#NoStatuteOfLimitations
8️⃣3️⃣ years ago, the peaceful Soviet Belarusian village of #Khatyn was wiped out –nearly all of the inhabitants were burned alive and shot by the SS punitive unit Dirlewanger (Sonderkommando Dirlewanger) and the 118th Ukrainian Police Battalion.
Khatyn – a small village of just 26 households – was located 54 kilometres northwest of Minsk.
On March 22, 1943, Belarusian partisans intercepted a Nazi motor convoy in the area, inflicting casualties, including killing a German officer. In retaliation, the Hitlerites encircled Khatyn and decided to unleash their fury on defenceless civilians – women, the elderly and children.
All residents – 149 people, including 75 children – were forced into a wooden barn, locked inside and set ablaze. Those who, in desperation, tried to escape were ruthlessly shot at point-blank range.
✍️ From the interrogation record of Ostap Knap, a collaborator from the 118th Ukrainian Police Battalion, a native of the Lvov region (31 May 1986):
“The roof was thatched and immediately caught fire. Screams of horror rose from the barn as those trapped inside, facing certain death, began forcing the door. The policemen surrounding the site opened fire on them”.
Only six people managed to escape the inferno alive – five children and one adult, 56-year-old blacksmith Iosif Kaminsky. He regained consciousness late at night after the perpetrators had left the burnt village. Among the bodies of his fellow villagers, he found his son Adam, who died from his wounds in his father’s arms…
❗️ The atrocities in Khatyn were carried out by the 118th Ukrainian Police Battalion, formed in October 1942 in Kiev largely from Ukrainian nationalists and members of the Organisation of Ukrainian nationalists. Earlier, its members took part in mass executions of Jews at Babi Yar. The battalion was commanded by Konstantin Smovsky, born in the Poltava Governorate, who later fled to the US, where he died in 1960. The Supreme court of Belarus has found him guilty of genocide.
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In 1969, one of Belarus’s most revered memorial sites – the Khatyn Memorial Complex – was opened on the site of the destroyed village, a silent witness to the monstrous crimes of Nazism. At its centre stands a six-metre bronze sculpture, The Unconquered Man, depicting Iosif Kaminsky carrying his dead son in his arms. Each of the 26 burned homes is marked by a symbolic log structure with an obelisk in the shape of a chimney, bearing the names of those who perished and a bell that tolls every hour.
The tragedy of Khatyn has become a symbol of the inhuman cruelty of Nazism – a living reminder of hundreds of annihilated villages and thousands of innocent civilians of the Soviet Union whose lives were shattered by Nazi perpetrators and their accomplices – a genocide of the Soviet people. Our duty is to ensure that these crimes, which have no statute of limitations, are never forgotten.
On April 19, by Presidential Decree, Russia established the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People during the Great Patriotic War. According to even the most conservative estimates, 13.7 million civilians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
🕯We mourn together with the fraternal people of Belarus.
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🎥 “Formimi i një Arkitekture të Sigurisë së Barabartë dhe të Pandashme: Sfidat dhe Mundësitë për Shtetet e Jugut dhe Lindjes Globale” — një film dokumentar nga Këshilli i Sigurisë i Federatës Ruse.
Përmbledhje: Peizazhi politik dhe ekonomik global po përjeton një transformim të thellë. Ne jemi dëshmitarë të një pike kthese në histori: rendi botëror unipolar është në rrugë pa krye, ndërsa multipolariteti është bërë realitet. Ky ndryshim ka hapur një dritare mundësish për krijimin e një rendi botëror më të drejtë dhe demokratik.
Ndër zhvillimet më të rëndësishme të fundit në marrëdhëniet ndërkombëtare është shfaqja e një grupi shtetesh të njohur si “Shumica Globale”. Ajo përfaqëson jo vetëm një realitet të ri në politikën dhe ekonominë globale, por mund të shihet si një faktor në evolucionin e strukturës së marrëdhënieve ndërkombëtare.
Ndikimi në rritje i Jugut dhe Lindjes Globale është një proces natyror dhe i pashmangshëm. Ngritja e tyre pasqyron jo vetëm një ndryshim në fuqinë ekonomike, por edhe një rishpërndarje më të gjerë të ndikimit global.
🌐 Duke përfshirë vendet në Azi, Afrikë dhe Amerikën Latine, Jugu Global është gati të luajë një rol kyç në ndryshimin e së ardhmes së ekonomisë globale.
