Russia and the United Nations - Wikipedia
The Russian Federation continued (see Succession, continuity and legacy of the Soviet Union) to use the Soviet Union's seat, including its permanent membership on the Security Council in the United Nations after the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, which originally co-founded the UN in …
United Nations Security Council - Wikipedia
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, UN peacekeeping efforts increased dramatically in scale, with the Security Council authorizing major military and peacekeeping missions in Kuwait, Namibia, Cambodia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Current Members | Security Council - United Nations
Five permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly (with end...
Russia assumes UN Security Council presidency despite Ukrainian anger - BBC
Apr 1, 2023 · Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each of the council's 15 members takes up the presidency for a...
Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council
The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (also known as the Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5) are the five sovereign states to whom the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, United …
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Russia ‘can only be forced into peace’ …
Sep 24, 2024 · The UN Security Council is meeting for a high level briefing on the Ukraine war. The UN Secretary-General told foreign ministers and ambassadors that Russia's invasion of Ukraine since...
Russian accused of war crimes triggers walkout at UN Security Council - CNN
Apr 6, 2023 · Representatives of several Western countries walked out of a United Nations meeting in protest on Wednesday as Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights Maria Lvova-Belova was speaking,...
Russia runs the UN Security Council this month. Ukraine says it’s …
Apr 1, 2023 · Adding to discomfort over Russia’s new role is the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin last month became the first head of state of a permanent member of the United Nations Security...
Russia running the U.N. Security Council is going about how …
Apr 23, 2023 · Russia — one of the five permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council — last held the council presidency in February 2022, the month it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
Zelenskyy says Russia's Security Council veto undermines world …
Sep 20, 2023 · Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday called for expanding the UN Security Council and reforming the right of veto granted to its permanent members, in his first in-person...