Statements and reports
2019
- Main foreign policy results of 2019
- CIS informal summit, December 20, 2019. Vladimir Putin told the participants about the archive materials on the pre-history of World War II and invited them to tour a specially organisedexhibit.
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at a
news conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2018 Moscow, January
16, 2019 - Vladimir Putin holds a working meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrovand Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu
2018
- Interview to Fox News Channel, July 16, 2018
- News conference following talks between the presidents of Russia and the United States
- V.Putin answered to journalists’ questions after the 2018 World Cup final match
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Larry King’s “Politicking” show on RT, Moscow, July 14, 2018
- Statement by the Foreign Ministry
- Foreign Minister S.Lavrov’s interview with Channel 4, Moscow, June 29, 2018
- Direct Line with Vladimir Putin, June 7, 2018
- Interview of the President of Russia with China Media Group, June 6, 2018
- Interview of the President of Russia with Austrian ORF television channel, June 4, 2018
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a media question on the sidelines of SPIEF 2018, St Petersburg, May 25, 2018
- Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Stef Blok, May 25, 2018
- Statement by the Foreign Ministry regarding the May 24, 2018 press conference of the Joint Investigation Team on the preliminary findings of the criminal investigation into the July 17, 2014 crash of the Malaysian Boeing in eastern Ukraine, May 24, 2018
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s greetings to the Participants in the Event Marking the 10th Anniversary of the Ilulissat Declaration
- Vladimir Putin spoke at the plenary session of the 22nd St Petersburg International Economic Forum, May 25, 2018
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on the results of the election in Venezuela
- Vladimir Putin has been sworn in as President of Russia
- Statement by President of Russia Vladimir Putin, April 14, 2018
- Statement by the Foreign Ministry, April 14, 2018
- Statement by the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation regarding missile attacks on Syria, Moscow, April 14, 2018
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with BBC HardTalk
- Foreign Deputy Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s comment regarding the G7 statement on the Skripal case
- Remarks by the head of the Russian delegation, Permanent Representative of Russia to the OPCW, Ambassador Alexander Shulgin at the 59th session of the OPCW Executive Council, the Hague, April 18, 2018
- Statement by Ambassador Vassily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, at the UN Security Council meeting convened at the March 13, 2018 request of Great Britain, New York, April 18, 2018
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya, Moscow, April 20, 2018
- Foreign Ministry statement March 28, 2018
- Foreign Ministry statement March 26, 2018
- Foreign Ministry statement
- Press release on a joint briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry, Defence Ministry and Ministry of Industry and Trade in connection with the “Skripal case”
- Aide-memoire to clarify the state of affairs as regards the so-called ‘Skripal case’
- Briefing by Director of the Foreign Ministry Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Vladimir Yermakov, Moscow, March 21, 2018
- Statement by the Foreign Ministry
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Euronews channel, February 16, 2018
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the Munich Security Conference, Munich, February 17, 2018
- Remarks and answers to questions by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Middle East Conference of the Valdai International Discussion Club, Moscow, February 19, 2018
- Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, Moscow, February 8, 2018
- Main foreign policy outcomes of 2017
- Comment by the Information and Press Department regarding the expansion of US sanctions against Russia
- Final statement of the Congress of the Syrian national dialogue, Sochi, January 30, 2018
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on Turkey’s use of armed forces in the northwest of Syria
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to media questions at a news conference held at the UN Headquarters, New York, January 19, 2018
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on US attempts to distort Russian approaches to investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria
- Comment by the Information and Press Department in connection with Ukraine adopting the so-called Law on Re-integration and De-occupation of Donbass
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions at a news conference on Russian diplomacy in 2017, Moscow, January 15, 2018
2017
- Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club
- Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich’s remarks on Ukraine’s education law delivered at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, Vienna, September 28, 2017
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Itogi Nedeli for the NTV network, Moscow, September 24, 2017
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to media questions on the sidelines of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly, New York, September 22, 2017
- Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly, New York, September 21, 2017
- Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s interview with Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn magazine published on August 7, 2017
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the Terra Scientia on Klyazma River National Educational Youth Forum, Vladimir Region, August 11, 2017
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comment and answer to a media question following bilateral meetings on the sidelines of ASEAN events, Manila, August 6, 2017
- Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on new EU sanctions
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on the anti-Russian US law
