News and events

2016-07-27
On July 26-27, Geneva hosted Russia-US-UN consultations on Syria. Russia was represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov. The sides conducted a detailed exchange of opinions on the conti...
2016-07-27
Acts of vandalism continue against Soviet memorials in Poland. The memorial on the common grave of Soviet soldiers in the village of Przesieki (Greater Poland Voivodeship) was desecrated on the night ...
2016-07-21
On July 21, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Foreign Minister of Germany and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. The call was initiated by Germany. ...
2016-07-21
Question: Mr Ryabkov, more statements are being made in the West to the effect that Iran is trying to gain access to dual technologies contrary to the related UN Security Council resolution. At the sa...
2016-07-19
On July 19, the Joint Commission set up by the group of six intermediary countries and Iran held its second meeting in Vienna since the start of full-format implementation of the Joint Comprehensive P...
2016-07-18
On July 17-18 Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva paid a working visit to Moscow. During intensive talks in the Russian Foreign Ministry, the two ministers exchanged opinions on the cu...
2016-07-15
A truck moving at high-speed drove into a crowd of people on the Promenade des Anglais along the coast in Nice at about 11 p.m. on July 14, as the fireworks display celebrating Bastille Day, a French ...
2016-07-14
On July 14, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke over the phone with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the latter’s initiative. The ministers...
2016-07-12
On 11 July Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov received Vygaudas Usackas, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Russia, for a brief conversation. The parties discussed the current situa...
2016-07-07
We noted the resolution adopted by the Parliament of the Republic of Cyprus on July 7 in support of lifting EU sanctions on the Russian Federation. Indicatively, not a single MP voted against it. N...
2016-07-01
We perceive the EU's further extension of sectoral economic sanctions against Russia until January 31, 2017 as a continuation of Brussels’ short-sighted policy. These sanctions are illegal from the po...
2016-07-01
In line with their decision announced in Munich on 12 February 2016 and underlining their commitment to support a comprehensive, just, and lasting resolution to the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, the r...