Embassy of Russia in Singapore

🇷🇺 Today #Russia and its many peoples celebrate national #UnityDay! It symbolizes the unity of our multiethnic nation, celebrates our true diversity, enhanced through unity and honours the unerring ultimate devotion to the Motherland. ❗️ Happy #UnityDay! #UnityDay2025#TogetherForever

#Russia#MostBeautifulCountry 📸The Most Beautiful Country, the 11th international photo contest held by the Russian Geographical Society, has wrapped up its 2025 edition. It's hard to describe how vast and diverse #Russia is — places, locales and biomes, fauna, the peoples and lifestyles. Better show & #See4Yourself👇 On September 11, names of eleven winners in main categories were announced: five winners of special prizes, including the People’s Choice Award, and four winners of the photo contest, The Most Beautiful Country through the Eyes of Children. The photo contest is an annual competition of the best of the best since 2015. Throughout the 11 years, the jury received over 780,000 submissions from 118,000 contestants. Both professional photographers and amateurs, foreign nationals and children can participate on an annual basis. The main rule is that all photos must be taken in Russia. The best images become true discoveries for experts, jury members and viewers. The submitted works are evaluated by world-renowned wildlife photographers, cultural figures, as well as professionals in their field, who prove by their example that we have got the most beautiful country. Overall, some 50,000 works were submitted by 8,000 participants to the 11th The Most Beautiful Country contest. And the winners are👇 • Alexander Lavrentyev of Pushkino, Moscow Region, who took a picture of a foggy coast of the nearly inaccessible island of Simushir, (Landscape category); • Vyacheslav Zametnya of St Petersburg with a one-of-a-kind photo of a snow leopard on the Chikhachev Range, the northernmost habitat of the animal (Wild Animals category); • Daniil Silantyev of Chelyabinsk with a photo of an enigmatic forest near Lake Ladoga (The Most Beautiful Desktop Wallpaper); • Alexander Pashenichev of Vyrutsa, Leningrad Region shot a bird’s eye view of a fog over a spruce-tree forest (Elemental Magic); • Natalya Privalenko of Moscow with a picture of a hunting pygmy owl (Birds); • Igor Zhabsky of Pokrovka, Primorye Territory saw a mournful seal in a piece of ice (Art of Wildlife (fine art photograhy)); • Olga Papina of Volgograd won in the category of Faces of Russia with her picture Granny Nastya and her Cats; • Yury Podgrushny of Bataisk, Rostov Region took a photo of a leaping spider resting on a rose petal (Macroworld); • Maria Tyuryukhanova of St Petersburg with her entry The Island of White Dogs (Taken on a Smartphone); • Vladimir Palchik of St Petersburg compared in his work the former and the current look of the Novotorzhsky Boris and Gleb Monastery (Live Archive); • Ruslan Kondratenko of St Petersburg caught on camera the magic of the full moon rising over St Petersburg (180 Wonders). Winners of The Most Beautiful Country Through the Eyes of Children contest, held since 2018, were announced as well. They are - • Sergei Telnyuk of Voronezh (Landscape); • Ivan Gorshkov of Obninsk, Kaluga Region (Wild Animals); • Denis Pronin of Orel (Macroworld); • Anastasia Asadullina of the Amur Region (Acts of Nature). ✅The Russian Geographical Society’s 12th contest The Most Beautiful Country will be open for submissions in December 2025.

Embassy Comment We have noted the article by Jonathan Eyal “#EU renewed toothless #sanctions against #Russia”, published in The Straits Times on February 1, 2025. We agree with the author that the unilateral illegitimate sanctions aimed at continuing the hybrid war against Russia and inflicting a strategic defeat on us, are both unsuccessful and futile. There is no doubt that the objectives of the special military operation (#SMO) on the #denazification and demilitarization of #Ukraine, its neutral and non-nuclear status, as well as ensuring the interests of the Russian people will be achieved. The “bankrupt” Euro-Atlantic security architecture (#NATO) is being replaced by a new equal and indivisible #EurasianSecurity, which includes all the organizations that have demonstrated their effectiveness – the #EAEU, #SCO, #CSTO, etc. The concept of #Eurasian security aligns with the accelerating formation of a multipolar world order. A key pillar of this shift is the rapidly growing, non-Western center of influence represented by #BRICS, which continues to attract countries from the #GlobalSouth, including #ASEAN member states, paving the way for a BRICS-ASEAN dialogue. The consolidation of the countries of the Global South, making a choice in favor of peaceful, sustainable, inclusive, independent development together with Russia, China and other countries, represents a stable and viable trend in contrast to the outdated Western neocolonial “#InSanctionsWeTrust” mentality.

🇷🇺🇮🇷📞 On April 13, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian spoke over the phone. The Ministers focused on the situation in the Middle East. The Russian side reiterated its strong condemnation of the April 1 Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consular office in Damascus. ❗️ It was emphasised that, just like political assassinations, any attacks on diplomatic or consular sites, the inviolability of which is guaranteed by the relevant Vienna conventions, are absolutely unacceptable. The sides confirmed mutual commitment to maintaining a high level of coordination on international and regional agenda priorities. They emphasised mutual interest in steadily building up political and diplomatic cooperation, as well as trade and economic interaction in the transport and logistics sphere, among others, including transit traffic. 🔗http://tiny.cc/inurxz #RussiaIran#Russia#Iran#MiddleEast