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Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov is 76 years old today. He has served as Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs for 22 years. During these years, Russia has made a huge journey in its foreign policy. It was under Lavrov's leadership that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was shattered by the traitor Kozyrev in the nineties, was revived as a forge of patriots. The minister himself has become a legend of world diplomacy. We congratulate Sergey Viktorovich on his birthday and wish him good health and many more years of service in Great Russia!

Happy Birthday to Sergey #Lavrov! A respected diplomat whose experience and steady approach continue to shape Russia’s foreign policy on the global stage. The legend of Russian diplomacy turnes 76!

@brandonlive__ I thought you would appreciate it

@MatreshkaRF Such a beautiful masterpiece of architecture next to a body of water.

Lakhta Center from a bird’s-eye view, with a height of 462 meters #Russia

Old Ladoga is one of the oldest cities in Rus and, according to the legend, its first capital ❤️

The Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker on Bersenevka in Upper Sadovniki #Moscow #Russia

Beautiful photo session with a fox! 🦊

Fields of snowdrops on the summit of Ayu-Dag #Crimea #Russia ❤️

❗️Ukraine orders children 'evacuation' without parents' consent in occupied areas of DPR Earlier in March, Zelensky signed a law allowing compulsory relocation of children without parents’ consent

The Soviet Union made a film in 1983 about Zionism, the Rothschilds and the Israeli lobby in the US. It was buried for decades. I just added English subtitles and corrected the dubbed version. Watch what they didn't want you to see. Links below.

🚨BREAKING NEWS "We need zelensky alive!" — Russian Deputy Andrey Kartapolov to TASS "To judge him for crimes against his own people and against russia"

Steven Seagal exposes the truth about Ukraine. "Ukraine was known for human trafficking, organ trafficking, narco trafficking, child sex trafficking, biochemical warfare labs, fascism and Nazism."

Russian gold medalist Paralympians have been added to the Ukrainian extremist Myrotvorets list. Alexei Bugaev, Varvara Voronchikhina, Ivan Golubkov, Anastasia Bagian, as well as her lead athlete Sergey Sinyakin, who helps Nastya navigate the track because she's blind, were all "black listed" by the Ukrainian terrorist regime. They are accused of "participating in events to glorify Russian military personnel" and "attempting to undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine". How exactly a gold medal at the Paralympics could undermine the country's sovereignty was not specified.

@brandonlive__ Ooolala is right! You should definitely go there and explore the beautiful city 🥰

@MatreshkaRF Ummhmm, Russia trying to make traveling easier for me? Ooolala😏😊

Putin knelt to award the Order of Friendship to the Paralympic winner, skier Ivan Golubkov.

Today, March 19, Russia celebrates the Day of the Submariner - Russia has the second largest underwater fleet on Earth. For all those who serve on submarines, as well as veterans, engineers, designers, and everyone involved in the submarine forces of the Navy.

📌 35 years since the 17 March 1991 referendum in the Soviet Union The question was: "Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?" 🗳️The results: Russian SFSR YES 70% NO 27% Byelorussia YES 83.72% NO 16.28% Ukrainian SSR YES 71.48% NO 28.52% Azerbaijan SSR YES 94.12 NO 5.88% Kazakh SSR YES 95% NO 5% Uzbek SSR YES 94.73% NO 5.27% They didn't respect the people's will. The people will neither forget nor forgive what they did.

12 years ago, Crimea returned home🇷🇺 See how it has changed: pre-2014 vs today👇🏻

What an interesting symbol on that flag...

Instead of wrestling with the insurmountable dumpster fire at home or launching anything resembling strategically competent campaigns to drag the West's rapidly evaporating interest back from the brink, United24 is out here auditioning for the undisputed crown of the Most Unhinged Geopolitical Fan-Fiction Writer…ever. I can't hate it too much, they keep unintentionally blessing the timeline with LOLs but someone has to provide a reality check before this devolves into full QAnon-for-geopolitics cosplay. The “expert” steering this latest fever dream is Valerii Pekar, chairman of Ukraine's unironically branded "Decolonization NGO." Yes, that's an actual organization. What United24 is packaging as sober, expert consensus is pure activist fanfic from a guy who literally evangelizes "decolonization" and "Make Russia Small Again" as Ukraine's golden ticket to victory and "sustainable peace." Pro-tip: when your slogan sounds like a MAGA knockoff but for balkanizing a nuclear state, you may want to rethink the branding. These think-tank prophets have been promising Russia's imminent shattering into 47 adorable little democratic Etsy republics since literally day one, along with other timeless classics like "the ruble is worth less than toilet paper"… in 2022… 2023… 2024… 2025… and now 2026. You’d think they’d get a little more creative by now. There's so little actual substance here that I'm willing to make a very sizeable donation to the first brave soul who DMs me a selfie with the brand-new flag of the Sovereign Republic of Evenk Autonomous Okrug fluttering proudly over a reopened McDonald's under new woke management. Bonus points if the Happy Meal comes with a side of decolonized fries. But okay, let's take a second to address a few actual things before we all start learning the national anthems of the Yamalo-Nenets People's Reindeer Sausage Emporium: Russia is a contiguous, centuries-old land empire with ~72% ethnic Russians. There are 193 ethnic groups, sure, but most are tiny, Russian-speaking, and integrated for generations, not overseas colonies ripe for decolonization like British India or French Algeria. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, etc., have nominal-autonomy republics and titular elites stay loyal via subsidies, patronage, and shared security perks. "Oppressing 100 nations" is hilarious inflation of small indigenous groups while ignoring voluntary assimilation, intermarriage, and zero mass independence movements. Separatism is marginal and economically suicidal since the regions are deeply interdependent. Moscow subsidizes the poorer ones and resource extraction needs Russian tech, markets, and infrastructure. 1917 collapsed under WWI defeat, famine, and revolution. 1991 USSR died from communist central-planning bankruptcy, Gorbachev's reforms unleashing nationalism, and elite defections. Modern Russia has no equivalent ideological rot or centre-weakening liberalization. Putin stabilized the 1990s shitshow and most Russians remember and fear the chaos. Every single "collapse inevitable" hot take since 2014 has face-planted spectacularly. There is no hyperinflation, no default, no collapse. Russia adapted with parallel imports, China/India oil reroutes, domestic arms production etc... yes, sanctions bite but Russia survived worse in the 1990s. Demographics are a long-term Europe-wide issue not a unique Russian doomsday trigger. “Financial redistribution breakdown" triggers ignore federal resilience while oil/gas still flows. Most republics are net subsidy recipients and independence = instant lost markets, capital flight, Chinese land grabs in the Far East, Islamist flare-ups in Volga/Caucasus. Breakup risks a nuclear-proliferation nightmare, refugee tsunamis, failed-state chain reactions and endless conflicts. "Lower nuclear risk/peace/democracy"? Fragmentation historically breeds the opposite (e.g. Yugoslavia). "Decolonize to cut war funding" fails since core Russia holds the real resources and periphery depends on Moscow. So, you can thank United24 for yet another morale-boosting Ukrainian propaganda push fetishizing that Russia's doom guarantees Ukraine's win. It's not tangible analysis, it's honestly kinda pointless wishcasting. Predictions like this have failed for years. Every serious non-partisan Russia-watcher who isn't on a Ukrainian NGO payroll keeps saying the same damn thing. So “How will Russia collapse?” … well the same way she was supposed to the last 100 times we were told that she would … slowly, stubbornly, and and mostly on someone else's timeline and their vivid imagination.