🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement at a meeting of the Council of the #CSTO Parliamentary Assembly (Moscow, April 20, 2026)
💬 On January 1, 2026, Russia assumed the chairmanship of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation. Our tenure proceeds under the motto, Collective Security in a Multipolar World: Common Goal, Shared Responsibility.
In collaboration with our allies within the CSTO, we are intensifying efforts to uphold shared approaches to resolving international security issues. Much has already been articulated on this subject today. The foundational documents of the Organisation – and I wish to underscore this with particular emphasis – enshrine the principles of peaceful coexistence among states, the primacy of political and diplomatic methods of resolution, and adherence to the norms of international law, with the United Nations playing a central role.
I consider it of fundamental importance that, in the current period, as the West resorts more frequently and extensively to illegitimate use of force, neocolonial methods of diktat, and outright plunder, the CSTO countries are neither altering nor revising the aforementioned goals of their activities. We will not deviate from the universal norms of international law. On the contrary, we will counter attempts to undermine them and oppose efforts to impose lawlessness in global affairs, whilst upholding the universal norms of international law, above all the sovereign equality of states, as enshrined in the UN Charter. <...>
The Collective Security Treaty Organisation has established itself as an authoritative association of allied states whose activities are not directed against anyone, contain no aggressive aspirations, and are built exclusively in the interests of maintaining regional stability and the well-being of its member countries. <...>
Russia maintains continuity in advancing the principal vectors of our collaboration within the CSTO. We continue our work to implement the initiatives of the preceding chairmanship – that of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Our goal is to preserve the truth concerning our common struggle to liberate the world from Nazism and to perpetuate the heroic feat of the Soviet people, who defended the independence of their native land and liberated Europe and the world from the brown plague. <...>
We are continuing our course towards expanding our Organisation’s contacts with the Eurasian countries. Security in this geopolitical area and close interaction with integration associations within our shared space matters a lot to us.
Anyone who has been closely following recent developments is aware that threats in Eurasia are significantly up which requires us to make additional efforts. <...>
We must work with our closest neighbours and partners from the #CIS and the #SCO. The SCO has a substantial programme aimed at strengthening stability and security. Recently, the secretaries-general of the CSTO, the CIS, and the SCO approved a roadmap that provides for, among other things, holding joint conferences on security issues in Central Asia and Afghanistan in Moscow. <...>
We attach great importance to strengthening the Organisation’s military component. The programme of our chairmanship which was presented by President Putin places emphasis on increasing the combat potential of the CSTO’s collective forces and equipping them with modern and interoperable weapons and military equipment. <...>
We will pay special attention to the Organisation’s peacekeeping forces, including refining the regulatory framework governing CSTO participation in UN peacekeeping operations. <...>
We are likewise focusing on strengthening cooperation in international information security.
We intend to expand the toolset for jointly countering international terrorism and extremism, combatting terrorism financing, money laundering, drug trafficking, transnational organised crime, and illegal migration.
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🧠 Do you know how, if you repeat a word or phrase over and over again or stare at it for a long time, it starts to lose its meaning and sound like gibberish or just a random set of letters?
🔍 What is this phenomenon called?
A. 🗣️ Phonetic Decay
B. 🔁 Semantic Satiation
C. 📚 Lexical Overload
D. 🎧 Auditory Fatigue
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🧠 The Stroop Effect Challenge!
👉 Instructions:
1) Read out loud the name of the colors in the top half of the image.
2) Now, in the bottom half say the color of the text, not the word itself.
(E.g. for the first word of the bottom part you need to say “green”, because this is the color in which the word is written)
This is called the Stroop Effect – a psychological phenomenon where your brain struggles to process conflicting information.
Your brain wants to read the word (e.g. "Purple"), but the task is to say the color of the text (e.g. "Green"). This mismatch causes a slight mental slowdown as your brain processes the conflict.
Did your brain glitch? Yes 🤯| No 😎
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🌎 The “singing” sands of select deserts produce eerie musical tones when walked on or disturbed. This haunting sound comes from millions of perfectly sized sand grains rubbing together and vibrating in harmony—nature’s own desert orchestra! ✨
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🌎 Glowing tides known as bioluminescent bays light up in places like Puerto Rico. Microorganisms called dinoflagellates produce blue-green light when stirred by waves or movement. The brightest, Mosquito Bay, can host up to 700,000 glowing organisms in just one liter of water. ✨
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🌍 Sometimes, sunlight shining through millions of tiny ice crystals in high clouds creates halos—glowing circles or arcs—around the Sun or Moon, a beautiful effect of atmospheric optics. ✨
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🪐 In the galaxy NGC 660, astronomers have discovered a rare and bizarre "polar ring"—a huge ring of gas and stars wrapping around the galaxy at a right angle to its main disk. These unusual rings may form after galactic collisions, twisting the cosmic structure into a shape unlike any other in the universe. ✨
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🌎 A rare natural phenomenon, “ball lightning” appears as glowing orbs during storms, sometimes rolling along the ground or bursting in mid-air. Its true cause is still being unraveled by physicists, adding mystery to thunderstorm science. ✨
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🧪 Experiment time!
Which of these shapes would you associate with the word 'Bouba,' and which with 'Kiki'?
👀 Check the first comment under the poll below for details about this experiment and what it reveals about human perception!
@languagetrivia#experiment#fact#phenomenon
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Девчонки! Вчера радости моей не было предела! Сейчас расскажу…
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Я так старалась, преодолевая себя, участвовала в беговом челлендже в приложении #бегаешькакдевчонка
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На второй день челленджа я поняла, что в тройку лидеров точно не зайду. Девчонки быстро вырвались вперед…Тогда я нацелилась войти хотя бы в десятку лидеров. Это был спортивный интерес! Азарт мной руководил)
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В итоге я заняла 16 место из 1468 участниц!🔥Представляете?! Ну огонь же!
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Так рада, что взяла такую планку!
А вчера получила письмо от организаторов, что я победила в беговом челлендже! Представляете?! То есть, помимо первых трёх призовых, ещё было 9 победителей, я в том числе! (получу небольшой подарок от брендов #Hitrospletenia X #Phenomenon )
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Вчера я радовалась, как ребенок, потому что прошла небольшой путь преодоления: каждое утро, в течение челленджа я бегала по 5 км в любую погоду, днём и вечером активно ходила, гуляла, чтобы шаги росли)
В итоге 16 место из 1468 участниц!
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Интересно посмотреть результаты в целом за октябрь! Поделюсь с вами!
В общем, горжусь собой!
🌎 The Morning Glory cloud is a rare, enormous roll-shaped cloud that can stretch over 1,000 kilometers across northern Australia. It forms when humid air, sea breezes, and temperature inversions combine during specific conditions—glider pilots seek it for its powerful updrafts. ✨
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“Paris in the the spring.”
Did you notice the extra “the”?
If not, don’t worry – it’s a common perception error!
🔍Why does this happen?
The second “the” is often skipped because of how our eyes move while reading. Our brains prioritize speed and smoothness, filling in the blanks as we read. When your eyes jump from “Paris” to “spring”, the brain might overlook the extra “the” in between.
📝 This illusion shows how our minds sometimes trade accuracy for efficiency.
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Did you catch the repetition right away 🤓, or did it take a second glance to spot it 🙈?
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🪐 In the galaxy PKS 2014-55, astronomers have discovered a cosmic oddity known as an "X-shaped radio galaxy." This galaxy's energetic jets of particles, powered by a supermassive black hole, create two pairs of huge lobes that form a striking X pattern, suggesting a sudden flip in the black hole's rotation or direction—one of the rarest shapes found among radio galaxies. ✨
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