Vendet e Shumicës Botërore refuzojnë t'ua nënshtrojnë politikën e tyre të jashtme interesave të lojtarëve të jashtëm dhe janë të përkushtuara fort për të ruajtur identitetin e tyre kulturor, vlerat tradicionale dhe themelet kombëtare.
☝️ Zhvillimi i një arkitekture të sigurisë së barabartë dhe të pandashme ofron një mundësi vendimtare për të formuar partneritete më të qëndrueshme tregtare dhe shkencore-teknike të afta për t'u përballur me sfidat gjeopolitike, ekonomike, mjedisore dhe ato të tjera të kohës sonë.
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🎥 «Формирование архитектуры равной и неделимой безопасности: вызовы и возможности для государств глобального Юга и Востока» — документальный фильм Совета Безопасности России.
Синопсис: Глобальный политический и экономический ландшафт претерпевает глубокую трансформацию. Мы являемся свидетелями поворотного момента в истории: однополярный мировой порядок зашел в тупик, а многополярность стала реальностью. Этот сдвиг открыл окно возможностей для установления более справедливого и демократичного мироустройства.
Среди наиболее важных событий в международных отношениях последнего времени — оформление группы государств, получивших название "Мировое большинство". Оно представляет собой не только новую реальность глобальной политики и экономики, но может рассматриваться в качестве фактора эволюции структуры международных отношений.
Растущее влияние Глобального Юга и Востока — естественный и неизбежный процесс. Их подъем отражает не просто изменение экономической мощи, но и более широкое перераспределение глобального влияния.
🌐 Охватывая страны Азии, Африки и Латинской Америки, Глобальный Юг готов сыграть ключевую роль в изменении будущего мировой экономики.
Страны Мирового большинства отказываются подчинять свою внешнюю политику внешним интересам и твердо привержены сохранению своей культурной самобытности, традиционных ценностей и национальных основ.
☝️ Развитие архитектуры равной и неделимой безопасности дает решающую возможность для формирования более устойчивых торговых и научно-технических партнерств, способных противостоять геополитическим, экономическим, экологическим и другим вызовам нашего времени.
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🎥 'Shaping architecture of equal and indivisible security: challenges and opportunities for states of Global South and East' — a documentary by Russia's Security Council.
Synopsis: The global political and economic landscape is undergoing profound transformation. We are witnessing a pivotal moment in history: the unipolar world order has reached an impasse, while multipolarity has become a reality. This shift has opened a window of opportunity to establish a fairer and more democratic world order.
Among the most consequential developments in recent international affairs is the emergence of a group of countries known as the World Majority. This grouping represents not only a new force in global politics and economics but also a catalyst for reshaping the structure of international relations.
The growing influence of the Global South and East is a natural and inevitable process. Their rise reflects not only changes in economic strength but also a broader rebalancing of global power.
🌐 Spanning Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the Global South is poised to play a pivotal role in defining the future of the global economy.
The countries of the World Majority refuses to submit their foreign policies to external interests and are firmly committed to preserving their cultural identity, traditional values, and national foundations.
☝️ The development of an architecture of equal and indivisible security offers a crucial opportunity to forge more resilient trade and scientific-technological partnerships, capable of withstanding the geopolitical, economic, environmental, and other pressing challenges of our time.
#Think4Yourself
🎥 'Shaping architecture of equal and indivisible security: challenges and opportunities for states of Global South and East' — a documentary by Russia's Security Council.
Synopsis: The global political and economic landscape is undergoing profound transformation. We are witnessing a pivotal moment in history: the unipolar world order has reached an impasse, while multipolarity has become a reality. This shift has opened a window of opportunity to establish a fairer and more democratic world order.
Among the most consequential developments in recent international affairs is the emergence of a group of countries known as the World Majority. This grouping represents not only a new force in global politics and economics but also a catalyst for reshaping the structure of international relations.
The growing influence of the Global South and East is a natural and inevitable process. Their rise reflects not only changes in economic strength but also a broader rebalancing of global power.
🌐 Spanning Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the Global South is poised to play a pivotal role in defining the future of the global economy.
The countries of the World Majority refuses to submit their foreign policies to external interests and are firmly committed to preserving their cultural identity, traditional values, and national foundations.
☝️ The development of an architecture of equal and indivisible security offers a crucial opportunity to forge more resilient trade and scientific-technological partnerships, capable of withstanding the geopolitical, economic, environmental, and other pressing challenges of our time.
