From Russia with Love ❤

❤️ A walk in the park, a tea party and a one-on-one conversation: Putin and Xi Jinping completed the first day of the Russian President’s visit to China with communication in an informal setting.

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🗓 May 16 in Russia: 🔳 1619 - A Russian mission of 11 people led by the first Russian ambassador to China - Siberian Cossack Ivan Petlin, returned to Tomsk from Beijing, where they had gone the year before. 🔳 1768 - Russian Empress Catherine II issued a decree for the construction of a monument to Peter the Great in St. Petersburg - the future "Bronze Horseman." 🔳 1863 - The construction of the Odessa Railway began. 🔳 1866 - The solemn opening of the Nicholas Orthodox Monastery took place in Moscow. 🔳 1867 - The Red Cross Society was founded in Russia, although the first community of mercy sisters operated during the Crimean War (1853-1856). 🔳 1867 - A law on Old Believer schismatics was adopted in Russia. 🔳 1896 - The first cinema screening in Russia took place in St. Petersburg, in the Aquarium Garden. 🔳 1924 - The first issue of the children's literary and artistic magazine "Murzilka" was published in the USSR. 🔳 1935 - Signing of the Soviet-Czechoslovak treaty of mutual assistance. 🔳 1950 - The Council of Ministers of the USSR issued a resolution on the construction of a complex of marine nuclear power plants V-10 at the FEI site in the town of Obninsk (now the city of Obninsk). 🔳 1957 - The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree on the establishment of the medal "In Memory of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad." 🔳 1960 - The first experimental color television broadcast was conducted in the USSR from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications named after Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich. 🔳 1969 - The Soviet interplanetary spacecraft "Venera-5" reached the planet Venus. 🔳 2018 - The Crimean Bridge was opened for the movement of cars and public transport.

🇺🇦 The whole world is to blame for what is happening now in Kharkov, not just America - zelensky

You gotta love Free Europe. @irishmaninrussia

According to the fakesmaker Newsweek magazine, Russia bombed our own Belgorod region. And not for the first time.

📈 Russia and China plan to achieve trade turnover at the level of $300 billion by 2030, reports the Russian Ministry of Economic Development.

⚡ Another unmanned boat, heading towards the Crimean Peninsula, was destroyed in the western part of the Black Sea, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. The unmanned boat was destroyed at about 15:30 from the standard weapons of the naval aviation of the Navy.

❗️Eleven Ukrainian unmanned boats heading towards Crimea were destroyed at about 14:00 Moscow time, the Ministry of Defense reported.