News and events

2017-07-19
On July 19, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, as per tradition, met in Moscow with the ambassadors of the EU member countries and the head of the EU delegation to the Russian Federation. Having noted...
2017-07-15
On 13 July 2017 consultations on international cooperation in countering terrorism were held in Brussels between a Russian inter-agency delegation led by Mr.Vladimir Andreev, Deputy Director of the De...
2017-07-12
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) satisfied the complaint of the applicants in the case of Nikolai Bayev, Aleksey Kiselev and Nikolai Alekseyev versus Russia of June 20, 2017 regarding the ban...
2017-07-12
Excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a joint news conference following talks with Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs Didier Reynders...
2017-07-12
Brussels, July 11, 2017 Ladies and gentlemen, To begin with I would like to thank High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini for the opp...
2017-07-10
On July 11, Brussels will host talks between Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. This is their seco...
2017-07-10
Vienna, July 6, 2017 Mr Chairman, Over the last two weeks, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine reported on new manifestations of radicalism in Ukraine. Extremists are trying to ...
2017-07-10
On July 10, State Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin received EU Special Representative for Central Asia Peter Burian. Mr Karasin and Mr Burian discussed the situation in Central...
2017-07-08
Vladimir Putin met with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg. President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr President, colleagues, I we...
2017-07-06
Ahead of my trip to Germany to take part in the Summit of the Group of Twenty, I would like to share some thoughts about cooperation within the G20 framework with the readers of Handelsblatt, one of t...
2017-07-05
On 23 June 2017 a session of the Russia-EU Joint Science and Technology Cooperation Committee (JSTCC) was held in Brussels. It was co-chaired by Mr Sergey Matveev, Director of the Department of Scienc...
2017-07-05
A regular meeting of the Economic Council under Russian Permanent Representative to the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community was held on 4 July 2017. Vital issues of the Russia-E...
2017-07-01
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s speech at the ceremony: Esteemed Mrs Kohl-Richter, Esteemed family members of Helmut Kohl, Ladies and gentlemen, We are here today to bid farewell to Helmut Koh...