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08/07/2026

📃On Russia's position on the protection of the international legal regime of the seabed area

✍️On April 24, 2025 the U.S. President issued an Executive Order on deep-seabed mining of mineral resources, which addresses issues of exploration and development of seabed mineral resources within the United States outer continental shelf as well as in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

The Executive Order (14285) has already received negative assessments from a number of States (including Western countries) and international organisations at various international platforms. In relevant statements serious concern was expressed over the consequences of such a step for the regime of the international seabed area (the Area) and the activites of the International Seabed Authority (ISA).

In particular, ISA Secretary-General Ms. Leticia Reis de Carvalho noted that any such unilateral action sets a dangerous precedent that could destabilize the existing system of global ocean governance, and that no state, natural or juridical person may claim, acquire, or exercise rights over mineral resources of the Area, which are the Common Heritage of Humankind, otherwise than in accordance with Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 (UNCLOS, the 1982 Convention).

📃The international legal regime of the Area has been established by the Convention, which proclaimed the Area and its resources as the Common Heritage of Humankind. Taking into account the nearly universal membership of States in the Convention, this regime is therefore observed by the majority of UN Member States. The principle of the common heritage of mankind currently governs all activities in the Area. Unilateral steps toward deep seabed mineral resources development undermine the regime of the Area established by the 1982 Convention, as well as ISA mandate, and also threaten economic and social progress of all States, primarily that of developing countries.

Despite not being a State Party to the 1982 Convention, the USA signed the 1994 Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the Convention, and is therefore obliged to refrain from acts which would defeat the object and purpose of the treaty (in accordance with Article 18 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties).

The Executive Order also addresses issues of resources extraction within the US ‘extended’ continental shelf. Russia has not recognised the outer boundaries of the ‘extended’ shelf unilaterally delineated by Washington in 2023, due to this step’s inconsistency with established international practice and non-compliance with relevant procedures. We consider any possible unilateral seabed development by the USA within these boundaries inadmissible.

❗️The Russian Federation reacted to the issuance of the Executive Order with a statement made at 30th Session of the ISA Assembly (July 2025) containing the above mentioned assessment. We called on the USA to become Party to the 1982 Convention in order to comply fully with its provisions and procedures. We furthermore called on all nations including the USA to refrain from unilateral actions and avoid creating parallel mechanisms, which could harm the 1982 Convention’s goals of orderly, safe, and rational use of the Area's resources for the benefit of mankind as a whole.

This position has been reaffirmed by the Russian delegation at the 36th Meeting of States Parties to the UNCLOS in June 2026.

08/06/2026

🎙Excerpts from the Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC Briefing on Threats to International Peace and Security Caused by ISIL (August 5, 2026, New York)

💬 Facing defeat on the battlefield, the Zelensky regime has resorted to increasingly brutal acts of terror against Russia's civilian population.

Each and every day, Kiev carries out targeted attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure using missile and artillery systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, remote mining devices, cluster munitions, and b***y traps, including those manufactured by NATO member States.

Terrorist attacks against the personnel of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant ( ) have also continued unabated. The July murder of specialists responsible for nuclear and radiation safety and security, along with the relentless strikes targeting the ZNPP’s territory, demonstrates Kiev's intent to disrupt its operation and create the threat of a large-scale technological catastrophe.

Meanwhile, the EU and NATO countries are openly bragging about facilitating Kiev's terrorist attacks through supplying thousands of drones and missiles to Ukraine.

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❗️The Russian Federation has consistently advocated for strengthening international counter-terrorism cooperation on the basis of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy adopted in July, while preserving the central and coordinating role of the United Nations in ensuring a sustainable reduction of the terrorist threat and enhancing international peace and security.

08/05/2026

🇷🇺Programme for Supporting National Literatures of the Peoples of the Russian Federation

☝️Starting from 2016, the Russian Federation has been implementing the Programme for Supporting National Literatures of the Peoples of the Russian Federation under the auspices of the Organizing Committee for the Support of Literature, Book Publishing and Reading in the Russian Federation. The Programme covers all the literary languages, as well as more than 10 written languages and 22 dialects and subdialects.

