News and events

2012-02-29
29 February, a traditional meeting of S.V. Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, with ambassadors of 27 member-states of the European Union and the Head of EU Representati...
2012-02-29
Question: How can you comment upon the statements of President of Latvia А. Berzins in the interview to Latvian television channel LNT that the Latvian ex-legionaries of Waffen-SS are not criminals an...
2012-02-29
28 February, A.V. Grushko, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, had a meeting with the representatives of the Russian part of Russia-EU Round Table of Industrialists and B...
2012-02-27
Russia and the changing world In my previous articles I have discussed some of the key foreign challenges that Russia now faces. This subject deserves a more detailed discussion and not just becaus...
2012-02-22
On 21 February 2012, on a visit to Copenhagen, Mr. Alexander Konovalov, Special Envoy of the President of Russia for cooperation with the EU in the area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Minister of J...
2012-02-16
On 15 February 2012 in Brussels Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union, met the Chairman of the EU Political and Security Committee (PSC)...
2012-02-14
On 9 February Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Gennady Gatilov received Ambassador Fernando Valenzuela, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Russia. The EU rais...
2012-02-09
On 9 February Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs/State Secretary Grigory Karasin received European Union Special Representative for Central Asia Pierre Morel. Various aspects of the situation...
2012-02-08
On 8 February Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs/State Secretary Grigory Karasin met EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Philippe Lefort. During their conversation an exchange of views t...
2012-02-08
On 8 February Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko received in Moscow a delegation of the European Parliament group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left. The discussion held in a constr...
2012-02-07
On 6 February 2012 a seminar “Russia: Intelligent Tourism” was organised in Brussels by the European Tour Operators Association with support of the Russian Permanent Mission to the EU. Participants...
2012-02-03
Q.: How can you comment Catherine Ashton's statement in the European Parliament in its part referring to Russia? A.: Biased comments on the internal political situation in Russia articulated by EU ...
2012-02-01
On 1 February in Moscow Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs/State Secretary Grigory Karasin met Deputy Executive Secretary General for political affairs of the European External Action Service, Helga S...
2012-02-01
Within the framework of the Russia-EU political dialogue Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Grushko met Deputy Executive Secretary General for political affairs of the European External Acti...