News and events

2020-10-29
Russian application of Sputnik V vaccine for WHO vaccine prequalification among the first applications submitted The Russian Direct Investment Fund, (RDIF, Russia's sovereign wealth fund), has subm...
2020-10-26
The Russian Federation continues to believe that the INF Treaty was an important part of the architecture to ensure international security and strategic stability. The Treaty was essential to maintain...
2020-10-22
Good afternoon, colleagues, friends, Participants of the 17th plenary meeting of the Valdai Club, Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to welcome you all to our traditional annual meeting. We a...
2020-10-22
On 22 October 2020 regular technical Russia-EU consultations on air safety regarding Russian airlines operating passenger and cargo flights to airports of EU Member States took place in online format....
2020-10-20
Members of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation consistently support steps aimed at strengthening the coordinating role of the United Nations (hereinafter, the UN, the Orga...
2020-10-19
On 19 October 2020 the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov received the newly appointed Permanent Representative of Japan to the Europ...
2020-10-19
On 19 October 2020 Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov received the newly arrived Permanent Representative of Estonia to the EU Aivo Orav with a c...
2020-10-15
Over the past day, the European Union has produced a series of sanctions decisions against Russian individuals and entities. In addition to the previously announced steps related to the attempted pois...
2020-10-15
On 15 October 2020 Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko held a meeting in Brussels with Secretary General of the European External Action Service Helga Schmid. Curren...
2020-10-15
On 15 October 2020 a telephone conversation was held between Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko and EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Toivo Klaar at the la...
2020-10-15
As you are aware, in July, the Netherlands filed an interstate complaint against Russia with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in connection with the crash of Malaysia Airlines MH17 (a Boeing ...
2020-10-15
On 14 October 2020 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko held regular consultations with Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service Enrique Mora. The two sides exc...
2020-10-13
On 13 October 2020 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation initiated by the EU with High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell ...
2020-10-11
Alexander Novak: "In the long term, Russia's share may reach a quarter of the global LNG market" The Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak greeted participants of the 9th LNG...
2020-10-10
The anti-Russia propaganda attack over the Navalny case is gathering momentum in Germany. The latest portion of accusations, threats and insinuations against our country was made by German Foreign Min...
2020-10-06
We noted the fairly predictable and prompt response with which German officials agreed to the publication of a report on the results of a study on Alexey Navalny’s bio materials on the Organisation fo...
2020-10-05
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Yves Le Drian, and Secretary of State of the United States of America Mi...
2020-10-05
Mr Vanderplaetse, Ladies and Gentlemen, Colleagues, Thank you for the opportunity to address once again the members of the Association of European Businesses in the Russian Federation. First ...
2020-10-02
We noted the EU’s decision to adopt new restrictive measures as regards Belarus taken on 2 October 2020. A comment declaring response measures has already been released by Belarusian officials. We ...
2020-10-01
The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the President of the United States of America Donald Trump and the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, representing the Co-Chair c...