❗️Today there are about 100 written languages in the Russian Federation, aside from the Russian language. More than 60 of those are used to create works of fiction.

Key activities:

🔸preparing, publishing and presenting anthologies of national literatures of the peoples of Russia;
🔸refining the art of literary translation from national languages of the peoples of Russia into Russian, as well as training professional translators;
🔸working with young people and creating conditions that stimulate the creative work of young representatives of the national literatures of the peoples of Russia;
🔸holding major socially significant events aimed at popularising national literatures of the peoples of Russia;
🔸preserving and promoting national literatures of the peoples of Russia on the centralised Portal of National Literatures of the Peoples of Russia (http://www.rus4all.ru/).

Key goals:

🔸make contemporary national literatures accessible to a broad readership, united by the multinational Russian culture and the Russian language;
🔸facilitate the integration of unique national literatures into the broader all-Russian cultural process;
🔸promote national literatures as an integral part of the shared cultural and literary space;
🔸encourage the development of the Russian language as a language of international and intercultural communication.

Website 👉 http://www.rus4all.ru/

Brochure 👉 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sPxE7iulAwBA4o-HKDrzEaSZGjmoJf9v/view?usp=drive_link

08/04/2026

Уважаемые соотечественники!

🇷🇺Приглашаем вас принять участие в выборах депутатов Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации.

❗️В соответствии с Указом Президента России от 16 июня 2026 г. № 428 «О назначении выборов депутатов Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации нового созыва» 20 сентября 2026 года состоятся выборы депутатов Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации нового созыва.

Проживающие в Канаде россияне смогут проголосовать на предстоящих выборах депутатов Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации нового созыва в Оттаве, Монреале и Торонто.

🗳 Избирательные участки будут открыты 20 сентября 2026 года с 8:00 до 20:00 по местному времени.

📍Адреса избирательных участков:

• № 8148, Посольство России в Канаде (Оттава) – 285 Charlotte Street, Ottawa, ON, K1N8L5;

• № 8150, Генеральное консульство России в Монреале – 3655, Avenue du Musée, Montréal, Québec, H3G 2E1;

• № 8151, Генеральное консульство России в Торонто – 60 Saint Clair Avenue East, Suite 500, Toronto, ON, M4T 1N5.

📋 Принять участие в выборах смогут граждане России старше 18 лет, предъявившие действительный российский заграничный паспорт при личной явке на один из вышеперечисленных избирательных участков.

🗳 Информационный канал ЦИК России 👉https://t.me/cikrossii

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ℹ️ Вся наиболее актуальная информация и детальные разъяснения относительно процедуры голосования за рубежом будут публиковаться на страницах Посольства в соцсетях. Не переключайтесь!

🇷🇺ТВОЙ ГОЛОС – СИЛА РОССИИ

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#Госдума2026
#ЕДГ2026

08/04/2026

⚡️ Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation:

At the request of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, members of the Ukrainian nationalist movement have been recognised as accomplices of N**i Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, acting on an application filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, established a fact of legal significance.

❌ Stepan Bandera, Vasily Bandera, Roman Shukhevich, Andrey Melnik, Nikolay Arsenich, Taras Borovets, Dmitry Klyachkivsky, Nikolay Kozak, Miron Matvieyko and Yaroslav Stetsko, as well as the Organisation of Ukrainian nationalists ( ) and the Ukrainian insurgent army ( ), have been recognised as accomplices of N**i Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War.

The court ruling is necessary to preserve the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Soviet people, expose the unlawful actions of the Kiev regime, overturn decisions rehabilitating war criminals and prevent acts of extremism against our country.

📑 The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office submitted documents from the archives of the Russian Federal Security Service, the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Russian Defence Ministry, and the State Archive of the Russian Federation. Materials from Belarusian archives and courts were also provided.

It was established that the OUN was founded in Vienna in 1929 at the First congress of Ukrainian nationalists. It was initially led by Evgeniy Konovalets and, following his death, by Andrey Melnik. In 1940, the OUN split, with its most radical faction coming under the leadership of Stepan Bandera – OUN (b) – and the other under Andrey Melnik – OUN (m).

