordination of efforts to counter international terrorism and extremism, illegal drug and arms trafficking;
🔹 to advance the CSTO’s potential in combating transnational organised crime, the legalisation of criminal income, and the funding of terrorism;
🔹 to intensify cooperation in international cybersecurity;
🔹 to enhance efforts against illegal migration;
🔹 to prepare for the 2️⃣5️⃣th anniversary of the CSTO and the 3️⃣5️⃣th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty, both marked in 2027.
***
👩🏻💻The official website of Russia’s CSTO chairmanship will be launched on January 1, with regular CSTO news and updates.
📹 We are also presenting a video marking the start of Russia’s CSTO chairmanship. We thank our colleagues from the Mir International Television and Radio Company for producing the video.