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🎙Comment (full text) by Ambassador Stepanov to The Canadian Press News Agency on recent Prime-Minister Mark Carney’s remarks regarding Russian and Belorussian Hockey Athletes (Ottawa, November 4, 2026) ❗️It is genuinely regrettable to see Prime Minister Carney’s Cabinet bringing politics onto the ice. Sport, particularly junior hockey, should be about athletic excellence, fair competition and bringing young people together. Of course, one cannot help admiring the remarkable convenience of this particular display of political principle. By excluding Russian and Belorussian players, the Canadian government also happens to eliminate some rather formidable competitors before the first puck is even dropped. One might almost suspect that Ottawa has discovered a novel approach to winning international tournaments. ☝️If you cannot be entirely certain of beating your strongest opponents on the ice, simply ensure they never make it to the rink. A splendid strategy, perhaps, for securing a trophy. A rather less splendid one for preserving the spirit of sport.

🎙 Remarks and answers to media questions by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following the High-Level Plenary Session of the Fourth (IV) Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security (Minsk, November 3, 2026) Key points: • The West wants to impose its own rules across the entire Eurasian continent, including its eastern part. It has said so openly. There is a great deal of diplomatic work ahead, and developments on the ground will inevitably shape that work. • Everyone is watching developments in the Ukraine crisis. We sensed that participants in today’s Fourth Minsk Conference want the crisis to end as soon as possible on a just basis. Above all, this means addressing the root causes of the war the West unleashed against us through the neo-Nazi regime it created. • I do not see how the OSCE can be saved in the foreseeable future. For now, it remains a forum where we can put forward our views and refute the ever-growing stream of lies the West spreads day after day, at every meeting. • With [the draft Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century], we want to launch a process based on the indivisibility of security. As we understood it, the OSCE endorsed these principles in 1999 and reaffirmed them in 2010. ☝️ No one should strengthen their security at the expense of others, and no country, organisation or group of countries should seek dominance in any geopolitical space. The West has done precisely the opposite. • Europeans are pleased that Zelensky wants to create a pantheon of heroes, even though they understand that this is yet another affront to the victims and Victors of World War II and to UN decisions on the inadmissibility of reviving Nazism. He wants to open this pantheon of "Nazi ashes" at a holy site, the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. 👉 If this is not Nazism, I do not know how we are supposed to talk to the Europeans. • The West says that, to save lives, we should freeze hostilities along the current line of contact. Yet they still want to send in “stabilisation forces”. What regime do they want to “stabilise”? The one that kneels before the ashes of Nazi criminals, holds torchlight marches where people give Nazi salutes, and still has no intention of repealing the laws banning the use of Russian everywhere. Read in full

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🤖 On October 31, the Battle of Robots championship concluded in Kazan as part of the Kazan Digital Week 2026 International Forum. The final bouts took place at the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre. Teams showcased robots they had designed and built themselves, demonstrating their piloting skills in two weight categories – up to 1.5 kg and up to 110 kg. 🏆 Russian teams won both categories! Up to 1.5 kg 🥇 1st place – 🇷🇺 SonBots, robot “Sonny” (Moscow) 🥈 2nd place – 🇷🇺 GosTeam, robot “Seal” (Yekaterinburg) 🥉 3rd place – 🇷🇺 Steel Warriors, robot Night Fury V13 (Novosibirsk) Up to 110 kg 🥇 1st place – 🇷🇺 Daddy Bots, robot “Daddy” (St Petersburg) 🥈 2nd place – 🇧🇷 UFO Combat, robot ABDUCOW (Itajuba, Brazil) 🥉 3rd place – 🇨🇳 Fierce Roc, robot Iron Scrap (Shenzhen, China) *** 🌐 In 2026, the championship brought together 144 teams from 11 countries: Russia, Belarus, Brazil, India, Iran, China and Tunisia, as well as four countries represented for the first time – Saudi Arabia, the US, Chile and Ecuador. #BattleOfRobots is one of the most spectacular and fastest-growing competitions in the world of robotics. Held annually since 2023, the championship promotes engineering, supports technical creativity and advances modern digital technologies. Preparations for and the running of the championship are coordinated by the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media. The final stage was held with support from the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan. The championship is operated by the Engineers and Robots autonomous non-profit organisation. Its general technology partner is VK, and its general industrial partner is X Holding. 🎉 Congrats to the winners!