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In 1941–1943, while retaining the organisational foundations of OUN (b), 👉 the German command established the UPA, led by Lvov lawyer Roman Shukhevich. He began his violent path by taking part in an attack on the civilian population of Lvov as a member of the Ukrainian Nachtigall punitive battalion. On June 30, 1941, the day the so-called Act of proclamation of the Ukrainian state was adopted, mass killings of the city’s residents were committed under Shukhevich’s command.

◾️ More than 8,000 Russians, Ukrainians, Jews and Poles were killed in the Lvov massacre between June and August 1941.

The actions of the OUN and UPA were entirely aimed at terrorising the population of the occupied territories, assisting N**i Germany in its military campaign against the Red Army and Soviet partisans, and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Soviet people under Wehrmacht control and in its interests.

• In March 1943, the 118th Ukrainian auxiliary police battalion, composed of OUN and UPA members, burned down the village of Khatyn in the Minsk Region of Belarus. The punitive forces killed 147 villagers, including 75 children.

• Between February and August 1943, the OUN and UPA carried out a mass slaughter of the Polish population of Volhynia and Galicia, known as the Volhynia Massacre. It peaked on July 11-12 – “Black Sunday”. At least 120,000 people were killed by Ukrainian nationalists.

• The mass killing of civilians by Ukrainian nationalists during the punitive operations Swamp Fever, Triangle, Cottbus and others has also been documented.

Meanwhile, for more than 12 years, the authorities of modern-day Ukraine have pursued a deliberate state policy aimed at distorting the role of the Soviet Union and its people in the Great Patriotic War and World War II. Collaborators and organisations associated with N**i criminals are being glorified. Western countries openly exploit these actions in their efforts to obstruct the special military operation in Ukraine.

❗️ In view of the above, the court granted the application filed by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office in full and recognised these individuals and organisations as accomplices of N**i Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity.

08/03/2026

⚡️Comment by the Embassy of Russia in Canada on the Kiev regime’s systematic attacks against Russian civilians
(Ottawa, August 3, 2026)

❗️In recent weeks, the terrorist regime in Kiev has continued its deliberate attacks against civilians on Russian territory.

Between June 29 and July 26 alone, Ukrainian shelling and drone attacks caused 1,545 civilian casualties: 204 people were killed and 1,341 wounded. Among them were 11 children killed and 47 minors wounded. Over the same period, Ukrainian terrorists fired at least 25,215 munitions at civilian targets on Russian territory.

These are not "collateral consequences" of hostilities. This is a deliberate terrorist practice.

The most recent terrorist attacks:

🔸On July 28, a UAV struck a passenger bus in Shebekino, the Belgorod Region, which wounded 19 civilians.

🔸On August 2, a Ukrainian drone struck a children’s playground in the village of Printsevka, the Belgorod Region. A 13-year-old girl was killed. 2 other children, aged 7 and 9, sustained serious shrapnel wounds.

🔸On August 3, Ukrainian terrorists carried out a targeted attack on the beach of Arkhipo-Osipovka, the Krasnodar region. As of now, the death toll has risen to 7, including 3 children. Around 40 people were wounded.

🇨🇦 Against this background, Ottawa’s rhetoric about "civilian safety" and concern for children sounds especially cynical. When accusations target Russia, Canadian officials instantly amplify any fake from "Cirque de Zelensky". Yet when Kiev kills Russian children, strikes passenger buses and shells residential areas, Canada chooses deafening silence over these abhorrent and heinous crimes.

❓Does this not amount to tacit encouragement of Kiev’s crimes?

08/02/2026

| What does August sound like?

🎼 Music, too, tells the story of a country: its landscapes, seasons, history and soul. Today, we are launching a new weekly series exploring Russian classical music: its great composers, masterpieces and traditions that have become an integral part of world culture.

🌾We begin with August, quite literally.

Between late 1875 and May 1876, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed twelve piano pieces, one for each month of the year. The St.Petersburg music publisher Nikolai Matveyevich Bernard commissioned the set and proposed the titles associated with each month. The pieces appeared one by one throughout 1876 in his music journal Nuvellist. A collected edition followed toward the end of the year under the title The Seasons. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the cycle’s original publication.

