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My suggestion would have been Gay Paree, but Sochi seems to be the better idea.
[Regnum] When the UN was founded, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin proposed to locate the organization in Sochi, and this option would have been better. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on June 9.
"It would be best to move the UN to Sochi. Stalin, by the way, proposed this - and seriously proposed it. But then he went to meet [US President Franklin] Roosevelt. First Long Island, then New York, Manhattan," the minister said, speaking at the "Forum of the Future - 2050."
Now, according to Lavrov, it is impossible to move the UN to another location, since all its structures are firmly established in New York. This applies not only to the buildings, but also to the employees of the organization who bought apartments there.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, US President Donald Trump proposed suspending most mandatory and all voluntary contributions to UN agencies, including the World Health Organization and UNESCO, in his draft federal budget for the 2026 fiscal year. The document will be considered by Congress.
On June 4, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reported that the United States is the largest debtor to the UN. As of the beginning of 2025, the country's debt amounted to $2 billion.
Political scientist, director of the Institute of Modern State Development Dmitry Solonnikov in a conversation with the Regnum news agency noted that the US has repeatedly criticized the activities of the UN. Trump and members of the American administration directly say that the US is pursuing its agenda through this international structure. If some organizations do not agree with this, then Washington does not see the need to finance them and provide preferences.
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