Russian Embassy in Cambodia

🌿On May 15-22, the Open International Biology Olympiad (#OIBO) will take place at the Sirius Federal Territory. This modern and rapidly developing competition aims to foster school students’ interest in studying and addressing contemporary biological and biotechnological challenges, with the support of leading industry partners. It also contributes to strengthening international cooperation and the exchange of experience among participants. The Olympiad consists of three rounds, held on different days: • theoretical (individual) • practical (individual) • project-based (team) School students aged 14-18 may participate as part of teams of 2 to 6 members. Each team may be accompanied by one adult team leader and up to two observers. Each country may be represented by one team, while the host country may enter two teams. The working languages of the Olympiad are Russian andEnglish. Competition materials will be provided to participants in Russian and English, as well as in national languages where translations are available. Delegations from participating countries will also have the opportunity to translate the Olympiad tasks into their national languages. 👉REGISTER FOR PARTICIPATION 👉LEARN MORE (FAQ)

🌿С 15 по 22 мая на федеральной территории «Сириус» состоится Открытая международная биологическая олимпиада (OIBO). Это современное динамично развивающееся соревнование, направленное на развитие интереса школьников к изучению и решению актуальных биологических и биотехнологических вопросов при поддержке ведущих индустриальных партнёров, а также способствующее укреплению международного сотрудничества и обмену опытом между участниками. Олимпиада состоит из трёх туров, которые проводятся в разные дни: • теоретического (индивидуального), • практического (индивидуального), • проектного (командного). Принять участие в Олимпиаде могут школьники в составе команд от 2 до 6 человек (от 14 до 18 лет включительно). Команду может сопровождать один руководитель (от 18 лет) и до 2 наблюдателей (от 18 лет). Каждую страну может представлять только одна команда. Страна-организатор имеет право допустить к участию две команды. Рабочие языки Олимпиады — русский и английский. Материалы заданий для участников предоставляются организаторами на русском и на английском языках, а также на национальном языке при наличии перевода. Для всех делегаций стран-участниц Олимпиады будет предоставлена возможность перевода заданий туров Олимпиады на национальный язык. 👉Зарегистрироваться для участия

📆 On March 27, H.E. Mr Anatoly Borovik, Ambassador, participated in a field visit to Pursat Province for the diplomatic corps and representatives of international organizations accredited to Cambodia, organized by H.E. Mr Prak Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom. The trip included a visit to the makeshift shelter for the displaced persons who had been forced to flee their homes due to the conflict with Thailand in Promaoy Village, as well as to the border area in Thmor Da Commune.

📆 27 марта Посол А.В.Боровик принял участие в полевом визите в провинцию Пусат, организованную Заместителем Премьер-министра, Министром иностранных дел и международного сотрудничества Королевства Прак Сокхоном для представителей дипломатического корпуса и международных организаций, аккредитованных в Камбодже. В ходе поездки состоялось посещение лагеря в деревне Промаой для лиц, вынужденных покинуть места жительства из-за конфликта с Таиландом, а также приграничного района в коммуне Тмор Да.