“August: The Harvest” is the eighth of the cycle’s twelve “characteristic scenes.” Marked Allegro vivace, it carries the additional designation Scherzo in Tchaikovsky’s autograph manuscript. Brief yet vivid, the piece is energetic, restless and full of motion. Its driving rhythms evoke the intensity of harvest work, the open expanse of the Russian countryside and the atmosphere of late summer.

In the published edition, the piece was prefaced by lines from “The Harvest,” a poem by the Russian poet Alexey Koltsov. The epigraph begins:

Whole families
Set about reaping,
Cutting the tall rye
Down to the root!

🎵We invite you to hear how Tchaikovsky turned the Russian August into music.

08/01/2026

🕯Day of Remembrance for Russian Soldiers Who Fell in World War I

🦅 On August 1, Russia commemorates the Day of Remembrance for Russian Soldiers Who Fell in World War I. On this day in 1914, Germany declared war on the Russian Empire, and by August 2, had already invaded its territory.

Thus, our country joined the then largest and bloodiest armed conflict in history.

At the beginning of the XX century, Europe was effectively divided into two opposing blocs — the Entente (the British Empire, France and Russia) and the Triple Alliance (the German Empire, Austro-Hungary, and Italy). Each side had mutual grievances, and their subsequent arms race marked the preparations for a large-scale war.

The immediate trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo. He was killed by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the nationalist organisation "Young Bosnia".

On July 23, Austro-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia, deliberately containing demands that were impossible to meet. The Serbian government responded with restraint, accepting many of the conditions, but rejected some key points, including allowing Austro-Hungarian police onto Serbian territory. As a result, on July 28, Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

🇷🇺 Russia, long regarded as the protector of Orthodox Slavic nations in the Balkans, could not remain uninvolved and on the night of July 31, declared a general mobilisation.

On August 1, the German Empire declared war on the Russian Empire; two days later — on France. On August 4, the British Empire declared war on Germany. On August 6, Austro-Hungary declared war on Russia. Thus, within the span of a single week, the leading European powers were drawn into the conflict.

The war that had begun among a few European countries gradually engulfed 38 nations. The conflict lasted just over four years but surpassed all previous wars in human history in both scale and consequences.

The total number of mobilized soldiers reached 73.5 million. During the hostilities, 10 million people were killed — as many as had died in all European wars over the previous thousand years — and 20 million were wounded, 3.5 million of whom were left permanently disabled.

🥈 The Russian Empire had to fulfill its obligations as an ally while also pursuing its own strategic objectives. The most important directions, from the country's perspective, were the Southwestern and Caucasus fronts, while the Northwestern and Western directions played a less central role. However, due to treaty obligations, the Russian command undertook a full-scale offensive in East Prussia in 1914.

❗️Under these difficult conditions, our soldiers and officers demonstrated exceptional courage and bravery.

One of the symbols of Russian valour was the defence of the Osowiec Fortress. German troops used chemical weapons — a mixture of chlorine and bromine — killing most of the garrison. To the enemy's shock, the surviving defenders launched a bayonet charge and drove them into retreat. This event went down in history as the "Attack of the Dead Men."

One of the most significant and vivid episodes of World War I, according to many historians, was the famous Brusilov Offensive by the Russian Imperial Army on the Southwestern Front. It pushed Austro-Hungary to the brink of collapse and forced the German Empire to divert substantial forces from Verdun in France to the “Russian theatre of war.”

🕯 The self-sacrifice of Russian soldiers and officers is hard to overestimate. Over the course of the war, over 2 million of them perished.

Our country honours the memory of the heroes of those days: in 2004, the Memorial Park Complex to the Heroes of World War I was opened in Moscow, and in 2014, a monument to the heroes of World War I was unveiled on Poklonnaya Hill. In total, 20 monuments and memorials have been erected across Russia and abroad.

08/01/2026

🎙Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova (Moscow, July 30, 2026)

🧸Helping a Boy Return to Russia to Be Reunited with His Mother. Four Children Are Being Reunited with Loved Ones in Ukraine and Third Countries

A five-year-old boy has recently returned to Russia. In 2020, the child remained with his father in Ukraine; for various reasons, his mother was unable to bring him back. In March 2026, she learned of the child’s father’s death, and the Office of the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights assisted in arranging the family reunification.