- Press release on the signing of the Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism
- Foreign Ministry’s statement
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Kurdish television channel Rudaw, Moscow, July 24, 2017
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with NBC, Moscow, July 21, 2017
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at the Korber Foundation, Berlin, July 13, 2017
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following the OSCE Informal Ministerial Meeting, Mauerbach, July 11, 2017
- Comment on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s working visit to Germany
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to Russian media questions following President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G20 Summit, Hamburg, July 7, 2017
- Remarks by Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Mikhail Ulyanov at a briefing for accredited diplomats on the Syrian “chemical dossier,” Moscow, July 5, 2017
- Joint statement by the Russian and Chinese foreign ministries on the Korean Peninsula’s problems
- Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov's interview with the newspaper Izvestia, published on July 3, 2017
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at the Primakov Readings International Forum, Moscow, June 30, 2017
- Remarks by Andrey Rudenko, Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Second CIS Department, at the Special Session on ensuring security and stability in the OSCE region in light of developments with respect to Ukraine at the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference, Vienna, June 27, 2017
- Speech by Russia’s Permanent Representative to NATO Alexander Grushko at the opening of the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC) in Vienna, June 27, 2017
- Declaration on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), Reykjavik, 20 June 2017
- Remarks by First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov at a ministerial session of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, Reykjavik, June 20, 2017
- Comment by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on new US sanctions against Russia
- The Main Naval Parade in St Petersburg
- Joint news conference with President of Finland Sauli Niinisto
- News conference following the G20 Summit
- Meeting with US President Donald Trump
- The Hamburg G20 Leaders’ Statement on Countering Terrorism
- Article by Vladimir Putin published in the German business newspaper Handelsblatt
- Press statements following Russian-Chinese talks
- Vladimir Putin answered questions from NBC anchor Megyn Kelly, June 5, 2017
- Vladimir Putin attended a plenary meeting of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, June 2, 2017
- Vladimir Putin’s meeting with heads of international news agencies, June 1, 2017
- Vladimir Putin’s interview with Le Figaro, May 31, 2017
- Vladimir Putin spoke at the opening of the Belt and Road international forum in Beijing, May 14, 2017
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s participation in Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following talks with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Washington DC, May 10, 2017
- Sixth International Conference of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS VI)
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Moscow, April 12, 2017
- Comment from the Press Service of the President of Russia
- Foreign Ministry statement on US military action in Syria on April 7, 2017
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on the Syrian chemical dossier
- Meeting on Arctic region’s comprehensive development
- The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue international forum
- Meeting with President of Iceland Gudni Johannesson
- Anton.V.Vasiliev: "RUSSIA AND ICELAND: COOPERATION IN THE ARCTIC"
- Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with Ambassador Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to the Trilateral Contact Group for Ukraine, and senior officials of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on the transport blockade of Donbass imposed by Kiev
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on a recent report by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on the situation with banks with Russian capital in Ukraine
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova’s reply to a media question regarding the extension of EU sanctions against Russian citizens and residents of southeast Ukraine
- Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova on the occasion of the three-year anniversary of Crimea’s unification with Russia
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following a G20 ministerial meeting and the Munich Security Conference, Munich, February 18, 2017
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address and answers to questions at the 53rd Munich Security Conference, Munich, February 18, 2017
- Telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump
- Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov’s interview with the TASS News Agency, February 6, 2017
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to Austrian weekly news magazine Profil, February 5, 2017
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions during the Government Hour at the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Moscow, January 25, 2017
- Foreign Ministry statement on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Donbass
2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at a news conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2016, Moscow January 17, 2017
- Key foreign policy outcomes for 2016
- Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey on agreed steps to revitalize the political process to end the Syrian conflict, Moscow, 20 December 2016
- Meeting with Sergei Lavrov, Sergei Naryshkin and Alexander Bortnikov
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a meeting with participants in the Dialogue for the Future research and education programme and active members of the Gorchakov Fund’s Club of Friends, Moscow, December 14, 2016
