On February 5, 2026, an official presentation and handover of the series of documentary collections “Republics to the Front 1941-1945” to the ambassadors of the CIS countries to the Russian Federation took place in Moscow at the Situation Center of the Russian Security Council. The collections, dedicated to the contribution of the USSR’s constituent republics to the common Victory in the Great Patriotic War, were prepared and published by the Office of the Russian Security Council in collaboration with the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Russian Historical Society, and the Russian State University for the Humanities.
The event was attended by:
- Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergey Shoigu;
- Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Dmitry Lubinsky;
- Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Chairman of the Russian Historical Society Sergey Naryshkin;
- CIS Secretary-General Sergey Lebedev;
- CSTO Secretary-General Taalatbek Masadykov;
- Ambassadors of the CIS countries, representatives of the diplomatic corps, scholars, journalists.
Addressing the attendees, CIS Secretary-General Sergey Lebedev stated: “Today, the battle for the minds and hearts of the younger generation is at the epicenter of states’ rivalry over their model of civilizational development and system of values.
The Commonwealth countries are united in their assessment of the events of our glorious, heroic past and in taking measures to defend our common worldview values and ideals.
Thus, by a Decision of the CIS Heads of State Council in October 2022, 2025 in the Commonwealth of Independent States was declared the Year of the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War – the Year of Peace and Unity in the Fight Against Nazism”.
In their Address, the leaders of the Commonwealth countries welcomed the UN General Assembly resolution “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”, and expressed their commitment to the goals and principles of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Concluding the meeting, the collections were officially presented to the ambassadors of the CIS member states.
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It should be recalled that pilot copies of the "Republics to the Front 1941-1945" collections were presented by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the heads of CIS member states during the annual informal meeting in St. Petersburg in December 2025.