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2022-11-24 20:50:00 On November 24, 1943, Leningrad pupils were awarded medals “For the Defence of Leningrad.” In all, about 15,000 teenagers received these medals. They worked and fought in the besieged city alongside adults.

After classes, pupils had to work at plants, extinguish incendiary bombs and work as paramedics in hospitals. They also tended many gardens in the city, which saved its residents from hunger in 1942-1944. Up to 3,000 senior students and young employees of plants and factories worked as health brigade members in the Red Cross.

Most of the pupils awarded with the medal “For the Defence of Leningrad” attended the 47th school. On November 24, 1943, these medals were conferred on 45 pioneers and Komsomol members who mostly distinguished themselves by working in state farms and subsidiary households. Open / Comment

2022-11-24 17:07:27 FM Sergey Lavrov’s video message to the participants in the 4th BRICS+ International Municipal Forum

Moscow, November 24, 2022

It is good to see that not only BRICS delegations but also representatives of our partners in Asia, Africa, Central and South America are taking part in the forum. We welcome their genuine interest in developing multi-dimensional cooperation with our group.

And it is not surprising. After all, the forum is based on the principles of equality, mutual respect and fair treatment.

#BRICS encapsulates synergy of cultures and civilisations representing different regions of the planet. This international framework is an example of multilateral diplomacy that matches the realities of the 21st century.

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2022-11-24 15:40:00 Ambassador Gennady Gatilov’s statement during the Special Session of the UN HRC on the situation of human rights in Iran:

We note the counterproductivity of the current special session. Such initiatives have nothing to do with concern for human rights. Their goal is to stigmatize and pressure the “undesirable” states under human rights pretexts.

The fact that Iran provides detailed information on measures to promote and protect human rights and on the implementation of international obligations in this area is persistently ignored.

However, this is of little concern to the initiators of this special session. Their main goal is to adopt another politicized resolution for the sake of rocking the domestic political situation in Iran.

We urge the States to stop interfering in Iran's domestic affairs and destabilizing the situation in the country. We recommend the authors of the initiative to focus on resolving their own human rights problems, of which there is a great number.

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2022-11-24 14:44:35 On November 23, FM Sergey Lavrov took part in a Joint Meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation’s Foreign Ministers Council, Defence Ministers Council and the Committee of Secretaries of the Security Council. The meeting was held in Yerevan under Armenia’s chairmanship.

The participants discussed:
• topical issues of the international and regional agenda,
• the military-political situation in the Organisation’s zone of responsibility,
• various aspects of foreign policy coordination, joint efforts to counter modern challenges and threats, including biological security issues,
• measures to strengthen defence ties within the CSTO.

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2022-11-24 13:04:54 Following the #CSTO summit, President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a separate meeting with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

President Putin: First, I would like to thank you for your invitation, and to congratulate you on a successful CSTO chairmanship, nearly its successful completion. Indeed, Armenia was actively engaged in this work at a very high level.

You also spoke about our bilateral relations that are certainly allied and have roots that go deep into ancient times.

As for today, indeed, our trade increased by 12 percent last year and by 67 percent in the first nine months of this year. Yes, this is partly due to the situation today, but it will certainly be a good contribution to the future, we have no doubt about that.

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2022-11-24 12:29:30 #LIVE: Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues

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2022-11-24 11:00:49 #LIVE: Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov's news conference in the run-up to the Ninth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

#strengthenBWC

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2022-11-24 10:04:53 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on Ukraine (November 23, 2022)

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Key points:

In the course of our special military operation, we have to oppose not only the formations of the Kiev regime, but also countries of the North Atlantic Alliance that provide all sorts of military support to Kiev and thus wage a proxy war on Russia. In order to weaken and destroy the military potential of our opponents, we launch high-precision strikes against energy and other infrastructure that is used to supply Ukrainian armed formations with weapons, first of all Western, facilitate their logistics and liaison.

We cannot remember anyone in the West express any concern back in 2015, when through the fault of Ukraine the people of Crimea were left without water and electricity. To say nothing of the people of Donbas, who suffered from economic suffocation for eight years on end.

The residential buildings become damaged and civilians get killed on account of Ukrainian air defense systems that are deployed in centers of Ukrainian cities rather than on the outskirts. As a result, wreckage of the missiles or stray Ukrainian missiles hit the facilities that we never targeted.

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We launch strikes against the Ukrainian infrastructure in retaliation for the pumping-up of Ukraine with Western weapons and the reckless calls to Kiev to win a military victory over Russia. Undermining the combat capability of the Ukrainian army, which threatens the security and territorial integrity of Russia, is one of the goals of our special military operation. This task will be carried out by military means until the Kiev regime adopts a realistic position that would allow to negotiate and try to resolve the issues that forced us to start the SMO.

Western states seek to establish their geopolitical hegemony by proxy at the expense of Ukrainian lives. Open / Comment

2022-11-23 23:54:14 President Vladimir Putin took part in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (#CSTO) summit in Armenia.

Key points:

Military-technical cooperation between the CSTO member states is expanding.

All of us rally together to preserve the memory of the common history of our states, of the fact that our peoples won in the Great Patriotic War together.

Cooperation in the CSTO format yields tangible, practical results and helps us ensure the protection of our countries' national interests, sovereignty and independence.

The threat of militants from different international terrorist organisations penetrating the CSTO member states’ territories remains high. The spread of extremist ideology among the people of the Central Asian countries promotes the risk of increased activity of the radical underground in the region.

We will facilitate stabilisation in Afghanistan through other multilateral mechanisms as well.

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2022-11-23 17:11:19 Joint Statement by the Representatives of Iran, Russia and Türkiye on the 19th International Meeting on Syria in the Astana Format

Astana, 23 November 2022

The representatives of Iran, Russia and Türkiye as guarantors of the Astana format:

• emphasized the leading role of the Astana Process in the peaceful settlement of the Syrian crisis;

• reaffirmed their unwavering commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic as well as to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter;

• expressed their determination to continue working together to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and stand against separatist agendas aimed at undermining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria;

• reaffirmed their determination to stand against separatist agendas in the east of the Euphrates aimed at undermining the unity of Syria as well as threatening the national security of neighboring countries, including through cross-border attacks and infiltrations;

• condemned the actions of countries that support terrorist entities including illegitimate self-rule initiatives in the north-east of Syria;

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