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on the humanitarian situation in Aleppo
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on anti-Russian remarks by Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Alex Younger
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Moscow, December 1, 2016
- Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly
- Murmansk International Business Week, 14-18 November 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the opening of the Potsdam Meetings, Moscow, November 8, 2016
- State Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya information agency, November 3, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the Rossiya 1 television network documentary entitled “My mind is set: Yevgeny Primakov”, Moscow, October 31, 2016
- President of Russia Vladimir Putin answered to questions from French journalists from TF1 TV channel, October 11, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Amanpour program on CNN International, Moscow, 12. October 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Channel One’s Vremya weekly news and analysis programme, broadcast on Sunday, Moscow, October 9, 2016
- Foreign Ministry statement in connection with Russia's veto of the French-proposed UN Security Council draft resolution on Syria on October 8, 2016
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on US decision to suspend bilateral dialogue on Syria, October 3
- Comment by the Foreign Ministry on the presidential executive order suspending the plutonium management and disposition agreement, October 3
- Comment by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the publication of the presidential executive order to suspend the Russia-US plutonium management and disposition agreement, October 3
- Interview of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to BBC World News Channel, Moscow, September 30, 2016
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova's answer to a media question, September 28, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s television interview for the Pozdnyakov programme on NTV, September 26, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, New York, September 23, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Vesti v Subbotu news show, New York, September 24, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the UN Security Council High-Level Briefing on the Situation in the Middle East and North Africa, New York, September 21, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy’s media outlet, Moscow, September 2, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum, Vladivostok, September 2, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at a meeting with students and faculty at MGIMO University, Moscow, September 1, 2016
- Full text of Vladimir Putin's interview to the international media company Bloomberg has been published. The interview was recorded on September 1, 2016, in Vladivostok.
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on the European Commission statement issued ahead of the Europe-Wide Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Foreign Minister of New Zealand Murray McCully, Moscow, August 17, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following a meeting with Foreign Minister of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at the opening of the Russian-German summer school “Ways of Developing the Energy Sector: Modern Challenges”, Yekaterinburg , August 15, 2016
- Foreign Ministry comment on statements by Georgia and Ukraine regarding the anniversary of August 2008 event, August 12, 2016
- STATEMENT BY THE FOREIGN MINISTRY OF RUSSIA 11 August 2016
- Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov interviewed by Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn magazine August 10, 2016
- Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s answers to questions from Rossiya Segodnya and TASS
- Press release on the fourth round of the Russia-China Dialogue on Security in Northeast Asia
- Remarks by Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich at the OSCE Permanent Council meeting, Vienna, July 28, 2016
- Meeting with Russia’s Olympic team
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks and answers to media questions at a news conference following a number of bilateral meetings and multilateral events on the sidelines of ASEAN, EAS and ARF, Vientiane, July 26, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the Terra Scientia Youth Educational Forum on Klyazma River, Vladimir Region, July 22, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the Valdai International Discussion Club’s session “Russia and the EU: What follows the “strategic partnership” that never happened?” at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, St Petersburg, June 16, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Foreign Minister of Finland Timo Soini, Moscow, June 6, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper and radio, Moscow, May 31, 2016
- Joint press conference with Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras, May 27, 2016
- Remarks by Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich at the OSCE Permanent Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk Agreements Vienna, May 26, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet, published on May 25, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya, May 4, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's statement and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Syria Staffan de Mistura, Moscow, May 3, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Moscow, April 28, 2016
- Comment by the Information and Press Department on the US Department of State’s report on adherence to and compliance with arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the meeting in Mongolia’s Foreign Ministry, Ulan-Bator, April 14, 2016
- Meeting of President of Russia Vladimir Putin with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu, Moscow, March 14, 2016
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with REN TV network, Moscow, March 13, 2016
- Sergey Lavrov’s article "Russia’s Foreign Policy: Historical Background" for "Russia in Global Affairs" magazine, March 3, 2016