#HistoryOfDiplomacy 📜 They say diplomacy has been a male-only profession. While in reality women have had a major role in foreign policy throughout history. In fact, diplomacy acquired a female dimension as early as in the 10th century when Princess Olga established ties with the Byzantine Empire. In the 18th century, for almost half a century, during the reigns of Elizabeth (Yelizaveta) Petrovna, Anna of Russia (Anna Ioannovna), and Cathrine the Great, women largely defined Russia’s foreign policy. They performed their diplomatic duties by corresponding not only with foreign monarchs, but also with the leading thinkers of their time. However, diplomatic service remained mostly dominated by men for quite a long time with very few women in official diplomatic roles until the 20th century. In this context, the story of our country’s first female ambassador, Alexandra #Kollontai, has special significance, and was also revolutionary. 📅 Born on March 31, 1872, Alexandra Kollontai benefited from homeschooling and was brilliantly educated. She became fluent in French, German, English and Finnish, and since a young age took a keen interest in social and political matters, with Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Alexander Herzen and Western socialists among her favourite authors. Already a prominent member of the revolutionary movement, after the 1917 October Revolution, Alexandra Kollontai was appointed the People's Commissar for Welfare of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to become the world’s first female minister. ☝️ Kollontai was proactive in fighting for women’s rights and championed their economic empowerment, access to education and marital equality. It is thanks to her that expecting mothers obtained a leave from work during pregnancy and childbirth. She also was the one who initiated the effort to create a network of nurseries and kindergartens. In 1922, Alexander Kollontai was appointed Soviet Minister Plenipotentiary to Norway, which created an international sensation. Before that, not a single European country offered a woman the possibility to have a high diplomatic rank of this kind. During her assignment to Norway, Alexandra Kollontai succeeded in securing the recognition of the Soviet state by Norway. It is on her watch that the two countries signed a trade agreement and organised the delivery of 400,000 tonnes of Norwegian herring to the USSR. Kollontai continued her successful diplomatic career in Sweden where she served as USSR’s Plenipotentiary Ambassador and Envoy from 1930 to 1945, and helped improve the USSR’s relations with Sweden. ❗️ It was in September 1944 that Kollontai, already 72 years old, received a mission to make Finland withdraw from the war. She was to play one of the key roles during the talks. On September 19, 1944, Finland signed the Moscow Truce with the Soviet Union after cancelling its alliance with Germany and agreeing to a series of territorial concessions. 💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrovmade the following statement on this stage in her career during the ceremony to unveil Alexandra Kollontai’s memorial plaque: One of the real achievements of this remarkable woman was that she took part in negotiations that led to Finland’s withdrawal from the war in 1944, which helped free up troops and send them to other fronts, saving lives of many Soviet soldiers. As a diplomat, Alexandra Kollontai focused on understanding people and their motives instead of just living by the protocol. She stood out for her humane attitude and flexibility, and the ability to find compromises even in the tensest situations. Alexandra Kollontai has proven that women can succeed as diplomats even in a conservative international environment. She came to symbolise the way the social status of women evolved in the world, and inspired many generations of women to become diplomats.

#NoStatuteOfLimitations On March 24, 1999, NATO launched a military aggression against Yugoslavia. This invasion marked a tragic milestone in the history of the Serb nation, dealt a destructive blow to international law and shattered the post-World War II foundations of European security. For 78 days, Communities across Yugoslavia, including infrastructure serving exclusively civilian purposes, suffered from missile strikes and bombing attacks carried out by the United States and its allies. ▪️ According to Belgrade, this barbaric shelling killed over 2,500 people, including 89 children, and wounded 12,500 civilians. Not a single NATO representative has been held to account. The victims of the aggression were designated as collateral damage – this is what it means to pay in blood for the geopolitical ambitions of the United States, the UK and their satellite states. In fact, this marked the beginning of the West’s quest to substitute legitimate mechanisms governing international relations with what they call a rules-based order, even if it remains unclear what this order represents. A sovereign state in the centre of Europe was targeted with 3,000 cruise missiles and 80,000 tonnes of aviation bombs. NATO used depleted uranium shells, which polluted vast territories and led to an unprecedented increase in the occurrence of various types of cancer – people are still suffering from them. Over 200,000 non-Albanians from the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija were forced to leave their homes. Fighters from the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army used the NATO aggression as a cover-up for perpetrating monstrous atrocities, including kidnapping Serbs for organ transplants. The issue of holding NATO allies accountable for the way they undermined international relations and for the damage they caused in Yugoslavia has yet to be addressed. NATO’s military operation against sovereign Yugoslavia 27 years ago became a tragedy, but its long-term and multifaceted reverberations can be felt to this day. *** 👉 Report and exhibition: War crimes committed by NATO countries in former Yugoslavia (by Foundation for the Study of Democracy) The publication presents testimonies and offers a detailed review of the crimes committed by NATO, including: ▪️ Shelling residential neighbourhoods and killing civilians ▪️ Bombing civilian sites and energy infrastructure ▪️ Destroying manufacturing and energy facilities ▪️ Using cluster munitions and depleted uranium shells. For more information, you can read and watch: • FM Sergey Lavrov’s interviewfor a documentary marking 25 years of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia • A retrospective videocontaining archival footage about what happened on March 24, 1999, and the consequences of NATO’s aggression