Today, with the support of the Office, a mother was able to come to Russia to take her daughter home. Three more children will soon be reunited with their loved ones in Ukraine and in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Each family’s circumstances are different. A mother came from Germany to collect her nine-year-old daughter, who had been staying in Russia with her grandmother since 2023. A 15-year-old teenager had been living in Russia with close relatives. His mother, who left for Ukraine in 2022, is unable to come and collect her son on her own. A similar situation concerns a six-year-old boy, who, after his mother left for Ukraine, remained in the care of his grandmother.

Another 15-year-old teenager, following the death of his parents, stayed with relatives. However, his elder sister in Germany wishes to take responsibility for his further upbringing, and the boy himself also wants to live with her. Soon, all the children will be reunited with their loved ones.

📆 On Thursday in Moscow, Maria Lvova-Belova, Chair of the Children's Protection Fund, met with the children and those accompanying them (https://t.me/malvovabelova/6926). Humanitarian work to reunite families is being carried out on the instruction of Head of State Vladimir Putin, on the basis of requests from parents or close relatives who possess the necessary legal grounds, with the interests of the children and all circumstances of each case taken into mandatory account.

Special gratitude is due to the First Lady of the United States of America, Melania Trump, for her unwavering commitment and active participation in efforts to reunite children with their families.

The International Committee of the Red Cross traditionally provides support.

❗️In total, with the involvement of the institution of children’s rights commissioners, 31 children from 23 families have been reunited with relatives in Russia, while 145 children from 118 families have been reunited with relatives in Ukraine and third countries.

🇷🇺🇺🇸With the support of Melania Trump, 33 children have been reunited with loved ones in Russia, Ukraine, and third countries.

07/29/2026

🎙 Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Дмитрий Медведев's address at the XII All-Russian Youth Educational Forum Territory of Meanings
(Solnechnogorsk, Moscow region, July 29, 2026)

💬 [...] Today I want to speak about something entirely different.

You know, we live in an extremely difficult time. That may sound commonplace, but it is true. This grave period has fallen to your lot, and you are young people. I will not even speak about us; we here are already quite grown-up people. In essence, our country is being tested for strength. It is being tested in every sense of the word.

From an economic point of view as well, because the number of sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation is beyond all limits. There is no other country in the world - and there has never been such a case in history - against which such a number of sanctions, around thirty thousand, has been introduced.

We feel political pressure from every direction, because our adversaries have always tried to destabilize our state, regardless, by the way, of what it was called - the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, or the present-day Russian Federation.

They do not like our country: large, strong, proud, self-sufficient, and impossible to command. There was a period when they apparently believed that they could, conditionally speaking, reach an arrangement with us, but in reality subordinate us to their will. I mean, first and foremost, Western countries. But they failed. And they are experiencing the bitterest disappointment.

That is why they are using every possible means, and now they are using Ukraine as a battering ram to destroy the Russian Federation. They do not conceal this. Therefore, I want to say in this hall, where different political forces are represented, where my colleagues who lead political parties are present, that we now have one common task. And it is obvious: to preserve our country.

❗️How can our country be preserved? It can be preserved in only one way: through victory in the special military operation.

And here, I am certain, the positions of all political parties, all responsible political forces, my comrades, my colleagues, and all of you absolutely coincide. [...] Taking this opportunity, I would like to thank my colleagues from other political parties for the fact that, during this difficult period, we are pursuing such a consolidated, common policy in the interests of all citizens of our country.

I am confident that today, when you speak with my colleagues, this theme will sound as a refrain. This does not mean that there should be no other questions, including difficult and acute ones. Politics consists of acute questions. But there are topics on which a nation, in order to preserve itself, must gather itself into a fist and take one common position. Only then shall we prevail.

I wish you, dear friends, esteemed young politicians, esteemed colleagues, interesting discussions. And I hope that after some time we will meet again to sum up the results of the elections to the State Duma.

But most importantly, we will meet in order to congratulate one another on victory, and it will be ours.

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