#Think4Yourself
🎥 'Shaping architecture of equal and indivisible security: challenges and opportunities for states of Global South and East' — a documentary by Russia's Security Council.
Synopsis: The global political and economic landscape is undergoing profound transformation. We are witnessing a pivotal moment in history: the unipolar world order has reached an impasse, while multipolarity has become a reality. This shift has opened a window of opportunity to establish a fairer and more democratic world order.
Among the most consequential developments in recent international affairs is the emergence of a group of countries known as the World Majority. This grouping represents not only a new force in global politics and economics but also a catalyst for reshaping the structure of international relations.
The growing influence of the Global South and East is a natural and inevitable process. Their rise reflects not only changes in economic strength but also a broader rebalancing of global power.
🌐 Spanning Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the Global South is poised to play a pivotal role in defining the future of the global economy.
The countries of the World Majority refuses to submit their foreign policies to external interests and are firmly committed to preserving their cultural identity, traditional values, and national foundations.
☝️ The development of an architecture of equal and indivisible security offers a crucial opportunity to forge more resilient trade and scientific-technological partnerships, capable of withstanding the geopolitical, economic, environmental, and other pressing challenges of our time.
#Think4Yourself
🎥I blame Nazism— an RT Doc Film.
Synopsis: In August 2024, the Ukrainian army, militants and mercenaries invaded Russia’s Kursk Region. Following its liberation, evacuation teams continue to find bodies in almost every house.
Ukrainian Nazis subjected thousands of people to torture, abuse and humiliation, with many victims losing their lives.
‘I live like I’m in a solitary cell. Everything feels familiar, but there is no gas, no water, no electricity… I cry every day and ask for death… There are no clocks. Then I lay under the bed.’
— these lines were written by Tatyana Vaskova, a 77-year-old resident of the village of Martynovka, during the occupation. Her diary was found by Russian soldiers next to her body. She didn't live to see her village liberated...
The film is based on the testimonies of civilians who endured under the Ukrainian occupation, as well as confessions from the criminals themselves, the militants of the AFU. It presents facts and evidence of the crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Russian soil.
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🎥 'Shaping architecture of equal and indivisible security: challenges and opportunities for states of Global South and East' — a documentary by Russia's Security Council.
Synopsis: The global political and economic landscape is undergoing profound transformation. We are witnessing a pivotal moment in history: the unipolar world order has reached an impasse, while multipolarity has become a reality. This shift has opened a window of opportunity to establish a fairer and more democratic world order.
Among the most consequential developments in recent international affairs is the emergence of a group of countries known as the World Majority. This grouping represents not only a new force in global politics and economics but also a catalyst for reshaping the structure of international relations.
The growing influence of the Global South and East is a natural and inevitable process. Their rise reflects not only changes in economic strength but also a broader rebalancing of global power.
🌐 Spanning Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the Global South is poised to play a pivotal role in defining the future of the global economy.
The countries of the World Majority refuses to submit their foreign policies to external interests and are firmly committed to preserving their cultural identity, traditional values, and national foundations.
☝️ The development of an architecture of equal and indivisible security offers a crucial opportunity to forge more resilient trade and scientific-technological partnerships, capable of withstanding the geopolitical, economic, environmental, and other pressing challenges of our time.
#Think4Yourself
🎥 'Shaping architecture of equal and indivisible security: challenges and opportunities for states of Global South and East' — a documentary by Russia's Security Council.
Synopsis: The global political and economic landscape is undergoing profound transformation. We are witnessing a pivotal moment in history: the unipolar world order has reached an impasse, while multipolarity has become a reality. This shift has opened a window of opportunity to establish a fairer and more democratic world order.
Among the most consequential developments in recent international affairs is the emergence of a group of countries known as the World Majority. This grouping represents not only a new force in global politics and economics but also a catalyst for reshaping the structure of international relations.
The growing influence of the Global South and East is a natural and inevitable process. Their rise reflects not only changes in economic strength but also a broader rebalancing of global power.
🌐 Spanning Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the Global South is poised to play a pivotal role in defining the future of the global economy.
The countries of the World Majority refuses to submit their foreign policies to external interests and are firmly committed to preserving their cultural identity, traditional values, and national foundations.
☝️ The development of an architecture of equal and indivisible security offers a crucial opportunity to forge more resilient trade and scientific-technological partnerships, capable of withstanding the geopolitical, economic, environmental, and other pressing challenges of our time.
