regarding the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials
On 20 November 1945, the International Military Tribunal for the trial and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis Powers (the Nuremberg Tribunal) began its work. The establishment of the Nuremberg Tribunal became possible thanks to the historic Victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War.
The Nuremberg Tribunal ruled that Nazi war crimes were carried out on an unprecedentedly large scale in the history of warfare, being accompanied by unparalleled cruelty and terror. The Nazi atrocities were most brutal and massive in the temporarily occupied territories of the Soviet Union. Mass murders of Soviet citizens and brutalities against them were part of the plan to exterminate civilian population with a view to colonizing the seized territories.
The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation considers the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal a ”cornerstone“ underlying the modern world order. The principles of international law, recognized by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and reflected in the verdict thereof, were reaffirmed by Resolution 95(I) adopted by the UN General Assembly on 11 December 1946.
The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation reminds that the war unleashed by Hitler's Germany against the Soviet Union claimed the lives of 27 million Soviet citizens, and highlights that the facts of deportation and extermination of the civilian population of the USSR by the Nazis and their accomplices, as established in the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, must be recognized as genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union.
The Senators of the Russian Federation call upon all UN Member States to support the resolution on ”Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance“ submitted annually to the UN General Assembly.
The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation states that the policy of consigning to oblivion the outcomes of the Nuremberg Trials in certain Western countries contributes to rehabilitation of Nazism and undermines the foundations of the Yalta-Potsdam international legal system, which for 80 years has prevented humanity from a new world war.
The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation calls on all states and peoples of the world to respect and protect the principles established by the Nuremberg Tribunal aimed at preventing wars, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, the resurgence of Nazism and fascism in any form, as well as oppose attempts to revise the outcomes and falsify the history of the Second World War.
Federation Council
of the Federal Assembly
of the Russian Federation
Moscow
26 November 2025
Ref. No. 501-SF