🗓 On March 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a traditionalmeeting with the ambassadors of #ASEAN member states accredited in Moscow. In the context of the 35th anniversary of Russia-ASEAN relations that this year marks, the sides engaged in a substantive discussion on advancing #RussiaASEANstrategic partnership across a wide range of areas, including countering common challenges and threats, trade and investment, high-tech and knowledge-intensive industries, digitalisation, energy, and the expansion of business and youth contacts. The main focus was on putting together anniversary events and agreeing upon a new medium-term policy document. A thorough exchange of views on international and regional priorities reinforced the importance of Russia-ASEAN dialogue for building stable security and cooperation architecture in the Asia-Pacific region based on respect for international law, equality, and openness. Prospects for aligning integration processes in Eurasia, strengthening ASEAN-EAEU and ASEAN-SCO cooperation, as well as establishing contacts on the ASEAN-BRICS track, were highlighted. 🤝 The meeting was held in a traditionally friendly atmosphere.

🗓 20 марта Министр иностранных дел Российской Федерации С.В.Лавровпровёл традиционную встречу с аккредитованными в Москве послами стран-членов Ассоциации государств Юго-Восточной Азии (#АСЕАН). В контексте отмечаемого в текущем году 35-летия российско-асеановских отношений состоялся предметный разговор на тему продвижения стратегического партнёрства#РоссияАСЕАН по целому ряду направлений, включая противодействие общим вызовам и угрозам, торговлю и инвестиции, высокотехнологичные и наукоёмкие отрасли, цифровизацию, энергетику, расширение деловых и молодёжных контактов. Основной акцент делался на обсуждении вопросов организации юбилейных мероприятий и согласования нового программного документа на среднесрочную перспективу. Обстоятельный обмен мнениями по актуальным проблемам международной и региональной повестки дня подтвердил значимость российско-асеановского диалога для формирования в Азиатско-Тихоокеанском регионе прочной архитектуры безопасности и сотрудничества, основанной на принципах уважения международного права, равноправия и открытости. Отмечены перспективы сопряжения интеграционных процессов на евразийском пространстве, наращивания кооперации АСЕАН с #ЕАЭС и #ШОС, а также налаживания контактов по линии АСЕАН-БРИКС. 🤝 Мероприятие прошло в традиционно дружественной атмосфере.

🆕🆕Открыта регистрация на юбилейный V Петербургский молодежный исторический форум «Герои Отечества» ✔️С 13 по 15 мая в Санкт-Петербурге пройдет V ПМИФ «Герои Отечества». Мероприятия в рамках Форума пройдут в Президентской библиотеки им. Ельцина и на других культурных и исторических площадках города. 🎙Основная тема Форума – 120 лет с начала работы первой Государственной Думы Российской Империи. Программа Форума включает в себя кинофестиваль, панельные сессии, встречи с депутатами и сенаторами, торжественный прием в честь юбилея Форума, выступление победителей конкурса исследовательских работ, дебаты, экскурсии и другие мероприятия. 🖇Участниками Форума могут стать граждане Российской Федерации и иностранных государств в возрасте от 14 лет до 35 лет (включительно), прошедшие регистрацию и конкурсный отбор по ссылке. В рамках Форума проходит ряд конкурсов, подробную информацию о которых можно узнать на сайте. 💜Регистрация для участников Форума из регионов России и иностранных государств открыта до 1 мая 2026 года, для участников из города Санкт-Петербурга и Ленинградской области до 5 мая 2026 года 📨Подписывайтесь на информационный канал конкурсов, чтобы не пропустить важные объявления ПМИФ ВКонтакте и МАХ#ПМИФ#ПМИФ2026#ПМИФ_ГероиОтечества#ПрезидентскиеГранты#ФондПрезидентскихГрантов