#Think4Yourself
🎬Russian Cultural Code: Literature — an educational documentary
What is a Russian soul? This question has been pondered upon by the West for centuries. In today's world the mystery of the Russian soul — or the Russian cultural code as it is called in the digital age — still boggles the minds of foreigners.
In this film (developed by the School of Arina Sharapova, TV presenter, Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber), the key to the Russian cultural code is understanding our literature and language.
Literature unites both scholars and science enthusiasts, people of a rational mindset. It reflects the spiritual essence of our nation, its historical heritage and values. By analysing contemporary Russian literature, one can see how authors respond to modern challenges and how they are reflected in their works.
👉Watch the documentary to better understand the Russian cultural code.
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🎬Russian Cultural Code: Art — an educational documentary
For centuries, the Western world has been trying to solve the mystery of the Russian soul. Today, in the Digital Age, is has acquired a new name — the Russian cultural code.
In this film (developed by the School of Arina Sharapova, TV presenter, Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber), music, graphic art and architecture will become a key to the Russian code. Unlike literature, theatre and cinema, these arts require no translation.
Contemporary art often reflects a response to changes in society and through art we can trace how Russian culture adapts to technological progress.
Young musicians and students were invited to take part in the discussion with artist Alexei Belyayev-Gintovt who has created paintings and installations dedicated to Russia’s special role in the world.
👉Watch the documentary to better understand the Russian soul.
#Think4Yourself
🎬Russian Cultural Code: Art — an educational documentary
For centuries, the Western world has been trying to solve the mystery of the Russian soul. Today, in the Digital Age, is has acquired a new name — the Russian cultural code.
In this film (developed by the School of Arina Sharapova, TV presenter, Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber), music, graphic art and architecture will become a key to the Russian code. Unlike literature, theatre and cinema, these arts require no translation.
Contemporary art often reflects a response to changes in society and through art we can trace how Russian culture adapts to technological progress.
Young musicians and students were invited to take part in the discussion with artist Alexei Belyayev-Gintovt who has created paintings and installations dedicated to Russia’s special role in the world.
👉Watch the documentary to better understand the Russian soul.
#Think4Yourself
🎥Cults: The Cia's Secret Weapon — an RT Doc Film.
Synopsis: A story how Ukrainian neo-Nazis turned generations of Russian-speaking and even ethnically Russian kids into nationalists and Russophobes, full of hate and having acquired lethal skills.
Gennady Mokhnenko presented himself as a pastor and was involved in recruiting orphaned children as soldiers for the Ukrainian army, leading a neo-Nazi totalitarian sect in Severodonetsk.
The transformation of children from orphanages into cold-blooded killers was actively supported by foreign religious organizations. Security service personnel are finding traces of their involvement in nearly every liberated settlement of Donbass.
The strange Ukrainian 'religion' is the result of a secret CIA project called 'Prolog,' which emerged right after the end of #WWII. Even back then, US intelligence agencies aimed to foster separatist and nationalist sentiments in Soviet Ukraine.
Today, the Ukrainian nationalist cult 'RUNVira' still promotes the ideas of Ukrainian exceptionalism and harbours hatred towards Russians and Jews.
This documentary tries to give answers to the following questions:
❓ How did Ukraine become a centre for neo-Nazi cults, and who is responsible for it?
❓ How did this country become one of the global centers of spiritual permissiveness?
❓ Why are the newly formed Ukrainian 'churches' seizing Orthodox holy sites?
❓ What are the main goals of these sectarians?
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Operation Ukraine: Bandera's Dark Shadow – an RT DOC documentary
Post-Maidan Ukraine has been waging a consistent campaign against its own historical memory. Across the country, hundreds of monuments, graves and mass burial sites of Red Army soldiers are being destroyed – of those who fought and died liberating Europe from Nazism and Hitler’s hordes.
At the same time, memorials are being erected in contemporary Ukraine to those who stood under the banners of the Third Reich during WWII. Streets are renamed in honour of OUN–UPA figures, legionnaires of the SS “Galicia” division and other collaborators. Criminals convicted by the Nuremberg Tribunal are granted the status of “national heroes”.
One such figure, elevated to the status of a symbol for Ukrainian neo-Nazis, remains Stepan Bandera.
The film examines how Bandera and his radical followers were cultivated and rose to prominence during the Second World War. It traces his life from early radicalization to open collaboration with Nazi Germany – a path that culminated in genocide of Polish, Jewish and Soviet civilians.
The documentary also explores why Bandera’s atrocities are downplayed in modern Ukraine and massively overlookedby its Westernsponsors.
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