🇷🇺 November 4 – Russia's National #UnityDay and a Day of Russia’s Military Glory #OTD Russia commemorates the liberation of Moscow from Polish-Lithuanian forces in 1612 – a turning point in overcoming the Time of Troubles, one of the darkest chapters in the country’s history. At the heart of this struggle for the future of the entire nation was the Second People’s Militia, raised in Nizhny Novgorod under the leadership of Kuzma Minin and commanded by Prince Dmitry Pozharsky. Following the collapse of the First People’s Militia, a new volunteer force began to assemble in the autumn of 1611. Inspired by Patriarch Hermogen’s call to defend the Orthodox faith and the Motherland, the people of Nizhny Novgorod rallied around Minin, contributing money, weapons and supplies. Nobles, merchants, Cossacks, townspeople and peasants joined a common cause: to free their country from foreign invaders and occupation. ⚔️ By late summer 1612, the militia had reached Moscow, where the Polish-Lithuanian garrison held the Kremlin and Kitay-Gorod. Together with other Russian forces, it defeated a relief army led by Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, preventing vital supplies and reinforcements from reaching the besieged garrison. The decisive breakthrough came in the autumn. Russian forces stormed Kitay-Gorod, leaving the occupiers confined to the Kremlin. Cut off from relief and weakened by hunger, the remaining garrison surrendered soon afterwards. ☝️Moscow was liberated. This victory paved the way for the restoration of Russian state authority. In 1613, the Zemsky Sobor elected Mikhail Romanov as Tsar, establishing a dynasty that would rule for more than three centuries. 4️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ years on, the triumph of 1612 remains a symbol of national unity, courage and the Russian people’s determination to defend their homeland. 🎥 © Russian Military Historical Society

We are all #Russia! 🇷🇺 And Russia is in our hearts! ❤️ Happy #UnityDay!

🇷🇺 Today #Russia and all its many peoples celebrate national #UnityDay! This day symbolizes the unity of our multiethnic nation, celebrates true diversity, honours the unerring ultimate devotion to the Motherland. ❗️ Happy #UnityDay! #UnityDay2026

🎙 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question on the situation on the Korean Peninsula (November 3, 2026) ❓ Question: Tensions on the Korean Peninsula, including around the Demilitarised Zone, have escalated sharply, and Seoul is once again trying to shift the blame onto Pyongyang. How do you see the situation in this subregion developing? 💬 Maria Zakharova: Regrettably, the situation on the Korean Peninsula shows no sign of stabilising and continues to deteriorate. Of particular concern is that the situation is deteriorating amid ongoing large-scale military exercises conducted by the US and the Republic of Korea near the DPRK border. These manoeuvres are overtly provocative. By the participants’ own admission, they are designed to rehearse pre-emptive strikes against the DPRK, including with nuclear weapons. ☝️ These exercises are growing in frequency and scale and now extend across land, air, maritime and cyber domains. For example, October saw the US-ROK Iron Mace command-post exercise, which involved rehearsing scenarios for the deployment of US strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula; the ROK Armed Forces’ Hoguk exercise; US military training in airborne operations behind the lines of a simulated adversary; and the second round this year of the joint US-ROK Freedom Flag air exercise, which is scheduled to continue until November 6. In addition, Seoul, Washington and Tokyo practised combat interoperability during the trilateral, multidomain Freedom Edge exercises held in September. ❗️ In these circumstances, we regard the measures Pyongyang is taking to strengthen its security and defence capabilities as entirely lawful and justified, in full accordance with the right to self-defence enshrined in the UN Charter. We urge Seoul to immediately cease its dangerous military games and provocations, particularly in the Demilitarised Zone, rather than seeking far-fetched pretexts for accusing the DPRK or making empty declarations about peace, and to respect Pyongyang’s sovereign right to ensure its own security by all means available.