🗓 March 22, 2024… Exactly two years have passed since the horrific terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, which claimed 149 lives and shattered hundreds of others. As last year, today, people keep coming to the memorial to honour the victims. They bring flowers, candles, toys – anything that can express grief, pain and remembrance, a sign that the memory of those lost is being carefully preserved. Students, volunteers, rescuers, residents of Moscow, as well as those who personally lived through that nightmare or lost loved ones there, came to the “White Cranes” statue. 🕯 We deeply mourn together with the families and loved ones of the victims. On that terrible night, we lost our colleague – Tatiana Repina, a junior specialist of the Department of Linguistic Support. *** Recently, the court has found the evidence collected by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia sufficient to deliver a verdict against 19 defendants in the criminal case. Russia's Investigative Committee statement of March 12, 2026: It has been reliably established that this inhumane crime was planned and carried out in the interests of the current leadership of Ukraine with the aim of destabilising the political situation in our country. By the court’s verdict, 19 defendants were sentenced – depending on their roles – to terms of imprisonment ranging from 19 years and 11 months to life, as well as fines of up to 2.7 million rubles. 📷© Sergey Bobylev / RIA Novosti #NoStatuteOfLimitations

22.03.2024... Ровно два года прошло с момента чудовищного теракта в «Крокус Сити Холле», унёсшего жизни 149 человек и искалечившего сотни людских судеб. Как и в прошлом году, сегодня к мемориалу жертвам теракта нескончаемым потоком идут люди. Они несут цветы, свечи, мягкие игрушки – всё, что помогает выразить боль, скорбь, подчеркнуть, что память об ушедших бережно хранится. К «белым журавлям» приходят студенты, волонтёры, спасатели, жители столицы, а также те, кто лично пережил тот кошмар или навсегда потерял в нём своих близких. 🕯 Глубоко скорбим вместе с родными и близкими жертв теракта. В ту страшную ночь мы потеряли нашу коллегу – специалиста 1 разряда Департамента лингвистического обеспечения Татьяну Репину. *** На днях суд признал доказательства, собранные Главным следственным управлением Следственного Комитета России, достаточными для вынесения приговора 19 фигурантам уголовного дела. Достоверно установлено, что это бесчеловечное преступление было спланировано и совершено в интересах действующего руководства Украины с целью дестабилизации политической ситуации в нашей стране. Приговором суда 19 виновным в зависимости от роли каждого назначены наказания в виде лишения свободына срок от 19 лет 11 месяцев до пожизненного и штрафами в размере до 2,7 миллиона рублей. Из комментария официального представителя Следственного Комитета России Светланы Петренко *** 📷© Сергей Бобылев / РИА Новости #БезСрокаДавности

⚡️Russia's Foreign Ministry statement on developments in the Persian Gulf Moscow is seriously concerned over the ongoing armed confrontation in the Persian Gulf and the risks of escalation. The scale of damage to energy and other critical infrastructure in Iran and neighboring Arab states continues to grow. 🔉Audio statement by Maria Zakharova (in Russian) We call for an immediate cessation of hostilities resulting from the unprovoked aggression by the US and Israel against Iran. Russia, together with China, Turkey and other like-minded partners, stands ready to facilitate a settlement and help resolve existing differences through political and diplomatic means, with a view to achieving long-term, sustainable stabilisation in the region, taking into account the interests of all states concerned. We consistently advocate creating conditions for peaceful coexistence, security and good-neighbourly relations between the Arab countries, with which we maintain friendly ties, and Iran. ❗️We emphasise that the first step must be an immediate end to the US and Israel’s military venture. In this context, we note the thoughtful and balanced article by Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman, published in The Economist on March 18, 2026. The proposals outlined in the article are largely in line with our own vision of establishing a security architecture in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf based on a balance of interests among all regional states. We share the Omani Minister’s view on the need to launch an inclusive regional dialogue aimed at reaching agreements on confidence-building and transparency measures in the field of nuclear energy, as well as mutual security guarantees. 👉Russia has for several years been promoting an initiative to develop a concept of collective security in the Gulf, aimed at establishing lasting peace and cooperation among all littoral states. We remain ready to continue providing constructive assistance in resolving the conflict and overcoming existing contradictions in the Middle East through political and diplomatic means, including by fostering conditions for joint efforts towards a sustainable settlement based on a balance of the legitimate interests of all countries in the region.